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and still ole spock looks all droopy

new one looks like shite in Opera, way too busy "I need a word here..." "use another font type!" "okay" edit, loaded the thing in MS IE: ah! it's supposed to be ordered according to geometric forms, I thought it was a pile of letters and random lines really. With MS IE recently being put down as one of the most dangerous browsers on the planet, you'd expect big time professionals to check into the looks on other browsers like Opera. But noooo.... did some tweeking on Opera and got something nearly okay. The idea to split the artist entries using tabs is an improvement although having it all on one page like in the old days was pretty cool as well. Just that it SUCKS big time that they can't seem to write their tables/pages as such that also my browser can display them as they are supposed to look.

old one

Groove Merchant

this is too refreshing!

Ah, even the 'Hanging Gardens of Babylon' started like this! next up: hanging ponds... What a great idea! I could fit two more above the existing ones. Sort of like that wierd chess game they used to play on Star Trek! fascinating, yes-

got a confirmative on both of them

don't listen to Paul. it's really not that good...

mine's bigger than yours!

see

big smilies are also cool

You don't HAVE to buy it... and if you do buy it, you don't HAVE to listen to it. that's what many around here do I believe....

Ah, even the 'Hanging Gardens of Babylon' started like this! next up: hanging ponds...

last time my backups arrived with the other dozens of emails and PM notifications. so you think they might not arrive right after sending them, but they won't get lost either? that's what happened to me.

last time my backups arrived with the other dozens of emails and PM notifications.

I think we need masks, masks are cool.

note that it was released in 1994, so it's not 20bit remastered.

okay, here goes... Track 1. tight unisono playing with fiddle and guitar and then bass cl added. Pretty nifty, sounds a lot like some of the recent Italian efforts. The steel guitar is the absolute runner on this one. The fiddle gets a bit in my way at some point, but he steel guitar lifts it all into some lighter, more humourous realm. The freedom that follows the controlled head did not come unexpected, the violin is too much C&W too really fit in with the rest though, and yet my guess is that the fiddler is the leader... The bass cl. reminds me of Actis Dato, nowhere near sure there. Track 2. first one of a lot of piano centred tracks, and those are really not my strong point although I keep learning. The switch between heavy- and light-handedness I like quite a bit here. Same with the unpredictable fast runs and the slower "classic" figures. There are a lot of contrasts in this playing and it is very interesting from that point of view. Too short to really know though... Track 3. pretty tune. The cello is a particularly nice touch. The piano is a little too lazy at times, some original ideas wouldn't hurt much, luckily it steers in later on in the solo. Alto is pretty, Konitz-like style at times, but too short to tell. Cello remains the best ingredient here. Track 4. bam in the face. free-style jump off the cliff with more unisono lines. This reminds me of the Hans Koller big band efforts, like the New York City album. Wild big band with unisono and counterpoint shite flying all over the place and large, dooming solos, hardly contained by the chaos surrounding them. Pretty cool, if the mood'S right They even got a baritone that lets the stuff fly. Woo! Hey tooter, is this a lost Ross recording? Channeling from up above? Track 5. starts of very nice, soprano mutters like I like them. Turns into something I couldn't care less for. I hear it's well played and whatnot, but the whole sound I don't like at all. Very ECM-ish. The (again) unisono lines fit nicely together (if for that dreadful sound) and remind me of Polish stuffs from the 80s. Thinking along that line, this might well be Zbigniew Namyslowski on soprano and why not throw in Gusko on trumpet while we're at it. Track 6. more of the same sound. Not to my liking. More of "those" lines that are nice, but can get on your nerves every now and then; not now though. Way much reverb/echo here. horn sounds like Konitz and I might as well throw in a guess that this is one of his Hat outings. The sound is a bit too nice and too lovely though. Track 7. Epistrophy/Straight No Chaser for some short lines. Off and away on a dash again. I like this a lot, but am lost for words as I am pretty much drawn in by what's going on here. Track 8. more piano, alone together right? nice to cool it down after the fire. as much as I cannot tell one piano player from another, I can tell you that this one does the right things. Very nice performance, not too much, not too little either. Track 9. pretty sure I have this somewhere. drats. very nice sound, very nice playing. Yet another one of those tunes like track 6, but much less retentive in the overall sound. drats, I can't name it! Track 10. see post before. Vint is rigth, this thing is WILD! this dirty down sax rips it apart like splicing fresh melons with a big ass knife. Still don't know the tune, tip of toungue, brain in overdrive, nyegh, nyegh... This is a winner. Gato? Track 11. some whack stuff going on here as far as my limited piano knowledge allows; waitaminute, is this overdubbed? two pianos? song is reminiscent of body and soul, guess that means that thing with the changes. lovely stuff, very pretty. Track 12. starts off with some mighty monkisms to stray off into more of those with horns added. Keeps the monk feel of time, harmony, and melody throughout the piano solo, too close for comfort at times, WTF! ah, luckily loose it towards the end, I was getting awkward all over. Right back atcha in the comping though, it almost makes me want to check my monk collection... Track 13. nice, but nothing more. I don't like the sound, not to blame the musicians for that, but the recording. It sounds so sterile, so thirteen in a dozen, so very 'safe'. Track 14. The Winner Takes it All. AbbA, bleh! Though nice, still a bit over the top I find. Just like many of those Beatles covers by the big and famous jazz artists of the golden age. Thanks, but no thanks. Grumpy and very close-minded of me, I know, but I cannot keep my mind open purposefully this late at night... Thanks a bunch Nate for a very nice BFT experience. I hope I find some time to revisit it soon. edited for spelling

guess what, we had MORE rain today, been like this (heavy rainshower, sunshine, rain, sun, rain,...) for almost two monts now. Might as well have been living in the subtropics near the sea somewhere, thought it's not as nicely warm here by far. Not grumpy though, just that this weather stimulates my observational skills. I think

yeah but what's with the fuzzy pic? window needs cleaning?

ey bev, that "garden" looks a bloody mess! and what do you want TWO ponds for? you will drown in one when returning home with your head full of beverage one day-

the sax on that one (#10) reminds me somewhat of that weirdo Xero Slingsby dude I had on my BFT. Total control, but total wack as well. now asking about the standard is a mean thing to do, as I am biting my nails over this one too... FEGH!

check Kulu's post up above

just as easy: type TM between brackets: ( TM ) makes