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?.?., I picked up all the hats for CHF 13.5! Cool beans! ubu

Spent my february jazz budget today, got the following (around 200$ all together): Willie "The Lion" Smith - Music on My Mind (Jazz in Paris) George Russell - The African Game (Blue Note) Brad Shepik Trio - Drip (Knitting Factory) (used) John McLaughlin - tokyo live (Verve/Universal) (used) Chick Corea - The Song of Singing (Blue Note) Junior Cook - Somethin's Cookin' (Muse) Ramon Valle plays the Music of Ernesto Lecuona "Danza Negra" (ACT) Steve Reich - Drumming (Steve Reich and Musicians) (Elektra/Nonesuch) (used) René Thomas - Blue Note, Paris 1964 (Royal Jazz) Lenox School of Jazz Concert 1959 (feat. Ornette, Cherry, Dorham, Pomeroy) (Royal Jazz) Burkhard Beins, Martin Pfleiderer & Peter Niklas Wilson, Yarbles (hatOLOGY) Ran Blake, Horace is Blue: A Silver Noir (hatOLOGY) Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 (hatOLOGY) Richard Grossman, Even Your Eears (hatOLOGY) Richard Grossman, Where The Sky Ended (hatOLOGY) Steve Lacy, Clinkers (hatOLOGY) Jon Lloyd, Four And Five (hatOLOGY) Joe McPhee, Tenor & Fallen Angels (hatOLOGY) Anthony Ortega, Scattered Clouds (hatOLOGY) Wallin & Johannson, Proklamation I / Wallin, Janson & Wennerström, Farewell to Sweden (hatOLOGY) (2CD) some pretty cool stuff! I passed on the other Russell Blue Note, listened to it, but didn't like it. ubu (I also posted this somewhere else, too, on this board)

Spent my february jazz budget today, got the following (around 200$ all together): Willie "The Lion" Smith - Music on My Mind (Jazz in Paris) George Russell - The African Game (Blue Note) Brad Shepik Trio - Drip (Knitting Factory) (used) John McLaughlin - tokyo live (Verve/Universal) (used) Chick Corea - The Song of Singing (Blue Note) Junior Cook - Somethin's Cookin' (Muse) Ramon Valle plays the Music of Ernesto Lecuona "Danza Negra" (ACT) Steve Reich - Drumming (Steve Reich and Musicians) (Elektra/Nonesuch) (used) René Thomas - Blue Note, Paris 1964 (Royal Jazz) Lenox School of Jazz Concert 1959 (feat. Ornette, Cherry, Dorham, Pomeroy) (Royal Jazz) Burkhard Beins, Martin Pfleiderer & Peter Niklas Wilson, Yarbles (hatOLOGY) Ran Blake, Horace is Blue: A Silver Noir (hatOLOGY) Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 (hatOLOGY) Richard Grossman, Even Your Eears (hatOLOGY) Richard Grossman, Where The Sky Ended (hatOLOGY) Steve Lacy, Clinkers (hatOLOGY) Jon Lloyd, Four And Five (hatOLOGY) Joe McPhee, Tenor & Fallen Angels (hatOLOGY) Anthony Ortega, Scattered Clouds (hatOLOGY) Wallin & Johannson, Proklamation I / Wallin, Janson & Wennerström, Farewell to Sweden (hatOLOGY) (2CD) some pretty cool stuff! I passed on the other Russell Blue Note, listened to it, but didn't like it. ubu

Milan - could it not be that what you hear as a Getz solo is actually Getz and after a seamless change, Pres? I am not sure, but I thought this could be the case. The solos is not so smooth at the end as it is in the beginning. I don't have the CD at hand, but I can tell you some later time at which point in time I think Lester's solo could eventually start. ubu

Got "Just Friends" today! What a beautiful CD! The opening tune is gorgeous! Getz fits in perfectly well. And what is there to be said about guys like Kuhn, Jenny-Clark and Humair... thanks for insisting ubu

on sunday they wrote me that they have a "couple of hundred" - should last for another while. ubu

I think the problem people seem to have with the cover lies in the lettering and overall design, not in the choice of photograph. Yes, the photo is "allright" (just as brownie says), but the font and colour and all is rather ugly, in my opinion. Is this a Roques cover? Or has he left the EMI/BN gang? He could do far better! ubu

love it love it love it love it!! I'm one of those who considers it an underrated and unjustly forgotten album. I sort of took it for granted, too when I got it, but it gets better everytime I listen! ubu

?.?., I don't know either of the records, but there's some as yet unheard broadcast lying around of a partial orchester 33 1/2 concert from zurich, last year or the year before that. Aske me again later, no time to dig it up and listen right now! ubu

yep and add the Paich if you can afford AND like some real LIGHT piano trio jazz. Red Mitchell and Mel Lewis aboard, it's a cool disc, in my opinion (though I guess not everybody likes Paich the pianist that well...) The Costa is absolute first class, in my opinion! ubu

Not a problem couw! Just completely differing from my humble opinion (and even humbler ears)... ubu

Thanks very very much, John! Seems like I have most of what is included on these discs! Except for the Goodman items on Vol. 1, the Lee/Lester on Vol. 2, the Basie broadcast on Vol. 3, and some of Vol. 6, but I have ordered that one. Got to hunt Vols. 1-3 and some of the Basies! ubu

yeah what!!! it's not wacko! it's called taste! you sure correct, John, but that was my instant reaction! Can't tell me you don't like Miles with Trane etc., the band about which the following description is around (recently posted here by mikeweil): "A trumpeter that fluffs half of his notes, and out-of-tune tenor player, a cocktail pianist, a drummer that is too loud, and a teen-aged bassist." YOU GOTTA LIKE THEM! GET IN LINE! ubu

There's one more track from the Line on Love date(s?) available as an MP3 on the Palmetto website, an usissued one. That's the only one I heard so far (did not yet pick up the album, but sure will have to). ubu

---------- by the way, rooster t: you're not alone regarding the cover! I think it's a pretty ugly one, and looks rather cheap, too! Our estimated ( ) couw could have done better! ubu

So much for good deals, I guess. And don't even get me started about grey then selling the set for $25 over in the selling form. Chaney, those things happen to all of us - like, you an LP, maybe an original pressing, 25 bucks or some, and next month you see it as a nicely remastered CD for less than half the prize... that's the jazz addict's fate, it seems. ubu

Please do! There's a Schweizer thread in the artists forum, not much happening there, but some recommendations were made. I guess I'll subscribe to Intakt soon, and then pick up some of their backlist discs - lots of Schweizer, and I guess at least some of them really interesting. ubu

I just searched the thread and found the following quotes (most by John L, some by jazzbo, maybe some by others): ------------------ Lester Young Masters of Jazz vol. 1 is very worthwhile as well It has some great rare material on it, including a session under the leadership of a certain terrible organ player named Glenn Hardman (Hardman did atleast have the humor to record "Upright Organ Blues" at that session!) Lester Young is in another world, however, taking a series of extended solos that have to be heard to be believed. ------------------ All of the existing recordings of Lester Young from 1941 through the 1942 Nat King Cole date without Basie or Billie Holiday can be found on Lester Young Masters of Jazz vol. 2. That includes the only scraps that we have (unfortunately) of the Lee and Lester band. ------------------ JSngry: Sorry, but I can't recall any of the CDs now. There is one track from the Hotel Lincoln in May 1944 (Harvard Blues) that Masters of Jazz included on Lester Young volume 6. I don't know why they included this track as the Lester Young series is suppose to feature all Pres recordings only without Basie or Billie. ------------------ Masters of Jazz Lester Young volume 2 contains the two known tracks of Lee and Lester's band from 1941. Even these two tracks are incomplete. There are two other live tracks from 1941 by the "Lester Young band" featuring Shad Collins on trumpet. Volume 7 has some further scraps of Lee and Lester from 1944. I really emphasize the word "scraps." They are just bits and pieces in terrible sound that really don't add up to anything at all. ------------------ And then on Lester Young, Masters of Jazz Volume 6: Red "Mack" Morris, Bumps Meyer, LY, Jimmie Rowles, Louis Gonzales, Red Callendar, Lee Young: Trouville Club, LA June 1942 Broadway (incl) Benny's Bugle (incl) Broadway Oh Lady Be Good Benny's Bugle (incl.) I always think of the Taxi War Dance and Tickle Toe as with Lee Young, but according to Masters of Jazz Volume Two it is Shad and John Collins, Red Callender, and Harold "Doc" West. . . . ------------------ Lester Young: Masters of Jazz volume 10 has just been released. This disk consists of all know Lester Young broadcasts with JATP from April 22 through June 17. I had some of this material on LP and a couple tracks on obscure CDs. But a lot of it is completely new to me! The first part consists of blowouts with Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, and Buck Clayton. (This is all different from the Pres/Hawk concert on Pres Conferences, which was included on Lester Young volume 9.) A second part consists of Pres leading various quartets, quintets, and sextets. ------------------ So there seem to be at least 10 volumes of Pres Masters of Jazz - which heightens my interest in having an overview of them! ubu

Would anyone be so kind a give some short information on the 6 volumes of Pres Masters of Jazz? I know some are discussed in the copied parts of this thread, but not all of them. Thanks very much! ubu

Thanks! But I think subscribing might be the best. Usually the swiss frank tends to be in between 1.4-1.5 US$ - the current situation being rather extreme for the last two or three years. Subscribing might be the best thing, anyway, as supporting small labels is a good thing for sure, and Intakt has a very fine back list, which I think as a subscriber you can get for the special prize, too. (which is 25 swiss franks) ubu

May I recommend to you gentleman (ladies we miss in this region, it seems, hélas!) another recording which I find rather exciting upon one thorough listen: Irene Schweizer, Chicago Piano Solo (Intakt CD 065) (more) A stellar night recorded live at the Empty Bottle in 2000. ubu

Wow! Chicago Solo Piano is a great disc! I listened to it for the first time last night, and there are some tracks that absolutely blew me! I will have to look for some more! By the way: anyone knows a good (and cheap) online source for Intakt CDs? ubu

Uh, we did discuss about this (or rather I think I did ask about Chapin or something) earlier in this discussion. I just ordered it! Hope this doesn't break the bank... 54.30 Euros at Amazon Germany (with probably some custom costs added again later...) ubu

MALDOROR IS DA SHIT!! ubu

Chrome, I don't know what a "graphic novel" is, and neither do I know the correct word for what was published in today's FAZ. In german you call this "Photo-Roman". It's sort of like a comic (with text beneath instead of inside pics), telling a story. Hope this is understandeable! ubu