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  1. king ubu

    Funny Rat

    ubu - I received the disc and am listening to it now. So far it sounds fantastic! Thanks again. Welcome, and glad you like it! ubu
  2. Marvellous playing by all on this one! My favourite Wallace recording. Never mind the hair... (hair of the dog? yup, nothing against that!... ) ubu
  3. You ought to change that fast! I've had the Space and Freedom books for years (got them once I got to know and love Ervin from some Mingus albums which were among my first dozen jazz discs, so Ervin goes way back to when I began enjoying this music). Excellent album! ubu
  4. Very nice photo, brownie!
  5. Swede, thanks a lot! You've given us some food for thought ubu
  6. king ubu

    IKE QUEBEC

    I guess it's the same here (except for five instead of ten years). The 45 sessions are very nice, too! But then, all of his recordings I've heard (I never heard "Heavy Soul" and "Congo Lament") are at least enjoyable. brownie, dream on! That would have been beautiful! ubu
  7. happy birthday bertrand! listen to some of your favourite music, have some of your favourite beverage... and it will get a bit better... ubu
  8. One jazz year = seven rock years. It's like a dog, only not. so I'm 84 years old despite being only 25, but then I'm only not, right? ubu
  9. Thanks for your post, Jim - we shall think about this, for sure!
  10. The work on the biography of the Count for our upcoming site has begun. Here's the current proposal for the structure of the biography in several "eras". If you have any other and/or better propositions, please let me know! So: - Childhood/Youth - Early Years: Blue Devils, Bennie Moten - Barons of Rhythm: The Old Testament - War Years: Radio Days - The Hard Years - New Testament: the Clef/Verve Years - New Testament: the Roulette Years - Popular Times: the Reprise Years - Back to Basics: Granz & Pablo What do you think about this? feedback wanted! thanks, ubu
  11. AB, I wish you best of luck and a good start again! You will be missed here, for sure! ubu
  12. Flurin, you were the "baby in jazz" guy! Man, at 13 I was a bit of a pop-sinister (Echo & the Bunnymen, the Cure, the Smiths, Joy Division, Siouxsie, Psychedelic Furs...) trying to leave that stuff apart, taking my time with 60´s and 70´s rock and hard-rock.... and starting with the blues, which leaded me to jazz... Wish I had started with jazz before. Away with you, young punks... By the time I was 13, I was already into Charlie Parker. And he was still alive then! You know, old punk, if this music would have been around when I was thirteen - hell! I wish i was born around your time, brownie! ubu
  13. king ubu

    Funny Rat

    You could do some remixes, possibly - "Ghost (Baby Crying Remix)"
  14. king ubu

    Funny Rat

    You know I´m an old-fashioned swing lover, Flurin, but I try to enlarge my ears, even with NOIZE!!! NOIZE? Where did you hear any noise? In the Ayler dirges? Hey, that's children music - try with yours, they'll LOVE it! (Make sure their mother is absent when you first try ) ubu
  15. king ubu

    Funny Rat

    Agus, stick around here! This is the real meat of the board Post some about your Ayler excursions, if you like! Lots of Ayler fans here, I suppose. Same goes for Cecil. ubu
  16. Went with 11-20 - I started listening around age 13, which must have been around 1992 (although I have no memory whatsoever that I once actually WAS 13 yrs old...) ubu
  17. No need to rubbish or ridicule - Taylor's playing is very much that of a percussionist. 88 tuned drums... ubu
  18. uh, wait a minute, I think no one mentioned the complete Village Vanguard box so far... You'll end up buying them all. Just for starters, let me list: - Crescent (easily the most overlooked item in his work, standing in the huge shadow of "A Love Supreme") - Sun Ship (the best way to get into the freer stuff, an otherworldy record) - Africa/Brass (if you love it, sadly, there won't be anything similar to check out) and why not the Coltrane/Hartman if you like "Ballads". Add "Ellington/Coltrane", too. I'm sure you're going to have lots of fun and some pretty intense moments, too, exploring Coltrane. It was him that got me into jazz at the first time. A towering figure. ubu
  19. Thanks for sharing this, brownie! I recorded a George Gruntz jazz opera from the air last year, but still haven't listened to that one. ubu
  20. indeed! Check him on the beautiful "The Cats" with John Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes. This was one of the first discs I got when I developped a taste for Coltrane (which was at the same time that I got into jazz). ubu
  21. king ubu

    Funny Rat

    I'm just through listening to this for the first time. All I can say is that there are some great, great, moments and I'll do all I can to catch them whenever they play within reasonable travelling distance. This is as good as I was expecting from these 3 gents, 45 min's' worth of very fine music. Many thanks to king ubu for making this available to fellow fans as myself. Glad you like it Gokhan! I might not even have it recorded hadn't you advised me about how cool that trio is (and it IS!). I mailed out the cover to everyone just now - please drop me a line if it didn't work, or if I forgot someone on my mail! ubu
  22. Couw turned me on to this recording a little while back. It is most defintely a cd we should all have. You know, we've all had that one for a loooong time - you were the last to notice!
  23. That's about what I would need, could I afford... I have all my CDs in jewel cases, but it's quite a mess these days, too, and getting worse with each acquisition...
  24. Finishing Primo Levi's "Si questo e un uomo", then maybe Semprun's "Le grand voyage" (both in german), or rather Kertesz' "Roman eines Schicksallosen". After that probably Giorgio Agamben's book on what rests of "Auschwitz". At the same time on and off: Bela Balasz' "Ein Baedeker der Seele und andere Feuilletons", also (still) some Joseph Roth, Siegfried Kracauer etc. ubu
  25. king ubu

    Funny Rat

    Thanks, P.L.M.! Lots of names. I have the 3CD HUM set, as well as lots of discs with Michelot. HUM is fantastic! From the others, I have heard some names, but Jenny-Clark is the only one I have on record (with the great Kühn-Humair-J.-C. trio, "Triple Entente"). I'll have to check some of them out! ubu
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