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Hey, quite a party going on there in your post, deus! You got them from zweitausendeins? If I knew they'd have them, I could have saved half of the money I spent on them (some 40 bucks, or even more...) ubu

Well, I guess he might not be lesser known your side of the water, but here he sure is: Charles Ives. I cannot remember having ever seen any orchestra perform any Ives symphony here... On the other hand, Honegger (while not being played either) is quite well-known here, being from Switzerland. ubu

Couw, your new avatar is GREAT! With the "right now!" one, all that's missing now is that nice old-fashioned "ding" when you end the line! ubu

That's one of those in the Triologue 2CD set, yes? ubu

Given that, I think I'll try hanging out here for a while, if that okay with you good folks... Yes, something of an AAJ refugee here. A few of you guys may know me, and to those who don't yet - hey now! Welcome here, gdogus! ubu

That's MY disc now... And I can assure you, the package was thin and economical, yet everything arrived in perfect shape! John, looking forward to your BT very much! And I hope you can work out getting a new grant! ubu

I guess it's this floaty, washes thing that I like about it! It IS very quiet music, and that's for the reason why Turner fits in perfectly well. I guess you gotta love Warne Marsh and that kind of "destached" playing style to like this album (and Turner, in general). ubu

Thanks Chuck! Not having had any real to real personal conversation in english for the last three or four year, I try my best (Uh, it's "king ubu" nevertheless -_- ) ubu

Well, if EKE takes 15, let 16 be for some american, and let me try to fix all my things up for 17, alright? king ubu for #17! You'll get a truckload of great unknown stuff from switzerland, among other things... (well, don't be afraid, there's some guys here doing GREAT mainstream/postbop stuff that you might never recognise as being european musicians! Check out my Chris Wiesendanger recommendation in the recs forum.) ubu

I really can't vote on this one! Booker is one of my favorite tenor players of any era, yet Handy, and also Shafi Hadi are great. Then, Clifford Jordan is great on the '64 tour! I have none of the Bobby Jones records with Mingus, but his trio record on Enja with George Mraz and the GREAT Freddie Waits is BAAAD! Adams, I don't like him too much, well, I like him, but he's no match for the other four, in my opinion. McLean I would not really consider a Mingus alumni. He turns in some good work on Pithecantropus (as does JR Monterose, by the way), and on Blues & Roots, though. While typing this, I decide I can vote: and it's gotta be Hadi for me, too! I love him on Tijuana, East Coasting, some of the Columbia stuff... (by the way, Clarence/Gene Shaw would be my favorite Mingus trumpet player! - the year of 57 was a great one for Mingus!). ubu

Very well put Conn! I had some problems in the beginning here, too! But it's really full of very nice people around here, so that's not a great issue! Just needs some time. The reason I took some time is that I was quite new to the BNBB when it went down, far from being online daily, then, rather more of a lurker. Then here, everybody seemed to know each other, so I needed some time to feel at home here (but I really do feel at home, now!) Keep it comin' ubu

I would like to do one, but several factors have to come together first... - I gotta buy a CD-burn facility - I gotta have lots of spare time - I gotta save some money to buy blanks and come up with at least some of the postage money - and I gotta hunt down some good fun stuff you all sure won't recognize Maybe somewhen after the middle of next year? Just keep me in mind. I did talk up, but I'm not able to give a date right now. ubu

How about this one? ubu

juck, deus! up with some kings! the king decided it was time for some more nice small talk on kings.... Bev, up with my question on the Peter Burke book on Louis XIV! (See my post a little bit further above, before my unforgiveable society talk digression...) ubu

That fits me well, too! Congratulations, Peter! (I did some sports when I was young - well, I still consider myself young, but... somehow the "no sports" thing is the only common denominator to be found between Mr Churchill and the humble king...) ubu

This almost made me burst laughing (but HELL I'm at work and nobody should know I'm on this board...) How 'bout: right after take 3 of "Un Poco Loco", or "Glass Enclosures"? "Parisian Thoroughfare"? or: Dolphy's Out To Lunch Tony Williams, Lifetime Or the christmas eve session with Miles, Monk & Bags... ubu

These soundies recordings were recently reissued on a nice Sagajazz CD I just picked up and posted about here. This is the session info: Then I just picked up "Count Basie Septet & Octet - On Film & Live". This has the following tracks: Hollywood, late August 1950: Clark Terry - t, Buddy DeFranco - cl, Wardell Gray - ts, Basie - p, Freddie Green - g, Jimmy Lewis - b, Gus Johnson - d, Billie Holiday - voc (-1) GOD BLESS THE CHILD (-1) NOW, BABY, OR NEVER (-1) FELANGES ONE O'CLOCK JUMP Universal film shots, directed by Will Cowan. brownie, in the liners of this CD, they state that by the time the films for these soundies were made, Royal had replaced DeFranco. The music was usually (again according to the liner notes of the Saga CD) recorded some time before the soundies were shot, and for the soundies, they just used the tapes, so the musicians appearing on the screen represent a different stage of the Basie septet, and have, in fact nothing to do directly with what is heard on the film. Seems this was the usual way to do it: two different "sessions". Royal's playing on the Saga disc, by the way, strikes me as very good, upon first listening to it! ubu

I will have to give this yet another chance. After hearing ScoLoHoFo, maybe. I'll report back... ubu

I have heard several broadcasts by the Sco/Swallow/Stewart band, and HELL, FINALLY they make an album! This migth be my favorite Sco line up. Not a festival thing, but a truly smokin' trio! Swallow's my favorite electric bass player of recent years, he has such a cool sound, and his playing is totally melodic. Stewart is one of the best drummers around, in my opinion. I recently found both the Blue Note album with Frisell and ScoLoHoFo for very reasonable prizes in some sales bin. Only had a chance to play some of ScoLoHoFo, and I did really love what I heard. Beautifully recorded, beautiful booklet, all slightly retro, but I like it very much. And that story about the recording in Downbeat some months ago was very nice, too. ubu

recent acquisitions (last two weeks, I know it's far too much, but, hey, look at the prizes): 15 CHF (11$/10EUR) Weather Report - Tale Spinnin' WR - Mysterious Traveller WR - Black Market Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay FH - Straight Life Miles Davis - On the Corner Hill - Passing Ships (copy protected) Young - Mother Ship (cc) 10 CHF (7$) Jarrett - Standards Vol. 1 Jarrett - The Cure Peacock - Tales of Another Crispell - Amaryllis Blue Mitchell - The Cup Bearers Claudio Pontiggia - Espoir (see more on him http://www.altrisuoni.com/artist.php?id=43 (He's a great french horn player!) second hand (7-12 CHF): Kenny Garrett - Black Hope Dave Holland - Not for Nothin' Koch-Schütz-Studer - Heavy Cairo Traffic Bob Brookmeyer - the Dual Role of Max Roach - Deeds Not Words Hal Russell - Hal's Bells Full prize recent acquisitions: Don Cherry - the Sonet recordings Jimmy Lyons - Jump Up (hat) Christian McBride - Gettin to it (? - his debut) and I sure fogot some... and sure my jazz money for december is up and over already... ubu

Hey, somehow this thread escaped me until now! Shrdlu: which of the ones with Coltrane? The quartet one or Monk's Music or both? I got my box (actually no box and no booklet, either) from zweitausendeins.de. I have almost all of the single OJCs, and I am on the point of starting to sell them... The music is glorious, of course. I don't believe it's Monk's greatest period, it's not "better" than the Prestige, Columbia or the Blue Note stuff, but Monk gets to play with musicians with whom he did not play before or later. ubu

Same here, not Eldridge, but probably the Atlantic set. I stopped getting the new ones right after their release. Rather I'm trying to pick up those that go OOP before they go... How do all you folks get all them people give you Mosaics? If someone knows anybody wanting to fix me up with another Mosaic, that would sure be fine with me... And hell, it would be too late to order now, anyway. I don't go the airmail way. I once had an order from Trueblue & Mosaic which they "forgot" to send out, and after my inquiries, they sent it, maybe two months after I did order (& pay!), they sent it via airmail, without charging me additionally. I first thought, now that's a nice gesture, but when I opened the package, all CD boxes were broken, ... (not the Mosaics, at least... but I have had some Mosaics delivered with slightly damaged boxes, too. So this is why I go the sloooooow way (which takes some 6 to 12 weeks...) ubu

The music is fabulous, by the way! I have the Porter and Ellington set, and have heard the old edition of the Gershwin, and the Berlin. Great stuff! Can someone post what's in the liners/booklet of the box? Is there the usual lavish Verve documentation (as in the Powell or the Evans)? ubu

a big It's not exactly a new one, but I just found it cheap, grabbed it, and enjoy it very very much! This record features Mark Turner, Ben Street and Nasheet Waits. Wiesendanger is a young swiss pianist, who became quite a mainstay of the post-bop/electric jazz scene here over the last few years (on this record he sticks to the piano). His first disc for FSNT features all originals (except for After The Rain), and they are very good. Brooding, dark, gorgeous compositions. Clearly the guy has some concept. And Mark Turner fits in perfectly well. AMG gives it four stars Another nice thing is that the disc is less than 50 minutes long. No need to stand some 70+ minutes of concentrated listening, no real hangers. Turner sounds great. Like a cross between Warne Marsh, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson, if that makes sense. He may be one of the most individual stylists among younger tenor saxophonists. Here you can find an AAJ Review of this album. I do not really see the Miles Quintet allusion, mainly not because Nasheet Waits' playing makes it quite clear that this is no old record. ubu