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r.i.p. Duck Dunn

Forgot to mention: spotted in the audience: Irene Schweizer and Gerry Hemingway - the later came to chat with Ben Monder and seemed to have a good time.

I'll try and write some... not yet 100% sure I'll make it to Lake. There was a rather big fire at the venue were Taktlos (the festival w/Malaby and Shipp/Mateen) is starting right now... but seems they'll do all the concerts, possibly in other parts of the building... hope it wasn't too bad! Okay, so how was it... Taktlos is held the 29th time these days, it's long grown to be an institution, presenting the avantgarde of jazz and other related musics. Fire police have allowed them - on very short notice, it seems, since they did minimal five-minute sound checks ahead of each set - to use my favorite stage there, at the Rote Fabrik, the Clubraum, which is smaller than the regular venue for jazz concerts (the Aktionshalle) and hence looks half full, rather than three quarters empty. Anyway, I got there early, met a friend who showed me pictures from last week's Le Mans festival, where he heard plenty of amazing music (wish I'd been there!). Tony Malaby, then... his quartet is named Paloma Recio and consists of Ben Monder on guitar, Drew Gress on bass and Flin Van Hemmen on drums. Never heard of Van Hemmen before, but he was great, with a lose yet controlled, swinging and fun style that could push the band quite some, if called for! Gress was way too low in the mix, alas, while Monder was often over-bearing, even more so when he started using distortion and other sound pedal effects. I'm afraid I didn't quite get how this group's music worked, though... they all had music stands in front of them but never changed pages (only once did Gress change something towards the end)... the dramaturgy of it lay in the dark to me, anyhow. They started playing rather quietly, until Monder for the first time fell out of his "jazz" style and started getting real loud. He and Malaby played complex lines in unison, while the rhythms kept changing underneath, solos would emerge - some great playing by Malaby, for sure! Wonderful sound, big at the bottom, but still rather slim... thin but beautiful in the high range - and he got pretty intense and wild doing plenty of falsetto stuff as the set unrolled. Monder fit in well mostly, but kept being somewhat overbearing throughout the concert. They reached a climax after some forty minutes of continuous playing, then took a break, but after Malaby announced the band he asked if there was time for one more, and off they went onto an amazingly powerful, exhilarating flight. At the end I was pretty pleased by it all, but it took a while for the band to catch flight and for me to get into this rather complex and coolish sound. Then break, changing the setup, dragging the baby grand to the center, setting up new mics... and a short sound check (Mateen in orange t-shirt). On it went with Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen - first on clarinet, then on tenor, and back to clarinet for the encore. A most powerful set, digging right into the music from the very first tones. All music, so to speak. Mateen has a wonderful tone on clarinet and even more so on tenor, very big, deep, rough. Both of them had a few unacccompanied passages, and Mateen's tenor one was the highlight of the night for me. Shipp was both quick and sparse, both dense and pointed - never heard him live and have been kind of an on and off fan of his... but this concert easily convinced me! At the end, all was said and done, no need for any more music, really! Amazing set! Third band was a Swiss one called Phall Fatale, featuring two singers (Joy Frempong and Joana Aderi), both also using samplers and electronics, John Edwards and Daniel Sailer on double basses, and drummer Fredy Studer (of OM-fame). Good beats and grooves from the basses (Edwards is wonderful, needless to say), but I found the whole thing pretty boring and the singers not too convincing (and the lyrics pretty... uhm, uninspired and flat). Anyway, I should have left after Shipp/Mateen anyway, so maybe I'm being somewhat unfair.

Yep, took me a while, but I stocked up many, many OJCCDs after that... As for the three new ones, the bonus tracks on the Bill Evans disc seem to be previously unissued, while the Monk adds one more from the July session (previously on "Blues Five Spot", Milestone 9124, as well as on the 15 CD set), while the other two bonus tracks were part of the old OJCCD. Not sure why yet another edition of the Massey Hall concert is needed...

uhm yes, six... weird!

Hm, why has my CD by Charles Gayle "Consider the Lillies..." just four tracks, when the cover lists eight? Did I get a faulty disc, or was there some mistake when the covers were printed?

Just noticed I've had the "new" "Ugetsu" for some months, so it's not that new... anyway, "Kyoto" is now the only of the three Blakeys I've only bought once.

Indeed, hilarious! Would love to hear Kuhn live some day... he's one of my favorite pianists in that modern/mainstream/whatever style.

I'll try and write some... not yet 100% sure I'll make it to Lake. There was a rather big fire at the venue were Taktlos (the festival w/Malaby and Shipp/Mateen) is starting right now... but seems they'll do all the concerts, possibly in other parts of the building... hope it wasn't too bad!

Sorry to hear this, Guy. My condolences.

Aaarg, these extra tracks keep annoying me... I'm buying these albums for the third time now... And indeed I'd have loved a proper Fantasy reissue of the missing Red album! As things are now, I guess we all ought to be glad about those Fresh Sound reissues, but I still don't like them, even if I buy some now and then (the Lenny McBrowne for instance).

tomorrow: Tony Malaby Paloma Recio (Ben Monder, Drew Gress, Flin van Hennen) and Matthew Shipp/Sabir Mateen monday: Oliver Lake & Tarbaby (Orrin Evans, Eric Revis, Nasheet Waits)

Not sure if he's in Houston, too - but I gave him the link to this thread and I'm sure he'll appreciate the pointers! Thanks!

Well, I may be unfairly tough on her... but seing her pretend all the time on screen was just too much. I think I've still got some radio capture somewhere - maybe that'll do more for me, got to check it out.

Read about her again and again... and then recorded a concert of hers on TV... and thought it was incredibly lame, set-up, fake stuff... it's ooh so hip and those enjoying her can consider themselves so very darn refined, ya know? Not for me, sorry. No more than mannerisms galore.

I want that missing Ahmed Abdul-Malik album... and the Sonny Red w/Teef!

Surely would love to see them live! David Finck is announced for the Paris concert (next to Kuhn and Baron). Are there any further dates planned? Big Kuhn fan, but never had a chance to catch him live yet.

Those Dennis González discs surely are wonderful! Into the one with Lake now, and I love it! (A bit more so than the other one, which was the very first time I heard Charlie Kohlhaase.) Definitely a label I should check out more often - glad I put in a second order in time!

If by "bad thing" you mean to ask if there's reason for worry - I think no, as plenty of back catalogue items have been sold for very good prices (discplus.ch being the best source in Switzerland, not sure about the shipping costs for international orders, though).

That's a restaurant in Cape Town? Or not? Please enlighten me!

Starting this thread for a friend who currently spends lots of time working in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area... he mentioned not having seen anything much about jazz, so I volunteered to milk the Tejas community here a bit and let him have some directions... Are there any clubs, shops, whatever that he should check out? Any upcoming special events?

Arrived today - and all three magnetic covers work this time

Thanks for doing that--keep us apprised! gregmo Well, they seem to work on the system that with enough pre-orders/additions to want-lists, they'll order the discs in question... so probably you all should ask them. No idea how much shipping from amazon.fr is (amazon.com has just recently stopped delivering to Switzerland entirely... at least as far as CDs are concerned... no idea why, maybe Obama will attack us next week?), but they do have them all for very good prices. As for the Crolla "hors série" - I think it's charming! But then I love many things coming from France, including plenty of films etc...

Thanks for the complete list, Flurin. I will use it to fill in some gaps in my collection. Signed: A not-so-krazy-kollektorrr Oh well, I'm not THAT krazy either... miss a few of the original run, did - contrary to what's been stated by that other krazy kollektor above - not get any of the collector's releases unless they had additional music on them (or were entirely new to the series... no need for the Chet though, as I did after much, um krazy soul searching, jump for the wonderful Barclay box)... but I do have most of the original discs (I think Miles, Pres and Roach are missing, got them in other form or as part of boxes), all the hors série (save for #9-11, will get those soon, too, though), and after some searching I finally did get the 10" LP and the 12CD deluxe box, too... plenty of money spent on those two, but hey, the box still was around 10€ per disc or less, so it's not THAT much, and presentation is marvellous! Definitely worth it! Jazz In Paris I: Champs Elysees 1917-1949 DISC 1: AUTOUR DU BOEUF SUR LE TOIT: 1. Toison d'Or/Holidays - Jean Cocteau 2. Mood Indigo - Garland Wilson 3. I'm Leavin' For Albany - Josephine Baker 4. J'Ai Deux Amours - Sam Wooding 5. Farewell Blues - Benny Carter 6. Josette - Orchestre Musette Swing Royal 7. L'OEil Noir - Joseph Reinhardt 8. Loin - Le Quintette Francais 9. Palm Beach - Andre Ekyan 10. 67 Rue Couperin - Christian Bellest 11. Michou - Michel Warlop 12. Minor Blues - Django Reinhardt 13. Danse Norvégienne - Django Reinhardt 14. Swamp Mist - Rex Stewart 15. I'm Confessin' - Rex Stewart 16. Laura - Don Byas 17. Somebody Loves Me - The New Stars Of The Hot Club De France 18. Mad Monk - Tyree Glenn 19. Nicole - Howard McGhee 20. Convulsions - James Moody 21. Margie - Sidney Bechet 22. St. James Infirmary - Bill Coleman DISC 2: EN REMONTANT LE CHAMPS-ELYSEES: 1. Jumpin' at Pleyel - Bill Coleman 2. Stompin' at the Savoy - Bernard Peiffer 3. Venez Donc Chez Moi - Henri Renaud 4. Chasin' Sarah - Ronnell Bright 5. Swing 42 - Stephane Grappelli 6. Vega Blues - Andre Ekyan 7. Tire, Tire l'Aiguille - Mary Lou Williams 8. Sweet And Lovely - Dizzy Gillespie 9. Sad Walk - Chet Baker 10. What Is Thing Called Love? - Art Simmons 11. Night In Tunisia, A - Buddy Banks 12. Cherokee - Raymond Fol 13. Blue Rondo A La Turk - Elek Bacsik 14. Down In The Depths On The 90th Floor - Blossom Dearie 15. Man I Love, The - Jack Dieval 16. Trombones A Tout Faire - Michel Legrand DISC 3: MINUIT SUR LES CHAMPS: 1. Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysees - Miles Davis 2. Bag's Groove - Eddy Louiss 3. Dance Of The Infidels - Art Blakey 4. Moment's Notice - Slide Hampton 5. Meeting - Rene Thomas 6. Three Little Words - Lester Young 7. Blues On The Champs-Elysees - Joe Newman 8. Blue Lester - Maurice Vander 9. When The World Was Young - Stan Getz 10. That's All - Sarah Vaughan Jazz In Paris II: Montmartre 1924-1939 DISC 1: L'AGE D'OR: 1. Saint Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong 2. Will You, Won't You Be My Baby? - Louis Armstrong 3. Super Tiger Rag - Louis Armstrong 4. Song Of The Vipers - Louis Armstrong 5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Louis Armstrong 6. Wo Ist Der Mann? - Marlene Dietrich 7. I Got Rhythm - Freddy Johnson 8. Harlem Bound - Freddy Johnson 9. Grabbin' Blues - Arthur Briggs 10. Japanese Sandman - Arthur Briggs 11. Novel Pets - Michel Warlop 12. Budding Dancers - Michel Warlop 13. China Boy - Danny Polo 14. Montmartre Moan - Danny Polo 15. Trees - Herman Chittison 16. Georgina - Ensemble Swing Du Hot Club Colonial 17. Voyage Au Long Cours - Fredy Jumbo Et Son Ensemble 18. Love Again - Wal-Berg & His Orchestra 19. Phillipe's Stomp - Orchestre Musette Swing Royal 20. Stumbling - Mitchell's Jazz Kings DISC 2: DJANGO ET STEPHANE: 1. Louis Armstrong's Souvenir Of Django - Louis Armstrong 2. Saint Louis Blues - Stephane Grappelli 3. I've Found A New Baby - Stephane Grappelli 4. Jeepers Creepers - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 5. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 6. Time On My Hands - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 7. Mon Coeur Reste Pres De Toi - Nitta Rette 8. Swing From Paris - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 9. China Boy - Stephane Grappelli 10. Moonglow - Stephane Grappelli 11. It Don't Mean A Thing - Stephane Grappelli 12. Them There Eyes - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 13. Tea For Two - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 14. Swing 39 - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 15. Limehouse Blues - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 16. Appel Indirect (Appel Direct) - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 17. Billets Doux - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 18. Japanese Sandman - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 19. Twelfth Year - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 20. Hungaria - Quintette Du Hot Club De France 21. Cheri, Est-ce Que Tu M aimes? - Micheline Day DISC 3: SOUVENIRS DE MONTMARTRE: 1. Le Bal Du P'tit Jardin - Gus Viseur 2. Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir - Stephane Grappelli 3. Clo's Blues - Jazz At The Philharmonic... 4. Way You Look Tonight, The - Dizzy Gillespie 5. Stompin' At The Savoy - Henri Salvador 6. Crazy Blues - Stephane Grappelli 7. Some Of These Days - Charlie Lewis 8. Don't Be That Way - Alix Combelle 9. I Got Rhythm - Andre Ekyan 10. Crazy Rhythm - Andre Ekyan 11. Night And Day - Bernard Zacharias 12. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Bernard Zacharias 13. Blues Jumped Out and Got Me, The - Bill Coleman 14. Hit That Jive Jack - Louie Williams 15. Mop Mop - Harry Cooper Et Son Orchestre 16. Minor Swing - Les Amis De Django 17. Lorsque Django Jouait - Gus Viseur 18. Tenderly - Bill Coleman 19. Place Blanche - Eddie Barclay 20. Grisbi Blues - Jean Wetzel Jazz In Paris III: Saint-Germain-Des-Pres 1946-1956 DISC 1: FIGUES MOISIES: 1. Ah! Si J'avias Un Franc Cinquante (Whispering) - Boris Vian 2. Weary Way Blues - Claude Luter 3. Snake Rag - Claude Luter 4. Carolina Shout - Claude Luter 5. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning - Claude Bolling 6. Dippermouth Blues - Claude Bolling 7. Valentine Stomp - Eddie Bernard 8. It Had To Be You - Sidney Bechet 9. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Sidney Bechet 10. On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Sidney Bechet 11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Sidney Bechet 12. After You've Gone - Sidney Bechet 13. Ooh! Boogie! - Sidney Bechet 14. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Sidney Bechet 15. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Sidney Bechet 16. Clarinet Marmalade - Albert Nicholas 17. Demi-Tasse - Albert Nicholas 18. Tiger Rag - Jimmy Archey 19. Texas Moaner Blues - Jimmy Archey 20. Mooche, The - Michel Attenoux DISC 2: RAISINS MOISIS OU FIGUES AIGRES: 1. En Ce Temps-La - Don Byas 2. Deccaphonie - Django Reinhardt 3. Lady Be Good - Bernard Zacharias 4. Blue And Sentimental - Guy LaFitte 5. Flying Home - Peanuts Holland 6. Lester Leaps In - Charlie Singleton 7. Mon Legionnaire - Jean-Claude Fohrenbach 8. Nuages - Django Reinhardt 9. Gift For the Club - Buck Clayton 10. I'm Coming Virginia - Bill Coleman 11. Alembert's - Henri Crolla 12. Le Chaland Qui Passe - Jean-Claude Fohrenbach 13. I Only Have Eyes For You - Michel De Villers 14. Nearness Of You, The - Stephane Grappelli 15. These Foolish Things - Henri Crolla 16. Anouman - Django Reinhardt 17. Nuits De Saint-Germain-Des-Pres - Django Reinhardt DISC 3: RAISINS AIGRES: 1. Al La Bud - Rene Urtreger Trio 2. Don't Touch The Grisbi - Bernard Peiffer 3. Minor Drops - Bobby Jaspar 4. You're A Lucky Guy - Clifford Brown 5. Samakoutra - Maurice Meunier 6. Marcel Le Fourrerur - The Modern Jazz Group Tentet 7. Devil's Dream - Pierre Michelot 8. Le Calife - Christian Chevallier 9. Half Nelson - Hubert Fol/Sacha Distel 10. There's A Small Hotel - Chet Baker 11. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Hubert Fol 12. Somebody Loves Me - Gerard Gustin 13. If I Had You - Bernard Peiffer 14. I've Found A New Baby - Zoot Sims/Henri Renaud 15. L'Imbecile - Rene Thomas 16. Black Bottom - Armand Migiani 17. Tasty Pudding - Chet Baker Jazz In Paris IV: Rive Gauche, Rive Droite 1956-1959 DISC 1: RIVE GAUCHE: 1. Minou Drouet Stomp - Michel Attenoux 2. Menilmontant - Barney Wilen 3. Stewin' Up A Wig - Lucky Thompson 4. Impulsion Pour Toi - Jean Bonal 5. Sous Les Ponts De Paris - Pierre Michelot 6. Une Nuit Au Violon - Jean-Luc Ponty 7. Phenil Isopropilamine - Bobby Jaspar 8. Lorre - Errol Parker 9. Django - Stephane Grappelli 10. Nearness Of You, The - Jack Dieval 11. Overdose - Daniel Humair 12. Sent For You Yesterday - Alix Combelle 13. Fumee Aux Yeux - Michel De Villers 14. Willow Weep For Me - Toots Thielemans 15. We'll Be Together Again - Sonny Criss 16. Brigitte Strip Blues - Georges Arvanitas 17. Surprise Partie Au Bord De L'eau - Alain Goraguer 18. La Mort - Martial Solal DISC 2: MADELEINE -REPUBLIQUE: 1. Les Oignons - Sidney Bechet 2. Flying At The Olympia - Lionel Hampton 3. Hello Dolly - Louis Armstrong 4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Harold Nicholas 5. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - June Richmond 6. Parisian Thoroughfare - Quincy Jones & His Orchestra 7. Bluesette - Rhoda Scott 8. Lil' Darlin - Cootie Williams 9. Les Tricheurs - Jazz At The Philharmonic... 10. Mic's Jump - Jazz At The Philharmonic... 11. Blues Walk, The - Donald Byrd 12. Liberte - Max Roach 13. Blues March - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers DISC 3: LES GRANDES RENCONTRES: 1. Generique - Miles Davis 2. Concerto No. 2, L'Ete - Raymond Fol 3. Bess You Is My Woman Now - Eddy Louiss 4. Milt Jackson's Tahiti - Kenny Clarke 5. Crazy Rhythm - Lionel Hampton 6. Stomp, Look And Listen - Swing Machine 7. Makin' Whoopee - Oscar Peterson/Stephane Grappelli 8. Blues In The Dungeon - Stuff Smith/Stephane Grappelli 9. Lucky T. - Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson 10. Twins, The - Cat Anderson/Claude Bolling 11. Paul - Cat Anderson/Claude Bolling 12. Pentacostal Feeling - Lou Bennett/Donald Byrd Oh, and those 3CD-sets from 2010, they look a bit ugly, I think - but they're budget-priced and definitely nice for anyone who hasn't got the original discs!

I have the "Piano à la Mood" (the one with the poodle jumping the fence on the cover) LP. It is nice but rather ... well ... mood-ish tinkling indeed. Not the most out-and-out hardcore jazz LP ever. Not sure if it is that essential on the reissue market. Well, if they throw it in with some other stuff, it should be nice enough. There's some other not-so-jazz stuff in the JiP series (the Crolla 2CD set for one). Anyway, I'm just crazy about crazy Peiffer and I'll get all that I can find!