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late again... congratulations! :party:

btw: ordered March 31, shipped April 11, arrived May 1 (?!? probably lay there since the evening of April 30th...) - not bad at all, just one month, alltogether!

As mentioned elsewhere, I got my Kalahari package today! Everything in fine form (except one broken jewel case, but that's not too bad... happens all the time with CDUniverse or Amazon orders). Played the Mankunku (fine, but not quite as great as the one track I knew, the opneing title track, made me expect), Jansen (nice but a bit too "pop" music in spots), Masilela/Phale (great! But way too short! 26 minutes... it could go on for hours!) - and now I'm halfway through the African Jazz Pioneers' "Sip 'n' Fly". A mighty enjoyable ride! The three Bra Ntemis will follow tomorrow, I guess. This prompted me to check out if the links to my ZA BFT (#48 for those who want to search) were still good, and indeed... continue reading over here if you're interested: The Joy and Pain of South African Jazz Sounds good, huh? there's not much there, except for tons of links and stuff, but not much to fulfill the promise of the title anyway... except the music, and that - indeed! - speaks for itself...

Yes - great music. The Kosei Nenkin CDs (two double length CDs from one or two nights in Tokyo) are also sensational - Milt, Teddy, Cedar, Ray Brown, Higgins. And all on top form! Phew! MG both of those are finally on the way to me!

happy huppy!

Ok, so these four pieces are from a Rome concert in June 19, 1959 with Buddy Clark on bass (and Jim Hall, as on the "7 Pieces" studio album). I have video of two tracks that came as from 1956 (June 19, too, same location given as I found googling for this one, Teatro Adriano). No clue how accurate this information is... What CD(s) is that? This one: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:3zftxq8gld0e It contains: "Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre", Lee Konitz "An Image" (Bill Russo arr., strings), Jimmy Giuffre's string album for Verve (Yanow says it's "the least interesting" of the lot, not so sure of that...), and as kind of a related bonus, Ralph Burns' 1951 ten incher "Free Forms", with Konitz on board. Great double disc!

Oh yes! That 2CD set with those Konitz/Giuffre things is a marvel, and the Giuffre/Holman album for O'Day is one of the highlights of the O'Day Verve Mosaic (I didn't know much of her before... just took the plunge and was mighty impressed!)

Yeah well, I ate balls for lunch today, too... though only meat balls, alas...

Quite astonishing, but besides Misterioso, Ruby and 'Round Midnight, two of my very favourites have only been mentioned once in this thread (twice if you include mikeweil's list): Reflections and Criss Cross. Bright Mississippi is another fun one. And for standards, I think it would have to be Lulu for me - and how about that weird "There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie", from "Alone in San Francisco"?!

Hey, I'm glad you did buy and then sell it on to me for a nice price!!! I think the rhythm section is fine... however, Howard seems to have a difficult time shepherding the music into anything truly galvanizing. It's a somewhat static-sounding, 'free' blowing album that has some excellent subtle spots. At the very least, the SA cats play great--Dyani is, as always impressive. Howard was capable of a lot more, though. Hm, I only just got this and gave it one spin - found the ZA part much more enjoyable, but all in all it didn't exaclty blow me away... but yes, Dyani is fine! Now why I dug this thread up is because I finally got hold of the Cuneiform discs (all the BoBs and the one to which this thread is dedicated). Isipingo was a mother of a band, and Miller/Moholo - wow! They keep impressing me, wherever I hear them (Osborne's great trio album on that Ogun twofer was the most recent addition of Miller/Moholo to my collection - better than the two FMRs, I found, and indeed a mighty fine album! The Quintet album on the CD, "Marcel's Muse", is ok, but less impressive). Anyway, Isipingo, holy holy! Will have to play that disc again as soon as I have an hour of quiet and can blast it up aloud! The Ogun album is sort of a lost promise, I found... doesn't live up quite (though I may be wrong in the end...), but this live show is just great! (I've had it before as a boot - seems it originated from some collector's tape or something, who was involved it the show being spread on dime - or at least I seem to remember reading something to that effect.)

a guinea pig, most obviously...

You're right about "adaptable". Have you heard Giuffre playing outrageous rock 'n roll tenor on "Block Buster" and "Dynamite" by a Shorty Rogers group that called itself "Boots Brown & his Blockbusters"? It's a hoot! Incidentally I just read about those recordings today and wondered... I assume I shall have to look for those early sessions some day...

Yeah, but "trad" means dixieland... and that's what Eldridge often played in his late years... I guess Giuffre was in his way just as "adaptable" as his colleague Pee Wee Russell (I just played their long blues from the Mosaic, marvellous).

Giuffre's "7 Pieces" has been reissued on CD on one of those new Spanish (?) operations (Jazz Track, Jazz something) - it contains some bonus tracks, where are they from? Here's the info for that session (from jazzdisco.org): Jimmy Giuffre Trio Jimmy Giuffre (cl, ts, bars) Jim Hall (g) Red Mitchell (b) Los Angeles, CA, February 23 & 25, March 2, 1959 25057-28 The Happy Man Verve MGV 8307 25058-16 Princess - 25059-13 Song Of The Wing - 25060-6 Lovely Willow - 25061-2 The Little Melody - 25062-1 The Story - 25063-5 Time Machine - * The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Seven Pieces (Verve MGV 8307, MGVS 6039) and here's the setlist of the CD (from Amazon): 1. Happy Man 2. Princess 3. Song Of The Wind 4. Lovely Willow 5. The Little Melody 6. The Story 7. Time Machine 8. Two Degrees East, Three Degrees We T 9. Four Brothers 10. Princess 11. Careful

I thought I'd rather pull this thread back to life than post about the music in the r.i.p.-thread. Played some of the Mosaic again, after reading about Giuffre's death. The second of the Capitol album is astonishing! The first, "Four Brothers", is a bit of a mixed bag, but the last of its three sessions already has the band of the second album, "Tangents in Jazz", in place: Jack Sheldon, Ralph Pena and Artie Anton (never heard of that guy other than his appearance here). For all those who missed out on the Mosaic (it was one of the first I got!), this album's available on Membran's cheapo "Original Longplay Albums" series, as is the very first one: Detailed info here (select "Original Longplay" under the respective title, then "Labelcopy" to get the discography of the albums). Now I also just played Giuffre's astonishing first Atlantic album, "The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet", but then that one is well known as a cornerstone, it seems, while "Tangents" isn't mentioned very often, alas.

oh man... I missed ordering the Nkosis... and I don't see another order coming up too soon, either I did order "cool down", though!

Yup! I have it, but I'm in the midst of re-organizing my CDs (and books - all on the same shelves...) so I can't find it... but doesn't it say in the liners that it was the first of some kind of series? Nothing ever came out after, right?

I can hear them all, at low volume on my notebook (no headphones) with the fan making lots of noise and the Mulligan CJB on in the next room... guess I use my ipod with reason, most often...

He's been unable to play for a loooong time - very sad. Will dig up the Mosaic again.

The Randy Weston Select - not into the prev. unreleased session on disc 2 - great great music! Hawkins wailing on Hi-Fly is just plain crazy!!!

...cursed, kicked myself and applied self-flagellation a la Max Mosley... He he, sure you put on your olde SS uniform to do so!? (Why are all these formula 1 bosses nazis? His predecessor was in some kind of French SS troup, I read somewhere...) Clunky: you'll enjoy! I haven't made my way to the end of the Manone dates yet, but what I've heard was all quite good!

ah well, I'm at work so I didn't google too long for that... but I'll try and finally grab a DVD of "Blow Up" for the real thing some day... (I've seen it on the big screen of course, but it would be nice to have it handy at home!)

joyeux anniversaire!

any connection to mods?

Happy Birthday!