king ubu

Michael Mann Dillinger J. Edgar Hoover (this time with the names in the right order...)

Gina Lollobrigida Sophia Loren Claudia Cardinale

Louis Chevrolet Edgar J. Hoover Adolph Rickenbacher well yeah, Swiss or Swiss-originated folks in the US (there are some others, make your pick)

Taylor / Oxley - Strasbourg finally! been looking forward to this for months now!

The Columbia material wasn't only bootlegged by Definitive (see mikeweil's post above), but also by an Italian outfit I think called Comet (on amazon.com, this is listed as by Universe Italy): This version was around in shops here, and there was even one (usually good!) music critic that wrote a review of one of these boot versions, obviously not in the know about the legit release that took place a few years earlier... I guess the avaricious guys from Sony Switzerland didn't send him a review copy of their box, but the bootleggers did...)

he had sex with a contortionist?

Happy Birthday, Rod!

This great recording seems to be out again! It's listed (twice!) in yesterday's JazzLoft news mail. Here's how it used to look, in its old digipack version: The new cover looks different, and I guess it'll be packed in a regular jewel case (they seem to have abandoned their nice digipack/cardboard presentation a while ago - hell, they seem to have almost gone belly-up, so all news there is good news!). https://www.jazzloft.com/p-50878-due-en-noir.aspx

Yes, sure! There's a "corner" here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=32937 And three threads (at least) about the great Select: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=986 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1626 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17362 Big, big fan here! To truly grasp his genious, I'd recommend you search for some of his great Verve discs (roughly 1988 or 89 to 2000), like "Volcano Blues" (with Teddy Edwards) and "Saga". Some have guests like Pharoah Sanders, Dizzy Gillespie and Idrees Sulieman, on some he adds Moroccan Gnawa Musicians... And don't neglect his 70s work either... there's a great live album with Billy Harper on Freedom (it was on CD), as well as plenty of great piano solo releases. Most recently, he's played with a trio, the release "Zep Tepi" is recommended! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26656

c'mon, now relax, have a pint of Guinness, play some fun stuff... I don't always agree with Jim's point of view, I don't find all of Allen's jokes funny, but gee!

I have to add: when Shirley Horn did "Yesterdays > Yesterday" in concert, back in around 2001 (she was still playing piano as well, Charles Ables had just died... she was with Steve Novosel-b and Steve Williams-d), it was magical! But that concert was one of the most enjoyable ones I've heard yet!

Thanks, now I get it.... of course I first thought of OJC, but I could make no sense out of that because I didn't think of the Terri Hinte firing... sorry for being a bit slow these days, but my head's just too full with crappy stuff.

He he... you can be the British Hawkins, or is there a contender? I think he's indeed on that session with Benny Carter and Django - classic stuff!

Elie Wiesel Thad Jones Mel Lewis

unmissable, I say it again!

Nah, he'd be contemtuous because even by the low musical standards applied in that "genre" (they think they're the best though! Only professional musicians can be better than them, that's fersure!) these discs would be horrible... in addition, they're of horrible sound quality... but the Bee Gees shows was great, I tellya!

well, you don't have to eat them

never heard of Jean Robert, but I've got some of those Hawkins sides with Freddie Johnson... Alix Combelle was another European Hawk scholar. He can be heard with Django, among others.

Anouk Aimee Guido Anselmi Anselm of Canterbury

we were looking something like this: but our only arms were these:

I have a couple of very badly recorded army band CDs (with yours truly buried in the messy sound on baritone sax)... I'm sure no one could actually survive even one full listen to any of those discs... (the show the sax section did on "Stayin' Alive", alas, isn't on the CD )

I don't quite get the joke... OJC as in "Offensive junger Christen"?

ah well... I have most of Blakey's BNs, some of the Paris stuff, the Columbia album (or rather three of them...), the Bethlehem, two RCAs, the one with Monk, and the three Riversides... also the two Milestone/Fantasy CDs... I guess this, too, is way too much, but when I had Moanin', Free for All and some others, I just loved that stuff and just kept buying the others as they kept popping up all over for good prizes. I'll keep them for sure, but I rarely play most of them as I'm not even really able to distinguish them all... (same applies to most of Lee Morgan's BN albums... somehow Jackie McLeans or Jimmy Smith's or Horace Silver's are more distinctive to me...)

I remember those covers (from links in the funny rat thread, I think) but haven't heard any of these releases - they do look tempting though! I don't think they're ugly or dumb... they are very recognizable and have fairly simple graphics, which is always a pleasure (too much of the world is being flooded by badly designed stuff... and magazines and CDs are among the worst, all too often...)

The Band