mikeweil

That will be something! Yeah!

Thanks - I'm a big Rhyne fan. Can you please e-mail or post details on the session, as I'm working on a Rhyne disco?

Congrats!

You mean "Little Niles" Azzedin Weston? That would be terrible! My thoughts are with him.

Fact ist, the brand of blanks you use is not the only factor - it's the combination of CDR, burner, and the settings. There are many differing opinions but my experience that 4 x burning speed is optimum (professional CD burner in recorders use that speed exclusively, like the Alesis Masterlink I borrow from time to time). I have read in many places that certain burners do not "like" certain brands. My TEAC accepts pretty much anything.

A good source of information for German members is found at http://www.feurio.net/index_german.shtml? - I also recommend their burning software.

Same here. If they already had the paperwork printed and assembled, it must have cost them a lot to have the thing re-done. V.W. must have a big complex about all this. What did he have to do with it all in the first place? I can understand when Belden and Holzman are pissed off and withdraw from further projects.

I never warmed to Doldinger or this group in particular. He featured some great sidemen, but I found Passport cheesy compared to some of the best US fusion bands, and his tenor style somewhat forced.

Will look for that one, thanks for re recommendation! Yes, but he still has more bite than Mulligan!

Urgghhh ..... I could kick myself for not thinking of this!

I first became aware of him on Benny Carter's 1989 MusicMasters CD "Over The Rainbow" with the All Star Sax Ensemble. He did extremely well in the very fast company of Carter, Herb Geller, Jimmy Heath, and Frank Wess!

I had Output and saw that trio perform - nice and pretty wild for its time, but I grew tired of it. Dauer was at the very frontier of the music back then, one of the first to own a synth in Europe and experienting with all kinds of electronics.

R.I.P. I used to read a lot of science fiction beginning in 1970, and Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House" collection was among it. I followed his books until "Slaughterhouse 5", which to me seemed to be the culmination of his endeavors - he mentioned it in the forword to each and every book that he still had to write his "book about Dresden". The latter being a theme in German history, I could relate to this and his personal involvement was very touching. He even went to Eastern Germany before the reunion to visit the places he had seen, which must have been difficult at the time. My respect, and thanks for the authenticity.

Plenty of bright moments for the year to come and forever after!

A spring flu I caught two days ago while walking around in a t-shirt even outside the sun gives me an excuse to lie around and listen to music - picking up my BFT duties .... 1. "The Honeydripper" - sounds a little wild for a Jack McDuff version. I know this honker, but don't dare drop any names. 2. "Berimbau", the Baden Powell tune. Wouldn't expect that one in a soulful Chess/Argo-type context. Is that Hank Crawford on alto? Certainly not Walter Wanderley on organ. 3. "Dark Eyes" - you like it wet 'n' wild, it seems. Not to be taken too seriously. Again he doesn't succeed in his attempts to blow the horn apart. Too much cha-cha-cha here ... 4. Up to this tune it could have been a sax BFT just as well, but now: "Moment's Notice". Reminds me of a Bill Goodwin trio CD I have with Vic Juris, which is in a similar neobop vein. This is very well played - I like it, all three of them. More, please! 5: "After Hours"? This has New York and the Atlantic sound written all over it. King Curtis? I like this a lot more than the very forced utterings on the first three tunes. Yeah, brother! 6. Should be the flip side of the previous piece, or part two. Yeah, yeah! 7. "Shabazz"? Deep black music from the 1970's. No idea who that is, although they sound damn familiar. 8. Comedy time .... that background track is again very familiar. But ...... my head is too numb. 9. I'm beginning to realize that I appreciate those greazy organ combos now a lot more than I did in the 1970's when I started diggin' into jazz more seriously, other wise I'd sure identify some of these players. 10. What is this thing called calypso? Again, not to be taken too seriously. Nice sweet alto. 11. They make you curious what tune it's gonna be: "Jive Samba". One of the most used riffs ever milked as much a spossible. Yeah yeah yeah! They are groovin'! 12. Churchy sounds with a Jazz Crusaders touch. Very nice rhythmic tenor. Again, no clue .... 13. By now the greaze starts drippin' from my hard disk .... Why is there no sax register on the B3? Because there are saxes a-plenty to play along! 14. Very nice again, but still no clues. Another one I'd like to hear more from, although the drummer is a little sloppy. Would have liked this better without sax. I know that guita sound ..... 15. James Oscar Smith? But the master wouldn't repeat himself that much. 16. "Please Send Me Someone to Love". What a shame - not one identification! Gotta take a bath to get all the greaze off ..... p.s. I had toyed with the idea of my own B3 BFT but signed it off when you announced yours. But the music you selected is so different from what I had in mind that there will the another organ BFT some day! Thanks a lot for the trip!

I was not as pessimistic, but ..... I do close the gaps in my collection slowly but surely - I ordered Budd Johnson's Let's Swing today, although that one is still in print.

Right now it's I prefer this size with all the desktop icons around. Before I used these, among others:

Budd Johnson & The Four Brass Giants seems to be unavailable from the Concord site: Go get a copy as long as there are some!

Sad as it is, I've heard local musicians conversing loudly in Frankfurt's oldest jazz clubs while their colleagues were at work!

Who was it on Red Clay - Lenny White? I don't have that anymore. I loved White from the start of his career - groove but more open than the others, and less dense, which I prefer.

Pludermacher is an excellent pianist! Regrettably he never recorded any solo piano pieces by Brahms, afaik.

I'd also recommend the original chamber version of his two serenades, gathered here on 1 disc (oop, it seems): no. 1 op. 11 by the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin (nonett version reconstructed by Jorge Rotter) no. 2 op. 16 by the Linos Ensemble (14 instruments) I recommend to listen to this before the orchestral versions and the symphonies

... and absolutely love this recording of the string sextets: http://www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd013/reviews.htm

This one blew me away, so much Italian passion in Northern Brahms' music!