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www.opera.com - great alternative, not known and used widely (and by now even AMG works on it - some sites aren't configured to work well on all browsers, but of late I haven't met any problems with Opera, must have been several years back that I had to open MSIE to read a non-displaying site).

The new ECM 3CD set (including "Playground" to which - as a big fan of Ms. Jordan's - I look forward to particularly) is on my x-mas wishlist now

nah, this is about fake boobs... Or blow-ups ! or "gumisusi" as I'd say in swiss german...

I just have to add "Out to Lunch" and "Speak no Evil" to the great Hubbard sideman albums list! Adams didn't do that much under his own name, did he? The Mode/VSOP is ok, the OJC I don't have, his "Julian" for Enja is very good. But with Jones/Lewis he always was quite a force of nature! One of their most exciting soloists, for sure!

nah, this is about fake boobs...

Agreed on Peterson, too. Also Freddie Hubbard - he is on such a huge number of great and important albums (Ascension, Maiden Voyage, Blues and the Abstract Truth to name just three), yet somehow his own albums (including what likely are my favourites, Open Sesame and Goin' Up) are somewhat less interesting to me. (Don't take this as a harsh comment directed at an ailing musician please, I've always felt like this about Hubbard)

yeah, but it took me almost two weeks to remember about my harsh post... don't worry!

This is absolutely not true. I just spoke to his wife less than an hour ago upon her return from the hospital (which I do almost every day). He's still alive and kicking. Not much change in his condition at this point. Thanks David! Please keep us updated! (you may have noticed I quoted your post from that other discussion above, which already set things right) PS: as you're reading here, allow me (off topic) to mention how much I enjoyed your playing on a recently broadcast show by The Cookers!

nah, this is about you and some doct... ahm, nurses (time to move to the sexy album covers thread...)

yes, but that would really narrow down this thread a bit

Hey, Mike - I'm sorry if I stepped in a bit too harshly. It's just that all the commercial sites have "free shipping (huge print)..... US only (tiny print)" offers going on again and again, and for foreign orders they don't even offer to deduct the US shipping prize or something... sometimes I just get a bit envious of these offers that I can't make use of, and I found it a bit of a letdown to see the same thing here. Either way, of course the person who offers something can decide on how to proceed. Oh, and Tommy, we could ship some stuff to and fro... and no one could interfere, he he

Something to do with a monkey on his back? Except it's not on his back! ("I've got a monkey on my back" = "I'm addicted".) I must say this interpretation never occurred to me and I think it's very unlikely that it was intended by either Blue Note or McLean. ah, I see... I think the reference I picked up somewhere, might have been in the Penguin guide (they thought it was ironic or something, that the monkey on the cover sort of un-disguised McLean's habit, but I'm sure what it exactly said).

got this in a mail: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/b...bard-in-a-coma/ in short, this seems to be the case here, I assume: David Weiss Says: December 15th, 2008 at 4:50 pm I'm a bit ambivalent about much of Hubbard's music (at least his leader albums) and about him as a trumpet player, but there's no denying he's on a ton of great albums (and as a sideman always at least holding his own!). I wish him well, of course!

some of Kuhn's ECMs are out again, look here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=48297

I don't quite see the point of the ECM comparison - I mean there is *some* free improv or avantgarde on ECM, but mostly it's dedicated to different music, some of it very European AND at the same time very good (Iro Haarla for instance, or The Source). Anyway, I only have on Nuscope release: John Butcher / Georg Graewe - Light's View (1004) :tup

Allen, this sounds like an intriguing project to say the very least! I'm another one who hasn't made it all through the Devilin' Tunes sets, but what I've heard and read so far (most of Vol. 1 only, I confess) was highly entertaining AND enlightening. Congrats on getting the go-ahead and much luck with the work that has to be done now!

I've got the Barney Wilen (caiman through amazon, I think amazon.fr it was) - well done, but much too expensive in local stores (at least 30$), which is annyoing... more often releases from closeby (Italy - CAM for instance, Germany - ECM, these MPS ones, ACT etc, or France - Dreyfus, Label Bleu) cost way more than US releases (though of course those are fabricated in the EU most often... but even orders from amazon.com often are cheaper. Freaking madness!

the monkey? why does it symbolise drugs?

It's well worth seeing! Here's an earlier thread about it: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=37109 There's also been some discussion in the artist thread about Ayler, here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4449

Not much info on AMG: a live set, AMG says rec. 1980, with Simone (voc,p), Arthur Adams (g,elb), Cornell McFadden (d), originally on Verve (1987 or 1990)

That Basie should be nice. The Barbieri is another useless one - there was a 2CD set in Impulse's "Master Editions" or however the earlier digipack reissues were called, combining Chapters 1 & 2 and more material - great music! (OOP but still to be found) Chapter 4 is part of this series already, but Chapter 3 (old GRP jewel-case-packed CD) is OOP and usually pretty expensive... they should bring that one out first! The Ayers... weird but I think I already saw that one... though maybe there are several out already and that band was called Ubiquity like this upcoming album, so I may be wrong. What's the Nina Simone?

I was rather slow in picking up on Gryce, but I got his three Prestige albums (two OJCs, the orange one as a Japanese mini-LP), as well as the three Gryce Jazz Lab ones from Lonehill. Also got the Monk sides of course - those were my first encounter with Gryce... and the Brownie Paris material. Guess I really should listen to all of this in a row soon! Posting here because just recently that Mathews album was recommended by Larry in another thread... it's very OOP it seems, just ordered a copy for around 18 euro, rather steep!

http://www.sonnysimmons.org/lasha.htm There's the 1973 Michael White album "Land of Spirit and Light" (Impulse AS-9241) - White of course was a member of Handy's group some years before, the succesful one that made that Monterey live album.

Just in case, here's the short note from Denis Gonzalez that spread the news on Sunday - it goes back to John Handy spreading the news:

Hey, fast mister, John Collins isn't forgotten in this house! brownie, thanks for posting the link to the obit.