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Hell, I'd need about three of these (http://www.boltz.com/cd/cd1800.stm) to fit in all my CDs. Send PM to ask for my bank account... ubu

Hey what are you talking about? Couldn't you pleeeaze... (vive la république! by the way...) My jazz CDs are alphabetically, with a "Various" section at the end (there you find stuff like "World of Jazz", "Birth of Third Stream", the "Jazz & Cinéma" series, the Lost Sessions etc.). I try to order albums by date of recording, as good as is possible, but that often gets mixed up of course. Then I always have several piles of CDs and LPs lying around to be listened to "right now"... And piles of Tapes and Minidiscs recently filled with broadcasts from radio... so it's part chaos part order. Maybe the taxonomy tree printed on Diderot/D'Alemberts Encyclopédie could offer further help B) ubu

HOLY SHIT! This is SAAAD news! And I post in the KD and Dolphy threads before even seing this! Gonzalez was a great musician. And a great human being, as could be seen in the Buena Vista Social Club film of Wim Wenders (I just watched that sunday night on tv!). They're dropping like flies... no wonder, considering their age, but still very, very sad! Check out "Introducing Ruben Gonzalez" (on World Circuit), his first of two records made after the success of Buena Vista Social Club. Some great GREAT piano playing. ubu edited to add cover of his "Introducing" album.

Adrian, I don't know if the erratic thing had more to do with KDs career in general rather than his playing. He seemed not to get his things together. I mean he was with Bird, which should have granted him a great start - but just not everybody who's an excellent musician makes an excellent leader/manager/accountant and whatever that includes, too! Dorham seemed to pop up and disappear from time to time. What did he do between Bird and the Jazz Messengers? What after the Messengers? He did not lead his own band in the years he made his now OJC records, didn't he? And why did he only make "Whistle Stop" for Blue Note at that time? Was that a lame seller? Or did he fall out with Lion (which seems not to be the case as he entered the Blue Note roster again later with Henderson, Hill, and as a leader)? What did he do in the first years of the sixties? And what after the five albums with Joe Henderson? I get it he was in Europe, too? And what's his story from say 1964 to his death? Lots of questions... maybe some answers are known by somebody here?

very well said! I first heard Whistle Stop when it came out as an RVG, and I loved it right from the beginning! One of my favorite RVGs! ubu

danas, aren't you a little bit unfair? I mean, it's been some time since I listened to the Brooks albums now, but as I heard them first when I got the Mosaic (I was one lucky bastard finding this one for around 70 or 80$ worth three or four years ago), I started with track one from Minor Move, and that one is a highlight of Brooks' whole output, in my humble opinion. Blakey & Watkins of course are a great team, then I AM an avid Clark admirer, and Mogie turns in such a great solo... that must have been a very frightening moment for Tina, having to play his first solo on his first leader date after Morgan's and Clark's homeruns, no? ubu

not really; i mean, as idiotic as this country often is, i think that's rightfully seen as inane & i write that as one w/almost the entire maternal side of my family lost in the war (poland and latvia). if anything, i'm offended by the very suggestion, it smacks of gross self-importance and repression. ubu, how does Thomas Bernhard read in the german? signed, a Robert Walser fan too clem, thanks for this information. That was crap indeed! But a somehow understandable over-reaction, in my opinion. I'm a HUUUGE fan of Robert Walser - not sure if I did ask you that, but going from your Bernhard question I guess you don't, but: do you read german? In my opinion (and in that of some of the few Walser fans among literary scientist or whatever you call them in english) it's the short stories, "Erzählungen", or - the best term, I think - "Prosa-Miniaturen" (you can translate that to miniatures of/in (?) prose). If you do understand german, I guess you might try! The only usable german Walser edition appears as Suhrkamp paperbacks. You sure find them all on Amazon Germany doing a search for Robert Walser and Suhrkamp. Feel free to ask more, it's kind of difficult however for me to express these things in english... I love the few books of Bernhard I read so far, but I am no expert whatsoever. Some of his books are extremely funny (you gotta love austrian literature, though, and be open to cynicism of the highest order), others are rather difficult. His basic thing is to repeat himself, create never-ending phrases and also sort of cycles in which the narration evolves, going back almost to start again, and then going a place just next to the one were the last cycle went... difficult to describe. I guess you don't loose on the structure reading him in translation, but you sure fail to experience the "sound". Should we open a new thread (in addition to this one dedicated to poetry and the "now reading" one)? ubu

congrats, rooster! have one on me: ubu

Wycliffe Gordon plays a solo on one of the two unreleased outtakes from the Herbie Nichols Project (available in the download section on the Palmetto Records homepage), that fits in perfect! I don't know Gordon well, in fact I hardly know him, but that's a great solo he plays there! Check it out! (Check out all those downloads! There's two unedited tracks that were released on Hill's A Beautiful Day available in their unedited form, some jams, and free impros, some outtakes, and three live tracks by Bobby Previte's cool "Bump the Renaissance" band recorded on their tour in Europe) ubu

Good choice (to say it again ) I will dig it out! (or get that Mosaic out of my shelf...) ubu

Hey I bought two of them! He he he... gave one to a friend for his birthday. So that way you only need 1500... and I guess there may be a dozen or two of them sitting in shelves of ridiculously prized swiss record shops... ubu

Thanks for your offer, but money is short, and x-mas coming closer... Wish you a good time in Berlin! (Have you been there before? I never was) ubu

scary stuff! ubu

good choice! John, start a new thread, and ask b3er or use3 to pin it right now! And if there are no replies, post there daily, so that all those who browse the board with "View New Posts" or "My Assistant" see that there is something happening here! ubu

Д.Д., they state that they send your order out the next day, and if something cannot be sent out by then, they would email you and you could cancel your order. So they should email you latest tomorrow night if something's not available. If you try to find HatOLOGY discs in stores here, be aware that they usually cost 38 franks, sometimes you may find some for 31-36... Yeah, Enja Weber... there would be so much good stuff there! Let's dream of a complete Mal Waldron Enja box... HELL! ubu

There's an ad for this in the latest Downbeat, too. I have read about this one somewhere, but have never heard it. Anyone can give some reviews? (The one on amazon is pretty negative) The label is Random Chance, see their website here. ubu edited to add label and website

Chaney, at this site you can buy it for 12 swiss franks (around 9 US$ currently). I am not sure they have it in stock, but it does seem they do. I don't know how much mailing to the US would cost, but certainly not more than 5US$, which would not be very expensive for a Hat disc, all together. (I guess it would not get much cheaper if I'd mail it, as they would charge 2$ to mail it to me, and then for me to mail it would probably be in the range of 3-4$.) ubu

By saying "If you can choose one..." I meant: AOTW, by the way. But post your opinion here, of course! And also if you get the Russell! ubu

John, I'd love to hear some opinions on this one! As I said, it was my original choice, but when I saw it was OOP, I thought I'd go with Hal Russell (which has not exactly been a very popular choice, alas!). If you can choose one, take this, and I'll be there! btw: who's that "?.?." y'all quote? ubu

I thought about asking, too! Not that I'd have a proposition. AOTW seems to have lost some momentum! John, why not you choose one right now, take one you think many of us have, and if someone has actually been nominated he can do the next one? ubu

Has our Russian friend seen this!?!?!?!?!? http://www.discplus.ch/results.asp?smod_sk...smod_public_id= HELL! ubu

Update? If you like. Really, the box this set comes in is nothing more than heavy paper. I've kept mine wrapped in its celophane wrap as the joints seem to be badly glued and they'll come undone if set free. Alright, as I fabricated a, well, not extremely stable, but certainly better than heavy paper box, I'll stick to it. I have only gotten an earful of the music, but I liked what I heard! Thanks very much again, Chaney! I hope you will like the VAO! The Penguin gives it a crown, if I remember correctly. I will look for the Newton disc because of your evaluations. Makes it an interesting thing again! ubu

Switzerland is not yet a russian colony, yes? Or did I miss something? ubu

not to hijack this thread, I like poetry a lot, but I wonder, has the "no poetry after Auschwitz" debate hit the US, too? Some of my favorite poets of more recent years include: Ingeborg Bachmann Ilse Aichinger Günther Eich Raoul Schrott couple of older favorites: Georg Trakl Else Lasker-Schüler Gottfried Benn August Stramm Kurt Tucholsky Kurt Schwitters Ball, Arp, Huelsenbeck, Tzara etc (big fan of the dada movement) I guess it would not make too much sense to post german poems here, otherwise, please tell me and I'll try to find the time to type out some. ubu

That it? I would be faaaar too lazy to figure out such stuff! Hell, those americans do get up late in the morning! ubu