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Drop me a PM with you email address and I can send you a PDF with the discography - the Hawkins 4CD box is great, congrats on finding it!

There is a Lonehill CD of the Jim Hall Trios that includes the tracks with him playing from the Chico Trio - even they don't seem to believe in the Hamilton Trio with Howard Robert. Whenever I find the time to CDR this, I will think of you .... Thanks Mike! And it's not even really stealin'...

Oh, I sure do... but somehow I always waited (and still am waiting) for a new reissue of BBQC. I will not lay hands on the Nelson project - the two (or is it just one?) cuts in the glossy 3CD Monk boxlette (can't call that a box, as Columbia could have done a nice complete Monk studio box... not saying that they should have, but they could) are enough for me. Sorry to bring this thread off course. To bring it back on topic, I am quite a fan of the Monk in Tokyo. I think I like the Jazz Workshop best of the three 2CD live sets, but it's the first I got, so figure... oh, it's four 2CD live sets with the Newport one (and still excluding the one I wait for a new reissue - don't ask me why I wait, btw... just because...)

Big Band & Quartet is live. My bad, sorry... I meant to say: Columbia Monk... means I don't have any of the non-Columbia sixties releases, legit or not (Storyville, Monk family stuff, etc), except for one great Paris Tentet concert.

Wow, now that's great news! Did you contact Schmidlin directly?

Happy birthday, Chico! I love the Mosaic a lot! First time I heard him was on "Passin' Through", one of the few jazz albums my mother owns... nice one! And yes, please reissue that Pacific Jazz trio album! I could have bought a beaten old LP (maybe original presseing? it certainly cost far too much for how beaten it was), but never had a chance to hear all of it. But I guess now that BN restricts itself to RVGs and Conns (Dodo G. died, btw, now that would be a rare Conn they could bring up as RVG again, instead of doing the same ones again and again), and as it seems the Pac Conns sold badly, I guess chances are very, very small that we will see the Chico Trio soon. Jim Hall's would be another one...

Happy new year, Barak! All the best to you and your family - here's hope for better times!

Dash is on some of the Buck Clayton CBS jams. I have the vinyl Mosaic of that one, I think Lonehill or another of those labels has done a master takes CD release. Great music!

That's strange about the Tokyo - there have already been two CD releases on Columbia in the last few years, first one with a darkish cover (I have that one) and then it came out again (with a white cover, I think), probably together with all the other Monk Legacy discs. All of those are recommended, with special mention of "Monk's Dream" (Bye-Ya is sooo infectuous!). I wonder though when they'll do a nice new reissue of the Big Band & Quartet material - the only official studio Monk (next to the Oliver Nelson album) that I haven't ever gotten around buying yet.

Ouch, #3 is from one of my favourite Barney discs! Beautiful disc, mind me - but it's been a long time since I played it. Still hurts. Glad I was able to pick out #1 - that disc is recommended to anyone who enjoys the Steven Bernstein Tzadik releases! Bill De Arango is quite a surprise! I have only got a few ooold recordings where he is a sideman. The Johnny "Hammond" Smith I bought in the recent zweitausendeins sales... played it once and didn't think it was that great.... Anyway, this was a terrific compilation and I'm looking forward to hearing it again being in the know next time!

No. Way. I'd rather golf, to be perfectly honest. P.S.: The washboard is OK, though. I forgot the sarcasm-smiley, obviously... sorry for that! But golf? Elephant-polo, rather, I'd say...

Hey, I've got two Roland TD-10s , chained together. Nice to see another Roland man on here. Maybe we should jam one day? Nose flute, guitars, two drummers and my comb. Man, we'll blow them away. You can invite Günter Grass and his washboard, too!

ouch ouch ouch!!!! 158$ gone!!! ouch!!!

Mike Svoboda is crazy indeed! Terrific trombone player, mainly! Wasn't aware he also plays Alphorn! There are a couple of others who play it, the name coming to mind right now is that Kennel chap, a trumpet player from Swizterland, he's got some discs out, on TCB, for instance, but I'm not sure he's playing Alphorn there. Also Arkadij Shilkloper plays Alphorn, in the group Pago Libre (discs on TCB and Leo Records). He is truly da shit!

Is that a hornpipe in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? Or both?

very nice one, gave it a first spin yesterday:

Yes, Ron/Rahn Burton... there's a thread dedicated to him somewhere here, too. It's a bit short (40-50 min - short only by CD criteria) and the musicians sound a bit restrained for it being a club date (recorded in one of the rather few legendary clubs/cellars of Zurich - before my time, alas, I would have been a little kid back then...)

I'd love to see this. Cartier-Bresson is one of my favorite photographers. It really is great! You get to see a lot of photos, he comments them himself, thinks aloud about the "decisive moment" and all that crap, plus you get interviews with Isabelle Huppert, Elliot Erwitt, Arthur Miller and others, and best of all, I just found out googling there is a DVD of it, even an english version, available from Amazon: Amazon via Big-O link

That's what my office demands, absurdly high expecations to be fulfilled and lived up to. Otherwise beware or them head will roll!

I had Jeremy and the Satyrs...seems like about 40 years ago. Who was in that band, BTW? That album is gone - rendered unplayable about 30 years ago. ... ahem, satyrated? probably from oozing flutes?

Btw, is your avatar from that great Kurosawa film? Had the pleasure of seing it a few months back.

This one here's ok, but not a great one, I think: Details: George Adams/Hannibal Peterson MORE SIGHTINGS Enja 4084 (CD - 1994) Recorded September 9, 1984, live at the Club Bazillus, Zurich George Adams (ts, voc 6), Hannibal Peterson (tp), John Scofield (g), Ron Burton (p), Walter Schmocker (b), Allen Nelson (d) 1. More Sightings (George Adams) (5:00) 2. Don't Take Your Love From Me (Henry Nemo) (6:47) 3. Soul Brothers (Hannibal Peterson) (7:33) 4. Do We Know Where We Are Going? (John Scofield) (5:07) 5. Melanie (Hannibal Peterson) (8:57) 6. I Could Really Go For You (George Adams) ( 6:48)

And in all these D.W. Griffith films, too! Impressive!

Oh, and there's a fairly recent documentary about Henri Cartier-Bresson, the german title is "Biographie eines Blicks" (roughly biography of an eye - not the eye as bodypart, but the eye as in "view", "perspective"). Highly recommended, if you ever get a chance to see it! I saw other documentaries about photographers that I enjoyed, Bischof, Burri, other less known swiss photographers that I can't recall... I always enjoy these, if they include historical footage and are done in a traditional and old-fashioned way... there's no way you can hurry up a documentary about a photographer and make it a successful film.

Most of my favourites have been mentioned, so let me just add another hearty recommendation for some: - Fog of War - The War Game - War Photographer (tough viewing, but very, very good) Then, since I only saw it mentioned once, special recommendation for Dr. Death. Also I saw a very good documentary about Nixon recently, but I can't recall how it was called. It was shown in a theatre here, last week. Then, another one I enjoyed, Weather Underground, about the Weather Men - totally fascinating documentary about post-WWII US society and history. Many utterly disgusting facts in there, and some of those ex-Weathermen and ladies are very fascinating and very thoughtful individuals today. Maybe I wrote about this one in the film corner, maybe I just wrote about it in personal emails, can't recall. Anyway, most highly recommended to all you who were disgusted with the Reaganization of the USA (I hope there's plenty!).