P.L.M

wowh, looks very impressive and sweeping, but also exhausting and demanding....do you hear this already for breakfast...?? perhaps try some tord gustavsen or ketil bjornstad from time to time.... ;-) No I prefered Schönberg, Webern or, even, some Varese, for Breakfast. An easy going music to start the day. I keep serious music for the late afternoon. Maybe you should try some of it yourself, it could give you a real sense of humour.

- CHARLES WHARF/ SIMON H. FELL: PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Bruce's Fingers BF3) - THE AMES ROOM (J.L. GUIONNET/ CLAYTON THOMAS/ WILL GUTHRIE): NIORT POZNAN (MonoTypeRec)

No order - Braxton/ Hemingway: "Old Dogs" (Mod/Avant) - Parker/ Guy/ Lytton + Peter Evans: "Scenes In The House Of Music" (Clean Feed) - Warne Marsh Trio: "New York City Live" (Riverworks Records) - Potsa Lotsa: "The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy" (Jazzwerkstatt) - Steve Lacy: "November" (Intakt) - Ross Bolleter: "Night Kitchen: An Hour Of Ruined Piano" (Emanem) - Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: "Ailanthus/ Altissima (Bilateral Dimension Of Two Roots Songs)" (Triple Point) - Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton: "Crack Above 33" (Emanem) - Herman Keller: "Nicht Ohne Wasser (Quartet)/ 29 Stücke (Solo)" (Jazzwerkstatt) - Uwe Oberg & Evan Parker: "Full Bloom" (Jazzwerstatt) + (copyright 2009, but I get it in early 2010) - Fred Anderson Trio: "A Night At The Velvet Lounge/ Made In Chicago Festival 2007" (Estrada Poznanska) Reissues: - John Carter & Bobby Bradford: "Mosaic select 036" (Mosaic Records) - Henry Threadgill: "Complete Novus/ Columbia Recordings" (Mosaic Records Limited Edition Box Set) - Bill Dixon: "The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note" (CamJazz)

ART PEPPER LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD (CONTEMPORARY 3 LP) autograph by the master. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND: LICK MY DECALLS OFF BABY (original Vinyl Straight: Reprise american print, autograph by the captain in 1974 with a little Drawing from his hand). Both, good as new (and, no, I won't sell any on E.BAY) That's it.

My sincerest condolences for your cruel lost.

A great lost. Love Les Double Six. RIP Mimi. Her lyrics was a magnificent work on the french language in the trad of Boris Vian and all. And it swings.

I never been interesting by is Unit. Some hysterico-folklo-post Aylerien free jazz with an eye on the pop music market. But I like his duet with Joëlle Léandre (on record because live it was pityfull, The Ogresse Joëlle eat it in one bite on stage). I also like him in another duo with a bass player (who's name I don't remember, Chevillon maybe) on a tune who was part of a collective records of duets which title escape from me too (and I'm away from home). But to call it "one of the most interesting reeds player on the scene today" is absolutely grotesque, DD.

In a documentary film about the return of Puskas in Hungary, shown on french TV (Arte), 2/3 years ago, but done maybe three decades earlier, a german player who plays the final, told to the person who interviewed him about Puskas, that he was sorry to tell to the german people, that the day of the final all german players, including him, was on dope. And burst immediately in tears after.

Yesterday afternoon: - LENNIE TRISTANO: NEW YORK 1964/ MILANO, NOVEMBER 1965 (HEART NOTE) (First side in Quintet with Konitz, Marsh, Dallas, Stabulas, second in solo) Tonight: - CONNIE CROTHERS/ RICHARD TABNICK: DUO DIMENSION (NEW ARTISTS) - CECIL TAYLOR & TONY OXLEY: AILANTHUS/ ALTISSIMA (BILATERAL DIMENSIONS OF TWO ROOT SONGS) (TRIPLE POINT)

(Click to enlarge the photo) Same concert: Trzaska, Jacquemyn, Jensen (The Noah Rosen/ Mikolaj Trzaska quartet)

(Clik to enlarge the photo) Noah Rosen and Peter Jacquemyn. Taking during a concert in Poland, 2007. (First time I ever try to send a photo on the web)

Your taste, not mine.

NIGHT MOVE is a great film, one of this best. He was doing an action/ film noir, and he was playing mostly on "the dead" and contemplative moments. He was opening the way to a new generation of Film Noir, mostly done by european director on both sides of Atlantic. The film had some sublime dialog (Gene Hackman speaking of Nouvelle Vague films he has seen, and saying "I've seen once a film of Eric Rohmer and it was like looking at a painting getting dry". No surprise than Ingmar Bergman has said of him than he was one of the american cineast he admires the most. I had the pleasure to interview him in 1986 at the Cannes Film Festival where he was showing some reels of his movie to come (with Hackman and Matt Dillon don't remember the title). It was a nice man, so sweet and, like it have been said, articulate. I could understand everything he was saying. Very interesting as a person and as a film analyst. He knows, deeply inside of him at this time, than his great years was behind him, but he wasn't bitter and was very interesting by what was going in the cinema of the time. At the end of the interview we ran in Emir Kusturica who was totally unknow at the time and who had just presented is second movie "Dad is on Bussiness travel" (translation of the title. I don't know what could be the english title)in competition. I had interview Kusturica few days before and we get alone well, particularly when we start to speak about football (soccer). So, I presented Kusturica to Arthur Penn and Penn to Kusturica. Kusturica was petrified. He says in his bad english (worst than mine) to Arthur Penn "your films have save my life. To see them was to escape from our jailed country" or something like that. Of course nobody of us know at this moment that Emir was going to win the Palme d'Or few days later and that the Yougoslavia was going to explode throught a terrible ethnic war.

So, where do you put Albert Ayler and those who imitate Albert Ayler, Evan Parker and those who imitate..., Roscoe Mitchell and those who... Warne Marsh and those..., Fred Anderson and... plus an handfull of tenor player, not obligatory born in USA?

Great to know that double bill exist in North America (zone 1). But it's not what we have here, in Europe (zone 2). I've have to buy a zone 1 DVD player.

There is two versions of The Big Sleep. The one that everybody know who was realised in 1946 ; Where they have add more scenes between Bacall and Bogart. And the original version, never show before 10 years ago in Paris. The film have been shot in 1944 (what makes him one of the earlier Film Noir, should have been out in 1944, like Double Indemnity or Laura . But he was only released after they have done the retakes as late as 1946, same year than The Killers and one year before Mildred Pierce. The "original " version was more close to the book but the "retakes version" is better over all. Aniway I hope than the two versions could be reunited in one DVD, one of these day. And, by the way, the remake with Mitchum is absolutely terrible. The worst thing they have done was to relocated the story in... contemporary England.

BRAXTON/ HEMINGWAY : OLD DOGS (2007) MODE/AVANT (4 DISCS)

Other clarinetist of importance, whose name don't have been prononced yet, is the veteran ROLF KÜHN (older brother of Joachim). He made a nice come-back with two albums on Jazzwerksttat this two last year with a new band of youngsters named TRI-O. And by the way, ROLF is eighty-one years old.

Seen it few days ago. He was playing like I've never heard it before, even with his marvellous "Footprint" quartet. Luv you Wayne.

Strange than nobody mention the best living clarinetist (at last to this ears who like also François Houle, Ben Goldberg, Michael Moore - I try to convince him, once, to record an album dedicated to the clarinet but he answers that he wasn't good enough -, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, André Jaume ("Clarinettes" on CELP) and Louis Sclavis, THEO JÖRGENSMANN. If you don't know him, try the following records, you'll love it: In trio with the Oles Brothers: - Miniature (maybe the best of the bunch)(Not Two) - Directions (Fenomedia) - Live in Poznan (Fenomedia Live Series) - Alchemia (hatOLOGY) A fantastic duet clarinet / bass clarinet with Eckard Koltermann: - Pagine Gialle (hatOLOGY) With his quartet, both on hatOLOGY: - Snijbloemen & To Ornette - hybrid identity And also, freely improvise on Nemu Records (Well, I wrote the liner notes of this One): Trio Hot (Jörgensmann, Maurer, Jacquemyn): Jink I'm, of course, a fan of JIMMY GIUFFRE (who reinvent the instrumet at the beginning of the sixties)and John Carter, Han (the drummer) and his brother Peter Bennink, Perry Robinson, Pee Wee Russell, and the mighty TONY COE.

P.L.M, how was 'Jazz in Middelheim'? --> http://www.jazzmiddelheim.be Not much interesting. A fantastic performance of the WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET (the fourth time I've seen it and the best concert alltogether), WSQ and R'Boom was quite fine (with James Carter as the surprise new member - seems that Purcell as gone) the Jeroen van Herzeel quartet was very good to - the rest, well, was going to borring to dreadfull.

I've seen, Lee Konitz, Ornette Coleman, Jackie McLean, Art Pepper, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Henry Threadgill, Charles McPherson, Phil Woods, Jimmy Lyons, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake (no later than yesterday with the WSQ), Frank Morgan, Charlie Mariano, Marion Brown, Marshall Allen, Arthur Blythe, Massimo Urbani, Charles Tyler, André Goudbeek, Dudu Pukwana, Ernie Watts, Douglas Ewart, Steve Potts, Mike Osborn, John Tchicai, Bobby Watson, John Zorn, Frank Gratkowski, Marty Ehrlich, Fröde Gjerstad, Alan Wilkinson, Daniel Carter, Marco Eneidi, Tim Berne, Ernest Dawkins, Rob Brown, Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman, Wolfgang Puschnig, Kenny Garrett, Steve Wilson, Sonny Simmons, Prince Lasha, John Purcell, Trevor Watts, Mark Whitecage, Simon Rose, Gianluigi Trovesi, John Lurie, Jon Lloyd, Anthony Ortega, Michael Moore, Martin Küchen, Bunky Green, Ned Rothenberg,David Binney, Mikolaj Trzaska, Matana Roberts... * in black, some alto who are too often forgotten.

Charlie Parker, Art Pepper, Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Lyons, Anthony Braxton.

Two pianists from New York (who are also friend of mine). - Borah Bergman - Noah Rosen You're consider jewish by the jewish community if you're born of a jewish mother.

Beautifull scenery disgrace by the most dump sport of all (cycling, I mean - all on dope and happy to be).