neveronfriday

I don't get this. I don't see that much hostility here (other than minimal isolated incidents). It depends where you hang out, I guess. Sorry you feel this way. It has nothing to do with hostility. It has to do with a few individuals venting their frustration or whatever with life, the universe, their careers or whatever, pissing on everything and everybody, usually without giving it much thought. The atmosphere has turned sour and I've got better things to do than to read the "personal opinions" they so proudly defend. Cheers! P.S.: Am I the only one that has noticed that at least one frequent poster has left quietly because of this? Apparently, because everyone else has posted useless "happy birthdays" for him.

I'm actually glad I don't have much time for this board anymore. It used to be a nice place to hang out. Cheers!

Jeff, good to have you back! Hope you will have a speedy recovery! Cheers!

Yeah, looks like we're going to approach a 1000 posts per day at the current rate (especially if people keep it up until later tonight). We made 674 so far since we hit the 300.000 mark last night (European time).. Cheers!

Three really bad images from that gig. Second set. They had made some space for Moeller further away from the bar towards the end. Cheers!

I could write up a pretty long list (which I did in some other thread a few months ago), including many of the jazz greats, but if I have to be totally honest, the best concert I have ever seen, and the one which still plays before my inner eye once in a while was one I stumbled into by pure chance (not really, since I had heard some good things about the musicians and had seen them individually in various settings, but the decision to see this band was made about an hour before the gig was about to start). Here's the story. At the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, three years ago, I walked into this comparatively tiny place called "Café Sommersko" in downtown Copenhagen. It's actually a bar/restaurant with not enough space to hold all the regular customers, let alone a band. About one hour after I had arrived there (there were quite a few known jazz musicians, both American and Scandinavian, hanging around the bar, also waiting to hear this quartet) and had spent some time talking to some fascinating people, the band came in, one after another from various gigs around town. Casper Villaume, the piano player and leader of the Casper Villaume Quartet, pulled some of the funniest faces trying to get a half decent sound out of a beaten-up piano and after a while decided to move it next to the main entrance (he said from there the piano couldn't develop its unbelievably crummy sound all too much as the door was wide open because it was a really, really warm summer day), got in a couple of good laughs together with the bassist, Jesper Bodilsen and the drummer, Morten Lund, who had sauntered in from some other sessions around town. The sax player, Lars Moeller, came late and the whole gig didn't start on time because of it, but the festival, as usual, had its own schedule with all the gigs going on around town. And, with the crummy piano, and the musicians sitting and standing jammed between the main entrance, restaurant tables and the bar (Lars Moeller played about 40 centimeters away from me, wedged between the bar and the side of the piano), this quartet just whipped up a steam in less than 30 seconds with their opener, Cuba. What followed was the most stunning display of young talent (Moeller, at fourty, was an old fart compared to the others) I have ever had the chance to witness. Bodilsen and Lund, already now perhaps the tightest rhythm section playing in Europe today (ask the people these two cats have played with), were an absolute dream team, Moeller blew the roof off with anything from straight ahead bebop lines to totally atonal free screams, Villaume made that piano sound perfect ... the place was boiling, sweating and screaming after the first number. Of course, I had had the chance to see many fine concerts before, especially smaller gigs in Copenhagen's famed Montmartre Jazz Club and other venues, but the weather, the mood and the audience were perfect. The spark ignited the audience which was just so totally appreciative of this quartet that you could have grabbed a handfull of the atmosphere and taken it home. About 1/3 of the way into the concert, about 50 to 60 bikers (or more) drove by the open door and the open windows on their positively roaring machines and the Casper Villaume Quartet integrated the soundscape spontaneously and absolutely seamlessly into a tune ... Lund played tom swells, Moeller added the police sirens and Villaume garnished the whole thing with the most outrageous comping I've ever heard. The tune quieted down just as the bikers were pulling away and by the time the scene had played out, tons of people were standing outside the bar/restaurant, leaning into the open windows, pushing and shoving to get a better view. The band took a break, fought its way to the back and ate the menu of the day only to return for a second set which was even better than the first. Fresh, different, but yet in the tradition of Scandinavia's finest jazz they just played one uptempo number after another, one better than the next, interspersed with Villaume's excellent ballad interpretations, the best of course having been "I Loves You, Porgy" ... stunning. There wasn't a soul in that place that night that hadn't been touched by the music, everyone was sweat-drenched and didn't care, and after the band had run off to another gig (after two blistering encores), most people stayed until early in the morning, just talking about what they had just heard, exchanging stories of other great gigs, talking about jazz ... I know of at least one world-famous musician who was supposed to have played elsewhere that night with equally known people and simply didn't go ... by the time the gig was over he was far too intoxicated and in a very talkative mood. He had been immensely inspired and everyone could tell. It was a stellar concert which didn't even get a review in any of the bigger newspapers. I think there were about one hundred other gigs that day and there wasn't a journalist in sight. Cheers! P.S.: The Casper Villaume Quartet's first CD was great (although it doesn't come near enough to what these people could play live), the second release I was very disappointed with and as of now, the Quartet is now a trio. But, who cares. That concert was just unbelievably good.

P.S.: I think this should be moved to my birthday thread. Just to confuse everyone even more.

...you're German I am?

Yeah, I forgot my key somewhere as well today.

I have the entire Jazz in Paris series, but I have to say that those new boxes look mighty fine (I looked at them not so long ago at my local CD haunt). If I didn't have the original run, I would certainly buy those. Classy packaging! Cheers!

Yeah, whoever it was: I'm sorry. Cheers! P.S.: Freud? No way! My sex life is fine, thank you!

Have a nice one! Cheers!

Yes, I do have my bad moments. Happens. I'm sure the other person could take it. I'm just making sure that Chuck has a free moment or two a day. Cheers! P.S.: My doctor told me to be a bit more outspoken once in a while. He said I'm far too timid for being German. Now you tell me that I screwed up? I just suck.

sorry to be redundant in posting this article a third time. I had no idea there was a search function. How does it work deus? Click on "search" (in the toolbar just below the Organissimo logo, on the right). Enter "Driggs" into "search for keywords", adjust the other options and hit "perform the search". Try it. There's tons of stuff on here that's not really visible unless you click through pages and pages of posts. Cheers!

Who complained and what was the nature of the complaint? I hope it wasn't because I told the truth about Frank's collection methods. No, not at all. I thought that was quite informative. I had no idea. The other person, whoever it was, deleted it because it was already up two other times (and there was nothing new added ... same link, same article). Cheers! Your post is still in here: Other thread

Yes, three times on this board in two days. One disappeared after complaints, but you made sure it came back. P.S.: There is a lovely search function on this board. Try "Driggs". Cheers!

This was ...

Bump. Just to have all four at the top, for about 1 minute.

Bump.

Don't think so. I did a couple of posts and went back to trying for a screen capture. I meant JSngry. Sorry.

Or it was you, with the 3 posts from the hip in the 300.000 thread. Cheers!

Who had the 300.000? Me? ....

Next round. Ready, set, gooooooooooo .... Cheers!

Sleep well!

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