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Rabih Abou-Khalil - Odd Times Art Blakey - Freedom Rider John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Jack DeJohnette - Special Edition Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson - Dansere Freddie Hubbard - Hub Tones Pat Metheny - Speaking of Now Horace Silver - Finger Poppin' Cecil Taylor - Love for Sale Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree

Due out on May 20th, from the überjam band lineup:

Welcome to the Astros, Mr. Kent! HR in his first AB - nice way to start off the season. Actually, all the guys on the team named "Jeff" (or Geoff) hit HRs in their season opener - Bagwell had two, and Blum had another. In that dimebox formerly known as Enron Field, the 'Stros could have a lineup that challenges the team HR record for a season, whatever that is.

That Bass Desires album is fantastic! I've been keeping my eye out for it's sequel, Second Sight for a long time, but haven't come up with it locally yet. I would've loved to have seen that tour. On another Sco note, I'm still kicking myself for putting that East Meets West vinyl back in the bin at one of my used stores a while back (thinking it would be available on my next visit). Haven't seen it again, and don't really expect to see another copy any time soon. Metheny & Haden are coming here next month, I assume playing selections from Missouri Sky, and possibly some newer stuff as well (?). I'm gonna try and get to that show (alot of non-jazz shows in May here as well - Neil Young, Lou Reed, and Peter Gabriel have all piqued my interest). P.S. - I guess couw doesn't know what Maultaschen is

I'm a relative newbie with respect to Cecil Taylor. In fact I presently own only Love for Sale and Conquistador. I'd like to get a little more into Taylor, but after Conquistador I don't know if I'm ready for the deep-end just yet. I'd like to ease into this music a little more. Any recommendations? Also, I happened to notice that although Dennis Charles is listed as the drummer on LFS, the liner notes mention Rudy Collins. Is this correct, or a mistake on William Thompson's part? Finally , I noticed an album called Coltrane Time, but haven't determined if that's his date or Trane's. How is that one? Believe it's their only collaboration, and sounds intriguing, though I guess it's pretty early - relatively speaking - in both of their careers.

Hey couw - are there any good restaurants serving Maultaschen oder Spätzle up that far north? Think I could go for a nice bowl of Käsespätzle tonight! Though I guess that's a little off topic!!! Thanks for the pointer to Amazon.de also. I always seem to forget them and concentrate on zweitausendeins when I'm surfing german music websites. I'll probably checked my usual used stores first though. One in particular seems to always surprise me with what they have available.

I'd agree that Sco's work isn't as varied - though in retrospect, he's tried a LARGE variety of band combinations over the years, trio, quartet, organ, acoustic, funk, collaborations w/Frisell, Metheny, Abercrombie, etc. And that's just his leader dates. So it's not as if he's TRYING to stay in one bag, to me anyway, but he's still got that identifiable Sco thing (this sentence sounds like I quoted JSngry ). But I hear you re: Metheny. There is SO much variety in his work! I like Missouri Sky and Imaginary Day, though the last PMG release hasn't really done much for me (was listening to it in the car just yesterday). I don't have all that much Metheny yet, so there's a whole lot for me to digest there. Frisell I've really grown to like lately. I've got a number of his nonesuch releases, and really have enjoyed them. They don't move me like Sco does, but I've gotten to where I'll buy his new releases without reservation. If you can find it, I think you'd really enjoy Lagrene's Standards disc on Blue Note. Gypsy Project is also great, in the Django/Hot Club style. I also have his Sinatra tribute, Blue Eyes which is nice, and even includes him singing on a couple of tunes. I don't know Sylvan Luc, but I have seen that duet disc once or twice here locally. Another one for my "to buy" list... And no, I haven't seen the video you mentioned - or any Sco video for that matter. Not sure I'd have time to watch that anyway, since my kids seem to have commandeered the TV set. And I'm not native German, though I've lived here during parts of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and now 00s. I'm American, and consider myself to be from Texas - love it here in Deutschland, though! Went to Texas A&M (hence the "Aggie name). So English is my first language. I can speak German passably, though I definitely don't have the right accent. Especially the Schwabian dialect in this area, which is sort of equivalent to the southern dialect in the U.S. Definitely not "hoch Deutsch"! My daughter goes to German kindergarten, so she's just starting to pick up a little German language, which is the perfect age to start learning a second language, IMO. I have German colleagues and friends, and we've had a number of interesting discussions about current events. Most don't assume that since I'm American that I'm automatically for (or against) what's going on. It's nice to engage in conversation with open-minded people who can respect one another's opinion, regardless whether it mirrors your own or not.

I haven't seen that Mangelsdorf disc before. I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the heads-up. Scofield's done quite a bit of sideman work, for a wide variety of musicians. Kinda hard to keep up with it. Of the current stuff, do you prefer his funkier side, or the more straight ahead (Works for Me, ScoLoHoFo)? I like it all - his tone, approach, and just about everything. This hasn't really happened for me with many other contemporary guitarists, like Frisell or Metheny. I like both of them, but not everything they've done. I haven't found a Sco disc that I've disliked yet. I've got the Japanese 2-disc version of Pick Hits Live on its way to me right now (thanks to another board member), and am looking forward to that. I've also just started discovering Bireli Lagrene over the past 6 months or so, and enjoy everything I've heard from him so far as well. And I just recently picked up Pat Martino's '97 BN date, All Sides Now, but it's still in the queue to be listened to. Landstuhl is about 2.5 hours away from here on the autobahn (or less if you take advantage of the no-speed limits ). It's a huge military hospital complex, as I'm sure you know. I don't get up there very often, but it's pretty country in that area. -Erik

Surely you can't be serious!!! That's the most lame thing I've heard all day! You must be a member of political party X. Of course, those of us in political party Y know the REAL truth. But you and your small-minded colleagues refuse to accept or even acknowledge OUR position, which as every party Y member knows is: Oop-BAP-sad'dam, a-phillyjoe-a-mop. ...or maybe you're one of those guys from country Z, in which case your opinion is irrelevant.

The Abercrombie disc you're referring to is Solar, which I picked up last year on Westwind. I really like their interplay on that a lot. Gonna have to go re-look the packaging, but I don't recall liner notes like that - at least on the Westwind release - only a brief paragraph from Orrin Keepnews, who produced it, I think. Yeah, the two titles I mentioned are probably fairly obscure, especially the Eero. I hadn't even heard of him before, but Sco's name on the cover caught my eye while I was trolling for deals. Let me know what you think of the show. He's not coming to Stuttgart this time around, or I'd jump on it also. There were a couple of humorous comments about Sco live (and his "bald head") on the old BNBB thread. I saw him about two years ago, just before Works for Me came out, and it was great. Wish I could've seen him in the old BN years w/Lovano. -Erik

Restarting the Sco-corner, since mjzee apparently isn't around any more (hope I don't end up just talking to myself about Sco)... Anyway, I found two Scofield related items at my used store, but haven't pulled the trigger on either. Can anyone recommend either of these titles: Eero Koivistoinen (try saying that fast!)- Picture in Three Colours, Core Records 1983 (also includes Jack DeJohnette) and All Strings Attached, Verve 1987 - some sort of guitar summit or something, with John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow, and John Patitucci Thanks, Erik

IMO you can't really go wrong with any of Moran's leader dates. His most recent album, Modernistic, is solo piano, and is FANTASTIC. And also check out his work on Osby's Banned in New York live set.

Miles Davis - Milestones McBride/Payton/Whitfield - Fingerpainting Medeski Martin & Wood - Tonic Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Antiguo (TOCJ) Wayne Shorter - All Seeing Eye (RVG) Mike Stern - Play David S. Ware - Surrendered Cassandra Wilson - Belly of the Sun Marillion - Anorak in the U.K.

One day sale - 50% off and no s/h Promotion Code - "C3P1", a close relative of:

J (can I call you that?) - In your e-mail there may be some sort of promotion code to get the "buy 1, unlimited $1.99" deal. If it's there, you simply have to plug it into the website, by clicking where it says "Have a Promotion Code?" If you don't have a promotion code in your e-mail, then I'm not sure what to tell ya. It's possible there next website "special" will be the $1.99 deal, but they simply haven't switched the website to that yet. Alternately, I've had success in going to their customer service webpage, and sending them a message explaining the offer you received, and the titles (w/selection #s) you want. After they process this order, it should show up under your account with the correct charges. I think the $1.99 deal is about the best one if you're planning to order a large number of single-disc titles. -Erik

I'm with ya on the Charlie Haden, Alexander. I bought it based on the presence of Mehldau and Blade also. And I also liked his last leader date, Nocturne, so I figured this one should be worth it. But I'm having problems getting into it as well. I haven't decided to jettison it yet, but it's not looking good so far. By the way, is it ok to take back cds simply because you don't like the music on it? I've never tried this before. I've always assumed you could only take cds back if they're damaged or something.

It's pretty clear to me that the fish was sincere, that it really believed the end was near. I'm sure it wouldn't have said the things it said just for the halibut.

BMG now has Chucho Valdes' latest, Fantasia Cubana, on Norah. Highly recommended for Chucho fans, classic/jazz crossover, and solo-piano seekers.

Don't know if this qualifies as a tenor battle per say, and it's certainly not from the classic era, but I enjoy Joe Lovano's Tenor Legacy with Joshua Redman from '93.

Ahh, but your text is twice as crisp as Lon's, Claude

It is??? Sheesh, I'd better start getting the kid's Halloween costumes together. Seems like it got here quick this year...

Then again, talking about big heads (and no bodies):

...and skipping "Todd" all together, how about Big Head Monsters?