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Any particular discs you dislike? I think I might tend to agree with you, but I am not sure... I mean, to be honest, guys like Dave Liebman and Marc Copland are not the ones that grab my attention, and they did quite a number of discs for Uehlinger - but then when we interviewed him, one of the discs he gave us was Copland's "Time" solo recording, which contrary to my expectations, I like quite a bit.

I found this with Google but already lost the link (it was a downloadable .doc file): Several names in there that are not yet on the list (Jay Camerion, William Boucaya, Charles Tyler, Maurice Simon... best you pick out the more relevant names yourself, Rodney! As for swiss baritone players... I cannot come up with anyone whom I'd describe as mainly (or even less exclusively) a barisax player! There's Werner Lüdi (1936-2000), a much beloved sort of father figure he was, but he played alto as much as baritone, I think. His hat album "Lunatico" is considered a swiss jazz classic. Urs Blöchlinger (his hat album "Neurotica" being another swiss classic - both albums not yet on CD, by the way) is another alto/baritone player (he also played bass sax, I think). Beat Blaser works for swiss radio (DRS) and may be the closest thing to a jazz barisax player that comes to my mind right now. That's all that comes to mind... not sure if any of the above deserves being listed... Then, if you want to go down another octave, check this out:

Must have missed this (was in the army for most of May...) - belated best wishes, Jim!

loved it!

I always thought Swallow *was* "laying it down" - he just doesn't use the low range of the bass that often, to do it, but I'd find it difficult to point out a contemporary bassist who "lays it down" as uniquely recognizable and as groovy, as Swallow does! I agree on "Deconstructed", by the way. I first got "Always Pack Your Uniform on Top" and loved that one a bit better - just because I had it first, I guess. Also the discs with Carla Bley & Andy Sheppard ("Songs with Legs" and more recently, with Billy Drummond added, "The Lost Chords") are very nice!

Rodney, you should add Stephen Schorn to your list! He's a great baritone player (also doubles on bass sax and various clarinets, but I'm quite safe that he can be rated as mainly baritone player). I am not sure if you'd enjoy the discs he did with Nils Wogram, but he's also a very solid big band player (with George Gruntz, Peter Herbolzheimer, the WDR and NDR radio big bands...) Here's his website: http://www.baritone-sax.com/ Also this chap, Herwig Gradischnig, main baritone man of the Vienna Art Orchestra since 1993 and a more than able soloist: profile on VAO website He too doubles, and I think I have him on disc on tenor sax, too, but again I'd say it's rather safe to rate him as baritone man, since that's what he's been doing for more than a decade with Rüegg's VAO.

one of the more fascinating early modern paintings for many reasons! needless to say I'd love to see that exhibition! Last I saw was the latest exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, a selection of young swiss photographers, some of them doing great work. Not sure what'll be next, but I'll try and make it to Basel as long as they have the Holbein exhibition up!

my two most recent acquisitions:

I got some of the Bean OJCs since I posted here last... "Soul" is terrific, so is "Hawk Flies High". I also got the one with Charlie Shavers ("Hawk Eyes") and Kenny Burrell's very nice "Bluesy Burrell". I guess I need more, and I guess I'll need to look for the Alive (never saw it, only have the one with Hodges and Eldridge, which I like a lot).

David, how was the Brotz gang? They got quite a good review here! On Bennink: I saw the ICP orchestra last november and that was one of the most beautiful concerts I've seen of late... Bennink did not clown around at all. How about Michael Vatcher? I thought he was wonderful with Michael Moore and Lindsay Horner when I saw them with their Dylan outfit, "Jewels and Binocculars".

on the more traditional side: Still to be found easily in its LPR incarnation - a lightweight disc, but a fun one! (The "Bass Hit" album - on CD in the Verve Elite Edition - has much more meat, in my opinion, but I'm not sure if he plays cello there, and if, only on one or two tunes.)

welcome! back from undercover... if you want to check out Schütz or rather the great Koch-Schütz-Studer gang, I'd go for "Heavy Cairo Traffic", their meeting with traditional egyptian musicians - a great disc! I think it's on the Intuition label - I have no idea if you can find that in the US... but you should find it somewhere on the net, I suppose.

I am aware the above quote's from Winckelmann's site, but still there's an addition to me made: with discs by Gianluigi Trovesi, Michel Godard, Gabriele Mirabassi, Pino Minafra, Jean-Louis Matinier, and the great 2CD La Banda set and a few others, Enja Winckelmann has also done a great job in documenting some of the more interesting folsky/mediterranean music. Funny also to note that Enja Weber has done Godard discs, too (two duo discs with Dave Bargeron) and that both Weber and Winckelmann did record Charlie Mariano ("Deep in a Dream" on Winckelmann's label is terrific, Sangrey started a thread about it some time ago). I seem to remember that the US outfit Sunnyside did release some Enja discs in the US, no?

What a pity in case of the Hodges! That Brown album ("Inspired Abandon" - what a great and fitting title!) is terrific!

Swiss cellist Martin Schütz is another great musician, member of the "hardcore chamber trio" Koch-Schütz-Studer (with Hans Koch and Fredy Studer). I have "Heavy Cairo Traffic" and "Fidel" by this trio and will prob. get "Life Tied" (got rave reviews in the swiss press) - definitely not cello-music of any kind, and definitely not too easy on anyone's ears, but worth checking out all the more! Schütz can also be heard on what's a classic of swiss jazz, "Accélération" (ECM 1357, 1987, out on CD):

Check this one out (I think it's OOP but I've seen it here and there): hatology 513 - Carlos Zingaro / Peggy Lee: Western Front, Vancouver 1996

a great one by Mark Friedlander, solo cello: Available here from CDbaby.

Don't miss! The music may not be as uniformly good as on the similar H.R.S. set, but it's the same kind of unique compilation that will most probably never be available again after this one's gone!

Thanks Tjobbe - just ordered half a dozen from that selection, at 3 euros each (one each by Humes, Rollins, Monk, Miles, Konitz, and Waldron, filling the small holes in my collection for these gents, and Songs I Like to Sing, which will be my introduction to Humes). Most likely reiterating this but 2001 also has good prices on Brilliant Classics releases. This time I got the much lauded Janacek/Smetana/Martinu quartets set. I just received my order (had also received a shipping notice a couple of days earlier). Everything arrived in good shape and all the OJC's are Fantasy Studios remastered (one was a digipak and the rest came in jewel cases). Gokhan, the "Songs I like to Sing" disc is terrific! Will probably soon be among my favourite vocal discs (I got it from this same sale, a few weeks ago). As for the digipacks being "Fantasy Studio remastered" - can anyone confirm? I think all the digipacks have that line on their back, my guess is they just copy/paste it from the US releases and it's a lie, but I don't know for sure...

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That´s the detective in you, brownie! I was Inspector Clouseau in an earlier incarnation

Happy birthday!