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  1. 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
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    Funny Rat

    ?.?., 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
  3. 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
  4. Not a problem couw! Just completely differing from my humble opinion (and even humbler ears)... ubu
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. ---------- 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
  9. 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
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    Funny Rat

    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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. king ubu

    Irene Schweizer

    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
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    Funny Rat

    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
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    Irene Schweizer

    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
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    Funny Rat

    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
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    Funny Rat

    MALDOROR IS DA SHIT!! ubu
  18. 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
  19. Might the Roach set also disappear suddenly?!? Bad perspectives, I'd say! Very un-cool! Adrian, while I do not YET have the Hodges, just one small remark: that's one of the sets were they made some mistake: the "Soul of" 2CD has two alternate takes of which people at Mosaic were not aware when they compiled the Hodges set, and they are missing. Oh, you'll have to keep that disc anyway, because of the Edison date, but nevertheless... ubu
  20. Thanks for sharing these good news, John! I like that one solo Byard CD on Candid a lot! (that one was also not released back in the days, as far as I know) ubu
  21. Yes, I'm a big fan of Friedlander's photos! The ones in the Coltrane and Ornette Atlantic box sets are marvellous! Guess there would be some in the various nice Rhino 2CD Anthologies, too (I did never pick up one of them, as I tend to have more than half of what's included if the artist interests me - Mingus, Eddie Harris come to mind). ubu
  22. Jeeez!!!!!!!!! woowww!!!!!!!!!!, not only she sounds like the real thing, sings with passion and she looks like a real woman!!! and Italian too. Here I go, I'm falling in love again!!! Roberta, Roberta, Roberta.!!!!!
  23. Can you watch swiss tv, Mike? SF2 (or sometimes 3sat) do broadcast Bern Jazzfestival concerts. I do not follow it (have no Video, no DVD-recording facility, and no own tv either, only watching at my girlfriend's), but it might be worth it! I have no idea though if they did broadcast anything from Gamabarini, as the Bern Jazz Festival had to change locations and had a whole new concept last year: the new location is some sort of a club, each artist plays for a whole week, and one of these evenings is recorded by swiss radio, broadcast partially live, and later they broadcast some more, at times the same again, in other cases (as with Gambarini, hence 2 sets around) other material. ubu
  24. Mike, thanks for your interesting comments on Mangelsdorff et.al. "Expectations" is well worth 10 euro-zlotys, no? I think it is a very strong album, all together, and I wouldn't want to miss the tracks with strings, actually. I like it as it is. ubu
  25. And here's some photos of her: inside out images © bruce moore ubu
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