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Yes indeed! couw, why not start a little discussion on what opportunities the lack of piano opens - because I think very often music without piano is more like, multi-directional, more open etc than with (same goes for guitar, depending on who's playing a little less so). Or do you want to wait on this until you post your replies? ubu

This one sounds good! Are you a subscriber of FMP? If so, please keep us updated when you get it! ubu

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I found it as a used LP. For a good price. Otherwise you can get it for a good prize directly from GNP/Crescendo: http://www.gnpcrescendo.com/ (sorry, I cannot link you to the CD - just go for jazz and you'll find it) ubu

I think one of the reasons was that they shied away from publishing his 9-11 comic (which I find truly GREAT!) ubu

Hope you have much fun with "Work". I recommended that elsewhere, too. A beautiful disc! ubu

Missed it having dinner... gonna have some drinks later - gotta work some more. ubu

Give it a listen if you can - I am no waltz fan at all, but this, holy Strauss! You get Wolfgang Puschnig play the "Donau Walzer", there's some Michel Portal, Bumi Fian does a wonderful job on one track, Matthieu Michel and Andy Scherrer are featured... I like it a lot. ubu

The only one I have is The Minimalism of Erik Satie. LOVE Lauren Newton! Love her too, on that disc! Don't know much she did, but live, as I said... not exactly my cup of tea If you have a chance to, listen to "All That Strauss" - the VAO doing their alternative new year concert, same Strauss etc. waltzes the Vienna Philharmonic played earlier the same day (Jan. 1, 2001). The CD is out on TCB. I would not buy it unheard, as I don't know you tastes that well - maybe it's too nice for your tastes, I don't know. ubu

Hey, imagine, yesterday some rare acetate (HELLYEAH) did turn up at their place: the complete Norah Jones Free Jazz Blue Note Sessions (with Albert Ayler)!! ubu

Don't sugarcoat it, how do you really feel about this disc? Didn't ubu or someone else give this disc a nice write up elsewhere a while back? That wasn't me. I'm not into the Leo orbit yet. Chaney, don't know that album, but as a rule it seems all VAO projects are at least interesting. You know their Dolphy tribute? ubu

Yeah, well, happy birthday to yo'all! Hope you all have a good party together! ubu

owww man! what a thing to say. music is more than sound and as you yourself admit, the playing is really great here. YES INDEED!! ubu

besides, it's funny to talk about piano players in a discussion of a piano-less disc, no? ubu B)

Yes, it has to do with the Kansas City influence he always admitted. Sonny Stitt's "Stitt Plays Bird" is another great example of his comping style. I often find it amazing that academically trained players like John Lewis and Herbie Hancock have these deep rhythmical conceptions going on. One recording that always astounds me is that Mike Zwerin date were they play those Kurt Weill arrangements. On the first track, Lewis is quite something! The whole setting is rather stiff (having to do with the arrangements, mostly, I think), but Lewis really cooks, although on cool blue flame, then Dolphy enters and tears it up with a great bass clarinet solo. There's some strong emotional things going on there, I think, just beneath the surface of things. The Stitt plays Bird is a marvellous album. What a great band, there! Lewis' presence seems often to hold things together in a good sense. It's far from being as loose as Stitt dates often were. ubu

Thanks, brownie! Now I hope I get that disc soon! Keep you informed, no need to type out more at the moment. ubu

There WAS... hope I get it soon! Thanks, couw! (Funny, just at the moment I get a CDR the disc turns up... I was looking for it all over the net when I got the other nine discs, a year or so ago) ubu

Glad to hear you enjoy it! You'll have many good-spent and fun hours listening to all that music! The Brown/Roach group was one I did listen to pretty early in my jazz listener's career. I had that marvellous brown-covered album. "Land's End" is another marvellous tune. Then you get "Parisian Thoroughfare", too... And Richie Powell was a great musician, too, sad how totally unknown he is today. ubu

Mike, while I don't know the MJQ (only their earliest recordings, 51/52) that well, I often marvel at how funky Lewis can play. I cannot come up with a particular example, but there are moments where he really grooves - probably has to do with his rhythmic conception, which seems to be very much his own. ubu

Thanks a lot, tjobbe! Wow - much to read then, I imagine, getting through all these discs again. We're playing the game, too, yes? Never mind being late at it! Looking forward to the fun! ubu

EKE, it seems to depend if you get the box or the single discs. I got Vols. 1-7/9/10 as single discs, and they include discographical data + liners. The disc 8 I got stems from the box, which seems not to have all discographical data listed, and liners all compiled together in one booklet. Thanks! ubu

Welcome, EKE. I will need some time to read through it myself (I read it over at AAJ some months ago, but bad memory forces me to do again). I got much Lester discs, thanks to our big Prez-expert ( ) and thought we could have some discussion again, here. ubu

Regarding comic art - how about Art Spiegelman? I love his work (or the few things I do know, rather). Anyone seen his 9-11 comic? It was published (exclusively, I think, as no US-paper dared to print it) in the german weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". Great work! ubu

A wonderful disc! I think Stanko is playing on several Polanski soundtracks himself. Don't know about "Knife in the water". Bernt Rosengren and Bobo Stenson add very much to the success of "Litania". ubu

There was a CD with the same cover but blue (instead of red or whatever you call that strange colour). This one (I saw it once in a store, but I'm happy with the 2CD RVG edition, cannot compare sound-wise) added the tracks not released originally, I think. Maybe this is the volume three you mention, couw? ubu