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Well, I received my disc today (thanks, Tom!), and post without having read much more than Jim's initial post... Thanks, Jim! I'm right now listening to #8 from disc 1, and there's some stuff I heard already I'd sure like to have! I'll come back to this post and edit for more. So, now let's begin: Disc 1 1. Very nice piano intro, beautiful tune, I know it, I think, but can't come up with a title or composer. Some kinda dukish playing by the pianist in the intro. The man on tenor has a meaty sound I like. No-nonsense stuff, either late sixties/early seventies or some nineties retro stuff? Great pianist, cool drummer. Reminds me of some stuff Blakey did in the fifties, then the vamp thing could be from Horace. Could it be him? Trumpet mellow, but good. Like this one a lot! 2. Hey that's almost good, indeed! Easy stuff, but I like it. Nice rhythm going. Second half of the fifties? One of those rare prestige afro/drum dates? 3. Another one I like a lot. Like the alto solo. Who's he? Cool! 4. A Creed Taylor/Oliver Nelson production? No? Like it alright. Surprising (and cool!) to hear a clarinet in this context! Favorite moment: trombone solo. 5. J.B.? One of his early ones. Nice tenor. Pee Wee Ellis already? I guess not. 6. More non-jazz. This a man or a woman? I like it, but the strings are a little bit too sweet for my taste. I don't know much about this kind of music, however. 7. Quite a change! A Monk tune. I know it, but cannot come up with the title, too lacy to check right now. Quite abstract at some moments - almost reminds me of the Giuffre/Swallow/Bley recordings at some moments. Like it! 8. "Secret Love". Good one! They hit the right groove right from the start. I would need another listen to try to identify the tenor man. Solid stuff! The electric bass would make me guess it's not a very old recording, but I have no idea. Sort of the thing Dexter could have done with organ? But it's not him. 9. No idea what this could be, not the kind of stuff I know much about. Like it alright, though. 10. Cool, but again no idea what it could be. A drummer imitating a tap dancer or really a tap dance and a drummer? Either way an old one. I guess the (hard)bop generation would not have done something like this anymore. 11. No idea. A little sweet? 12. Good one! Hal? Yes? Love it! Would like to hear more of that! Some passages made me think of Mingus - the horn arrangements, not the bass playing. Great! 13. Very nice sax playing here! Easy stuff, not untouched by bop but some older influences clearly coming through. 14. Getz? Or another of those Prez disciples. Nice and easy, like it! Another standard I know, but can't come up with its title. 15. Hamp? Nicely building performance. What's that tune again? Disc 2 1. Nature Boy? Cool performance! Would like to hear more of this! Good they're not falling in some too simple back-beat groove, the drummer's keeping things interesting. more to come... Jim, thanks a lot! I really enjoy the discs! ubu

I do have pretty much the same discs as you. One you could check out is STEAM (enja), a live date with Cameron Brown and Beaver Harris. The other Enja I have is pretty disappointing (it's called Soul Song, if I remember right), and the recent HatOLOGY reissue seems to be pretty similar (at least going from the line up). ubu

Maybe we could raise some funds for a "Poor Students In Terrible Neverending Need Of Free Music CDs" (PSITNNOFM - that's perfectly easy to remember ) non-profit organisation?! I know perfectly well what you are speaking of ubu

I wanted to mention Enevoldsen and then forgot again. I love his playing very very much. He was present on many good west coast sessions I cherish, being part of the Marty Paich circe. His work on the Mel Tormé albums on Bethlehem is indeed outstanding! ubu

I have that one on "At the Jazz Corner of the World", with Morgan, Mobley, Timmons and Merritt. A great one! Mike, thanks for your thoughts! I forgot about KD's stay with Blakey (I don't have the Mosaic yet, but I have that "Max" album which came out in the Chessmate series some years ago. A nice one). ubu

C for Charlie or C for Chan? ubu (mine's with the other Parker stuff, by the way. Why not get seven of it, one for Bird, one for Diz, Bud, Mingus and Max, then one for Q as in Quintet, and one for Chan?)

you funny guys! Hans still not there/here (anyone tried via email?), John B forgets to mail his address... however, prepare yourself for some ear-shattering experience... couw might do a little cover art, and I might try to either translate the text on the piece of music they got on their website in german, or maybe find something in english. ubu

I used to know a trombone (and tuba, and generally low-end sound fan) player who used to say a valve trombone was nothing else than a tenor trumpet. If this is not only a polemical saying, then what about bass trumpet? (You know the thing Cy Touff played). ubu

Thanks for your recommendations David. That Brötz sounds great indeed! ubu

btw, John (couw), John B, our favorite Russian free jazz fan, Hans (if you're there), and Tony/Chaney: you interested in a little steamboaty x-mas gift? get the drift, write me a PM. ubu

No problem, John. This thread IS taking turns, it became sort of "our small little avant exile corner", but everybody is of course invited to take turns with us! Please join in! And tell me, do you know more about Gumpert? I did not yet do a Google search, but I know nothing about him, I picked up that disc in fact only because it was cheap and looked interesting and because I have heard him on that one track with Steve Lacy (on "Five Facings", FMP). ubu

that one was not hot enough, you know! great work, couw! ubu

This might also lead to the core of AAJ's problems. It seems to be a little bit more lively however. I started to check it out again, maybe twice a week, after several months were I only accidentaly went there. ubu

couw - you mixed up the label "Ayler" with the man! The discs you listed, I have them all and love them! One of my favorites, Ayler! John, thanks! I have received an print out of the Ayler catalogue with the Lyons box, but as I know hardly anybody in their roster of artists, I thought I'd ask here! Thanks! ubu

cool new avatar, Mike, by the way! ubu

alright, I have to admit that the folks in Basel eat similarly terrible stuff, but me wants to have nothing to do with that, dig? seriously: I had to "survive" a "alsacian food special" week at the place where I work. And while I did survive I'm still suffering some damage from that... no harm intended, by the way! "Der Rest ist Schweigen." as has been said... ubu

Д.Д., what other stuff from Ayler can you recommend? I only have the Lyons box and that Albert Ayler live disc. ubu

ARR!! Bloody Tom Bonney ARR!! Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it's the open sea. For others (the masochists), it's the food. For you, it's definitely the fighting. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr! Hell, the Bloody part fits well, but what the f%@# ubu

Yeah, you know, this is the way we're supposed to consume publicity pics in the movies ubu

and not in Rooster's orgasmo thread, above all things... I'll keep my mouth shut ubu

Not sure what they mean by 'strange novels your art historians write'. Any idea who they have in mind? Don't think the French have a special interest in love. We just mention it more openly Anyway let's all have another cheer for Rooster who leads all the way There was that lady who wrote her "memoirs", Catherine Millet. I cannot come up with other names from memory, does not interest me that much... And I did not intend to say that you were WRONG by any account! But: I maintain that France will only be the "grande nation" again after they have given away the Alsace, either to Germany or to UK - mostly because of food-related factors... And yes, let's have another bottle of good red wine on rooster and his future "orgasmos"... ubu

I got this mail too, yesterday. I guess we don't have to care that much, do we? We can go over to AAJ and do some search, and the wealth of information from the BNBB will be avaiable again, which is cool, but I guess we'll continue here, won't we? I at least will do so for sure. ubu

a nice recent picture of Don Ruben:

How about Langston Hughes? I absolutely love his work! I have nothing at hand, but could post some later. One of my favorites, too! (and then there's his prose, too. Ever read some of his Simple stories?) ubu

This then, is a "veritable portrait" of one of my lookalikes... ubu