neveronfriday

I think that it was this aspect, really, that finally turned me around after about 30 years of eclectic listening. I love music, all kinds of music, but in jazz I find both groove/fun and more challenging things, all depending on my mood. I used to be able to find that in all kinds of music, but for quite some time now, I have more often than not returned to jazz for extended and concentrated listening ... or just for blowing my neighbours away. Cheers!

Well, my dad bought "Ellington Uptown" and is sure that it wasn't this version (he loves the CD though). I guess that only leaves (a probably unissued) radio broadcast? Cheers! [Edit: He's still quite sure it must have been 1949, so the recording should be from then or the time before].

That comes pretty close to a flamethrower alreday. I wonder what the next 48 cakes will look like? But, thanks!

Yes, there is. I just slept longer than usually. Happy birthday to me , happy birthday to meeeeee Cheers!

maybe I will drop by in August, long drive, arrive very thirsty. Anyone else in for draining God's bank account? If I'm here, you're welcome. Check first. And, I don't have a bank account. My money is transformed instantly into CDs. Pure magic. And thanks for the cake! Cheers!

I guess I'm late. But happy birthday nonetheless. I think I'll swing over to the bar for a drink. I can see some people lurking around there.

Me too.

It is not that long ago I dived head-first into jazz again. I had been on a remaster-binge, shopping for some albums I already had, going for Universal Deluxe editions of Frampton and Marley when I stumbled over Brubeck's Time Out! with this big red "remastered" sticker. Next to it was Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, I think, and within a few minutes I had gone through this huge jazz section, loading up on remastered editions of some records I had been listening to when I was much younger. After I had listened to these, my preferences shifted and it has pretty much stayed that way ever since. Not that I don't have the occasional relapse. Just the other day, I dug out my remastered Aerosmith stuff, the Judas Priest Unleashed in the East blaster, some Motorhead and Sabbath. I had a blast (so did my neighbours ), but, I got tired of it really fast. Cheers!

Interesting. I had drifted away from jazz and had long started listening to other styles a lot more (metal, rock, some pop, etc.) and it was a Spanish friend of mine, a damn fine drummer and percussionist at an early age, who loved playing Benson's On Broadway and that lovely little solo towards the end. Then he started me on Stanley Clarke's Schooldays, from there I drifted to the Brecker Brothers (Heavy Metal BeBop, one of my faves), and slowly but surely further and further back in time. When he started playing this stuff (both on record and on drums), I rapidly lost my interest in rock drumming again (you know, the 4-4 type) and became interested in more complex stuff, odd time metre, etc. My listening habits have undergone such (almost) dramatic changes over the past 30 years that I am sometimes astonished it happend that way. Anything could trigger something new off. A few years ago, Cecilia Bartoldi somehow managed (quite a feat) to drag me into opera, seeing a twelve-tone performance with my dad (there was this wonderful South-American pianist who explained it all) got me into that all of a sudden, listening to Mussorgsky's Night on the Bald Mountain in its orginal orchestration got me into Russian music, Johnny Clegg got me into African stuff, etc. When I'm really on a roll, a whole evening might be spent jumping from style to style, one thing always setting off another one. Most people think I'm nuts when that happens.

Hey, Herr GOtt, you know that if there really was a GOtt, he'd have blown away all those unholy royals loooong ago! So either go to work fast (the guillotine is not a bad means), or "GOtt ist tot"... ubu How does a slow boil sound? Much more original and, I suspect, in line with king ubu's way of thinking.

Err. I think I'll pass. Cheers

I have always had a tought time with Armstrong. I know how good he was, but much of his stuff never grabbed me. I do have some songs I love (Walking Stick [mostly acapella if I recall correctly] comes to mind, which is not exactly typical and a straight pop tune if he ever did one). Electric Miles I dig, but mostly because I often saw him perform that stuff live. I don't think I would have gravitated towards it if that hadn't been the case. Cheers!

Hi everyone, posting something elsewhere on this board I referred to my dad who got me hooked on jazz. It was really a combination of factors - my dad's record collection, my mom's piano playing, the constant availability and presence of music in our house, my later move to Copenhagen, Denmark, where jazz concerts were available 24/7, etc. - that got me hooked, but I think it was largely my dad's "fault" that I invest so much time and money into jazz these days (after a rather long absence). Did your parents have an influence on you when it comes to your musical preferences or the mere fact that you do in fact spend a lot of time with music/jazz today? On a similar note, if my parents hadn't spent an incredible amount of time reading to me (us), often taking the time when time was not available, I wouldn't have been such an avid reader either. As a teacher I notice that today, in Germany, many parents do not invest that time anymore (because they don't want to or don't have much time to spare) or simply don't have any affinity for books or records, and as a result, many children I teach have huge difficulties reading or appreciating texts or understanding that music has a history. I'm often surprised how little teenagers today know about the latest hit which is based on some other tune from way back when. It was always made clear to me where things came from, so I never thought about this until I was faced with kids who thought that P. Diddy was actually doing something new. I remember pulling out a Led Zep CD once, taking it to school and playing it to a 10th grade with the result that many people actually borrowed it simply because they liked the original better (or because it was free burn ). There is a generation hitting the streets which has a lot of abilities but little knowledge of the history and background of things. Cheers!

UP! Count Basie was my first jazz concert experience. I was very young and my dad thought I should see some good jazz. I loved it and decided right there and then that I wanted to be a musician. Before I went to see just about everyone that was still alive and big at the end of the seventies, beginning eighties, my dad took me to see Basie again, Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and many of the other larger-than-life jazz greats, but also, for example, Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra. If it hadn't been for my dad's collection and these concerts, I don't think I would have been such a jazz buff today. I'm paying him back today by supplying him with a steady stream of CDs, many of which he wouldn't buy himself anymore today. Just sent him the Teddy Wilson Mosaic which he loves, Mulligan (Village Vanguard), Basie (Chairman ...), and Oscar Peterson (Exclusively ...) and after many years of actually having been to lazy to simply put on a CD, I think I got him hooked again. Like crack, the stuff. Cheers! P.S.: I think I'll start another thread on jazz and your parents' influence, if any. CU there.

What about my 40th? 80th? 99th? Are you gonna post a flamethrower? A volcano? Final Impact photos? Cheers! [P.S.: Anyone for a real life party for my 99th? That's a serious question, BTW. I can be 99 anytime I damn well please, so finding a date would not be such a problem.]

Gave me a good laugh, that exchange. Thanks. I needed that. Cheers!

Up ... ... with one of my fave Basie pics by Lee Friedlander. That's Pee Wee Marquette, "half a motherf*cker", with Basie in New York City, 1957. Cheers!

If anyone starts anything here, it's me! Cheers! [P.S.: I'm looking forward to the discs!]

This reminds me of a story: sometime in the 80s, a professor showed me a Fender Strat catalog from Japan, which had apparently been run through one of these translating programs. It had a double-page spread of a Strat with each part labelled in English. There were arrows pointing to the screws holding the pickguard in place, and in bold sans-serif letters the catalog screamed F*CK - F*CK - F*CK - F*CK ... There is a site somewhere on the Net (can't find it in my bookmarks at the moment) which lists a load of other funny translations from Japan (posters, T-Shirts, product descriptions and labelling, etc.), but nothing ever beat that one. Cheers!

One of my favorite jazz tunes (it's been on my top ten list since the 1970's) is Artie Shaw's "Special Delivery Stomp". I've had this recording ever since I was a teenager and have played it literally thousands of times in way over 20 years. It's just one of the catchiest and most swinging tunes I have. Man, I love that tune. Never get tired of it. I guess that makes me a fan. Definitely.

Now THAT would be one spectacular party. And it would be one of the rare occasions to remove my hat ... with an elaborate bow to Basie and Webb ... two of the greatest. Thanks for the party atmosphere already now. I think I'll go and actually listen to some Basie (Chairman of the Board). Later ...

Thanks for the cakes. I'm approaching 40. How about some spectacular fireworks, wild parties, some Basie swing and general mayhem? Just a thought.

No, man. That is just faaaaaaaaar too complicated. I think I'll wait for the Marvel illustrated version That one does not have any pictures. Cheers! Yeah, well. In order to fully understand this response... Buy a copy of "Band of Brothers" and watch Carwood Lipton's response to Foxhole Norman after FN has got him into a conversation he didn't want to be in and then abruptly walked off. Ah, I love Burns debates. Simon Weil Luckily, I've had the box. Took me quite a while to find the scene you mentioned though. Re the response: Re the Burns debate: To be quite honest, I thought the way you invited me to to join in on this debate could have been phrased a little differently. After a bad day, which it was for me, I just decided right there and then to just misunderstand your question. And, I did read your article. I agree with many a thesis in there, but your argument(s) are not exactly new - they are just more condensed and coherent. And yes, now that you left me that road of escape, I would just stick with Lipton's response in a more general sense. I'm simply tired of the debate as well as of some people who are desperately trying to prove a racial angle and a revisionist stance, both of which are blatantly obvious in the first place. I ask myself what the point is? Any discerning reader, especially one that frequents this board and others, must have noticed this and doesn't need to be told in a million different ways What we have then is a debate from which I get the impression that there are a lot of participants who seemingly have an axe to grind. Just by reading this thread here we can see that it has been a rather pointless debate, because once we all thought it was over and the claims had been staked out, it is just started all over again. I ask myself what the point of that is? Cheers! [edit: typo]

No, man. That is just faaaaaaaaar too complicated. I think I'll wait for the Marvel illustrated version That one does not have any pictures. Cheers!

To get the most out of my most recent shipment (before it is soured by extra fees), I'm now going to retire to listen to the entire Blue Mitchell set in one sitting (but with several drinks). I have the rest of the day off, so ... see ya much later, guys and gals.