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I'm with you on this one, too! I also have a very short (40 minutes) live set they played at Willisau, 1997 or 1998. Or even 1996. Well, I can't remember. Gary Peacock is one hell of a bass player, from Bud Shank to Keith Jarrett, from Ayler to wherever he might go. I kind of like two his own ECM albums I have picked up cheap - the one with Stanko and Garbarek, and a trio record with Lande and Zigmund. ubu

Maybe you can listen to "Tristano/The New Tristano" (Rhino) or "Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh" (Atlantic Original Sound this side of the water) in some store? However, the music is all great, in my opinion! ubu

Glad to be around here with you all! This is a great place, thanks very much to those who provide it and to everybody who contributes! ubu

Ghost, sorry for my late reply! I'd try here: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...5132234-0548932 I never did use fnac so far. Don't know about Shipping with French Amazon to the US, though. ubu

Hans, I'm with you on Sankt Gerold! A great record! I did find the Ellington on the Air used. Most certainly OOP today. Nervous it is, and that eighties vibe is one that somehow also sticks to the Sclavis-Texier-Romano outfit, soundwise, but somehow with musicians of these calibre involved, I don't seem to care (and I sure would with others...). Izenzon and Richard Davis!! HELLYEAH, two of my favourite bass players. ubu

Well, it really turns out that this might be the absolute favourite of Lee's albums, for me! As I did start the whole thing, I felt obliged to use my lousy reviewer skills, and write up some bits while listening this afternoon. Here you are: (Stop reading if it gets too boring, and wait for Mr Sangrey's much more eloquent raves...) The title tune makes for a great mysterious opening. Nice vibes, bowed bass and the haunting theme with fills by Hancock set the mood. The repetition of the theme brings the beat, Higgins rather laid back, yet kicking. The bridge builds steam, listen to Hancock on the bridge during Lee?s solo! Morgan has a beautiful sound here. Shorter enters in Coltrane-fashion. Carter goes way deep to the bottom. Hutcherson fits right into the mood ? another great bridge during his solo! Hancock then comes to the fore with a great linear solo, with minimal comping only. Then the theme again. Check Herbie once more playing around the repetition. Love it! Party Time is only a slight change of pace. The staccato theme could be from Horace Silver. Yet the presentation fits into the mood set by The Procrastinator. Shorter starts the solos, thoughtful, building, with no hurry. Lee pick up right where Shorter ends, Herbie gets funky beneath him (is Morgan slightly off-mike?). The mood again fits Hutcherson ? his solo passage reminds me of the quartet albums he made with Hancock, ?Happenings? and ?Oblique?. Dear Sir is the masterpiece of the date. Another highly evocative composition. Sound like the Miles Quintet with Hutch sitting in. Dig the arpeggio by Hancock! Shorter?s solo starts (and stays) great. Check how he plays with thematic motives, how he modulates (as Trane does on his Flamenco Sketches-solo on Miles? ?Kind of Blue?). Hutcherson and Hancock stay in the mood, Morgan plays a great solo, with a beautiful sound again. And Billy Higgins is a master with the brushes. Again that haunting piano arpeggio on the out chorus. Magisterial music this is. Stop Start hits a good groove right away. We?re back to more usual Blue Note style here, for the first time on this album. Yet still there?s something special emerging during the string of solos. I guess it could be Herbie Hancock?s great accompaniment. Higgins gets rather busy here ? listen to his great playing during Shorter?s solo. Herbie?s sooo lyrical, even on a fast tune like this. Higgins gets his chance to blow during the fours with Morgan ? a good bridge to return to the theme. Carter sets the mood for Rio with deep lines, great woody sound. Hancock again embellishes the theme statements, he?s on top of his game, having a great day. Shorter?s short solo is pensive, as is Lee?s ? I love Lee playing like this, not showing off, but concentrating on melody and mood. Love that coda, too! Listening to the theme of Soft Touch, it becomes clear for me that Herbie Hancock is very important for the success of the music on this album. Lee again takes it very easy. Hutcherson fits in perfectly. Shorter gets a great sound on the low end of his horn?s spectrum. Rather gruff. Dig that repeated phrase ? you can really hear him thinking here. Higgins turns in some great support during Hancock?s solo. A haunting melody, this Soft Touch! A perfect closer for an extremely lyrical album. ubu

Listening to Louis Sclavis' "Ellington on the Air" - pretty cool, I think! ubu

I guess that would be a dream-come-true for quite a few of us, brownie! I'd buy it, for sure! ubu

Glad to hear this, brownie! ubu

He made two beautiful records with Abdullah Ibrahim, just the two of them. I don't know if they're the typical Dyani, probably not, but they're really nice! "Echoes of Africa": http://www.enjarecords.com/c3047.htm (on Enja Winckelmann) "Good News From Africa": http://jazzrecords.com/enja/2048.htm (on Enja Horst Weber) ubu (Don't ask about the Enja split, I don't know more about it. Two producers, once one, now two labels)

Count me in with your petition!

Nate, I did forget that the Harriott is OOP again. When choosing my first AotW (the Hal Russell one), I did not pick a disc because it was OOP. "Upon Reflection" is a beautiful album! I'd sure love to discuss it! ubu

This is sad news, Bertrand! Hope he recovers again, and hope it's nothing bad! ubu

Interesting discussion, Jim! The first ECM Return to Forever would jump to my mind, also the Blue Note (Solid State) trio discs (I got two of them, the famous one with Vitous & Haynes whose title escapes me and "Song of Singing"). Toans is a very nice one, too. After a minute or two of thinking, "Circle" (the 2CD ECM release) comes to mind. A great one! ubu

Next week is "Procrastinator"-time. Your turn is the week from Sun. 14-Sat.20. Silver's cool! Hope you choose one I have! ubu

How about some suggestions of more out stuff, essential or historical out stuff that lots of people might own? Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity, anyone? Joe Harriott - Free Form? I know my Hal Russell attempt gloriously failed, but we might be able to discuss some more "popular" or widespread free stuff. ubu

Seconded! Late proposed it. A very good one! ubu (mike, I'll clean the other thread later)

No answers to your questions, but... I WANT A BASIE VERVE BOX SET!!! ubu

Great idea, should I stock up on the champagne? Plus some beer for those who lack taste Ubu needs red wine and whisky. Not much else... Beer is fine, if you've got taste as far as beer is concerned (Mort Subite, Leffe, Jever... certainly not that pissy (sorry!) Heineken thing). As far as Whisky is concerned, taste is pretty important, too. Macallan, Oban, Talisker... it was a good ol' single malt that got me through the Dvd of Barefoot Contessa yesterday... ubu

Us have always been against application of violence: ubu

Uh, I was hoping Mr Gould would send his private jet to collect us old venus-ians at some central place like Paris and we'd party all together! ubu

Hey, Herr GOtt, you know that if there really was a GOtt, he'd have blown away all those unholy royals loooong ago! So either go to work fast (the guillotine is not a bad means), or "GOtt ist tot"... ubu

I have always had a tought time with Armstrong. I know how good he was, but much of his stuff never grabbed me. I do have some songs I love (Walking Stick [mostly acapella if I recall correctly] comes to mind, which is not exactly typical and a straight pop tune if he ever did one). Electric Miles I dig, but mostly because I often saw him perform that stuff live. I don't think I would have gravitated towards it if that hadn't been the case. Cheers! deus, get the W.C. Handy disc! I bought that one a month or so after it was AotW, after reading all the comments there. It's a very enjoyable album! Also the two CD set with Duke Ellington might help enjoying him (listen to "Azalea" - an astonishing piece of music!) ubu

My father does own a couple of records, but what got me started was very late Miles. My mother got "Amandla" shortly after its release (I was like 10 or 11 then), and I liked that one, later in the library got "Workin'", then "Kind of Blue", then started on Coltrane, wished and got the Heavyweight set - a heavyweight start into jazz, which still continues (4000CDs or so after). I'm a reader, too (studying humanities you gotta be - hell, no there are so many people even among academics that don't really read or like reading!!), and I'm always learning more and more, about music, about literature, about arts. I guess the most important is to be wide open, and then to be able to focus on some things you really like without really forgetting there are other things, and checking out these other things now and then, as your interest might change (with me, for instance, I not yet really started exploring european classical music, yet I know someday I will feel a need to do so, just not at the moment). About my father's records: as usual in adolescence, I did have sort of split feelings, and only laid hands on my father's LPs when I did take notice of his original mono pressing of "Love Supreme", but at that time I had been on my jazz trip for two years or so. ubu

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