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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

This already starts to get embarassing... I have said album by the guy with them doorbells (and I'm inclined to say I love, although I obviously don't know it as good as I should, to say such a thing...). And those "strings" I did refer to, that's ONE upright only?!? Alright, I know some guys can produce lots of sound on it, and this may even be a technique adopted from classical playing, but, HELL, I OUGHT TO LISTEN WITH A WHOLE LOTTA MORE CONCENTRATION Thanks for checking the Mosaic about the Shaw track - it might thus be Freddie H., but I still rather think about Woody. Would have to relisten. ubu

Oh, I agree. But truth can be a terrible thing. Simon Weil Maybe the fact that it indeed CAN be terrible makes it such a strong emotional experience to listen to (late) Trane? For me, listening to Coltrane's music - moreso for the later, say, beginning with "Crescent" - has something very personnal, something very moving, emotional. "Truth" is certainly a rather good word in this context, "spirituality" would be another - and this then is a quality I perceive very strongly, although I do not consider myself a person open for spiritual things and experiences, usually. ubu

Most have been mentioned, but those that come to mind are: - Jason Moran, Black Stars - Greg Osby, Banned in New York, Symbols of Light - Joe Lovano, 52nd Street Themes - Mark Shim, Turbulent Flow - Bill Charlap, Written in the Stars - Bill Stewart, Telepathy - Jacky Terrasson, Alive - the Konitz/Mehldau/Haden discs (though I do not listen to them very often) and one that falls out of the given time frame, but deserves honourable mention: - Tommy Flanagan, Sunset And The Mockinbird Then I have to say I did not pick up all releases I would like to have (partly due to the f*#@ing copyright controlled CDs over here), as the latest Moran, the latest Osby, the Solal - I will order them from the US some day... ubu

You are lucky! It seems swiss customs are checking everything since 2002 - before, they did not, and often orders of a value of 100$ came through without costs, or with postal handling costs only. Tempi passati... the limit seems to be 50CHF (appr. 35$ or 30 Euros, currently), and everything of a higher value creates custom/postal costs of at least 15CHF (or ~10$/Euros)... Which is one reason why I only order Mosaics on the running low list, lately. ubu

Thank you very much for sharing these precious recollections! I have not yet fully entered the AEC orbit (and I should REALLY cut down my CD acquisitions...) - guess I got to spin the Nessa box (almost all I have, except for "Spiritual" and the recent "Tribute to Lester" on ECM). ubu

Seems no one has mentioned "Live in Seattle" so far. That's another incredible album! (the CD version has some material not on LP) I do enjoy that one very much! Gotta listen to all this late Trane stuff again after reading this thread - and after Sangrey's insight-ful and eloquent post (thanks)! ubu

Just starting Lewis Porter's "Lester Young". ubu