mikeweil

Is there a list of all August special offers?

Good description. I think it has something to do with the absence/presence of pianists. A busy pianist will clash with Davis. Hank Jones on Elvin's LP plays sparingly, almost like a third horn, and it works. People said about Roach that he did the piano player's comping on the drums. That, with a strong bassist, doesn't leave any room for a pianist. Roach does the rhythmic part of the comping, Davis the harmonic part.

I always thought turning food into gas was perverse considering so many people on this planet die of starvation. The greatest potential for saving fuel is designing better motors - the technology is there, but the petrol lobby is stronger ... Same for saving electrical energy etc. - saving has the greatest potential. Standby positions, old light bulbs. I saved some by turning off all standby operated equipment and switching to modern bulbs.

Such a book was published as accompanying catalogue for an exhibition at the Frankfurt, Germany, Museum for Architecture, focussing on Synagogues in Germany from the beginning to the present time. (Just to fuel your fantasies ...). The one that I wish for was introduced in a novel by German author Ernst Theodor Amadée Hofmann: A leather-bound volume that fits into your jacket pocket and always is just the book you want to read right now. No need for anything else ...

Another bad month for jazz bass - R.I.P.

Check out Elvin's self-titled Riverside album - he's great there too. I guess he just wasn't your ideal session call bassist, but jelled when he built up a good working relationship. Doing just a studio date didn't inspire him as much, it seems.

Ramblin' is a nice album! Wilson and Roy Ayers were a dream team, IMO. He suffered a stroke or an accident in the 1970's after presenting an astonishing new simultaneous playing technique for two keyboards, and had to start all over again. He succeeded, but his career never quite recovered.

Oh no! One of the greatest of them all. Huge tone, excellent timing, good intonation. A monster bassist. R.I.P.

Once a neighbour asked me to close the windows when her child was sick, but I was never yelled at, luckily. I was yelled at a few months ago when I was still hauling stuff around between first floor and basement at 11 pm, with the lights on, on the outside. But those neighbours always complained about everything, and their landlord had enough soon after and made them leave. Their successors are freindly and have nice children.

I could get to the org homepage, but got database error messages when I tried to get to the forum. An hour later everything was okay again ...

R.I.P. Antinioni was my personal favourite ever since I was enchanted by Blow Up. It's his early films that are really fascinating - e.g. L'Aventura - he was way ahead of them all. The way Italian directors mused on male/female relations back then .....

BTW - the procedure for those pre-digested beans remains me of the title of Eddie Harris' tune: Funkaroma .....

George Duvivier was a monster bassist! I find myself buying albums just for him. Big sound, tremendous drive - one of the greatest! Kotick was great, too - very underrated. Wendell Marshall played Jimmy Blanton's bass fiddle - another underrated player. Agree about Ray Brown's Bass Hit album as compared to Jazz Cello!

Yes, in the Verve LPR series.

Thanks, brownie! Will be looking for this one!

There was a blindfold test in down beat or Jazz Times recently where one younger player admitted George Coleman's influence and pointed out that Coleman himself always played with a certain "sweet sound" no matter how hard edged and boppish or r&b-ish his phrases were, and that this specific detail was missing with all of his imitators. Very fitting - I listened, and he's right.

Apple as a label didn't last much longer.

Was the Roulette LP under Strayhorn's name ever reissued on CD? I have a cheap Italian issue of this and wonder why it esacped Cuscuna's radar.

100 grams of best quality Jamaican Blue Mountain beans go for € 10 here - that's good enough for me.

Just these two: Under the Jasmin Tree MJQ Space There was a thread about this long ago ...

I'm in, but don't expect me to post comments before mid-August due to our vacation - but by then my schedule will return to normal, with some luck. Download is okay with me.

Seems Verve again missed the opportunity to do some tape vault research and add unreleased tracks or re-edit them to performance order ...

IIRC he recorded all of the Well-Tempered Clavier, but I never bought it and it's too long ago that I had a cursory listen in the shop to recall what I thought it was like. Sorry ..... only thing I remember is that he took more liberties than Jarrett in his Handel or Bach recitals.

Yes! But to me the biggest surprise on that one was German pianist Carlos Diernhammer, whom I had never heard of. He does a great job in Duke's place!

That Golson cover is nice - who did design/photo?