couw

Just in case anyone wants to contact, the email address is office@hwmedia.de - "w" not "u". Hope you don't mind the correction, Couw. not at all, I should have done it myself by now....

with love from maren & couw

No-nonsense playing? nonsense is in the ear of the behearer

Not wanting to bad-mouth Dorn here as he is a helluvan important factor in getting this stuff out there, but sometimes I have the impression that he is very reluctant to share what he considers "his" legacy. I can imagine that his self-importance, as it also pervades his linernotes, somehow gets in the way to pull such large projects off. What I meant with focus is that he spends money and time in label after label putting out the same stuff. Great stuff that needs to be out there and I am grateful for that, but cannot escape the idea that if he would maybe plan his actions a bit more carefully instead of living by the day and sort of making a big deal out of the fact that nobody is interested in poor me and "my" beautiful misunderstood catalogue; I think if he were to accept that - damned - there are a lot of fans out there who will buy this stuff if only it were available longer than the 6 months before his current label folds and if only it were put out there instead of the same material once more in a different package with different cover art that is even uglier than in its last incarnation... Ah well, I guess I am not qualified to judge anybody trying to have this great music kept alive, but it all is frustrating at times, also for the fans.

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with love from maren and couw

I paid 5EUR for my mint copy a year ago! Tomato LPs seem to pop up every now and then. There must be crates of them lying around warehouses and every once in a while somebody stumbles on them and sells them on for amounts that hardly cover the price of the raw material...

The Jazz Corps w/ Kirk is really great. There is a nice contrast between wild, wild enthousiasm and cool restraint that pervades the date. Some of the playing is carefully probing, then plunges into bold forward movements. All are in great shape. The lines bop and swing around from the first beat. I love it, get it. The Byard was gone before I came. I always have to remember myself to look for it. It seems to escape me time and again... As for the Atlantic box, rumours of such a box have been making their round amoung Kirk fans for years and years now. Dorn wants to do it, but never seems to find enough focus to get it done. There is very little extra material to be expected after the Atlantic warehouse fire and most of the stuff is already out there; several times I might add as Dorn has been re-issuing it over and over again with each new label he has created. This project will probably not head off very soon.

damn, I need to catch up! been a busy day, first to bed though... -_-

this is a compilation from the Wewerka CDs, found here I still need to find out how to get my mits on these CDs

you need a reason to drink? why?

I'd be interested to read your verdict when the disk arrives.

none. no customs tag or re-sealing, nothing whatsoever. So it must have been the mail service somewhere along the long line. I'm glad it's here now though, as I am really digging this Marsh disk.

I am listening to this one at this very moment. I was struck by the buzzing beeline Marsh takes on the head of the first track. His soloing (the little I have heard) I find has this quality of going in, backing up, circling, and falling on top; he continually seems to pushing and stretching and I like that a lot. But as he is doing it on the theme statement of the head I can indeed imagine the other players not finding his "one" that easily. I'm looking forward to hear the rest of this disk. thus far

thanks for that link. never thought about looking for it with the label itself.

with love from maren & couw

Told my firewall the same; still no clips. I have the same problem with the clips from B&N BTW. Other sites with MediaPlayer clips don't cause any problems. It's probably a combination of this and that and whatnot, yet I think it is rather stupid if it doesn't work for a certain number of set ups. It's like those sites that use illegal java scripts and only work with IExplorer. Granted, 80% of the world uses IE, but I'm with the other 20%

why, aunt Bea's of course!

hey a man needs sleep sometimes!

I would complain , but I still haven't received the care package you sent

so why don't these stupid samples work for couw? I have the latest this and the latest version of that, still: no go. CRASH: shall I send a protocol and all the rest of your personal data? no thank you Bill.... Is it me, or my firewall, or my love for Opera (don't work with IE either), what?

who's this mikeweil guy? wasn't he here the day before yesterday as well? I wonder....

hairline is different too

So, in the meantime I listened to this one again and I am rather convinced it's indeed the player featured on track 10. My mental image of this player needs some adjusting. What is it? Where is it? On Evidence? Who knows should post!

thanks for putting that up! great resource, very nice (but why no picture of Moncur's Evolution?)