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Griffin on the opener of "The Congregation", Eddie who? on the opener of that Funk Project album on Enja* - two perennial favourites in this house ... and indeed lots of Adderley! (eddie-t: this here)

Conglubbtion, Conflabbergastion ... not sure what those mean though, but Cornucopiation hardly is much better (fuller though, maybe, unless constipation kicks in, that is) - beat that conundrum

That one may be the best Zoot Sims on record, I think. I've heard a lot of Zoot over the years and have gotten kind of..."blase" about hearing him these days, even the really good stuff, but this one made me stop and listen, involuntarily. When they talk about Zoot being a true jammer, this is what they mean. The dude is unfettered, unenclosed, and unstoppable, and all with good cause. That's a fitting description indeed! Got to send another round of warm thankyous brownie's way for this!

a few more ... first of these is better, I find, second goes more towards groovy stuff - but ultimately, both are great: these belong in every household: the final one from the late great Reel Recordings label: if you only want the jazzy stuff, get Vol. 3:

also this one (though I'm not sure of overlap): a classic: classic stuff: some weird sh*t and some rarities: classic? maybe ... classical? not quite, but: lotsa classics and then some: blastin' fun: some rare sh*t: in addition - too lazy to look for more covers ... three Vols. of Continental sessions and one of Wax sessions on Storyville, several great ones on Hep (2 vols. of Sounds of Harlem, NY Jazz Combos, They All Had Rhythm and Groovin' in L.A. ...)

but brunch is breakfast ...

may I ask, whatever happened to Nina's? last time I was in Zurich, I could'nt find it anymore. Replaced by some travel agency replace by ... she went on to sell records in some of the old-fashioned high-brow stores on the other side of the Limmat, I think (not sure if that was right away, nor if she's still there). Her shop was a cool place, I spent many hours in there, I even happened to be around the afternoon a newspaper guy came to take a photo (for the eulogy to be published a few weeks later) ... was the only time my photo was in the paper Anyway, I loved browsing the Penguin guide there ... and listening to some music. She had some Mosaic sets, too (at crazy prices, like 2.5 or more the amount you'd pay for a direct order), but back then I had no idea what these boringly looking b/w boxes were all about (and the price tags put to halt any further inquiries). Crazy prices, though, were a general issue there ... i.e. she sold OJCCDs at full price as the only one in town (at Jecklin, which around that time - end of the 90es, earliest 00s - expanded to a second floor dedicated to jazz & world, you'd get a huge choice of OJCCDs for less than two third of Nina's price ... anyway, Jecklin gave up that additional floor after a mere couple of years and by now their stores are all closed too, taken over by the rival Musik Hug which only maintains the main store at Limmatquai with an okay-ish classical but lacklustre jazz department, not enough space, and on top of it all an elitist owner who actually would prefer selling grand pianos to the global elite residing at the shores of lake Zurich, instead of being bothered by normal people wanting to buy some pop (ugh!) music ... as I said: record stores ceased to exist (there are a few left, but frankly I've long been buying on the net and don't feel like visiting hip hop and dj stores with small jazz corners).

there's even a Barney love-fest (which surely I'd have joined if I'd been a member at that time, but I think I only signed up a few months before the big NoJo bash put an end to it ) here goes (includes jazzbo explaining "Moshi" ): http://web.archive.org/web/20020111080015/http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000165 the trumpet + rhythm faves thread (hey ta, Rooster!) I seem to remember (well, maybe I remember it's revival over here, who knows): http://web.archive.org/web/20020111090908/http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001034 another one, including some early-ish guesswork on "Iron City": http://web.archive.org/web/20020126114604/http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001099

Will these be released properly? I loathe that record store day crap ... record stores ceased to exist ten years ago, these are last gasps and attempts to sell overpriced produce. Actually Mike, I think serious shops would only sell this stuff in store and not on pre-order ... that seems to be the high moral principle of record store day ... I wouldn't know of a shoppe around here that takes part AND might even get one slice of jazz. (I think one shop in town does take part, but I never went there, don't think they have anything of interest to me.)

yeah ... and the Bud Shank date is gorgeous!

how's that compared to the Storyville disc (that is included in the "Dig Ben" box) - any overlap? http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-ronnie-scotts-1964-the-punch-mw0000141416 btw, there IS some other non-Scandinavian material in "Dig Ben", but not those Dutch albums.

the "Star Bright" and "Soundin' Off" sessions

I failed to check, too (not being sure where the Holland set is stacked away). The London disc is the lone one that's from outside Scandinavia in the "Dig Ben" box, right? I do remember "The Holland Sessions" being listed in the printed Blue Note catalogues that were around at the end of the 90s - but I'm quite sure it's an EMI Netherlands production, so might have had limited international distribution indeed. It's on amazon.com, but expensive: http://www.amazon.com/The-Holland-Sessions-Ben-Webster/dp/B0000A1M4U

I am playing "This time ..." just now. Wonderful. Dex really makes that record. The arrangements are great, the other playing masterful, but Dex propels the date to another level. Agreed! (Though I've got the old Avenue Jazz/Rhino reissue, good enough for me)

I gladly report I grew to like it more and more, in the meantime

hadn't been aware of this: sounds good indeed! http://www.allmusic.com/album/michel-petrucciani-and-niels-henning-%C3rsted-pedersen-mw0000810854

disc 5 of the Hackett

Maybe it lulls people who are just handling it into a sleep? I'd say not if they have ears to listen ... but then that pretty often proves a rather rare treat if you exit this place and enter real world. Crossing my fingers, Mike! If bad comes to worse, let me know ...

Same here! I guess those plus the White ones would have just about been enough to fill a second volume as Fresh Sound had it planned once.

Wouldn't say "fan", but yeah, I like some his stuff. Got te Blue Note box (just filmsy cardboard wrapped around the single discs) way overprized many years back ... and frankly some of it is dreck - the trio with Shorter/Hall is nice, so is te Ellington solo album and the first one, "Pianism" (w/Palle Danielsson, Eliot Zigmund) ... there's a wonderful duo with Lee Konitz on Owl, on the same label I have a nice trio disc with Jean-François Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano simply titles "Michel Petrucciani" (they didn't properly reissue their Petrucciani recordings on disc, rater did a 2CD compilation which I never got) ... and finally Blue Note reissued two really nice ones when they did those few Elektra reissues, "100 Hearts" (solo) and "Live at the Village Vanguard" (w/Palle Danielsson and Eliot Zigmund), both recorded live. Guess i should try the (semi-)eletrified albums on Blue Note again ... or maybe not (they're "Music", "Playground" and "Live" ... there's also "Michel Plays Petrucciani" with Gary Peacock and Roy Haynes plus John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez Al Foster, Steve Thornton ... not really electric other than Aberzombie, but I never connected much to that either). As a sideman, there's of course the wonderful "From the Soul" by Joe Lovano ... and a much less succesful but still nice one co-led with Steve Grossman. He might play too many notes a bit too often, but he certainly had it going!

discs 3 and 4

Okay ... so it was just the two discs by/with White - that rings a bell. I guess I should have another try. So there must be more material that is on either Vol. 1 or the single discs, as the White material alone would not have made up another 3 disc set ... there's no listing here and a web search doesn't help much either. But I stumbled over this: http://jazztimes.com/articles/9065-the-complete-noctourne-recordings-jazz-in-hollywood-series-volume-1-herbie-harper-with-bud-shank-harry-babasin-bob-enevoldsen-virgil-gonsalves-lou-levy-and-jimmy-rowles and this helpful thread here: EDIT: there's more ... by looking for "NLP 1" to "NLP 11" here, you'll find the details: http://www.jazzdisco.org/fantasy-records/discography-1953-1954/

post #30 here: too bad!

Don't think so ... all Dutch recordings.

It's a great one! from my list: CD 1: Ben Webster At Ease (1969 - Frans Wieringa, Gerard Holdgrefe, Tom van Steenderen) + For the Guv'nor (1969 - Cees Slinger, Jacques Schols, John Engels) CD 2: Last Concert (live 1973 - Irv Rocklin, Henk Haverhoek, Peter Ypma) rhythm sections aren't always up to Ben's standard, and the sound on the live disc is muddy, but ... I love late Ben!