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Wow that was John Taylor and Joey Baron!? Great! I have a soft spot for the accordion, and I have heard some live broadcasts of the Ballamy (not Bellamy!) & Carstensen duo... Farmer's Market is ok (I heard portions of their Berlin Jazzdays concert on the radio), but not really that great. Too patch-y and ecclectic, I think.

Same here... from a bit of a distance, I think the show I saw wasn't all that bad (had the wrong colleagues with me, who just didn't dig it at all, and that may have put me down a bit). But I, too, found Wasilewski *very* impressive. While I don't have "Lontano", don't expect it to be as "raw" and "lively" as the live gig. It won't be close to... same applies to "The Trio" disc on ECM (by the trio, without Stanko) - it's all pretty much ECM stuff, if you like that you'll like the discs, but it's *very* much different from the live experience, and it definitely can't beat the live experience, in my opinion.

Good Life Words by Jack Reardon and Music by Sascha Distel Oh, the good life, full of fun seems to be the ideal Mm, the good life lets you hide all the sadness you feel You won't really fall in love for you can't take the chance So please be honest with yourself, don't try to fake romance It's the good life to be free and explore the unknown Like the heartaches when you learn you must face them alone Please remember I still want you, and in case you wonder why Well, just wake up, kiss the good life goodbye Not sure this is the whole text, but it's the best I could find. Y'all are familiar with this tunes, since it's included on this perennial favourite:

Slime-y guy, huh? I like this one here a lot: Distel, René Thomas & Jimmy Gourley with their hero, Jimmy Raney:

All the best, and many happy returns!

Happy birthday!

Would that be Sacha Distel? bingo! find the prize below

he was a yurpeen... bred "sous le ciel de..." and turned his back onto the stuff not discussed in the misc.music forum to develop a successful career as...

nope!

oh, I thought you were talking of the guy about whom President Chirac said "with his melodies full of happiness and optimism, [...] lit up the lives of millions of French people." a little sunday morning quiz? (brownie is not allowed in here!)

might be a good start for someone inclined to get into earlier music... Perotin, sure! Machaut also (or did I mention him already?) - I am merely scratching the surface of this kind of music (or rather: these kinds...), but each time I play some it again, I am very fascinated and feel like I should get into it more thoroughly, so please prof. clem, give some good recommendations!

Oh, and I have a live recording of the Zimmermann thing somewhere, need to dig it up again, it seems...

Oh sure, clem! Dufay, Ockeghem, Orlando di Lasso... also Palestrina, plenty of fascinating music around there! And probably one of the rather few instances where "ECM sound" is a plus, if it's the Hilliards doing some of this stuff... their Machaut disc is fine, too! I think I should some day also read some about these chaps and their times... have read some about the renaissance in general, and in one of Peter Burke's books, Dufay plays a minor role. Pretty interesting, these earliest "geniuses" and what (and how) they achieved (what they did) between patrons and their own wants... (that last point is equally valid for all the great painters, of course).

'The Psychedelic Sounds of Marion Brown'... would have been a great title for the music on that album (w/the A. Shorter tune, mind me!), but with the b/w minimalist cover, the minimalist title it got is perfect! Interesting about "Why Not" - so the source of the confusion is Stollman himself, not just those who did the later reissues, it seems! Chaos from day one...

Oh, but the cover for "Why Not" beats them all! That one I really love! Would be great to have the LP and put it on a wall! Thanks for all the information, brownie! I guess it must have been awesome in and around Paris in 1968/70 when all those free jazz giants where there!

The Ellingtons are great! I never found the Shank, let me know how it is, whenever you come around playing it! all good one, the Phineas very much, and also the Moody - caught me by surprise, didn't expect it to be that great! The Vice-Pres/Basie one is the one where Jack Washington appears... nice! I started a thread in the artists section about this some time ago... I like it a lot! an oddity, but a good one, with George Russel on drums (his original instrument, I think) on one session. Terrific, play that soon, it will quickly be among your favourite vocal discs! As crisp a sound and as agile arrangements as on those great Tormé Bethlehems Marty Paich did! Another oddity, but a great one! Albany is quite interesting somewhere between Tatum and bop... I'm not quite sure about this one... a bit awkward, maybe... didn't connect with me quite yet. the first was rather a letdown, for me... sorry to say, but the second I enjoyed better, even though it's more of a hybrid between funk and jazz, but there's some very good playing on it, and it does groove! Enjoy the ride!

Yes! Bernard Stollman never returned the slides to me but obviously they went to other people I printed them some time ago and always keep them with the CDs, very nice ones!

wasn't there yet another one? edit: found it:

George Russell's New York: there was a third, from an LP reissue, with Russell on the cover, google search brings a hit, but it's not there any longer, so I can't post it.

Inspired by this thread I just played this one: I see that many (or all? didn't check so closely) of these are listed on the zweitausendeins.de website (but at 10 euro they're not exactly a steal...) - anyone familiar with this series? Any recommendations? Here's the label's website.

How about "Mike, the Corny Conguero"? I don't know about Jarrett or Ibrahim, but these kinds of grooves to me seem to come more or less straight out of the ZA jive (which goes back to the late 50s, I think). Doesn't matter, in the end, as this was the one band of Jarrett's that really was great! (I do like *some* European Quartet now and then, also some of the trio and solo things, but the American Quartet is by far my favourite Jarrett group.)

That's fine, really! I learn from this thread that I definitely should look further! Might be rather tough to locate good stuff, as "world music" sections in local stores are usually thin and filled with "rough guide to..." discs and some World Circuit (I don't say all of those are bad, mind me) releases. Thanks everybody for the various suggestions!

I started this thread shortly before I was through a boring day at work, so my replies before were a bit short. Needless to say, I was fully unaware (and plead not guilty, therefore) that these discs were marketed in the US as a lifestyle product. I've never seen any of them outside CD or book stores (which is ok, since they have all the audio books, too). We have two or three Starbucks here in Zurich, but needless to say I can get good coffee (or actually I'd prefer what the italians just call cafe, short and black and strong) in many places, so there's really no need for Starbuck (unless you want cinnamon flavoured - note the "u"... - coffee or other oddities, which I don't). I've been a bit deeper into indian classical, seen Chaurasia and Zakir (together once, and apart also) and others live, got some discs by Bismillah Khan also, not an expert, but I did a little bit of reading, and I wouldn't need any compilations for that, but much of the other parts of the world are not that familiar to me, musically (another exception may be ZA, but then again only old stuff, Kippie, Epistles, Dollar, Mannenberg... I'm not really interested in the new hip hop coming from there, can't even rememeber how they call it...)

Thanks for weighing in, clem, and thanks for taking care of the critical thinking I put away for a few minutes... I have some Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Djabaté live recordings and enjoy them a lot. Same for Orchestra Baobab... One day I'll really have to dig deeper!

Thanks! You know, I am usually *very* sceptical about any sort of compilation, unless it's by some treasured artist and includes some unreleased or rare stuff I don't have yet... Same with Putumayo, I read at least four or five very positive label portraits or disc reviews and never bought anything, but of late they're on sale here for around 13-15 € in at least two stores, so I just impulsively bought the Mali some time ago, and again yesterday the "Cape Verde"...