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thanks, Use! Still (of course, what else could we expect...) doing a great job! The favorite BB around! ubu

Herbie time again... first, here is the link where you can find our first broadcast. Thanks for your interest. It was, as a whole (and being our first time live on air) quite successful, I'd say. I'm by the way not the guy announcing Watermelon Man (which we had played already) instead of Maiden Voyage... Click the loudspeaker-symbol to access the programme. *********************** Then, here comes part two: next sunday, we'll present the Sextet. The albums from which we'll include music are: - The Prisoner (Blue Note, 1969. Johnny Coles, Garnett Brown, Joe Henderson, Buster Williams, Al Heath, woodwinds) - Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner, 1969. same, funk band on two tracks) - Mwandishi (Warner, 1970. Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Buster Williams, Billy Hart; guitar & perc. added) - Crossings (Warner, 1971. same, voices, perc and synths added) - Sextant (Columbia, 1972. same, synths & perc added) In my opinion, these are all killer albums. Maybe The Prisoner is the one I like most - the sound of that band is such a beautiful one, Coles, Brown and Hernderson play one great solo after the other... Sextant, then, to me, seems the most forward-looking album of these, incredible textures and sounds! What are your opinions? Let's not stick to "what should I play in my show" only - rather I'd like to start a general discussion of these albums. Is there any comparable music around, by the way? ubu

then, I might have to add that I am a fan of at least some of the late Miles - Tutu, Amandla and also Siesta (besides the pre-Miller stuff, or the albums Miller was on as a sideman, as opposed to arranger/composer/mastermind). The track "Portia" from Tutu is, in my opinion, one of the highlights of Miles' comeback years. ubu

uhm, that's her, by the way... not really a new babe thread... so, here's her album: ECM, April ubu

Anyone in for Lambert Hendricks & Bavan at Newport '63? Of course also "Sing a Song of Basie" - a classic. Re. writing lyrics for songs (not vocalese): anyone heard Susanne Abbuehl? For her ECM debut "April" she wrote lyrics to some Carla Bley compositions (and music to some e.e.cummings poems). A very beautiful, very slow and moody album. I also saw her life once. She started out solo, in a quite big hall. She's got a presence that really grabs you. Somehow she succeeds in keeping up suspense without doing anything fast. And her band (clarinet/bass clarinet, piano/harmonium, drums/percussion) does the soloing in pretty the same fashion - not minimalistic at all, but much textures and colours. Beautiful stuff, highly recommended! ubu

Chiming in a little late... I like Aura, and I think the comparison with the Music for Brass recordings are useful. The writing of Mikkelborg is quite special (I don't have anything else by him, cannot compare), and the soloing is fine, too. The whole album, in my opinion, stands as one of the high points of late Miles. Then, to add a little more spice to the discussion: the Evans link was not revived by Aura, but rather by Tutu. With this, I mean to say that Miller, with all his electronics and programming was somehow able to provide very similar backgrounds for Miles' still beautiful sound and improvations - of course these backgrounds (as was always Miles' want) were of a contemporary form (the Quincy Jones Evans re-creation is a rather drab affair, if you ask me - not the kind of nostalgia to fit Miles' image), and the musical connection was achieved by totally different means. But Miller somehow read Miles' mind - as in the late fifties did Gil Evans. Does this make sense to anyone else, here? ubu

I think I've saved that other discography in my home computer. Anyone interested drop me a PM, don't forget your emai-address, then I'll mail it (it's a huge word-file) ubu this should be the link: www.achilles.net/~howardm/tsmonk/tsmonk2.php - maybe it comes back...

cool, brownie! pretty fast, us darn old europeans! there is (or was) a better one, but I cannot access it right now. ubu

this one most probably does not include all the new stuff from the new Legacy CD reissues: http://www.jazzdisco.org/monk-dis/c/ Pretty good nevertheless. ubu

No hurry, brownie! Take your time. Thanks again! ubu

O.K. but swallow that tongue or more correctly No problem, if you take that one: ubu

Frank Sinatra made one, too: Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, AMG ubu

many more good suggestions! gotta stop now, coz otherwise it will need like 15 or 20 shows... Also thought about Moncur's Some Other Stuff yesterday. Truly outstanding album, in my opinion. Search for the New Land - hellyeah! I love that album. Maybe it's my favorite Lee Morgan date, but how to fit those 20 minutes in a 60 minute show (which has time for 45-50 minutes of music) ? EKE: thanks for your suggestions. Yesterday I listened to quite some of those on your list. All good or great of course. don't have the Bird Verve album - was that the one attached to the Grant Green Majesty King Funk CD? Will have to look for that. (I emailed my friend in Madrid, by the way!) mikeweil: duly taken note -_- . Don't have any CTI album with/by Herbie - are they available in nice Legacy reissues? Will have to look. About Rivers I forgot completely. But as I have made some choices, it won't fit in anymore. Because what I'll want to spin to give an idea of the adventurous music Herbie was playing, is some track from Tony Williams' Life Time (the trio track with Hutch-Herbie-Tony). Then I'll give them Watermelon (alt - coz I love that Dexter solo on that one!), something from Inventions & Dimensions (which I absolutely love!), then the Happenings take on Maiden Voyage, and some more... Can't tell everything, otherwise our german friends won't listen B) thanks again everybody, ubu

C'mon, now bring us that "Complete Argo Jazz Sessions" Mosaic! We could then just take that out of the shelf and spin, say, disc 23 holding that Bailey session, and could stop caring for Japanese, original vinyl, vinyl reissues or some few strange Keepnews CDs... ubu

I love how he (and the whole band) is recorded on Joey Baron's "Down Home". ubu

thanks for clarifying, brownie! sorry, PDEE! the strange thing is: in the new liners of the Avenue/Rhino reissue of "Songs For Any Taste", it's stated that But as those (otherwise very nice) Avenue/Rhino reissues of Bethlehem stuff do not have any recording dates included, this seem to be wrong, I guess! The personnel, however is: Don Fagerquist, t; Marty Paich, p; Max Bennett, b; Larry Bunker, acc/vib/bgo; Mel Lewis, d. I do have the CD reissue (with quite a lot of additional material) of the Gene Norman album, too. Thanks again.

Like him. He gets a very nice, woody sound (on bass I mean - I don't need the other piccolo stuff) and has much drive. And somehow, if he was as bad as some among think, it just seems a little unlikely to me he got all the jobs he had (beginning with Miles, where he really was the anchor man). ubu

brownie: thanks a lot for you offer! (tried to reply yesterday, but had some problems getting on the board) ubu

mike (Michael, I presume ) and bertrand: no offense! (neither taken here, nor to be taken from my post. Just tried to avoid any unuseful misunderstandings.) Back on topic: listended to some Herbie while having dinner tonight. Due to time constraints, I'll omit Feelin the Spirit and Cornbread. Though I love both sessions a lot. But won't forget Mogie: that version of God Bless the Child (and Billie - if there is such a strange thing as God, that is ) on the Standards album is terrific! And Herbie seems to be the one who holds the music together (on the whole album, I think) and he - besides Shorter, who has some stellar solos as well - gives us some of the best moments of the date. Also check out his fills on If I Were a Carpenter. Fonky! Then I also had a dose of Happenings (don't have Oblique - would be another fine Connoisseur reissue), and already decided to play that version of Maiden Voyage. When You Are Near is a perfect beauty, too! Maybe there will be enough time. An aside: Happenings always seemed to me one of Bob Cranshaw's strongest outings. kazak: I sure forgot about the Blue Mitchell Mosaic. Yes, that's very fine music. Have to relisten. Will give you the link to the show when it's up (will be next monday) Thanks again everybody, ubu

Buddenbrooks.

I'm missing Vol. 2. Would gladly accept offers! Mwtga: I could check stores over here, maybe one or two of them is still around (though certainly not Vol. 2...) but it might get a little pricey (up to 20 US$ without shipping... our ridiculous swiss prices...) ubu

as far as I know, they're all OOP. There's a newer compilation out with material from these sessions, though. But they are too good to have just one CD... I'm missing one of them (Vol. 2 or 3 - the one with the quartet sessions, one of which has been on the Jazz in Paris "Chet plays Standards"). ubu

thanks, PD - but you you haven't been there? However: Songs for my (any?) taste: the personnel you give is just for one selection - which is taken from the Bethlehem "Porgy & Bess" recordings. All other tracks have the same personnel as "At the Crescendo", and in the new liners (of the Avenue/Bethlehem reissue) of one of the two, it says they stem from the same gig. So my question: same night or not? Thanks a lot! ubu

My best wishes to Benny! I have heard him live a year ago with a very good local (swiss) band. He's still going strong. And he's one of those were you need one or two notes to recognise him! A very very stylish player. His Candid album is one of my favorite records of that era. and some more pics: ubu

most certainly not! A select would be *just* right (and just...) ubu