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Listening to Cecil Taylor's "One Too Many Salty Swift..." for the first time (found it used and dirt cheap recently) - like what I've heard so far! Two and half hours of the CT unit... neighbours will love me

Thanks for sharing this beautiful photograph, Chris!

Happy birthday! Will spin some hot fives and sevens tonight! ubu

Lon, I hope you have a good one, and a great weekend to come! All the best! ubu

I'm back too, after just a couple hours of sleep...

Got my disc, thanks Marcus, thanks sidewinder! ubu

Mail sent!

Nothing, I guess, I was having dinner and reading some... ubu

I gues not, as he laaakes caling me one! And pleese noone tel me to wathc my speling!

Start with the live one, the cheapo! It's incredibly good! And they had so many great men in that band (Benny Bailey, Art Farmer, Tony Coe, Johnny Griffin... Mangelsdorff, that great british alto sax player Derek Humble...) ubu

Uh - those things are mutually exclusive then...? maybe he's a farmer, sitting on his WD45 all day. oh, that thing you sit on doesn't look much better, but then, because of the dark glasses and that ridiculous cap I'm not really sure it's you... ubu

Gotta share this one: the original "Sax No End" cover (the music was on the last of the discs I listed above): ubu

Only a tiny little bit. The recent MPS reissues include one I know: Fellini 712 This was part of an earlier twofer that I own, "Three Latin Adventures", which also has the album "Latin Kaleidoscope": A good one, if you see it! Two more albums are included in the recent MPS series: All Smiles More Smiles I have yet to get them. Other than the Three Latin disc, and the one with Getz, I only have this one: This is a cheap 2CD set (German Amazon sells it for 10 Euros), a reissue of a Europe1 release, including a 1969 concert. I love this one! Another earlier twofer, I only have a burn of: Don't really know it yet, but I guess it's all good! The cover is not original, by the way, on the two older MPS releases. This site here has tons of covers of big band albums: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/bigband/favorite/list.htm You'll find some CBBB ones there too. ubu

That "Change of Scenes" is indeed good! Grab it when you see it! It's OOP for pretty long I think. French Amazon has two listed by some sellers, but not at the cheapest of prizes... ubu

What, your Mosaic package? Take it easy, it will arrive... (that's how I get mine - the main reason I order them boxes at all - never cared much about the music, in fact...) ubu

Pretty frightening cover! Imagine it LP-sized! ubu

ubu - Zorn has released at least five albums of the "Cobra" game piece. The one I owned was recorded live at the Knitting Factory. I just looked at AMG and they only gave it one and a half stars, which sounds about right. I have this one: AMG I think four stars are fair, but then I know only this version. Is the 2CD "Cobra" on Hat again this same piece? Zorn himself wrote the liners for the Tzadik version, and he includes some critical reflections about this sort of piece being successful or not, and ends stating that this one was "Cobra" at its best... alright, he does have to sell CDs, but he wouldn't have to say that, if he didn't consider it to be true. ubu

I'm afraid I can't, being from Switzerland, but if it's some Amazon Marketplace seller, why not try and send an email? ubu

slightly funnyrattier... couldn't say it better! I never got into the London disc, listened to parts of it in a store several times, yet it never fully grabbed me. I saw John Betsch with Dewey, btw. John, what do you mean by "one of the Cobra discs"? As I understand it, "Cobra" is a particular composition (of the "new music" sort Zorn calls "game piece", which I think is a very fitting term, that might apply to music by Riley, Rzewski etc, too). Are there several recordings of "Cobra" and you had one of them, or is this some sort of misunderstanding (or of lack of knowledge on my side)? ubu

Some more love here for Scott! I only recently came to hear him first, when I picked up the astonishing "Falling in love.." - what a great recording! Then, I just got "Moon Glow" (Fantasy), too, and like that one pretty much. Check it out, Jim! It got lots of stars in Downbeat, and I think well-deserved ones! ubu

Very nice article, Gary!

Amazon France lists it for 93.5 Euro. Not too bad, as I get VAT off of that (it's great not being a part of Europe..., well, sometimes ) ubu

You know, I only chose sax because it's so close to, well, ...

You know there's a world championship in playing air guitar? I bet you rather not choose such a photo! Don't know if I'd still talk to you if... And I chose mine because not having a digital camera, it is the only one someone mailed me, and the only one I have on my computer... ubu

I could keep my old avatar in my signature, but I'm afraid the pics in my signature use a bit much of space, anyway, but thanks for posting these nice photos once again, Agus! I guess they're at least three times on the whole BB now! And rest assured, that ugly guy is not me! You should know better! ubu B-)