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Vive le Roi (you won't hear that very often from France).
Et MERDRE encore
Cher compagnon, "DE PAR MA CHANDELLE VERTE, MERDRE MONSIEUR, CERTES OUI JE SUIS CONTENT!"
Mais comme nous representons une royaume sans pays, comme nous representons toute la Polognie, les Polonaises (et -esses, surtout
), et par habiter dans la suisse, qui toujours etait un port sure pour des réfugiés de toutes partes du monde, nous representons un Roi et une Royaum tout à fait différent (comme nous disons ici différand). "MAIS ENFIN JE SUIS CONTENT DE SAVOIR MAINTENANT ASSURÉMENT QUE MA CHÈRE ÉPOUSE MA VOLAIT. JE LE SAIS MAINTENANT DE SOURCE SÛRE. OMNIS A DEO SCIENTIA, CE QUI VEUT DIRE: OMNIS, TOUTE; A DEO, SCIENCE; SCIENTIA, VIENT DE DIEU. VOILÀ L'EXPLICATION DU PHÉNOMÈNE. MAIS MADAME L'APPARITION NE DIT PLUS RIEN. QUE NE PUIS-JE LUI OFFRIR DE QUOI SE RÉCONFRONTER. CE QU'ELLE DISAIT ÉTAIT TRÈS AMUSANT. TIENS, MAIS IF FAIT JOUR! AH! SEIGNEUR, DE PAR MON CHEVAL À FINANCES, C'EST LA MÈRE UBU!And now a toast to our favorite maitresse:
Sur l'air Quand le péril est agréable
Pour vos façons nobles et franches,
Poisson, vous charmez tous les coeurs;
Sur vos pas vous semez les fleurs.
Mais ce sont les fleurs blanches.
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MERDRE! Allons enfants de la...
ubu
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On Steamboat: what I have of them are two broadcasts, the trio doing Sam Hayden's composition "dB", and the Steamboat extended ensemble doing another composition, David Dramm's "Orange Slice" - I just listened to this one while coming home tonight. It's a great piece! 55 minutes of uninterrupted playing, constantly building, somewhere between composition and improvisation, but totally coherent. The extended ensemble is Blum (hammond, analog synth, piano), Pliakas (el b ), Niggli (d), with Gerard Bouwhuis (sampling key, piano), Pete Wilson (el b ), Remo Signer (d/perc), Marco Blaauw, Reijer Dorresteijn & Bob Koertshuis (trumpets).
Quite a massive sound wall they're building up! The trumpets enter only after about half an hour, and in the beginning it's only keyboards. The two drummers (both swiss) are very good, grooving together, pushing the others. The concert also includes parts where both keyboard players play acoustic piano, and things are quite varied, actually.
I do not know (neither did I care until now to find out) if these two concerts are on CD, but I guess they are (on Grob, maybe? Will have to check), and I guess they might be the same concerts that were broadcasted by swiss radio.
ubu
edited to change B) to b ) B)
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John, I had a casual listen to the Gumpert yesterday, and it is a beautiful disc. Free improvised pieces, only one is a composition of his.
The concert, according to his liner notes, was actually not scheduled (however, this does not sound like a live recording at all, the place given is the FMP studio in West Berlin). I don't have the disc at hand so I have to go from memory: In 1987, 40 years of the german nations was being celebrated. The east Germans (as Gumpert says) were not willing to do something together with the west Germans. So it was fobidden to eastern German artists to do any performance in West Berlin/Germany. Gumpert writes he got a passport in order to attend a concert in West Berlin (some piano session kind of thing), when, only a couple of hours before his concert another piano player (west German, I think, Gumpert gives his initials, but I could not figure out who it could be, would have to look them up) who should have done a solo piano concert, had to call his concert off, Gumpert jumped in and did his "secret" concert (thus the title of the disc).
The music is beautiful often in a quite traditional sense/way. Quite accessible, for me, but not mainstream in any way, either.
To give some more elaborate comments, I would have to find the time to give it a thorough listen.
ubu
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Congratulations ubu!
Now for the long, hard slog toward 2k.
Maybe you could post a couple hundred pictures in the BABE thread before you hit the hay?
Well, you know, Chaney, I actually wanted to do my countdown coupled with pics over there, but I could not find enough of pics of that norwegian lady (or wherever she comes from - I don't really care...), so I thought, why not start another thread - starting threads is not something I'm very good at, I actually rarely do it... and this seemed to be a fitting moment
ubu
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Can anyone provide a list of the Jazz Records CD (were there LPs too?) reissues?
I've got one of them, "Live at Birdland 1949", with the following dates:
Tristano, Marsh, Bauer, Fishkind, Morton:
Remember
Pennies
Foolish Things
Indiana
I'm No Good Without You
Tristano:
Glad Am I
This Is Called Love
Blame Me
I Found My Baby
are the exact recording dates known?
ubu
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Thanks, guys!
Rooster, you got my PM?
ubu
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Among my favorites of this great trumpet player is the Jazz Prophets Vol. 1 disc. Love "Blues Eleganté"!
He will certainly not be forgotten in this house! All the live dates he made with Bird would alone guarantee that!
ubu
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Actually, I thought he was from Europe. Spanish, perhaps, but I don't quite remember. I did meet him once. Mr. Aleardo G. Buzzi (pronounced Bootsy!). He was the head of Philip Morris in Europe. After retirement, he went on to produce Jazz records. When I was in New York and working for TCB, I caught a set of the Mingus Big Band at Fez and sat at a table with Mr. Buzzi any my boss on one side and Sue Mingus and Peter Schmidlin on the other. Surreal!
Hell, what was Sue Mingus doing there?!
You may be right about where Mr Buzzi's coming from (the name to me implies italian or spanish), but he seems to handle quite a lot of the NY productions of TCB.
ubu
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Also, I'm taking it ya'll don't know this side. It's one of the secret glories of early '70s rock. Here's Robert Christgau's review; you gotta read through his style but...
Coulson, Dean, McGuiness, Flint "Lo and Behold" [sire, 1973]
Comprising ten unfamiliar-to-unheard songs written (or anyway, copyrighted) by a well-known singer-songwriter between 1963 and 1971, this organizes scraps of persona the man himself couldn't handle and might as well be called Bob Dylan--"Yesterday" and Today. Dennis Coulson knows Dylan's lyrics for the lazy, flirtatious embraces of perception they are, and so never sops over into literalness--Baezesque prettifying or Bandesque uglifying. And where American folk-rockers can be counted on for the just-so flourish, the swelling rhythm, these guys (aided by producer Manfred Mann, world's most sensible Dylan nut) keep it ragged--the music rocks and rolls, but it also seems to stop short every now and then, and it's catchy, hooking with a tabla here, a build arrangement there, clownish horns that signify an entire side. Cynical ("Open the Door Homer") and idealistic ("The Death of Emmett Till"), self-pitying ("Sign on the Cross") and self-reliant ("Let Me Die in My Footsteps"), but always tough and intelligent. And let us not forget funny. A
out,
clem
clem, now this one does sound interesting! AMG gives it four and a half stars (here), and has the following review:
This is one of the finest records of its era (originally issued on DJM and Sire) and, amazingly, as a record of cover versions, had lots of rock press credibility as well. It should have fared about as well as the Hollies' venture into Dylan territory, except that Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint were more suited to the Dylan material, and the Dylan songs they chose were a deliberate effort to delve specifically into material that Dylan had not released (as of that time) in any official versions — this was stuff that was known either only as compositions, or from various white-label bootlegs that were around then. The result was a record as good as anything the Band ever turned in, a gorgeous, haunting electric/acoustic mixture with impassioned vocals, impeccable musicianship, and what were then revelations about some of Dylan's best and least-known songs. (Remember, he was off the road then, and releasing maybe an album a year.) The numbers include "Eternal Circle" (added to this reissue in an alternate mix version as a bonus track), "Lay Down Your Weary Tune," "Open the Door Homer," "Don't You Tell Henry," "Get Your Rocks Off," "Tiny Montgomery" (a bonus track previously available only as a single B-side), "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "Let Me Die In My Footsteps," "Lo And Behold," and "Sign On the Cross." The sound is stunningly clean, and the new historical notes by Tom McGuinness are cool. — Bruce EderIt seems though the 1996 CD version (on Raven) is OOP...
ubu
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FIRST: NO NO NO NO NO NO covers "Knockin' On Heaven's Door." Pleeeeeez? NONE, NONE, EVER, none. It's sooooooooo over, dudes and the exceptions do NOT make up for the drivel we've had to suffer through for thirty years now. Please watch "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" again if yr needin' a fix.
my words!
ubu
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few things in the world as good as this one...
ubu
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Well, let's hope they don't shoot you directly into OUTER SPACE
ubu
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My problem is that I've got to real for University all the time (mostly stuff I'd rather not read voluntarily...), love reading good newspapers (I read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily, in the evening get another swiss newspaper from my father, add Süddeutsche Zeitung every weekend, Die Zeit every week, Weltwoche almost every week, and on sundays it's the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and the NZZ am Sonntag...).
So when the decision has to be made: read a book or listen to music, I most often choose the second option... and feel I've got much too little time to listen to music, too.
ubu
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Rooster, I don't know if it was on a McMaster CD. It was no Conn, and I guess it will rather come out as a Conn than an RVG.
I still hope for a Select, and I wouldn't mind the Jordan disc being included or not. That one would probably let the trio track off and be incomplete anyway, so we'd have to wait for a Conn (or RVG) as well.
ubu
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holy shit, rooster! don't remind me of how long it will take till I'm a funkateer...
ubu
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one!
Hey guys!
Just let me use this to thank you all for the nice surroundings here! Being relatively new to any online community thing, I really have to say I like staying around here, and this has got a lot to do with you people hanging around here.
Keep it greeazy (err, well, then let's have some Ayler or Hal Russell, to recover from all the greaze
)ubu
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Dan, let Jim try first.
I just thought to offer some help - I cannot guarantee anything, but the swiss scene is quite small, and it might be worth a try. I think I could get to Mr Schmidlin somehow and then pass it on to you. But let's wait till Jim comes up with something.
Maybe the man (I cannot remember his name) who produces the "agb" series (agb being his initials) could help. He's living in america and/or is an american, if I remember right.
ubu
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I still consider Dylan the best to do covers of Dylan songs. Saw him live early november, and he was just GREAT! You never know what to expect from him!
Regarding what I thought was the topic here, it would have been Nashville, too. I like the World gone wrong cover, and some others, too, but Nashville gets the nod...
ubu
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king ubu, I know both of these Russian labels: Solyd and Long Arms. They both were started in the late-80s and are pretty dead by now. I heard very few of their releases, but I saw many of these artists live in Russia. It is pretty uneven stuff. In general Russian improvisational music scene is not particularly rich (although there are some excellent musicians - I'll expand some time later). If you are interested in anything from their catalog, I can contact the owners of the labels directly when I am in RUssia next time (Spring, I guess) to see if anything is still avilable. It looks like this AVANTART website is dysfanctional as well, so I doubt you can order anything from it.
Д.Д., it would be great if you could look for some Ganelin trio stuff! I never heard them, but read some rave reviews!
But maybe there are records available by them you rate higher than the russian ones, so you rather tell me what to get first, and forget about the russian stuff.
thanks,
ubu
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I found two very interesting solo piano discs yesterday:
Georg Gräwe, Six Studies for Piano Solo (West Wind)
Ulrich Gumpert, The Secret Concert (ITM)
both of them were recorded in Berlin in the year o 1987. About Gräwe I know nothing, except having seen him mentioned in this thread and someplace else on this forum, the only thing I have from Gumpert so far is his apperance on that very good Lacy duo disc, Five Facings (FMP).
ubu
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Progression, an alternate of Tautology, is missing from the Prestige date.
Maybe others, but this jumped out at me.
Thanks Chuck, so I was right doubting there are 4 tracks only. That Prestige CD is an essential addition to the early Tristano, Konitz and Marsh music:
ubu
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Thanks for this recommendation, brownie! Sounds like a good one! And Humair is getting better with age very much, in my opinion! (His "Liberté surveillée" project with Eskelin, Ducret & Chevillon is very good, in my opinion! And check him out on the Lacy CD, also a 2002 production, I mentioned further up in this thread. He is also on three tracks recorded by Lucky Thompson in trio format - this is before our timeframe, but nevertheless deserves mention - with Peter Trunk. These three titles were reissued on the second of Lucky's Complete Vogue CDs)
ubu
Lenny Tristano?
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Thanks brownie! I could have looked for a site myself, but that one CD I own does not look very much like that label has entered the internet age... thanks!
ubu