king ubu

where does it state that? Oops, I guess I totally misread the review Sorry about that... I'll check my discographies and the tracklists of the various Savoy reissues. Please post the results! Those new Savoy packages are too expensive to just order now and think later (even more so in my buying freeze...) ubu All the tracks on the Savoy Norvo / Farlow / Mingus compilations Move and The Savoy Sessions do appear on The Modern Red Norvo and more. Thanks, Hans. So that's one to get after my buying freeze is over... ubu

Some more thoughts. "La tregua" was maybe made with similar thoughts as "Schindler's List" - bringing the Shoah to the fore again, finding an audience etc. However, it is all the less Hollywood-like. A pretty moving film, and John Turturro (sp?) is very good as Levi (the film's based on Levi's second book, telling the odyssey of his way back home to Torino). Some critique is necessary, though: first, the music is much too dramatic. Second: there are b/w sequences, short sequences all, interspersed, sequences of remembering, moments when Levi thinks back about scenes he lived through during his time as a prisoner. The big plus, however, is that the film is slow, not trying to catch attention with overtly sensationalist images, and generally a very moving and touching account of how these human beings turn again into just that: human beings. Touching it is because much care is given for details (as usual, in Rosi’s films), and the focus often is on small things that are nothing special for us, in daily life, but things the “prisoners” were deprived of. I am reading now “Si questo é un uomo” (in german), Hilberg is on its way, and I also bought the books of Kertesz (“Roman eines Schicksallosen”), Jorge Semprun (his first book, it seems), and Giorgio Agamben’s book about “Auschwitz”. Then I also read two of Tadeusz Borowski’s stories (“Bei uns in Auschwitz” in german, and another one the title of which escapes me). These stories are very strong, too. Borowski was a polish “arian” in the Nazi’s scheme of things, thus did not have to deal with the situation of his destruction (he commited suicide in 1951, though, and his experience in Auschwitz most probably was strongly connected with it). What he shows us is the “microcosmos” that did develop inside the Auschwitz camps (Stammlager Auschwitz I and Birkenau/Auschwitz II, the destruction camp). Also moving moments, and moments of normality in the midst of terror – a normality that has something perverse about it. So much for now, ubu

where does it state that? Oops, I guess I totally misread the review Sorry about that... I'll check my discographies and the tracklists of the various Savoy reissues. Please post the results! Those new Savoy packages are too expensive to just order now and think later (even more so in my buying freeze...) ubu

You know, there's a city called Parma, very good cheese called Parmiggiano, a painter called Parmigianino, and then there's prosciutto di parma... ain't that already more than we deserve? ubu What about Parmalat?? I don't think the City of Parma is still very proud of that corporation... I guess not! ubu

I got used to the fact that Savoy (besides that very cool 8CD Bird box) has a very strange reissue policy... I read somewhere that all the tracks were on this release, but we know our Keepnews... ubu

You know, there's a city called Parma, very good cheese called Parmiggiano, a painter called Parmigianino, and then there's prosciutto di parma... ain't that already more than we deserve? ubu

I think all the Norvo/Farlow/Mingus sides are on this one: (the rest is the Norvo date with Parker, I think) ubu

You know, rainy weather's the best to stay in bed all day... ubu

That page I linked above is pretty nice: http://www.guylj.fsnet.co.uk/JazzGuitarist...vador/index.htm There's more on other guitar players there, too. Adrian, I have not heard "Dynasty". I think it's not OOP yet. Gourley makes a good appearance on Eddie Louiss' Jazz in Paris disc: Kenny Clarke's on this one, too. Don't miss it! ubu

Adrian, Salvador was quite a discovery for me when I picked up that 10"-series CD. I hesitated for a long time, as I did not know him before. Then, a few months ago, I found his "A Tribute To The Greats" on vinyl (courtesy of our good friends Freshsound - originally on Bethlehem). Another very nice recording. It's with Eddie Costa, Frank Dallas and Ronnie Free, tunes: Artistry in Rhythm Taps Miller Prelude to a Kiss Walking Shoes Solos for Guitar Four Brothers In your own sweet way Ruby My Dear Manteca Cool Eyes Yardbird Suite Rec. Summer 57, reissued in Japan 1999: TOCJ-62023 (Japan,1999) (http://www.guylj.fsnet.co.uk/JazzGuitarist...totheGreats.htm) ubu

Maybe I should have saved those left-over dreams funny, but here's that rainy day! Here's that rainy day they told me about and I laughed at the thought that it might turn out this way! Where is that worn-out wish that I threw aside, after it brought my lover near? Funny how love becomes a cold rainy day funny, that rainy day is here! Funny how love becomes a cold rainy day funny . . . that rainy day is here!

ubu

Chiming in late. What about Jimmy Gourley? I have several fifties recordings from France with him playing. Seems he was sort of the Raney-style-ambassador for some very fine players in Europe, back then. The one album I have of him is a very nice one, quartet setting with Barney Wilen, no piano: Among said young french guitar players, René Thomas (belgian, I think, actually) stands out. There are two CDs of his in the recent Jazz in Paris series: And then there's this one with J.R. Monterose, a great album, in my opinion: Another fine guitar player was Sacha Distel. As a bonus release to the Jazz in Paris series, "Jazz guitarist", a very good 2CD set, has been released last year: My favorite Distel, however, is on this album, co-led with John Lewis, and featuring Barney Wilen in top form: (Reissued by Koch, OOP now, as far as I know). ubu

Found "Coral Keys", that Walter Bishop Jr. disc with Harold Vic (what's the deal about this spelling? Did he change it? Is that a strange typo?) and Woody Shaw. Pretty cool album! ubu

Joe, sorry for being late! Nevertheless: H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y ! ! ! Hope you had a cool party with those catesta cuties... ubu

Happy Birthday! ubu

jg - I see this one's still around. I'll go for it, thanks! ubu

Hi Gokhan, and welcome to the funny rat! Thanks for your comment on AALY! I sure dig Haker-Flaten (have two of The Thing's discs on Crazy Wisdom), now Janson does interest me after reading your post! I shall look if that disc is still around. ubu

Don't you think this question deserves an own thread? nah, not sure. waddayouthink? shall I start a poll about it? Yes! crazy hoot... Why does John tend to call Austrians (supposing Rockefeller is) and Swiss (me) "crazy hoots"? ubu

Clifford - you're right, of course, my disc has these same two alternates, but I was not aware of that when I posted (at work) - which also means I was not bothered. I love the disc, however! Is any of the Blue Note's Ogun stuff on CD? ubu

Those on Steeplechase where the ones with Tete, right? I heard one of the (two?) LPs long time ago. I can't remember how I thought it was, though, but it did certainly not blow me away. ubu

one beer please! Thanks! You got it! I just have to find a way to buy you that beer. Once you figured it out, do you buy me a beer, too? ubu

I saw him some time ago, two years, maybe. With Solal and Orsted-Pedersen. He seemed tired. Played out. Pretty sad, actually. The other relatively recent thing I heard of him is as a guest (along with Frank Wess who at least then still had his thing together) with Gene Harris. It was a live broadcast I heard over the radio and the commentators said he could barely stand... (that was summer 1999). ubu

May this humble king sign up, too? Will send you a PM! ubu

Now shouldn't America honour God, too? Oh, I forgot, they start with a prayer each day in the White House... Washington is structured like a christian cross, you know? All for you, deus! ubu