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How about Frank Wess? Osby certainly is high up on my list! Check out all the live shows available for free on his website! Like Kenny Garrett, but haven't heard his latest efforts, same for Coleman, who's music I only encounter here and there. ubu

well, seems the Sangrey household has no Webster standing around

Do you have the option of making arrangements to visit their local distribution center and pick up the package? No, they just marked I should advise them for a new date of delivery. And I wouldn't feel safe would they delive to my neighbours... no sir! Also they didn't try, obviously, as certainly someone would have been home (all elderly people). They'll deliver to where I work (I hope I won't get any problem because of that, but I guess that box is worth a few problems!) ubu

Thanks, Mike & Mike I guess I can live believing I have all of it. Might be that one of the newer versions of that album had an alternate coming with a different title or whatever. "Out of This World" of course is the title of the disc, thanks for correcting! Was too lazy to check. ubu

Just listened to the first few minutes of Law, while starting recording it. Sounds great. Corneloup can play! And Échampard is great, too! Will check out that next one as well, sounds cool, and I love Geri Allen. ubu

How do you record it? Here's how: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...F%BDentry133254 Sorry, I thought I had the link in some old PM, but I did ask in a thread still up and found it there. ubu

Most musicians - and fans alike - expect funk to have repeating bass lines - ostinatos. Miroslav's bass lines were funky, but he changed the all the time, no two bars are played exactly the same way, even on his funky Shepherd album pictured above. I have found out many people have difficulties relating to that concept of playing all variations of the bass riff - I find it thrilling. But many musicians have trouble keeping the groove when you start to play variations of funky stuff in the ryhthm section. Guess they have to watch out too much and have to keep up their own rhythmic senses, and cannot slip that easily into their trance-like state of mind they like to improvise in. I love that concept of funk bass! I mean I also love a good ostinato if the bass player can groove it, but it gets really interesting once variations start, or if there is no real ostinato there. I just heard Kim Clarke two days ago, two hours of playing, and yes, she did a few simple licks here and there (obviously, as they were playing Hendrix compositions, see this thread), yet she did astonishing things, without EVER getting flashy (unlike all those Weather Report bassists who do get pretty flashy), and she HAS THE GROOVE! (Is Kim Clarke the Goddess of funk bass? I guess so...) ubu

Doesn't the Byrd/Adams Warwick Freshsound Reissue ("Out of this Time", I think) miss one track? I think I saw another boot of it that had one more track than my FS disc. ubu

Will have to listen to it again, but yes, I quite liked it. There's thread about it somewhere in the new releases part of the board. Mike, that's one of the ugliest covers ever made! ubu

So does Ellery's website.

Eskelin Ellery (1959) Seamus Blake (1969) Chris Speed (1967) Gregory Tardy (year?) Assif Tsahar (1969) Ken Vandermark (1964) Mats Gustafsson (1964) Chris Cheek (year?) VDMK wouldn't be considered favorite by many, I guess. More of a catalyst than a tenor great. Tardy has a vey nice album on Palmetto, Blake does some good things now and then (I love the Bloomdaddies' Criss Cross disc). ubu edited to spell Gustafsson's name correctly and add Chris Cheek

Perfectly right. That's why my first mention did go to Freeman - he's at least still "on the scene today". Another would be Wayne Shorter. How about Mars Williams (too old I suppose?) or Mats Gustafsson? Margitza I like as well, Mark Shim would be another good one. Bennie Wallace and Joe Lovano both are too old, I suppose.

Von Freeman, I don't know him for more than Fifty years yet... Listening right now to some Eskelin, and love him! High on my list, for sure, but there are others. I like Mark Turner a lot, too, as well as Chris Potter. There ought to be a handful of more, what shall I say, "funny-ratty" ones?

Holy shit! That was my set they wanted to deliver on Friday, 9 a.m. - am I supposed to be home then? Those private carriers are one of the most stupid inventions of modern civilization! Hope nothing goes wrong with office delivery on Monday! Can't wait!

This site here has two tracks from the Enja disc with the Porter Praskin Quartet up as Real Audio files: http://www.eastwestmusic.net/listen_08.htm ubu

Will check it out, thanks Bev!

Is FedEx delivering this in Europe? I had a post-it sticking on the door when I came home tonight, without any other information except I should call them up. Do they work Saturdays? I REEEALLY HOPE SO! If not, I won't be able to let them deliver it until Wednesday (hell, some people work during the day...) ubu

John, I'd heartily recommend his early trio discs, if you've been into "African Piano". They were recorded live at the Montmartre in Copenhagen, 1965, with Johnny Gertze (b) and Makaya Ntshoko (d). I only have one of the, "Round Midnight at the Montmartre", the other is called "Anatomy of an African Village" or something, if I remember right. That music has a freshness one still can feel today. Both discs are (were?) on Black Lion. I just heard an interview on swiss radio with Irene Schweizer. Ibrahim was one of the most important early influences on her playing (later came Cecil Taylor) and she heard him play in Zurich in the early sixties countless times. "African Piano", by the way, is her favourite recording! ubu

Same here. Before I tended to just pick up a dozen RVGs if I saw them for a good prize. Not anymore... three of the cc Conns in a special sale (the prize was so good I couldn't resist), other than those only a few older discs, like some Nineties Rare Grooves. I don't even check their site anymore.

Thanks Joe, I know Ntshoko - better than Tchicai, but only from those old Dollar Brand records. I guess I'll go. I will report. ubu

Thanks, this pushes me over the edge, I suppose

On MPS? I just received the 2CD set reissuing an MPS album (don't know if it was a 2LP set or two separate LPs) "Give me a double" was the title (double LP) - great music! Billy Brooks is on that one! That's also the title of the 2CD set I just got. Looking forward to hearing it! Idrees Sulieman is also aboard, as are a few other great ones, Andy Scherrer, Isla Eckinger, Ferdinand Povel... I guess it's a straight reissue of the LP set, then.

Same notion here. I guess we'll have to wait and check the tracks/timings once they're out. All pretty confusing. The Tree has material twice, I think, from different sources. ubu

So this would be the Maeght material exclusively in the Ayler tree until today? Will have to check once tehre's some tracklisting available, or rather: timing, as the tracks are, it seems, often difficult to title (several tunes on record with the same title and similar oddities in Ayler's discography). ubu

Let's keep our eyes open, yes! Sounds like a great band, thanks for the review. ubu