couw

it's a cool boogaloo disk of the funky master of the time. I like it too, play it when doing chores, stuff goes faster that way and it's much less boring.

Received the Crossings disk this afternoon. Absolutely wonderful performance by Lafitte and Boussaguet (bass). It's a live recording of somewhat over an hour featuring mostly slow to mid tempo tunes. Lafitte plays with a more raspy tone than what I am used to, but often enough returns to his good old loveliness. His command of the horn is great and the often abrupt changes between the more raspy and the sweeter (and often amazingly soft) parts are very intruiging. Nice swinging set of tunes/improvisations. Recommended.

Staub ist überhaupt das interessanteste da oben

w/ love from maren & couw

p&p is 10,90 EUR if I read it all correctly. Not much different from amazon.de, which sells the disk for 9,99 but charges 14EUR for p&p. Best thing would be to find a kind soul willing to trade you a disk. Not me at the moment I am afraid as I am rather tight on my budget

are they?

BIG ears practise...

FIGHT!

Obviosuly you my friend, are a freak of nature. yeah, I hope you have BIG ears too...

maybe they'll have own track indices for Big Blacks's solos. I can skip them more easily then. IMHO he ruins a good groove and spoils a not too bright session even more. Don't expect true firework from Hubbard and especially not from Morgan.

amazon.de is not that bad I should think. They charge 4,31 EUR per shipment to Portugal plus 0,86 for each item. www.zweitausendeins.de has a limited number of items but at prices that are hard to beat. They charge 8,70EUR per shipment within the EU independent of the weight.

none other than "mid sixties." it's from the "That's Jazz" book that zweitausendeins put out some years ago, p328.

Are you on Helge mode? I saw he made a new film... Nah, not Helge mode, normal voice; figure of speech among some friends here. Harmless really. Go see the new film if you get a chance, it has some very good music in it (and post your comments in the appropriate thread)

clayworld in danger!

it was this beautiful picture that originally made his name stick with me. A guy named Guy Lafitte, looking like a perfect gentleman, and pouring everything he has into his horn. When the JiParis series came around, I remembered and bought. René Urtreger is on piano. No idea who the other two are. The photo was taken in the Chameleon club somewhere in the 60s. I have no info on the photographer.

I just ordered a bass/tenor duo disk of Lafitte w/ Pierre Boussaguet, titled Crossings. It was only 3EUR so hard to go wrong. If I understand correctly this was recorded (released?) in 1999; you write he died in '98? Good to know that those Black & Blues are also worth the price. Will seek these out if I stumble on them; they do seem to be available. I see he's also on a disk with Saxomania (1993, IDA), anyone know what to expect of that? It seems this is a group of 5 saxes + rhythm... looks interesting. Lafitte has a really lovely velvet tone; much like Byas I'd say. Besides the Blue & Sentimental disk you mention, I also have the JiParis disk of Jack Diéval and his group, which is very nice swing to bop in a pseudo radio broadcast setting. That Hampton (AmSwiParis) you mention is also part of my modest collection; he's also featured on 4 tracks of the Lucky T disk from the same series. Stunning material. Found this about the Rivièra Festival: bof!

So, here I am playing one disk by Guy Lafitte and popping the next after that, and the next one after that. Not that I have many, but he's such a nice, warm, and friendly player it's hard to depart from this sweet stuff and move on. Any opinions / recommendations?

well, good then B) I had only heard some snippets way back when and remembered the strings to sound quite like what we have here; the composition is probably a bit off though. As for Tyner, I can hardly imagine him to write such quitely beautiful strings stuff as I know him to be a fan of the bombastica and the often rather cheesy string thing that goes with that. Who's on trumpet BTW? Tolliver maybe?

it's still in the google cache: mainstream google cache

#9: am I WAY off with my Andrew Hill guess here? Can someone who has that 1for1 set spill the beans and reprimand me? (or not)

with love from maren & couw

G? who 's G? Typo, I just fixed it? it will be eternalised in my quote? Looks like it? yes? (yes is so much nicer that no?)