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That's good to hear, Bertrand! Really! Gotta spin Red & Black again to celebrate his birthday!

Yes, it was pretty sad. I actually first, right after the concert, shied away from being honest about it - it was too sad. However, it seems he was in pretty good shape when he made the CD with Cecil and Elvin - so there's still hope!

I don't think this should lessen anyone's appettite for the set (I have it on my list, but don't plan to get it too soon, unless it runs low): they failed to include two alternates from the "Blues-A-Plenty" session, available on the 2CD release by Ben Webster, "The Soul of Ben Webster": This is a superb release, anyway, back from the days when Verve did it right. It includes an album each by Webster, Hodges and Harry Edison, all (obviously) featuring Webster. ubu

Playing out of focus, not able to really construct a solo that makes sense. Not maintaining much interest. Also, he was almost more entertainer then musician - two sets, both of them only some 50 minutes and four tunes, both of them ended with a lengthy rock'n'roll clap-your-hands-and-sing-along number... One fourth of the concert was just that... I thought it was pretty sad. Even more so if you know what he was (hope he still IS, but I just don't know!) capable of! I also recently got the Red/Black in Willisau disc, and his playing there is indeed awesome! He IS a favourite of mine. ubu

What's to apologize for? Those cats sould PLAY! I know that! Yet somehow this music sounds pretty corny and very much of its time, today (and let me add I'm too young to have been around then, so there's no nostalgia involved). ubu

Happy birthday to both of them! However, on the record project: while I think McLean is still pretty good, Redman... well, it's sad, but me and another person posting here had a quite similar and somehow quite sad experience recently seing him live (on different occasions, a year or even longer apart). ubu

Great to see a bit of a Wheeler discussion! I love what I have heard so far (which is not much...). I am still trying to continue my buying freeze as good as I can, and thus I did not pick up this 2CD set - I will put it on my list, though. And thanks everybody for sharing your knowledge! ubu

I don't have this album, but I'm quite a fan of what I heard of Solal. His early stuff was out in the latest nineties on three Vogue Masters CDs (titled Complete Vogue Recordings Vols. 1-3). Some great trio, solo, quartet (with "Fats" Sadi Lallemand on vibes), and band stuff! Didn't get his latest BN release so far, as it's copy protected here (although I saw it dirt cheap and was tempted several times). Is this one still available? I also heard Solal live once, in a trio with Johnny Griffin (bad night, though no booze, it seemed), and NHOP (did a great 12 bar blues solo that night). Solal was in pretty good shape, though the whole concert was quite a boring mess. I think I have a couple of really good live tracks recorded off the air with Griffin, Solal and a rhythm section. Got to look for that. ubu

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Great film

Sent you a PM!

By the way, three posts up, when referring to disc 1 I meant disc 3, the 1960 date - I decided to listen to the music in the sequence it was recorded.

Listened to disc 2 (1979) - GREAT music! Really! Michelot is much more of a presence (also becasue of sound quality - on the 1960 date he often almost disappears). If anything, Urtreger is more his own man, and Humair even better (he is awesome today, but then, as I said, he was awesome already as a youngster in the 1950s). ubu

Happy Birthday, Larry! And many happy returns! ubu

Forgot something:

Garth, HUUUGE thanks! I listened to disc 1 this morning - terrific stuff! Urtreger sometimes, in his Bud-Powell-inflections, reminds me a bit of Sonny Clark (the Trio record with Chambers & Philly Joe) - he is not a very individual piano stylist, I think, but he is very very good. And Humair is smoking! Makes sense that his name is mentioned first, indeed! What a great drummer he was at age 22, already! Looking forward to hearing the 79 and 99 recordings! ubu

First listen to this one - very impressed!

Ubu, we're cool. I was hearing you. And, yes, Two T's is exactly that: a week at work for the Feel Trio. William Parker is impressive in this setting -- he is an incredible fit.

Sad news to start the weekend! R.I.P. ubu

Me too. CRIPES UBU! Get with the program, would you! B) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks Hans for the information on the Brotz Hat release. ubu, you'd better standardize on 40 posts per page... don't test the limits of our tolerance -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All those american and russian imperialists! Holy shit! We small european countries got to stand together! (As the swiss do with the EU ) ubu

A very good one!

Yeah! Erdinger & Schneider Weissbier! And don't forget the slice of lemon!

Me too. CRIPES UBU! Get with the program, would you! B) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks Hans for the information on the Brotz Hat release. Did everybody except me adjust their board-settings? I'd be much too lazy for that - I stick with it: page 100! ubu

You might try a search for Gianni Gebbia - I'm much too lazy right now... "Arcana Major" is a solo alto sax disc, that absolutely blew me away! A truly masterful work of a young musician with (hopefully) a great future ahead. I am not sure that it can still be obtained.