mikeweil

I survived passing this mark last year - welcome to the club, and hope you had a swinging one!!!

The most probable explanation, for sure. Another would be the others (or the producer) talking, and being picked up by the piano mic. Since they were all in the same room playing this would be a possibility. But it really should be Monk grunting along.

Sell it on ebay, trade it in - there may be someone searching for an item you fiound disappointing (just don't tell , or sell or trade it at a used record shop. That's what I do.

This cover photo on one of his last albums means a lot to me ...

Thread at Jazz Corner (mentioned in initial post)

R.I.P. Another of my top favourites has passed. The welcome jam session in heaven will be fabulous, I'm sure. Thanks a thousand times for many beautiful moments I got from your music, and the many more it will give me until I will finally meet you up there ...

The European scene, and the German in particular, never had those dance music roots (R&B) the US scene had. They didn't want to be connected with the mass hysteria of beat nor with the local dance music scene - even the radio orchestras studded with US emigrees had a hard time with the young audience. But any crazy experimental scene was welcome - especially those once persecuted by the nazis. You can see similar trends in German postwar painting - an attempt to pickup prewar developments. (edited for typo)

So we'll be getting late Blue Note McCoy as a select and the others as RVGs ... but I'd still like to hear that unreleased session with Shorter. This Select lessens chances we might get to hear it someday. I love the Asante and Cosmos period sessions, that's my favourite McCoy. Time to upgrade my scratchy Blue Note twofer LP.

Tony Williams & The Jazz Messengers ....... I have them all, and love them. Foreign Intrigue is the weakest, IMHO, sounding somewhat hard, and it's a studio band, whereas the others feature a working band, that grew better with every session.

I almost fainted when I saw how they adjusted their shipping charges to Europe ...

I think he did - and he was humble enough to make no big deal about it. He may have made more record dates in L.A. than any other jazz bassist.

You can find German language software here: http://archivsoft.com/ Test versions are available for download with full functionality, but limited storage capacity.

IIRC, he had!

Discs have arrived today in perfect condition. Thanks a million times! Truly a labor of love, excellent choices and programming - anyone not loving at least part of these should consider ........

Don't forget the albums Steve Nelson recorded with Geoff Keezer - especially the oop Here and Now on Blue Note is great. Full Nelson is a great, timeless album and highly recommended - excellent sound, too! Now that Nelson is too busy with Dave Holland, Keezer collaborates with Joe Locke, and the results I have heard so far are fantastic! One seamlessly continues the other's phrases! The two CDs/SACDs Summer Knows and Summertime are top notch, and Locke has developped a very beautiful sound on the instrument, which is hard to achieve.

Can't help but post the big pic for convenience: ... and that's how he looked like at the time (back cover photo):

A nutty record for sure - I had a lot of laughs about Für (meaning "For" - followed by a very very long list of names, a parody of the usual statements of gratefulness on albums). I remember Dauner stating he would have liked to start the LP side on one groove, but with variable endings, or that the record would self-destruct after playback, or elicit various odors during playback .... I saw that trio live opening for Herbie Mann back in 1970 - their performances were just as nutty. Weber has come a long way since then. Back then, a recording making such elaborate use of overdubs was the exception, and all the more in jazz circles - jazz was supposed to be spontaneous, and considering the free form leaning of the Dauner trio which had helped Weber to make a name on the German scene, it made quite a bit of noise that he released an album which was pre-conceived and arranged/composed to such a degree. But any album on ECM had the advantage of anticipated greatness back then ... I think it sounds a little aged now - to these ears, Weber's later overdub opus Pendulum seems a lot "rounder" in comparison - less constructed.

Same here. I hope it will last another two weeks, because then I can afford it ...

Oh no !!!!! My favourite of all bebop era bassist, and THE latin jazz pioneer bass player. R.I.P. Like Percy Heath, he recorded his first sessions as a leader very late in his life - they're great expamples of relaxed, groovy latin jazz, and highly recommended. His beat was fantastic. This was the second of his CDs: ... and he played a very old GERMAN Jacob Steiner bass fiddle from 1650: Very nice little web site on Al can be found here. A very sad year for jazz bass.

My sincere condolences. As I lost my mother almost two years ago, I feel some empathy for what you are going through, and my wife's mother is in the final stage of cancer right now - we expect a phone call any day ... Keep your head up!

Not lack of interest - it's only I already have them. Essential modern jazz flute, IMHO. That one disappointed me - Byrd plays rather sloppily, has trouble with the 7/4 time signature of the title track, and his trio is obviously not as together as Cal's band - both were used in different combinations. Cal is impeccable, however. Good idea, but didn't live up to the expectations.

Wait On The Corner - I almost wore that one out back then, great street groove!

Welcome to the club!

R.I.P. His wild playing on two cuts of Herbie Mann's "Do The Bossa Nova" forever spolied me for all those bossa nova softies ..... He lived in Europe, too, for several years. Very imaginative percussionist and drummer. Airto learned quite a bit from him besides copping his wife ....

The O'Day was not distributed by Universal in Europe, neither was the Hodges or the ones before covering stuff from the Universal vaults. Only the Mulligan, the Farlow, and now the Basie.