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A reissue series including "Upon Reflection" has been discussed here. I would not know where to order it, though. Probably Amazon Germany or France. I myself have the Gitanes edition. ubu

Classic Quartet Atlantic Village Vanguard Live in Japan Major Works (that does maybe not qualify as a "box"?) and of course Miles/Trane not the Prestige, as I missed it in the crazy zweitausendeins sale, and have most of it on OJCCDs. ubu

...which as generalized a statement as Miles only playing slow ones. ubu

Ronnie Mathews Ken McIntyre Les McCann John McPherson Jay McShann Helen Merrill Gil Mellé Machito John McLaughlin Pierre Michelot Grachan Moncur Jack Montrose Brew Moore Oscar Moore Jason Moran Jelly Roll ...

Love for sale?? is it the cd or the lp. I love this disk. If it is the cd, can you burn me a copy??? Sure, send me a PM! ubu

All the Mc's (McLean takes pretty much space here, for instance), lots of Mulligan, too! And Wynton... ubu

Yes, I have it. A good one! Seems it's OOP, though (Enja has a real shitty, almost non-existing back-list!) I love Booker! Really love him. All the sideman dates, well almost all, particularly though the Mingus ones (Wonderland, Ah Um, Blues & Roots..., At Antibes) were the first place I got to hear him. Then I picked up the Freedom and Space books, later the Blues Book - that's till now all of the Prestige stuff I have. The BN and Pacific albums are great. "Booker'n'Brass" is one I like pretty well, too. Has not yet been mentioned, I think. Also I'm fond of his one Savoy date (the Parlan crew with Richard Williams added), his Candid album (with Horace Parlan under the ridiculous nom-de-plume "Felix Krull"), and his Bethlehem album (which has Tommy Turrentine & Zoot Sims along with Booker). ubu

Yeah, it was "Baby Take A Chance With Me"! I did forget about two of the numbers they performed. Orange was the encore. The first half of Black Saint was quite a treat, but somehow I missed the great solos from the record (Mariano, Richardson - some of their phrases are virtually burnt into my memory). I went to Escofferey right after the show to tell him how much I loved his playing. He was a bit surprised (swiss people don't do this kind of thing, usually), but very kind and told me how much he appreciated hearing this. A nice person, I think! ubu

Maybe not, since touring arrangements do require advance planning. You were dead-right about the personnel - exactly as I listed! ubu

No, it was a tune that almost sounded like an old standard (the melody, the changes, and the lyrics - rather bland). I would have known Devil Blues. Some "Baby" in the lyrics (and maybe the title, too)... ubu

I just returned from that concert! WOW! They're great! (And Sue, well, I expected worse, to be honest...) Highlights were by Kozlov (a great intro to Haitian Fight Song), by Escofferey, by Rampton, and Gaton. Also Shaw, Sim (both totally unknown to me), and Craig Handy played lots of good solos. Lacy, well... he should stop singing, be a bit less of an entertainer, and try to build his solos a little bit more careful. He just plays, only rhythm, only effects... maybe he could play with Maceo and Fred Wesley & co., but, hey! Everybody around him was trying to come up with good solos, and he's all show, and not much else... Gaton played wonderful, and McIntyre, on his single one solo, too. Tunes performed included Orange, Tonight At Noon, Black Saint Pts.1-3, Self Portrait, Atomic Bomb, another one with vocals by Lacy the title of which escapes me, and some more. Two of the arrangements were by John Stubblefield (Orange, and I think Atomic Bomb), and he played only one solo, but a great blues solo! Sim was pretty impressive on baritone, Handy on alto and soprano, Shaw had a couple of good spots on alto, too, but Escofferey was the best! Rampton and Sipiagin have great chops, beautiful sound, ease, and good ideas. Eddie Henderson played one solo with harmon mute, that was beautiful, but his other solo, the first of the evening, was really ridiculous - he did not reach one note right - like he was too lazy to warm up before the concert. Really sloppy! Uh, they also played Passions of a Woman Loved - what a great tune! ubu

How do you know? Do you just call up Mosaic and ask them? Write them an email (using the feedback function of their site if you don't have the address), and they most often do reply, and mostly pretty fast, too. ubu

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Have a look at the photos in this pdf - just to get sort of an idea of the variety available here: http://www.schweizerkaese.ch/pdf/broschuer...zer_kaese_d.pdf ubu

I don't know what exactly you americans mean when you talk about "swiss cheese", but I guess that should be what's called "Emmentaler" - one of the most boring and taste-less cheeses produced here, and one of our big export articles, it seems. Some official website talks of 450 different sorts of cheese produced here. I did not find anything english to link to, sorry. Last fall, when on vacation in Italy we ate fresh mozzarella di buffola daily. Wow! Nothing like the packed slimy mozzarella you can get everywhere. Really fresh, and soooooo tasty! A totally different cheese from what you usually call mozzarella! ubu

Mingus Oh Yeah is another good one! ubu

thanks for sharing, Luca! ubu

Same here! Even in his Warner years there was some real good stuff! ubu

John, you mean this one? I love the comments about the Funny Rat thread!! ubu

WHOA!! uh, just kiddin' I would of course like to hear it. As far as seing the film, a good copy screened in a theatre still beats the hell out of any DVD, so I'm not at all interested in that, but, hey, if you can extract that audio part... get the drift? THat would be WHOA!! indeed, then! ubu

Yeah, really bold! It's not a wife here, but a girlfriend is enough... ubu

For all those who don't read german: scroll down, and click on all the "Bildstrecke..." lines, and let the fun begin. Once you've opened one of the galleries, click on the first image, and then click "nächstes Fenster" on top, right. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/158/22136/ ubu a couple of examples:

now how's that about "killing to hear this"? Florence is not so far away, so be aware ubu