Green Dolphin

That looks nice Chuck! Me:Stevie Wonder-Innervisons, new Dave Douglas still the Allman Bros Fillmore deluxe Dave Milligan-Late Show looking forward to new Lambchop,Mehldau and dare i say it,Norah,in weeks to come...i like songs!Anyone here rate Dianne Warren?She deserves a thread...

Most of his Watt releases are worth checking out,but try out his stuff with Gary Burton from the late sixties in the quartets with Larry Coryell or Jerry Hahn on guitar-Duster and Country Roads are my faves,and the duo set Hotel Hello on ECM is a delight. More recently there've been 3 sets with Henri Texier,seeing Swallow up against the leader's acoustic bass(Izlaz,Colonel Skopje and Respect-all on Label Bleu).Don't forget his work with his other half,Carla Bley.and as part of Paul Motian's Electric BeBop Band-there really is a lot of great Swallow out there-happy listening.

Thanks both,yet more to add to the list that never gets any smaller!So much music...so little money!

Great disc,and a real surprise-got it on the back of some good reviews,what else by him would you recommend Bev?

Is the triple version still around,it came out here in the UK as a limited edition(and pricey with it!)-I snapped it up pronto-a real desert island treasure,one of Konitz's many peaks!He's a veritable Himalaya-if the above recs haven't sent you back to the store already,go get it now.

Can only second Chuck with the two Konitz,have a big soft spot for Jarrett's "Arbour Zena",some bits of Getz's "Focus"(it palls after a while).More modern stuff is Henri Texier's Strings Spirit and the Dave Douglas string group,although I realise these are smaller string sections. The Mahavishnu's Apocalypse I recall being pretty awful,but perhaps it's due a reappraisal.

Personally tho',I'd rather listen to Bon Scott era AC/DC,and for better or worse I still do on occassion."Riff Raff,I only do it for a laugh"

Cricket is baseball....with brains! I had the fortune/misfortune to grow up in the industrial South Wales valleys in the 70's surrounded by coal mines and steel works(all closed down now by the global market,cheaper to import coal from Russia than dig it out from your local hillside) where heavy metal(let's not beat around the bush)ruled,Black Sabbath,Deep Purple,Led Zeppelin et al sat on their thrones.Over "the pond" were Styx,Angel,Kiss and later that decade came the hybrid,big riffs,big hair,big make-up bill.Listeningto the likes of Linkin Park,Limp Bizkit etc. I'm glad I grew up when I did(in fact Harold Wilson/Ted Heath/Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter for that matter),The Darkness hark back to an age of entertainment innocence...serious,only inasmuch as they have an affection for the music of those times.How ' bout a thread on who was the best Thin Lizzy guitarist???!!!

The CBGB's scene of the mid 70's saw an attitude that went forth and multiplied,bands fed into one another...I'd hazard a guess that Television in it's early Richard Hell incarnation laid the path for the Heads but could be wrong...I wasn't there.Ultimately David Byrne took the ball and ran with it into the glorious music that is Fear Of Music and Remain In Light,but the influence of Eno cannot be underestimated on these sessions.However Marquee Moon and Adventure(plus the ROIR bootleg tape)are seminal works.The Tom Verlaine sets that followed were good but failed to capture that "sound of surprise"(and lest we forget ,it was the dreaded 80's).Despite being British(Welsh in fact)I always found the US new wave scene to be far more interesting and imaginative than the UK scene,Televison,Heads,Patti Smith,Dolls/Johnny Thunders etc. influence can still be heard today and some of the lines that Verlaine and Lloyd spun on those records no doubt led me back to the world of Coltrane and Ayler whereas Never Mind The Bollocks just sounded like rehashed Black Sabbath riffs played by brats.I never heard the "comeback" Televison album and sadly missed them live,but the debut album is surely one to pack for a desert island for any fan of great guitar music...I see no evil....

Was it Coltrane who said that playing with Monk was like stepping into an elevator shaft?Maybe Charlie decided to take the stairs!

Miles-Cellar Door sets,Juan Les Pins double and the seven steps to Berlin box so far..when I don't know,still waiting for the Jack Johnson box to come out here!!!!

Metheny's also on two tracks on Simply Said,tho' you'd hardly know it by listening to them.

Yeah,he "fits".I've always found the Columbia sets to be "commercial" almost-very accessible,great sound-the music isn't really pushing like,say Brilliant Corners,and revisting material as he always did,perhaps these became "definitive" versions for some.They were(sadly possibly)the first instances of Monk I heard,so maybe I associate those unforgettable tunes in their later incarnations better than the classic earlier sides.

I know a lot a people go cool on this period of Monk's but I can only second the opinion about Rouse-great player and much underrated.I wonder how folks around here rate the Columbias?

It's finally arrived and I think Mike hit the nail on the head earlier.Some months ago I heard that none of them were actually in the studio at the same time,obvious with Mclaughlin and Corea,neither of whom really get involved,less so with Garbarek and Dejohnette.It was tantalising to hear Jan with a piano again on Sunflower,wishing it was going to break into one of those Jarrett Belonging moments,then it all loosens up,Corea noodles away and they "jam" their way back to the start again .Definitely one to persevere with but at times it sounds like everyone's (infinitely)searching for a place in the music,and if,indeed,it was recorded separately,I wonder why the fact hasn't been advertised or mentioned by Vitous.Perhaps it doesn't exactly fit with the label's ethos.

Hmmmmm....it turned up and...strange record.The first cut reminded me of Courtney Pine on the Angel Heart soundtrack(was that what Jurek was thinking about re.noirish)The tracks without Ware brought to mind Terje Rypdal's stuff with strings(the lovely "If Mountains Could Sing").I could've done with more of that big tenor on it,but all in all an "interesting" set,that no doubt will come down off the shelf for another whirl,would be interesting to see him take this approach out on the road.

I must say EC was no go for me for many years until King Of America came out,still a favourite but can't say I'm an avid fan.Tramp The Dirt Down off Spike is a gorgeous tune and yes,I was fully with him on the lyric side too at the time(now she's long deposed and old and frail I wish her no ill,but at the time...).Painted From Memory is wonderful,the Frisell set worked well I thought-didn't know of the existence of Deep Deep Blue,must check it out.The new one looks like one to get when I have some spare cash,whatever anybody says about him he's never been afraid to take a chance.Who's that Krall woman he's with now tho'?

The Sister Majs Blouse sets are on the Mirrors label.Just saw Rena Rama's Lost Tapes on Gemm-Is it any good? There's some good sets by Lars Danielsson on Dragon with Stenson,Dave Liebman and Christensen too,New Hands,Poems and Live at Visiones.

Lucky you-I've tried tracking down some of the Rena Rama stuff,as with Underwear to no avail,although I do have Dona Nostra which is the group with Cherry added and the Very Early set.There's some good more recent Stenson on the two Sister Majs Blouse CD's,with Joakim Milder,Danielsson and the great Freddy Noren-playing the music of Swedish tenorist Borje Fredriksson.

Got mine from Amazon.uk,and it's the european issue(cover printed in the eu at any rate)but no protection...strange!

Yeah certainly not one to hide his light under a bushel.I wonder how long him and Zawinul were seeing "eye to eye" for!

ART ENSEMBLE-Tribute To Lester/The Meeting BILL MCHENRY-w/Paul Motian MYRIAM ALTER-If WILLIAM PARKER-Scrapbook BOB DYLAN-John Wesley Harding(SACD reissue) CASSANDRA WILSON-Glamoured Would like to be listening to Passing Ships,Universal Syncopations and the Jack Johnson box...but they haven't arrived yet!!!

Well,no surprise really but I see that here in the UK the release date has been put back another week-to the 20th,thanks Sony UK...you always deliver the goods...eventually.Guess it would be churlish to speculate when the Jazz Cellar sets come out...05!

Still waiting for this one to arrive,but then I've been waiting since I heard rumours about it a year ago,so what's a few more days.Vitous was the last player to get Garbarek swinging on "Star" from 91-if he does get this band on the road I hope ECM tape it,I'd imagine given some more room in the live setting,sparks could genuinely fly.That was certainly the case when I saw the Star trio live.

Anybody heard Stenson's "Underwear" from 71,with Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen?Not exactly a typical ECM title,I wonder if they'll ever get around to reissuing it-the masters must be OK as one track off it appeared on the Rarum comp.Witchi Tai To's an old favourite and much less Nordic than the "Dansere" follow-up.,look forward to seeing what everyone makes of it.