king ubu

And he played at the same time?

Merci, monsieur! Je vais donc l'acheter!

http://www.jazzdisco.org/teddy-edwards/catalog/ eddy Edwards Quartet - Good Gravy (Timeless (Du) SJP 139) Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophone) Rein De Graaff (piano) Henk Haverhoek (bass) John Engels (drums) "Bimhuis", Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 26, 1981 Lady Be Good Oleo Georgia Good Gravy Good stuff, perhaps not essential, but oh well. Oh, thanks - don't think I'd ever heard of this before - guess it goes on the shopping list, there's not nearly enough Edwards out there ... I love that man!

the "Trésors" set being discussed here would be this: right?

pretty entertaining stuff - there's a previous thread with some discussion here:

Shirley Horn indeed! And Roland Kirk, too! but Keith is

some of the Timeless ones were part of their "black" remasters series (Cohn, Baker, Flanagan ... there were others not on the list, such as that fine George Coleman album). The Cobb is indeed the one that does look tempting! What's the Edwards? The Contemporary album? Or was there another one using that title? Only got the Griffin recently, haven't played it often yet, but I guess it's not amongst his best, yet as Mr. Sangrey said, definitely not one to categorically avoid (and surely not if you love Griff half as much as I do).

Thx Moms, no time for a real reply ... but the Tebaldi box is on my shelves.

DHM 50 for 39: http://www.amazon.it/Deutsche-Harmonia-Mundi-50-Collection/dp/B00NX4NMGO/ Monteux for 55: http://www.amazon.it/Monteux-The-Complete-Album-Collection/dp/B00MAPMAFQ/ Ansermet Russian for 37: http://www.amazon.it/Russian-Music-Ernest-Ansermet/dp/B00J498SOI/ Ansermet French for 36: http://www.amazon.it/French-Music-Ernest-Ansermet/dp/B00DT2322E/ Gould Bach for 44: http://www.amazon.it/Glenn-Gould-Bach-Edition/dp/B0086WQNZ0/ Ansermet European isn't reduced. Lenny DG Vol. 1 has been adjusted, too, it was in the 50-60 range this morning, european time. I went for the Oiseau-Lyre Baroque one, had been eying it for a long time.

amazon.it is evil again today: Living Stereo 1 for 35€: http://www.amazon.it/Living-Stereo-Compilation/dp/B009J3K4MI/ Oiseau Lyre for 50€: http://www.amazon.it/LOiseau-Lyre-Various-Artists/dp/B00IRQS24A/ Tebaldi for 54€: http://www.amazon.it/Voce-DAngelo-Complete-Decca-Recording/dp/B002WN6GUG/ and plenty more good offers ...

noticed that a while ago ... bought the two separate sets last year, after some discussion on this board - but, as with so many things, I've not started exploring it

(please fix thread title!) (or am I wrong, as I see the one-lone-l-spelling repeated in the thread?)

Pretty darn good album! Finally picked it up together with their "Dejeuner" reissue, late last year.

Same here - although I cut (shave) my hair myself ... norm is something like: 10% up to 10 swiss franks - but when you eat somewhere and the bill goes up to 200 or 250, it can still be 20 or somewhat more. With taxis, it's usually in the same region - but I very often am the one giving the highest tip in a round of people my age (30-40, so not that young anymore, but even they don't always seem to behave properly ;-)) I missed tipping the postman (the ones bringing parcels only, wouldn't think of tipping the ones bringing letters, now don't ask me why, but I never see that guy anyways) this and last year - somehow, around x-mas time I've not seen the regular guy for many weeks. Next year, I'll tip him in November to make sure (don't want to tip a sub when the regular guy does a fine job all year long). Also tipping the guy delivering the newspaper ... that would be 20 CHF or something around that - guess if all of his several hundred or thousand "customers" tipped, he would quite like it, but I'd assume very, very few people tip these guys nowadays. I learnt doing this when growing up. Not being rich, but well-off, it just seems a natural thing to do. But never at Mac or at Starbucks ... rarely visit these places anyways. At the bakery's where I sometimes buy a croissant and a coffee in the morning, they've got this little thing on the counter and I usually put the small change in there - but as they never fail to react with a big smile and a most friendly "thank you", I guess I'm one of but a few that puts anything in there.

Where does Owl belong these days? They were with Verve/PolyGram/Universal for a while ... asking because there'd been another Petrucciani album that belongs with his better ones (those include the Elektras and pretty few of the BNs, most of them are bad to okay-ish - I don't ever listen to the ones with synths and even the pairing with Abercrombie is of pretty small appeal, so there's the Ellington solo disc, "Power of Three" and the first one, "Pianism").

Yeah, I wondered a bit about all the Sinatra hype, too ... after a few spins, I like the new one plenty - the man has no voice, but after all, he can sing ... he hits the notes and some of it sounds pretty daring for what one would except from him. But thinking of Sinatra only is definitely taking a few short cuts - but don't music critics love 'em? would be more work to check out the whole tin pan alley vs. singer/songwriters of the sixties and all that stuff ... I like the idea of ol' Bob paying his tributes to some other great songwriters that were of an era he helped to bring to an end.

Same here! I had one totally unplayable disc in the EMI Ciccolini box. Return window had long been closed, but eventually I received a second (full) set from amazon (and didn't need to return the first - shipping costs would have been more expensive than what I had paid for the box in the first place, speak of craziness of our times! Instead I gave the box to a friend whom I knew would appreciate it). Other than that and the wrong disc in the Toscanini box (for which I got a replacement straight from Sony/BMG Germany), and a missing disc in a small(3CD), brand-new and sealed set from Supraphon (for which I got the missing disc via vendor), I was lucky so far. Oh, and a wrong sleeve in the Solti Wagner box (one sleeve is repeated, but the disc included is the right one). On the topic of CD players, after many years of using cheapo discmen hooked up to an amplifier, I've bought an Onkyo for about 300 (does it matter which currency right now? not really, as long as we're discussing real money) and have been very happy with it ever since. No more of the rattling noise and stuff the cheapo players always brought with them.

So this is the old BN set with the two Elektras added - those two were part of the lone batch of Elektrreissues BN did, c. 2000.

re: the Biddulph Szigeti disc, I have the Brahms and the Bartók (and their great "Kreutzer" sonata as well), but not the Bach, aaargh!

They seem to keep their website pretty much up to date indeed, yes. They operate out of the corner around Basel, so they ship from Germany, France or Switzerland, depending on where you live (do they offer free shipping globally? I think I never paid anything for shipping, though I've not ordered from them for a few years since they did cut down on much of the stuff I found there at attractive prices, including some Japanese releases).

Go ask him and then tell me the night of your upcoming gig in Zurich

Hey Moms, sorry, no time and energy for a reply last night, and now I'm back in the mill again and don't have my stuff with me ... anyways, I know you weren't posting in bad spirits, of course (do I sense some fatherly silly me, motherly of course! concern? ) - and yeah, point is, I am very much interested in tracing how performances evolved over time, so I have the big Heifetz box and love much of the music it contains, regardless of its datedness (and yeah, of course I'd wish for more fringe repertoire, too, but if you look closer, there is some of that included as well) or "validity" as of today. However, I have indeed explored plenty of more recent Bach performances in the meantime, i.e. Hélène Schmitt and Isabelle Faust's great takes on the solo violin works. Queyras' cello suites are on the pile but as of yet unheard (in things old, the Mercury ones by Starker just arrived as well). Regarding orchestral pieces, indeed I've bought the Café Zimmermann box quite a while ago (but never reported that in this very thread, I assume, must have mentioned listening to it several times in the listening-thread though). And I don't think I've heard performances of these works that I enjoyed more. But allow one question re: Szigeti - what Bach recordings do you actually enjoy of his? I've got the Vanguard 2CD set and love it, if there's better, I guess I need it! (What I love most of his though, is probalby the stuff with Bartók, followed by the Beethoven sonatas cycle w/Arrau and the Mozart sonatas with Horszowksi - again I gather the approach taken there might no longer make much sense here - and re: Mozart I have the Podger/Cooper set on the way right now - but I just love those recordings for what they are ... same goes for Gould/Rose, can't help loving those!)

Edwin Fischer is GREAT at Mozart, horrible in Bach, both stylistically and technically inapt... Casals does not stand up in any way except as part of the discography, not quite as odious as fucking Heifetz from the another thread (Heifetz = marketing & to buy that box instead of, say, 30-40 Naxos CDs of diverse repertoire ludicrous or just brand loyalty). Spare me Artie Grumiaux's 'lustrous tonal elegance' & that tinkly dink distant clavecin also, please. Performance practice has come a long way from St. Louis & both more 'authentic' AND jazzier than it's been for 300+ years, time to shuck these received hosannas for schlubs too arrogant to know from Dolmetsch or Duke. Helene Schmitt Carmignoloa + Marcon somewhat mean to take (and destroy) that newbie post of mine from back when ... will reply at more length later on. the one part that makes me scratch my head is, under Brandenburg Concertos/Orchstral suites: "(clearly room for more here!)" - you think those needn't be bothered with at all?

Interesting discussion here! And I agree that amplification sometimes spoils what might have been a good concert ... one of the most impressive concerts I've witnessed was acoustic (except for a bass amp): Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and Steve Swallow - must have been around 1996/97, pretty large venue, but Lee easily filled it with his tone ... and Motian was quite loud actually, yet the balance they achieved was good! On the other hand, one of the most - physically and also mentally - exhausting concerts I heard was the Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 - and there, inspite of the wall of sound effect, I heard amazing riches of colours and variety - truly rich music. And I really don't think there was a quiet moment in their concert at all, yet nothing was missing, it was terrific and in its own way perfect.

there's this thematic (late works) compilation around ... I've not explored it any closer, as I went for the Frémeau intégrale, but for those who want to listen to some at budget price: