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That sounds like a rather fair assessment... as for Bollani, he can indeed do it all, it seems, but... have you heard Eric Legnini? In the funky department, he's most likely my favourite European pianist, these days! And who was that, I heard it on the radio, a programme called "Il cosmonauto russo", I think there's a CD version on Label Bleu, but I can't recall the guy's name, possibly he's a guitar player... Mirabassi was also guesting there as one of the soloists, wiht a huge band and some actors and stuff, sounded really good to my ears, all together! I should have that label Blue cd, now if I could only remember under wich artist I filed it... I have a partial live recording, but I haven't edited it and hence not logged it and have no idea where it's lying around, so... let's google, here 'tis, Battista Lena, "I cosmonauti russi":

It's been mentioned over here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=38875 I shall have to get this, but I still also need the other classic BoB albums, first... and there are a couple of other live discs available (Bremen To Bridgewater, and I think one more, also the Harry Miller Isipingo one)

Yes, that's what I mean. I've seen him a few times playing in other people's bands and he's been electrifying. If there's one live gig I'd love to hear was recorded it would be one I saw in a dingy working men's club in Sheffield about ten years back. Louis Moholo's 'Spirit's Rejoice' with...wait for it...Jason Yarde, Paul Rogers, Keith Tippett, Evan Parker and Paul Rutherford. Yarde held his own in that exalted company. As I said before, I think he's heavily involved in production - I've seen his name on some of the Dune label CDs. The concert that's circulating is a BBC broadcast from Leicester, September 30, 1999 (it seems to also circulate as an Evan Parker show, erroneously). Fine one indeed, need to dig it up again!

up - anyone?

forgot the recent blue notes box set thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=38875 there's certainly more!

of course! here are some earlier discussions: generally on south african jazz: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=32699 ibrahim thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4438 moeketsi thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3416 ogun: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17425 harry miller: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=27890 (there should also be a discussion of the miller box somewhere) mike osborne: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36250 blue notes: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6127 mcgregor/bob: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24420 and more: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19627 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=8434 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=32481 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=32957

That sounds like a rather fair assessment... as for Bollani, he can indeed do it all, it seems, but... have you heard Eric Legnini? In the funky department, he's most likely my favourite European pianist, these days! And who was that, I heard it on the radio, a programme called "Il cosmonauto russo", I think there's a CD version on Label Bleu, but I can't recall the guy's name, possibly he's a guitar player... Mirabassi was also guesting there as one of the soloists, wiht a huge band and some actors and stuff, sounded really good to my ears, all together!

Moroni... I think first I heard him on the "Ray Brown & ... pianists" CD. Then six or seven years ago I was invited some some private party where he was playing with a fine local guitar player... quite a maniac, Moroni, no? Anyway, certainly a virtuoso pianist, but somehow I never felt like following up on his work. I've mentioned several Egea albums... I have about six or seven and all are good, some better than that (notably the Mirabassi one!)

Liner 2:

Liner 1:

If I remember right, Ibrahim (Dollar Brand then) was woodshedding in South Africa while all the others went to Europe and had a ball... after that he was one of the first to leave, though, making Zurich his home for a while, and there influencing lots of local musicians and in the end igniting a whole new thing which is still going on with folks like Irene Schweizer, Co Streiff, Tommy Meier and others - for musical evidence, check out Tommy Meier's large band project (including Schweizer and many other mainstays of the local scene) that was just released on Intakt: Maybe discriminating folks would call this all just a fake, but I'd prefer thinking of it as a genuine attempt to fuse some of those south african strains and rhythms (that you can and always could hear in Irene Schweizer's piano playing) with European and American jazz. And to add one more local footnote: in November, Schweizer performed a concert with drummer Makaya Ntshoko here in Zurich (alas I missed it), so some connections are still running strong to this day.

no way I can see that happen - it's not what this site is about, plus as you said, many of those "favorite trackers" are mostly just sharing things that are commercially available, so it would be no good for the band and this board to be involved, I assume. plus, browsing is part of the fun (though I restrict myself to dime, just because of its strict rules).

"little" jazz on dime - are you serious? do you have a job? a real life?

No, "Pozza" means piscine, pool of water; "Puzza" means stink, smell. ooops... well, I'm flattered! But then I assume you noticed I love lots of Italian jazz! I have heard the first (I think) of the Morricone discs from a library (and also taped a concert off radio) and thought it was actually quite good, but I can definitely see why some would think of Pieranunzi as boring. His trio with Hein van de Geyn is fine, too, by the way (the latest incarnation had André Ceccarelli on drums). And Aldo Romano (who also played with Pieranunzi) is of course the first-mentioned of the French trio Romano-Sclavis-Texier, which is a mighty fine band and has been going strong for several years by now (in some cases Michel Portal was added and then sometimes Daniel Humair was on drums - this is definitely a French group, but it still deserves mention as it's outstanding!) very much the same with me and Swiss bands... I just today bought the first disc of Malcolm Braff's (the 2000 recording with Alex Blake and Yaya Ouattara, "Yele", recorded live in 2000, released on Unit Records), but I've been a big fan of his for years now, have heard him live, taped shows from radio etc

I don't think it gets much better than that. yeah, well, every adolescent jazz fan's wet dream... now about stream control, I just had one Leffe too much, but then I'm still easily as much a bloke as Mr. Beverly This has most certainly turned into one of the funniest (and silliest) threads we've seen...

some italian needs to answer that... Italian Instabile Orchestra - earlier thread some Rava threads Trovesi - Fugace Stefano di Battista - Parker's Mood Stefano Bollani It looks like most discussions of Italian Jazz (I know there were some) have happened in topics that weren't actually about Italian jazz...

he he, "birds in bikinis" - great name for a band... (would have been cooler than "the supremes", no?) just saw "the italian job"... michael caine (in "alfie") was the first person I heard using the b-word... (will catch him in "get carter" again tomorrow night - what a great actor!) yes, decca was the label that issued some of that stuff in yurp or the us or wherever domesticated. (I have another LP from my parents - my dad lived in ZA for a year or so in 1968-69, I assume they're from there - which is on decca, then... a pennywhistle compilation, can't remember what it's called)

and here's the part with the credits (I can do the liners like this, too, if you wish):

backcover:

front cover:

My parents have that LP... not as jazzy as you might wish, but it's been a while that I played it. Decca is right. This was the beginning of the european exile of the ZA jazzers... most I think went back, but they had tasted a bit of free air...

Just thought I'd finally watch the Salzau 2004 DVD by the Rava Quintet - great so far! By that time, Andrea Pozza* had replaced Bollani in the quintet - another fine young musician! I forgot that Bonaccorso was the bassist here, too - I love his big woody sound! --- *) doesn't that name mean "the one who smells badly"?

Yes .. Jazzloft $34.99. Maybe elsewhere also, haven't checked around. EDIT: Sorry, strike the above. That's their old web site. Available here at their new web site. Thanks, just sent in an order... hurts my purse, ouch! But I've wanted to get this one for years... totally forgot about it!

Ambrosetti is Swiss indeed... and I think he more often played with Swiss (and American) musicians than with Italians, so I didn't even think of him at all. Anyway, he's a mighty fine musician! (So was his father, Flavio - I had him on my first BFT which was dedicated to Swiss jazz, mostly).