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Yeah buddy! one of the best releases from 32, in my opinion! big ubu

A treat indeed! I found a quite good copy of the Jazzworkshop 2LP set some years ago. Great music! Lesser so with sound quality, but it's good enough to thoroughly enjoy what there is to enjoy - and there's quite some! "Meditations" is one of favorite pieces of "Mingusiana". ubu

Here's a thread I started about a relatively recent, great Bartz reissue on Fantasy: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...wtopic=2673&hl= I like him rather well, by the little I know or have. Thanks for digging up the old thread, I'll have to read it. ubu ps: you can delete you double up topic yourself; on the bottom of the topic you got something like moderator options or something, there you can choose "delete topic", and so is history made

Amen, my brother.

Rhoda Scott! Then there's another exceptional bass player, Hélène Labarrière. ubu

GUINNESS!!

Movies (mostly what you would call "art cinema", I guess - italian, french fifties and sixties stuff; film noir; to drop some favorite names: Godard, Antonioni, Fellini, de Sica, Visconti, Resnais, Renoir, Vigo, Hawks, Huston, Walsh, Scorsese, early Polanski, Chabrol, Raul Ruiz, Haneke, Losey, Rossellini, ...) Books (being a student I gotta read too much stuff I would rather not, but... some favorites: anything from the Dada movement, Bachmann, Trakl, Benn, Stasiuk, Mann, Bernhard, Broch, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, K.Ph. Moritz, Rousseau, lots of poetry, too) Whisky - single malts (Oban, Talisker being two favorites, Macallan, Lagavulin... uh, I think I need a drink ), irish whiskey, too. Sometimes a bourbon, but it does not compare... my lady, my tenor sax (my alto too, but I LOVE the tenor ) some pets around, too. Italian food, spanish wine, french wine Leffe, Jever, and some other beer, some good swiss beer, too (pity everybody want that s**tty Heinecken instead! That ain't no beer, man! That's pee pee, as another bored member would say...) Reading newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Zeit, sometimes Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, when I'm in the mood for some spanish I grab El País... much too time consuming, I fear, but I can't be without a good newspaper) Coffee ubu

Got "After Hours" today. I passed it by uncountable times in the last years, seems it was around constantly whereever I went... and based on what I read here, I took the plunge, and LOVE it! Thanks everybody! I like the first (61) date with Joe Pass a little better - sure "Secret Love" is a good one, but the vibe of Pass and Marable (of whom I seem to be a fan, although I never really looked for his stuff) strikes me as more relaxed. Interesting liners, too, by the way. How about his other early Pacific albums, are they around on CD? Or both long gone? ubu

another for the Mitchell! ubu

Hey Tony, sure, no problem with definitive (that's those spaniards, yes?) opinions I hope now to find the time to explore the Brötz set you copied for me. On friday, there will be the second broadcast from the Chicago Tentet, playing something by Michael Wertmüller (a composition after the book by Schindel, "Gebürtig", I think) - you will get that in return, as I promised. I have to write the last lines of my university s**t tonight and then I have some more time to listen... Hey, Д.Д., are you listening? Friday, 11pm to 12pm on SWR2 (you should get that in the romandie, too, I think!) - NowJazz Session: Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Michael Wertmüllers "gebürtig", performed live in Karlsruhe (the recording comes from some time in 2003, would have to look up when exactly). ubu

GREAT session! I have it on Charly Le Jazz CD 23 ("Miles Davis - The Birdland Sessions (featuring Stan Getz)") Miles - tp; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - ts; George "Big Nick" Nicholas - ts; Billy Taylor - p; Charles Mingus - b; Art Blakey - d. Birdland, NYC, September 29, 1951. MOVE (D. Best) 6:24 THE SQUIRREL (T. Dameron) 8:44 LADY BIRD (T. Dameron) 5:38 (infos taken from CD booklet) Is there more music around from this date? Or from other dates with this or similar line ups (thinking of Big Nick and Lockjaw, of course)? ubu

John, glad you like it! (And glad the disc finally found its way - hell, it was sooner in OZ than in the US ) ubu

I'm only beginning with Lacy - he made so many records! I saw him live in a stunning solo concert! You would think he's at least 10 years younger, actually! One of the best concerts I ever attended, for sure. Of the three discs you list I don't know any. What I have is: - The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy (Candid, 1960, pretty straight playing, not a great one, but certainly not bad) - Lacy/Rudd/Carter/Harris : Trickles (Blacksaint, 1976) (I love this one! Makes me want to get the Lacy/Rudd hatOLOGY as soon as possible, as well as their rather recent one on Verve, "Monk's Dream" - which is OOP now, as far as I know) - Work (Sketch, 2002) (a great trio record, with Daniel Humair and Anthony Cox) - Live at the Dreher (4CD, hatOLOGY, 1981) (not listened to all of it, but liked what I heard very very much! Big fan of Mal Waldron, too) - Communique (Soulnote, 1997) (another Lacy/Waldron duo, not listened yet) - Vespers (Soulnote, 1993?) (my first encounter with the infamous Ms Aebi, but I think it's a great record!) Then I heard a couple of solo records some time ago. Very difficult stuff, as I remember, but fascinating. ubu

brownie, I thought the soloists were at least alright if not good, generally. I was actually rather positively surprised by the quality of the solos (not to speak of the arrangements). I see your point, and there IS a special quality to the Russell album with Dolphy compared to the others. I gotta check it out again. ubu

That's true. Some nice stuff, but also some pretty inessential stuff. ubu

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would have been hell if you'd won, no? I never did own a gun, never shoot, and don't intend to do so. Actually, in Switzerland, every male has to attend military service around age 20, serving at least 300 days, the first 100+ of which are what he has to do when 20, the other days being annual or bi-annual repetition courses. Quite a stupid system, though it fits our own dear myths. Costs a whole lotta money, and me being part of it, it does seem to be a huge waste. I am part of the military band, got my Selmer barisax for free (instead of a gun), which was the only reason really to go through all that shit. Musically, it's absolutely worthless, if you like (or even dare to play, yikes!) jazz (EEEEH!) you're already viewed as some subversive creep... which was my fate there, obviously... One huge waste! sorry for going off-topic... ubu

Thanks, so I'll try to order from Eskelin himself (if I can afford...) ubu

Thanks for the insight, brownie. Now BlackLion/1201music/DAmusic are involved with that stuff, too... rather chaotic, I must admit! Dollar Brand's "Anatomy..." and another one were also on Blacklion CDs. Was all that Montmartre stuff on Debut first`? The Ben Websters, the Dexters? ubu

oh, you can safe that for mine! great work, couw! ubu

up for some air! Anyone has picked up the Henderson/Foster Montréal and cares to comment? I just picked up the Bley/Motian and Liberation Music Orchestra discs from the Montréal tapes yesterday. Had a listen to half of LMO. Great stuff! It seems some of these are going OOP (the LMO and the Cherry/Blackwell, as far as I have seen). ubu

Thanks for the Weill recommendations. I gotta check out some of this stuff. All JMT titles will be reissued by W&W - I recently saw their current catalogue. They're going by batches of 9, I think (it's 81 discs, if I remember right). I also gotta check out other Weill interpretations (classic ones, Lenya - I think there was some discs collecting recordings of her, but I have not seen them a while, and also some more contemporary stuff, rock or whatever artists - one of the highlights of that movie was Blixa Bargeld singing to an old scratchy 78" LP). Re. Eskelin: I have Kulak, too. Gotta listen again, it's been some time. I don't have the other OOP disc, "Five Other Pieces (+2)" - worth hunting down? What are the opinions on his Gene Ammons tribute, by the way? I had the CD once from a library, and got an aircheck of their Willisau concert in 1997. I think Ribot's in great form (moreso on the live recording than on the studio album), and Wollesen is quite a good drummer, too. ubu

You're gonna like it! Successful year 2004 to you - and all others of course - with ORGANISSIMO!!! Thanks, Mike! All the best to you, too! ubu

Thanks a lot Chuck! I still have not gotten around to pick up more Uptown releases, but I sure have to get some of them, the Marmarosa being on my list. I will do some internet research. ubu