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pretty good one, but I guess not everyone's cup of tea...

Marc Hemmeler not much info to be found online, but I have a very nice LP of his (trio, with Alvin Queen and a Swiss bass player), and he appears on the Montreux set (1974 I think) by Guy Lafitte/Bill Coleman. He also did one or two albums with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown that I don't have... fine pianist he was.

Ah yes, I forgot that one... another fine set!

Sorry to hear about your cat, indeed. Our own cat (she's roughly 10 but we don't know exactly) was badly injured while we were on holiday - with almost 10 more days before we went home, and she also went missing for two or three days... our neighbours had to track her down and bring her to a doctor... she's quite ok again by now, luckily. Anyway, telling this is just a way to say I can feel your pain

Good one - played it last night! I rememberd having another Trotignon disc (in trio) - will have to give it a spin again, too: Here's a short bio from the site of the Moutin Reunion Quartet (seems he's replaced Pierre De Bethman by now? I wasn't aware of that - no, it was the other way 'round, I just checked, De Bethman came in *after* Trotignon).

forgot the link, here 'tis: http://www.amazon.de/Loft-Jazz-New-York-76...2934&sr=8-1

I wish I could find it. Only 300$ on Amazon & ebay. There's a pirate edition, goes for 25 € on amazon.de - it's a digipack, Douglas label (not sure how pirate that is, but I always thought it was a rip-off of the "old" Knit edition, which I have, by the way).

there's a thread dedicated to him here - I'm a fan! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5604 (I see I started it...)

Ah, I see... I only know De Bethman and Prysm from live shows so far...

I just bought this one on sale yesterday - still have to play it, but from the couple of live recordings I've heard, it has to be good! What's this? A release of you own tape??? And before I forget: welcome over here!

There's a new one (haven't got it, though): Then there's this fine one: And more that I haven't heard: this one, for a change, I have - not his best but fine: check this site (it's where I found the jpgs, too)

Try "Christmas with Etta Jones", which I got a couple of weeks ago. Coles is BLASTIN! on "Merry Christmas baby". MG I never play x-mas music... evades me why people would want to listen to that stuff even as part of their jazz listening, too, when you can't escape it anywhere... will take a note though, just in case... thanks

Have you converted to the vinyl faith ? while I'm no platform agnostic (that's the kiddos watching the latest hollywood bombast on their iPods... won't ever get that far with me, I assure you!) I don't believe in vinyl or CDs... I simply happen to have some vinyl that I don't have on CD, such as the last of the Tina Brooks dates I'm playing right now, and boy is that great! Johnny Coles I've rarely heard in such prime form! Wow!

I forgot to say: life is good

Listened to the tentet (Shorty Rogers) date on the last side of the Art Pepper set, and just now session D (with Hawkins!) from the Buck Clayton CBS Jam Session set - vinyl, all of that, also the one that's going on the turntable next: Tina Brooks (prob. the "True Blue" record, not sure yet).

Great news to me! I love the "Fearless Leader" box and don't have the big 16 CD set... here's hope the third box will materialize, too, eventually (though I gather this here has been in the pipeline during the Concord takeover, which might not be the case with the third one and hence they may just have dropped that plan). Anyway, looking forward to this! Edit: the missing tracks are a letdown, though... I'll keep my "Cats" and "Cattin'" discs, then... The third box would also have the (partial, in that case) Ammons date (or would they include long jams where Trane may blow on the theme and nowhere else? I doubt that) and the one(s?) with Mal Waldron, I assume.

Complete Bill Evans - disc 10 - the album with Jim Hall... not sure what to think... "Undercurrent" is also under constant revision, one time I like it, next time I almost fall asleep... tending to do the later here, but I have to work, so it won't happen... nah, it's nice, actually, I'm just not in for *that* quiet music... looking forward to the second album with Manne and more from the Trident gig with Philly Joe!

McPhee phan here too When the sh*t hits the phan, I'll be there, too! Haven't heard Trio X, though, but McPhee is one of the musicians I have a lot of respect for, and I like or love all of what I've heard of his music!

to me, Ware's about as phony as che was... never got him, really, I'm not sure there is anything there, besides attitude.... (sounds like a grumpy Chuck comment, I guess... only using three times as many words as he'd do)

Sir, I might have a couple of new things to list - will drop you a mail, hope it's not too late for the next update!

Congratulations to Mr. Solal! May he continue strong for as long as he wishes! (Hey, we all know it ain't gonna last forever... and in my opinion, that's a good thing, too...)

Continued disc 11 into the first part of the "California Here I Come" sessions - Philly Joe makes a difference! Now back to disc 9, the Town Hall concert - Wise is a fine drummer, unsung. I think I only have him on a few things with Helen Merrill (those great albums with Dick Katz), and he makes an appearance on the "Secret Sessions", too, I think, but that box is the latest addition to my Evans holding and I haven't played any of it yet... lots of Evans still waiting to be discovered here!

More from the Evans Verve set... the Zetterlund date - fine, but not much more than that - still I enjoy it the Trio '65 album - as good as the Trident club live dates, or a bit better, maybe and now just getting started with the Town Hall dates (disc 9) (leaving out the strings album on disc 8, that is) changed my mind: "Further Conversations" (disc 11) right now

Almost done with disc 6, now - finally continuing with the Evans box... "What Kind of Fool Am I" has just begun... not a tune that ever stuck to my memory, but Evans does it so nicely (also on the Milestone/Riverside solo session)! Great music! hard to see why Evans didn't like it!

Just wondering, how many "Newburys" are there? I'm just curious, are the folks at Newbury appreciative (or even cognizent) of the business generated by the Organissimo board? I guess they wouldn't have any way of knowing this, but they should. If you do happen to visit them, please thank them (on behalf, I would expect, of many on this board) for their prompt service and excellent selection. I, for one, have been very satisfied with their service (better than our old favorite Caiman, IMHO). Contrary to Caiman, Newbury only lists stuff they actually have in stock - they delivered all of the 15 or 20 discs I ordered from them, while Caiman delivered none, zero! (I was much more cautious since I didn't think they'd deliver anyhting, so I ordered only 6 or 7 with them.) Newbury is as good as it gets!