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Yes indeed, she seems to have been an important teacher to many. Here's part of a blog entry by Dave Douglas:

Very sad! Saw her live once with Maria Schneider's big band and enjoyed her contributions on Schneider's albums, too.

Sheesh, you didn't take any photos, did you?

And the bands, while being dubbed with the same name, were completely different, too ... both have nice moments but are pretty inessential, I think.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Agustín!

Gee, you're even grumpier than me!

Nah, just having some fun Seriously: it disturbs me more in museums than in concerts, though professional photographers in concerts can be a very obnoxious bunch (and having the entire thing filmed by various cameras - and even better if they drench the whole darned stage into blue light for later TV presentation - is a major nuisance and should be announced beforehand, since I would very likely not attend any such concert). I guess we're in the age where it does not count what you know and what you actually have done and seen in your life - rather it's all about "I know where I can find any information (not knowledge, mind me!) at any given time at any given place in orbit" and about "look world, I've been there, ain't I cool?" - the photo-mania to me is but an expression of that mentality, which is very alien to me. Call me a renaissance man

whose ashes? well, r.i.p.

Oh, I've had Mobley's "Slice" here for a few years ... but it's the last one I don't know. Can't yet bring myself to listen to it. No more new Mobley to discover after it - that will be a very sad day.

Alex Jarrett? Too many assholes with cameras wherever at cultural events - they turned viral long ago. When have you been to a museum last where people actually were looking at the pictures or sculptures or artificialised crapola, instead of just taking pictures? I don't understand that mindset at all - you miss the entire magic of the moment ... by preserving it for eternity (or rather until the memory card breaks or the hard drive goes amiss) ... and you'll never, ever, revisit those thousands and thousands of photos anyway ... and yeah, you're annoying those that don't want you to take all those pictures, so bugger off and eat your cameras or stick them someplace else, please.

Wow, I guess I'll jump in on this!

Uhm, so I mixed things up and those tracks on disc two are the Argyle Lounge ones? I guess then I've got it covere .... I was wondering already anyway Great stuff for sure! Too bad the new Uptown isn't out yet over here.

And Gene Norman ... and that Elk's Auditorium concert. But then you'd have to turn and change disc every other second ... Other question: usually things only came to jazz a few years late, did live recording of classical concerts start earlier? (of course there's another nimbus there - like not even Horowitz would play several sets a night for two weeks at Carnegie Hall ... so you can't really compare, but still ...)

I'm not on FB, but yeah, good suggestion, will try like this! @Dan: I know, but I'm not into buying MP3 albums that cost nearly as much as CD. (And yes, I'm willing to pay more for a CD, but less for MP3 than they usually go for.)

A biggish chunk of the Savoy Ballroom material is on this set (disc 2 tracks 11-20, I think): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000067FTL Some don't like the sound, I think it's okay, but I got low-fi equipment and am not that touchy. There's about three CDs worth there. As for the Argyle material, I see I only have a part of it, and with the rhythm section given as unknown - but some more details are to be found here: http://www.jazzdisco.org/kenny-drew/discography/#500402 The above Savoy set is complete only as far as studio material goes, I guess (or it might contain all the Savoy stuff that's ever been out on Savoy, which again is not the entire material). Guess I got to look for this material, then! The Savoy is out in the internets, or as Mr. Sangrey sez: the internet is your friend

No. The opposite is probably true, this is a minority opinion. Hmm... there's the great Bohemia recording of the original Messengers, there's Birdland with Brownie - at least those are staples. Then I'm very fond of the hippsippy chicken 'n dumplins double set with a returning Mobley, there's the other Birdland double set w/Shorter, which by comparison both to that band's studio sets and the other live sets I never really warmed to that much ... then there's Three Blind Mice (United Artists, right?), and next the fine Limelight one with Frank Mitchell, and by 1968 another label caught the band with Billy Harper ... plenty to choose from, really. But no desert island material except for the first two. My essential Blakey would be a mix of studio and live - first I'd pick the Bohemia material, next Free for All ... and that band, at that point in time, would be my big wish for a live recording to turn up.

So ... there is a CD (amazon only has custom CD-Rs), but no international shipping? I've had the amazon page open for weeks, hoping a real CD might turn up there ... anyone knows how this guy from Switzerland could buy one?

can we also take part via skype?

You sure you don't listen to too many ECM discs?

Isn't that a very normal thing to do for smartass teabaggers and other republikins? And officer Unbewust, right? Her superior must be Sergeant Uberich ...

Yeah, but you'll only get one if you publicly abjure from ever again listening to avantgarde ... and if you violate your word, you'll be made into ... guess what? Takes quite some beating!

amazon.de has it with a release date of July 16, but I'm sure it will be cheaper elsewhere. amazon.fr and amazon.it list it as not available, no date, no price - so far, but that's often the case with new/upcoming releases.

Don't give a flying shit ... but then y'all expected that, didn't you?

That all sounds very intersting! Somehow I ended up reading several long articles about and interviews with Henze in the past ten or so years, despite the fact that I hardly ever listened to anything (I did listen to the world premiere of his tenth symphony though, if I'm not mistaken ... I think I even taped it ... so it must be quite a while back, before it all turned digital ...)