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I went to see a fantastic band last night: Christy Doran (g), Erika Stucki (voc), Kim Clarke (el b), and Fredy Studer (d) "Play the music of Jimi Hendrix". They played around the tunes quite freely, Stucki is born to be on stage, while Doran is more an ascetic kind of guy. Kim Clarke played FUNKTASTIC bass lines, with her great deep old-school sound, the kind of bass that has to be felt rather than heard note by note, and Fredy Studer, one of Switzerland's most important jazz drummers (check him out with the Koch-Schütz-Studer "hardcore chambermusic" trio) was having a ball at the traps. The music was f*@#ing loud, but it was just great! I really enjoyed seeing and hearing Kim Clarke for the first time, but the whole band was great. Doran had quite a lot going on, and his arrangements of the Hendrix tunes were much fun, they're pretty close to the originals, but with some sly little changes and rhythmic twists that make for a good surprise almost constantly. The schedule of the band can be found on Doran's homepage. They'll be touring Austria and Germany now, and while in Vienna will professionally record. We talked to Doran & Stucki as we plan to make a radio programme about this and his nineties Hendrix project (that one was with Doran-Studer-Django Bates-Phil Minton and some bass player whose name escapes me, Ali?), which was much more "artificial" and "intellectual" than what we had a chance to hear last night. Doran said that Minton didn't know any Hendrix tune safe "Hey Joe" when they did taht tour & record, they rehearsed for a couple of days, and "Phil just did what he always does" (Doran). Now for this project, Stucki has really immersed in the music and lyrics of Hendrix and is using them in a very able way, starting to loosen up here and there, taking chances. After having talked to her for a quarter of an hour we decided to include her for our interview as well if she agrees. We will get parts of the Viennese recording we hope for our programme, as they felt something wasn't just right last night (the audience didn't notice, though, neither did I). I can post a link to that programme once we've done it (December, probably). The recording in Vienna *might* end up on CD, but it seems they didn't yet decide. ubu

Pilc, in Funny Rat?!? Don't think he belongs in this thread... Uh, we've had Coleman Hawkins, even Jelly Roll Morton... why not Pilc? How is he, anyway? No chance to listen yet. The announcer compares him to Solal (who's been in the rat undeservedly, as well, but then what is deserved and waht not?). ubu

How do you record it? With GoldWave, a programme that can be downloaded for free. There's a thread hidden somewhere with step-by-step explanations how to do it. I can't find taht thread... paging rockefeller center, paging rockefeller center! Here's the link to the GoldWave site: http://www.goldwave.com. ubu

Funny I just moved that disc on top of my listening pile - I liked it a lot when I heard it the last time. ubu

Here's a nice article and an interview: http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Peggy%20Lee_2.htm Check the site out, many nice things there! (Rooster just linked to the Horace Silver band's Blindfold Test in his new Tyrone Washington thread). ubu

Wow, they nailed it everything! Good read, thanks for the link, Rooster! No help from me, as I never heard any Washington besides that one Horace Silver disc, "The Jody Grind". ubu

So is Pharoah Sanders Impulse work. VERY much so, in fact. And Gato? He crossed the border himself, didn't he? (I only have some of his Flying Dutchman so far) ubu

you see, only needs some nice remarks about Miles and already couw drops by

So "Buddy & Soul" is the last of the PacJazz Riches with Watts aboard? I only have that one and "Keep the Customer Satisfied" so far, and tend to prefer the earlier. Funny I just got a nice Menza disc today...

Be careful to sort out the Washington stuff! There's three discs of music on two pages, and tracks are named ...t1 and ...t2, you have to rename them into ...t01 and ...t02 after you downloaded them, otherwise you will have to sort them before burning!

uh, oh, beautiful? me? Four more discs of music, by the way!

Listening right now (and recording), thanks! ubu

Jean Michel Pilc on Radio Suisse Romande More to be found there, some great music! ubu

Sounds good, John! Wow, I'm excited! I guess I skip sleeping until it arrives to get even more excited... (it's almost 4 a.m. here, shit!)

Friends, I've just had a first complete listen to the great Marco Eneidi disc provided by John B - and I am impressed, I have to admit! Lisle Ellis (never heard him before) is smokin', and so is Ellis! Thanks very much, John! I'll have another listen to this disc as soon as I can, for sure. ubu

gym? wtf?!? are funny rats allowed there? post some impressions, John! wow, green with envy!

ghost, I don't really know her, but judging from her reputation, I'd go see her with such a band, for sure! ubu

essential listening, in my opinion: Irene Schweizer, Chicago Piano Solo (Intakt) ubu

Oh well, you already see and/or have the box, and I finally get notice from CDUniverse that they shipped it... will take another week I assume, if not longer. ubu

I am also not a fan of jazz with vocals, but the disc Nuba, with Lee, Andrew Cyrille and Jimmy Lyons is wonderful! As I posted elsewhere, this might be some of the most lyrical playing I have heard from Lyons and Cyrille spends most of his time playing some fantastic percussion, very influenced by African tribal music, imo. Jeanne Lee really fits in well. I enjoyed her vocals a lot more than I expected to. Very highly recommended That's on "the list"...

John, the Taylor is great! You won't regret getting it!

When may we get it? Have no experience with pre-ordered CDUniverse items... hope it arrives soon!

ok, whining king got his fair punishment for whining before clicking the link... some interesting stuff, for sure! i wonder will it be worth to update the Taylor? The Lacy looks good, the Braxton? Not sure about the Eskelin, either, Hans! ubu

oh that copy-crap (here comes the king whining again...) really: since they started the cc shit I have bought only around 10 BN CDs, all in sales (three cc ones, others all older RVGs or a few Rare Grooves). before that I used to pick up the RVGs, several times I picked up the whole batch in one go... well no one at EMI cares about customers, right? They just care about illegal downloaders and copiers... ubu

Having just heard a fantastic concert given by Hancock-Shorter-Holland-Blade (I think the same one that was on TV, JazzBaltica 2004) in stellar quality on radio, I have to say that this group is one that's as adventurous as I'd wish Holland's own to be. I don't really want to say his latest quintet was bad, Kilson is a great drummer, I love Chris Potter, and slowly start liking Eubanks quite much, as well, but the whole band is just a bit too tame, not free and open enough, I think. I'll have to revisit the 2CD live album, as I remember loving it when i first heard it last year. ubu