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let's hope them swizzers will do their usual "autonomer nachvollzug" on this, too, but I guess they won't... everyone is just protecting their own little gardens... liberals, ha ha! the most liberal party here is the social democrats!

For some reason that disc has been difficult for me to locate. Downloading from emusic or iTunes is one possibility. That is what I did. Thanks for the info, but the collector in me prefers the actual factory manufactured CD with all the art work and any liner notes. Never would of guessed that you are a "collector"

Not much time yet to really listen, but here's some impressions for #1-12 - very enjoyable so far, thank you, Conrad! #1 The opening sounds mighty much like that country boy from Oklahoma, or wherever he came from... one of those Lionel Hampton sessions? The Mosaic shall one day be mine, but so far I'm not very familiar with these sessions. Clarinet has a nice, raspy sound, the rhythm goes chunck chunck, violin is interesting, gives it a slight Django/Grappelli touch, though it's played in a less technically ok manner than Grappelli did, sounds a bit tame for Stuff Smith, though... no clue who it could be, but I guess not Venuti or Nance? Hampton is great of course! #2 Some Ellingtonian jungle-ism? I've played this one several times by now, fun stuff! That must be a bass sax, I think. The drumming is great, could be from one of those drummer-led big bands? Possibly Krupa featuring Roy Eldridge? Trumpet is nice, that's for sure! #3 That bass clarinet thing makes this sound like a much more recent recording to me. Freddie Green/Basie like rhythm, nice clarinet noodling before the Hawkish tenor gets underway. No clue what this could be. Hm, the drummer banging away makes it sound like an older recording again. Ok alto solo, but tenor was better I found. A bit too whimsical for my taste (for instance the writing at the end). #4 Boogie woogie time... nice but not something I could listen too often (reminds me of some of Hamp's Decca sides - though I only have that GRP 2CD compilation) #5 Now this one sounds familiar but hell if I could place it. Piano goes some nice places. Interesting trombone, drummer gets busy on his cymbals, would be great to have this in better sound to hear more clearly what's going on there! Hawkish tenor again, but then at that time, what else was there, besides Prez... kind of pre-JATP? Or is this from an early JATP concert? Not enough wild tenor and not enough musicians present, but then what do I know... piano is most distinct, is my impression. #6 Wow! Teagarden? Lovely combination there, acoustic guitar and trombone... and then the wah-wah trumpet, wow! #7 "Tea for Two", of course. Exuberant piano... this is a bit too much just bobbing along for my taste, and in between those pseudo virtuoso boring runs... not a favourite, I'm afraid. #8 Nice one, something from the late 20s I assume, no clue though... #9 More similar stuff, though this might be a bit less old... good to hear some clarinet on this compilation, definitely an instrument that would deserve being used more often in contemporary music! #10 Hm, these tracks just pass by too fast for me to really dig into them separately, they just of flow together... nice music, that's for sure, but I'm just not very familiar with much of it... on this one here the bass gets annoying, keeping on with the tonic and the fifth and some of those walking "fills" in between, just like in old european folk music, not really creative at all... Blanton must had quite some inpact when he arrived on the scene! #11 Now this is something I can relate to a bit more again... sounds somewhat familiar, I think. #12 Another boogie... fun!

I know that, but how can you play alto without teeth?

well, unless you'd want to play yer guitar with yer teeth, I assume...

I saw Ibrahim at that same club Weston will play several years ago with his trio... he was kind of tired, but I guess that just can happen if someone his age is on tour... still was nice! And late last year I saw him solo in a large church, and he played two and a half hourse instead of the scheduled 75 minutes... magisterial!

whoah, all you populists and simplicists... but lollipops for everyone, yes! I fully agree!

Not tonight, nor even tomorrow, but April 17: Randy Weston solo!!! Finally I get to see him, who's one of my biggest heroes! And even better, in a fairly small club! Looking forward very, very much to that!

The Kenny Clarke also holds two Lucky T sessions, don't forget that! One being in Quartet with Solal and Michelot, hence fitting in perfectly with the other sessions. The other one has additional horns. And with the Hubert Fol session added, it's a very fine disc anyway, as I pointed out above already.

I've had no news since sending in the order - too bad! Will let you know of course!

And looking up the Lucky Thompson discography I realize that except for that supposedly very rare "Club des Amateurs des Disques" release, I have all the 1956 Paris sessions Lucky did! I guess I'll put them onto a set of CDRs some day, in chronological order... On second look - wow, what a year for Lucky, 1956! So many great sessions done then, including the ones for ABC/Paramount in trio and quintet and with Oscar Pettiford! Also the Lionel Hampton Jazztone session, Quincy Jones' "This Is How I Feel About Jazz", and to end the year, the Satchmo all star dates and a session for one of Chris Connor's most outstanding albums! Impressive! And the year got underway by those great sessions for Savoy with Bags!

Hm, the Mezzrow was one of those I wanted to skip (along with the Memphis Slim, Golden Gate Quartet, Earl Hines, Sammy Price and Wild Bill Davis). The Woods, btw, I once heard on the radio - mighty fine one, with the Gruntz/Texier/Humair edition of his band (European something machine, rhythm?), they do that great opening number from Nelson's "Blues and the Abstract Truth", among other things.

Good to hear she's doing better! A fine singer - I, too, love the album she did with Cannonball! (The one with Shearing ain't half bad, either.)

Sad news I'm not very familiar with Urso, not even sure I have anything besides the Chet Baker recordings.

as it's 8 a.m. and I have dislocated my sleeping self to the office, a correto grappa would be more appreciated than beer or wine right now welcome!

Yeah, but the one beer you're allowed when you drive will be on me! (Or else some coffee or whatever...)

I got my package today, now that was very fast - I sent the money exactly a week ago only!

and to add a few comments to those I know: the Sims is fine, a quintet date with Jon Eardley and Henri Renaud, similar to the date on that Jazz in Paris Sims/Renaud disc, the AEC is essential (plenty of discussion of that in other threads), the Moody is not that great, but fine, similar for the Carter. The Wells is short but terrific. The Kenny Clarke is great - it contains a magnificient quartet date with Lucky Thompson and Martial Solal, another date with Lucky and other horns, one track with Tony Scott, and to end things off finally a great session by Hubert Fol. The Lucky T. certainly is fine, too, if his other 1956 Paris dates are an indication - I haven't played this one yet.

This seems to be the old thread (found via google), but it's not there any longer: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5370 The discs are by: Cat Anderson Art Ensemble of Chicago (the Pathé sessions, vinyl dubbed, discussed here in detail before) Don Byas Benny Carter Kenny Clarke Bill Coleman Bill Coleman live Wild Bill Davis Golden Gate Quartet Lionel Hampton Slide Hampton (discussed here) Earl Hines Mezz Mezzrow James Moody Sammy Price Zoot Sims Memphis Slim Lucky Thompson Dicky Wells Phil Woods This is a pretty fine reissue series, packed in not so great digipacks, many of the albums contain music recorded for a label called Ducretet-Thomson. I've had the AEC, Moody and Wells for a while. Now I have just bought a few more (Zoot Sims, Bill Coleman, Lucky Thompson, Kenny Clarke) and hopefully some more that are on order will come through. Several are pretty short, alas, and some contain (at least partly) very well-known sessions (the Wells only has two sessions, one being the famous one with Django, the Carter has three - none led by Carter, or just one? - and one being the famous one with Coleman Hawkins and Django). They're either OOP already or just about to go OOP, and some are impossible to find - such as the Cat Anderson (I just found - after all the googling around - a Swiss site that still lists it, just sent in an order there: www.lesestoff.ch - I have my doubts they'll deliver though, a danish site I tried a few days ago didn't work out though they didn't take the listing down yet - that was cdjazz.com)

well, then enjoy your timbales! remember you can still earn another 50€ if you sell me your CD player...

yeah... too bad, the worst case scenario sort of has arrived, only with a little bit of a delay (due to the huge stock Fantasy seems to have had, I assume). I still miss dozens of OJCs that I'd like to own... but then I bought so many in the past two years that I can't keep up with listening anyway, so it gets somewhat pointless to keep buying more and more... still, as it was before, you could just buy something new whenever you wanted, and the assumption (alas it was a wrong assumption) was that these discs, even the limited editions ones, would be around forever.

and another post: http://cgi.ebay.com/CECIL-TAYLOR-Jazz-Adva...1742.m153.l1262 This CT disc adds the Newport 1957 set of Taylor's band - too bad Lonehill left off the Byrd/Gryce set from their series. The Fresh Sound store though seems not to carry any of their distribution labels, so for Lonehill and Defnitive etc, their website seems the way to go.

Here it is: http://stores.ebay.com/Absolute-Distribution Prizes seem to have been adapted to the low dollar, but then that's fair enough, as they're a European organisation and the low dollar income would affect their business... they ship without jewel cases, too (good deal if you order digipacks... he he).

I bought the Byrd/Gryces in a local store, but I also just ordered a few things via their website (Fantasy titles plus the Klemmer LPR in their mini sales) - the delivery was indeed superfast! I learned since (thanks to niko) that their ebay store seems to have slightly better conditions (can't remember on which ebay page it is, but a little searching would certainly bring that to light). The Hodges/Davis at the local store all had some slight damages in the booklets (alright, I'm anal...) so I thought I might rather get them via that ebay store eventually.