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Is that this? I spotted a few available and think I'm going to order a copy right now. Yes it is, sorry for being too lazy to check that title before writing! When did actually that general laziness thing got started? And who was the first to suffer from that disease? ubu

On Paul Gonsalves' "Tell Me Like It Is" (Impulse!), there's at least two cuts where Rolf Ericson and Ray Nance just trade fours for a long stretch, instead of each of them soloing - a good idea to bring in some variation, and fun it is, too! Oh, and come to think of it, on Red Rodney's Savoy album (maybe he did more than one, I'm not sure, I have it on a Denon CD reissue) - there's one track where Ira Sullivan, who sticks to tenor otherwise, plays trumpet alongside Rodney - some of the best two trumpet playing I ever heard! Smokin'! It's this one here: (but, as I said, only one tune with two trumpets, otherwise this is an excellent bop/hardbop date with t/ts frontline) ubu

Lots of good stuff mentioned in the mean time that I own and love - the Navarro/McGhee are great (they're on the marvellous 2CD Navarro/Dameron Blue Note release). Also "Night of the Cookers" - I do like it. Not one to hear too often, but sometimes it's just what I want to hear. "Groovin' For Nat" is alright, but one thing about it does bother me somewhat, and that's the fact (uh, that's a big word, rather read: my opinion...) that Coles is just so much more intresting a musician as Byrd. (Maybe this is sacrilege, but I love Coles, and I stay with that opinion...) The Diz/Roy disc John mentioned is a real winner! If you don't plan on getting the Mosaic, do pick it up! Good playing by both of them, and they're not just trying to cut each other - there's some pretty lyrical stuff on it, too. @Leeway: I have seen a Curson CD coupling two (or three) sessions, with Reece on one of them. I cannot remember the title, and I did not pick it up, as it did not really grab me (I listened to it at some store). I am not sure it's the same disc, but Curson made only very few dates as a leader, so it might well be the one. ubu

Yes. It does help. Thanks. All the positive remarks about the Tristano box help. What's odd is that I've read nothing negative (that I can remember) about the Tristano box. Everybody who has it seems to think it's one of the top sets offered by Mosaic. I think I already made positive remarks about that set, in this and/or other threads, but if that's what you need to pull the trigger, I'll do it again: this was my very first Mosaic set (I got around 30 of them now), and I still love it, and still consider it - here it comes again - among the best. ubu

There's a couple of things with Donald Byrd: with Joe Gordon on the first Transition date (recently reissued as a 2CD Conn), also Byrd guests with Dizzy Reece on the later's Blue Note debut (recorded in London), "Blues In Trinity" (this will be included in the forthcoming Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select). Then Freddy Hubbard and Woody Shaw made two albums for Blue Note. They were released on a 2CD set. Pretty good stuff! These are the few that come to my mind right now. ubu

Saw Stephan Wittwer live yesterday, with Bernd Schurer. Both on electronics, Wittwer also on guitar for some parts, but not that you would have really taken note of any guitar sounds... Pretty strange situation, two guys sitting face to face at a desk, each with his ibook and lots of other equipment, and then they announce this as a "concert" or "performance"... The sounds they produced ranged from outright boring (particularly the two Schurer only segments - "Variations on Vexations" he calls them, bad recordings of Satie, reworked with some sounds, cut to pieces, etc - really boring) to pretty stunning and also beautiful. I will maybe do a radio programme (with interview) on Wittwer (focusing most probably on his solo recordings, mainly), and therefore we asked him (and Schurer if we could try to do a recording (with Minidisc). Did not yet check if it's ok, though. Schurer is involved with a small label which has just released new albums by himself as well as by Wittwer. Here's the website: http://www.domizil.ch/main.htm By the way, yes, the new Schurer disc seems to consist exactly of those vexation things I found so boring. And Wittwer's I did also not hear, but if it's only the stuff he "composed" to these Fischli/Weiss photographs (another boring thing, I never understood why Fischli/Weiss create such a stir, they even got their installation in London's Tate Modern), it should be a pretty boring disc, too. He played one track (partially, it would have lasted 50 minutes otherwise) from the disc (I think at least it was from the new one), and after some two or three minutes grabbed a mike and started commenting the music, how he "composed" it (computer-generated, mostly, the actual work being programming, then the computer puts together the pre-recorded guitar samples following the rules of the programme - in performance, this would mean that each time the composition is played, it's different, but based on the same grounds, the same samples). Also he made lots of funny comments, and was really turning into a funny entertainer (in a good sense, believe me). Does anyone here know Wittwer, by accident (or otherwise)? ubu

@Rooster: thanks for the link, yeah, sometimes the solution would be easy - I was indeed talking of "motets". @everybody: thanks for the recommendations, I shall try to get hold of some of the things mentioned. By the way, what's the word about the Hilliard's collaboration with Jan Garbarek? I used to like it, years ago (I only have the "Officium" release), but am very ambivalent about it nowadays. Dowland (though we definitively leave choir territory here) would be another composer who's songs I like a lot! That disc with John Surman (on ECM New Series, too), I like pretty much. I also played "Come Heavy Sleep" with a friend who had some exams at the conservatory (he's the singer, I was on baritone sax). Beautiful music! ubu

couldn't find a bigger one of this (you gotta ask couw or some other google-wizard): Mike, the Three Latin Adventures disc (I have it, but not at hand) - weren't there not only two albums, Fellini being one of them, the two suites you mentioned the other? Then they came up with the number "three" in the title, as there were three suites included, two half-lp-lenght, one full-lp-lenght? I'm not sure, but otherwise, the two latin things would have been really short (20 minutes) LPs, no? ubu

looka here what I found... ubu

I'm with you on this one, Rooster! Also certainly one of Osby's best, and one of the best albums done by the revived Blue Note. ubu

Garth, please do tell me about whatever your friend comes up with! Those broadcasts were a series on one german station, that has pretty much good stuff going on. I wonder if some of the same musicians are on the disc you recommend. Could you give a listing of the musicians, or are there too many? ubu

Thanks, Bev. I'll let that one, and rather look if they still have the piano disc. "Arranger's piano" might be the right term, and that usually requires more than just overtly casual listening, which is all I had a chance to do, so far. I'll put "The cortège" on my list. ubu

An awesome album! And it's going OOP right now, so better get it yesterday than today! ubu

May 2004 May 2, 2004, 21:30-?, France Musique Gérard BADINI "SUPER SWING MACHINE" fête son 20ème anniversaire Trompettes: Tony RUSSO, Franck DELPEUT, Sylvain GONTARD, Sacha BOURGUIGNON, Joël CHAUSSE Trombones: Michael JOUSSEIN, Jerry EDWARDS, Jean-Marc WELCH, Pascal KOSCHER Saxophones: André VILLÉGER, Stéphane CHAUSSE, Carl SCHLOSSER, Michel PASTRE, Philippe CHAGNE Piano :Pierre CHRISTOPHE Contrebasse : Brahim HAÏOUANI Batterie : Robert MÉNIÈRE Et en invités: Sylvain BEUF, Hervé MESCHINET : saxophones François BIENSAN : trompette François LAUDET : batterie Pierre BOUSSAGUET: contrebasse Philippe MILANTA: piano Gérard BADINI : piano, direction Studio Charles Trenet, March 20, 2004 May 23, 2004, 21:30-?, France Musiques Olivier Hutman Trio Hutman - p Pierre Maingourd - b Bruno Zingarelli - d Vincent Mascart Sextette - "Circum" Jean-Luc Cappozzo - t Vincent Mascart - sax Jean-Christophe Cholet - p Carlo Rizzo - tambourine Jon Sass - tuba Beñat Achiary - voice Studio Charles Trenet, April 10, 2004 May 30, 2004, 21:30-?, France Musiques Jazz Unit 186 Tentette du contrebassiste Gildas SCOUARNEC avec : Sylvain GONTARD, Fabien MARY: trompettes Jean-Michel COUCHET: saxophone alto David SAUZAY: saxophone ténor, soprano Claudio "Cacau" de QUEIROZ: saxophone ténor Fred BURGAZZI : trombone Jean-Luc ROUMIER : guitare Et en invités :Franck AVITABILE : piano Bruno ZIARELLI : batterie Studio Charles Trenet, April 24, 2004

I'm not very well acquainted with classical music, in general, but one thing I always did like was early polyphonic music. Dufay, Lassus, Ockeghem, that kind of stuff. Masses and "Mottetten" as they're called in german, don't know the english word for it. That's not the choral music you talk of, Rooster, but for me these composers did some of the best vocal music ever, no matter of what genre or style. Janacek did some nice choral things, too. ubu

Should I change the title to the proper writing, "Kühn", or would you all have display problems, then (like "K?hn")? ubu

I listened to the first tune at the store, and it's awesome! ubu

I love Ayler, of course! Don't know Parker very well, but love what I have heard of him. Sorry for all that fun, Evan, but the "v." part of the title did cry for that! ubu

heard those excerpts, too! Great stuff! Also just bought the Gustafsson CD titled "The Thing", as well as the CD they made as "The Thing" with McPhee, "She Knows..." (both on Crazy Wisdom). Great stuff! I hope he'll be close to me one day, with or without McPhee! Please do post a review of the concerts! ubu

Shouldn't that read "awful"? I xxx-ed out the name, as such obscenities should be forbidden! ubu

Forget about Ellington! Kenny G is my favourite composer! And forget about Strayhorn, anyway! He hardly even deserves mention! ubu

John, you're simply the best! My keyboard is soaked in coffee... ubu (you know, one day I'll send you a bill for all these keyboards!!)

Thanks, EKE! You know your Django! ubu

Uh, Ayler couldn't even play the saxophone. Yeah, and I hate Tatum, just no technique. Also: why does everybody adore Coltrane? I'd rather go for Kenny G - much more pleasant, you can listen in whatever situation you are - plus, read my signature... ubu

This sounds good! Would be time to get some more Django anyway! What is there to go for? I have the Mosaic and all the Jazz in Paris discs. Is the one RCA/Bluebird disc available included in these sessions from Rome? ubu