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  1. Jazz on the Alphorn?

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted · Edited by hepcat1950

    Okay, I had to search from A to G, but there it is: "Alfons Gaisbauer und Band". (TMK 010892). Not Austrian, but not Swiss, either. The label's TMK Musikvertrieb, Sebastianstrasse 141, D-50735 Koln.

    Anyone in Deutschland know Alfons Gaisbauer? CD bandmates include Felix Astor, drums; Dietmer Fuhr, bass; Michael Weiss-Wittig, piano; Klaus Osterloh/Martin Auer, trumpet; Jens Neufang, saxes; Bjoern Strangman, trombone.

    (All liner notes in German. I know enough German to get into trouble, not enough to get out of trouble, so I'll avoid any bad translation).

    I'd put this at about 10 years old, but it doesn't appear in Lord 6.0, published around 2005.

    Alfons Gaisbauer is one of the French horn players of the WDR Radio Orchestra. There's a picture of the French horn section on their website (Alfons Gaisbauer is on the left). You can read some (German) info about the alpine horn player Alfons Gaisbauer here.

    Some brass and reeds players of his group are/were members of the WDR Big Band. You can see them on the website of the WDR Big Band.

    btw, I never noticed Alfons Gaisbauer and his band. Thanks for posting this.

  2. Jazz on the Alphorn?

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    Somewhere on my shelves, among the 3,000 or so alphabetically-filed jazz CDs, is a pretty good jazz alphorn record but damned if I can remember the guys name! He's Austrian, rather than Swiss, and it's a bit of a bogus alphorn, because he's added keys, giving it more notes than the seven of the natural horn. Sounds like a combination of a french horn and trombone.

    Can anyone jog my memory as to who it is?

    Maybe it's trumpeter Hans Kennel though he was born in Switzerland.

    You can check him out on his website and at MySpace.

  3. Things you wish nobody had thought up...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Now you have me thinking about that sticky tape they use on the Blue Note CDs! :lol:

    (Which is much harder to remove than the similar tape they use on OJCs for example)

    And those stickers plastered all over Columbia/Legacy's cd's. Those big square yellow ones in particular (those gold Miles stickers are ok to get off) whose glue comes right off the sticker and stays on the jewel case-WHAT A PAIN IN THE ASS TO GET THAT FRICKIN' GLUE OFF THE CASE :angry::angry::angry:

    I've stopped trying to peel those stickers off. Easier just to buy a box full of empty jewel cases and move the booklets, covers, disc, etc., into those.

    That's wasteful! You must hate mother earth!!!! :angry:

    Probably the manufacturer of GOO GONE also manufactures the goo for those stickers.....

  5. Unknown Female Musicians

    in Artists

    Posted

    ...I'm fine with the fonts/typefaces either way.

    So am I.

    But I'm curious as to why you post in italics. Are you trying to add emphasis to every word? :unsure:

    Well, using font-style:normal for your posts you use font-style:italic to add emphasis to a word. What finally adds emphasis to a word is the fact that its font-style is different from the surrounding text.

    I do it the other way around. I use font-style:italic for the text, and I switch to font-style:normal to add emphasis to a word - or I just use font-weight:bold. It's as simple as that.

  6. Did you notice NVLP?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by hepcat1950

    I don't know if this has been posted before. I did a forum search for "NVLP" as well as for "National Visionary Leadership Project" with no results.

    Anyway, it seems to be a very interesting project. Jazz isn't the main topic, but they offer videos of interviews with...

    • Keter Betts
    • Ray Charles
    • Jimmy Heath
    • Quincy Jones
    • B.B. King
    • James Moody
    • Billy Taylor

    ...to name just the most prominent jazz musicians interviewed so far.

    URL: http://www.visionaryproject.org/

  7. Greazzze Over On Youtube

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Here's an interesting clip featuring the dueling B-3's of Rhoda Scott and Barbara Dennerlein. They're doing a Scott composition called Nova. Take note of the fact that Scott is working the pedals with her bare feet. Nice stuff. I've been a fan of Dennerlein for some time.

    Up over and out.

    Here are some more samples of Barbara's playing:

    Enjoy!

  9. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    The Alternate Miles Davis, Miles 75 Anniversary

    Demonstration • Not For Sale

    2069.jpg

    nice collector's item

    What's on this?

    These are the credits given on the CD (released in 2001):

    1. Dear Old Stockholm (alt. take) (6:39) From the Miles Davis - John Coltrane box set
    2. Blues For Pablo (take 1) (5:25) From the Miles Davis - Gil Evans box set
    3. Hand Jive (2nd alt. take) (8:00) From the Miles Davis Quintet box set
    4. Early Minor (6:56) From the forthcoming In A Silent Way box set
    5. Directions (10:14) From the June release Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) - It's About That Time (entirely unreleased)

    backside of the cardboard sleeve:

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  10. Unknown Female Musicians

    in Artists

    Posted

    ...And as a small side note: that type you're using, hepcat, is incredibly hard to read on the web, even for rather young eyes as mine. Sans-serif is better, and the italics make it worse, too... sorry for that nagging, but I've wanted to say that for a loooong time :)

    Thanks for your comment on typefaces though being the first and only one who complains about my use of Book Antiqua. That's an interesting topic, and it's a heavily debated issue on the web.

    I use Verdana for my own website Miles & More.

    But when I started working on the website of Joe Fonda I sent a selection of fonts (serif and sans serif) to Joe, and he finally chose Times New Roman as his preferred font.

    When I started to work on my Charlie Mariano Tribute I thought about this topic again and finally decided to use Book Antiqua for this site.

    Maybe it's also a generation thing. I was born in 1950, and I grew up with books and newspapers printed in serif fonts. Hence I'm accustomed to those typefaces. Though I chose Verdana for my own site. I don't have any problems with neither of them.

    It might also depend on the type of computer screen. Though I got rid of my huge 19" tube just recently replacing it by a fine 22" Samsung SyncMaster 223BW (€219.00!!!) and I'm fully satisfied.

    No offense! As long as you're the only one to complain I'll stick with Book Antiqua. :)

  11. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by hepcat1950

    The Alternate Miles Davis, Miles 75 Anniversary

    Demonstration • Not For Sale

    2069.jpg

    nice collector's item

    Dick Twardzik Trio • Complete Recordings

    with Carson Smith or Jack Lawlor on bass and Peter Littman on drums

    recorded 1954

    2070.jpg

    I only became aware of Dick Twardzik when exploring the discography of Charlie Mariano. Dick plays on Charlie's "Boston All Stars" (rec. 1953, Prestige PRLP 153) and on "Serge Chaloff plays the fable of Mabel" (rec. 1954, Storyville LP STV 3117).

    Dick Twardzik died in Paris on October 21, 1955, after the injection of an overdose. He barely grew 24 years old. Serge Chaloff, his friend and colleague, shaken to the core, wrote in an elegy for Dick Twardzik: "He had a completely new way of approaching the piano and producing the sound of his harmonies. Dick's hunger for educating himself was insatiable. He never traveled without books about all topics of art and philosophy. He listened to symphony concerts as often as possible and as a matter of course he always practiced. I never met a guy dedicated to jazz on its highest level to this extent at this juvenile age. I'll miss him forever, and the music has lost one of its most passionate and most inspired disciples."

    source: Metronome, USA, January 1956, page 25

    PS

    If I can still trust my ears at age 58 the piano seems to be out of tune at times.

    :huh:

  16. Burn speeds for writing CD-Rs

    in Audio Talk

    Posted · Edited by hepcat1950

    I burn my CD-Rs at 12x most times. I remember having read that speed effects quality. But at Wikipedia I just learned that it's not a matter of sound quality but of lifespan.

    see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R

    At other forums I learned that it also depends on brand and model of the burning device. It might be best to visit the website of the manufacturer of your brand for more info.

  17. Brubeck on Columbia / Legacy CD reissues

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    The album is called "Dave Brubeck in Berlin" and was issued on SME records -- SRCS 9530 -- in Japan (a Sony subsidiary). It is a mono recording. The track list is as follows:

    St Louis Blues (12.02)

    Koto Song (6.59)

    Take The "A" Train (7:42)

    Take Five. (7:09)

    The music was recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival September 26, 27, 1964.

    ...

    Those running time credits always irritate me. I bought the original LP release by CBS in 1966.

    These are the credits on the LP:

    St. Louis Blues (12:05) +3 seconds

    Koto song (7:44) +45 seconds

    Take The A-Train (8:30) +48 seconds

    Take Five (6:30) -39 seconds

  19. Books Banned at One Time or Another in the USA

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    One has to add The Jewel of Medina by American journalist Sherry Jones (which is about the young wife of Mohammed) which was going to be published by Random House, but has been withdrawn because they feared that the book might provoke attacks by muslims.

    The book will now be published by Gibson Square, UK.

    Who are those "mind controllers" who claim to tell us what's appropriate for our reading???

  20. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

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    Being the second to thedwork Pat Metheny fan - it's been a must.

    2063.jpg

    I saw Mathias Eick with Manu Katché, and I liked him very much.

    2064.jpg

    Curious to hear him doing his own thing.

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    Barbabara Buchholz plays the theremin.

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    Stan Getz with Joe Farrell

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    Art Farmer arranged by Benny Golson

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    Got the LP back in 1968. Still one of my favorite male singers.

  24. Does anyone pay attention to the Olympic Games anymore?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    ... I don't watch too much of anything regularly anymore except news. ...

    I think maybe this is a big part of it for me -- I don't watch TV anymore. That's the problem. I don't watch news ... nothing (except for baseball). :rfr ... It's TV in general that I can't stand!

    I moved from Stuttgart to Frankfurt on Main in July/August, and I did not yet get my tv connected again. I really don't miss tv. Probably I'll use it as a monitor for my DVD player only.....

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