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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...

Hm, true! I didn't consider that the final releases came after "Place de Brouckere"... we'll have to wait and see, I guess, but here's hope!

The Kuhn has one album with the great Sheila Jordan - a definitive plus in my book! As for Codona... I've heard live recordings and I guess if you know some of Cherry's world projects, you should know what the chanting is like (bamboo flutes and stuff will the there, too, plenty of it), but if you're unfamiliar, I'd rather check out some samples or whatever way there is to find out if you're interested in the music or not.

Is there any additional music on the Japanese version, or just more hip-o-lingo? I think there's quite some Sid on the US version already, no need for more... but if there's more music, things might look different!

This one I have, second link, sorry!

James, I don't know that particular compilation, but those airchecks are AWESOME. I have the US box (the one in your first link). It's three CDs of broadcasts from the Royal Roost plus on the fourth you get the Carnegie set by Dizzy/Bird (alson on a great Blue Note CD that pairs it with Dizzy's big band set from the same concert), and parts of that Freeman date (a longer version of which is out - I have an Ember disc that claims to have the complete session, but I guess for many what's on the 4CD set will be good enough). As Lon says, the Roost broadcasts are fantastic! A bit less than a disc's worth is with Miles, then you get plenty of fine Kenny Dorham!

There's been some discussion of the Touchstone series over here, but I've not seen anyone mentioning these nicely prized 3CD boxes recently out from ECM: Steve Kuhn Life's Backward Glances - Solo And Quartet Steve Kuhn piano Sheila Jordan voice Steve Slagle soprano and alto saxophones, flute Harvie Swartz double-bass Michael Smith drums Bob Moses drums This collection brings together three much sought-after recordings by Steve Kuhn: the solo piano album “Ecstasy” (recorded 1974), and two quartet albums. “Motility” (1977) features the band of the same name with saxophonist Steve Slagle in the front line, while “Playground” (1979) is the album that introduced the Steve Kuhn-Sheila Jordan Quartet. Singer Jordan is of course one of the great jazz vocalists, and this was an inspired teaming. Kuhn himself is a superlative pianist of vast gifts; each of these recordings illuminates another aspect of his work. Of these three discs only “Ecstasy” was previously available on compact disc, and then only in Japan. “Motility” and “Playground” here receive their first CD releases. Motility (CD 1) The Rain Forest Oceans In The Sky Catherine Bittersweet Passages Deep Tango Motility / The Child Is Gone A Danse For One Places I've Never Been Playground (CD 2) Tomorrow's Son Gentle Thoughts Poem For No. 15 The Zoo Deep Tango Life's Backward Glance Ecstasy (CD 3) Silver Prelude in G Ulla Thoughts of a Gentleman - The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers Life's Backward Glance Recorded 1977 (CD 1), 1979 (CD 2), 1974 (CD 3) ECM 2090_92 Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Collin Walcott The Codona Triology Pure wizardry. The art of the improvisers beyond all borders. Preaching equality for all the idioms, anticipating the gathering wave of “world music”, drawing on traditions from all the continents, Codona was like no other band. Its sound: simultaneously poetic and powerfully evocative and stamped, in every second, with character. Summoned into being by Collin Walcott in 1978, the trio provided an utterly original context for Don Cherry’s starkly melodic trumpet and for the multi-instrumentalism of all three players. This 3-CD box incorporates the albums “Codona” (recorded 1978), “Codona 2” (1980) and “Codona 3” (1982). Don Cherry trumpet, doussn’gouni, flutes, organ, melodica, voice Nana Vasconcelos berimbau, cuica, talking drum, percussion, voice Collin Walcott sitar, tabla, hammered dulcimer, sanza, timpani, voice Codona (CD 1) Like That Of Sky Codona Colemanwonder: Race Face Sortie Sir Duke Mumakata New Light Codona 2 (CD 2) Que Faser Godumaduma Malinye Drip-Dry Walking on Eggs Again and Again, Again Codona 3 (CD 3) Goshakabuchi Hey Da Ba Doom Travel By Night Lullaby Trayra Boia Clicky Clacky Inner Organs Recorded 1978, 1980, 1982 ECM 2033_35 “From the very beginning Jarrett emphasized two imperatives: they must take the standards seriously as great if unrecognized art on a small scale, and they had to do so from an up-to-date and radically improvisational vantage point. Once the musicians entered the studio the effect was astonishing. The old tunes unleashed a rush of emotions, a delight in streams of collective communication, without preconditions, following not only the skeletal chord changes but the melodic lines of force in the originals.” Peter Rüedi, in the liner notes This reissue of the first days of Keith Jarrett’s “Standards” project - with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette brings together the albums “Standards Vol. 1”, “Standards Vol. 2” and “Changes”, recordings made in a sustained burst of creativity in 1983. Now re-released as a boxed set to celebrate 25 years of the Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette trio, “Setting Standards” also sets the stage for a new series of ECM reissues (which will be continued with further releases in 2008). In January 1983, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette came together with producer Manfred Eicher for an extraordinary recording session at New York’s Power Station. The idea – almost revolutionary in an era when the idea of playing ‘original material’ was all-important - was a modest one: to simply make an album of jazz standards. Gary Peacock: “We went in to do just one album but we came out with enough material for three albums. It was incredible. The only other pianist who had impacted on me that forcefully playing standards was Bill Evans when I worked with him. Then when we started playing standards on this date.... Whew! Talk about depth! It opens up a whole other level of experience.” In his book Keith Jarrett, The Man and his Music, Ian Carr writes that “The whole session seems pervaded with unbridled joy, and each piece seems to get its quintessential performance. Jarrett overflows with new musical thoughts, Peacock plays the roots and also creates dynamic counter-lines, while DeJohnette seems to create a new rhythmic and textural vocabulary for playing standards.” Having wrapped up two volumes of standards, the trio then moved into improvisational areas. The result: the album “Changes”. Three top flight albums recorded – and mixed – in two and a half days. Not only that, the musicians had mapped out the area – from the Great American Songbook to free play – that they would continue to explore for the next quarter-century, making them perhaps the most widely-admired jazz group in the world today, and easily the most popular contemporary piano trio. These recordings, then, set standards at many levels. And the first volumes of “Standards” won album of the year awards around the globe. This 3-CD set includes liner text by noted Swiss critic Peter Rüedi (in English and German), and previously unpublished photos from the recording session by Deborah Feingold. “Setting Standards” is the first release in a reissue series which revisits classic and historically-significant ECM albums. Each issue contains liner notes and archive photos. Further releases are in preparation for 2008. Keith Jarrett Gary Peacock Jack DeJohnette Setting Standards - New York Sessions Keith Jarrett piano Gary Peacock double-bass Jack DeJohnette drums Standards, Vol. 1 (CD 1) Meaning Of The Blues All The Things You Are It Never Entered My Mind The Masquerade Is Over God Bless The Child Standards, Vol. 2 (CD 2) So Tender Moon And Sand In Love In Vain Never Let Me Go If I Should Lose You I Fall In Love Too Easily Changes (CD 3) Flying, Part 1 Flying, Part 2 Prism Recorded January 1983 ECM 2030_32 I think I might eventually get all three... the only disc included in these I already own is Jarrett's Standards, Vol. 1. How are those Kuhn albums? And what about Codona?

played disc 3 (Stan Tracey is great here!) and just finishing disc 4 now - yesterday I squeezed in the two live Black Lions and the studio ballads Black Lion, as well as the Impulse album (See You At the Fair).

Thanks for doing the comparison-work, Greg! I forgot about the Stuff & Steff and the two discs with OP - indeed there are six Grappelli JiPs then! Will look for that single disc then... I'm also a big fan and own all of the series (except for a few discs which I have the music of as part of box sets, such as the Pres and the Roach). Don't know of any other recent activities in the series, though.

prizes seem to go up and down... but these discs are around for 10 $ these days, yes.

good that you mention it... i must have lost your copy somewhere in the appartment and knowing the chaos here just ordered a second one... wanted to have it anyway ooops - but then that first copy arrived pretty fast! looking forward to hearing this one again (I hardly play vinyl these days).

I have the Brooks Mosaic... but that CD is already on its way to me, too!