couw

Well there you have it - you can shake your booty with the assistance of a pothole, or that of some James Brown records. The choice is obvious, I'd think! James Brown records are also just potholes. Although they can be terribly annoying, once you learn the truth not to programme the time switch to have them play at full power in the middle of the night when you're sleeping, all is well.

Absence is a myth. Even nothing is something. only on a system level. nothing defines something (and v.v.) and thereby becomes something only on a higher scale. Nothing is often as important as the something it defines and is defined by. IOW, I'm glad there's room for beer in my bottle.

I'll be shaking my booty over some bouncing potholes now. I already know what they have to tell me and it's all just shallow commonplaces, but dang! shaking that booty till the canyon crumbles! meanwhile, you may ponder the Tao of the Canyon, where once again absence is the essence.

other than that you are stretching your metaphor like a rubber band (it will snap back in your face any minute now ) life cannot only consist of awe for the unreachable. It is nice to take the journey to the grand canyon and find some stuff along the road, whether it shows in the end that you had what you found all along, is irrelevant really. ain't that right Toto?

I think that Ayler's music is also just an exponent of its time. You may want to call the spiritual quest that everyone was dabbling with in those days a grand canyon when compared to the fast unfocussed frustrations of today, but that does not put it on a higher plane. Just a different one. Whereas the pothole seeks attention for reality and hammers on the need for finding personal solutions, the grand canyon actually offers a grand solution that is disassociated from reality and that does not address the problems themselves at all. So yes, there is more to life than its absurdities, like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but it gets really boring looking for that pot if the road is paved yellow and there are no flying monkeys. Personally, I think Ayler has a damn beautiful truth honking from his horn and Brötzel's is a damn lot uglier.

continuing from last time... veertien: chico remembers april? the pianist could do with some lighter handed, more precise intermezzos. not that his lines are bad, but there is too little variation to put the strong ones in the right perspective somehow. the bass & drums smoke the whole town out. vijftien: more tasty rhythm dudes. Vinnegar on bass maybe? guitar has me think of Kessel, but I'll leave it to Jim R to nail this one. very nice relaxed track. zestien: a jump alto like there are many more than I could possibly know. Listened into an album of this type just this week at the local record shop. I already forgot that guy's name ... pretty cool this track, cooler than any of the stuff on that album I left in the store. zeventien: sounds like Waterfront. cool vibist, nice touch and ring. have heard that final riff before somewhere. hmmm. achtien: this is nice enough. haven't a flying clue on who's playing, but I like it better than the instrumentation might have me think. negentien: more jump with a brawly tenor straight from the party tent to the studio. no idea who's playing, but this is fun stuff fer sure. twintig: deeper into this territory with that tune by whatshisname I am sure I have heard lots of time, but do not have myself. eenentwintig: back to some serious vibes and latin grooves. tipping on Tjader on one of his smoother outings just before it all got really slick. not much substance but all the more booty shaking. tweeentwintig: Moody again? beautiful. drieentwintig: this is nice enough, but some of the rhythmic tricks just don't work out quite alright. that makes the lyrics sound really silly at times. nice closer for sure though! now, I liked nearly all of the tracks on this second disk (which is a huge improvement from the first disk ), but still there is a certain sameness to it all that makes it not very exciting. No brilliant never heard before must must must haves here I'm afraid. sure I am very curious to find out about some of these tracks and will probably carry some names into the back of my head from the discussions and answers, yet there is no real ringer here for me that makes me itchy and urges me in that spending mood. Too much to listen to I guess, and too much of it fits the same bill as the music on this disk: great stuff that I listen to on a daily basis but cannot give any priority as I encounter similar greatness everywhere. IOW and not to sound too negative here (sheesh!): thanks a lot for a great compilation Mike

Moby Dick?

and posts too, right?

I am the one and only

so that Jackie-Dex connection isn't just in my ears and brain then?

een: there's that Bag's Groove thing again. Not it and it sounds older, but it resounds from the notes. The tenore sounds mighty familiar. Somehow the whole affait (tenor included) reminds me of Plas Johnson, which must mean this is Moody (thanks for the linear logic there, couw... ) twee: A little touch of Monk on the piano intro and another bag's groove thingy starts. This must be some Quincy thing, though I am at a loss as to the details. drie: aah! bebop! Leo Parker fersure, but then what? vier: ja! dat svinggs! no clue really. This could be anything, even the Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker. The clarinet limits the possibilities, however, is it Goodman? vijf: talking trumpet and great singer. Hodges? and geeetarrrr too, hmmm... zes: Cool beans! nice alto break. Reminds me of Parker, but some fire is missing. zeven: How hight the Moon? Great afro-cuban stuff from the days. no clue on the players. acht: Must be Bud and KD seems among the trumpets. Alto again reminds me of Parker, might be Stitt. hmmm, baritone, tenor, and 'nother trumpet have me stumped. negen: Sounds like a Euro big band of the time, a bit predictable all this, though altogether nice enough. The violin is pretty wild, reminds me of some Brom sides. tien: cello rather than bass. Pettiford or Brown, or maybe both? elf: hankster on the debut twaalf: baffled but me likee dertien: I have the distinct feeling I have this hidden somewhere in the recesses. It all sounds sooooo familiar.... leaving the thread now, more next time...

You didn't happen to have a digital camera handy? camera is kaputt

een: I don't care for these powered up unison diffimcult things that much and the burst that starts off the disk had me scared a little, fearing a disk full. Things tone down nicely, however, and even develop into a childrens tellyvision show type kinda music, which couw happens to like a whole lot. Reminds me of those Savoy outings with Frank Wess and Hank Jones, and who else, somewhat. Very nice. The vibes go about seemingly effortless to produce a nice flow of ideas and the piano isn't far off that particular stream of cream either. Nice opener. twee: too much sound here really. A lot of heavy-duty drumming and that guy starting his skat without enough introduction leave a hard in your face impression, making me wonder what kind of drugs these guys are on more than enjoying it all so to speak. There is a lot of drive here that I actually would like quite a bit, but the skatting I do not like and the tenor I found a little bland really. Fun stuff for the party tent when dancing to sweat out the downed beers, but maybe not in this particular form. drie: Young-like organ with a lot of drums everywhere, everywhere, raah, drums! the drums made me a bit nervous; this must be one of those 20 microphones for the drums alone recordings The tenor again sounds a bit bland, even smooth in places. Nice enough for sure. But it never hits "the zone" really, which may be due to the sound as much as to the music itself. Playing this stuff on head-phones, the tenor really got scary after it laid out and started the riffing behind the organ/drum solo, popping up then left, then right like a regular spook! vier: more of the even more Young-like organ with baritone and trumpet this time. No theme to speak of, but pretty cool solos. The baritone sounds very familiar, I'd be really curious to find out. Trumpet kindles that Blue Note type fire even more, very nice! whodis? The interplay of the organ and the percussion is pretty cool and the original head makes more of itself in this freely diversified form. As it is with these percussive excercises, they *are* a bit repetitive, but luckily this one veeres off into multiphonics just in time. Cool track. vijf: a tune that borrows heavily from another tune I know well enough to forget the name of. The execution of the head sounds a bit bored and so does the first tenor solo for starters, but luckily it turns around real fast to become more interesting. Ugly distracting snapping bass slap sound off the left channel thoughout. The second tenor solo I find even more interesting than the first. Drats if these tenors do not sound familiar! I have the distinct feeling I'm having a blackout here... RE. blackouts, I've been having many of those lately. It's probably also because of the loads of unknown jazz I have been hearing where the players sound just as good as (sometimes even decidedly better than) the heroes on many if maybe not their greatest days. zes: on my third time through I really started to notice the intro. It's the bestest thing about this performance which is otherwise rather middle of the road I find. at times nicely baroque, then nicely romantic, all at just the right moment and dose. Not really telling me much of a story beyond the one already there in the melody. Less maybe as the arrogant element of the story told seems lacking. I was really wondering when this would take off and tipped for the solo part, but nah. tweedle deedle, restaurant. zeven: nope. this doesn't cut it. The singer seems too much set on thinking up variations instead of having them happen. acht: pretty cool guitar getting its rocks off. very laid back in the good way, though the organ seems to be stumbling at times. Haven't got a clue on the players at all. nice. negen: I like this kind of beat, though this particular one really wears out. The blowers play an interesting tune then to fall into uninteresting soloing. Piano has me think of Shipp and I could imagine that it's him indeed. The trumpeteer knows his Morgan licks, the tone is somewhat reminiscent of Tolliver or Shaw. There is this awfully well known melodic lick around 4:15 there that makes me cringe for not recoginising it; Hill? Liked the piano best here. The quote at the end is a bit unfitting I find as I have heard hipper hoppy jazz sounds than this one. tien: the first time I heard this, I was laughing my pants off. This is really very silly to be frank. Nice for its novelty value, but not much more I find on repeated listening. The skatting is cool fersure, but the lyrics are downright dumb. Good for a Saturday night tellyvision show, but nothing here adds to the original - later much maligned - music. elf: this took me some, but heck, it's quite nice really. The take-off is a bit cumbersome, but once this piece picks up mass (most notably with the plucked bass), it starts growing and going logical places that still surprise me enough to be intruigued. Parts of this remind me of FZ's CiviIII, particularly after when the harp starts mutilation. So, I HAFC, but would be DITK (darn interested to know). twaalf: reminded me of Bag's Groove a bit (more of those reminders on disk two, but that's just me I guess). This is nice enough if not for the in the face recording (really feel like the guy is spitting up my face), and the noodling doodly dinka dunka quality of the skat that is only saved by the beatbox ditty coming right after. All in all this was a bit of a let down. Many nice enough stuffs, but none that made me go all shivering to know and then buy. Is that okay?

Trane/Hartman

There is also a 2CD set of that EJ's performance. It has the complete set with Rick Bell sitting in on tenor. It's titled "In a Mellow Tone" and gets panned on AMG, whereas the single CD version is praised like it were the best thing since they invented beer. Anyhow, the 2CD set comes highly recommended. I am one of the few who believes that also Iancsi Körössy was always "on" and actually bought the set for the piano player. Not that I don't like my Zoot too! As for the Jitterbug, I tend to agree with brownie here.

I think we need some silly traditional toilet-tile reminding us of the wisdom of ages past ain't life swell?

poor king.... can someone clear up the question on whether these Verve disks actually are CProt?

Clem mentioned something similar here. I have noticed that Windows Mediaplayer and WinAmp do not display the true TOC if there is a bogus TOC as well. This is based on some CProt EMI disks. Nero still shows me the true content of the disk (both TOCs).

ware did you find it?

buy them at the underwarehouse!

eat more and spell right -_-

it sobers up I hear

why, it's just Miroslav Vitous Meer-os-law Vee-too-s Twy to pronounce a weal "R" and pronounce the latter "-too" shorter than usual. (and don't overdo it on the "eeeeee"'s either)

upon popular PM request: Iancsi Körössy plays the sanity out off All The things You Are Live on Stage in Warsaw, somewhere late 1961. right click/save to listen or copy/paste the URL into the address bar