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Oh, well after having read all your friendly recollections, I took the plunge and got me a Mach 3 today. F**king expensive! I paid like 10 $ for the thing itself, and about 17 $ for 8 blades!!! Hell, I could have gotten a CD for that despite our usual ridiculously high Swiss CD prices... To answer the other questions: - manual (and only that) - before taking a shower - daily (actually, not really, but I would sure like to... no metrosomething either) - up, down, left, right - alcoholic and non-alcoholic lotions (depending on my morning mood...) ubu

Yes indeed! But I did never own any of the others. You get very good liner notes and comments, too, fat booklet. And definitively DON'T get the definitive release... ubu

Thanks guys! I'll take the CD with me and hope for a lively discussion upon my return home! ubu

As I will be leaving tomorrow, here comes my AotW: An incredible album, witty, funny, full of great playing by Russell, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler, Steve Hunt & Brian Sandstrom, and certainly one of my greatest discoveries within the past year. And in no way a typical ECM record, by the way! Actually, I wanted to pick the Vienna Art Orchestra's "Minimalism of Erik Satie" (hatOLOGY), but that one is OOP - I strongly recommend everybody interested in that one to pick it up as long as it's still around. It has certainly not been OOP long. Another candidate (maybe some other time?) was Sam Rivers' solo disc "Portrait" (FMP). ubu

Nope, Abe Lincoln actually played the trombone. He can be heard on some sessions included in the Capitol Mosaic (Wingy Manone, 3/7/44; Eddie Miller, 2/4/44). Dead serious, by the way, ubu B)

This one seems to be very good! I read an enthusiastic review recently in a swiss newspaper (written by one of the very few really good swiss jazz critics). ubu

No recommendations come to my mind, but I do LOVE that CD! Really wonderful and unusual music! Yes, there is one (maybe too obvious): Herbie Mann At the Village Gate (Atlantic), one of my favorite flute CDs. ubu

Let's hope so! Some of it was on the box, but the box covered nearly everything Monk did in his Columbia years. It's a real nice box, in my opinion, even if you have all the single reissues. Generally, I love the Legacy reissues of the Monk material very much (even though I'm far from having all of them yet). ubu

Anyone knows if this is coming out soon in a new (restored/remastered) version? I always kept my hand off of it in hope of a new reissue. ubu

Thanks, Pepe! Somehow, this all does make sense. Haden-Bley (A.I.R.)-Gato-Cherry, there are connection between all of them, yet without clear knowledge of connections to Garbarek, somehow this comes out of the music on "Witchi-Tai-To". ubu

I just received Jazz In Africa Volume Two (in its Kaz incarnation from 1992). It's a very nice CD, containing a Kippie Moeketsi album called "Tshona", also featuring Basil Coetze, and Pat Matshikiza on piano. The most famous track, of course is the title-track, which also features Dennis Phillips on alto. This album has a playing time of only little more than half an hour. The CD then has a 17 minutes long track featuring Barney Rachabane, Basil Coetzee and Duke Makasi, as well as a 23 minute Dollar Brand track with Robbie Jansen, Coetzee and Arthur Jacobs. Very good music, indeed! I got the CD from jazzhouserecords.co.uk. They still list it, so it's yours for 5£ + shipping (Paypal), and very fast service, indeed! ubu

RIP. Just listened to the Ventura stuff in that Mosaic set. Jackson does a fine job. Also like the Big Band sides he led featuring Gerry Mulligan (on CD from Fantasy together with some Mulligan Quartet sides). ubu

Well, as I will be off on vacation tomorrow, some thoughts on this album, though its week has not yet started. Garbarek is blowing really hard and hot on these tunes. There is an underlying mood to much of the music reminding me (!) of the Coltrane quartet - some of Garbarek's lines bringing up Trane, and also some of Stenson's playing bringing up Tyner. I found some resemblace to Gato Barbieri (!) in Garbarek's playing here. Neither the Trane not the Gate thing are sort of audible through all the music, also he's certainly not trying to emulate them, but yes, I can (or at least think I can) hear some similarities (not to speak of influences, which might stretch things). Well, I do not like the mixing of Christensen very much, but he and Palle Danielsson (sure one of the very best bassists around in the last decades) have a very strong influence on where the music goes. Danielsson's bass-vamps strike me as particularly strong, driving the music with quite much force, while Christensen rather has the "embellishing" part. The tunes are a very fine bunch. One might call it ecclectisist, but I think things melt together just fine, creating a musical style/world/mood quite of its own. While I don't know anything about Don Cherry and his stay in Scandinavia, it is certainly evident that these four musicians have huge open ears and succeed in melting together influences from several different musical cultures and styles. The Carlos Puebla track really is in a Haden/Liberation Orchestra mood (did he do it, too?), and is marvellous. In short I think this a hauntingly beautiful and at the same time very strong record. Thanks very much SEK for chosing it! I will return to it many times in the future, I hope! ubu

This happens tom me mostly with vocal stuff, such as Sinatra's wonderful "Songs for Swingin' Lovers", or some of Diana Krall's albums (up to "Love Scenes" - confession time: I like them ) Another played out album for me is Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". I have not listened to that one since I got the Deluxe edition. (Well, only a couple of months before that, I got the single CD for the second time, having sold the one I had after having acquired the Classic Quartet box... so I seem to like that one) From the list of Noj, I don't think I have outheard anything. But by somehow trying to regulate what you're listening to when (and with all the new stuff coming in all the time), I don't find it difficult not to out play my stuff. And then, I'm into jazz only for some 10 years, and still young... ubu

I only have one disc from the Tzadik label, Marc Ribot's "Yo! I Killed Your God". Quite a noisy affair! I have enjoyed everything I have heard yet by Zorn's Masada outfit. Then I heard some broadcast of Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Soul project, which I like very much, judging from that. Generally, these albums are extremely expensive over here (almost 30$ !!). Anyone knows a good place to buy them online with not too much shipping cost to Europe? ubu

I love the Monterey album and Electric Bath. The other recent BN/Pacific reissue was a little disappointing, in my opinion, too. The early Candid album, which I have in its recent Past Perfect incarnation (it has been mentioned in the Past Perfect thread in the reissues forum), is quite interesting, too. Byard (also on alto), Carter & Persip make for a very good rhythm section. ubu

Been more and more impressed of Shim after having heard his CD several times. Certainly was (is? - guess my chances over here are small to hear anything new, unless he makes a new CD) one of the most interesting of all those young tenors. And he's a master of his instrument. ubu

One of the advantages of being in bed with some fever and a hell of cold: I started listening to my Ventura / Phillips Mosaic! I head none of the Phillips stuff before, the Ventura maybe two or three times. Generally, I like him well. He get's a nice sound on all his horns, the bands are playing some good arrangements. I would not need the vocal-backing on that one session, Ms McCall, though, is good for my ears. My favorite sessions would be the quartet dates with Napoleon and Hank Jones, as well as the last date in the box, the one featuring a larger band and some very good playing by all. I would not say I like the music for the sidemen only - though many of them do deliver very good work. I enjoy the way Ventura handles the material on hand. Maybe he is a little bit vulgar from time to time, but, so is life... Seriously, I like it a lot! ubu

Yes, it is the Jim Pepper song. And Stenson is very good on Lloyd's "Canto". Anybody looking for more fine Stenson sideman dates would be well-served with Tomasz Stanko's "Litania". Another very good record! ubu

That was a Candid album too. Colours, I believe. Yes, that IS a Candid date. They did license it, as they did the Ellis, Hawkins/Russell, Dolphy, etc. ubu

You will sure have many hours of listening pleasure with the Edison! Hope more of his music of that time would be available! ubu

I also have a Clark Terry CD called "Flutin' And Fluglin'", featuring Jimmy Knepper, Julius Watkins, Seldon Powell, Yusef Lateef, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Benjamin and Ed Shaughnessy. Budd Johnson plays piano on one track. Another very fine album! ubu

I do enjoy it very much! And "Delilah" is an opening of the sort you want to listen and listen again, and never actually make it to the end of the album. There are some good moments from everyone included, yet generally, these musicians seem to be still quite deep in their formative years (Kippie maybe being the exeption - his take on "Body & Soul" might be an indication). This seemed to be the feelings of Dollar Brand who stayed behind woodshedding when all the others left for London with the "King Kong" play (I find Ibrahim's playing on these tracks to be very far away from his "signature style" he was to develop soon after that). Masekela, Gwangwa & Kippie all became part of that tory of success. (It's LP GALP 1040 I have, never heard of this label). That LP is has no date, but it must have been after 1957 for sure, as the story of "the real King Kong" (as it is printed on the backcover of the LP), ended in February 1957. A date of September 1957 would make sense, September 1958 would be possible, too. The CD liners state the month of recording being September, and also states that after spring 1959, the Epistles were "a legend without a sound". ubu

Here we go: 01 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 1 02 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 2 03 Miles Davis ascenseur pour l’echafaud 04 Donald Byrd byrd in paris (live) 05 Donald Byrd parisian thoroughfare (live) 06 Holland/Clayton/Singleton club Session 07 Bill Coleman from boogie to funk 08 Chet Baker broken wing 09 Dizzy Gillespie the giant 10 Slide Hampton exodus 11 Django Reinhard django et compagnie 12 Django Reinhard swing from paris 13 Django Reinhard swing 39 14 Mary Lou Williams I made love you paris 15 Elek Bacsik guitar conceptions 16 René Thomas the real cat 17 Toots Thielemans blues pour flirter 18 Buddy Banks jazz de chambre Bobby Jaspar quartet barclay 19 Henri Salvador pardon my english – plays the blues 20 Various Chanteurs/Chanteuses 21 Don Byas laura 22 Sidney Bechet/Claude Luter self-titled 23 Sonny Criss mr. Blues pour flirter 24 Guy Lafitte blue and sentimental 25 Henri Renaud New sound at “the boeuf sur le toit” (live) Zoot Sims quintet barclay 26 Barney Wilen jazz sur seine 27 Bobby Jaspar modern jazz au club st.-germain 28 Lucky Thompson modern jazz group 29 Pierre Michelot round about a bass 30 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 1 31 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 2 32 Michel Legrand paris jazz piano 33 Claude Bolling plays the original piano greats 34 Rhoda Scott / Kenny Clarke self titled 35 Eddie Louiss bohemia after dark 36 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon aux trios mailletz 37 Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson paris blues live 38 Earl Hines paris one night stand 39 Kenny Clarke plays andré hodéir 40 Art Blakey paris jam session live 41 Eddie Louiss/Yvan Julien porgy & bess 42 Stéphane Grappelli improvisations 43 Jean-Luc Ponty jazz long playing 44 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 1 live 45 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 2 live 46 Lionel Hampton ring dem vibes 47 Various classic jazz à saint-germain-des-prés 48 Various modern jazz à saint-germain-des-prés 49 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 1 (Barney Wilen, Alain Goraguer) 50 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 2 (Art Blakey, Jazz at the Philharmonic, George Arvanitas) 51 Louis Armstrong and friends 52 Dizzy Gillespie cognac blues 53 Chet Baker quartet plays standards 54 Various clarinettes à saint-germain-des-prés 55 Various saxophones à saint-germain-des-prés 56 Stéphane Grappelli plays cole porter 57 René Thomas meeting mister Thomas 58 Django Reinhardt swing 48 59 Django Reinhardt django’s blues 60 Henri Crolla notre ami django 61 Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright piano aux champs-elysées 62 Lou Bennett pentecostal feeling 63 Rhoda Scott live at the olympia 64 Willie « The Lion » Smith music on my mind 65 Bernard Pfeiffer la vie en rose 66 Raymond Fol les 4 saisons 67 René Urtréger joue bud powell 68 Lionel Hampton mai 1956 69 Art Blakey 1958 paris olympia (live) 70 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir 71 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 3 (Goraguer/Jazz Groupe de Paris/Humair Soultette) 72 Don Byas ree-boppers Don Byas/Tyree Glenn orchestra Howard McGhee sextet James Moody quintet 73 Lucky Thompson with Dave Pochonet all stars 74 Alain Goraguer go-go-goraguer 75 Earl Hines in paris 76 Various danse à saint-germain-des-prés 77 Lester Young Le dernier message 78 Don Byas en ce temps-là 79 Stan Getz quartet in paris (live) 80 Henri Criolla begin the beguine 81 Elek Bacsik nuages 82 Stéphane Grappelli/Stuff Smith stuff and steff 83 Sarah Vaughan & violins 84 Dizzy Gillespie & his operatic strings orchestra 85 Bobby Jaspar jeux de quartes 86 Gerard Badini the swing machine 87 Stéphane Grappelli django 88 Gus Viseur de clinchy à broadway 89 Henri Crolla quand refleuriront les lilas blancs? 90 Django Reinhard nuit de saint-germain-des-prés 91 Django Reinhard nuages 92 Jack Diéval jazz au champs-elysées 93 Bernard Pfeiffer plays standards 94 Blossom Dearie the pianist Les Blue Stars 95 Sammy Price/Price & Doc Cheatham play gershwin 96 Max Roach parisian sketches 97 André Hodeir jazz et jazz 98 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 4 99 Various harlem piano in montmartre 100 Various jazz sous l’occupation 101 Joe Newman/Cootie Williams jazz at midnight 102 Django Reinhardt place de brouckère 103 Buck Clayton and Friends (with Hal Singer) 104 Kid Ory at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées 105 Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio 106 Guy Lafitte Blues... 107 Stan Getz/Michel Legrand 'Communications '72 108 Sammy Price Good Paree 109 George Wein Midnight Concert at the Olympia 110 Raymond Fol Echoes of Harlem 111 Maurice Vander Piano Jazz 112 Jazz et Cinéma Volume 5, (Henri Crolla, Hubert Rostang, André Hodeir) "Hors-série" (2CD sets): 01 Sacha Distel Jazz Guitarist 02 Bill Coleman The Complete Philips Recordings 03 Jean-Claude Fohrenbach Fohrenbach French Sound [edited to add #102 / edited to add hors série #2 and #3 / edited to add 103-112]

Well, Garth & jazz1, thanks a lot for sharing these memories! I am just not long enough around here to have come through these sort of things... I am listening to the Jazz Epistles disc (waiting for Jazz in Africa Vol.2 to arrive), and the "Blues for a Hip King" CD from Dollar Brand right now. Love them both. On the later one, there's a version of Blue Monk with Kippie. Great! The other tracks do not feature him. Regarding the Jazz Epistles, here goes my question on the line up again: Is the following correct? Hugh Masekela t Jonas Gwangwa tb Kippie Moeketsi as Dollar Brand p Johnny Gertze b Makaya Ntshoko d And does anyone know the date/year of recording? thanks, ubu