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That's pretty pathetic... I guess everything over half a mile is beyond walkability in the US or what? My place gets a 40 only, but I consider everything I need within walking distance - at least three grocery stores, farmacies, drug stores, coffeess, one of the pizza restaurants in town, fancy bars (which I don't visit), sushi and mexican places (which I don't visit, either), etc etc. The site does contain some relevant hits for my neighbourhood, but it misses at least half of them... anyway, depends how you define "walkable", really... sometimes I prefer walking home on weekends or evenings, even if that means I'm walking for 40 or 45 minutes. So with that range and the neatness of Zurich, I'm easily in walking distance from the town centre

all others being a major exaggeration, as the percentage of org readers actually appreciating hat is rather... uhm limited...

I'll pass this time, though I still don't have the Taylor (The Eight) and there'd be another couple of nice ones I still need (Weber, Wiesendanger - but I guess I'm about the only orgo-head who buys these swiss jazz hats, all others keep peeing on them...)

What do you mean, you got the LP-sized US box from 2001, not the ZYX version?! But that was later on I think, and those cost somewhat more, no? might be that mine as only 20 or 25€ but I can't remember... and in the end the music is what I *really* want to have, so... but I'd still feel somewhat cheated...

and another sale to pass the time until new releases/reissues appear... http://www.jazzloft.com/c-29-special-sale.aspx

Thanks for sorting out things, Big Al - appreciated!

played some oldish rattish stuff a few minutes ago, very nice one: The first album has Roscoe, Dave Burrell, Silva and Cyrille, plus Shepp on one track, the second spotlights Moncur as the lone horn, in front of Beb Guerin and two unknown (to me, that is) musicians, Fernando Martins (p) and Nelson Serra de Castro (d). Both were recorded in fall 1969 in Paris for BYG.

ah, found the previous thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=38586

"misssing" that is: compared to earlier CD reissues of that previous 4CD box (which had one cut not on any of the single CDs if memory serves me right?), not compared to the original albums, of course - the inclusion of the original albums and nothing else more is the point of this reissue series.

Which in my opinion is a loss for "Getz/Gilberto #2" where several instrumental tracks (by the excellent band with Gary Burton if I remember correctly) were added to the original album tracks. What else is missing? "Jazz Samba Encore" had one alternate (or two? no big loss I guess), "Jazz Samba" none, the old CD of "Getz/Almeida" had I think one bonus track (not an alternate).

I'll bet he bought in bulk off of zweitausendeins, who had this set for about 30 euros, back in the day ! yup, that's how I got it... crazy that was, holy holy! but that was the small ("cube" they call it, I think) version, with a scaled down booklet and mini type for the information, and none of the liners, just bare-bones, discography, tracklist and all in b/w, even the miniature pics of the original albums... not that I cared much back then, as I was still unfamiliar with most of Pepper's work, but now, as I grew to love his music, I'd of course prefer having the big box with large thick book and all...

oh, and Niko - a good example for guys who didn't get along outside of music: Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker - but on stage or in the studio, at least for the short period the original Mulligan quartet lasted, they got along great! I guess that's not very uncommon, though it does strike me as weird, too, that guys who can't stand each other would play together for a long time... but then in the end playing music is also a way of making a living, and we all had jobs were we had to stand pricks of all kinds and act as if we got along at least sort of ok with them...

Yes, Kronberg might indeed be the best of Mangelsdorff's sax playing sidemen! Lauer never quite struck me as that great a player, either (his band with Michel Godard though is of course interesting, if only from the instrumentation and Godard's freakish tuba playing!), same for Sauer - he's one of those tough, hard-edged Coltrane followers, and there are millions of those, so to stand out really would be difficult anyway... his recent duo partnership with young pianist Michael Wollny though seems to be rather nice.

how about these sessions now compiled on a Fresh Sound CD: Scott's Fling (RCA Victor LJM 1022) Jimmy Nottingham (tp) Billy Byers (tb) Eddie Wasserman (ts) Danny Bank (bar) Milt Hinton (b) Osie Johnson (d) New York, December 18, 1954, January 7 & 12, 1955 Abstraction No. 1 Autumn Nocturne But Not for Me Finger Poppin' Blues Forty-Second Street Glad to Be Unhappy Let my Fingers Go! Lucky to Be Me Love is Here to Stay Requiem for "Lips" Sunday Scene Three Short Dances for Solo Clarinet Tony Scott Septet (RCA EPA 596) Jimmy Nottingham (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Tony Scott (cl) Eddie Wasserman (ts) Danny Bank (bar) Milt Hinton (b) Osie Johnson (d) New York, December 28, 1954 E4VB5492 Late Show E4VB5493 Ridin' High E4VB5494 The Blue Room E4VB5495 Vendome E4VB5496 Lullaby of Birdland Tony Scott (Vic EPA 705) same, Billy Byers (tb) replaces Kai Winding New York, December, 1954 Body and Soul Friday the Thirteenth My Melancholy Baby Squaw with no Reservation Just playing this now for the first time, and before that I played "Sung Heroes" again. Some very good stuff on the latter, but also the septet sessions (reissued as "Fingerpoppin'", FSR-CD 415, 2006) contain some very nice music, I find. Some that immediately makes one listen, quite surprising and fresh, I find. Btw, the Tony Scott page (tonyscott.it) seems to be down, I wanted to check out the disco there.

That and "Tensions" or "One! Tension" or whatever was its original title are the best, in my opinion. The quintet was a great BAND, lots of great things going on, lots of earthy grooves, singing solos, free-ish stuff etc. The later music is different, less... fun? Less playful? Well, I guess not really, but it has a different vibe to it. It's not of lesser quality or anything, it's just that I don't connect to it so easily. Somewhere halfway is the Live in Tokyo/Live at Dug's or whatever that one's really called, that's a quartet album (quintet minus Kronberg, leaving Heinz Sauer on saxes) and it gets freeer (and less focused), compared to the earlier quintet albums. Anyway, except for United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, almost anything Mangelsdorff did is worth listening, in my opinion, and I'll be very happy to replace my old burns of the old "Three Originals" sets with these new boxes (I only had the trio one of the three originals like that, never had the other one, so most of this stuff is still new to me!)

yeh, it keeps raining and then it stops again and then it rains again etc... I'm quite sure this is the beginning of the end...

Yes indeed - those spoilt americans! I considered 13$ from True Blue a steal for years, before I got internet and noticed they were rather expensive...

tomorrow never dies...

ah well, Zurich is still standing... but maybe it will take another few minutes for us to get swallowed by that black hole or what? (black hole sun? flash from the past...) seems the CERN was involved in the development/invention of the WWW? didn't know that - funny discussions going on on newspaper pages, for instance here (in german): http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/technik...38647#kommentar

some info about Bataille (not even the wiki is for the faint-hearted... take this as a warning): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_the_Eye

Sade? Bataille's "Histoire de l'oeil"?

interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_books

Allen Lowe's forthcoming film's book?

Also what about William Carlos Williams? Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"?

Carl Van Vechten's "Nigger Heaven"?