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Just have a look here: http://www.amazon.com/Brazilliance-1-Laurindo-Almeida/dp/B000005HH3/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1304376074&sr=1-1 This is all Almeida/Shank Quartet material, and I guess half (?) of it is on the album/reissue you have?

Got a few of the CDs ("Air Raid", the Dickerson) and definitely got to get more of them!

Just lost my post, but the Bud Shank (two PacJazz albums with Babasin/Harte) is on the Brazilliance discs! The 1954 material, I mean. Except that the CD (Brazilliance Vol. 1, CDP 7963392, 1991) gives the year of both the April (15th and 22nd) sessions as 1953 (15 tracks all in all, including the alternate take of "Speak Low") Brazilliance Vol. 2 (CDP 7961022, 1991) has the 1958 material that came out under Shanks's name as "Holiday in Brazil" (WP 1259) and "Latin Contrasts" (WP 1281), all from March 1958.

I guess I need some whacko old englishman to finally check out Lena's new song... how incredibly lame. If I were you, I'd quickly nominate Downes!

We're talkin' "Around the World in Jazz" it seems? Crappy sound if the rip I've once heard was taken from this... Drop me a pm, Vic!

the bogey thread? the royal petting... the humpback of camprick

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Lazaro!

You'll miss out on a large booklet going the CDR route... if that's no biggie for you... I kept the 2CD Storyville box even though I have the "Duke Box", just because of the big booklet.

Wasn't 1998-99 around the time that the Verve Elite series came out too? A mythical time of riches ! The VEEs started earlier, 1996 I think. They came faster and 1998 might as well have been the best year there. The final few came in 2000 already.

well, I gladly volunteer to send my jacobins!

the royal (in)breeding

the royal weeding

Wot, was there a decapitation and I missed it? Sorry about your dog, paps, hope he'll be fine again!

I've just been to the loo...

Over here 'tis

Happy Birthday, Joe! :party: Hope you're still with us now and then... and here's hope for another disc by Organissimo, have and enjoy all the ones you did so far! :tup

Happy big 3, niko! All the best! :party: Curtis and Dupree send their regards

Jack Purvis Pretty Purdie Colin Purbrook

John the Baptist Jean-Baptiste Lully Sully Prudhomme

ODB Easy Mo' Bee Beyonce

Who's playing flute on the Mingus album? Clifford Jordan? Did he ever play the flute, really? Fun to read three-part excerpt of forthcoming autobiography: http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/guest-bloggers/running-with-the-big-dogs-part-1 (Sorry if already posted elsewhere)

Yeah! Hopefully that Beeb thingie will be out there soon! Great to know! Wuppertal is too far for me to attend, but a friend who was here in Zurich (and lives in Germany) will go there, too. I tried to talk to McPhee quickly, but he wasn't interested much, alas... just shook hands, told him how great it was for me to see him live and all that, and he replied - kindly so - that he had enjoyed playing the concert a lot, too... but that, alas, was it).

Well, it should be billed as the "Chicago Tentet + 1" correctly. Blame the organizer for that! +1 is Bauer, the most recent addition to the band. And yes, Zerang's drumming is very tuneful and musical! was rather unfair only singling out Nilssen-Love above, but he was so amazingly powerful! Bauer, too... he's a weirdo and probably the biggest fan of the other guys, too... but his playing was fine. In the Zurich concert though, Jeb Bishop was outstanding! They had a little 'bone trio once, with Holmlander on that weirdo thing - magic! What struck me as most amazing is the degree of musicality you get to hear within all this messy, blaringly loud music - even when they are all on fire, and all playing simultaneously, you get all these little shifts, duos and trios within the whole group building... I bet it helps a lot that they play acoustically and are hence free to move around! Was that the case at the concerts you guys saw, too? No mics except for the tuba, and a pair of amps for cello and bass - but besides that, just purely acoustic sounds?

I wanted to do a little write-up but didn't feel like doing it under the immediate impression, which was enormous! Also bought the "3 Nights in Oslo" set at the concert, but haven't started playing. To warm up, I listened to the whole "Chicago Octet/Tentet" Okka-set the afternoon before the concert