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Sure you aren't thinking of Maren or another female? I know, it's hard to tell them apart. B-) ← I just saw this today! (doing a search to make sure I wasn't duplicating mention of upcoming Mori/Parkins gig in Houston) No, I'm not Zeena, but we're both on that Tom Cora tribute CD mentioned about 200 pages ago... (I've posted about her -- and neither she nor I would promote OURSELVES to that extent!) ← Hey maren - since you're digging these old posts out again, I thought it would be fair to let you know that the mystery was unveiled ***** I'm not sure I've mentioned that here, btw, but the Mori/Parkins concert I saw in Zurich a few months ago was great!

Imo, labels such as Lonehill function in a significantly more ambiguous area of odiousness when they release "grey market" items such as this than when they release material that is blatantly pirated from legitmately copyrighted "official" recordings. It's still a sticky area, to be sure, but it's sort of like the difference between stealing somebody's furniture out of their house and "helping yourself" to stuff that's left out on the curb. Sort of... ← Agreed, but then today there are means to keep the bootleggers from earning money with this stuff. And it seems that many of these grey market items on Lonehill don't sound better than the version floating around, either, so there's really no reason to pay for this stuff - best would probably be to pay some to the musicians or their estates.

Hey, wait, get your old handle back, Sir! Are you serious? Thanks for the kind words! I'll drop you a PM again, soon!

What's this one? Leonard Feather presents Jazz from Two Sides (1959) Vic Lewis & His Jazz Group Pennsylvania Turnpike (Lewis) Stanhope Place (Lewis) Les Condon (trumpet); George Chisholm (trombone); Roy East (alto sax); Ronnie Scott (tenor sax); Ronnie Ross (baritone sax); Alan Branscombe (piano); Bill Sutcliffe (bass); Dave Pearson (drums) Two tracks only!? tooter?

To derail the thread a bit further, here's a very nice photo of Anne Drummond: © Jos L. Knaepen, 2002 (photo taken at "Jazz à Marciac" festival, Marciac, France)

Ms Drummond played already in Barron's previous project, "Canta Brasil". I don't have any official release of theirs (yet), but I've heard/seen some radio/tv broadcasts. Very nice stuff! They did a beautiful duo (Drummond/Barron, that is), "Song for Abdullah" (dedicated to Abdullah Ibrahim, and perfectly capturing Ibrahim's soothing lyrical - yet never kitschy - side)!

Well, at least it's warm down there ← certainly warmer than here... but I heard that temperatures should once again raise up to 20° C, at least during the day, when the sun is up... tjobbe: I konw I'll like it! I know the Dancing Sessions and a few others (the April in Paris, the two albums with Joe Williams, the recent LPR...) - will be great to have it all in one place!

Happy birthday!

I gave in and ordered the Basie - even if I have to pay 15€ for customs, I won't get it that cheap again, I guess (less than 52€ with VAT off, from Amazon). Mr. couw also will get a free CD as a consequence of that And all you others may roast in hell a wee bit longer for making me spend so much money... ubu

That must be the one including Jones's "Gigi" and "Here's Love". Watch out for the follow-up (just out): "Hank Jones Quartet With Kenny Burrell And Barry Galbraith - Complete Recordings, vol. 2". It includes the albums "The Talented Touch" and "Porgy And Bess" Yep, exactly like last year's Mighty Quinn's Okra-Tone reissue (approved by EMI, current owner of the masters). F ← Just wanted to chime in on this... definitely buy this Okratone release! It's great, with Wolff photos, very nice presentation! Some info can be found on the board - I think in the HJ b-day thread. The one that I had in my hands twice already, but haven't heard any of it, is the Stitt goes Green disc.

I posted this in the "All things Hat"-thread, but got no echo whatsoever, so I'll try my luck again in a separate thread! ******************************************************************* We plan to do an interview with WX Uehlinger within the coming 14 days or so, for our next radio show in November. Of course the reason we're doing this is the 30th anniversary. Now I'd be happy for some input from y'all (yawl, or how do them texans pronounce that again?). Any questions, any hints what *not* to ask, anything you always wanted to know about that hat hut (what a great & weird name, btw!). I had the idea that we may ask him to name us a handful of favourite recordings that are out in the hatOLOGY series (I have maybe half of those releases... or a third, I don't know, plus my friend has some, and he's also got some LPs, and between the two of us we may have 15 or 20 "old" hatArt CDs, too - of course there are gaps in our collection, but mainly we want it to be an interview. Aspects we could ask him about may be: - what's his vision today, musically - how's the situation financially and market-wise, where does he sell his stuff - what's his approach to "coaching" musicians and their projects - what's the concept behind his release-scheme (not just the $$) - how did he get into modern composed music - how did his Joe McPhee fan-project turn into a visionary (?) label I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of aspects... Any input welcome!

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

Happy birthday!

oh no! What sad news. I've seen her once, and she was magisterial. What a great artist she was!

You most probably mean 'Le Petit Bleu de la Cote Ouest'. Magnifique book! Manchette is far from forgotten over here. There's quite a number of his books being currently reissued including that 'Cote Ouest' which has been illustrated by Jacques Tardi and came out a few weeks ago. Surprised that couw has not been raving about that Manchette/Tardi yet! http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/27316...08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg I'm on unfamiliar territory with your Gilles Binchois... Curiosity been aroused! ← I'm far from an expert, but I've got a friend who is quite into all the "old" stuff, and he played some Binchois for me once... I know very little about this music, but I've got a few things by Machaut and Ockeghem (and some that I think have not been mentioned here, like Lassus... prob. not dark enough?) Welcome back, Clem! I always enjoyed your posts (even though the language bareer made some of them unreadable or very hard to read, to say the least...)

We plan to do an interview with WX Uehlinger within the coming 14 days or so, for our next radio show in November. Of course the reason we're doing this is the 30th anniversary. Now I'd be happy for some input from y'all (yawl, or how do them texans pronounce that again?). Any questions, any hints what *not* to ask, anything you always wanted to know about that hat hut (what a great & weird name, btw!). I had the idea that we may ask him to name us a handful of favourite recordings that are out in the hatOLOGY series (I have maybe half of those releases... or a third, I don't know, plus my friend has some, and he's also got some LPs, and between the two of us we may have 15 or 20 "old" hatArt CDs, too - of course there are gaps in our collection, but mainly we want it to be an interview. Aspects we could ask him about may be: - what's his vision today, musically - how's the situation financially and market-wise, where does he sell his stuff - what's his approach to "coaching" musicians and their projects - what's the concept behind his release-scheme (not just the $$) - how did he get into modern composed music - how did his Joe McPhee fan-project turn into a visionary (?) label I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of aspects... Any input welcome!

Errm... Are you turning this into a political thread? ← no Hans, I would believe this get hijacked by Roi Ubu as a DaDa-esk thread ... ← Last derailment of this thread by the humble king, but I *had* to share this photo of Charlie Parker!

Looked for "Nomis" in one of the large local stores... it's so frustrating, I tell you! No trace of it, of course. They have half of the recent Sony/Legacy releases, none of the new Blue Notes (they'd all be copy-protected crap-discs anyway), and not even a trace of the Monk/Coltrane! As so often I'll probably have to look for a foreign source to get a swiss disc. And as so often this will make it 10$ cheaper than ordering it in a store here...

I was uhm... sort of carried away, it seems! Apologies! But still I don't consider VAT a valuable instrument of politics, really. It's just a lame excuse...

which should answer your question I guess. Cheers, Tjobbe ← Thanks! The Basie would be a steal, but... I just decided against getting it *now* - I hope JPC has the sets for a while! 16% and rising, my God! And now with the "grosse Koalition" and Stoiber sabotaging everything, they will probably raise it to 50% in order to be able to skip any necessary reforms... and it's such an utterly *fair* form of paying taxes, istn't it? First of all it's clear to everybody why and what for one pays it, and second - and that's the best part of it - everybody pays the same amount. That's what I call leninist-trotzkist!

Do they deduct "Mehrwertsteuer" for foreign orders? Amazon does - it's 12% or something similarly crazy, and the mad(wo)men you just elected plan to raise it even higher!

Well, I wouldn't like having to kill one... so far either the cat brought it in dead and ate it up (most of it, that is...), or she brings them in and looses interest. We're quite used to catching mice by now, so we catch them and bring them back outside (where probably a few minutes later the cat will finish them off... but still, at least I don't have to do it).

Big fan of that Distel package here! (Did you read here that I, too, am by now in possession of all the JiP, except for the latest Django, which I still need?) Sounds like you'll have fun in Strasbourg! Have two or three 1/4 on me!

Has anyone heard the Joe Giardullo? Playing this one (just picked it up) Sounds pretty good! Some sonic problems on track 2 or 3, but the music is cool.