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Got the Dig Ben box yesterday (bought it rather cheaply from some amazon marketplace vendor) - will take me a while to take it in, even more so as I bought some more montmartre webster from dan gould's sale (the black lions, one of the two discs combining those three lps, one of which I own and love - the second of those (Jan 31, 1965 recordings, I think) I have on order as well, and the other Black Lion is from later in 1965 - all with Drew, NHOP and Alex Riel, one of the tightest backing bands Ben had in his later years, and a mighty swinging one! Me loves some late Ben! Those Holland sessions on that Blue Note 2CD set are great, too! I don't care if it's the best Ben or if it's "great" music at all, I just love that grand playing style of Webster's, on fast romps (Perdido, Sunday, stuff like that) as well as his glorious ripe ballad style. Ben to me is like an old single malt that gets better and better as the years pass by.

My copy was waiting for me when I got home last night - looks tasty!

And it all could have been fit onto three 3-CD sets, 9 CD's total, rather than two 5CD sets and two 2CD sets, 14 CD's total. Feels a little exploitative in that sense, and a change from the other MPS sets I think. No, they're being sold very cheaply (the 4CD sets by George Duke and Herbolzheimer cost around 50$ here, which is about half the prize such 4CD sets usually cost, so their decision not to fill up the CDs doesn't bother me the least! Thanks a lot for filling in the details, I was posting from work and didn't have time to google it all up! The two big ones look great, the live is on its way, and it's only a question of time until the solo one will be on order, too! As Paul Secor said, a good one indeed! This is one of the few of these MPS batches from some years back that remain available, alas...

the live set is: Albert Live in Montreux and Trilogue - Live the solo is: Trombirds, Solo, Tromboneliness can't recognize all the albums of the two larger sets.

In time for the 80th birthday of Albert Mangelsdorff (Sept 5, 1928 - July 25, 2005), Universal is delivering the goods again. If their other MPS boxes (George Duke, Art Van Damme etc) are an indication, these should be nice reissues! Here are some infos: http://www.jazzecho.de/imposante_cdedition...8.08_140046.jsp The main thing in short: Two 5CD sets, two 2CD sets, 15 albums alltogether, remastered, with original artwork and liners. Albums included: Zo-Ko-Ma (finally!), Never Let It End, The Wide Point, A Jazz Tune I Hope, Trilogue - Live! etc. As of this writing, I have the 2CD Live set on order, will report once I get it! Covers & tracklists (all taken from jazzecho.de): Albert Mangelsdorff - Mangelsdorff Originals Vol. 1 (CD) artist: Attila Zoller, Colin Wilkie, Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet, Albert Mangelsdorff, Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett 2008 MPS-Records | CD 060251779747 CD 1 [1.] Zores Mores 5:42 [2.] Feeling-in And Filling-in In Villingen 4:10 [3.] Ach! Tavia / Skertzo / Alicia's Lullaby 6:26 [4.] At Twighlite 5:54 [5.] Struwwelpeter 4:35 [6.] Alat's Mood 4:50 [7.] Freeline Fräulein 4:41 [8.] Danke For The Memory 4:01 [9.] Rumpelstilzchen 4:33 CD 2 [1.] Icy Acres 4:10 [2.] Fourth Flight 7:04 [3.] Snowy Sunday 7:01 [4.] Willow And Rue 4:23 [5.] Lament 3:29 [6.] Ich armes Maidlein klag mich sehr 6:42 [7.] Sweet Primroses 5:11 CD 3 [1.] Wide Open 3:48 [2.] Never Let It End 9:50 [3.] Certain Beauty 9:18 [4.] 13th Color 6:56 [5.] Open Mind 4:22 [6.] Roitz And Spring 7:16 [7.] Nachwort 1:56 CD 4 [1.] Trombone Suit 9:35 [2.] Mother Someplace 7:23 [3.] Uli's Dance 4:41 [4.] Ice-Nine 9:51 [5.] A Certain Beauty 9:23 CD 5 [1.] Wobbling Notes And Fluted Crackle 14:18 [2.] Grive Musicienne 5:42 [3.] Birds Of Underground 11:37 [4.] Xenobiosis 11:42 Albert Mangelsdorff - Mangelsdorff Originals Vol. 2 (CD) artist: Albert Mangelsdorff, Joachim Kühn, Gunter Hampel, Pierre Favre, Mumps, Albert Mangelsdorff Trio 2008 MPS-Records | CD 060251779753 CD 1 [1.] The Up And Down Man 7:23 [2.] Mayday Hymn 5:37 [3.] Oh Horn! 6:10 [4.] I Mo' Take You To My Hospital And Cut Your Liver Out 7:11 [5.] Mood Indigo 4:50 [6.] The Wide Point 6:32 [7.] For Peter 2:08 CD 2 [1.] Rainbow Road 4:13 [2.] Ant Steps On An Elephant's Toe 6:08 [3.] Take Your Hit Kit 4:38 [4.] Schwwweeet: My New Friend (No. 294), Freedom Of The Universe (No. 284), Kisses (No. 291), Hot (No. 293) 10:25 [5.] Fuga mit Orgelpunkt von Schnee 5:01 [6.] The Barriers On The Way To You 2:44 [7.] In A Sentimental Mood 4:54 [8.] Supraconductivity 2:25 [9.] Medieval Percussion Song 4:09 [10.] Ringelvier 3:56 CD 3 [1.] A Matter Of Taste 8:33 [2.] Old Love Never Rusts 4:26 [3.] Amber / Electric Waltz 7:12 [4.] Sparrow Knows 5:53 [5.] The Strange Tale Of Mr. Misster 4:24 [6.] But The Accordion Stays 9:19 CD 4 [1.] Wart G'schwind 8:55 [2.] Once We're Here 2:18 [3.] A Jazz Tune I Hope 7:59 [4.] Kommentar zu "Hamburger Idylle" 2:52 [5.] Lapwing 8:16 [6.] Goma 1:11 [7.] Street Of Loneliness 4:55 [8.] Three Card Molly 8:29 CD 5 [1.] Hüpf Thema 8:31 [2.] Des'sch Too Much 6:23 [3.] Otherwise 6:58 [4.] Loose, Moose, Blues 14:54 [5.] Give Me Some Skin 7:05 Albert Mangelsdorff - Mangelsdorff Live (CD) artist: Albert Mangelsdorff 2008 MPS-Records | CD 060251779742 CD 1 [1.] Trilogue 6:02 [2.] Zores Mores 8:43 [3.] Foreign Fun 7:53 [4.] Accidental Meeting 9:38 [5.] Ant Steps On An Elephant's Toe 9:49 CD 2 [1.] Dear Mr. Palmer 16:02 [2.] Mood Azur 6:08 [3.] Stay On The Carpet 6:10 [4.] Rip Off 16:35 Albert Mangelsdorff - Mangelsdorff Solo (CD) artist: Albert Mangelsdorff 2008 MPS-Records | CD 060251779743 CD 1 [1.] Blues Of A Cellar Lark 11:03 [2.] Trombirds 3:40 [3.] Yellow Hammer 4:07 [4.] Introducing Marc Suetterlyn 3:38 [5.] Espontaneo 12:04 [6.] Sing A Simple Song For Change 3:34 [7.] Do Your Own Thing 8:55 [8.] Tromboneliness 6:25 [9.] Creole Love Call 5:42 [10.] Bonn 7:22 CD 2 [1.] Questions To Come 2:44 [2.] Marc Suetterlyn's Boogie 3:22 [3.] Für Peter 5:41 [4.] Brief Inventions 3:02 [5.] Sit And Think 0:53 [6.] Responsory 5:14 [7.] Für G.K. 1:07 [8.] Föhnhammer 1:58 [9.] Nexus 5:08 [10.] Der alte Dreiviertel 4:51 [11.] Lost And Found 0:56 [12.] Rooty Toot 7:24 [13.] Brief Impressions Of Brighton 2:43 [14.] What Did The Bird Say? 1:34 [15.] Bone Blues 5:17 [16.] J.C. Was Here 1:32 [17.] Give Me Some Skin 1:04

most hated english class reading (probably three months as well) - most definitely never to be banned in the US: Willa Cather (?)'s "O, Pioneer" funniest english class reading was likely Langston Hughes' "Not Without Laughter"... we wouldn't have picked that one if not for yours truly, of course... (I had read some of his hilarious Jesse B. Simple stories before, for my own pleasure).

not that many, but I guess quite some of the german books I've read were prohibited at one time or the other... but then again who cares... also why the hell would the US put Rousseau and Shakespeare on the banned books list? They claim to be a freedom-loving nation, don't they? Quite a weird thread, I wasn't aware that there ever was that much censorship in the US! here's what I've read - in addition, "Color Purple" has been lying around next to my bed for three or four years now... have started once but ran out of time... will come to it again some day. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger also some of: Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Decameron by Boccaccio Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Yeah, but you know the fact that they have their own ideas, their own head, that's what makes me like cats. I grew up around dogs (and I still like dogs as well - I never quite got that cat-owners vs. dog-owners fights, am I the only person who likes both?) but cats are really cool just because you can never fully domesticise them. Anyway, it's really great to have a new one again, and this is the first I'll see grow up from the beginning... I couldn't wait to get home after work yesterday!

here she is:

yeah, provided you find the right slot in your time-and-space machine

Lovely album! First heard it on this new CD incarnation (discussed in that Universal reissues thread, and quickly also in the ZA jazz recommendations thread). The whole thing is pretty smooth already (pointing in the direction Masekela would take), but there's some great drumming (ok, in less than great sound, it didn't sound bad to me, I just took it as it came), and then there's Pukwana, tearing it all up with his very vocal, rough sound - a great mix!

Got a new cat now! Three months old, picked it up from five young ones on the countryside yesterday - so happy! She already knows where to do her little business and has taken long discovery trips all through our appartment... how long should we keep her inside before we go out in the garden with her for the first time? It's the first time I've gotten such a young little one, the previous ones we adopted or my girlfriend had them already before we met. A little pic might follow... I took one with flash last night and it didn't shy her away, after three hours in our appartment - she seems to like it so far, though of course she's crying now and then, missing her four siblings and her mother (who attacked me on my attempt to grab a second one... we might or might not go back in a week to pick a second one... this one's black with some white on chest, legs and face, but the other one we'd have gotten was an all-black, very shy male one who cried like mad when I finally had him in my hands, after an hour or so of trying to lure him out from hiding... felt like some animal mis-treater for a few minutes...)

Ok Jim, for me that clears the issue - no problem at all, I was just wondering! I rarely post articles anyway, myself. Sometimes in the politics section, and if so it's mainly to try and draw some attention to a non US-topic that people would likely not pay any attention if they'd have to click a link first, but never mind. No biggie at all.

Yes, the lack of discussion of posted articles often struck (stroke?) me as a weird thing, but I found it was mostly the case in the politics section (where obviously some folks just identify with what they quote and don't feel a need for their own critical evaluation of the contents of what they quoted).

Happy Birthday, Bob!

I haven't followed too closely the wars that raged on this topic, but I've taken notice of them, that yes. Frankly, I don't think this policy is that great an idea, as many articles will disappear from their original source after a while (i.e. newspaper articles such as obits). Now if that exactly is the point, fine. Still, it's our loss in the end. But again, if it's about copyright and what-know-I, ok. On the other hand, in science it's usual to quote articles, of course mentioning the source (which can be done quickly with a link on the web), but no one would consider quoting an act of stealing, *if* (and that's of course crucial) the source is fully quoted.

Pieranunzi records a lot - I'm not familiar with much of it, but it seems it's a bit hit and miss - some of his albums are great, while some are just one CD more, it seems. Definitely worth looking for some of his stuff, though! Keep checking on Schilt, the disc might be too new for now... also there's a new BraffOesterRohrer disc that could eventually turn up. That trio is even better than the one with Blake/Yattara on "Yele", believe me!

Hitler is still alive, also Mother Theresa! Seriously, I'm often astonished by these r.i.p. threads, too. Recently the one about Jimmy Cleveland, for instance... I didn't have the slightest idea he was still around.

yup, some more I have: Colin Vallon Trio - Les Ombres (another young swiss pianist, also very good! more lyrical, but also playful and with lots of energy) Christoph Grab - Cryptic Blues (a mighty fine sax player, modern mainstream, nothing great or very special, just very fine music) Jürg Solothurnmann - A Deeper Season Than Reason (a project dedicated to e.e. cummings) And while I don't have any of his discs (or do I have one? not sure that one's on Unit at all), let me put in a good word for that weirdo Lucien Dubuis, bass clarinetist, anarchist, chaot, playful kid... saw him live as well, and he's great! Noisy loud stuff, but lotsa fun, to say the least! Also the Peyer-Weber-Stoffner disc should be good, if it's similar like the same projects live concert I've heard. Then, Day & Taxi, a trio by sax player Christoph Gallio, is also worth hearing (though he's got his own label, Percaso, and I only have one disc from that label, not his Unit disc). He's sort of a Lacy disciple, adding some Ayler and other wild things to the mix, doing lots of miniature pieces. Again, I haven't explored Unit's catalogue really, just got these few discs on various occasions (some where cheap, some I heard the bands on the radio during live transmissions and thought I'd check out their disc). There are many interesting releases there (Lüdi, Häusermann, Kadash, Christoph Baumann, Andy Scherrer, Wintsch, Leimgruber/Studer, Christy Doran... I really ought to buy some more!

Yele is indeed great, and Braff a personal favourite! His trio with Baenz Oester (b) and Samuel Rohrer (d) is even better, and I was lucky to have caught them live as well. Big Braff fan here! I couldn't say I'm an expert about things Unit. I think they were in some trouble, having been sort of a musician-union thing, but then someone or a few people bought it to save it or something like that (it got tiny coverage in the press here, as everything jazz does, if it gets any coverage). Anyway, Rafael Schilt's "Leafar" disc is really good, in my opinion. Sort of in a Konitz/Marsh mood but updated and with much more grooves (electric bass by the great Wolfgang Zwiauer, Samuel Roher is on drums here as well, no piano). Nat Su on alto may be known to a few here, he was on a BFT as well (Nate Dorward's, I think). A great player in the Konitz-line. Schilt happens to be an old friend of mine, and I caught up with him again on their CD release concert (in fact the CD was delivered between sets, and he offered one to me). He is a technically accomplished tenor player, and his compositions/arrangements allow for some collective linear improvisation, as well as for some quite groovy stuff. It's not cold or difficult music at all, but it's not of the burning hot kind either... somewhere in between, with plenty of interesting things happening all the time. I'll have to look at the website to see if I have any other Unit titles - I think only a handful or less, as they don't have good distribution, not even here...

not a track, really, but the title melody of Hitchcock's "Marnie", of course by Bernard Herman - kept haunting me for a couple of days. too bad Stephan Oliva didn't cover it on his "Ghosts of Bernard Herman" disc - would love to hear some jazz version(s) of that melody, and Oliva could pull that!

I decided to keep the old ones in this case. (But then as I buy the Selects more or less chronologically/by number, it would have taken a while till I arrived at this one anyway.) In addition, there's this one from Spain, including a couple of hitherto unreleased tracks, I think also omitted on the Select: link from where I took below info, with samples over there The Art Of Pepper - Omega Sessions: The Complete Master Takes (2 Unissued Tracks) Art Pepper Featuring: Art Pepper (as), Carl Perkins (p), Ben Tucker (b), Chuck Flores (ds) REFERENCE: FSRCD 378 BAR CODE: - PRICE: 10.75 € Contains the unissued tracks "Blues Rock" and "Rock Blues" (listen the samples). Digital remastering in 24 bit high resolution Limited edition digipack cover sleeve. Comprehensive notes, 24-page booklet fully illustrated. This CD presents the complete master takes from the legendary 1957 "Omega Sessions". The first eleven tracks were originally marketed on two 7 1/2 ips reel-to-reel stereophonic tapes by the Omegatape label, between 1957 and 1958. "Summertime" was not issued until the early 1980's on Lp on the Nadja label in Japan. The two previously unreleased tracks appear here for the first time. However, both tracks are missing from the so-called "The Complete Art Pepper Aladdin Recordings" marketed by the Mosaic and Blue Note record labels. The recordings were made on April 1 & 2, 1957 at the small Audio Arts Studio in Hollywood and the man who made them possible was Don Clark, a young disc jockey, concert promoter and Pepper fan, who in June 1956, become a good friend of the altoist. At that time, Art Pepper had been just released after serving 19 months in prison for heroin possession and Clark began acting as his personal manager, contributing to Pepper's rapid and successful return to the jazz scene. Clark after being directly involved in booking gigs and also in some of the most brilliant LPs Art Pepper recorded in those days, was finally able to reach his dream of becoming a record producer when he was appointed president of Intro Records at the end of 1956. "Clark brought Art Pepper to the label and that's how he got the job. THAT was his connection. ART was his ticket. It provided Clark with a job, and it got Art on wax, as we used to say in the old days," stated West Coast journalist John Tynan. The full history of how these recordings came out originally on Omegatape (and not on LP by intro) can be read in the outstanding booklet. Tracklisting: 1. Holiday Flight 5:10 2. Too Close For Comfort 6:08 3. Webb City 4:55 4. Surf Ride (Art Pepper) 4:41 5. Body and Soul 4:22 6. Begin The Beguine 7:24 7. The Breeze and I 3:33 8. Without a Song 7:37 9. Fascinatin' Rhythm 4:24 10. Long Ago And Far Away 4:09 11. I can't believe that you're in love with me 5:39 12. Summertime 6:31 Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks 13. Blues Rock (Art Pepper) 2:37 14. Rock Blues (Art Pepper) 2:46 Recorded at Audio Arts Studio, Hollywood, April 1 & 2, 1957

Sad news. I haven't really started exploring much of Scandinavian jazz, but sometime back there was a thread about the 3CD edition of "Jazz at the Pawnshop" (or it was just recommended in another thread... I think mikeweil was involved...) anyway, I got that one back then and it's marvellous indeed! I'll have to check out more of his music, eventually.

as for Lowe with Billy Bang, this one looks tasty: Billy Bang Sextet featuring Frank Lowe-Sweet Space Anima 12741 USA LP NYC, New York University, Loeb Student Center north lobby 11/15/79 Billy Bang-vln; Frank Lowe-ts; Luther Thomas-as; Butch Morris-cor; Curtis Clark-p; Wilber Morris-b; Steve McCall-d A Pebble is a Small Rock (Dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Irving Stone) (Billy Bang) 16:47 Sweet Space (Billy Bang) 5:10 Loweski for Frank (T.F.R.) (Billy Bang) 12:55 Music for the Love of It (Butch Morris) 5:50 (Arrangements by Butch Morris and Billy Bang except Sweet Space, arranged by Billy Bang) Anyone knows it? And another one I like quite a bit, found the CD a couple of years ago: Frank Lowe-Tricks of the Trade Marge 02 F LP Rouen, Salle Sainte-Croix des Pelletiers December 8, 1976 Frank Lowe-ts; Butch Morris-cor; Didier Levallet-b; George Brown-d Navarro's Tomorrow (Lowe) 10:16 Anytime (Lowe) 6:05 Clear (Lowe) 5:02 A Ballad (Lowe) 5:26 Unsatisfied Blues (Lowe) 5:22 And Then (Lowe) 2:30 Frank Lowe-Tricks of the Trade Marge 02 F CD Rouen, Salle Sainte-Croix des Pelletiers December 8, 1976 Frank Lowe-ts; Butch Morris-cor; Didier Levallet-b; George Brown-d Groove (Lowe) 10:11 Fresh (Lowe) 9:50 Awake (Lowe) 11:23 In a Minute (Lowe) 9:40 Flash Back (Lowe) 1:13 (+ all tracks on original LP, see previous entry)