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So you still find it weird to have women reporting evening news on tv (and actually putting together, choosing topics etc. etc) - *without* a male colleague next to her and fully in charge? Sort of third world tv, no? Are women allowed to vote, too? (They are even allowed to vote in - dig that! - Switzerland since - and dig that!!! - 1971!)

For Mingus I always thought this site did well enough: http://webusers.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/leader.html For the Cecil Taylor material (similar mess), there's this one: http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mtaylors.html The CT online sessionography says "more details forthcoming" but has no info so far.

Olaf Rupp anyone? Most boring guitar performance on earth... (some say Cecil Taylor on solo acoustic guitar, I say... wait, I won't say anything more... )

The Theatre Dunois is in southern Paris. It closed its jazz activities about ten years ago. Some of their jazz concerts are available on videos they provided on their link: http://www.dunoisjazz.info/TRESOR1.htm Enjoy! I'll check these out, thanks for the link, brownie!

I don't know much about it either, other than it's CT's last official recording AFAIK. It's a great record, though, and quite hard to find. Seems it's out on CD! http://www.brambus.com/joemalinga/ Ithi Gqi - $14.95 Tracks: Umdrah African Mood No Net Tears Senecho Usizi Nina's Dance Jabula Kipit Asambheni For a time, Joe Malinga was the saxophone player at the side of Dollar Brand. This CD features a 70 minute long mixture of traditional Afro-Jazz and free form extemporization. Any idea where the additional tracks are coming from?

Ok, I invite you for a flight and you invite me for lunch in Vienna? Good to see you back, hope you stay a while!

A guy called Pierre Cornuel (conception and illustration). This is in fact my beloved Zentralquartett (Sommer-Petrowsky-C.Bauer-Gumpert), rec. May 3 & 4, 1984 at théâtre Dunois (I guess that's in Paris? If they can record music and it's in France it's just got to be Paris, no need to mention that, especially...) Just started playing it, a bit more out and wild than usual, at least that applies to the first tune (and to the tune on the 3CD "Chronatoscope", too).

Happy Birthday!

May I join in on this eltitist vinyl-eating forum again? Bought some vinyl again, just to be allowed in here... Joe Malinga's Mandala feat. Clifford Thornton: "Tears for the Children of Soweto" (Canova CA113) (can't find a scan, and not much info about it on the WWW either) Günter Sommer et trois vieux amis: "Ascenseur pour le 28" (Nato 329) (partial front cover) Marion Brown Quartet: "La Placita" Live in Willisau (Timeless SJP 108) (but the front cover is black/red/white, too, no yellow on mine!) Phillip Wilson Quartet: "Live at Moers Festival" (Moers Music 01062) (no scan either) Now am I allowed to play with you again?

Sorry, I missed this thread, but my last extra-org contact was before August, so I don't know more - just that already a year or more ago he mentioned that several things kept him from doing something he did for me (and himself)... which in the end had no connection to Big-O, but I guess he was (and hope he is) just busy with lots of other things, and I hope nothing bad has happened (didn't exactly sound like that a year ago, but then who knows... cyberspace is a weird world and one does not always get a very good idea of what's actually behind the e-person we are in touch with...

Thanks Jon - it does sound like most of Niblock's music is somewhat similar, yes... but the two sets I ordered added up to 25£ (for 5 discs), so I figured I'd get both... maybe not a smart move. That "Young Person's Guide" disc was mentioned in the article, too, and I guess it would make for a good starting point.

All the best to your wife, Lon. Yes, Lon, all the best.

Flo Stoffner is a good young Swiss guitarist. He plays with Harald Haerter and is on a fine recent disc by Christoph Grab, a local sax player: Those who still have my BFT can hear him on the last tune, Ayler's "Ghost". Then there's Phillip Schaufelberger, member of Lucas Niggli's band Zoom (also Big Zoom, photo below): l.t.r.: Claudio Puntin (clars), Nils Wogram (tb), P.S. (g), Peter Herbert (b), Lucas Niggli (d) The Zoom band is actually a trio, Wogram-Schaufelberger-Niggli, but Niggli has expanded it for many a project to Big Zoom and other larger formats (also did a meeting with a new music ensemble), playing an interesting blend of composed and improvised music. They have several discs out on the Swiss Intakt label.

you old egaliatarian, you! and welcome back to our resident ruminant who found out in a minute where the important discussions take place

Late as usual... hope you had a good one, Claude, and congratulations!

I missed this post first time around. No, I don't believe I've heard of him, but I'll keep an ear out. I heard Freddy Bryant on a radio broadcast of Ben Riley's tasty Monk tribute. Without a piano - a smart move for a project like this - Bryant was rather present and did fine. edited for mis-spellink of Bryant's name, sorry!

Funny that Gebbia pops up again... I bought this one cheap on saturday and enjoyed the first spin very much: This is a trio recording with Gebbia on alto and soprano, and notably a great bass player. To his trio is added Massimo Simonini who does some electronic processing and some sounds stuff, which I found quite likeable, and quite fitting with the rest of the music. ******************** Phill Niblock anyone? Some info here (sorry, I can't insert any links or use any Big-O buttons and I don't know how to manually insert a link): http://touchshop.org/index.php I just ordered the new 3CD set and the previous 2CD set (did not order the 1CD release... hurdy-gurdy anyone? Except for the excellent Intakt disc with Frith, not me...) - "Touch Three" and "Touch Food" (cover below). Not sure what to expect, but after finally reading Dan Warburton's title story of the March Wire, I just had to order some of Niblock's music - sounds totally intriguing, to say the least.

Just ordered my Bailey. Ouch... errr, OUCH!

Very sad news, read about it yesterday

Their fantastic new album, "Influence," was what my second post was to be about, but I made some mistake and lost all what I had written... Here's the cover: And here are the liners: Will post more later - just let me add that this is one of the most impressive albums I've heard during recent months! Highly recommended

There are plenty of threads about Yusef Lateef, but no longer, corner-like one, so far, so I figured I'd start one. Thread about (and with link to) an article written by Assif Tsahar on Brother Yusef Yusef's funk-thread Two threads on Psychicemotus I first heard Lateef on an LP called "This Is Y.L.", which I think was a Riverside reissue of another album (Three Faces?). Next was Cannonball Adderley's sextet - what a wonderful band! "Nippon Soul" and the only recently reissued "In Europe!" feature some terrific playing by Lateef! Then the first "Live at Pep's" disc was probably among the first 50 CDs I bought. In the late fifties, this man did so many great albums - think about all the Savoys (Jazz Moods, Jazz for Thinkers), the Prestige and Riversides, plus the lone great Verve album. So Lateef, the man who looks like a prophet, has been around for more than six decades now, as a performing musician. He played with Lucky Millinder, then in Dizzy's bebop big band, went on to produce great albums of his own in the fifties and sixties, founded his own YAL label when times for jazz weren't that great, explored other musical territories, met tenorists Ricky Ford, Archie Shepp and Von Freeman for a series of Tenors albums... of course he did many more things... played terrific tenor sax, great flute, introduced a number of unusual ethnical instruments to jazz (arghol), and other funny instruments (balloons and 7-up bottles and the like), played with Mingus, considered Coltrane a friend... This man has simply been around forever. Last year two guys made a film about Lateef, which is quite beautiful and shows the scope of thought and music he embraces. Also the film shows what a unique person this man is. Very touching, at moments it almost moved me to tears. So let's discuss Lateef her, share stories, impressions, discuss favourite recordings etc! (and wait for the second post of mine to see what made me start this thread in the first place!) [edit: added a new photo after the initial one has disappeared...]

Now you're talking! I'd like to see that concert, for sure, but I guess it'd be slightly more than 15 minutes!

I hope to catch some of that on the radio later tonight... I guess I could tell you around midnight

sorry to interrupt your advanced and electro-acoustic conversations to mention two much more down to earth discs I picked up yesterday: Gave both a spin by now, and the Sclavis is excellent I must say! Very short (which is definitely a plus, in these years of too long CDs by too boring musicians), but full of ideas. Just (overdubbed) clarinet & bass clarinet, with two guys adding some percussion (each on one tune only). From Ellington to yurpean folksy grooves... recommended! The Tchicai/Schweizer is some other kind of thing... more a traditional free blowing disc, but Tchicai does some nice things. I'll have to listen more to decide how much I like it, though.