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Happy Birthday, Jim! :party:

Yes, correct. Not sure if these are live on stage announcements, radio or tv host talk or whatever... would have to dig up the disc to check.

My Prague version looks like this: 1. Ann; 2. My Favourite Things; 3. Ann GC; 4. Griff's Groove; 5. Box 703, Washington D.C.; 6. Ann GC; 7. Here The Good Wind Comes; 8. Nights In Warsaw; 9. Ann GC; 10. What a Regal Aspect Yet Retains; 11. Ramo de flores; 12. Ann GC; 13. I Don't Want Nothin'; 14. The Turk; 15./16. An Thence We Issued Out Again To See; 17. Appl; 18. Box 703; 19. Ann Sorry for the awkward formatting... it might just be talk and announcements that they cut short, who knows. Don't have that disc at hand, but it needs some work anyway... my list says it's 75 min.

I guess my favorite right now is "Wahoo" - but I've not spent nearly as much time with the later BNs on the Select... and I enjoy "Sweet Honey Bee" and "The Right Touch" a lot, as well! Also got the two trio albums from a board member some months ago (I've known them but never owned them before) and they're very nice, very moody in a good way. The two Atlantics are fine as well!

Great news, Mike!

Another bootleg, methinks... must have audio of it, but never saw the DVD. Though if it's 1967-10-22, my audio version is 75 minutes! What I do have is the CBBB episode of "Jazz gehört & gesehen" (Köln, 1969-01-16) The "Faces" footage, btw... there seems to be a version from Zurich, Switzerland indeed, I have 43 minutes from May 1970, with some note about "Hazyland" (whatever that was, probably connected to Hazy Osterwald?). Again, I only have audio of it, alas.

and more detailed here: http://universalmusic.it/jazz/album/?ida=306618 (search for the artist, then chose "discographia" and pick the release you want information on)

The Campi film? That was great! I think it was on the German/French arte TV channel - and I think I don't have it on DVD, just watched it when it was on... would love to catch it again, the interviews with all the guys (Johnny Griffin!) and the music - it was great to watch AND liste for a change! Got to dig through my DVDs to see if I might have it... @Mike: good decision! I'm in no position to confirm 100% the provenance of the four bonus tracks, but as Jazz Lips is one of these annoying outfits that thinks a CD is only valuable if it clocks in at least at 79:45, it's very unlikely they offer anything rare or special there... the two Drevo/Drewo (I deliberately chose the other spelling above so a search would still bring this thread up) albums are both fine, the first one has him with 'bones and rhythm backing, the second has the full CBBB backing him.

Looks as they're from Drevo's "Swing, Waltz, Swing" indeed. That whole album was reissued in 2008 by Rearward/Schema/Edizioni Ishtar. It's pretty nice (as is Drevo's other CB-related album, "Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie" (reissued by the same outfit earlier - my CD gives no year, but with RW105 as a catalogue nummer, it must have been among their earliest reissues, also it comes in regular a jewel case, opposed to the later cardboard boxes with booklet of jewel-case size and the most recent digipacks).

Wow, wow, wow! The Schweizer/Favre set was absolutely stunning! One of the most beautiful concerts I've witnessed! Malcolm Braff's "Voltage" is - as the title suggests - plugged in. He's playing a modified/extended fender rhodes (some "pad" and an ibook on a desk next to him, but he never "played" that, I guess it was just there to steer the stuff), and Marcello Giuliani/Marc Erbetta of Erik Truffaz fame were the rhythm section. Giuliani had this huge sound, you couldn't make out notes, you saw him playing but could only feel it in your guts, and mightily so! Very cool! The band in between took me a while to get into... it's a septet with trumpet, trombone, tenor, clarinet and bass clarinet, as well as two drummers. Sort of minimalist at times, the pieces being short, mostly composed and written out (with some room for solos, the bass clarinet guy was terrific, Araxi herself, more or less the leader of the band, had a few fine spots on tenor, too). Anyway, the very special world of sound they're creating started really opening up to me about a quarter of an hour in, and it got beautiful at spots, intriguing at others (imagine some funk rhythms by the group, and some very easily and flowingly done 15/8 stuff etc, paired with beautiful voicings and quite some humour, too). Bought the "Voltage" (two gentLemen records, 2010) and Miniatur Orchester discs (the later is titled "Pro Specie Rara", Unit Records 2010). Got the most recent Schweizer/Favre disc of course, the magnificient "Ulrichsberg" on Intakt.

we want photos!

today's haul from the used book shoppe nearby... The Complete Sidney Bechet Volumes 1/2 (1932-1941) (RCA Jazz Tribune N° 10) François Jeannea - Techniques Douces (Owl, mit Michel Graillier, JF Jenny-Clark, Aldo Romano) Hank Crawford - Midnight Ramble (Milestone) Wish I'd had the other Bechet (Vols. 3/4 and Vol. 5), too! Got to look for them!

going to the Jazzfestival Schaffhausen tonight: Irene Schweizer & Pierre Favre Duo (*) Araxi Karnusian: Miniatur Orchestra Malcolm Braff Voltage (w/Patrice Moret & Marc Erbetta) *) Schweizer should have appeared with the Where's Africa Trio with Makaya Ntshoko and sax player Omri Ziegele. I just read that Ziegele has had some accident and will be unable to play for about a month... as much as I love the Schweizer/Favre duo, I'd have loved a Schweizer/Ntshoko duo even more and was very much looking forward to seing Ntshoko live finally... well, guess it was not to be this time...

I guess you have all those rare John Wright LPs? Nice! Have just sped up my ol' Lenco L75 and am spinning this one for the first time: Not exactly a quiet pressing, but the music's fine!

Finally got the other Bennie Wallace on Blue Note ("Twilight Time") and in addition found "Harlem Piano" by Luckey Roberts and Willie "The Lion" Smith - seems to be the original Good Time Jazz LP. What a great cover photo!

Is that actually a Duvel or just the glass? I love the regular and dark Duvel but tend to not try all these fruity and otherwise flavored ones... but nothing beats Belgian beer anyway! (Well, maybe French Belzebuth... very strong one, tastes best after a couple of hours in the freezer)

Happy Birthday, Chuck!

Simic has been honoured for his lifetime achievements at the 50th poetry festival in Sarajevo - German article here.

I've seen a great concert of the Ullmann/Swell quartet some years ago... alas there was almost no audience there that night, but the band (Barry Altschul and Hilliard Greene) was mighty fine!

thinking I'm falling asleep as I type thi.... zzzz zzzz zzzzzzz zzz zz

Some good stuff there, too... but nothing new (a few that I never wanted, the rest I have) Anyway, had these been around fifteen years ago when I was young and getting into jazz, I'd have been all over them! Here's hope that there are some youngsters today that are in such a situation and will enjoy these and use them as a starting point for further discoveries!

um, just noticed in the listing here that there are TWO discs by Hod O'Brien: 116 O'Brien, Hod Ridin' High 155 O'Brien, Hod So That's How It Is I have the second and think it's more like ok to good than great.

Don't have many... Barry Harris' "Live in New York" would be the anti-climax. The two fines ones are: Steve Kuhn - Dedication Steve Kuhn - Countdown Then there's the Hod O'Brien, which is somewhere in between, I guess.

Happy Birthday, Larry! :party: