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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...

in addition to Stereojacks little Blue Note list, there's also Lee Morgan's "The Rajah" (I know many don't like it), and Stanley Turrentine's "Comin' Your Way". Also I'm not sure though when those came out first: the first Blue Mitchell album and those Grant Green w/Sonny Clark albums.

ok, one that's not off topic now: Lucky Thompson's marvellous Candid album, released first in its entirety in the 80s, I think (one title was on one of those samplers):

the Phillip Morris Superband... but they (and Gene Harris, too) are much too tasty for the über-hip crowd here anyway...

The Plugged Nickel stuff must be among the very best! Though I don't know when the first album culled from those sets was actually released.

The Fantasy Beat 4CD box "Howls, Raps & Roars" includes a full disc of Lenny Bruce (which of course I don't understand at all...). Not sure if that was originally on Fantasy. Some of the other stuff included is mighty fine - the Ginsberg "Howl" album, stuff by Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, Corso etc. (no comedy of course). Edit: newbury is still offering it for 16$ via amazon.com

Interesting read, thanks! Particularly that second point about the Dizzy big band of the 40s!

Speaking of trombone players... Nils Wogram heads a trio with just organ (Florian Ross) and drums (Dejan Terzic), which he calls "Nostalgia Trio". They're quite good! (And Wogram is a friggin' great 'bonist, believe me!) Christophe Schweizer who has several projects going on, leads one with tb (Schweizer), ts (Ohad Talmor), organ (Sam Bar Sheshet) and drums (Tyshawn Sorey), called "Full Circle Rainbow". He also did a CD with that title (on TCB) with the line-up of Talmor, Jason Moran or George Colligan (both organ exclusively, only one appearing at the time), and Billy Hart. Not a bad disc, but "Physique" (OmniTone, with Alex Sipiagin, Donny McCaslin a.o. and off topic in this thread) is much, much better!

I saw Chaurasia live again a couple of weeks ago - great experience, as always! He still has plenty of power and well - fire is the wrong word, but imagination and sometimes a youthful exuberance totally denying his age. It took him quite a while to get warm though, but then he played for about two hours or more, and in the break someone sold home-made samosas... good Sunday morning entertainment! Will have to dig up the few discs of his I have and play them again.

just Rhoda & Klook - and a great disc! currently Barbara Dennerlein also seems to mostly work in a duo format, but then she has all kinds of midi stuff hooked up to her organ - I'm not much of a fan of hers.

and of course once I hit the "add reply" button the fitting word comes to mind: "appropriation", that's what it's about, power of definition - in the end it's about self-empowerment by appropriation - or some such...

Allen has a good and valid point here indeed. You can still feel uncomfortable about it, but many of these significants have been turned by the signified groups themselves into terms of other meanings. It's about having power over symbols and signs and signifying words. And hence about taking power and re-define ones own identiy or re-use, adapt, take possession of the word(s) and include them in how ones own identity is defined by the group in question. A very powerful issue... I bet reading some Judith Butler and similar stuff would help (or wait... possibly not, unless you really feel like working with her texts... and of course her writings are ex cathedra no matter what else she pretends... all rather compilcated). Not sure I can really add anything to this thread, just wanted to point out that I did some studying on this subject a little while ago, and that indeed Allen's point is valid AND important (as far as social developments and shifting cultural identities are concerned).