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Well, 7/4, I have to note that under the positive influence of Hans and myself you are making some improvements. Hi-de-ho is serious enough for me. I speak for myself only, of course - Hans might still find it a bit thoughtless and irrisponsible, but for me it's just fine. Good to hear there's some hope! ho-ho-pe?

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Something I forgot, David, let me add it here: SACRILEGE!

Not at all your fault! I got a burn of that, since. ubu what do you think of this one? I have only listened to it one and quite like it. I have never heard Rivers in a duo setting before. Will I be forgiven here, if I admit that other than Blue Note works, I am not a perticular fan of Rivers (with some exceptions, like Don Pullen's excellent Capricon Rising in Black Saint)? Nope, never! Seriously? Really not a fan? Wow! I love the stuff he did in the Seventies, with Holland/Altschul or Holland/Barker. Then, there's Hollands "Conference of the Birds," in my humble opinion one of the best ECM albums ever. Also, there's the FMP solo disc, "Portrait," which is masterly! And then there's the Impulse trios... you can easily see that I AM a fan! ubu

Not at all your fault! I got a burn of that, since. ubu what do you think of this one? I have only listened to it one and quite like it. I have never heard Rivers in a duo setting before. Still have to give it a concentrated listen. I do quite a lot of work for that Count Basie website, and haven't had time to really listen music often, lately...

Listening to this one right now: Very very nice! Wilder's also on the Hank Jones Savoy album, "Bluebird," providing one of the highlights, in my opinion, of that album. How about Lew Soloff? ubu

Nice photo, Nate Should spend more time on the Bagatellen site, I always forget it's there, and I just don't have the time to read it all... Thanks for reminding me of it! How about the Lüscher/Su? Have you heard it in the meantime?

The record is "FREE JAZZ" (yep, just like the Coleman's one). Recorded in 1965, it's the pionneering record of the french avant-garde scene. And it's a stunning one, Dan Warburton is right about. FRANÇOIS TUSQUE is a strange person who still makes (beautiful) records time to time but who has been marginalized (is this word existing in english?) by the establishment but also by his on will (he never went into the "jazz bussiness" of any kind by choice.) It's far to be as much "outside" than KARYOBIN or MACHINE GUN, but it's a powerfull record with most of the names who will be the crucial actors of the French modern scene to come (MICHEL PORTAL, FRANÇOIS JANNEAU, BERNARD VITET, BEB GUERIN). The funny story of this session it's than he has been directed by a musician who did'nt know very well to play piano at that time when all the others was first conservatory prices! There has been discussion of Tusques in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4704 ubu

Still owe Nate a short write up on this one: Fredi Lüscher & Nat Su - "Smada" A beautiful disc! Dedicated to Ellington compositions, Su with his fragile, dry tone (he owes a lot, if not all, to Lee Konitz), and Lüscher create beautiful improvisations. The opening tune, "Azalea," is one of personal Ellington favourites (the version Duke did with Louis Armstrong is sublime, nothing less). They also play "African Flower," "Come Sunday," "The Mooche," "Serenade to Sweden," and of course the title tune. Recording is beautiful, fitting the beauty of the music. It has been done by Martin Pearson (who did several Keith Jarrett live recordings for ECM, in most perfect sound, as well). The album, as a whole, is a very quiet affair, but it has depth and purity of sound and melody. Now if that makes you want to buy the disc, here's a link to the Altisuoni website, but I think you could locate it for a cheaper price, maybe. Right now back to Hank Jones again (the VME, this time). ubu

Columbia, released 1992. Musicians include Art Baron (tb etc), Bill Frisell, Greg Cohen, Marc Ribot, Henry Threadgill, Don Alias, Don Byron, Vernon Reid, Henry Rollis (!), Chuck D (!), Bobby Previte and others. Some rap (presumably on the track with Chuck D, but I didn't look at the cover or tracklist while listening) - doesn't really fit in, I think. There are 19 tracks on the disc, with lectures from "Beneath the Underdog" during some tunes (all incorporated in the music). Pretty good, I think. ubu

Let's revive this thread a bit! Thanks to some recommendations in the Jones birthday thread I picked up two CDs (strangely, a title search for "Hank Jones" did not bring that up! Only with searching all posts option I could locate it, here it is): The Talented Touch / Porgy & Bess (Okra-Tone 2004) This couples two quartet albums, the first one with Barry Galbraith, Mint Hinton and Osie Johnson, the second with Kenny Burrell and Elvin Jones in for Galbraith and Johnson. Glorious music! Highly recommended to all fans of piano jazz, and everybody attracted by style and taste. The second one is the Concord 2CD set, "The Touch," reissuing "Lazy Afternoon" (a late Eighties recording with Dave Holland, Keith Copeland, and Ken Peplowski), and "Rockin' In Rhythm," an album from 1977, with Ray Brown and Jimmie Smith, and Jones playing the Fender rhodes piano on half of the tracks. Both are great albums, in my opinion! Then this one might be the favourite among my relatively few Jones holdings, so far: An album dedicated to Thad Jones compositions, with George Mraz and Elvin. Great stuff! ubu

mlm? I know what M.D.M. stays for, but who would be "l"? Welcome! On Burton, I can't say too much, as I hardly know his work. The Rhino twofer starting off with the Jarrett/Burton album, however, is excellent! I think I like the Burton album that follows, "Throb," even better! ubu

Will have to look for the two Portals, P.L.M.! On Sclavis, I think you're a bit too harsh - I don't really know what music that "Napoli's Walls" project is, what "etiquette" fits best. Not sure it's got much to do with jazz, and I sure wouldn't compare it to the Sclavis-Texier-Romano trio too much. The character of the Napoli's Walls group is thoroughly european, or better: mediterranean. I do like it. In Saalfelden, last year, Sclavis also sat in with Portal. I've only heard two tracks from that concert, however, they're as good as the 1997 Willisau recording that some of you have gotten a copy of (please spread it on yourselves, I'm still facing some hard work with the Brötzel Tentet...) I listened to this one this morning: I rather like it, I must say. Solal is great, as usual. He sounds very monk-ish at moments! Now spinning: GREAT! Friends, get this! (Well, I didn't exactly get it, just burned it from the library) Really like it, really! ubu

Ubu, you want reaction? I'm joining in on praising those Johnny Hodges sides. I have these on an earlier Vogue Lp reissue. Jeez, if I had to post reactions on albums I like every time they're mentioned on this Board, I would have more posts than the honourable JSngry! And I'ld be out of a job Brownie, I almost got the feeling that maybe I'm the only one who likes that disc (and thus I'd have been in for a new pair of ears...) ubu -_-

Is Collignon doing a lot of vocal stuff? I saw him live, and he devoted a lot of time to vocal thing (with a lot of electronics invovled) -and he was good in it. He alse has quite a stage presense - looking more like an aggressive punk-rocker, very animated... An excellent trumpeter, of course. Vincent Courtois is a great cellist! I saw him live as well. Beautiful sound and phenomenal technique. I would be intrerested in eharing his own projects. ------------------------- Yup, quite some vocal things! And I like him a lot, too. Agree on Courtois as well. I have the live concert of the Napoli's Wall project from Jazzfest Berlin 2003 - quite good stuff! The CD I only burned from the library. (That library has an almost torn-apart copy of.... guess what?..... "Rara Avis"!!! Bastards! I'm sure they got the last copy lying around in Zurich, a day before I was aware of it being OOP...) ubu

Listening to Louis Sclavis' "Napoli's Walls" right now. Like it pretty well! Médéric Collignon, heard on trumpet, percussion, voice and electronics, adds some spice to the music. Besides him and Sclavis, the group consists of Hasse Poulsen (g), and Vincent Courtois (cello, electronics). A rather unusual line-up! ubu

Listening to "The Talented Touch / Porgy And Bess" now - marvellous! Thanks for the recommendation! Never heard of that Okra-Tone label! The photos are indeed beautiful. And it's always a pleasure to hear Barry Galbraith! What a forgotten master he is! ubu

I hear ya, P.D.! Just wanted to advertise a bit for the Vogue disc - did that several times on this board, already, and NEVER had any reaction, so far. Now it's OOP, I think, but I got mine fairly recently. Glorious music! I'll go for the Blue Moon's, some fine day. No need to have Mosaic Vinyl (in fact, I have the Pepper and Brooks on vinyl, and have never been too enthusiastic about sound quality. The Clayton though, my third and last vinyl Mosaic, is great, but then the other two were not Q-LPs or what they call that.) ubu

MP3.com has now added the possibility to search for track names. That's a cool site. Of late, my Opera browser would go down around ten seconds after hitting the AMG-page... Design is much better on the MP3 site, too! You don't have those appearing and discappearing covers and all that crap. ubu

I found the old HatArt of the Taylor and had one chance so far for a complete listen. Absolutely fascinating music! And I liked it better than the two New World releases of the same band. I guess "It is in the brewing luminous" remains my favourite of that period, though. ubu

If you go to this link, you can hear some of the radio programmes I did: http://www.lora.ch/sendungen.php?list=Sonu...spr%26auml%3Bch The one on top (Sonntag 15. August) is the first of a two part programme we did with Stephan Wittwer (I did post some). It has excerpts from his albums "Sicht.04/etc." (domizil), "Streams" (Grob), "World of Strings" (Intakt). The second programme (to follow on August 29), will have excerpts from "Werther/Wittwer" (Grob), "Doran/Studer/Wittwer" (ECM), and from a live concert we recorded ourselves in a jazzclub at Zurich, March of this year. There are lenghty interview-passages in between, you'll have to fast-forward them, as it's all in swiss german, and I suppose there aren't that many funny-rat-alumni that do understand that. Enjoy! ubu

There's this one, too: and here's its andorran pendant: some beautiful music! ubu

Friends, you might all be interested in the new Barney Wilen disc, discussed in this thread. The CD features Barney with the so-called Jazz Hip trio, which includes fine French bass and piano players, hitherto unknown to me, as well as the great swiss ex-pat, Daniel Humair on drums. Didier Lockwood sits in on violin for one lenghty tune. The opener is Ornette's "Lonely Woman." The recordings come from the years 1977-79, and it seems this disc (there's a big "1" on its cover) is the first in what is planned to be a series of discs containing music recorded by the artists, themselves (Wilen music, that is, only). Barney was hardly documented at that stage of his career, and he is playing GREAT! Sound is brittle, but good enough for such self-documented live recordings (this was the era before DAT and all those things made it easier to record in good quality). Check it out, if you feel like hearing some more Barney! I know he doesn't really belong into this thread, but then, the music on this new CD somehow does fit. For me, it shows a whole new side of Barney's, that I did not know anything about. If you don't feel like emailing your credit card no., I can give you the phone number of the fellow to contact. ubu

This one for mood And these for starters, if you're into some more swinging stuff, too: ubu

Thanks, P.D. - I was aware of the Blue Moons, but I never so far ordered from them. Will do some fine day, I guess... ubu