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did you buy a plot at the cemetery already? here, graves will be emptied and re-used after a certain amount of time has passed (10 or 15 or 20 years, I don't know... you can pay to prolong it for some more years). would be quite crowded with cemeteries if all mankind still inhabited their own grave

"Ophelia" and "All La Glory" (early versionn) by The Band

Happy Birthday!

nah, the older music is the richest, really... before they all turned into post-Trane robots seriously... i guess that 50s/60s/hardbop fixation here still goes back to the roots of this board, when it was founded after the Blue Note board had been closed. Discussions about other kinds of music (I'm thinking more of anything avant or free, rather than all the new retro and new mainstream stuff, much of which I find rather cold and boring rich/complex harmonies notwithstanding) always had more of a difficulty getting started here.

I have way too much, but I can't see this happening to me... There's so much early jazz around, with all those specialist labels, radio broadcasts, etc etc... And also, there's so much lesser known stuff, non-US stuff... much of it expensive and hence not stuff I regularly buy, but there's plenty of music around there that is of interest. Finally, there's all the other stuff than jazz... world musics, avantgarde stuff of any kind... just read a few issues of The Wire to get some fascinating new ideas! To me (young and foolish... well, past the big 3 by now...), it seems endless!

I hear that you are to blame for the recent Swiss currency instabilities ! nah, I'm merely doing my best to help fixing the economic situation a bit...

I guess I could try and look it up for you, but these Condon(ites) discographies are a real mess, as there are often multiple versions of the same songs (sometimes also multiple sessions, each with multiple takes of the same songs...), and they were released under various leaders' names... I have some Hackett, mainly the Quadromania (which is a messy one, if I remember right, not one of the more or less orderly and chronological ones). "Coast Concert" and "Jazz Ultimate" are on this Collector's Music twofer (which I got) - both were also on the Teagarden Capitol Mosaic (which I sadly missed). The twofer misses some versions of tunes (one of the albums was done in stereo and mono mixes, the Mosaic has all of it). > AMG < The "mood music" by Hackett would then be the albums compiled on the Hackett Mosaic box, I assume? (And also on various Collectables twofers)

Don't know that one, but this here's quite terrific: Sergey Kuryokhin - Some Combination Of Fingers and Passion (CD LR 179 - LEO RECORDS)

I think in the funny rat, there was a discussion once about a solo CD of balloons...

It is the "old CD" with just the original "Bursting Out With The All Star Big Band" album (without "Swinging Brass With The Oscar Peterson Trio" which is added on the twofer). I am sorry!! The other one would have been worth some more, it seems... I bought way too much of late anyway, so it's almost a relief!

There just was a story about Ran Blake in The Wire (July issue) - haven't read it yet, the pile of stuff to read is growing incredibly fast... edit: interview transcript here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2659/

Yes, very good booklet I found, very informative!

Oscar Peterson, Bursting Out, Verve, $9 That isn't the twofer, but rather the "old CD", i assume? If it's the twofer, I'm all for it!

I've got this CD, with more music on it, I think: Beautiful music indeed!

the first is a great one to have back (yet if it will indeed, as is to be expected, miss all the bonus material, I'll stay with the CDR of the old CD, that's the best I could ever find for this one...) and a silly choice, since the later's been part of the LPR series (of which I still think the "Originals" series is somewhat of a continuation).

I quite agree with many of the points you make. I guess one of or THE most important thing to do is to actually attend live concerts and support the artists like that. These days it seems, generally musicians have to pay to release their music (at least if they do so on CD), and the only way to earn something is by drawing attention and audiences to their live shows... how many concerts have you been to where only 15 or 20 people attended? I know this doesn't apply to reissues and dead artists and their heirs etc bla-bla-bla (further point: if the heirs want bigtime money and are over-protective or in some cases just nuts, while not being dedicated to the heritage they're managing... is that "legit" or "just" or what?) - but for the scuffling artists still around, this is the best thing you can do: go to their concerts, and maybe buy some CDs from them directly (they often get a truckload for free, because they won't get any pay from the labels... and the 15$ they ask for their discs at a concert hence go directly into their pockets).

And another one that just came to mind: Erik Friedlander - Maldoror some samples and more on CDBaby

Oh yeah, Derek Bailey! His solo music is some of the most beautiful music ever committed to record! Ballads, Standards, Aida, or even more prefferedly any of his Emanem or Incus albums... Here's a review by Nate Dorward: http://www.ndorward.com/music/bailey_ballads.htm

Yeah, I'd love to hear more of that Sam Most session! The LaPorta is by now on a great Lonehill set (which also adds some unnecessary fillers, such as one part of the "Theme and Variations" Fantasy twofer-CD).

yuck, muehl on org... maybe bebop with all it's linear clarity and clean beauty helps him getting rid of his father complex? Still much impressed by The Band... in fact, I just ordered all their albums (except for "Cahoots" and the magnificient "The Band", both of which I found in the local summer sales just before departing for vacation, a few weeks ago), as well as the 4CD version of "The Last Waltz". Also, in the wake of this, I got into Dylan quite a bit again. He's been my first musical hero, back when I was 11 or 12, and on and off, I have listened to his music quite often. The most recent acquisitions were all the Bootleg Series volumes I was missing (the fantastic 1966 concert, the Rolling Thunder, the 1964 solo set, and the first 3CD set), the Biograph box, which I just finished playing for the first time yesterday (some great liner notes there), and the two nineties solo albums.

Yeah, I got mine much cheaper, it's nice to have - also it does contain some things not on the big Mingus Debut 12CD set (which is great, too).

Drop eloe omoe a PM, he can certainly help! But be prepared for hefty prizes...

Yeah, the Tea! Marvellous one! Definitely look for it! The Ray Brown is fine, too (by far better than the one in the LPR series or anything on the 2CD set w/Milt Jackson & Cannonball) The Washington was, with the Schifrin, the final ones I got. Learned to like the Washington a lot. The Schifrin is of course kind of cool, if only for the title and the allusion to Peter Weiss and all... but musically it's rather slight. The Peterson/De Franco I always found kind of lame, but before I got on my The Band-trip, I played a ton of Peterson and that one is up on top of the pile for once I'll feel like more Peterson... I have a hunch I might like it better by now...

Also, I used to be a fan of the Rollins solo disc mentioned in the first post, but by now I think it's more of a dud... it's maybe interesting to witness Rollins at work, but it's not a stellar moment at all, I think. Another great solo piano player is Martial Solal - Solo Solal, Nothing But Piano (both MPS), En Solo (RCA), Improvise pour France Musique (JMS), Solitude (CAM Jazz)... And Solal was one of the pianists of the great box set "Jazz n (e)motion", five discs of solo film music, performed by Steve Kuhn, Stephan Oliva, Alain Jean-Marie and Paul Bley. And that leads to three other great solo pianists, Paul Bley ("Homage to Carla" on Owl, for instance), Steve Kuhn, and Stephan Oliva (the Bernard Herman solo disc). And thinking of Kuhn somehow brings Don Friedman to mind... That then leads to the sadly hard to find Concord series of Maybeck performances (see, now and then Concord did some great things!)

Steve Lacy has been mentioned... I fondly recall the one occasion I saw him live, a beautiful Sunday matinee solo concert, short pieces, short concert, he still looked well though he must have been ill already... very precise music, bringing across his point most clearly. Strong, beautiful stuff! Another sax player I saw solo (at the same festival, the Unerhört festival in Zurich) is Roscoe Mitchell. That was a whole other experience, very intense, maybe too intense. I didn't connect with it as immediately as I did with Lacy, but it's still a very fondly remembered concert. Mitchell has a 3CD solo set (sax + percussion) on Mutable Music, which I picked up back then, after the concert, but somehow never got around to really explore: