Niko

that guy must lead a life free of sorrows...?

great batch of records (recently lost my copy of Eastern Sounds it seems... will have to rebuy that soon, it's one of the records i need to have around) (just giving a first listen to a record you once recommend btw Woody Shaw's In my own sweet way... sounds like it will become one of my favorite shaw records)

Odd first post on a jazz bulletin board... pulling up a 3 yr old thread about moving. If this isn't spam, welcome to the board! just a trick to make us to believe that he is not a Universal employee... watch out for his next posts! (welcome!) (and after all what do i need the most, promo for an American Moving company, promo for an Ella Fitzgerald compilation or promo for a smooth jazz record... probably the first (and for most posters here)... think what makes people here upset about promo spammers is that these merchandise people do not recognize our good tastes we are celebebrating in thousands of posts... if someone had recorded a new Dizzy Reece record and promoted it here (almost) nobody would mind i guess... that people who run a smooth jazz label are not willing to accept / able to see that what they are selling is substantially different from most of the music discussed here is what makes people angry... a moving company - weird)

naming people who recorded just one album is cheating!

And that's what I did... glad i finally did something useful today (cocredits to tommy_t for pointing out this great site)

Du bist so schoen, du bist so toll, du bist der Niko aus Tirol.

Thanks. I already passed the complain about public transport. Actually I don't know if they paid for translation, knowing my sister I doubt it. I'll pass also your remark. Thanks. if they didn't pay, don't pass it, it's really ok, it's just an awkward level of language proficiency a bit too good for a computer program or most foreigners but too bad to be commercial I'd say... nice site!

very very sad to hear this didn't know the word mds but just looked it up, rare as it is, it is exactly the same thing my father had; (he didn't even get to the level where he would have gotten the bone marrow donation; will never forget how my lazy (or whatever you call it) aunt said she wouldn't check whether she was a possible donor because with her stomach flu she couldn't be a candidate anyway... didn't matter finally)

did they pay for the german translation? (the text is perfectly ok (maybe even charming) but there are small mistakes in many sentences so if they paid something i'd be glad to make a list for a complaint ) the only hilly italy i've seen is south tyrol and i love it, another non-driver here, MG's suggestion concerning public transportation seems like a really good idea, for me this is often the most difficult part in planning a journey

Does the Mahavishnu have the remastered/bonus cut versions of the first two albums? In general, does this set have the best versions of the albums, or just straight reissues? tracklists: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Cla...7594&sr=8-2

the first frank strozier album on the Jazzland Twofer? (! imho)

welcome unbelievable if that works ! (can't they try to, say, remember ip addresses?) (no idea of technical stuff on my side)

no evans expert here, but if i got this right one (amazon.de) is single cd live at ronnie scott's on the dreyfus label while the other is a box set live at the village vanguard... Yes, you're right. Looking more closely, I see that the £1,006 item is a 6CD set, which I suppose goes some way to explain, though not justify, the price asked! Still a tad beyond my range, though! someone should grab that 55 Euro copy however while it's there...

excited to have found this and it's not really worth a thread of its own... especially as many will already know this... if you search for something on amazon.com the search results include books that mention the search word, like a search for "Tony fruscella" yields http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_seeall_1...Ci%3Astripbooks mostly the famous kerouac quote but still a nice way to get some information together....

no evans expert here, but if i got this right one (amazon.de) is single cd live at ronnie scott's on the dreyfus label while the other is a box set live at the village vanguard...

this one? http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/198...ordings-CD.html or to make the point, if the item offered there for 55 Euro is really that thing: these extremely high prices for cds seem to be aimed at buyers who don't compare prices... compare: http://www.amazon.de/Enfin-Lou-Bennett/dp/...3476&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Enfin-Lou-Bennett/dp...3506&sr=8-1 lou bennett enfin for 200 Euro vs 84 $ on amazon.de and amazon.com marketplace (got my copy half a year ago at ebay.de for a 10 Euro buy it now price...) edit: or ist the turn out the stars cd this one? (16 Euro, 26 for new) http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B000...3814&sr=8-1

think this is my favorite of the strozier albums i've heard (followed closely by the riverside 2fer and then fantastic fs) don't miss it!

these arrived already yesterday but didn't have time to test them until now (and even now it's only 10 minutes ) Johnny Hammond Smith - Black Coffee Lucky Thompson - Modern Jazz Group

The best Italian Jazz Musician i ever saw live was definitively Rita Marcotulli with Dewey Redman in 1999

Lou Blackburn recorded more with the group Mombasa which he led, don't kknow if that's against the rules (btw i just saw it seems a second Mombasa Lp has been reissued: http://www.grooveattack.com/b2b/u_content....p;name=Sonorama

funny i had been thinking about these records too these days... when i was an exchange student in San Diego in 1996 i went to the publich workshop Daniel Jackson, the Four Souls' saxophone player, gave there once a week... in a sense i didn't learn much, even at my "peak" two or three years later i couldn't play a meaningful solo over All the Things You Are, but still, this workshop was easily among the best things that happened to me then or later and i will always be grateful for the great time i had there (not to forget that he didn't send me away ) last week i discovered that by now Jackson has for albums up on CDbaby, on of which i have already ordered but it's not yet there, the sound samples i liked a lot... http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel1 http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel2 http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel3 http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel4 btw, he also appears as a sideman on some other records on cdbaby Chuck McPherson's Wisdom and Jason Jackson's Going Home... i guess i will make a discography some time in the near future... of Jackson's "classic" recordings with the Four Souls afaik nothing (except for a track on some compilation) has been reissued, two of his composition however appeared on James Clay's Double Dose of Soul and have been reissued... maybe he'd have gotten an album in the Cannonball Adderley Presents series on Riverside if that had continued... he has two homepages, none of which is particularly informative http://www.danieljacksonmusic.com/ (check out the nice photo of the froebel brigham group´that recorded for savoy featuring Harold Land (and Daniel Jackson's brother Fred Jackson) in the gallery section) and http://www.learningtreats.net/DanielJackson.htm there are also two extensive interviews online http://musicandculture.blogspot.com/2007/1...diego-jazz.html (with a focus on Jazz in San Diego, Harold Land...) and... (unfortunately the second one is not online anymore only this brief excerpt, hope i saved it somewhere http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20..._mz1a27ray.html there is also a clip on youtube featuring him live with singer songwriter Chuck Perrin hope its length doesn't make this post off topic...

voted for Lucky Thompson...

I've got this one. Came with the book (just about every paperback copy I've seen has had this enclosed at the back). Some very interesting things on their, not least Kenny Dorham singing on one track. thank you! (and just for the record: Jaki Byard doesn't seem to be featured on the cd; and it his encouraging to see even a native speaker confuse "there" and "their" when writing)

here is more info: 1 Intro from Randi 2 Jeepers Creepers - Sonny Clark (1954) 3 Comment from Randi 4 Jam - Basie Musicians - Ernie Wilkins, Joe Newman, Eddie Jones, Freddy Green, Plus Anthony Ortega, Tor Hultin (1954) 5 Comment from Randi 6 Interview - Ernie Wilkins (1974) 7 Comment from Randi 8 Solo from Bjarne Nerem - Basie Jam (1956) 9 Comment from Randi 10 Stuff Smith (1956) 11 Comment from Randi 12 Zoot Sims, Einar Iverson, Roy Burns, Knut Ljung, Mikkel Flagstad 13 Comment from Randi 14 Hampton Hawes (1967) 15 Comment from Randi 16 Interview - Bill Evans 17 Comment from Randi 18 Phil Woods (1968) 19 Comment from Randi 20 Randi's Rag for Eubie - Morten Gunnar Larsen 21 Comment from Randi 22 Fairweather - Kenny Dorham 23 Comment from Randi 24 Kors I Taket - Jan Johansson (comp: Osten Hedenbratt) 25 Comment from Randi 26 Tenderly - Reinhold Svensson 27 Comment from Randi 28 Jan Johansson

does anyone have more info on what's on the cd than this bit here: Randi Hultin: Born Under the Sign of Jazz (London, Sanctuary Publishing Ltd, 1998, 399 p. + CD, ill., hb, autobiographical account by Norway's first lady in jazz; CD features unreleased material by Sonny Clark, Zoot Sims, Jaki Byard, Hampton Hawes, Stuff Smith, Phil Woods, Kenny Dorham, recorded at Hultin’s home