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hard to pick just five ... John Coltrane - Crescent Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster Cannonball Adderley – Somethin‘ Else missing Monk and Dolphy, but Miles is in there (though I was debating to include Mobley's "Soul Station" instead of the Adderley) ... but I guess albumwise they're just not quite up there

Pete La Roca (Sims) - made a return in the 90s with a fine album on Blue Note

Artie Shaw Tal Farlow (he did return though)

Does it matter when you use them as coasters?

Ogerman has died in March - seems the rumour was out among friends and musician colleagues, but it only just got public. http://www.jazzwax.com/2016/10/claus-ogerman.html I have to confess it took me quite a while to develop an appreciation for his art - when I got into jazz my rigorously opinionated teenage-self would not hold much interest in singers and would snarl at "with strings" albums (Clifford Brown's album was an early exception), when I wanted Wes Montgomery I went for Riverside, not Verve etc. But I did somehow always like Diana Krall. She was there and I knew her when I started getting into jazz, so I kept buying her CDs for a few years - and when she made that diva album with Ogerman arranging, I kinda slowly started figuring out that some of it was pretty good and the arrangements really didn't get in the way ... eventually, Ogerman kept popping up on all kinds of albums I bought, so there's that. Not love, I guess, at least no all the time, but truckloads of respect.

Missed out on the Ross ... but this time, delivery was reasonably fast.

Yay! Indeed! Not sure how much longer Schlippenbach will be around, he seemed rather frail in Warsaw in March, but he is doing his traditional "Winter journey" with the Schlipp 3 again this year (another concert I plan to attend, December 11th in Zurich - Paul Lovens stopped much of his traveling, so Paul Lytton will step in). in between, there's also this: unerhört! what I plan to attend: Dienstag, 22. November 2016, 18.00 Uhr Nur Abendkasse, geöffnet ab 17.30 Uhr Kulturhaus Helferei CHF 25.- / 20.- Colin Vallon Trio Mittwoch, 23. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Keine Reservation möglich Jazz im Seefeld, GZ Riesbach Mindestkollekte CHF 5.- Eskelin - Weber - Griener Hans-Peter Pfammatter & Big Band der Hochschule Luzern - Musik Donnerstag, 24. November 2016, 20.30 Uhr Nur Abendkasse, geöffnet ab 19.00 Uhr Werkstatt für improvisierte Musik (WIM) CHF 30.- / 20.- / Mitglieder gratis Peter K Frey Booklet: Tobias Delius - Joe Williamson - Steve Heather Freitag, 25. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Rote Fabrik, Clubraum CHF 45.- / 37.- Alex Huber - Lauren Kinsella - Sascha Henkel Ethan Iverson - Mark Turner NYC Five: Angelika Niescier - Florian Weber Samstag, 26. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Rote Fabrik, Clubraum CHF 45.- / 37.- Aruán Ortiz Trio Gabriela Friedli - Claudia Ulla Binder MATS-UP Sonntag, 27. November 2016, 19.00 Uhr Moods im Schiffbau CHF 40.- / 35.- Jakob Bro Trio Jürg Wickihalder Beyond But with the wealth of concerts, I might skip Colin Vallon (have seen him plenty of times, and I mgiht skip Friday night as well, as I see the Weber-Niescier group in Berlin and am not that enticed by the whole evening, though I'd be interested to hearing Mark Turner in person). full line-up: http://unerhoert.ch/programm/

going to Jazzfest Berlin for the first time this year (and first trip to Berlin whatsoever) - the plan (not sure about the artist talk, but the movie I'd love to see): Julia Hülsmann Quartet & Anna-Lena Schnabel / Mette Henriette / Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Do 03.11.2016, 19:00 The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith Film Haus der Berliner Festspiele Fr 04.11.2016, 16:00 Joshua Redman – Brad Mehldau Duo / Globe Unity Orchestra / Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Fr 04.11.2016, 19:00 Angelika Niescier – Florian Weber Quintet / Nik Bärtsch – hr-Bigband / DeJohnette – Coltrane – Garrison Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Sa 05.11.2016, 19:00 Wadada Leo Smith & Alexander Hawkins Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Berlin So 06.11.2016, 15:00 Artist talk with Steve Lehman, Eve Risser, Wadada Leo Smith Haus der Berliner Festspiele So 06.11.2016, 18:00 Julia Holter & Strings / Steve Lehman Octet / Eve Risser’s White Desert Orchestra Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne So 06.11.2016, 19:00 full schedule here: http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/jazzfest/ueber_festival_jazz/aktuell_jazz/start.php too bad Laubrock is playing at the same time ... but I've heard her a couple of times and in different settings (same goes for Mary Halvorson), while I've never yet seen Wadada, DeJohnette, the Globe Unity, Melford, Lehman and a few others

Thanks for the alert - ordered some classical for a pound a pop (making the standard shipping seem out of proportion, but hey, I'm not complaining!) - they seem to pretty much know which ones not to give away for nothing (i.e. the Busch/Beethoven discs), but clicking through the hits, I really wondered how long this label will still survive, as most of the hits looked like cozy "musique d'ameublement" for a generation that has just about died out completely by now ...

some bad smartphone pics (and longer German review) up here now: http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/2016/09/meteo-music-festival-mulhouse-august.html

yeah, and those unlisted ones seem to be full of holes (going from experience, not from the ones listed above - but if stuff like regularly released Blue Note or Prestige albums are missing ...) maybe they're to be considered in progress (not sure there is any/much of that, don't visit the site often these days)

Yes, the Montgomery is one I would definitely go for!

Re: Monk (Riverside, I assume), there's one of those real reissues avaiable, too - with the full booklet but in small format. Not Italian but European Universal still ... same for Miles on Prestige, Evans on Fantasy, Coltrane on Prestige ... I have but the Miles of them, but they're so much nicer and not much more expensive. Alas, the selection is much smaller, I guess producing them (booklets and boxes, not the discs themselves) costs some real money, as opposed to the Italian editions. I'm still somewhat puzzled by the parallel world that Universal Italy seems to be ... they are releasing lots of classical boxes, too, and in a few cases run along better/more complete European Universal sets (i.e. Sviatoslav Richter Solo set v. Sviatoslav Richter Complete set, Hogwood Haydn v. Complete Haydn symphonies) - looks like Italy is an outfit more or less independent from the main company (or else looks like real bad management).

The Bud comes with a thick booklet that is indeed a most interesting read! As for Rollins ... I have the ZYX edition (bought at full price - Swiss music shops ripping off school kids saving their pocket money ...) which has a scaled down (regular CD size) version of the big booklet, omitting some parts of it I think ... but the liners are there, at least. Some of these Italian boxes do reproduce the booklets (the Brownie, for one - I think we went into some detail about this above), but mostly they are indeed just for the music. But then compared to all the crappy PD sets popping up all over yurp, these at least come from (near) the source and should always sound decently.

No, they were mentioned in one of the regular newsletters recently (sometime in what's still sorta summer on the northern hemisphere), but I must have deleted that mail. Probably sometime in (late) autumn - the mail announcing the October new releases doesn't mention any boxes.

BRU must've had one or the other JUG too many. Thanks for the re-post, @The Magnificent Goldberg, just read your long and interesting post. Guess I guve the jams more credit - simply because they feature some great players, including a few (Idrees Sulieman!) that never really got their due.

(@MG: haven't read your long post ... being on Smartphone it's unreadable, 2-4 words per row and thus going on eternally ... hope it will be different once I'm back on a proper screen, but it might be a goid idea to post it again unformatted, assuming that you pasted it from a word or other document and that causes the problem?) Other than that, interesting discussion. I really love Jug's playing and have at least a dozen and a half of his Prestige/Fantasy CDs ... but I guess I'm just too young (and from the wrong social and geographical background) to consider him amongst my top favourites ... guess he would make the extended "tenors whose playing I love" list ... but that one is pretty long really.

Oh, wow, missed this ... fell in love with his fat tone and fine playing right away when I first heard the old Conn CD of "Here's Louis Smith". Bought a few of his later Steeplechase albums then, as well as the reissue of his second Blue Note album ... and was overjoyed when that Horace Silver Quintet set with Smith on board turned up.

Hooked by this recent arrival - have played it several times in a row last night and will do so again later on. This one just arrived today - gave it a first spin and enjoyed it a lot ... not sure I've listened to those oboe concertos paying attention before. Something else I played often in the past days is the Chopin found on this set - that includes the Préluds, the third Ballade, the first Scherzo, three each of the Nocturnes and Études, the Polonaises Op. 26/1 and Op. 53 "Heroic", four Waltzes and 16 Mazurkas ... not exactly my favourite selection of Chopin (that would be Nocturnes, Scherzi, Ballades ... and then the Préludes, I think), but some great playing here!

Re: architecture, you ought to really consider Ferrara then! The city in late Renaissance was doubled in size, planned from scratch as a vanity/magnificence project ... it never grew to fill its new proportions though, even on the new central crossing (on an axis straight from the old/still central point, the palazzo ducale) the palazzi are in part unfinished (brick walls, marble only on the corners and entrances), yet one of the palazzi is the famous Diamanti one with its amazing facade ... There's more like the Palazzo Schifanoia and - a personal highlight - the Palazzina Marfisa d'Este. You will find amazing spots just a few feet away from all the tourists, you can stroll along (partly on) the fortifications built at the last vane enlargement of the town, you can go from the middle ages part straight to the fascist part that's ridiculous in parts and still not bad (it was built on the site of the destroyed baroque era castle, town walls were torn doen down there to allow modern/industrial entrance to town in 19c). You can read Giorgio Bassani's wonderful stories and novels and visit his grave at the far end of the cimetery of the "ebrai" as they called (call - a few retuned, there's a worthwhile museun too, alas the synagogue is closed - one of the visible traces of the heavy earthquakes a few yeard back) themselves. Guess it's easily my favourite place nowadays, would love to stay there longer (and learn the language, too).

I spent a weekend in Bologna in June ... plenty of things to do, but what I enjoy best is just strolling around, looking at things. The best place there, for sure, is the "sette chiese" (seven churches) complex of Santo Stefano: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Stefano,_Bologna As for jazz, I don't really know if there's a site pulling together information ... this here is probably the most famous place in Bologna (never been there): http://www.cantinabentivoglio.it/eng/jazz_club.html If you have time to travel around some, consider a few days both in Ferrara (most beautiful city in the world, I think - and some stuff to check out, not just the ducal palace but some palazzos, churches etc., but again you can stroll around, walking from medieval into renaissance and on into (pre-)fascist early 20c ... and great food at Da Noemi) and in Ravenna. In Paris and jazz, I'd sugest asking OliverM ... that's what I will do when my next trip there is scheduled. Again, don't miss strolling around, for instance in the Marais, and don't miss the jazz/classical CD store of Gibert's on Blvd. Saint-Michel, if you're still into buying CDs ... there's tons of art to see of course, the Louvre (plenty of great renaissance paintings), the Musée d'Orsay in the defunct railway station (used as a setting for Welles' adaption of Kafka's "The Process") - best museum ever if you're into impressionism ... the Rodin museum is worth a visit as well ...

Oh yes, that was indeed Ewart with that extremely loud voice and laugh! Too bad I had missed the Luft/Bothen concert, but that's how it goes ... The Pat Thomas solo disc I already played btw, it's fine indeed!

Thanks, Steve! Sanders was very good indeed, but I think I ever so slightly prefer Steve Noble (who, together with Edwards, forms my favourite rhythm section for this kinda energy music, no matter if it's American or European). And I'm really, really looking forward to hearing Edwards in solo for the first time, next Saturday (though I do have to get up early to be there at 11 a.m., or rather somewhat before as I prefer to sit in front if possible). I have seen him several times this year (he played four or five sets at the amazing Brötzmann party in Warsaw in March, before that I heard him with Decoy & Evan Parker, then in Ravenna with Moholo's 5 Blokes, and now again in Mulhouse and then in Willisau ... he is quite busy, really). As for Parker, I keep trying ... this was the third time I heard him - I reported about last year's Unerhört festival, here in Zurich. He was devastatingly boring I found, when playing solo, but then he was pretty fine (still playing with that no-body-no-sound though) a few days later in trio with Oliver Lake. I also see what records he's on (I love some of them, such as Taylor's Feel Trio 10 CD box) ... I'll keep trying but I don't have high hopes. The entire Météo festival was immensely enjoyable! I should definitely try and make it a habit to be there (it takes me about an hour longer to get to Mulhouse than to go to a concert in town ... and tickets are so nicely priced, compared to what concerts cost here - Willisau will really tear another hole in my budget, but I need to see that series of Zorn concerts).