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I can never work that one out either ! Just the other day lstening to 'Fuego' vinyl I was pondering this very issue. Maybe future generations will be more sympathetic. That 'Byrd/Adams' set is a beauty. Well, you may remember that I consider "Fuego" ok, but not great... I don't find it nearly as compelling as the 1961 dates, to be honest (same for "Byrd in Flight"). Then "Free Form" for me again has a very special vibe. And even though them Penguin moldy figs (haha!) don't like the with Voices albums, that one is a great album to my ears, too!

These discs sound good, David! I only have a trio disc by Shepik (Dip, Drip, soemthing like that), and know Speed from some sideman appearances, but both of them are definitely good musicians. Cuong Vu has an ambient/electro project in trio with an electric bassist and a drummer - I have one CD, mentioned in here before, I think. With that project you can hardly ever really hear his trumpet's natural sound, so it's hard to tell about a Cherry influence... but with Vu coming from (where again?, I think) Vietnam, Cherry makes some sense. ***** I picked up a few interesting-looking discs in a sale, one by Sticks and Stones (never heard them before), a trio disc by Fresu/Salis/di Castri (P.A.F.), that Dave Douglas/Louis Sclavis/Peggy Lee/Dylan van Schyff disc, and another by Aki Takase with Mahall, this time by her "Aki and the Good Boys" ensemble (Enja Weber). ***** Here's my Derek Bailey hommage broadcast from last Sunday, in case you missed the other thread: >link<

Thanks, glad you like it! Pity I didn't have anything better by a Company ensemble - at least I mentioned it having been very important for Bailey and his career.

Happy birthday!

Hope you had a good one, Tom! Belated best wishes!

Thanks mister... I tried my improved english accent, too, with two short quotes of Mr. Bailey's... but I assume it sounded so weird you thought I changed to Français à la suisse?

Sad news.

Played Anita CD3 yesterday (but why has taht liner notes writing guy to complain that much about Bregman's writing? It's not that bad, in my opinion...) Forgot to mention that some time ago I finally played the whole Byrd/Adams - great set, with the highlight being the two albums programmed last (CD3/4 and CD4). Good stuff, definitely, and judging by those 1961 dates quite astonishing that Byrd (still/always?) had such a relatively bad reputation.

Derek Bailey (Sheffield, England, Jan. 29, 1930 - London, England, Dec. 25, 2005) Here's last night's radio show, dedicated to the late great Derek Bailey: http://195.210.0.134:554/ramgen/lora/archi...o%20LoRa%2097,5 (I hope the link works, I cannot check it, being at work.) You'll hear Bailey in solo, in duos with Evan Parker and Joëlle Léandre, in trio with Frode Gjerstad & John Stevens and with Paul Rutherford & Barry Guy, plus an excerpt of a Company live show with John Zorn, Keshavan Maslak, Peter Brötzmann, Fred Frith, Léandre, Bill Laswell & Cyro Baptista (bad sound quality, alas). In between you'll hear your humble king giving some biographical details and all, as usual in our own strange idiom... my friend was stuck somewhere else, so I had to do the show on my own, and this being a live show and me never having handled the technical stuff before I was pretty nervous, but it seems the show turned out quite ok, in the end. I'd appreciate any kind of feedback - we may follow up with a second show next month. And thanks to brownie, P.L.M., gnhrtg (in no particular order, btw!) for helping me pull together a wealth of material! (edited to fix link)

Jude Law?... Alfie?... hahahahahahahahaha... must be one of the most pointless remakes ever! There is, was and will be only one Alfie, for sure! R.i.p. Shelley Winters.

Hey P.D.! Nice to see you hear again! Hope all's well! *** I quite like both of Duke's Bethlehem albums, but I think "Presents" is better, in the end. I also like the Capitol sides - but then that Mosaic was the first larger chunck of Ellington I ever got (just in time before the centennial run on that set started).

I finally played some of the Anita O'Day (discs 1 & 2 that is), and enjoyed it very much! Looking forward to hearing more, hopefully over the weekend!

Belated best wishes, Patricia!

Hope you had a good one Oliver! Belated best wishes!

Hope you had a good one, David! And many happy returns!

Happy huppy! Hope you'll find the time to move your ass back in here some day, you're being missed!

Happy birthday! Hope you had a good one!

so I really thought you were pulling the funny rat leg. I, never a flip-flopper, firmly stick to my opinions. This normally lasts till a subsequent listen to a CD - then a new firm and irreversable opinion is usually formed. David, I was perfectly aware I posted so negatively about Mahall some time ago, BUT I really and seriously reconsidered upon seeing him live! ubu - I saw ICP in July and my take is much the same. Ab Baars was by far the least interesting musician on stage that night (and know that not all were in the best of their forms) and, for me, Michael Moore stole the show. The cello maniac, I think, would be Tristan Honsinger And I was lucky enough to also see a long-ish and much entertaining duo section with Wolter Wierbos and Tobias Delius. Thanks for adding the names! I was too lazy to look them up. Tobias Delius is the madman on tenor, then (I have an itch that he is seriously "over the edge" in some kind of way...). Wierbos was on trombone, and Heberer on trumpet, both adding very fine playing, mainly to the interpretations of traditional material (they did an Ellington jungle number, but I can't recall what it was). Honsinger was fantastic. Glerum (bass) was the most silent and steady-going of all of them - maybe that's what's needed in such a bunch of chaos-heads, someone who steadily does his thing in the background...

Seems Bumi Fian has left us on January 5, much too young. (I got the news off Austrian radio, so it's reliable.) He was a great trumpet player and long-time member of Matthias Rüegg's Vienna Art Orchestra.

Ubu, your enthusiastic recommendations have me wanting to relisten to these with fresh ears! You'll have to wait some, now! Thanks a lot for sending them my way again! I was playing the Potlatchs before ("No Waiting" is terrific, Lacy is good on "Outcome", but they're more merely playing along each other, rather than together). Also played some live sets: with The Company incl. Brötz, Maslak, Zorn, Frith, Laswell, Leandre & Baptista. Then a trio with George Lewis and Anthony Braxton (my girlfriend dubbed that "annoying noise" and closed the door to the room I was in...), and a short Beeb broadcast with The Ruins. All enjoyable, but the solos and the Leandre duo remain my favourites. I'll wait for two more packages to arrive soon, though... I am still a Bailey novice!

Oh, and happy new year to all of you, too!

David, of course any such categoric statement is over the top... but I was rather serious about liking Mahall. He was terrific with Die Enttäuschung/Schlipp playing Monk tunes (but Dörner was even better). I was very impressed by Mahall, seriously! Of course I find guys like Sclavis or Koch at least as interesting... (but I missed Koch's solo concert the day after the Wogram-Mahall concert took place). Btw: another very interesting clarinetist: Michael Moore - of course you all know him, but I am a fairly recent convert, originally only knew him from those Rara Avis discs Gokhan sent me (thanks!), then from the two Rara hatOs... but after Wogram-Mahall, the ICP guys played, and that was one marvellous concert! All of them did some great playing/soloing - maybe the serious one of the tenor saxists was the most boring/predictable musician of them all - the madman tenorist was da shitte, for sure! Moore played some great stuff, going from Lee Konitz coolness to chirpish free stuff. Similarly the blokes on tenor, from full-bodied Webster-Brötz to chirps... and the brass guys were pretty good, too. Mengelberg seemed a bit tired, but when he had his duo with Bennink, and the occasional solo with no horn interfering, he was fully there, minimalist as ever... (much better than a late 2004 solo set I heard on the radio, which turned into lyrical bla-bla). The cello maniac was also utter fun to watch - that guy is ooooold (sorry, don't want to offend anyone...) and was directing the band by jumping around like a 5 year old... and when he bowed the cello he got into something like another state of being it seemed, being so deeply involved. They did their usual stuff - from Ellington-like stuff to free improvs, and in the end added as encore, dedicated to Schlipp who as in the audience, "Alexander's Ragtime March" or how that number is called - great fun! Even if this concert hardly presented anything "new" or "innovative", it was one of the most beautiful and enjoyable concerts I ever saw - they clicked with me from the very first tone (prob. Bennink hitting the post of his hi-hat...) ***** Then, I received the first Bailey discs from our kind helping hands (we'll do a radio show in his honour on Jan. 15th and I have so few discs myself that I asked around a bit), and have been playing "Domestic & public Pieces" and "Improvisation", two totally compelling solo discs. Now listening to "Yankees" I don't find that one so good - but maybe it would need more effort to get into this one.

Vince who?

I love these guys! Bernstein's Diaspora Blues/Soul/Hollywood projects, Kamikaze Ground Crew, Sex Mob, Michael Blake - and obviously then, the Lounge Lizards! This is a kind of jazz that is pretty simple, often, and very much fun, yet it never gets boring, at least for me. Favourites include Bernstein's first Tzadik disc, "Diaspora Soul", Michael Blake's "Drift", plus some live dates... (edited to add covers)

Here's another thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=piano+duets I think there's yet one more, but maybe that one was on a different BB? One that hasn't been mentioned so far and I like quite some: