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  1. Gotta listen to it again, a smokin' live recording! I wish there was more Brown/Roach live stuff around! ubu
  2. You know, even if we're a worldly (or otherworldly?) king, we like to spread the gospel Glad you enjoy it! And: Ravi go searching, hellyeah! ubu
  3. Glad about that I am! ubu
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    Helen Merrill

    just wanted to make sure everyone here has seen this great cover of one of her best records. ubu
  5. That's true NE-german beauty, yes? ubu
  6. great thread, really ubu I'm afraid it is a typical OrgBB thread. Or am I not afraid? I am too lazy to care and blame catesta. Yeah, I always sensed it was his fault! ubu
  7. great thread, really ubu
  8. Uh, now, with the possibility to relate to myself (eating stinking cheese, sleeping while talking...), I can understand perfectly well... ubu
  9. Currently lots of short texts by: Robert Walser, Joseph Roth, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Franz Hessel. Feuilletons and book reviews, mainly, searching for the "flaneur"... Also Alfred Döblin's "Reise in Polen". ubu
  10. Huh?!? Is this what dutch people do and look like? (Don't tell Hans! Or, rather: maybe Hans can explain!) ubu
  11. Milan, did you check the alternates (on disc 7) from the Albert & Gene Ammons date? Some great tenor playing! Also, I really like Helen Humes singing with those Clayton bands. Hardee and Wilson are a joy to hear, as is Humes herself! ubu
  12. That's why we over here get payed around 24th or 25th... (no fear, I have it almost since I can remember ) (and it's very bad awful music, really! I would not spend a penny on that one!) ubu
  13. So this would mean there's some tracks missing from the Mosaic, but the Mosaic also has one track not reissued elsewhere? ubu
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    Sinatra-Basie

    some of my favorites, too (though I don't have "Come Dance With Me" - love all the others)! ubu
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    Funny Rat

    I think you answer your own question: there are some good musicians around! Not that I'm all that well acquainted with the swiss jazz scene of today, but I hear interesting things here and there pretty often. By the way, Pearson is an englishman who lives in switzerland (Zurich, I think, but I'm not sure) for pretty long, now. There are other imports, as Nils Wogram, or Billy Cobham (if you're into GOOD classic piano trio playing standards, check his "Art of the Three" with Kenny Barron and Ron Carter, one of the most surprising albums of recent years, in my (and Sngry's - see his thread in the recommendations section) opinion) ubu
  16. Another for the Helen Carr! Also I'm a big fan of Tormé's Bethlehem dates. Like "Lulu" is my favorite, but "Sings Fred Astaire" comes close. Also there are some very good things on the live at the Crescendo albums! The "Porgy & Bess" 2CD set is a good one, too. Then, the Chris Connor dates are all very good, in my opinion. Carmen McRae's album is good, too, but not as interesting, in my opinion, as the Connor dates. The two Hartmans mentioned are alright (but I should listen to them again soon, it's been some time. Then I'm not sure about Faye. Would have to spin it, too. ubu
  17. I also think so, but neither do I have the set. I have those five Candid CDs, too. The music's good, some of it great, all of it worth hearing. Shepp's very first record dates, different groups (p-b-d-trio, quartet with Shepp added, some large band stuff) make things interesting, too. ubu
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    Helen Merrill

    Lon, thanks a lot indeed! Seems like some Beatles I could really like! ubu
  19. Drop jodigrind a PM - he's up to choose someone. If he chooses you, you choose someone to follow after, etc. ubu
  20. You know, I'm so sad Charlton Heston won't be able to join in here! ubu
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    Sinatra-Basie

    I don't have "It Might As Well Be Spring", but I had "Live at the Sands" before I got "Sinatra/Basie", and I think I still prefer it! A great one, lots of fun, lots of ambiance. (Although if I had to name one favorite tune, my choice would be between "Please Be Kind" and "I Won't Dance", both from "Sinatra/Basie") ubu
  22. I have all of them, and they're all fantastic, indeed! And really don't miss the Salvador, it's very good! (Eddie Costa, too...) My favorites are the Mellé, Watkins and Foster/Wallington, with the McGhees close behind. ubu
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    Funny Rat

    HRH!?! I have that other one, too, picked the two up together in a sale - wanted to give it a close listen too, over easter, but didn't make it. I'll post about that too, once I come around. P.L.M.: on the "Willisau" - that's the usual high swiss standards Seriously: I have never been to a festival here (I mean real festival, with budget on organisator's side etc), where they had a bad piano! And the man who did the recording (he recorded lots of my botleggers' treasures) for swiss radio broadcast was Martin Pearson, nowadays working quite regularly for ECM (he did some live Jarrett records that are fantastic, as the 2CD "Whisper Not"). As he lives in Switzerland, he often does jobs for swiss radio broadcasts, which is very cool! ubu
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    Teddy Charles

    Ubu, if you dig the George Russell Jazz Workshop, you'll flip over the Atlantic Tentet album. I will remedy that situation you're in at the next occasion Cool! Looking forward! ubu
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