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which may be pretty much what we need

Right off the bat: Disk one, trac... hey! there is only ONE disk! Big plus for that as it meant I was actually able to listen to this multiple times, albeit more or less in the background until now. Some stuff I know and other stuff I like, let's do it then. een: Big bang for starters, promises cosmologic truths. The chaotic sections that follows is much like musicians of some big orchestra tuning their instruments before things go off for real, I have always liked that sound and it's nice to hear it here with a beat underneath. After some more organised chaos, there is this beautiful piano line that stems from Sogno d'Orfeu or something similar, which puts this in the Italian camp with the Instabile conglomerate. The flute is sweet, leading off like a funny rat catcher. One of the clarinets must be Trovesi, I reognise some of his lines. And there is that piano riff again! Really love that. Probably could identify some more of the players if I set to work on that, looking things up and comparing, but hey, there is too much else going on in this piece already. Love it how they set up some of the solo sections with double instruments. Two clarinets, two trombones. This whole piece is a big play, almost Shakespearian with too much ado and all of it at the same time and yet clearly organised. The setup I like a lot: obviously carefully composed parts trading off with solo sections. The riffing/melodic lines behind these solos are a great touch, playing with clichés and creating some nice tensions. Talking about clichés, I see the Mexicans dancing on the city wall already during the part that starts 9 or so minutes in. Yet the vamp is some folk tune I and I would not be surprised if there were a dance to this with people going in circles, changing partners and stumbling over too many feet. Makes you want to sing along (fiery sax to break that bubble halfway through). This gets very African towards the end. Spendid stuff. twee: This is nice and mellow. Love how this just bounces along. Good rhythm section to make it feel that relaxed and let the piano go pretty wild in spots. Trumpet has nice things to say. Is it that Fresu guy? drie: oy, this is wild! Love how this builds up and releases tension like regular breathing. It does miss out on melody some. I do not have this but am pretty sure it is Gebbia and I have sampled it somewhere online. Still wanting to get some of that. vier: Almost sounds like fake jazz at the start, John Lurie and some little kid playing the plastic bucket. More going on here, but not in general atmosophere. Great interplay and plenty nice ideas. vijf: This one has been bothering me much as I am sure I have heard it before. Not funny enough to be Breuker, not teutonic enough to be Zerbe or Gumpert. Bass clarinet and tenor towards the end would be Actis Dato. And that fits muchly with the rest of the tune. This stuff I like, marching rhythms with tango dances and some surprise moves thrown in. Probably a bunch of Italians that practise on the street or in small cafés, which is definitely where this kind of music belongs. And people on the sidewalks and crammed between tables and waitresses, dancing their booties off. zes: ah yes, must be that french tuba dude with the french accordion dude and the italian clarinet dude. Here we are back in folk tune territory again, even with a incomprehensible singer (pretty usual for these folk festivals here in euro land) and even with a fiddle. I used to date a girl who did this folk dance stuff and frankly, it was a bit too much for me at the time. There are definitely some great elements to be found in the music though and this tune successfully combines quite some like the vamp and the wailing. Good stuff! zeven: yay! Pino! fantastic album this is and a great track you have pulled from it. My favourite is the final track, but that would be no fun as they call out all the names on that one. Again some initial chaos to have some mellowness rise from it like a phoenix from the ashes. Fantastic fumpy trumpet playing by the man and great riffs and fork and spoon percussion, scha-winging piano and a grande finale to boot. Weird schlepping theme and latin outro bingo! Good! Very good. acht: sweet! They should put stuff like this in those turn-up music boxes you have to put small children to sleep. Clarinets almost sound like accordions. Reminds me of some film music. Very pretty. negen: heheheh. cool tactics. I was pretty much wondering how you would solve the problem the previous track offered to sequencing, either more of the same and the slow route or the bang-in-the-face. So it is the latter, makes for a better disk I think. Not that I am all that partial to this track. Reminds me of that wacko FES stuff from Belgium, but the recitation does not fit in there at all. Wokke-Tsikke tien: Oh, didn't he ramble? Trovesi for sure doing his trad dittie, complete with bowed bass pretending to be a tuba! Great transition to the trumpet solo, things stumbling ahead, then the bass going into a steady vamp again, the clarinet throwing out candy and trumpet and trombone pestering about with some false teeth clacking to the rhythm in the back. Gotta love it. The upbeat to the trombone section is simply grand. Really love how this taps from one foot on the other, creating distinct moods, then mixing them. I only have this in a live version which I have played to splinters. Looking forward to the answers and a pointer in the right direction. (One of the enja disks, right?) elf: must be what they call "prepared piano", in other words someone throwing stuff about inside of it. heheheh. Quite nice with an oriental touch from hitting so many of the black keys/strings. More folk tunes then to finish it all off. Are these two guys or three? If it is only one on the piano, (s)he's working into a damn frenzy there. Probably better listened to than watched! Overall, this is a damn fine disk and a damn nice BFT, I had much fun playing this episode of that endless saga. There is likely to be a theme here, Euro-dudes or maybe even Italians (catesta will lap it up!) or maybe folk tunes crossing over into the realms of improvised music. And that is another nice thing: there is some stuff here that scratches the edges of what people are likely to call "jazz", stuff that moves in and out of that orbit, but that finds much in composed parts, in this case mostly depending on european folk songs. I like it. Writing this little after-party part, I put on the Hannes Zerbe Blechband, which has a very similar approach of free folk and jazz improvisation, but leans heavily on the german folk tradition. This stuff runs deeper and wider than many would assume. Thanks for the ride John.

I had similar problems off and on this evening.

still does that from where I am sitting

hurray!

2000, George Mraz - Morava (Milestone), ctd the next two days

yes, you got no eyebrows, you scary creep! now beat it!

I never take anything serious, but what's this, "yay" or a "nay"?

poop on that, hasn't even got one of these

someone sold his cybersword...

http://www.rektor.no/

and note the whole street being tilted to the East. It's because the music shoppe is on the left hand side and Bev lives on the right hand side. And because of gravity of course.

http://www.universalmusic.fr/servlet/Front..._id=60249806918

it's a nice brochure! mine's in English though...

nice, but where are the pistons?

1973, Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer (Impulse!), ctd the next day

listening just now and sound is okay. An occasional drop out/distortion/mike-squeel/clicks/patrons calling for more beer. But some damn fine musique!

fine opportunity to post this little gem of a drawing by Mr. T.S. Sullivant

JAM SESSIONS AT CHRISTY'S '50 winter - '51 spring. Christy's Restaurant. Framingham, MA. Jam Session Howard McGhee, unk - trumpet Bob Wilber - clarinet Gigi Gryce - alto sax, piano Joe Roland - vibes Oscar Pettiford - bass, cello Tommy Potter - bass Duke Jordan, Nat Pierce - piano drummer unidentified Eddie Curran - mc 1. Rockin' in Rhythm 2. Imagination 3. Perdido 4. Swingi' 'til the Girls Come Home 5. Anthropology 6. I'll Remember April 7. Indiana 8. Stardust 9. Perdido 10. Lady Be Good

Some dramatic shitte here this evening...

I have found that spools are quite helpful

Yeah, but the colour is all wrong!

duck!

http://www.koreus.com/files/200505/men-in-coats.html