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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

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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

Is death the meaning of existance?

What is death?

What is the meaning of "to be"?

Do we exist?

Wish I could say the same about the lady on the B-3 ....

The only thing I was referring to was that, in this series, you either get the insert or you don't. Ok, I was only wondering, as I have only about twelve of these releases, and all coming from the earliest batches. ubu

Yeah, but you can't crunch an LP cover in one hand trying to get the darn thing out of it, can you? Some of these Verve LPRs are so cheaply made - however, I really do like those I have, for they were all unknown to me, and it's great they do release the music in some way! (Even if I'd prefer them with a bit bonus material and unedited versions etc.) Back on topic: Soul Stream: check out the Giuffre Three album on Atlantic (it is also included in the wonderful Mosaic box). It features Jim Hall and Ralph Peña. As you are the funky kind of guy, you should really like it. Its sort of scaled down and rural funkiness is something that never fails to astonish me again. On the outside, that music is so different in style, yet if you really listen, it's just as funky as, say, Horace Silver's groups were. ubu

I do watch out for my mail, yet nothing so far... ubu

I have some simple, non-resealable sleeves that fit the covers tightly. Just shove the flattened "obi" in there and tadaa. You know, I spend my money on CDs... Have to look for such things. The latest batches I saw were digipacks, anyway. ubu

This is what I thought. That there wasn't much to print for the liner notes. This series of re-issues often has, for liner notes, only an exploded view of what the backcover says. Are there releases in the series with something else? From the ones I have, I'd say they include a blow-up of the back if it's too small to read. Some have nothing, as there's nothing to read on the back, some have nothing as there's so little text that you can read everything. The main problem I have with them is that you alway have to keep them packed in plastic "bags", so as not to lose the thing wrapped around the back of the disc - if you lose that, you don't have the information about personnel, dates etc anymore. ubu