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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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That's pretty good! Did you contact them to ask if this offer is still valid? And they list that Lockjaw/Attenoux disc Sangrey asked about! ubu

This was adressed to 'no one in particular' as the Great Art Blakey used to say. If you're taking it personnal, I think that if you read Alfred Jarry's UBU ROI in French, then you should have no problem getting into Nougaro's words and nuances alright then, de par ma chandelle verte! ubu B)

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I bought the double cd "Best of live" which is great, most of his famous songs are on it and the recording is just superb. Does anybody know if somebody put words (In English) to Mingus "Fable of Faubus" It is such a nice tune. Nougaro version is great. Mingus speaks/sings his own words together with Dannie Richmond on "Mingus Presents Mingus" (Candid) - an absolutely essential album! I'll look for the best of live Nougaro disc, thanks. ubu

brownie, would there be one CD you could recommend to get acquainted with Nougaro? I never heard anything by him. That Vander album sounds good, though I guess it would be impossible to find here. ubu

That Port of Harlem is a great one, too! But it was released several years earlier, as I remember. Beautiful music and highly recommended! The Bunn was one of three sessions of a one LP Mosaic. Wonder why they did not put the other two sessions on any of these discs! Also it's a pity the Swingtets is only one CD! I'd love to have more of that! (The Hardee/Quebec Mosaic must be wonderful!!!) The 4CD box is great, too. Overlap might mostly concern Bechet, but there's that much Bechet in the box, you wouldn't care to compare everything. Then you get some Hodes, Meade Lux Lewis great Whistling Blues makes a good opener. And the biographies of all musicians are priceless. Dan Morgenstern is simply the best to write about this music! (And yes it was released together with Smithsonian) ubu

Welcome, bol. I found the Lewis (which is the one that has gone OOP first) recently in a sales bin. Should not be too difficult, I think. The Hall is very much recommended! ubu

Does anyone have a list of the whole series? I think I've seen the Bechet around. Did not realize that this was a series. Sidney Bechet - Runnin' Wild (OOP or soon to be OOP, as far as I know) Edmond Hall - Profoundly Blue George Lewis - And His New Orleans Stompers (OOP) Various - Blue Note Jazzmen (2CD) Various - Blue Note Swingtets that's all, as far as I know. I don't know if this really was a series. Rather it seems to have been a special batch released for the 60yrs anniversary. ubu

GET POETRY!! and Nature Boy, too, but that has been mentioned already... ubu

Hans, I still have not come around to really listen to the Guy/Parker set. Sure sounds good, though! Currently listening to the Sam Rivers/Andrew Hill date released at the end of the Hill Mosaic - I find Rivers a more impressive player everytime I hear him again! ubu

All of the soundies-recordings coupled with some live dates are readily available on this disc recently reissued by Saga Jazz: I posted the discography of it in this thread earlier. Here it is again: My question at the end is still unanswered, by the way. ubu

Look for the Edmond Hall CD released in the same batch (there was a Bechet, going OOP soon, a George Lewis and the BN Swingtets comp.). All great releases! (for me who does not have any of the respective Mosaics) ubu

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