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ain't that contradictio in adiecto?

i prefer to call them Fantasy/OJC 2,99 € discs well you know, I never fell for that trick... but there are some 2 € ones, too (you'd call them 1,99 € ones, I assume ) (edited for typo)

Yep. Not now... I ordered another package of Fantasy/OJC 3 € discs a couple of days ago (another 100 € gone).

All the best, Agustín! Hope you're settled in your new appartment by now!

Jewels & Binoculars is a great group! Saw them live last fall and liked it a lot. But I don't think they have a recording of "Sad-Eyed Lady" (a lovely song, indeed!)

c'mon, stop that!!! I still haven't ever seen a decently priced copy of this and if you continue pushing, I'll have to consider paying the 60 or 70 € this seems to go for...

That's too bad. I really love the Dinah stuff and actually have it in a couple of different forms. She had a fanatastic voice. As far as Desmond/Hall, that was my first Mosaic and words cannot describe the beauty of this music. Hmmm, I can sort of understand. But I *love* the albums with Merrill & Vaughan and also enjoy the strings album quite some. The jams I think I've played maybe twice so far, only (I've had the box for some 7 or 8 years, I think). But still this is a great box set. I wonder: is sound on the Verve Master Edition reissue better, or even much better, so that maybe some favourites should be bought in that form as well? (I used to have some of the old Polgygram CDs before getting the box, so I don't know any of the VMEs.)

Another non-expert whose posts have so far been dutifully neglected/ignorated in this thread, luckily, dares to speak up... How about starting games with penalties? Then, in case the game ends with a draw, the team who did better in the penalties wins - this would help doing something against the defensive way of playing, at least on the side of one team...

Mike, thanks again for your effort! I've said it already: the track from "Morava" is a favourite. And that Danny Thompson tracks makes me willing to look for more, too!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

A BIDR FLU BUG? HA HA...

I almost know that tenor solo on the opening cut of "Congregation" by heart - what a terriffic solo! I have this as Conn LP, never managed to find the CD, so I will pick this one up. But why aren't they first reissuing the first Griffin album? That one has been gone for much longer time...

What a lame game that was, yesterday... just about as boring as France-South Korea or Switzerland-Ukraine... maybe they should all go back to their roots and study with him again?

You mean you memorized all this dialogue!!??? Wow, I'm impressed. BTW Do you know how much, if any, of it was in the novel? Or is it all Faulkner/Brackett/Hawks/Bogart/ Bacall? No no, nothing memorized... I didn't learn that at school, alas, being much too young - never even had to know any poem by heart... But I'm familiar enough with the film to be quite sure that the parts I used (from the web...) for my signature are just like they happen in the film. Being no reader of crime stories, and not familiar enough with american literature anyway, I don't know how much of the film's from the book and how much from Faulkner/Hawks, sorry.

Happy birthday!

Now that I would definitely buy!

Just spilled all my coffee over the keyboard Sure, it's from "The Big Sleep", and for me there's just one version (I love Charlotte Rampling, of course, but still...): the one with Bogart & Bacall. I think the dialogue is word-by-word in the film, yet it's been a while that I saw it (but I saw it three or four times in the cinema already...) - one of my favourite films... "Key Largo" and "To Have and Have Not" are great, too, btw! (Just in case anyone feels like having more Bacall/Bogart.)

If it's Alarm you are referring to, this is from the Atavistic site: "The story is simple. We were touring with this band, and the reason I could put the band together in the first place was a radio gig in Hamburg. Michael Naura, chief of the jazz dept there, was setting up a series of on-air concerts in a 200-seat studio, so we performed the first piece, which I called "Alarm." I used the graphic instructions for a reaction to a nuclear emergency, a series of waves and straight tones, repeated in a certain way. We had planned two more pieces, one by Willem Breuker and one by Frank Wright. My piece took about 40 minutes, the first half of the concert. At the end of the performance, Naura came to me – while we were still on the air – and whispered that the house got a bomb threat and had to be evacuated. So I had to bring the piece quickly to and end and the audience was asked to leave the hall. We also had to pack and leave. Police and special forces showed up with all kinds of equipment, gear, dogs – we know all that better now than then. That was the end of the concert and that’s the 40 minutes we have on tape. -Peter Brötzmann, Chicago, October 2005 Hm, here's the info I have on that NDR workshop (don't have the disc, but I guess that's the date): NDR Jazz Workshop No. 164 - Peter Brötzmann Band November 12, 1981 Studio 10, Funkhaus, NDR, Hamburg, Germany Toshinori Kondo (tp) Johannes Bauer (tb) Alan Tomlinson (tb) Frank Wright (sax) Peter Brötzmann (sax) Willem Breuker (sax) Alexander von Schlippenbach (p) Harry Miller (b) Louis Moholo (dr) 1. Alarm (Brötzmann) (37:05) 2. Ahab (Schlippenbach) (7:10) 3. Sur l’Autoroute (Breuker) (7 :10) 4. Grandpa and the kid (Miller) (9:00) 5. Minor double blues (Schlippenbach) (9:55) 6. Another flat djungle (Breuker) (9:10) 7. Jerry Sacem (1.version) (Wright) (10:15) 8. Jerry Sacem (2.version) (Wright) (3:10) Total Time: 96:05 Producer: Michael Naura I don't have this, so I can't really say if it's around, but I strongy guess it is, since this comes from an informed source...

Happy Birthday, Barak!

I like Petrucciani alright, but as has been said, the 7CD set is far from his best (and I don't even know those albums that many might consider the best). I enjoy his Owl trio album quite a bit (probably/hopefully on Sunnyside CD in the USA?), and his Owl duo album with Lee Konitz is good as well. And both of the Elektra albums (also reissued by Blue Note) are as good as the few best one from the 7CD box (essentially, in my opinion, the acoustic ones... mainly the one with Lovano & Scofield and "Promenade with Duke"). Where should I continue? And about Mosaic doing a Petrucciani box: I assume the 7CD box has been a bad seller, it's around cheap here and there and never was rare, I think. Plus, it's a rag-bag, with a couple of rather bland electric albums in there that I could live wihtout perfectly well. So yes, it's more a question of Dreyfus releasing more, I assume... and their 3CD box is a box, isn't it? Maybe they'll do another one? I think Richard Galliano or someone has got two out, no? Oh, the only Dreyfus album I have the so-so meeting with Steve Grossman, btw. Where to go from there, which ones are the best?

Just about to finish download of CD2, works fine! Please don't forget to send me the link for CD1, as well!

Great news, David!!!

David, I'm so sorry to hear that! No tips from me, as I have so far never had to experience this, but it would be terrible if one of the two cats vanished! (They're both not ours, actually, but one eating at our place etc - both are outside much more than inside, however, so they're used to that, but then we still see them daily.)

well yes... probably only a question of time... there was a review in a recent edition of The Wire of two Wright discs that sounded very favourable (not sure if it's these two), and the only one I have so far (that limited and now OOP one "eight by nine" or similar, on that CDR label) I enjoy more and more, with each listen (three or four so far, and I found it only so-so on first listen, but it got quite a bit more interesting in the meantime).