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oh, and March 2010 is fixed as well (talk about reservations and planning of spare time in advance...): Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya in Basel - looking forward to that a lot, as I've only seen him solo (several times), trio (once) and with Max Roach (once) so far.

October duty will be good enough to make up for the summer... tickets for Richard Bona have been booked and just now I printed them, silly "print at home" stuff... is everybody anal here and needs to organise their lives days in advance, print movie tickets at home and know exactly where he'll seat and instist and stuff? crazy world! all kinds of pre-arrangements and reservations ought to be probihibited! I'll try and catch the great BraffOesterRohrer trio on Sunday 11th, Bona is on on Tuesdy 13th!

Did my September duty on October 2nd in Strasbourg: Cecil fucking Taylor and Tony Oxley - holy holy! Great concert, but bad luck on my side - left a bit early hoping to catch the last train, missed it... the whole concert cost me around 300CHF, close to 200€... but I dare say it was worth it... holy holy, as I said!

ordered some ESP disks from Allegro's current sale - ouch! their international shipping is steep, but the dollar is cheap (and so am I...) from past experience with such sales, they might not have all the items listed in stock, so I'll wait for a shipping confirmation first!

Dorothy Ashby Richard Evans Edward E. Evans-Pritchard

yes son!

found a couple of photos: http://www.jazzindex.ch/de/band.php?Band=4...7s+JAZZ+EXPRESS

Well, I've never hunted for Blue Note albums, only for CDs. There are NO vinyl stores around here that deserve dropping by to hunt for jazz LPs, just one that moved out of Zurich several years ago. They might have such releases, but I'd call up before dropping by. And they'd ask 15€ for it or something... no cheapo second hand bins here, just for new CDs, usually...

upon third reading i stumbled upon this sentence btw (by michael fitzgerald) "There's another 1967 Dorham date floating around out there with: Kenny Dorham, Gene Harris, Victor Sproles, Jimmy Lovelace, Joe Lee Wilson." Hm, I don't think I've seen/heard that one! Brownie just reminded me of another one, in fine quality: there's a Left Bank Jazz Society one from 1965, with Jimmy Heath and KD. That one is in sound as good (or bad - your take!) as the released Left Bank sessions by Hubbard, Hubbard/Heath, Kelly/Mobley, Kelly/Coleman etc. Would have been a worthy entrance in Label M's catalogue, but I guess those ventures are over now

Booker Ervin Deep Deep Throat or wait - sort of sanitized: Booker Ervin Deep Butch Warren

Holy holy! BillF has 2700 posts in this thread alone!

aloc, I urge you to check out the Intakt disc by Trio 3 with Irene Schweizer! I saw them live the day before or after the disc was cut (both nights were recorded, but only one track from Zurich made it onto the disc, the rest is from their Berne concert, as the title indicates. Trio 3 + Irene Schweizer - Berne Concert To me, Schweizer is a better match, at least on paper (and in concert), but I still have to pick up both of these releases!

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Jesus Christ Jarvis Cocker

Daniel Huck is the guy from the Anachronic Jazz Band, right? I just got that double disc set, haven't listened yet... congrats on such a cool gig, had no idea you were a performing musician... no gigs in Zurich?

Gee, the cover for the Bowie is so good I might buy that also... Will order the Freeman and Smith later, but I'll have to do some thinking first... could you post the list of Uptowns you can supply? Or mail it to me if you don't want to have it up here, please?

Now available as half of John Lewis, West Coast/East Coast Encounter on Gambit. And also part of a cheapo 4 albums + on 2CDs reissue by Avid (which I recently bought, mainly for the "No Sun In Venice" album and the "At the Opera" side (the other side by Oscar Peterson is on "At the Concertgebouw" as bonus material). The twofer also includes the great "Modern Jazz Society" album (once a Verve Elite with some bonus stuff, worth hunting for!): I remember being a bit disappointed with that one but I haven't listened to it in ages, I'll have to re-investigate it. Pleased to have my feeling confirmed, Cliff. I am far happier with Perkins and Kamuca's Tenors Head On. I just got that single, haven't played it yet... but I would have bought it anyway, I'm as much a fan of Kamuca than of Perkins (Kamuca's Mode album is da shit, as they say!). As for "Tenors Head On"... I never found that while it was around, but there's a Lonehill covering some of the same territory... what a mess these sessions/releases were, Shank/Perkins, Perkins/Kamuca, and bonus tracks and stuff on compilations and trio warm-up tracks... would have been a great Mosaic Select if there'd been a couple of more sessions to add! (Or maybe there are but I don't know about them?)

Thanks, didn't remember that thread!

Ronnie Mathews turns up as well there, not sure about the others, will have to look it up. It's radio stuff as well, I think, but much of it so bad it's hard to listen... not sure if those are Alan Grant shows as well, but I don't think so.

This label has some later releases by a handful of West Coast greats (but I'm afraid the purist Perkins fans might not enjoy him there...) http://www.woofyproductions.com/ I found the Perkins/Hufstetter, Bert/Baltazar and Don Menza discs recently... there are many more, including a series by Carl Fontana/Conte Candoli and releases by randissimo's dad, Arno Marsh.

So what's the word, a friend of mine hasn't yet made up his mind if he ought to get the mono or the stereo box... has anyone actually done some real comparison? And for my own interest: are there any albums that are recommended to have in stereo, in addition to the mono box? (I did get "Abbey Road", "Let It Be" and "Past Masters" in stereo already, and won't get "Yellow Submarine", as the Beatles tracks from it are part of the "Mono Masters" compilation).

Ah well... the US$ is so cheap these days that even with VAT and post taxes added, Mosaic sets are still cheaper nowadays than they ever were! The cheap $ easily makes up for any taxes, even for the lack of surface shipping option for orders over 100$!

Great news! I've never heard (of) any live shows with KD and Henderson... some stuff with Sonny Red is floating around, but it's in horrible sound. Also some with Fathead... would be great if these could be resurrected in acceptable sound, but I won't hold my breath.

Will fender produce Lucilles now, in return?

K7 for me please!

Happy Birthday! :party: