king ubu

and all the guys in the band want me to tell you: we all do love you madly!

there we go again - feliz cumpleaños amigo! espero que un dia nos encontraremos en Madrid (y beberemos algunos San Miguel...)

I finally bought "Live from Los Angeles" a couple of weeks ago and played it together with the second half of the Mosaic. I found it excellent, some great spots by Frank Strozier!

That's sad news. I wish the Shandar catalogue was more readily available! Besides the Water/ESP releases of Ayler's concerts, I know of nothing that is around. Here's an excellent site listing the Shandar releases: http://home.comcast.net/~ed_maurer/Shandar/index.htm

maria toledo ! she was the female singer on some bossa tracks by stan getz. i always wanted to hear more of her singing. has anybody already heard this album by maria toledo & luis bonfa? Yup, she's outstanding on "Jazz Samba Encore"! I mean, I do like the charms for Astrud Gilberto, but Toledo is something else! Will have to check out that new one as well!

The TCB is smokin'! And it's perfectly legit, all issues cleared etc - I guess the other one's just a cheap rip-off... (or does TCB now license their music? Would be new to me, as they mention Amazon.com being one of their distributors/sellers, so...)

Happy Birthday!

Getting really excited about that Masekela now!

That's a letdown in my book - but it fits if the lineage of this series indeed goes back to the LPRs, ultimately.

happy birthday!

belated best wishes!

hope you had a good one!

Missed a few birthdays again, it seems.... congratulations, Barak, hope it was a good one!

It is indeed! I was listening to it a week or so ago. Fabuloso! And just fits onto a single CD. The only complaint I have with the album is the LP packaging, which is dire, as well as being horrid. I suspect I'd welcome a CD, simply to not have to fiddle with the packaging. MG So was that a double album, or why does it just fit onto a single CD? I don't know anything about it, but now I'll go and look for it! This may be regional differences, because here in the US botht he Lateef and the Ayler are digipaks. . . . Yes, now I remember, we discussed that before... seems European Universal made the change from LPRs/digipacks to Originals a few batches earlier.

Does Getz/Gilberto #2 have all the bonus track from the (fine) old US CD? I think I only miss Getz Au Go-Go from all his bossa albums (I have the old versions of "Jazz Samba" and "Jazz Samba Encore" - the later is likely my favourite, his solo on "Insensatez", wow! Also the singer is quite something!)

Oi, Masekela w/Dudu, 's nice!

yup, seems so - #11-18 of the following disc:

Are you talking of the old box (4CDs) or the new one (5CDs), the later of which I assume is a re-packing of "Originals" like the two Coltrane Impulse boxes? Ah well, I answer my own question... the new one is called "The Bossa Nova Albums" and has the following contents:

Is there a list of all of these releases somewhere? Edit: or rather: is the listing found here complete? http://www.jazzecho.de/originals_103604.jsp And to make things more confusing, they get mixed up there with the last few batches of Digipack-LPRs (or rather some were jewel case-packed but already named "Originals", such as Lateef's "Psychicemotus" and Ayler's "New Grass", so they went jewel case when renaming the series but then returned to digipack again... all rather confusing...)

I have it on my home computer, I think - in case no one comes through before tonight (or tomorrow).

Indeed it was. The excellent 'Doin' The Thang', with Charles Davis and Hubbard. When I mentioned that title to him a few years ago at The Kitano, he paused for a sec and then gave a response which led me to believe that he ranked it low on the list of titles that should have been available as JPN imports. Did he view it as 'so-so'? I wish I could remember the exact quote. hm, it never struck me as all that great... but "Selena's Dance", the Timeless trio album, is beautiful!

oi oi, many have eaten all kinds of shit and survived... maybe we should arrange an organissimo shit-eating-party some day? happy 4th of july, y'all! now take it easy, enjoy summer, sip a drink, read a book, play record...

Not me, I love mine! But don't give up finding one, it's very, very good! (Of course that is if you can stand her voice... no issue at all for me!) I hope you'll be lucky and find someone who hates her singing and hence will sell his/her set! Worth being patient!

The Moody I have, of the others I own too much already in different editions, I guess... any luck yet on the Artie Shaw 10 CD set? Haven't seen it around for quite a while, but I'm sure it will be back... maybe you can ask the clerks there (Restseller, I assume?) if they have it somewhere but not on display? A friend of mine asked them about several Quadromania boxes and it seems they were very helpful and allowed him to check out all they had there, even open them up so he could look at the booklets to check what's on those CDs!

So that "Kool Jazz Festival" was sponsored by a tobacco firm? I thought it was just, well, a kool way to spell cool...