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  1. ... here we are.... big break, i presume ? Nice answers to my comments... i will return later, but at first..... the missing #s: #9 again: Hmmm, i know this drummer, yes it seems .... heavy equipment, i imagine a big bassdrum .... (should i say "Puh!" ??? No, that wouldn't fit.... it's more a "gggrrrrrrr" to myself ), but no "Der Groschen ist gefallen" for me (for not-germans: it means by word "The penny droped...", the meaning is here, that someone understands something). Therefore ... i have to take my "slab-on the-forehead" #10: This tune is familiar, it is "road song" and it is known as a Wes M. tune, but this is not him, and it is not the "normal" version with strings. No idea, who this is. Heavy bass-playing, too. Are there really two guitar-players or is this a overdub? #11: What a start.... and then a nice swinging tune, familiar sound indeed. It is not that "new" i believe and here we have some "Gentlemen of Jazz" playing. The piano-player... could it be Ellington ? Well the accompany-music during the trumpet solo reminds me very strong to Ellington-style. This is all, what i can do here. #12: There is no chance for me, the tune and the recording has some age... but not in the range of young Mr. Bassman's knowledge, this is not a big band ! #13 Now, here is a more funky tune, very pleasant tune, but here i have to "drop the sails", no guess. One funny idea... there is a bit "James Brown" in this tune, this rhythm..... but only an idea... #14 Well, here we have some nice vibes & Rhodes, percussion, bass and drums. I would date this to the late 60ties or early 70ties but i can't get any guesses out of that nice tune. Remarkable bass-work here, seems to be an electric bass ? #15 Finally, here we have the last tune on this disk and i have a strong feeling, that i know the piano-player, this must be "Mr. Peanuts" (Vince G.), i presume ? I don't have this recording, so no guess on the title, it is not on my CD's. But i have heard this (or might have heard this), this is really typical for his work for the Charles M. Schulz-pictures. And it is taken from LP... Here we have a quartett, not a trio (I only have some trio work) but i think it is Eddie Duran on guitar. At least, I've done some "google-ing", and.... here we go : http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...;cart=681552344 The last track.... a fine ending track for a fine BFT ! Well.... now waiting for the unveilment with regards Mr. Bassman
  2. .... just in front of the deadline.... Theses are the comments on disc#2. This one leaves conflicting feelings.... because there are some pieces of music I would press the "next"-button very soon. But not during BFT! How could i write my impressions to a tune, if i don't listen to it carefully and, of course, it is the respect to the BFT-author, who wants to share his/her tunes with us, the BFT-maniacs Okay, i start.... #1 This is truely not my stuff...it has the character of film-music or music that "sound like a film". Nice saxophone, maybe i 've heard this once upon a time... but it leaves no traces... no recognizable traces of course. #2 Oh yeah, this one is more interesting, nice tune and well performed, but i am empty in this case, I don't have any idea. I will keep an eye on this. #3 Oh well, this would be a candidate for a very quick "next"button-pressing.... Beside my personal point of view, this is a nice ballad, ery nice interpretation, difficult to play those ballads ! But the singer is.... eh ... puh !, well he sings a bit better than me.... and my singing is really only for "alone-in-the bathtub". But then this "soft" trumpet (?), very familiar... ah!!! some light !!! There is a trumpet-player in Jazz-History (as far as i know...), who likes singing and even very soft.... Baker ??? Well i don't have a CD with this guy as a leader, maybe some recordings including him. But i remember there are recordings "out there", even one with a certain title "CB sings" or something like that. But this is more a guess, because i can't proove this with my "tools" behind me. #4 A nice sunday-afternoon-tune, muted trumpet played nicely in a layed-back mood and a fine band as companions. Bass-player .... hmmm, and even more this guitar.... well i think, I've heard them some times ago... but can't remember... I have a black-out so far.... #5 Another "sooftie" , i don't mean that negative, i should say a mellow tune. Very nice acoustic-guitar solo in some ways sometimes very "modern". A very relaxing tune, but i don't have a clue or a guess.... Okay, it is not that kind of music i would "fly" to , but a tune, i will look onto when unveiled. Sometimes there is a time for that music!!! And if it is played this way the performers do, even more ! #6 Puh, what is that? Probabely a waltz, that's clear. And i think not a classical work ??? Like #1 it could be film-music ?? No guess and, sorry, not a fav for me. #7 Ahhhh, this is interesting, nice mood (but why those strings ??? Aaaargh! sorry, forgive me) and fine playing saxes. very sharp "throw-ins" near the beginning, but the strings are much to loud and "unnecessary", aahhh fade out.... #8 The next tune is a moody one, the theme sounds familiar.... but listen to this relaxed mood, wow ! And this elegant fine sound of the guitar, alone this is it worth to listen to this tune. I have not the slightest idea, but this is a real little diamond. I get some "Gänsehaut" (don't know an english word for that.... it is the german word for the feeling, when your skin starts to "prickle" as a reaction to a very fine moody situation, not fear, the opposite! Excitement!.... can you follow me??? ) #9 Hmmm, this one is not that a diamond in comparison to #8 (well, for me....). It is a fine tune anyway, but not that "big" fascinating. It has an elegant appearance, but it has a bit "easy listening" ... i should give this tune a second try after a break.... There is somewhat "strange" about the drumming... maybe i know him, but not in this environment. I will think about this tune during my break.... .... I'll be back ....
  3. Thank You Big Al for the nice comments, but i am definitely not that Bavarian DJ.... I am a native Swabian (german: Schwabe), precisely near Stuttgart. But this is a nice story, hehe. I don't have much practice using the english/american language, I lost nearly all the grammer-knowledge and sometimes it is pure dictionary-language, this is the reason for this heavy accent. But i will try to increase my level Well, it was a treat to write down my comments, and i had some time to do this. And sometimes there is a chance to tell such stories, because they realy happen. Mikeweil encouraged me to write in this direction, not only posting some name-guesses or "boring" NMCOT-comments. But you can't do this every time. This BFT had indeed some nice "catches" for a "rope of stories" so why not sharing them here a bit? Well, guessing together is really fun, and if there is a chance for that, i can recommend this at highest level ! We (mikeweil and me) might do it again, but we can't promise that for every disc or BFT. As it is late here in Germany and we just returned from a birthday-party, I am a bit tired and therefore there is only a short post this time , i will return tomorrow (hopefully) and there is still Disk #2 .... and BFT #55 arrived already! with regards Mr. Bassman
  4. Mine arrived today, picked it out of the letter-box some minutes ago. @mikeweil no copy this time necessary, thank You !
  5. I menioned Hayes? Not that I remember .... I am sure, that you mentioned this name. I have no other source, that i keep his name in mind. That's why i mentioned this, well i can't swear on it, but i had this clear in mind! I forgot some other names you mentioned on some of the "high numbered" tracks, some "blowers"-names, but i can remember Louis Hayes for sure. I wouldn't recognize him or got a guess in his direction. Now that i finished reading the posts in this thread - some things we recognized, others were "slab-the-forehead" ! Very interesting indeed.... I had a "fight" with myself to post the Evans-guess on #16. I kept in mind, what you said: " Hey, write it what you keep in mind", so i did. This was more "thinkwork" and struggeling in comparison to the Louis Hayes-quote! @ King Ubu What a nice pic!!! ..... disk #2 keeps spinnin' ... , but i think it will be late at night or tomorrow with the posting. Today is mother's bithday and i will soon drive to her. with regards Mr. Bassman
  6. This is the last part for disc #1: #12 This tune is very nice indeed, quite strong impression, but i have no idea. There is a riff-oriented theme of a 12bar-structure with a fluently straight ahead rhythm changing to a moderate swinging part and then returning to this flow-style and so on. The trumpet sounds familiar, but no alarmbell-ringing. mikeweil was on the track for Louis Hayes on drums when we listened together on the journey. But, no more to say, sadly.... this might be a "slab-on-the-forehead" when unveiled. #13 This is a crowd of fine musicians, i believe. After some more listening to this one, there might be a Ray Brown in this ? When this tune starts with that elegant playing... this must be him... ??? And, for sure, there is coleman hawkins starting at 2:28 ... but sadly no more real guesses. #14 Starting with bowing on the bass and some vibes and then some bossa-typed rhythm with a fine saxophone theme. According to mikeweil, this drummer is not his fav for a latinjazz-drumming. No clue on the vibist (of course no tjader ). piano starts a little laid-back into the solo, a nice swinging "fill-in" part and again that pleasant saxophone-theme, not a very strong tune, but very pleasent (okay, the drumming is not mikeweils fav....) #15 Hmmm, no idea at all. Strong bass playing, he's gonna "whip" a bit the guys to the fluently tempo, keeping them on the pace, i like this and a great sound for me. The drummer has sometimes a great amount of "cashcashboombang". No idea for the vibraphone. The saxophone solo starts very calm and soft and then trumpet goes for a first peak, then the trombone gets it to another peak. Then back to the theme with some short drum fill-ins. Thats it. No idea #16 Ahhh, in the car this sounded very seldom, specially this "rare" bass-sound, it sounded a little bit in the direction of German Band-leader Bert Kämpferts "Knack"-bass-sound (there it was an electric-bass, this is not an electricbass...), you know the guy of "wonderland by night ? 5 weeks #1 in the charts 1961 in the USA !!! Okay , back to this tune.... I think i know this pianist, but i am not sure, but there is that evanesc impressionistic sound, listen to that left hand, wow, some nice harmonics and therefore well-known.... but i am not sure. This bass-sound ... hmmm... no clue. The fade-out is on the record or is that done manually in case of time for the CD ???? (Hmm it's 74:54, there would be some other seconds...), i think it's on the CD/LP (tape was finished during session ehhhh!). Okay, these are my comments for this BFT disk one, a really nice one! Thanks again to Big Al! I hope, i can return to disc #2 in a short time!
  7. here is the next part.... #6 Okay, this is a point that counts not for me.... this CD "sleeps" in my stock!!! As mikeweil unveiled this recording during the car-session i can only confirm this, because i just listened to the only CD i own from this musician. And mikeweil made me this private copy of this CD too... for my special big-band-lesson, but i hadn't practiced that enough. Haha! Shame on me!!! I think, mikeweil has this one unveiled in his posting, so i will keep my mouth closed, because i didn't recognize it by myself, i could only confirm his statement. #7 Not much to say to this fine tune, a very vague guess... is this Blakey again on the drums? The drumming has "that" Blakey-touch... #8 Ha ha! Funny story!!! It is track 8 from this one, the double-feature! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...aded&start= ... i took a quite familiar source... not the "normal" one ! Now the story to this track.... When i had my very first listening-session to this BFT-disc in the car driving home after concert, i nearly reached my home-place - i was alone then, the other guys had reached their snoring-places yet, i am the "taxi-driver" of the band ... and .... therefore the last who reaches his home - but suddenly i was full awake when this tune started.... aaahhh, i know this one, i've heard this only "minutes" ago (okay, some days ago...)... but where ??? Hmmmm... We met (mikeweil and me) for a practice session some days ago and we had the opportunity to listen to some new pieces of CDs that found their way into mikeweils stock (after practive, of course!).... I was really impressed of some tunes he played for me. He knows, that i will like this stuff, because i still had another recording with those family-members. Hehe... and mikeweil made a copy for me... and i received the copy together with the BFT-CDs ... and a big grin from mikeweil, murmuring something like: "One tune in this BFT you will know for sure.... must know for sure..." Haha, he can make jokes, i can tell you! On our second concert trip this weekend, we listened together to the BFT during the ride-on-the-road and when track#8 was playing, i said "Oh, I know this one...., but..." Mikeweil grins and said "Sure, you know this one". Great help.... Okay, now, here at home ... at this very moment, this specific CD is here beside me on my desk here at my music-place and next to the BFT-Set. This is no joke, it's true! But i think, this point will not count for me .... #9 When we talked in the car about this tune, i was guessing about this guitar-player, it could be Kenny Burrell. Mikeweil was only grinning. Now, at home, i am sure, that this is Kenny Burrell, but i can't tell the record, because i don't have this one. When checking my stock, this specific sound makes me sure, that this is KB. But no other guesses to the other personal... sorryly... mikeweil knows the record for sure. But what a pleasant tune and fine playing with this relaxed mood! I like this very much! #10 This one was a bit difficult... during the car sessions, a lot of names and so on were in the room. But when i listened this one now here at home, there is something familiar... this bass sounds ...like Ron Carter. But who are the others... hmmm. Guitar ... Russell Malone ? Mark Whitfield ? #11 That is a hole in my knowledge, i had no idea. Is there some E-Bass ?? no guess, expressive sax-solo. But Mikeweil is sure about his clue.... he owns the record and promised me to give me some lesson about that specific musician!! I think, this will be a pleasure ! Now time for another break, my wife returns from work and cooking will start soon I will return later.....
  8. Hi Big Al, Finally i got5 the discs from mikeweil, who was the "minister of post-department" this time At first, many thanks for this compilation, i think this BFT is another step for me to dig into our favourite subject.... music ! As I am not that familiar with all kinds of stuff of jazz-music.... i will learn a lot this time. But, this one was fun too, because it was (and still is... it's spinning in the player to help for my writings...) a fine companion during the last few days on our cruise through the republic ... it was spinning in the car's CD-player, when mikeweil and I drove from concert-place to concert-place. And guessing together is a fine thing! mikeweil already had posted his first impressions here in the board, but not me. Listening in the car is sometimes necessary.... because I had no time to listen at home, in case of our gigs and Saturday "house-keeping"-duties. Now I am sitting at my music-place at home and start with the subject. As always, i didn't read the thread before posting here, so... i will have all the fun to read this, when i am finished with the virtual typewriter #1. A nice tune of cuban-influenced/inspired jazz-music, i guess in the 50ies. mikeweil alwasy says, that i know the bass-player in here. But my first guess is about the drummer.... Art Blakey ? there are some very "typical" drum-rolls and the sound of the set is quite familiar. Trumpet sounds familiar, too.... hmmmm....but I have no sure guess. Back to the bass-player, no guess #2 puh, difficult (for me). This bass-playing ... (hmmm, well as Mr. Bassman i always keep an ear on this ) very strong fingers.... but i can't "sort" my brain for a guess, but back to the tune. I t is a nice piece of music, that keeps me up with finger-snipping or body-shakeing. nice soloing and a fine rhythm section, i enjoy this strong "plunk-plunk" walking bass a lot! There where some nice moments.... i want to mention the "background-choir" during the trombone soloing, this is nice! the second sax-solo in front of that nice "orchestral break-part".... #3 Hmmm, we had some discussions during the car-ride... here i guess... it has some Ellingtonia in here, maybe ther is some Ellington himself on piano ??? It is a quite funny piece, it reminds a bit to "hit the road, Jack" or a short impression of "Pennsyvania 6 5000" (ha ha, only my impression, this tune is something different!!!). And we got an idea of Johnny Hodges playing here....? Can't say more...., but we are quite sure about the Ellington-connection! Am i on a right path ? #4 This is a big-band (indeed??), ooohh, what a trombone-solo ! Well, I'm not that invited in the big-band-thing, but this one is not from the 30ies/40ties (where i have a bit of knowledge... later more to this), this is later, 60ies ?. As i have no hint, I am shooting into the blue.... This is a "genteleman-Big-band" and they play for some nice "afternoon-in-the-pavillon"-situations, where people sit together enjoying a pleasant day and not performing at the ballroom for some hot dancing competitions.... just my impression. #5 Ahhhh, this might be from the period of big-band-music, where i have a little knowledge. I like to tell a littel story in front of the guessing.... This kind of music was my first contact to jazz music.... swing from the area of end30ies to (maybe) mid40ies plus. The sound is indeed from this time. When i was a boy, my mother has a record (she had only one record, and she still has this one, wich i have in mind...) of Glenn Miller and little mr. Bassman was always happy, when this record was played (instead of the normal german "Schlager"-dudel or operette and all this stuff...). Our neighbor in those times was a music-fan and had a collection of several stuff.... and he recognized, that little mr.bassman was interested for jazz-music and he played for me some other records out of this time, not only bigbands... there was early Louis Armstrong, then Goodman, samplers of old blues-recordings and so on. He always made some birthday and christmas presents to me, and so i still have some records of bigband-music (cheep italien samplers and other third-evaluation collections ... but what the f... this music sounded (and sometimes still sounds!) really great for little mr. bassman) in my stock and i will keep them not only in memorian to this neighbour. On some rare moments i listen from time to time to this records - maybe to get a bit of a "sentimental-remembering-the-times", when mr.bassman was young and discovered this music sitting breath- and speechless in front of the record-player and couldn't get enough of this stuff.... And I learned in those days, that "white" big-bands sound "different" in comparison to "black" big-bands... well this was the knowledge of little mr.bassman !!! Okay, this was little bassman's discovery, when he was something about 12 years old. According to little mr. bassmans discovery.... this one sounds more like a "white" big-band, not the "typical" style of Goodman or Miller, but there is something in this sound, that reminds "old" Mr. Bassman to those things. Well, I'm no specialist for this time-period (young Mr. Bassman was.... ).... and i can't recognize the tune or the band for shure,,,, but (i listened a ten times to this tune....) there is some Glenn Miller in this special sound-setup of this bigband, ... listen carefully to some phrases in the background-setup or during the "tutti"-lines and near the ending.... I never heard that tune before this BFT and if this is the Miller Band... they play more "untypical" to the normal level, but this is not a "black" big-band, as young boy mr. bassman would say.... Am I right ??? Puh... this posting took some time.... i have to make a short break.... need some coffee and cones ! but will soon return !
  9. I'm signing too, PM sent with regards Mr. Bassman
  10. Hi Big Al, yes, it's me and I am signing in! I am sorry, but i forgot to write and post in time for the signup-period to this BFT, so Mikeweil did it. We'll meet every week (normally) and so i can get the delivery soon. As i noticed, the discussion just started ... but i will study the threads after listening, i want all the fun and no spoiling with regards Mr.Bassman
  11. Okay, I'm in again... just a bit of a supplement .... I started my conference now accidently with listening again to #10... funny things happend, it seems to me, that not only the listening-habbits are responsible for a fair impression, there are much more factors. I like it much better now (it is nearly 2 p.m. yesterday it was 2 a.m. and i was sleepy)! It is not recommended to listen to this tune, when the bed is calling! This tune is nice for feeling fit! It is more than a celebration-festival-orchestra, wow, there is a lot more, not only the annoying-me-at nighttime "taaataataaa", nice arrangement indeed, who is this piano-player ? #11 When i had my first run through the compilation, this was a piece that i found (and still find) really worth to listen to, it is like a landmark in the rough sea, between #10 and #12. Okay, it is a larger group and normally I am not that pleased to this kind of music, but here i have to recommend this nice (I mean really nice, not the ironic "NICE") tune. And, as i am not in the guess-who-practice, I don't have any idea, hmmm. #12 And now back to the "stormy side" This one started quite funny... a very "origin-based" rhythm-section (the low voice is not a bass... "talking" deep-drums???) accompanied with some wind (all sax???) and a saxophone-melody from another world, but this one seem to work, not tearing the musicians themselves apart. The more i listen to this one, the more i like this. I hope, the musicians had the same fun, when playing this, because this is really hard work to keep in this attitude. The ending is somewhat like switing off the knob.... they could go on and on #13 This is a fine piece of music, much listening to each other, not that much written (in the first part).... aaaahhh, i like this kind of stuff. They develop here a kind of a story or screenplay. This one has 2 different parts, maybe a suite ? Second part is more written and fixed (maybe in contrast to the first part). The strings and the percussion show a nice mood, but is this the whole thing ? I can imagine, that this is only a "takeout" of a larger work or should i say Opus? Hmmm, i have to wait until this one is unveiled... #14 At last the closing tune, again with female singer (with background-singers) and big-Band, well played and nice singing, but not the stuff i like a lot. The part, where the singer sings "unisono" together with the band is a bit toooo much "trained" during the rehearsal and the scatting part is a bit "artificial" to me (german saying "wirkt etwas aufgesetzt", hopefully my translation is understandable, maybe there is a better vocable out there, but not in my dictionary.... ). Overall, this one is quite okay, baut i will not listen to this very often.... but a nice tune for the ending! So, I'm through... and hopefully i will get some help from the other BFT-participants for the "guess-who". And, again, mikeweil, thank you for this one, because it is always good, to listen to music one is not that used to ! When we meet again for our audition-festival , please take a reservation for #3, #5, #8, #11 and #13 for sure, maybe add the #10 and #12! with regards Mr. Bassman
  12. Well, i understand this point about the listening habits, but there is still a personal matter of taste.... i know some things, what i had to choose if i want to make you "whooopeee" or "uaaaaarrrrghhh" As i play lot of music and have to do some work here in those days, there is not much time for listening a lot. Therefore i am not well prepared.... But here we have the famous BFT-fun and i try to be as fair as i can be. You see, i take the shame on me with #5 back to #3, i still have a foggy memory, that i hav listened to this tune some time ago, but it is thick fog #5, hmmmm i should know the bass-player, indeed, but I'm somewhat "out of order" in the recognizing-business... no practice for a longer time.... we should work on this okay, here is the next part of my impressions: #6 This is another not fav-tune for me, i don't like this kind of sports They use a lot of cliché-things, this piano-vamp is heard a lot .... and not very nice .... to my ears... The percussion-orchestra works like a steam-engine hurring down the hill... breathless running and increasing the tempo. I take a deep breath, when they arrive.... no accidence during that downhill-race. #7 Uhhhh, violin with heavy vibrato ??? And the "nicest" woodwind-instrument sometimes used in the way i like this instrument most (mikeweil knows, what i mean ) ...together in a misterious mixed-up with some marching rhythm... really not my cup of tee, i dislike this one. I will keep a cape of silence and say nothing more to this tune. sorry... #8 Now, this one is more, let me say, a bit of balsam for my ears after #6 & #7 A not too difficult theme, nice performed and we have some nice solo-ing in this quite relaxed piece of music, the trumpet is very recommended and indeed the bass-solo, too (another shame-point for me... not even a guess). A nice peace of music and it is well-balanced. #9 This tune has its roots in a strong blues-typed form - 12bar - and a fine latin rhythm overlayed. Then you take some little notes for a theme...(reminds me a bit into a "nighttrain"-direction) and then the cooking starts.... wow, a wild piano solo! This tune has more of a session-typed piece and not a working band (or they could hide this very well). The percussion-playing is sometimes a bit on the "clocky"-side, just my impression. #10 Okay, I'm not used to this kind of music, it sounds a bit like a festival orchestra with some carneval-feeling. But the beginning is quite unusual for carnaval, the best part of this tune. Okay, not carnaval, this is to hard, but it is a celebration-like athmosphere, all people are happy, dancing is recommended! Not my fav-tune, but not like #7 Well, i still have no guesses to the musicians. The rest will follow tomorrow... i must have a break with regards Mr. Bassman
  13. Okay, i listened more than one time to the compilation and here are some remarks from me. Overall, it is a bit difficult for me to be "fair", because I know mikeweil personally and we share "some business" together and on the other hand I'm not that a fan of this kind of music... But i like latin-orientated music, it is not a matter of dislike that style at all, but i am not very fond of that "bigband-toot-along"-typed music, so this is the reason, why this is very difficult for me.... So, to get always a full amount of concentration to the tunes, i will post my impressions in parts.... if i listen to the disc totally, i get a bit of annoyed after some time and this is not fair, particullarly to the last tunes...., please forgive me for that and I have to say, my very personal view indeed, there is no fav. tune in this compilation, and that makes it even more difficult for me to be "fair". Well, there might be a main theme in this...., i use a "cupboard-drawer-word" it is about latin-orientated music. And it has a nice frame... first and last tune contain a female singer (one of mikeweils favourites in music ). And i don't recognize anybody of the musicians (shame on me) ! -_- I decide i will keep the remarks on my very personal impression and i try to get the right words for the description of what i like and what i don't like and i have to search for the reason why.... #1 Aha, this tune sounds quite familiar, it reminds me of "night and day" in a kind of a mambo-orientated bigband with female-singer. Sometimes i got the impression of a little quoting of "one note samba", but i think, this is the introduction-part of "night and day". Well, the band is nice cooking and the singer does her best, but they don't "reach" me. I am not very impressed of the voice and i get no "fascination" during the audition, all is okay, but not more. The best i can say is, it is a nice opener for this compilation. I stated, that i don't like the voice, well I have to say, that I have my problems with singers,I am an instrumental-music-freak. But mikeweil has given me some lessons.... but this one doesn't reach me. The band is playing very well, well trained and so on, but it is a bit of "I have heard that kind of interpretation of latin-typed music" to often, so, for me, there is no fascination or "tension" in this interpretation, sometimes i have the personal feeling, this is a peace of music that i will listen to during cleaning the flat.... #2 This one is one of the peaces i really dislike. There is an overall noodling and doodling together with to much of "taktaktaketak" and "clickiticlack" ... The funny thing is, this is not a bigband playing.... The interpretation of this tune is quite "nervious" and i get very nervious when i listen to this tune. I really can't listen very long to this kind of music, but this is very personal indeed. The playing of the musicians is okay, they are good, no question, and it is nice performed and it has some "fire" in it, but not for me. The soloing has always this "well-trained"- impression to me, it is all wellbalanced and always on the "secure side"... i miss the fun and the risk a bit. #3 This one is much more comfortable to me, and i suspect, that i have heard this tune once upon a time... but i can't remember. It is more a ballad-typed piece of music (not a real ballad, but a bit of a ballad) and it has a bit of an easy-listening feel, but not in the "negative" way, it is an impression of feeling well, sitting in the sun, maybe some beach nearby and an overall fine day-feeling. All is relaxed and everybody enjoys this. That is my impression when listening to this interpretation. Here, i like the soloing, there a some unexpected moments, not that "I play an etude"-mood (... can you follow me ??? ) and i imagine fun in there. The band creates a very pleasant impression and they are listening to each other very carefully. I like this tune, but i don't have a clue, who they are. mikeweil you can "mark" this one, when we share our next audition #4 This is another tune, that is not that bad. At first, they start with a riff-typed theme and then they move into a nice groove. Here there are a lot of funny ideas, hopefully not all writen in notes ??? The soloists sound sometimes a bit familiar, maybe i should know one of these.... They keep this one "rolling" but it has not that relaxed character of #3, it is more "cooking". and it is not a big-band. #5 Ahhhh, the tune with the nice bass-solo, i always stopped all activities, when this solo appeared, and i have the strongly suspect, that i must know this bassplayer.... shame on me ! But back to the tune, It is a nice balladesc tune, it has some reminds of "modern-jazz-quartett-mood" until they start into the tune with that very fine strolling along. Hey and then the piano starts... well, a fine story-teller ! and there is a singing-along-the-melody ! Then we have a very pleasant part with rhythmical game-playing which turns into a very fine bass-Solo, this is one of the cutest bass-solos i heard in 2007! (i would be very proud of myself if i could play in this fine arts-style !!!! Okay... practice!!! ... but my stringholder is still broken ). On the other hand... i think, this recording is not made in 21st century ?? And, mikeweil, may i have this one in my collection and i forgot it ??? Puh..... This are the comments to the first 5 tunes, I have to make a break.... i have to start the cooking, but i will return with the following-up ! with regards Mr. Bassman
  14. "Organissimist!" I love it! There's optimists, pessimists, realists, and now Organissimists! Sweet! Indeed, we are all Organissimists, and that was my main force to restart here, not the Sibelius-booklet, that was the last drop to take place in front of the computer ! Maybe, i will get that booklet on Friday, because i have to leep in for Mikail..... there i will get some tea... and then i go upstairs to Michael and get a cup of tasteful Espresso !!! ... and maybe some more listening to new CDs of his "bibliothek" (CD-library).
  15. Hello Nate, I just take a short overflowing look into the discussion-thread and realised, that #2 is truely unveiled. I think, i will put that on my wishlist for Christmas . The title of the recordings seems to be "programmatic" ?? As you state some posts ago the other tunes are more freely. Now to the pain-theme: You told us in a post, that the bass-player was ill during the recording-session. But my impression of his pain was not connected to illness, but that can be a combined effect. My impression to the "pain" was not fixed on some health-problems, i had the impression of getting some problems with the left arm (if he is a right-handed player) or a little "red-skin"- problem to the plucking fingers of the right hand during this heavy playing session. I play (its is more practising...) a bit on the double-bass (sorryly not at this moment, the stringholder cracked some days ago and i have to fix it) and i could imagine the upcoming "pain" in the left arm.... and the power and force you put into your playing not to spoil it, because its getting "harder" every minute playing this tune without a break or the "snip-snap" in studio....... He seems to pluck really hard to get this "ongoing" movement and to keep this rhythmical idea. He really didn't spoil this, but i can imagine and hear his hard work during this playing. But now, with the knowledge of being sick during the session... i listened again and you can really feel his effort and action to the music. I hope, the other tunes of this recording will show this effort, too. It is even more remarkable, to know, that he was ill during the session. As I could read in some posts, that my approach to #9 was a bit similar to som other listeners, but it seems not unveiled yet. And the #4 guitar player is still "unknown"... But it is not Kropinsky . I will keep an eye on this with regards Mr. Bassman
  16. :lol: Don't tell our secret secrets :lol:
  17. Hello Nate and all the others of "BFT-Business", this is ashamed Mr. Bassman "creapin' in" through the back door after beeing a long time absent and again not finished the honmework of BFT #42.... but i promise, i will do it! Back to Nate's #51: well, as i was not signed in to get a copy directly, mikeweil gave me a copy some days ago and ordered me to listen and... to write some comments.... I follow this order, but not as an order... it is a pleasure to return. Okay, mikeweil told me, all the tunes are of lesser age, maybe not all of the musicians we can hear on this compilation. But sometimes i have a personal impression, that some of the tunes belong to another time ;-))))) As there is not a certain theme, the overall-look is quite different on the tunes. Together, they are all worth to listen more than one time (okay there are one or two ... ) and one can recognize some secrets or whatever. Some tunes are very serious and not that pleased to listen, others have a good piece of fun, some are just a bit "doodeling along" others are very interesting. Some sound very familiar, in the way of "we have listened to a well-known musician and i like this style", others are fresh and somewhat new..., but overall, it is a very fine BFT, because i get some music, that i wouldn't get presented otherways or i would never choose or even find in a recordstore. Just my personal point of view. Let's start: #1 This is a kind of a a-capella-Group reinforced with some instruments doing a kind of a story , maybe be a bit of poetry. It must be a project across the atlantic ocean, my point of view is in Europe, so i think it is from the US of A? 5cents a page.... As i am not that familiar with that kind of singing, i have no idea, who they are. A funny idea is the mixing of a-capella and instruments combined to a rather groove-music, maybe funky. Well, it is a modern recording and it has some merits, but it is not that kind of stuff, that i listen very often to. My favourite in this tune is the last "five cents a page" whispering. This one has a secret ! #2 Ahhhh !!! This is nice! The bass-player plays this vamp very hard, maybe he has some pain, when playing it... but he keeps it! The drummer has a funny setup of the microphones... nearly a bit of stereo like in the old days ;-))). Or like: one extra mic on every drum and cymbal..... And the guitar-player... he must be of older age, he is not a younger musician, his companions are younger of age, i think. The reason for me is, the sound of his guitar-playing... a young musician sounds different and the sound of the guitar is not a "modern" one. I say this not in a kind of "good" or "bad". The playing of the musicians is naturally on the "good" side... there is no "bad" in this whole compilation!!! Okay, i go on... The tune sounds very familier to me, it reminds me to some freedom jazz dance impression, i imagine some quotes in the guitar-lines, but... i think it is more an impressional quotation, not a interpretation or version of the tune. But, for me, i have some imagination in this direction of dance or rhythmical movement and freedom in this tune. Okay, there is this over and over again bass-vamp... why not a kind of a dance-pattern as a basic step-combination ? And the drummer "dances" to that basic step-combination. And this two musicians "walk" together in proud manner, like.. people will walk on a march for freedom or justice or whatever... and they are convinced of their subject, but not fanatically! This kind of dance and moving-together is the basis for the master of the ceremony, the guitarplayer. He has all the freedom to do, what he has in mind and fingers, maybe there is sometimes a dot of feeling in his playing. I have to dig that further on... I like this tune, it is not a "woooow"-kind of tune, but it has something in it... i had listened to this tune about ten or more times... ;-))). I am looking foreward, who this is. #3 Ha! I think mikeweil will like this! Jazzstandard in 7! But, my head is a little "empty" i can't remember the title, i have to do some record-listening to remember the name... pooooh. Maybe Monk??? I must check, maybe it is a "claponheadandsayaaaaaahhthatune". A bit of a funky-feel, but somtimes a bit "boring" in the meaning of, there is sometimes not enough tension in this interpretation, some soloing is well learned but there is no "secret" hidden in the playing. Overall a nice idea, but a bit "boring" . But this idea of the 7er is nice! Ever tried "all of me" in 7 ??? #4 Now this one... a kind of having fun in experimenting, what can i do to a classical guitar. This was fun (for me), because i like this kind of experimenting with instruments to get some new ways. And it is not only experimenting for the experiment. This tune has a kind of structure, there are several pieces or "motives", and i can imagine, there is a kind of a story, the musician tells us and this piece of music has this kind of tension i mentioned just a song above. Surprising moments, not fullfilling the listeners impression of what will be the next note or motive ! Well, it is not a kind of "easy-to-listen-jazzmusic" (I mean easy to listen in a jazz-context, not this kind of musical-noise of doodleing in the warehouses and restaurants or mainstream radio), This music needs your full attention, otherways it will "disturb" you in doing the other things beside listening to the music, and you have to listen to this without a newspaper or dishwashing... this is no background-wallofsound ! ;-)))). The more i listen to this tune (like #2) the more i like it! #5 Okay, this one leads me back to ground ;-))) my overall-impression is, that is not very "tensioning" for me, more kind of "noodling the phrases". Okay, they play together, some nice instrument playing.... okay NICE, thats the word, but nice is sometimes boring :-)))). Not much to say for me to this tune. #6 Ah, a bit fade in ... is this a live recording ? You (okay, I ;-) ) can imagine the room.... a dampy smokey little or medium sized room in the very late 50ies up to the middle/end of the 60ies.... oh... noooo! It is of our days.... hmmmm. The sound reminds me to this time, but later on the sound and the dynamic in the recording ist more like in our days :-). But... what is this, Albert is back ?? It reminds me to Albert Aylers musical expression (maybe not including his holy anger about the world he had to live in and he talks about when he was playing and no qouting of folksong-motives)... but mostly i miss Sunny's humming ;-))). Okay, just my impression of that, what i get, when i listen to this tune. But they don't keep this "Ayler-Impression" during the whole tune, later they have more modern-style and groove-and-vamp-Playing and the "melodies" move to a more conventionell style of scales, expression and playing. A little seldom ending. The quoting of the style of music or the style of a musician from "some years ago" seem to be a quite common thing in these days. I am not very fond of this musical approach, i think that developing your own style is a major aim for a jazz-musician. "Imitating" (okay, a very hard word) is just for the practice room or homework but not for the audience or CD... just my 2c... ;-)))). #7 Now, this is a live-recording. The tune seems to be familiar, the music the people play here, too. Some sophisticated theme and lively soloing.... But.. not very interesting for me... just another NICE tune ;-))). #8 Oh-oh... This one reminds me to a little story M. Rostropovitch, the cellist, told along time ago, when he was asked to describe the sound of a cello in comparison to a violin. He stated: "A violin is(sounds) like a cranefly/mosquito. You know... you lie in bed, switched off the light, you are tired from playing in the concert this evening and just before the snoozing and snoring... there it is... buzzzzzzzzzz... this sound of the attacking mosquito or approaching cranefly.... and you remember.. this is the violin" (Okay, not an exact copy of his words but the first sentence is). Now you can imagine, what i did, when listening to this song.... i looked for the fly-catcher ("Fliegenklatsche" in german). Not a must-have for me and listened only twice to this. #9 It started like a zappaesk waltz... but only the very first startup-phrase. Then it gets more into a compository thing, a quite sweetish main-melody. Then a nice trombone (?) starts and get accompanied by the companions, again quoting the main-theme-motive... This one gets interesting when listening again and again. My first-listen-impression was not openminded... okay it is track 9 and concentration will go down sooner or later... at first time it was down ;-). But now, as i write my notes, i listen to this tune again and again... i get new impressions and i like it much more. They have a lot of irony in it, maybe some sarcasm ??? I have to dig that ... But a bit of Zappa-musical-fun-ghost "looks" at some corners ;-)))). I think, as this is a new recording, these are musicians, who have seen, what live is about... I think they are not youngsters, because the fun is more ironic.. this is the subject of the older ones. I am grinning from time to time during the listening-practice of this tune.... at this second, as they have the duo-duellic conversation between the sax and the trombone an then swing over with a short "bridge-part" into this dancehall-motive with a weekly overheated saxophone (exactly near 9:30) and then they develop this pedal-bordun-sound to the saxo-part. Hey, that is irony und fun !!! The more i listen, the more i like this. But my first impression during first-listening was ... next one! But now i have to hide the next-one knob :-)))) You can see, first-impression is not always the best imprssion... #10 This tune is difficult to subscribe, because it has this "doodleing" impression to me, i have no key to unlock the door or get the secret of this piece of music. But this is not first-time listening... and it is not nice at all ;-)))). Sorry, not my fav... a case for the next-one-knob.... This brings me again to a little fun-story.... I hope you might know "Hägar, the horrible" the handsome Viking in the newspaper-comic-corner ? Normally a Hägar-spot has three pics with the normal comix-bubbling-boxes containing the spoken text. Okay, i have to describe, because the comic-strip is right-protected.... Once upon a time Hägar meets Konfuzius, the Wise, and Hägar asked him: Hello Konfuzius, You are a wise man, say something important" Konfuzius said: "Glory is like a dog who swings his tail only one time when meeting his master" (I hope, i translated this correct...). Hägar answered (looking anoyed): "That was nothing"... Now you see Konfuzius showing his back, walking away and putting up the arms and hands in the way of that one will show, that he knows nothing and answered to Hägar: " Not everything can reach the peak" (german version: "Es kann nicht alles Spitze sein"). I hope i have found a acceptable translation, i am not very good in "pictoral expressions" with my unpracticed english, sorry. But i hope, you get the picture ;-))) This is maybe the right thing for this tune . #11 Ahhh! This is fun again! Vienna meets modern times! This happens last evening at Grinzing in a small vine-pub... the playing for the tourists is over, all musicians are bored of their job and looked a lot into the glasses filled with vine.... and now they play their last good-bye, the sky is grey, some lonely raindrops ... they are a bit sad, fullup, thinking of better times of the past.... Okay, just joking a bit. I Have no idea, who this is, maybe a new one with the Vienna Art Orchestra ??? This are my 2cents for Nate! As i have no ideas of the personal playing here, i set my main aspects to the impressions i have during the audition. It is a very fine compilation, indeed! Thanks a lot and thanks to mikeweil, who was patient enough with me and encouraged me to return to a fine place in Internet sharing one of the main important things in this world, our beloved music. with regards Mr. Bassman
  18. Hello Nate, I'm signing in and i got the CD already from mikeweil. My posts will soon enter the discussion-list. with regards Mr. Bassman (still alive...)
  19. Well, at least i started with the updating. There is still something to do... but the first step is done... more will follow! with regards Mr. Bassman
  20. Oh, hello, i forgot to post... both files are fine and mikeweil will get them tomorrow, when we meet. I had a little "peep-in" ... some tunes are very nice. I still have to convert them (i have a portable CD-player which reads mp3 directly, so i can listen to the tunes in the car or if my nephews and nieces listen to their "boom-tack"-music i take the phones and listen to the "balsamic" jazz-music!!!). As you started a kind of discussion... I am not a big friend of mp3... flac would be better (for me), but data-volume is still a factor (okay, i have flat-rate and dsl, no problem for me). But... my two cents to this with regards Mr. Bassman (who has still to complete the answer-list *ducknhide*....)
  21. Here is the list to CD #2. it will be completed with additional infos! #1: "The Flat foot floogie" Slim Gaillard (guitar, vibraphone, vocal), Slam Stewart (double-bass, vocal), Sam Allan (piano), Pompey "Guts" Dobson (drums) From the CD "Slim & Slam - the groove juice special". tbc. #2: "Jumpin' in" Dave Holland (double-bass) From the CD "ones all" tbc. #3: "Feediop" Avishai Cohen (double-bass) tbc. Fron the CD "At home" tbc. #4: "Kirschgarten" Thomas Hufschmidt (piano, keyboards), Gunnar Plümer (double - bass), tbc. From the CD "Pepila" tbc. #5: "Teen Town" Jere Laukkanen's finnish afro-cuban Jazz orchestra, tbc. From the CD " Jere Laukkanene's finnish afro-cuban jazz orchestra" tbc. #6: "Nemeit" George Gruntz (piano & conductor), Eberhard Weber (double - bass), tbc From the CD "Jazz meets Africa", original George Gruntz "Noon in Tunesia), tbc. #7: "Notes after an evening" Eberhard Weber (special - bass) solo (with looper) From the CD "Pendulum" tbc. #8: "cujoo" Bassinstinct (6 austrian contrabass-players) tbc. From the CD "Bassinstinct" tbc. #9: "Introducing Arthur Dent" Klaus König Orchestra, tbc. From the CD "At the end of the universe" hommage a Douglas Adams tbc. #10: "Wadi Rum" Renaud Garcia-Fons (double - bass), tbc From the CD "Navigatore" #11: "Strauss in the doghouse" (nice title) The new colophonium Bassquartett, tbc From the CD "The new colophonium Bassquartett", tbc. ------------ and now to something completely different ----- #12: "Bahama Mama" Alphonso Johnson (fretless-bass), Billy Cobham (drums) , tbc. From the LP/CD "Alifeamutherforya", tbc. #13: "Foreign Fun" Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Jaco Pastorius (fretless-bass), Alphonse Mouzon (drums) From the "Berliner Jazz Festival 1976", tbc. #14: "Walking on the moon" Christian McBride (all basses!... esp. fretless-bass), tbc. From the CD "Sci - Fi", tbc. #15: "Big bass boom" Berliner Bass Ballett 4 Bass-players and one drummer (some overdubs and a bit drum-machine) but hornsection played with 4x fretless-bass tbc! From the CD "Bass-Talk" (The first of a serie), tbc #16: "silent night" Decebal Badila (fretless bass) From the CD "Nothing but bass" tbc There will be lot add-ons
  22. My dear friends of good music, at first I must apologize for the big delay to publish the answers, but there were some obstacles... on the one hand there were those nice trips to Turkey (with mikeweil), and, on the other hand, my father-in-law died at Dec. 5th. I hope, you can understand, that there was not much time and space for the forum in the last few days. But now..... i want to start. At first, i will put a short track-list and then i will complete them with the dates, musicians etc. and the special and personal infos. Risk an eye from time to time Here is disc 1 (I will add disc2 later in the evening): The theme of this BFT: Actually, noone tried for a guess about a certain theme of this BFT. Well, it was not that easy, and, it is not a 100% for all the tunes. My "overall"-theme was "Fun/humour in music" with a strong relation to the bass. And there was a special theme on CD 2.... but this is unveiled there. I will give a personal statement to every tune, i hope this is not boring... #1: "The bass is the base" John Tchicai (voice) & Vitold Rek (double-bass) (leader names for the list) From the CD "Satisfaction" by enja records CD 7033-2. Recorded in 1991 and published 1992 Well, every BFT needs a good opener. I haven't found a better one. And the fun-factor is on the level, isn't it ? The little poem says it all, and Vitold Rek, whom I met personally, is a fine bass-player. Some years ago in 1990/92 he "replaces" me during a band-project with the two guys I'm normally playing with and they made a CD (which is not in Vitold's discography on his site) in that time. I had moved to another town and couldn't take part in those days. Later he quitted in case of the "gig-problem" of this project and i had to return to my old place, so i moved back home. If anyone has a chance to listen to him in a concert, i will encourage you, to visit this. He is a fine person, too. Here is a link to the enja-disc i used for the BFT: http://www.jazzpages.com/VitoldRek/tchicai.html. and some reviews here: http://www.jazzpages.com/VitoldRek/reviews.html #2: "Everything I've got" Chris Connor (voc) (leader name for the CD) , Oscar Pettyford (double-bass & note-flubber), Ralph Sharon (piano), Osie Johnson (drums), Eddie Costa (vibes), Joe Wilder (trumpet), Al Cohn sax From the CD-"sampler" "A jazz date with Chris Connor" and "Chris Craft". It is an Atlantic release and contains both ex-LP's with the number Atlantic R2 71747 released in 1994. The original recording date was during 1956. I can imagine, that you all have recognized the fun-factor in this tune. Originally i drafted this one as an opener, but things always change. But a fine tune for track#2! Chris is a fine singer, and this word means someting, because i'm not very involved to singers in Jazz. I am (eh... was) a typical voice-ignorant and then mikeweil introduced me to this Lady. I was very surprised and my ignorance was melting away. Then i discovered this special song, where Oscar flubbed a note (you can hear this on the record....) and... Chris took this rare "event" as a chance (in my opinion...) and changed the songtext immediately. Okay, they could have planned that, but my choosen story is more charming. I like this kind of fun or humour in music and it is very rare, sadly. #3: "In the mood" written by Joe Garland Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra (leader name) Arranger and conductor: Michael Gibbs, soloists: Primus Sitter (git) and Gerd Rahstorfer (trumpet) line-up: trumpet section: Rudolf Pilz, Gerd Rahstorfer, Andy Pranzl, Manfred Weinberger trombone section: Dominik Stöger, Robert Bachner, Christian Kastenhuber, Karl Wagner Reed section: Robert Friedel, Franz Bachner, Christian Maurer, Christian Bachner, Andreas See Rhythm section: Primus Sitter (guitar) / Helmar Hill (piano) / Wayne Darling (bass) as a guest, Uwe Urbanowski is the regular bass-player / Alfred Vollbauer (drums) It was a live recording on August 1st 2005 at Kremsmünster. It is published by ATS records in Austria. From the CD: "The UAJO presents 101 years Glenn Miller". ATS-Records CD-0593 It is take no. 9 The original arrangement of this was done by Gil Evans and MG adapted it to the band! This tune is something special for me, i had to listen to the Glenn Miller-Version before my birthday! My mother loves Glenn Miller and it was my first contact to Jazz (as i can remember), the LP still exists. "In the mood" was (and still is) one of her fav. jazz-tunes and she always gets that "shine" in the eyes (well, she is 82 ) while listening to this peace of music (Okay, she likes the Glenn-Miller-thing more). When we, mikeweil and me, stayed at Vienna and checked the "Extraplatte", a famous Vienna Jazz-Music-Store and distributor, i found this one and remembered, that i had read a notice to this record. I take a short listening in the store and the deal was perfect. I like to say ... if Glenn Miller, then like this one (haha)! And, for the fun-factor, Gil Evans made the original arrangement, and... he never performed it (...okay, i hadn't found anything about that arrangement). I thought, it would be fun to listen to this old "battle-horse" in this modern way. I can recommend the whole CD for the "Glenn-Millered"-people, on some tunes the singer Alberta "Ali" Gaggl joins the band. #4: "Low blow" Jay Anderson (double-bass) Roger Rosenberg (bariton-sax) From the CD "Factory town" by advantage music (It is a sampler-CD). This was made with high-end fidelity-equipment. I anyone is interested in this, i will post some more #5: "Bop dance" Aladar Pege (double-bass), Charly Antolini (drums), Andy Scherrer (tenor-sax), Rudi Wilfer (piano) two sources: original CD(LP): "Bop dance" Charly Antolini Jazz Power bell records and "bassissimo - Basspower" a sampler from bell records... for some reasons i choosed the bassissimo--- hehe, here at organissimo #6: "kurdish dance" Yosuke Yamashita (Piano) (leader name), tbc. From the CD "Kurdish dance", tbc. #7: "Mirage à trois" Karoline Höfler (double-bass) (leader name), tbc. From the CD "Charly Haigl's festival band", tbc. #8: "Quotation" Isla Eckinger (not on bass this time! trombone and vibraphone!) (leader name), Alain du Bois (double-bass), Andy Scherrer (tenorsax), Henry Chaix (piano), Peter Schmidll (guitar). From the CD "Hot mallet" . It was recorded in December 1982 and originally published 1983 (LP) by bell records. The number is BLR 84 030. My CD must be a sort of reissue, because is has a copyright sign with the date of 1992. This tune is a real fun tune... for the musicians and the listeners. I hope, you can hear this, too. Isla is normally known as a bass-player, but he learned some other instruments, too. He plays trombone and vibraphone... you can hear both instruments in this tune. And they enjoyed playing this title, can you feel this? And i thought this tune is fine for the BFT with bass-players, who don't play bass. Fun ??? Yeah! #9: "Spring song" composer's voice (leader name, it's a working band): tbc From the CD "wabi sabi", tbc #10: "Winter ade" Dieter Ilg (double-bass) (leader name), Wolfgang Muthspiel (violin & Guitar) steve arguelles (drums) From the CD "fieldwork" tbc. #11: "Running children" David Friesen (bass), Uwe Kropinski (acoustic-guitar)(both are for the leader name) no additional percussionist From The CD "made in Berlin" #12: "Du kannst nicht immer 17 sein" (= german "schlagermusik" from Ralph Siegel) Daerr Trio, tbc. From the CD "Germany douze points" tbc #13: "Glenn the space" Henri Texier / Azur Quintett (leader name) From the CD "Strings' spirit" #14: "Elohopea" (name of the track, it is track 1) Nuijamiehet (finnish musicians) (leader name and title of the disc) the groups personal-list: Mikko Innmanen: sopran, alto and baritone saxes Kalle Kalima: electric and acoustic guitar Lasse Lindgren: acoustic bass guitar Mika Kallio: drums From the CD "Nuijahiemet" It was recorded in 1999, mixed and published in 2000 by fiasko records FRCD 2 This was choosen because, there was not very much finnish jazz-music in the BFTs and, for the fun-factor, there is a funny story with this CD. I start with a simple question: Where in the world can you jump on CD's you will never see in a normal CD-shop ? right... ebay! This CD i found strolling around through the jazz-CD in ebay some time ago. And you often find CD's for 1 € as starting price. Sometimes i give them a chance and... nobody was betting against me. So I got this CD for 1€ plus postage and, surprise, i like the music! Well, it is not a "giant step" one, but an interesting work. Sometimes you can find (i say it clearly "can"... not must) with this special ebay-technique an interesting CD. I had never heard anything of this group or recording at all, but now they have a well-known place in my collection and from time to time i pick it and surprise my guests. So you can see, there is some fun in this, too. #15: "her kommer pippi langstrømpe" Niel Henning Ørsted Pederson (double-bass) tbc
  23. PM is out and there will be some time for the listening session. with regards Mr. Bassman
  24. ... those were the days back in the 80ies. I was not that impressed in those days (and today), but you had to know these band-project back in the 80ies. There was this time of "elegant fusion" (i like to call this kind of music to have a name for that kind of stuff) and you had to know some tunes of steps ahead, when you participate in the countless jam-sessions in my home-region. (Oh yeah... jam-sessions....there were a lot of oportunities in those days.... ). I have some recordings on some cassettes and, at least, one CD. It is the CD "Steps ahead" published at 1983 (by Electra/Asylum records, a division of Warner Brothers) with Mike Brecker, Mike Mainieri, Eddie Gomez, Eliane Elias and Peter Erskine.... a kind of a different musician-list to steps ahead. They called that CD their first world-wide released recording. Well, this might not be the best one, but an interesting one, because of the band members and the somewhat "rough" playing (not that elegant as normally... ). The live recordings are more interesting, because you can hear, what they really play. The studio recordings are sometimes a bit "clean" and maybe they include a bit to much "producing-gimmicks". As is know some of the music-education-places here in Germany, the music of steps ahead is still in use as educational work for the students as an example for music in the 80ies. You can see, they leave their tracks in music history! with regards Mr. Bassman
  25. No problem, as you can see... the party is going on ! There is a german saying: "the later the evening, the more beautiful the guests ! " In this sense.... keep on party-ing ! (<- I like this guy with the horn and the "poodlecap" (wordforword-translation) ) with regards Mr. Bassman
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