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up with my question!

How about "Tangorhino"? or: "Sousophant"?

So do you think there is any chance of me picking up the monk riverside set up cheap from somewhere? or have the cheap versions long sold out? You might find them on Ebay. Try German Ebay. I think it might be a bit more expensive, but you might try. ubu

Thanks for the excellent report on the concerts. Darn good music, by the sound of it. Must be nice to get regular doses of those WORLD jazz players. Now "regular doses" would be quite an exagerration!

A tough vote! I think I would go for "Study In Brown" - that was a recording I got pretty early in my jazz listening phase, and I always loved it. However, I would have to listen to all of them again (actually, I would have to listen to the whole Brownie box again...). How do the VMEs compare with the box? Much better? ubu

No Ware/Shipp, Man - I was referring to "Prism", the Shipp trio recording with Dickey. I think the only Ware I have in on that Enja Cecil Taylor disc. The band without bass and Mark Edwards on drums. ubu

So he IS the one who played with Prez - I think on some Aladdin sides, for instance. Interesting! I never thought about this guy being the same who wrote "Theme for Ernie" (which is a marvel)! ubu

Dear Evan, will you accept this as a small celebration of your new mafioso-persona: ubu

Should I change my alias to "Don Tano" in hommage to the late great Gaetano Badalamenti? Or shall I rather go for "Lucky Luciano"? ubu

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I would know a third man to join in - I recently saw a performance of Georg Büchner's great play "Danton", where the man in charge of the music (he was on stage all the time, with his piano etc), played the "Marseillaise" by letting drop differently sized ("tuned") one-way lady-shaves - that was funny and very very musical (no joking here!). ubu

Maybe he should team up with the balloon-woman? Seriously, David, tell us some more about that lady! Solo music? "Sound" music? "Minimal"? What is it that she's doing? ********** David and me went to see Barry Guy and Frank Gratkowski yesterday night (first time I met him, first time I met anyone from the board, and I can assure you, he's alright ). Barry Guy was FREAKIN' MAD! "da shit" I'm tempted to say! But some real hard shit! He had with him: Herb Robertson, tp; Johannes Bauer, tb; Per-Ake Holmlander, tuba; Evan Parker, ss/ts; Mats Gustafsson, bari/flutophone; Hans Koch, bcl; Agusti Fernandez, p; Guy, (extremely flat) bass; Raymond Strid & Paul Lytton, d. The set was blowing me away, really! One of the best concerts I ever heard! Koch was doing some wild stuff (he can be heard on several - some recent - recordings with the trio "Koch-Schütz-Studer", they label their music "hardcore chamber music", Schütz plays the (electric) cello, Studer's on drums, they collaborated with several other musicians, from Cuba, from Egypt, with a swiss poet, too). Parker, it seems, did what he always does, or rather: what he has done for thirty some years (so said D.D.). Gustafsson was great on bari, even moreso on his "flutophone" (a flute with a sax mouthpiece). Robertson and Bauer shone a bit less, in my opinion, but then the rhythm players were all the better: I never heard of Agusti Fernandez (he's Spanish), nor of Raymond Strid - who played terrific! The Gratkowski quartet - I heard them the first time, too - was quite good, too. Hemingway is very much his own man on drums, playing "angular" (D.D. - sorry, I can't get the cyrillic letters here!) and very hard, yet with a dryness and lots of humour. Gratkowski himself was pretty much screaming around, not so very individual, but still good. Also he played (besides the alto) contrabass-clarinet (I think I never heard it live), and bass clarinet. The man he had with him on trombone, Wolter Wierbos, was quite good, with a nice sound (Rudd-school), yet he did not have enough space, I thought. On bass they had Dieter Manderscheid, who has a nice big sound, and - together with Hemingway - was able to find some real weirdo funk grooves from time to time. One thing that is special about Gratkowski are his compositions - some really intriguing music! David will post of photo he took of us before the concert - and please add your comments to the concert and correct me where I am wrong! ubu

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How about these for starters (the "10' Pepsi Balls"): ubu

Without any problem. No clicks, etc. They sound just fine to these ears. A friend of mine did this with Nero, too. Don't ask me how it works, though. I might try with EAC, too. ubu

John, thanks - that's the same thread Claude linked above. I re-read it. My ears are not really all too well equipped to hear the small differences, mostly as I cannot compare to any other release. So if anyone has additions to that list, please post it there, or here! ubu

welcome! I think the merits of the ZYX 20bit remasters were discussed here and there - I'd like to have a list of "safe" ones, as they really are available cheap, but some of them are so crappy, and some are omitting alternates or additional music, too. ubu

this jazz god that i know sent me a link to that sire, he said he scored some good deals there on monk's riverside box set among other things, something like 25 wacky euros, couldn't find it listed though. Sadly the shipping to that states is so much. That box set sale took place when ZYX decided to get rid of their cheap versions of various box sets, around a year ago. (I managed to get two Bill Evans sets, the Pepper, both Tatums and the Monk, some without booklets, but all of that for less than 100 Euros!!!) ubu

You cannot get any non-copy-controlled EMI stuff except if you order from the US. No other way. The old ZYX remasters were not their own, as far as I know, but Fantasy's. ZYX started to fuck up things when they began their digipack 20bit reissue series. And obviously no one really listens the them in stores, as they are more and more replacing the older (and often better) CDs remastered by Fantasy (and manufactered by ZYX using the Fantasy remastering). ubu

I have seen some in stores here, and it seems they are digipacks here now, too. ubu

Daniel Humair

Human?

Who is Jean-Paul Sartre? And didn't I prefer Camus? ubu

Sad news, yes. I'll might spin those jams Aric mentions, to remember him. ubu

I never heard Ware - and until I got that Shipp disc, I never heard of Dickey, either, sorry. That was not to imply that he was no good! And then I was not sure about his name when I wrote that post (and too lazy to go to AMG). ubu