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After having seen that recent Danish documentary about Ayler, I really wonder about the part of mysterious (self-styled mystery and immaculate?) Mary Maria Parks... she seemed to have played a major part in tearing the brothers apart, and also in isolating Ayler from virtually all of his friends... so if it was his wish to do a record with her singing, maybe it was her wish to have him wish to do it, first? A rather problematic character, it seems... And Don Ayler's situation is tragic, to say the least. Very, very sad!

Saw the Hank Roberts / Marc Ducret / Jim Black trio last night - da shit! A great, great concert!

Do you keep all these brochures? I enjoy the old ones I got from you, brownie, but the new ones I don't keep all of them, just like every 5th or so... too many things stacking up all the time...

Alas, prizes for the Concord box over here are crazy, prob. double from what you describe here Concord has always had bad distribution and exorbitant prizes over here, those two-in-one sets were prized like two full discs, for instance - I hope their Universal distribution deal at least makes the stuff easier to find now - good sign is kind of an OJC sale, if you call 9€/11$ a sale, for switzerland it is... anyway, all of these have the Universal logo on the traycard, the CDs themselves look slightly different (Universal inprint, too, instead of ZYX), while the paper of the booklets has become even thinner (US editions - mostly I know for Blue Note - use much better paper than you'll ever see over here, don't ask me why).

that's all it isn't on the live recording I've heard...

I have a terrific live broadcast of her band, very, very good music, warm, lyrical, lots of beauty and soul in it... Trygve Seim on saxes is great, and Jon Christensen is a masterful drummer (but that's no news I hope). I am not sure - once again - if the coolish ECM production sound is good for this music, as it seems to warm to me... I should check this out, and that other one, "The Source", too (by Trygve Seim, see more info here: http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1900/1966.php)

you can read his "maybe you're right" reply that way, too...

well, aric called Bley "whoever" above, so I guess that's not a reason to convince him of anything!

traditor, the latinist in me, would translate as "he who spreaded traditions" or something, btw. and labelling Bethlehem as a West Coast label is a rather strange idea...

Mingus & Dexter & Teddy Edwards were what? Not your typical west coast stuff, no? And Roach-Brown started out west, too... Free Fall may be Giuffre's greatest record - why would you expect him to do west coast stuff? Was he even from the West Coast? What he did was some kind of folksy version of what Horace Silver did in an urbane way, I think... country funk, whatever - it's warm, swinging music that often had a rootsy feeling (talking of his Atlantic stuff now), but even on his first two Capitols he did things that may be closer to NYC third stream experiments than to West Coast, or so it seems to me. Anyway, I simply don't care if Giuffre is North, South, East or West, or a traitor or traditor or anything - he is a great musician (sadly unable to play for years by now due to health issues, as far as I know).

Funniest national anthem ever must be the Italian, especially when performed by a brass band running around on a square, while playing it... (so witnessed by yours truly in the beautiful city of Como) in other countries, these soldiers would have been arrested for making fun of the national anthem, but in Italy they were ordered to behave like that...

It came out as part of this twofer: Julian Priester & Walter Benton - Out Of This World (Jazzland - Milestone MCD-47087-2)

Interesting idea for a thread! I was most certainly influenced by my parents' musical tastes in mostly a positive way - no need to rebel against their tastes, although my embrace of jazz quickly included areas they were unwilling to cope with - my father hates organ, though he has an original LP of Jimmy Smith's "The Cat", he also thought "Free for All" - the Blakey one - was "free jazz"... but at least he did own it, and give me a first chance to hear what I still consider the most exciting Blakey album. The record collection of my parents was pretty diverse - lots of classical (mostly from my mother), lots of pop/rock/folk stuff (never any hard rock, just lots of Beatles and Dylan etc - Dylan, thanks to my dad, still is one of my loves today, I started buying his CDs at age of 13 or so, which was just about when the CD came into stores, in the early 80s). They also had some indian classical and other "ethno" or "world" stuff, but that's an area I am only slowly getting started in. Oh, and my mother loved "Amandla" from Miles... so I got into MD backwards, more or less. "We Want Miles" was one of the first CDs I had, probably even before "Kind of Blue" - I had gotten that from the library at school, but back then I muchly preferred the other Miles one they had, "Workin'". At the school library I also got into "Ascension" for the first time, and playing that aloud at home was something that made my parents... well, not exactly scream, but politely ask me to turn it down a bit and close my door... Anyway, I guess I took a lot of hints from them (another one would be one of those early, maybe the first?, Sly & the Family Stone LPs my father had), but went places from there, getting into music much deeper than they ever did. The one area where they, mainly my father, are into deeper than I am is indian classical - they attend concerts whenever they can (I have seen Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain and others with them, on the few occasions I went along), and my father buys 10 or 15 new CDs a year on his frequent trips (business/NGO) to India. (edited for some typos - I guess there are more...)

Very sad news Thank you for sharing your memories, Valerie!

Reform Judaism? Royal Jordanian Airlines? Or R.J. Gator's Florida Sea Grill & Bar (founded 1986, in case)? Or the electric plug? Who/whatever you're talking about, let me add best wishes, too!

Live broadcast of Experience have been very sloppy, in my opinion... that's alas the only WSQ I've heard so far, but I'll take some leads from here for the day I feel like getting more.

Not familiar with the WSQ, but a tiny bit with Hemphill, and this one's a classic: Same goes for "Dogon A.D." (Tim Berne had it for download on his site some time ago), and "Flat Out Jump Suite" (Black Saint) is another very good one. Lake I'm not sure - found him rather disappointing with Trio 3 (Workman was great, though!).

Very sad news. Her Mosaic was one of the biggest surprises - not that I expected it to be less than good, but it turned out to be great, and full of terrific performances, an instant love-affair! Thank you for all the music, Ms. O'Day.

That Desmond box Claude linked above has the Desmond/Hall albums (incl. the one with strings) plus the Desmond/Mulligan, yes? I have the US version (5CD) of the Desmond RCA (omitting the album with Mulligan) and of the Rollins (6CD). I assume the Bluebird single discs would sound better? I did get the Bluebird for the Desmond/Mulligan, since it has quite a bit of additional music that is not part of the French RCA Gold reissue. Usually these Bluebirds are still a bitch to find over here, alas - there'd be quite a few I would like to get. For instance, it seems the US Bluebird of Tijuana Moods is much better, and in fact complete, whereas the RCA Gold one is kind of a hack job, but only that one's distributed here...

I think our western european post-enlightenment and even moreso post shoah and WWII negative or precautious opinion on national symbols and patriot feelings may be something not easily understood in other parts of the world, probably not even in the US, for large parts of it... just thinking aloud, correct me if I'm wrong, please. The Swiss national anthem is pretty peculiar, btw. We had an old one that used I think the same melody as the (old? current?) UK one (or is that the english? Do they have four or one?), but it was replaced by some pretty weird old song.

Ditto. ... make that three ... same here!

brothers, uhm sisters in song:

Same here. Most anthems soun dour and pompous. Le Marseillase sounds very uplifting. Yep. Check out the version on this: I prefer Cirribiribin... no national anthems for me, pulleaze! This is the weirdest thread ever since this board got started, methinks... for the cuteness factor, maybe that little tune them hippies did sing? another good one: cute, huh? yuck! oh, and I have my own national anthem, of course, the "King Ubu Stomp"

I can understand that, being myself quite fond of good looking packaging, and considering that mp3 quality varry depending on the source store. What I find interesting in Jan Ström's move is this notion of download-only titles, which allow him to release music that would not have reached the public for lack of potential CD sales. If only for this, i guess it's something to praise. And except for the medium, the music is mastered like regular releases, so if music stores do their stuff correctly, the result for the listener is quite fine. Yeah, ok, but why can't he just put the files up on his site, you send 5 or 7 $ via paypal and get access to downloadable 320 kbps MP3s? Why always through some stores, none of which seem to really have good offerings for non US-citizens, and with none of which I want to register, as I'd only want to get that Ayler thing?