king ubu

big on the Waldron/Lacy though!

Somewhat hesitant about Mingus Birdland - sketchy, bad sound, no room for the music to really go places ... but the entire 1964 tour would nicely fit, though it has to be compiled from several labels' releases as well as unreleased material.

happy birthday!

you better!

Bill Evans - The Secret Sessions Bill Evans - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Sessions Shelly Manne - At the Black Hawk (five single volumes) and At the Manne-Hole (two single volumes) (there's a shady box of the Black Hawk, too) Count Basie - The Complete Roulette Live Recordings (Mosaic) (okay, that's a mean recommendation, but luck may strike or you may have a thick bank account ...) Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 - 3 Nights in Oslo (different line-ups including various combinations of "bands within the band", details here) Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (another big one, not sure of it's price range, you get extended recordings from Seattle) John Coltrane - Live in Japan (the 4CD edition) and I fully endorse a whole lot of the previous recommendations (the other Evans sets, the Jarretts - you might want to throw in the 1973/74 Impulse box, which has lots of extende live material -, Ella in Hollywood, Trane 1961, the Petersons, the Mogie, also the sublime "People Time").

Thanks, Jonathan! Crossing my fingers re: Daley! And I'll happily buy the Carter/Bradford reissues once they're out!

Happy birthday!

Ha, it's the pianist that sucks! Seriously, I perceived the disc as a fine piece of group work ... and I loved hearing Taylor Ho Bynum in somewhat less heady surroundings than I've encountered him in so far. Will have to give it another spin soon!

disc three

Gee, everyone seems to have gotten their sets early/mid this week ... but no trace of it here yet!

Happy Birthday, Victor!

I reported some about the Zurich concert here:

Where can that be heard? Would be of much interest to me!

Any news on the Joe Daley material?

totally forgot to check ... would the Konitz material be the same as on the "Saxophone Collection" disc?

Alles Gute, Thomas!

Had my entire order split up into two packages in the mail about a week ago ... all fine, no wrong items so far (three orders in total only, though). The music is mighty fine ... the Malaby suffers a bit from sound, but the music makes more than up for it, Wadada is great! The Parker/Guy/Lytton + Peter Evans might turn into a favourite, upon first listen I thought it was terrific (better than the Evans quartet disc, which is good as well). And as has been mentioned here, the Convergence Quartet disc is mighty good indeed!

Ha! "Live at the Village Vanguard" is on my list, too! Took me a long time since I just forgot about it for years ... Also "Ascension" too me a while to warm to. Nowadays, I just love it! From Miles, I guess "On the Corner", too - and that's one BAD m-f, but it took me quite a while to figure that out.

Indeed! I missed out on the Jochum ICON like that ... and twice already on the Gilels Beethoven sonatas. But I'll just keep waiting until prices drop again.

Okay, guess once I'll have dug some deeper into symphonic stuff (I'm a neophyte, too - started early last summer, but bigtime, it's been a most amazing journey so far!) I'll be looking for more of these!

Oh, I've got what's part of the recent Gould editions (#5 and one part of #6, I think - or the other way 'round). They left off the entire #6 in the new series and the old CD is OOP and was rather expensive when I last checked - too bad. But yeah, that's marvellous music! Did Liszt transcribe all nine? He also did all those Verdi etc. opera transcriptions, and Schubert (or was it Schumann?) songs, too ... but I guess I really need to get better acquainted with the originals to understand those.

Don't know Eschenbach the pianist yet ... last summer/fall he was on the radio doing Beethoven #5 with Lang Lang and it was utterly boring. Never felt like checking out more. Anyway, I'm happy with what I've got, but I would definitely like to hear more of Gieseking's recordings (but I'm not that inclined to buy the two cheapo boxes on some shady label, Andromeda, I think?).

I'll have to dig up those recordings when I feel like Liszt again ... I think I fell for the late recording, initially. Will have to compare some. But I also want to revisit the most interesting Liszt recordings by Samson François ... those sound like he doesn't really like Liszt, as if he's kind of fighting the music he's performing. Weird, but fascinating.

Oh, it was a great concert, all in all! But yeah, a wireless mic sounds like a good idea - or they should have adjusted his mic a bit, since he really wasn't that close most of the time. But I was sitting in front row and had most of the sound live, not via PA. I went to shake hands and say thanks to Mr. Fuller in the break but didn't intrude for long as there were other, much older gents around sharing photos of themselves with Fuller at the Nice Jazz Parade etc. They had a ball ... so, it was really good to see it all (much better, I dare say, than last fall's concerts by Lateef/Shepp and Konitz). And Joris Dudli really is a hell of a drummer, he drove that truck, as Mr. Sangrey would say

I may be unaware of the latest trends but I thought nerdy was the new "cool". Just look at those big ole horn rimmed glasses the pro athletes are wearing as well as the fact that "nerds" are today's success story. I thought the Black Keys drummer was a trend setter. No comment on the music. I know, but I don't buy that. Once found myself amidst the crowd exiting a hall after a Wilco concert ... and these guy (and gals) looked almost like an army in their hipster uniforms