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I have seen Stenson live about a year ago (with Jormin and Hart) in an intimate club setting. Quite impressive what these three achieved. Long flowing and building tracks, they really seemed to breath together. And by the way, just because we're entering ECM territory here: THEY DO SWING! I hope I can pick this album up before leaving for vacation. ubu

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PDEE, the Dolphy is probably the "Candid Dolphy" disc. It has alternates not on the Candid Booker Little disc, "Stormy Weather" (same take as "Mingus", but GREAT track!!), and some tracks from Abbey Lincoln (I don't have that original album). I have gotten the Don Ellis, and the Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell discs. The last one has the Jazz Reunion Candid album, with Bob Brookmeyer, Emmett Berry, Nat Pierce. That's another wonderful Candid album. The others (Bailey, Eldridge, and the "Osmosis" or whatever Dorham/Flanagan/actually Dave Bailey's "Bash", which is also available from Past Perfect) I have in their original CD releases. There was also a nice Buddy De Franco disc (though that's probably one where they've "stolen" the recordings) with some of the Verve quartet sides with Sonny Clark (this was discussed in the Discography section some time ago). The Candid releases are licensed, it seems, so no rip off. But with releasing the early Mingus stuff, they make up for that again ubu

Yes, these are all very good albums! I listed the Thompson already. The two Byas discs are great, indeed! And all the Hodeir-related stuff is at least very interesting! Don't forget the Hodeir led "Jazz et jazz" album. There is some great music on that one, too! And there was a Hodeir disc in the "Original Vogue Masters" series. Maybe still around on amazon France. ubu

That's the site with which I keep a little bit updated on US/International/english newspapers. They won some prize, were shut down (no money) soon after that, and are back now again. The scope of what they scan and read and select, is quite impressive! ubu

Interesting indeedd! Thanks for posting this link, tony! ubu

ahem, and one thing I forgot... that guy far right is us, if you don't mind.

Alright guys. The king has seen you had some fun at their expenses. So please allow us to introduce myself: There is also the orchestra of us, found here. And of course, you can buy our original Polish Ubu Posters. And acclaimed spanish painter Joan Miro made some nice Paintings of us. By the way, there have been some instants in history, when we had been dubbed cowards, stupid, or also "père" (as in "...goriot") - BUT HELL WE WON'T TOLERATE SUCH THINGS HERE, will we?! best regards & thanks for reading ubu

I have these both on LP. Yes, they're very good! Four lengthy tracks, Rivers is featured on all his instruments (fl, ss, ts, p) for one track each. Got to give them another listen soon. ubu

Here we go: Dmitry chose SEK, Big Al got in between (thanks for keeping up the process ), I was Dmitry's second choice, and SEK has been so nice as to choose me to follow him. Now I'm going to be on vacation from October 4th to 20th, so I will choose AOTW for 10/19-10/25. I chose our host b3-er to choose another AOTW, as a way also of expressing my gratitude for his keeping up this great site! And now let's start from the beginning. -------------- SEK will announce his AOTW soon (10/5-10/11) b3-er's turn, then is to choose AOTW for 10/12-10/18, and to pass it on to... ... someone choosing AOTW for 10/19-10/24, then here enters the king ( -_- ) - I will announce my AOTW (10/25-11/1 before leaving for my vacation, and the AOTW for 11/2-11/8 belongs to someone who's picked by the one in charge of week 10/19-10/24. -------------- This is it. Pretty complicated, but life gets to be complicated sometimes... And (obviously) I won't pass on my holiday for an AOTW Glad to be around you, folks! ubu

Big Al - wait for the confusion I will cause when I'm going to explain how the AOTW-Saga continues... Waiting for a PM, afterwards, I will start a new topic explaining things... ubu

Thanks, Lon. Will put it on my list (it was half there already anyway) - the only problem is that I am at a point were I want to have virtually all not OOP Mosaics, and therefore usually buy what's on the running low list, so I'll have to wait a while for the T set coming around... ubu

So it is Grenu, alright! Had some doubts just before I wanted to post and added the bracklets. Sometimes one should trust to ones memory... ubu

Yes, this is a very fine album indeed! Brownie pointed me to it, I got it from amazon.de some months ago - maybe they still have it? ubu

Thanks for giving the Michelot details. Grenu is also on soprano (or is it Migiani?) - and his playing is breath-taking! There are some tracks with a quintet line up, and the others feature the whole band. Very very good arrangements and compositions (by Michelot himself), too! If you like small big bands, no hot blowing, but neither too cool stuff, you'd love this disc, bertrand! ubu

Find links to several articles on him here: http://www.aldaily.com/ ubu

Another one of these threads... I love that series, picked up about half of them. Can only post the list of them when at home (tomorrow), but why not start a discussion of some favorites? Here are some of my favorites: A very fine album by one of the best tenor saxophone players from europe. Milt Jackson's on piano, Kenny Clarke on drums. Highly recommended! And another one by a highly regarded european tenor man. With Sacha Distel on guitar. This one was quite a surprise for me, never heard Eddy Louiss before. A fine disc! Another good'un (with Burton, Swallow, Haynes) This one was a discovery, too! One hell of a fine disc! Other favorites of mine include the three Jazz & Cinéma volumes, the Chet Baker "Broken Wing" album (thanks, brownie ), the Lucky Thompsons and the Hodeir/Jazz Group de Paris stuff, the Djangos and the two Donald Byrd volumes. ubu

Have seen "Fellini: Casanova" yesterday. Very amusing, great scenes, some hilarious moments, some typical (and fucking stupid) mediterranean machismo, a little bit of tragedy, great Donald Sutherland, and many funny 18th century clichés... And near the beginning, when he (Casanova-Sutherland) comes back to Venice, over that plastic sea, that's a great moment! No need to disguise that all we see as spectators is theatre... ubu

HELLYEAH! Truly one of the greatest films ever made! Vigo ranks very high with me, and this film really blew me! It's so modern, by the way. If not for the bad quality of copies you usually see, and some minor details, the whole camera/perspective/view thing could be from now. ubu

Hi guys, sorry for being off-board for more than, like, 20 hours... hope that's non of the 7 deadly sins... So the PMs came through just right, but I have only now seen them. I stay in contact with Dmitry & SEK and will post more later. ubu

sidewinder: London seems the place to pick up OOP VEEs. It's been two years since I was there, but there were a dozen each of several then already long OOP titles (like the Ray Brown, for instance). There might still be some lying around there... but they've got prices that beat even our swiss ones (which are ridiculous already by themselves) ubu

Thanks for your Teagarden recommendation, Lon! I like those Verve LPR series quite much, actually, but have not gotten over the first couple of batches, yet. I thought Teagarden might be someone I ought to explore more. Someday I might come around to do it, and then I'll think of you Can you comment on the Mosaic? ubu

Aggie & Lon: HUGE thank you for pointing me the right direction to get that Collector's Disc! I have listened to it three times now, and it's on the way to become one of my favorite VEEs! Very glad I have it! ubu

Well... but mine's bigger

Finally came around listening to the third session. While Gold Coast is a very good performance, and the other tracks (while quite far from any african influence) are good, too, the real jewel of this date is "Oomba", in my opinion. A perfectly shaped and performed small masterpiece. Modal sounds, short solos, Trane at the height of his art, Fuller showing off his beautiful sound, and Harden in charge of everything. Art Taylor is very good on this one, too, shading the whole performance with a stunning display of his abilities - an undersung drum hero. ubu