mikeweil

All of his Verve CDs are fine ... I love those bass tracks with Ray Bown and Milt Hinton

I like Clark's treatments of his own tunes in trio format on this CD a lot better than the quintet versions on the Blue Notes! To me this is Clark's best album.

And while we're at it - is there a CD reissue with all of the four tracks done for Fontana with Kenny Dorham etc. - my copy of Jazz In Paris Vol. 30 has only two of them ... ... and has the session described here been issued somewhere by now?

I read about a recording session for RCA done before the two Prestige LPs by Andy & The Bey Sisters, but can't find any definite info - can anybody help?

Handel faced his probolems with bootlegs - he didn't want to publish his music but some London publisher named Walsh did and offerered him a share - he agreed. Otherwise he wouldn't have received any money out of it or would have to sue him. Not quite the same subject, but still: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=52233

At about 56 minutes into the film he says he's looking for the most minimal elements - that's the problem for me. I'm after sophistication and refinement. That whole world of masses with minimal taste (pardon the offense - not intened) and a creativity based on the sound reproduction and manipulation a computer and not the sound itself - it's not my world.

Thanks for the link - good piece of documentary. The way that DJ compares painting and musik making in the beginning of the film doesn't quite make sense to me: He says giving free samples to people to make musik with is like giving free paint and brushes to people - that would make more artists. In Music that would mean giving instruments to people, not computers. Call me old-fashioned, but for me music making still is the process of getting notes out of an instrument. All that computer generated stuff, no real musicians, just resamplers, remixers - their creativity is so limited. Take away their sound systems and they collapse to dust ...

I was right there in front of a TV set when this was broadcast for the first time! I thought they were crazy! In retrospect, this was punk way before its time ... IIRC they were all G.I.s based in Germany and pretty much a local phenomenon, never performing in the USA - probably disbanded after service. Well the Spiegel story tells the LP didn't sell - and that was about it. Their music wasn't very accomplished - only that Brit band, The Troggs, could play less chords on their instruments. But the Monks had style! That girl moderating, Uschi Nehrke - 'bout half of Germany's male teens wanted to marry her!

I ordered these three from Mighty Quinn, and they'are all fine! The Land sounds much better than the Blue Note LT series LP.

Thanks for the link, download completed - I happen to have a rapidshare account at this time. Strange thing was that it downloaded as a .html file - I renamed it to be a .rar file, and it unzipped without a problem and plays fine. Can't hear much as the neighbour works with a chainsaw ... Geez, I still have to post some guesses for the previous one ...

There have been a few around, partly in really badly-done reissues, I remember seeing Horace Silver's 1954 trio and quintet sessions. It's legal in Europe, I do not how the regulations are concerning imports to the US ...

No need to ask me to join ...

... but it is not complete. It's an LP-based disco, not a session based one, and e.g. does not include the Parrott issues of Chamber Music of the New Jazz or the unissued tracks from these sessions. I'm skeptical ... a good start, it is.

Lucky's sound has the lightness of Prez, but the rhapsodic phrasing of Hawk - very much his own hybrid.

Auf hochdeutsch: Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! You should have come here - my wife celebrated hers today, and the new band I play in did a few tunes for her.

Geez - glad to hear you and your collection are safe! A nightmare ...

I agree on your judgement - Patrice Rushen was the best on this record, IMO. This was released in 2006, still the Concord site talks about the CD with Hiromi being his first all acoustic bass trio recording?

Yes - I tried it back then. Some jelly that was supposed to take all the accumulated dirt from the grooves. Didn't make too much of a difference IIRC ...

I wish I could listen to the lost 10" Blue Note session of John Collins with Milt Hinton and Kenny Clarke, any time!

Read the label ...

Thanks for linking this - I owe a lot to Ellis, and will order this during the next months.

Al, just saw this - I sincerely hope that all will turn out well, and, please keep us updated. My thumbs are crossed.

I'd try silicone rubber and a special soft needle for the self-made glue copy ... surely will sound wobbly.

So that was all we needed ...

After a long, cold, and wet/snowy winter, spring is coming - blue skies, sun and warmth for a few days now, we installed ourselves on the terrace of our new home, and enjoy it thoroughly after the move's hassle.