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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).

How about that Cannonball Capitol album that was first released on CD a few years ago, "Money in the Pocket":

Have been looking myself and have yet to see any Euro-deals on this one. Similarly the Quincy Jones. Still time though (he says, hopefully). The Quincy I found at a local store for a bit less than what Mosaic would ask (and of course minus shipping and customs, and with a future 10% reward if I continue shopping at that store... they let you cash in 10% after you shopped for some amount, and nicely sales items are included, as those are usually all I still pick up at local shops... anyway, it's excellent, lots of good playing by all the stellar man in the band! (But don't tell chauncey or there'll be another multi-post pissing contest by the oh-so-hip...)

His 1988 Timeless album "Selena's Dance" is the only leader date I have (hm, no, I think one album of that Alexander/Hubbard/Mathews Fantasy twofer was also his date, no?), will have to play it again but I remember it being rather good:

Indeed. Wasn't it about $30 Euro-zlotties? And they were even doing $30 Mosaics back then too ! Yup, I think it was 30... still waiting for a good offer on the Buddy Rich Mosaic - not one acceptable prize in sight on the various European Amazon sites... was that ever on sale someplace? I mean really on "sale"...

Universal version: Amazon.de (192 euro!!!) Amazon.fr (141 euro...) No cheap marketplace offers on either place, nor on amazon.co.uk which doesn't sell it itself, any longer...

Phillips did a lovely album again for "Verve" (or rather the UMG or Vivendi or whatever corporation) in the late 90s, "Swing's the Thing": I love the Phillips/Ventura Mosaic, tons of great music on that one! Should take it out again! Oh, and what about Kid Ory on Verve? Did Verve do more dixieland stuff? Similar to the Living Legends series or those Atlantic albums on the respective Mosaic?

The Miles was discussed before, do a search! (I think the thread was started by EKE BBB, that might help finding it!)

char-don-nay? I'll have to check my list, but I don't think I have any Frankly Jazz that haven't been mentioned here already. They seem to be pretty rare in trading circles. Ah well, the Amy seems to be the only one I have... though I might have some more but the info wouldn't be logged to my files in that case. Sorry!