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Oh, and what we hear on this disc is a typical example of why there was not THE bop tenorist. All those guys (the one in question, early Dexter, early Lucky, early Yusef, and several others) were standing somewhere between swing and bop, taking from the great 30ies musicians (Hawk, Pres, Benny Carter, Hodges) and trying to absorb some of the Bird-stylings. So this might be one of the reason (another being not listening closer...) why rather many names popped up. They were not the individual musicians they became later on in their careers. ubu

All frantic indeed! I never heard this guy's BN date(s?), and never been very taken by his playing. Got two or three CDs and they're alright. And he seems not to produce very much anymore today, touring with some all star groups etc... However, he was/is a good tenor player, able on alto, too, and great on flute. I love his work with that strange-bearded-and-capped-man the best. ubu

I will try and see "Notti di cabiria" - missed it (partially because I was tired and knew Masina was in there and thus felt more comfortable staying home...) It's been a long time since I saw Giulietta, and it did not make such a good impression on me, either. Though Masina certainly was the perfect fit for the role she had to play there. ubu

and one more I have (and love) - but hey, the last track's 17 minutes! And where the f%&@ is the man with the saxophone? Was he edited out?!? He not laying out on that track, isn't he? The man on the piano is DA SHIT! One of my favorite musicians (I still have to save some $$ for the Select) - I discovered him through getting all his nineties stuff on Verve/Gitanes, some marvellous records! Buy this one as long as it's around! ubu re tenor sax: he plays some nice flute on this track ...... re: pianist: I LOVE him, have 80% of his records. Oh, I mixed the track up with another one in memory! I don't have the CD, and no possibility to listen to music now anyway, being at work... Thanks for clearing this one! Got to spin that disc tonight! ubu

Good idea! Could be from that four-track big band session, with some Tadd Dameron arrangements and Fats in the band. Don't have the Mosaic at hand, but maybe someone can find out? Oh happy guesses! I thought you knew your early Blue Note modern jazz sessions better! Those hearing a connection to Dizzy's late 1940's big band are closer than they think. Click here! Again link does not lead anywhere! Sorry! I do not know early BN particularly well, but I DID hear similarities to Dizzy's big band, at least ubu

Mike, your link to #8 does not work! And would you mind give some more hints re #9 and #10? ubu

No, I didn't. You have it? Would be nice if you could enclose a photocopy at some occasion. I spend so much money on special music magazines (down beat, Jazz Times, Jazz Podium, Fono Forum, World of Music, Drums & Percussion, Sticks, Concerto, to name only the subscriptions) that I hesitate to spend on a newspaper - and I hardly have the time to read it. And reading all the bad news in the political section turns me off. I still have it. Remind me of it if I forget! ubu

and one more I have (and love) - but hey, the last track's 17 minutes! And where the f%&@ is the man with the saxophone? Was he edited out?!? He not laying out on that track, isn't he? The man on the piano is DA SHIT! One of my favorite musicians (I still have to save some $$ for the Select) - I discovered him through getting all his nineties stuff on Verve/Gitanes, some marvellous records! Buy this one as long as it's around! ubu

Good idea! Could be from that four-track big band session, with some Tadd Dameron arrangements and Fats in the band. Don't have the Mosaic at hand, but maybe someone can find out? ubu

Wow! I wanted to check him out for some time, but never came around to do it. There was an interesting and very warm article on him recently in "Die Zeit" - you've seen it, Mike? ubu

You bastard! ubu

uh, shite! I have that one! But not listened to it in a loooong time! ubu

Sounds very very tempting, brownie! If and when I'll make it to Paris some day, I'll sure drop you a line... ubu

brownie, I LLOOOOOVE her WITH those sunglasses! She is sooooooo cooooool! I mean, I virtually did not notice her at all when I saw the film the first two times, but then it struck me... She is the epitome of style, the epitome of cool, the way Fellini presents her in this film. Sandra Milo, on the other hand, who I hated after the initial viewing, grows more and more, as I see the film again - I almost begin to like her I guess the "8 1/2"-version of Aimee would have fit into "La notte" perfectly, or into "L'eclisse", too. (but I know we kind of disagree about Antonioni ) ubu

I heard "Scales", think I taped it, when it was broadcasted as "jazz classic" on a german station. Rather nice stuff, indeed! He appears on a beautiful Mal Waldron album, alongside Steve Lacy: (the link above leads to amazon.de, sells it for some 10 euro-zlottys, only!) Regarding Waldron - he's a musician I only have a handful of CDs so far, and I really want more ( ), has anybody around here picked up this one here? Looks like another winner! ubu

hope you don't go nuts right now! There will certainly be someone to step in and tell you what 2-9 is (not me, though... ) I did not like the closing track that much, either (although I was a bit hesitant to express it in words as harsh as others did use) - I'm looking forward to being told who's playing there, too! ubu

Just some thoughts - I was being ill for some days, and got the new Basie Columbia 4CD set just before, just in time to have a listen. Pres is really grabbing me! His music is so emotional, so moving, it's very very hard to express in words (and even more so using a foreign language). I hugely enjoy his solos on tunes such as "Broadway", "Easy Does It" (with that mind-of-a-genius-modulating-brake starting of his s-o-o-o-o r-e-l-a-x-e-d s-o-l-o...), "Taxi War Dance" etc. The remastering of the box is indeed great! And disc one does have the master takes of the Jones-Smith date, of the Basie's Bad Boys, and of Count Basie's KC7 - all in very good sound. Disc 4 then, is a whole new thing! I have been treated by our dear friend Milan with copies of some early (1937) live Basie featuring wonderful Pres, yet in very bad sound quality, mostly - then hearing the reprocessed music on disc 4 of the new set is a real treat! Pres really lets loose, so utterly creative, full of ideas, playing with that nice slightly veiled sound (all discernable thanks to the good sound quality), and displaying such an ease, such a flow... Very hard to find words! ubu

Some nice things on your list! And some I'd love to hear, too, as the Parker, the Smith and the Washington. The Fred Jackson WAS a Conn already, so it's rather unlikely it will come out in this series again (and it's even more unlikely it will come out in the RVG series, I think). ubu

And Anouk Aimée is by far the most beautiful woman in the film! ubu

Wonderful post, brownie! Hope you can see it big-screen soon! For me this is one of the few personal favorites I really can't imagine ever getting tired of! I could see 8 1/2 once a month, I think, and still enjoy and love every tiny bit of it! What struck with me was when at the ending sort of you (as the one who watches Fellini's film) actually become part of the film, being the person who watches Mastroianni's emerging live-"film"... the fabulous moment when the camera filming Fellini's story actually becomes the same camera that films the Mastroianni-directed scene that is the end of the film. It's the usual film-inside-of-the-film, of course, but with a couple of turns and twists added. I don't know if I only make this up, but it was almost as clear as a fact for me, when I saw the film the last time (my fifth viewing it big screen, I think, but I am not sure, maybe it was only the fourth time, or even the sixth...) ubu

A great set, the Mobley! Look forward to it! One of my favorite Mosaic boxes, probably my favorite Blue Note Mosaic (well, not counting the Monk, Powell, and Nichols which I all missed - due to young age - and picked up in their BN CD versions, and should now start to replace by RVGs...) ubu

I did not hesitate that long (have it since 2 or 3 or even 4 years) - but it was WAAAY better than I expected, too! What I love about the second to fourth albums (the Mitchell-Cook band) is that they're so timelessly old-fashioned, solid, playing shout choruses and such things, just doing their thing, without having to bother much abouth what's going around of them (yet Corea certainly brings in some touches of "new", and he was a musician then at the point of starting all his great experimental music, as the original Return to Forever and Circle). ubu

I heard that LP several years ago. Got to look if I have it on tape, but I guess not. Would love to hear it again! I am not sure regarding younger pianists, Mike, I do not know very much about younger/contemporary mainstream/postbop musicians - but I sure think there would be some around - yet another question would be if they would fit Konitz/Haden. And Mehldau certainly is a pianist able to fit in many a situation (think about his record with Scofield, to have another example), and a very fine player with good ears. ubu

I was searching for another picture of which I did neither know the exact title nor the painter... to reply to Simon Weil's thought - I do understand it, but after not finding that painting and being pissed I forgot to reply here alltogether. Mike, I love the few of "Fusely" as those crazy Britons used to call him paintings I have seen. At the Kunsthaus in Zurich there is/was (?, they're renovating all the time, each time you go and want to see something particular that room has vanished in air...) a great Füssli-room I often visited (18c being one of my special interests as a student of history, also). And maybe the emerging out of the african-american tradition is what makes is possible for me to relate to it that strongly. The overtly religious (christian, mostly) "spirituality" usually leaves me rather cold... ubu

This sounds like a lost opportunity, Jim! Why not let them try it! Or - as I'm not always totally happy about Mehldau on these, myself: how about NO piano and add Attila Zoller on guitar? I know this cannot be done... (funny enough AMG notes him having died IN Vermont, so noone had to move him there...) ubu