mikeweil

R.I.P. Ruben and thanks for your playing and personality. As much as I like him, to put him in a league with Monk (a Cuban Monk, as Ry Cooder put it) does not show a deep knowledge of either Monk or Cuban music, and to call him the greatest Son pianist, is with all due respect, a little exaggerated. You have to put these names before him, and he would have been the first to admit this: Peruchín (Pedro Justíz) Luís Martinez (Lily Martinez, his predecessor in the Arsenio Rodriguez conjunto) There is another one whose name escapes me right now. These masters of Cuban music were late discoveries to the rest of the world, their "discovery" was overdue, and there are still more, dead and alive. That movie only scratched the surface, and only of Son, not even mentioning the other musical styles of Cuba - this is my main complaint about "Buena Vista Social Club".

Most of us will admit we were curious about the looks of each other, but some of the comments make me even more curious about the lives and stories behind ... seems our next larger project should be some organissimo convention.

I suggest you inherit your collection to some institution or some serious jazz lover you know - this is what will happen to my collection. I think this is the best - and least - one can do to keep it in circulation.

Don't wanna spoil your fun - I had this double LP too, but sold it after buying this box set: It has plenty of unreleased material, exhaustive annotation and better sound ...

... courtesy of the master couwatar, as always. Thanks a lot, couw!!!

Why not give Alsace to Switzerland? But not to Great Britain, I prithee!!!

I just received this e-mail from AAJ: Now whaddaya say ..... (red color added by yours truly ...)

Funktastic pic!!! p.s. I mean, congrats for being the first to reach that status!

Take your choice: # 3:

Take your choice: # 2:

Take your choice: # 1:

I have a photo in the booklet of a RCA Joe Newman reissue, just one mic (probably a Neumann) and the balance achieved by the distance to it: four horms, piano, guitar, bass, drums. Balance and sound are very natural and excellent! Wish they would do it like this today, but I'm afraid only few groups could play that way.

I strongly advise German speaking board members to read the English original, which is available as paperback (amazon.de) for about the same money as the newly published Fischer pocketbook. Too many errors in the translation (obviously done with the aid of a translation software, without proofreading of someone knowing about jazz), including the seemingly inevitable "Thelonius" ... . See the review in Die Zeit for some examples. There is a much better German translation (by Dorothea Trottenberg) of part of the Lester Young chapter in the July 1998 issue of the Swiss magazine DU, featuring tenor saxophonists (Giant Steps. Album Tenor Sax).

There are many important jazz musicians that lead unspectacular lifes that will never inspire any storyteller ... or other whre we do not not have enough documentary material to write a story about them the way Dyer did. On a bottom line, I was a little disappointed by Paris Trance, in the end it did not lead anywhere too substantial. Complete Review has some fitting comments about his other works, it seems.

I'm aware of this, but can use some Mr. B. as well. Still thanks for the warning ...

Call that matching trips!

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie ... just wanted to post his name.

Haven't yet seen the Eldridge set in shops here, but the Mulligan, another Verve, showed up at EUR 60,00! Completely identical to the Mosaic, i.e. part of their pressing. If you carefuly read their webpages, they announced this from the start, that some copies would be available through retailers.

Not sure about this, but I know he once stated: "There are only two kinds of music, good and bad." Now I wouldn't include a Michael Jackson tune or Britney Spears, but anything that has SOME realationship to jazz. This music has influnced so many musicians over the world, it's ubiquitous. On the other hand, there is music that may sound similar to jazz and makes an interesting comparison, which is a relationship to jazz made up by the compiler and/or listener. I go for JSngry's statement: Give the people what you want them to hear! You can't please everybody, but I'm sure each of us considers very carefully what to include and what not, and I appreciate everyone's choices, no matter how much our tastes differ! Tolerance and opennes is part of jazz and the scene (and this forum), or at least it should be, 'cause that's how it came into life!

You have my unrestricted consent! Keep up the good work - thanks a thousand times again for this forum - all the best wishes for your child - and treat the bad boys like they want you to ...

... with all my assembled forces of imagination I cannot see Carlos Santana in a tuxedo! With his his woolen cap on the head, that is.

I thought so, thanks. I will buy this for certain.

I firmly believe all who signed up are working on it! A crazy idea just strikes me: we could all send our tests all at once ... and not tell who discusses which disc ...