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I had typed up a long post about last night's concerts at the Unerhört Festival, it got lost after I hit "add reply", effin' sucks! I don't feel like typing up all the b-s again, it's such a pain to tranlate all of these adjectives and stuff about music into merikan, suffice it to repeat from the lost post that Trio 3 & Irene Schweizer definitely were da shit, as they say! So I'm reconsidering my opinion on Oliver Lake, even though again he failed to convince me completely... he's certainly serious about what he's doing, that I'd never deny, but still, as an instrumentalist, he fails to really blow me away.

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The Louis Smith album would be great to have, one of the very few ones that come to mind. The missing parts of the Hall/Johnson/Dickenson Mosaic would also be great to have on individual CDs, and all of those great Art Hodes sessions, too! Any or all, that is! And I'm sure there are some other things that have never been out or OOP for a long time, the only one that comes to mind and that I would indeed buy is Stanley Turrentine's "Look Out", but I haven't checked how hard it is to find that one... Other than that I have the feeling that most of the stuff has been out by now and is in no real need of yet another reissue... there was a point where the RVGs indeed started getting a bit absurd, for instance when that Lee Morgan album came out again while the "old" version of it was just 2 or 3 years old... The Smith is one of the very few from the well-known/loved/hyped years of BN (1955-1965 roughly?) that has not been readily available, Dizzy Reece's "Soundin' Off" is another one, but I'll eventually get the Mosaic Select even though I have everything else that's on it, except for that one album. The "Tenor Man" album would be interesting though, and some more Pacific items in general. The album Groove Holmes did with Ben Webster is one that has been out but impossible to find for me so far, so there'd be another one to reissue that has already been on CD... but while there was the rather absurd Chet Baker series (almost everything was still available, grouped a bit more reasonably, too - and all of these go OOP now before EMI yurp would put out non-cc versions, too - sucks!) of reissues being reissued, I guess all the other things just wouldn't sell, or at least that's how the execs look at it (who owns BN anyway by now? Did them private equiteers already start taking things apart?)

That one has been reissued by Lonehill, coupled with "Intermission riff", a 1951 Shrine Auditorium gig that was previously out on Pablo. Damn fine coupling if you ask me. MG Thank you for the hint, I was not aware of this reissue. I am not familiar with the 1951 session though. That's probably because the only copy ever in a local shop disappeared when I bought it on sale for 10 swiss franks (I think at one of the lousy Hug stores... quite possibly even at the one in main station...) - good one indeed!

you prefer mexikins? yurpeens? or real ones, like texans? all edible, by the way...

... and just what do you have 'gainst us merkins? no youtube for me at work... but to answer your question, it might have something to do with their big dicks...

I don't have the album in question and since the original poster (is that something like "original sin"? he he) does not want more off-topic comments, I will not mention that I am not a particular fan of the Bregman-arranged sides on the O'Day Mosaic... he he I will however get it if I happen to see it in a sale again, after having read this thread!

creepy? what the hell...

oi oi oi oi! you merikins are sooo pathetic! go back to the moon! (isn't that where you came from? or did I miss something there?).

You're not. Apologies then if there've been some hidden hints I should have noticed... always appreciated to get information straight from the soure!

Excellent group to see live! Sorry to say I didn't find them convincing... mainly Lake, pretty uninteresting player, falling back on cliches too often, doing the overpowering high energy stuff, not building many coherent solos. Cyrille seemed tired but had a few good spots and generally played quite good. Workman was great, good sound (although pick-up > amp) and his solo spot (they did three solos towards the end) was beautiful. Also, contrary to Cyrille (disinterested) and Lake (arrogant, at least that's what he seemed to be, not only to me but also to a few friends who where there), Workman was projecting warmth and joy while on stage. Will see Trio 3 again on Saturday... haven't given up hope quite yet even more so after getting some flak over in another thread. This time they'll play at the Unerhört festival and Irene Schweizer will play with them! On sunday then: Zoom, Schweizer, Workman and Brötz are the main interest, but I'll gladly let myself surprise by Lake this time! And Lucien Dubuis, who's part of the first band that appears on Saturday, he's great, too!

C'mon. . . .When have YOU ever been wrong? so bobs talking of bobs can't be wrong... too bad if that's true (not the bob thing, but the facts *the* Bob stated above, of course)

Thanks for the update. Too bad ! Apologies but I don't get it - who is "notme"? Bob Belden? Or any of those other guys on that (interesting-looking) project he mentions? Just trying to find out why you (sidewinder) consider this info of any relevance... maybe I'm just too stupid...

Hm, I love this string of albums, hard to pick a favourite... but I never really got into "Soulville" so far. It was the last of these (with only "Sweets" being later, I only just got that a few months ago), and it's the one I like the least. I love "Hawk encounters Webster", but then again that was the first of all of these I've heard... anyway, the two 2CD sets are fantastic as well! The Strayhorn cuts on the strings twofer... great music! "King of Tenors" I found too short, too sketchy... will have to spin it again soon. The collaboration with Mulligan is great, that one I love, and Rowles plays quite a part in that!

I'm in, John! Looking forward to it a lot, I still remember your last one!

I have never fully gotten into Schlippenbach... so I felt like the two Intakt discs might be too much for me. Seems like that might indeed be true, then. No idea about "Smoke", I found my copy used years ago. It's worth looking, though!

I don't have much Schlippenbach, but this one is great: I also was lucky enough to see his Monk programme "Monk's Casino" with the band Die Enttäuschung - he jumped the bandwagon, I think, they had their Monk act and he joined in and his name is the biggest... though Axel Dörner and Rudi Mahall on trumpet and bass clarinet, respectively, were much more interesting. I really should get some more of his albums!

I'll catch Lake (with Trio 3 and Irene Schweizer) again on Saturday... hoping they'll all have a better night then! I've heard other things with Lake, Chuck (live material mostly), though I confess not knowing him very well... anyway, one has to make choices necessarily, I don't have nearly as much money and time as I'd need to check out all that I could and actually would like to check out, and if a first live encounter is so very weak, that's just bad luck, but it might indeed steer me off in another direction...of course I might end up hearing someone again after a couple of years and have a totally different opinion, but I allow myself to have an opinion - not acting as if I knew the whole discography, of course, unless I do (and I never said I would with Lake).

I must have missed this thread last time around... i first heard Turrentine on Jimmy Smith's great "Back at the Chicken Shack" (which was among my first 20 or so jazz CDs and I still love it today, still among my 3-4 favourite Smith albums). I never warmed as much to "Midnight Special" and don't get into "Prayer Meeting" to this day... But I picked up a few other Turrentine albums, most notably the 2CD set from Minton's, which I love! I still remember, I bought it in Athens (Greece, not Georgia, just in case), while there in highschool... (also bought "Whims of Chambers" there). Then I guess next I heard him on "Midnight Special" by Kenny Burrell - fantastic moody album! The album with the Three Sounds I used to love, but I played it once or twice too often and rarely spin it nowadays. I've got a few more by now, and my favourites, next to the Minton's, include the three albums with Horace Parlan (one pictured above, the other two are part of the Parlan Mosaic). "Hustlin'" and some others I have with Shirley Scott are excellent, too ("Queen of the Organ" on Impulse and one of the Scott Legends of Acid Jazz on Prestige).

yuck, why don't you just all start drinking real whisky (scotch, that is... irish if there's no scotch at hand...)

some of the Armstrong disc was on Swiss Radio (RSR 2) on Tuesday night, you can listen to a webstream here: http://www.rsr.ch/espace-2/jazzz/selectedD...3/11/2007#mardi (click on the little blinking icon next to the date on top, in blue colour, it will play in Real Player)

Funny story, Chuck! He was in a great mood last night, obviously! He was scheduled to play for 75 minutes. He did so, then got a standing ovation, sat down for another 30 minutes, got a second standing ovation, and played a third set for yet 20 minutes more. It was a beautiful concert, with him largely staying away from his in-the-bag groove stuff. Very soft playing - I loved it! It took a while to take off, or rather for me to get into it, but once I was in, it was great!

My order has even shipped already! So they don't only cater international customers but they offer extremely fast service, too! Quite a surprise, that coming from Concord!