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finally found a way to hook up my cellphone wiht the computer (and hence now I have some cool ringtones, by Odell Brown, Schlippenbach and the like...) - here's the one photo I have, her looking through our kitchen window at the snowy backyard in mid november:

There's a great discographical website I happend to find coincidentally a couple of days ago: http://www.geocities.com/moron200/gainsbou...ds/records.html And here's the cover of said 5CD box:

I like him quite some - mostly his early stuff, but also some of the later things. Also caught "Anna" a couple of months ago (reported about it in the film corner, I think) - great soundtrack, a few great cameos by Serge himself, and of course the lovely Anna Karina all the way through... While in Paris last autumn I bought the "100 meilleurs chansons" box of his (that's a series of 5CD boxes, you'll get one for Brel, Trenet, Aznavour etc. etc.). I assume that will do for a while... on the other hand, a store in town has several of his albums in mini LP packages (all 60s and 70s albums) that look rather nice...

I wouldn't call myself a "hard bopper at heart", but those years make up the core of my collection so far, too... but more with interest towards the boundary-stretching stuff, Mingus, Coltrane, Shepp, Dolphy, Hill... But I have many of bop's most important recordings, too, as well as getting more and more into earlier jazz (Duke, Prez, Basie, Lunceford, to name a few favourites). The 70's are covered rather thinly, so are the 80s, after which I have more again. Also I have some out stuff discussion of which was restricted mostly to the funny rat (r.i.p.) thread here, of late, however, my listening has been more conservative again, I guess... less challenging stuff just fits better if time is short or if it's just background listening at work. But in the end, what is my favourite era - I'm not sure I could really answer that question, as the accidental way in which I'm building up my collection doesn't necessarily reflect what I love best. Also as far as live concerts are concerned, my taste is *much* more progressive and into free stuff, I'd likely never attend any of those young post-boppers live (never did so at least, to this day) - things like Instabile, ICP, lots of free improv, Sclavis, local people, Irene Schweizer, Co Streiff, but also occasionally some old guys if I get a chance (Benny Golson, for instance, or the late Benny Bailey, or Dr. Lonnie Smith). But I really wouldn't see a point to hear anyone live whose music is heavily leaning onto all those great Blue Note albums - if I want that, I open a bottle of my favourite alcoholic brew and sit down in our living room to enjoy the real thing.

I assume like the following: ?

RDK's signature (You can do what you like with jazz as long as it doesn't lose it's Deep Dark Blue Center." - Hoagy Carmichael) made me think of this one: Thanks Al, I'll try and grab the files tonight! With good reason you thought of that, Flurin. Collier took his title from Hoagy's quote (which is where I first heard it, in Collier's liner notes). Ah, that's cool, I didn't know about that (don't know much about Collier anyway) - I love Hoagy! Watch out for the forthcoming CD reissue of 'DDBC' - in stereo, featuring my LP ! cool, I think you mentioned that before but I forgot about it - will have to look for it to go legit with that one, finally!

What about the third Coltrane box?

Do you happen to have attended that weird (and ultimately pretty bad, I found) trio concert of Solal's with Johnny Griffin (most likely pretty drunk...) and the late NHOP at the Tonhalle some six or seven years ago? Solal was dazzling now and then, but the whole concert was quite a mess, only NHOP I found to play on more or less steady a level, Griffin totally out of it, and Solal changing between too few moments of brilliance and some pretty lacklustre playing... Where did you find the France Musique 2CD set? It seems by now it's not that easy to find, at least I never managed to get a "real" copy of it... No, I did not attend this concert, seems that I did not miss that much. I found the France Musique 2CD set on priceminister.com, a French site, kind of a marketplace similar to amazon. They currently have the set for €10,65. Service was fine: Quick delivery, cd in impeccable condition. Thanks, I'll have to check that site out some day! There was a thread dedicated to this Douglas/Solal disc, I think, I'm sure you can find it by doing a search. I don't have it, and as Douglas isn't one of my bigger heroes (it's sort of some I like a lot, some I just don't care about at all, and his own trumpet playing... well, he certainly is skilled and all, but he's too much of a thinker, probably).

RDK's signature (You can do what you like with jazz as long as it doesn't lose it's Deep Dark Blue Center." - Hoagy Carmichael) made me think of this one: Thanks Al, I'll try and grab the files tonight! With good reason you thought of that, Flurin. Collier took his title from Hoagy's quote (which is where I first heard it, in Collier's liner notes). Ah, that's cool, I didn't know about that (don't know much about Collier anyway) - I love Hoagy!

I have my third sets of passports, I think... always had one, got a new one last year as after that the merikins would require a genetic sample (my left index finger and/or thumb, I guess) in order for me to enter their paranoid yet free country... also got a new aussie passport a couple of years ago. And in addition (passport costs amount to almost a smaller Mosaic set) I have an ID card - many EU countries have laws that require you have an ID with you all of the time (or they'll claim your head to make an i-d, I assume...), or so I was told in Vienna this summer. Also you need an ID card to pick up parcels from the post office, of course (and those effing creeps like to do power games and even though it's wrong tell you that an expired passport or ID card won't be accepted...)

And in case that's an offense, you can exchange "English" and "American" by "British English" and "American English" - no offence intended. (Now I do admit that only now, thinking about it, I realised that offence isn't spelled with "s" in British English... but that stuff is hard to know if you're not consciously working on it - which I am not, besides org and some mails, I hardly ever get to use the English language.)

Oh well, just because... and yes, of course it's colour (and favourite, too...) As for sounds, english hardly makes any sense concerning writing and actual sounds, does it? wear/hear/here, there/their... no other way than to just learn it, I assume. Not that German was perfect in this respect, but closer for sure. If you learn English as a foreign language, you have to opt for English or American - makes more sense than to change halfway through a sentence. I opted for English - that's all there is to the why.

How about that "Live and Rare" Bluebird set? Is that worth looking for? I remember it got a rather lukewarm reception, but now that my interest in ducals sounds has majorly grown I wonder...

The Zurich and Drum discs have been out for a while, what's the Indigos? Courtesy of some Andorrans?

Oh, and notice that the album designers got the spellink right, not like Hoagy...

RDK's signature (You can do what you like with jazz as long as it doesn't lose it's Deep Dark Blue Center." - Hoagy Carmichael) made me think of this one: Thanks Al, I'll try and grab the files tonight!

Bev, about the Private Collection: of course I understand if you want to get all of it once you start looking, but then the whole series is made up of various larger and smaller chuncks, so just having some of the better volumes might actually do quite a lot, too... there are two volumes from dances, those are marvellous - Volume 2 is one of them, not sure which is hte other, 7 I think, but there are various dates on that, so I may mix some things up... but Volume 2 I like a lot! Alas it's been a while that I played all of these, so I couldn't give an account of what to definitely get and what to likely skip.

You get loads of great info about sessions and releases here: http://www.depanorama.net/ CoCo The Complete Duke Ellington 1947-1952 4 CBS 462985-6-7-8 2 8/47-12/52 plus these for 1956-1962 material: 56/62v1 duke 56/62 vol 1 2 LP CBS 88653 1956-1962 56/62v2 duke 56/62 vol 2 2 LP CBS 88654 1956-1962 56/62v3 duke 56/62 vol 3 1 LP CBS 26306 1956-1962 I'd love to get all that on CD... in a perfect world, there'd be - in addition to the Mosaic 36-40 Small Group Set - a 32-40 big band set, a 47-52 big band set, and a 53-62 "supplementary" set (I assume that's what the above five LPs were, actually - stuff that didn't end up on any of the official albums that were released back then). I'll dream on... maybe someone should send a set of clean LPs to Andorra... Here's the entry for the Private Collection: http://www.depanorama.net/cds/pc.htm

I'm the zec. Thanks!

Do you happen to have attended that weird (and ultimately pretty bad, I found) trio concert of Solal's with Johnny Griffin (most likely pretty drunk...) and the late NHOP at the Tonhalle some six or seven years ago? Solal was dazzling now and then, but the whole concert was quite a mess, only NHOP I found to play on more or less steady a level, Griffin totally out of it, and Solal changing between too few moments of brilliance and some pretty lacklustre playing... Where did you find the France Musique 2CD set? It seems by now it's not that easy to find, at least I never managed to get a "real" copy of it...

10 Jimmie Luncefords 11 Benny Carters

Well, I didn't edit - only just caught my mistake... anyway, thanks to whoever did!

yeah, sure - I assume your were the zec who adjusted the title - thanks for that! btw, with all love for the lion, smith the alto player was a giant, not nearly as estimated as he should be!

yeah, and that he loves the idea!

One of my favourite Weston discs - Teddy Edwards is marvellous! indeed! thank you so much for recommending it, spinning it for the second time now... my second later weston disc (after kephera) and i like it a lot more than that one, favorite track so far is that trio version of Mystery of Love with Weston, Edwards and Jamil Nasser... "Saga" is almost as good - it has come out in one of Unviersal France's digipack series (Heritage, Anniversary, whatever). I'll keep my old disc for that one... it does not have Teddy Edwards, though, who's a major bonus to me on "Volcano Blues". The 2CD set "Spirits of Our Ancestors" is likely what you should look for, next, I guess... (seems there's a one CD selection from that one, too, so be cautious!)