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JohnJ - I haven't been to Hamburg in a couple of years, so I can't advise too much, but Hamburg DOES have two Zweitausendeins stores - definitely check them out!! Zweitausendeins 1. Colonnaden 9, Tel. 040-35 71 84 31. Zweitausendeins 2. Grindelallee 71, Tel. 040- 44 78 88. I'm sure they probably have a Saturn, which should have a good selection of jazz, and I recall they had a World of Music store that also had a fairly good selection at the time. For sightseeing I highly recommend a tour of the harbor. Also a trip to Hamburg would not be complete without a visit to the Reeperbahn, which is the "red light" district", but also very touristy. The Beatles started on the road to notoriety there...

I briefly considered Aggie88, but for all the obvious reasons chose Aggie87 instead.

Miles Davis - Nefertiti Wynton Kelly - It's All Right Lee Konitz/Martial Solal - Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 Thelonious Monk - Live at the It Club Bud Powell/Don Byas - A Tribute to Cannonball v/a - Verve Elite Edition Collector's Disc Beatles - Sgt. Pepper Joe Ely - From Lubbock to Laredo

Sounds like it was a great show, Tom! It looks like the trio played the Blue Note club in Milan and the Paris date, but won't be doing the rest of the European tour until November, followed up by a week at the Blue Note in NYC in December. I'd LOVE to see this trio - they're playing in Munich on Nov 16th, I may have to clear off the calendar. Slightly off topic - The rest of this month and into October is a U.S. tour of the John Scofield Band. There are also some November dates in the U.K. supporting Tommy Smith, with Lovano, John Taylor, John Patitucci, and Bill Stewart. Also, looking at Sco's website, he did two interesting dates in August. On the 19th, appears there was a one-off with MMW in San Diego CA. And on the 16th, he did an orchestral date in Hamburg, Germany, with the Hessischer Rundfunk Orchestra. -Erik

Don Byron - Romance with the Unseen Joe Chambers - Mirrors Eric Dolphy - Illinois Concert Roland Kirk - Domino Art Pepper - Goin' Home Matthew Shipp - Strata John Zorn - Locus Solus Yes - Time and a Word

Congratulations Jim (and Mrs. B-3er)!!! Here's hoping for a whole lotta smiles and giggles and not too many of these:

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I don't own a Smart car, but they're all over the place here. They were (at least originally) jointly produced by DaimlerChrysler and Swatch (!). I believe at one point they were going to be sold in the U.S. market, but haven't heard anything lately. The Smart Roadsters are starting to become more common on the street as well: And apparently they've got a new vehicle that I haven't seen yet, but guess will be popular as well, called the "Crossblade" here in Germany: Unfortunately, I'm driving an old, beat-up Fiat at the moment, while the wife gets the nice car.

dogma = "am God" backwards...

Michael Brecker - Time is of the Essence Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Lee Konitz/Don Friedman/Attila Zoller - Thingin Jackie McLean - A Fickle Sonance Joe Pass - Guitar Virtuoso box Art Pepper - Tete a Tete Horace Silver - Paris Blues

Osby's "St Louis Shoes" is now available... Not jazz, but they've also got the Essential Leonard Cohen set, if anyone's interested in checking him out - this is a very good overview.

Rest assured they WILL belong to me soon. I'm presently consuming a number of the 2 disc Monk cds from zweitausendeins, and very much enjoying them. The "It Club" and "Monk Alone" sets are my newest Monk acquisitions.

Is Reid Miles still doing work for BN? B)

As a relative newcomer, I don't have that many of the previous releases of these titles. I've probably "upgraded" to RVGS about 5 times so far, and already have the previous versions of Our Man in Paris and Adam's Apple, so I'll have to think about those two. I haven't picked up any of the August or September RVGs (unless you count the Blue Train SACD, since the CD layer is supposedly the same as the RVG) yet, but of all the remaining RVGs I'm only missing the two Thelonious Monk cds. Edit - I'm also sans In Pursuit of the 27th Man. Had it, didn't click with me (only RVG so far with that problem), traded it.

Congratulations David! oh, and couw - congratulations to you as well - I guess I was feeling too lazy to say so back in June!

I'm feeling energetic enough at the moment (probably because it's 0805 right now) to ask this question - Does anyone know if the Euro versions of these Conns will be copy protected? But I'll probably end up being too lazy to read the response, so you may have to yell very loudly into my left ear.

I don't know anything about an artist named "Hiromi" other than she is some sort of Ahmad Jamal disciple, but her CD Another Mind is being offered FREE with any purchase at BMG right now. And in this case "free" actually is free - no shipping & handling costs, either. PS - Any purchase of an item costing more than $5 apparently.

Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa Kenny Burrell - At the Five Spot Cafe Donald Byrd/Kenny Burrell - All Night Long Miles Davis - Sorcerer Konitz/Mehldau/Haden - Alone Together Art Pepper - Road Game Sonny Red - Red, Blue & Green John Scofield - Loud Jazz

...I'm too lazy to type the album titles... Andrew Hill - Hank Mobley - Lee Morgan - Sam Rivers - Larry Young - edit: I was also too lazy to type "Charlie Rouse" the first ti....

Miles Davis - Saturday Night at the Blackhawk Miles Davis - Miles Smiles Steve Lacy - NY Capers & Quirks Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah Art Pepper - Art Lives Hey Leo 463 How is the Marc Ribot disc? I have the first Cubanos disc and dig it. Been eyeing the second one, but haven't pulled the trigger yet. -Erik

I've got the "Buy 1, Get unlimited at 80% off" sale again... Newish titles: Dave Brubeck - Park Avenue South Christian McBride - Vertical Vision Miles Davis - Complete Friday Night at the Blackhawk Geoff Keezer - Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones Leo Kottke - Best of the Chrysalis Years

Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Soul Miles Davis - ESP Charles Mingus - Live at Antibes Horace Parlan - Up & Down Art Tatum - The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces Bjork - Greatest Hits Peter Gabriel - OVO

Free For All - I am indeed an Aggie (*insert gratuitous Aggie joke here*). After doing some research online, I tend to believe that this is indeed an urban legend. However, BEVO was indeed stolen by the Aggies on a number of occasions. The first was in 1916, when the nameless cow was stolen and branded with the score from the previous Aggie win, "13-0". The Longhorns ended up modifying this brand into the letters "BEVO", and the name stuck. There are some Longhorn sites that actually deny this happened, and that they named BEVO for the Czech word for beer, "PIVO", but I'm pretty much convinced this is wishful thinking. One time in the 1970's, some Aggies successfully kidnapped BEVO and actually cut its horns off, I assume in the spirit of the Aggie War Hymn, part of which includes the lines "Saw Varsity's Horns Off" (Varsity being an old nickname for the Longhorns way back). On another occasion in the 1970s, some Aggies with WAY too much time on their hands actually enrolled at UT, and charmed their way into the good graces of BEVO's handlers, and successfully kidnapped him. UT students were successful in kidnapping A&M's mascot "Reveille" (a collie) also, though as far as I know this has only happened once. All of the other mascots from the old Southwest Conference were also kidnapped at various points in time. Apparently this was considered quite fun back in the old days. And yes, back when Bush was first campaigning for the presidency, and when he first took office, I had quite a number of conversations with German friends and colleagues about his background, and (primarily) the death penalty in Texas. Most of them only knew about that because of Bush. I had to explain that it has been going on in Texas for a long time, through both Democratic and Republican governors. It's pretty much an inconceivable idea for most of them. -Erik Gig'em Aggies!

Big Al - The answer is it depends on whatcha lookin' for. Sco has played straight-ahead, funk, acoustic, trio settings, etc. Not to mention any of his sideman appearances. If you liked "Works for Me" I'd check out this year's "scolohofo" recording. Also his BNs with Lovano are great! I like "Works for Me" but find it a little on the tame side. I wish they had pushed each other just a little more, or something. If you like the groove stuff (and I'm guessing you do!), "a Go Go" is a great collaboration with Medeski Martin & Wood. It's follow up "Bump" is in the same vein, but with mainly different musicians, and is also good. Last year's "uberjam" and the recent "Up All Night" are also funky and alot of fun! And b3-er's suggestion of "Groove Elation" and "Hand Jive" are great collaborations with Larry Goldings. "Quiet" is a nice mellow acoustic album, which includes Wayne Shorter on a few cuts. And another BN date that I like alot is "Grace Under Pressure", which is his collaboration with Bill Frisell. I like this one better than the one with Metheny, "I Can See Your House from Here". b3-er - no good news on "Live Three Ways" as far as I can tell. I think it was simply a mistake by CD Universe. I hope it gets released on CD at some point though. -Erik

At the risk of sounding like an SACD plugger (which I'm not - I don't even own a player!), if you purchase the hybrid SACD of this, then you'll get the SAME cd remaster (I believe) as the RVG, and you get the "bonus" SACD layer as well. This comes in handy if you have an SACD player or if the next CD player you purchase happens to be SACD compatible. On the downside, I don't know why they didn't include the "bonus" CD-ROM material from the Ultimate disc on the new RVG and SACDs. This would have been a nicer way of upgrading Blue Train, and would allow us to pass on our existing Ultimates.