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Jim: "ridiculous" applied to McGriff's Solid State LPs: do you mean that in a good or in a bad way? Or some of both? May be my lack of english, but I notice each time I play some McGriff that his sound is indeed rather different...

Sad news. He was a very good guitar player indeed! That album he did with Barney, I just love it!

Finished the "Dig Ben" box by Ben Webster - great one! Some beautiful short sessions on disc 6, the big band sides on disc 7, and on disc 8 the "No Fool No Fun" rehearsals (plus a lovely date with Jimmy Rowles - who shines on the Mulligan Meets Webster album, too!). I also played disc 1 again, a terrific compilation (from three following nights) with Kenny Drew, NHOP and for once Albert Heath (usually it was Alex Riel who I think was nominally the leader of the trio). That's some of the best Webster I've heard on disc 1! Still I don't quite get why that session (from 1968) wasn't programmed in its place, as the box is more or less ordered chronologically. Also since they did do a box with their Webster sessions and they do mention that from these three nights in 1968 there are two hours of music, I don't see why they didn't include some more (and previously unreleased) music, as this is clearly one of the highlights!

I have one of Basie's and one by Ellington. These are boxes of six Chrono Classics in a sturdy black cube-box, plus an additional booklet (giving much helpful information, such as soloist ids, but the two I have don't have full track-by-track notes). The Basie is his first six discs, the Ellington I have is Vol. 3 and covers the 30s (up to 38 or 39). So there are at least two more Ellingtons, not sure what other artists got that treatment.

Rufus Harley I presume? I recently watched a DVD of a 1974 Sonny Rollins show with him. He played soprano and bagpipes... it was weird watching him play bagpipes, as of course his blowing and the outcome were totally out of sync... it struck me how similar the sound was of his soprano and of the bagpipes (but maybe that partly was due to the mediocre sound quality of said DVD...)

quite a thread of confessions here... I think the only thing I'd generally agree are the steel drums (but there are those Beaver Harris things where they don't bother me at all... that guy Othello Molineaux - what a name! - who pops up on the Jaco "Birthday Concert", now that's all yuck yuck to my ears).

this is NOT a US only thread. I shipped stuff from Switzerland to Taiwan...

Yes, I immediately thought of the Roulette material as well! That would have been great! The Columbia stuff has even been bootlegged (at least the Monterey) on one of those Spanish labels (one of those with glossy digipacks, JazzBeat or JazzTrack I think). "Karuna Supreme" is great, I have it on vinyl. There was a CD reissue of it in the 90s, when that german label Motor Music (another enterprise under the Universal umbrella I think) reissued a few MPS albums (those Two Originals and Three Originals sets, for instance).

Yes, that's what I've been thinking, too!

You're talking of the photographer, David LaChapelle? Weird stuff... but I can't say a lot about it. I think his 1999 book "Hotel LaChapelle" was the last one I had a look at in a bookstore.

One other thing I read rather early was both Rimbaud's poetry as well as Baudelaire's "Fleurs du mal" (both in bi-lingual editions... luckily we still learn *some modest* bit of French at school) - yet I never got into Verlaine to this day (I never tried in the past 10 years though...). Also I read lots of Dada stuff early on (15, 16), poems by Ball, Arp, Huelsenbeck, Tzara etc. etc., Serner's "Die Tigerin", Ball's fascinating diary, all those manifestos, as well as plenty of secondary literature. Then something else I got into early on was Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance - I remember reading a whole lot of his "Jesse B. Simple" columns, I think it was a book collecting those, as well as a novel and some poems, then Carl Van Vechten's weird "Nigger Heaven", Ralph Waldo Ellison's great "The Invisible Man", and lots of poems (in the great Norton Anthology of African-American Literature). Then some of the Beats - Kerouac, Ginsberg, also Burroughs... I was bored most often in English classes at school (but since it's not my mothertongue, I wouldn't get a dispense...), so I started reading english literature on my own. Sorry for the name-dropping, but ey, it's great being reminded of all this great books and poems! It's been a long time that I enjoyed some novels just for the fun of it. In recent years I was mostly concentrating on reading historical books and articles connected in some way or another to my studies (i.e. Italian renaissance and moreso the history of renaissance history, particularly centred around Hans Baron... I once did a thread about this).

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent)) hey, but you're not 30 yet - it's supposed to be the ideal books for people at the age of 30, because there's that passage where Ulrich asks himself how he had turned into the person he was... without remembering any decisive or important decisions he made... I'll have to read it next year, shall suit me perfectly well then

"The Modern Art of Jazz" Thanks, will have to look for that one! Those Dawn albums were a fine bunch!

Yes, that's one of these 2CD sets - isn't this the one that's below 80 minutes? I think it is. The second of the 2CD set is called "At Café Downtown Society and Birdland"

I guess I got started early... read stuff like Mahfouz (is that the correct spelling used in English?) or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Kafka (The Process, stories), Cesare Pavese (the Torino novels), can't remember it all. At 20 I started my studies, one my minors being German literature, so I got to read plenty of books... Goethe (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, a most fascinating book, and of course lots of plays and some poetry), Schiller (reading his dramas in connection with some of his essays like "Über das Erhabene" is highly enlightening), Lessing, Karl Philipp Moritz ("Anton Reiser", one of my favourite books ever... some day I'd love to read some of his esthetics stuff, too), Kleist, Hölderlin (poetry, but also "Hyperion"), Nietzsche, Jean Paul, Stifter, then the favourite era of mine, fin de siècle and the early modernists, Schnitzler (anything, his youth diary, his plays, his novels - forget about Kubrick's film, read the book, it's much, much deeper and more manifold as well of couse), Hofmannsthal, then Kafka again, and lots of poetry by the likes of Heym, Trakl, Benn and all the expressionists, Musil, Thomas Mann (his "Doktor Faustus" is one of the greatest books in my, ahem, book... I had to fight with and against it, but I could still not put it away, utterly fascinating), Rilke... then post-war stuff, Arno Schmidt (an on-going fascination!), Koeppen, many Austrians including Bernhard, Jelinek, Musil (never read "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" so far, but will do), Kraus... ok, most of this I got into maybe from about the age of 15 or 16 or so, so not really as a "kid", but ey, I couldn't remember what I read as an actual kid, mostly specialised books for kids and stuff, books about animals and volcanos and all that crap... and I did read Frisch early on, still need to get into Durrenmatt, only know a little bit of his ouvre.

George L. Mosse - German Jews beyond Judaism A most fascinating and insight-ful book, one of the best I've read - and highly enlightening lecture for anyone interested in German culture (particularly literature) during the years of the Weimar republic.

Well, as long as there's theaters... I guess even the most hyper-realistic display quality - it can get too much for my opinion, but that's a topic that's never discussed, it seems... all those high quality big productions, sometimes for my eyes, the resolution or whatever it is just gets too much on the big screen, and it gets cold/dead on the TV - I don't have a flat screen btw ---- anyway, even the most fancy display quality won't beat seing a film on the big screen for me, even if I have to sit through a less than perfect copy. The whole event of taking in a film is just so different.

Sue Raney - All By Myself (Capitol)

Any opinions on the Michael Marcus and John Stevens Trios (006 & 007)? These both look interesting!

Fine label indeed! I don't have that much (yet) and none of the downloadable ones.: aylCD-004 Brötzmann/Uuskyla/Friis Nielsen Live at Nefertiti Peter Brötzmann, ts, tarogato, cl Peter Friis Nielsen, el b Peeter Uuskyla, dr found that one just so-so... aylCD-017/018 Anders Gahnold Trio Flowers for Johnny Anders Gahnold, as Johnny Dyani, b Gilbert Matthews, dr probably my favourite next to the Lyons box - astonishingly strong and beautiful music, great playing by Dyani, good groovy drumming by Matthews... and Gahnold is quite a revelation! (Though this is all I've heard of him) aylCD-032 Per Henrik Wallin Trio The Stockholm Tapes Per Henrik Wallin, p Lars-Göran Ulander, as Peter Olsen, dr noisy 70s european free (think Schlippenbach, Brötzmann, Bennink etc etc) - not bad aylCD-033 Albert Ayler Quartet The Copenhagen Tapes Albert Ayler ts Don Cherry, tp Gary Peacock, b Sunny Murray, dr great one, of course! was on sale for a looooong time recently, took them much too long to sell their final stock, too bad if you missed it! (the longer of the two sessions is in the Revenant box, strangely) aylCD-036-040 Jimmy Lyons The Box Set Jimmy Lyons, as Karen Borca, bassoon (039, 040) Hayes Burnett, b (036, 037, 038) Henry Letcher, dr (037) Raphé Malik, tp (036) Paul Murphy, dr (039, 040) William Parker, b (040) Sidney Smart, dr (036) essential stuff! aylCD-048/49 Mongezi Feza Free Jam Mongezi Feza, tp Bernt Rosengren, as, ts, fl, p Tommy Koverhult, ts, fl, euphonium Torbjörn Hultcranz, b Leif Wennerström, dr Okay Temiz, percussion rough and edgy music by Feza and the Rosengren quartet, with Okay Temiz added... not "great" music, but I think this is a very enjoyable release. rough sound, too... aylCD-050/51 The Dynamic Duo Remember Trane and Bird Rashied Ali, dr, vo Arthur Rhames, ts, p Rhames is a legendary character, this is one of the few recordings available - not one I play often though, maybe just a bit too much of a good thing... aylCD-053 Bayashi Help Is On Its Way Vidar Johansen, ts, bcl, fl Bjørnar Andresen, b Thomas Strønen, dr got this one as a freebie in a sale, not sure about it, have only played it once I think...

That's a nice set there! There are more Embers releases covering later years (two double disc sets, though one of them is just one concert and quite a bit less than 80 minute of music, weirdly), and the one disc covering all there seems to be from the live show with George Freeman (I mentioned that before, much of it you'll have on the Savoy live set). Then there's a cheap "World of Charlie Parker" disc that I got but there's no info about the music therein, and I guess it's just some dumb compilation... (it seems to be a straight reissue of an old LP). I never quite figured out Embers... they're history now I believe.

Yes, fine album! The second session I think is just a couple of bonus tracks by the way. Larry, which Mathews album do you mean? "The Modern Art of Jazz" or "The Gentle Art of Love"? Info about Blue Moon's Dawn reissues here: http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/catalogue...amp;label_id=10

I'd love to see this documentary! Her Mosaic is awesome (well, most of it, the rest is still good to very good), and I just recently watched a short concert performance with the George Arvanitas trio from I think 1970 - quite good, too!

Thanks Lon ( & papsrus)! I'll stick with what I have anyway, in this case. There's so much Parker around! Oh, and papsrus: do look for some edition of that 1950 recording with Fats Navarro! It's absolutely worth hearing! I have it in that 4CD Embers Birdland 50/51 box.

ah well, I thought this was another thread about the kind of blue anniversary edition... will blu-ray be a thing we'll have to deal with at all? some of the large stores seem to carry them by now, but no one I know ever even mentioned that format with regard to watching films at home...