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Hm, I haven't burned it yet, I hope it works out fine. VOB is standard DVD-file, no?

Thanks for your comments about the DVD! Looking forward to watching it, hopefully over the weekend!

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You think that Jesus was a flightless bird? Interesting theory, but it's already been proven that he was black & Canadian. Maybe you meant Jeeves, of "Ask Jeeves" fame. Him I could see as a dodo. Time has passed, the world has a new executive board, and ubu a new avatar... old one below, sir.

Besides the illness and divorce and other personal threads, this must be the most painful one to read on this board! I don't have lots of vinyl and don't often spin any, so (knock on wood!) I've had no accidents so far... anyway, the most valuable things I have would likely be the Art Pepper, Tina & Buck Clayton Mosaics, besides that a few stray other things, like Shelly Manne's "2,3,4" (not in great shape), a beat-up mono of "A Love Supreme", two Art Farmer Atlantics, the first Cora release by Randy Weston... I really hope none of them will ever miss a chunk or include a hole through it!

That Mercury box is a marvel - there are threads dedicated to it, but here's the tracklist again: Disk 1 Bedroom Blues - Sippie Wallace Buzz Me - Sippie Wallace Doin' The Boogie Woogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Oh, Lady, Be Good! - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Suitcase Blues - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Boogie Woogie At The Civic Opera - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Boogie Woogie At The Civic Opera - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Swanee River Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Why I'm Leaving You - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings I Don't Want To See You - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Red Sails In The Sunset - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Kilroy Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Deep In The Heart Of Texas Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Sweet Patooty Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings 12th Street Rag - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings 12th Street Rag - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings St. Louis Blues - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Shufflin' The Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Shufflin' The Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings S. P. Blues - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Hiroshima - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Roses Of Picardy - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings The Sheik Of Araby - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings You Are My Sunshine - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings In A Little Spanish Town ('Twas A Night Like This) - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Margie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Disk 2 Tuxedo Boogie - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings Mr. Bell Boogie - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings Bear Den Boogie - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings Rhythm Boogie - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings Ammons Stomp - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings Baltimore Breakdown - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings When You And I Were Young, Maggie - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings The Clipper - Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Blue And Sentimental - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra I Just Refuse To Sing The Blues - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra They Raided The Joint - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Mad About You - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra / Jumpin' On Sugar Hill - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra / Flippity Flop Flop - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Today I Sing The Blues - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Time Out For Tears - Helen Humes With Unknown Orchestra Married Man Blues - Helen Humes With Unknown Orchestra Somebody Loves Me - Helen Humes With Unknown Orchestra Don't Fall In Love With Me - Helen Humes With Unknown Orchestra I've Got The Strangest Feeling - Helen Humes And The Contrastors Free - Helen Humes And The Contrastors Disk 3 Hootie Boogie - Jay McShann And The Boogie Woogie Trio Garfield Avenue Blues - Jay McShann And The Boogie Woogie Trio Crown Prince Boogie - Jay McShann And The Boogie Woogie Trio Shipyard Woman Blues - Jay McShann And The Sextet Ernestine - Jay McShann And The Sextet Bucktown Boogie - Jay McShann And The Sextet Roll On, Katy - Jay McShann And The Sextet Voodoo Woman Blues - Jay McShann And The Sextet I Want A Little Girl - Jay McShann And The Sextet Jimtown Boogie - Jay McShann And The Sextet Have You Ever Loved A Woman - Jay McShann And The Sextet Gone With The Blues - Jay McShann And The Sextet Barfly Blues - Jay McShann & His Orchestra Please Stop Playing Those Blues, Boy - Jay McShann & His Orchestra All My Geets Are Gone - Jay McShann & His Orchestra Strange Woman Blues - Jay McShann & His Orchestra W. B. Blues - Walter Brown with Jay McShann Trio Sloppy Drunk - Walter Brown with Jay McShann Trio Lovin' A Beggar - Walter Brown with Jay McShann Trio Just Thinkin' - Walter Brown with Jay McShann Trio You Didn't Tell Me - Jay McShann & His Orchestra Got You Beggin' - Jay McShann & His Orchestra Duke And The Brute - Jay McShann & His Orchestra Reach - Jay McShann & His Orchestra Disk 4 Cherry Red Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Somebody's Gotta Go - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Too Many Women Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Just A Dream - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Mr. Cleanhead Steps Out - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra It's A Groovy Affair - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra I've Been So Good - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Juice Head Baby - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Cleanhead Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra When A Woman Loves Her Juice - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Kidney Stew Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra King For A Day Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Old Maid Boogie - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Lazy Gal - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Bonus Pay - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Luxury Tax Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Railroad Porter's Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Gonna Send You Back Where I Got You From - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra When I Get Drunk - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Oil Man Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Ever-Ready Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Wrong Girl Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Wandering Mind Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Have You Ever Missed Your Baby? - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Disk 5 Some Women Do - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Alimony Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson High Class Baby - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson I Took The Front Door In - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Friday Fish Fry - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Shavetail - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Her Mind Is Gone - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Bald Head - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Hey Now, Baby - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Oh, Well - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Byrd's Blues - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Hadacol Bounce - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Longhair Stomp - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Been Foolin' Around - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers Between The Night And Day - Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers If It's Good - Julia Lee With Tommy Douglas's Orchestra Show Me Missouri Blues - Julia Lee With Tommy Douglas's Orchestra Lotus Blossom - Julia Lee With Tommy Douglas's Orchestra Dream Lucky Blues - Julia Lee With Tommy Douglas's Orchestra Take It Easy, Greasy - Myra Taylor With Jimmy Keith's Orchestra Tell Your Best Friend Nothin' - Myra Taylor With Jimmy Keith's Orchestra The Spider And The Fly - Myra Taylor With Jimmy Keith's Orchestra Still Blue Water - Myra Taylor With Jimmy Keith's Orchestra Disk 6 Boy Meets Horn - Rex Stewart And His Sextet Jug Blues - Rex Stewart And His Sextet B. O. Blues - Rex Stewart And His Sextet That's Rhythm - Rex Stewart And His Sextet Dateless Brown - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra You Got Me Cryin' Again - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Desperate Desmond - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra It Couldn't Be True - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Quiet Riot - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Baby, Baby All The Time - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Route 66 - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra The Iggity Song - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra It's About Time - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Ready To Go Steady - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Rich-Ual Dance - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra Oop-Bop-Sha-Bam - Buddy Rich And His Orchestra You Talk A Little Trash - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Typhoon - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra I Love You, Yes I Do - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Smooth Sailing - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra 'Gator Tail, Part 1 - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra 'Gator Tail, Part 2 - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Let 'Em Roll - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Slidin' And Glidin' - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Mercenary Papa - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra You Got To Pay Those Dues - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Disk 7 (alternates & rarities) Oh, Lady, Be Good! - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Oh, Lady, Be Good! - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Oh, Lady, Be Good! - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Kilroy Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Kilroy Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Kilroy Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings St. Louis Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings St. Louis Boogie - Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra I Just Refuse To Sing The Blues - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra They Raided The Joint - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Mad About You - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Flippity Flop Flop - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Today I Sing The Blues - Helen Humes With Buck Clayton's Orchestra Bucktown Boogie - Jay McShann And His Sextet Voodoo Woman Blues - Jay McShann And His Sextet Br'er Rabbit - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Boogie Woogie Holliday - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Too Many Women Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra I Like To Be Home Blues - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Three O'Clock In The Morning - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Gonna Send You Back Where I Got You From - Eddie 'Mr. Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra Typhoon - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Mercenary Papa - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Doin' The Gator Tail - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra Just An Idea - Mary Lou Williams Just You, Just Me - Mary Lou Williams ***************************************************************** No offense intended to Profossor Longhair, with whom I am not familiar at all. Maybe the comparisons are ambitious one - I really don't know enough about this kind of music to make valid comments and comparisons, my point was just that this is the place where I feel Dodo Greene's coming from. I am not sure the "soul jazz" label is a very useful one... Mingus has at least as much soul as what the etiquette is more often attached to... but I think I know what you mean, MG! Sorry if my lack of knowledge leads to wrong conclusions... I'm merely a youngster interested in the history and music of jazz and have not delved too deeply into lots of pre-bop and the entertainment/jump/blues/whatever genre(s). The point about not buying stuff because it's on a particular label is a good one. On the other hand, with this method you may end up with some great stuff that you wouldn't have encountered otherwise... with my own sponge-like way of proceeding, this certainly is a great way of finding out about new stuff... the Blues, Boogie & Bop set was a similar one - I got it because it looked great, it was a minor obsession to locate one that I could afford, and then there are the Cleanhead and McShann cuts I wanted, plus the Rich and also the Ammons... most of the rest I was unfamiliar with (actually I was unfamiliar with Cleanhead and Ammons, too), so this was a great way of finding out about something new to me.

...which is being traded, too... Seriously: nothing to hide, it's just that some people do invest time to record radio broadcast, burn that stuff onto CDR and exchange it with others, that's all. And no disrespect for Hank here at all - in fact I agree very much that these bootleg releases (the Monk in Philly, I mean, not the traded stuff) suck if done so carelessly.

I played parts of the Dodo last night... not unlistenable at all, but to me it sounds like in a very different tradition/line than the "mainstream" jazz singer - reminded me of some of the vocal stuff in the "Blues, Boogie & Bop" Mercury 40s set, you know, some of those tracks with anonymous bands, Helen Humes is the only bigger name in there, the others are Myra Taylor, Julia Lee and Roy Byrd. That's a more commercial kind of line, I guess, jump and blues, not "proper" jazz... if viewed as that, I have no problem with Dodo at all... and the music is not exactly the most subtle, either... just not what you'd expect to hear on Blue Note. Anyway, they did hardly any vocal sessions, and with "Portrait of Sheila" being such a great and unique album anyway, this won't stand up that comparison, but there's no need to compare it, I think.

used again for the latest Freshsound reissue, too:

chewy, the excitement about this release may be rather low as the date with Lacy and also the 1948 session with Sulieman are circulating among collectors... RLR is one of those Lonehill Definitive etc. bootleg labels making money from selling stuff that no one really owns (alright, there are copyright issues, sure, but it's not more legitimate to sell this stuff than to just give it away in trades or for free, if you ask me... these chaps seem to so to speak rip off traders and release this stuff, same for the Trane Showboat thing and some other discs I've seen in stores).

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.

Simmons looks fine... but how much is NOK 83,-? (if they make it available for download then why only in Norway? ) (sound samples sound fine however) NOK 83 = $12.87 or £6.74, so they're not that cheap. No way I'll learn how to handle this stuff to pay that much for some lousy MP3s! No sir! for 13$ I want a high-quality product and a cover, too!

But it is *very* depressing, even more so as the Swell/Ullmann Quartet also features drum great Barry Altschul and their music, while likely not "new" or ground-breaking, is very intelligent and involving... trodding a path between free-ish improvisation and good compositions (by both the leaders, but mostly by Gebhard Ullmann, I think). Most depressing than is that you could attend *any* mainstream concert, regardless how boring the selection of standards that they'll play, you'd see three or four times as many people there...

latest additions: (again the "piano keys-version", not the digipack - last one from the Atlantic sales, nothing left there for me now...)

found this weird one... seems to be part (the Lörrach part, to be exact) of what's now on hatOLOGY and called "Lörrach/Paris 1966":

I want the dodo because of the dodo... see my avatar

Sorry to be late to the party, sounds like you had a good one... more best wishes!

late to the party, sorry... happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Tonight: Trio 3 here in Zurich (Oliver Lake-sax; Reggie Workman-bass; Andrew Cyrille-drums). Same venue where the Swell/Ullmann Quartet played ten days ago with 13 people in the audience... I certainly hope the names of Lake, Workman and Cyrille will draw some more attention!

I have editions 4,5 and 7 and won't need another one... The Lonehill stuff is likely turning into a problem for more knowledgeable people, too, as there are so many labels popping up that release the same stuff all over again in different package and pairing and each time screaming at you "first time on CD" and some incredibly great new hyper remastering shitte having been applied, too (when they have just stolen the oldest CD version around and then applied some bad software)... this does start to suck. It also gets to be more and more a problem in CD stores, as the chaps there end up with tons of crappy material and seem to be lost on knowing which would be a legitimate version... They had the Dizzy/Bird Town Hall on Uptown half a year late, but for something like 25€ or more, and now there's only the Disconforme edition of it around... of course they feature "loving" new liner notes by "highly competent" jazz critics... all going down the toilet, it seems to me.

Right now Gil Mellé's "Tome VI" efore the two Randy Weston solo LPs I started a thread about some time Bback - both pretty good!

no time to play any of it yet - have been down with migrane most of last week and then went to two concerts (Rabih Abou-Khalil Group and Bobo Stenson solo, part of this year's jazznojazz festival in Zurich), had friends over, and had to record the nightly radio broadcasts from jazznojazz, too... looking forward to hearing your discs a lot, though!

Chiming in again to say thanks, the Dodo Greene arrived on saturday - haven't had time to play it yet, alas. Thanks, Shawn! (edited for spelling)

Indeed a good one, with Teddy and Victor Feldman!