king ubu

Again thanks, Jon! Glad you enjoyed (most of) my discs!

Thanks for chiming in, Noj! Enjoyed the read! Now you please enjoy the asnwers threads!

An afterthought: This may indeed be the case with eai live "shows" (another word that does not fit, there is nothing such as a show): for me, these settings are not easy to judge, not even simple to tell if I liked it or not. Mostly it's irritating... (But that again may be the case because I haven't seen many comparable shows... and because I want to be open and not fall back on clichéd judgements)

No, rather normal stage lightning. I assume they had no "concept" and the guys from that place did the lightning, nothing special at all. We had a bit of discussion after the Parkins/Mori set, what one could do to make the "electronic" part more appealing in a live setting. Actually, no, not appealing, but rather more experience-able. Seems some guy developped a tactile interface (rather than the clichéd blue light coming from the computer monitors). Another thing would be to have sort of a webcam showing you what the person in front of the notebook does (not that you would understand anything, but if this would be projected at the back of the stage, you would at least see that the person does anything). Indeed nothing spectacular that night, but Gallio was good and Mori/Parkins were, yes, "interesting" (even though I consider this a stupid word that allows one to not make a judgement...)

The 1997 TOJC Pacific Jazz 'The Return of Art Pepper' still lists August 6 as recording date for the album. I'll go with Pujol on that one! ← So that Pujol guy is not all make-believe, just a lazy bastid and probably unable to keep up with the immense release schedule? How about sound: I have the three single US releases. Do I need to replace them? I tend not to, but... uhm, I'll read through the first page of this thread first, myself, maybe sound was discussed there, already?

couw and D.D. got them, yes? Anyone else? I mailed them the fast way for a change, if you haven't gotten, you soon should!

King ubu regret's he's unable to help with this, si-ir!

I thought the Cellar Door box was to be the final one... looks like there may be another next year! ←

Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept-Expectation, 1965. Oil on canvas. Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Petitt. **************************************** Nothing substantial I can add to the discussion of fish gills, but this may broaden your general knowlegde a bit: **************************************** Now back to ratty business... On Friday evening, I attended the first night of this year's Taktlos festival in Zurich (the Basel edition, I learned, was cancelled due to some timing issues). First on the menu was "Day and Taxi", a trio around swiss sax player Christoph Gallio, including Marco Käppeli on drums and Chrisian Weber on bass. Then came the duo of Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins. I left before the third and last set started, "Kammerflimmer Kollektiv". It seems I did not miss out on anything grand. Day & Taxi play a often composed, and always structured music, many of the pieces are short (some only half a minute). Yet there is room for freedom in there, there are parts where the instruments are playing freely. Gallio has a nice big sound on alto, at some points screaming and overblowing in a hymnical way reminding me of Ayler. On soprano he has quite a big sound as well, though he never plays that "overboarding". His soprano reminded me of Lacy. Also his tunes/compositions reminded me of Lacy at times, with their twitches and jokes, their very difficult simplicity. This fellow can certainly play! (Even though he looks like an office worker or something.) Weber, on bass, is becoming sort of a mainstay in Zurich, it seems. I've heard him with pianist Chris Wiesendanger at last year's Unerhört festival, and he also appeared with Jason Kahn's project (including Steinbrüchel and Günter Müller and others) on Sunday (I was only there on Friday, alas. Sunday would have featured Fred Frith in a trio, and Saturday was Sandell, Gustafsson/Thing/VDMK, Borah Bergman). Weber - back on topic - has an amazing technical ease, he can probably play it all. But at some moments, or rather, pretty often, it seemed like he was playing so concentrated that the music could not really breathe... even more so compared to Gallio, who - even if playing with the tightest possible control - always seemed to spill over with expression. Drummer Marco Käppeli is the oldest of these three, and also quite well-known around here. He played very well, for sure. After a short break and much electronic installing, on came Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori. Parkins wearing extravagant clothes, a bit of a diva behaviour (but very likeable), Mori like a pillar of salt (don't know if this metaphor is working in english, don't know anything better to describe), not moving, not chaning her facial expression, no nothing... the embodyment of the problematic aspects of any live setting in which someone sits behind an i-book and no one has any idea what she does... The concert was pretty weird, I found, but not bad at all. The mix of actual instrumental performance (though when Parkins switched to her electric harp, her gestures were visibly pulling sounds from it, but those sounds were often electric-guitar-like and not visibly related to the instrument, either) and electronics was a strange thing to watch and hear. Also the question arose if this music is indeed better suited for recordings that you can visit again and again (I like their "Phantom Orchard" disc on Mego quite some, but I needed a few listens to know). Now I'm hoping for a radio broadcast of these concerts...

Some more belated best wishes! Hope you had a good one!

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showuser=207 Hmmmm....... ← ← Don't get paranoid, you Texans and other 'mericans! That's Francois, or rather actually François (but the cedille would probably kill the software for all times).

Bix, "In a Mist"

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Maybe I should have sent the $$ to Jim instead of Mosaic? Only then I'd not get the box...

Uh uh uh... reading all this I almost wish I shelved out more bucks and made them send it by air mail, but then... my backlog is growing fast, anyway!

Happy Birthday!

This is one that was on my wantlist since day one, so it would be too bad to miss it! Also I have the live set (old issue, don't feel a need to replace it) and enjoy it quite some. Then the "Motor City" disc, too... and "Fuego", which is - Byrd-wise, at least - comparable. Also that Conn... enjoy all of them, so this is a must!

ouch - another few dozens of $$ gone... placed an order immediately, couldn't take another one that I miss (like I did with the Herman).

Same here! I mean, it's indeed mainly the first two or three discs that are fine, and yes, the booklet's great, too, but 400 bucks

I saw Holly Cole a few years ago, and she puts on a good show, indeed! However, her records have left me rather cold... and now back on topic: I picked up "Dreamland" last week and like it quite some. Also just heard an early (1997) concert of Peyroux', and it seemed to me she had quite some intonation problems... however, it's another fine one, with Steve Cardenas on guitar.

thanks!

Could someone here point me to an (official?) website that has the wording of the US immigration act of 1924 (and later amendments or suspension etc)? Looking for it for something I got to do at University. On the run, glad about any help!

Just sent out discs to: couw dutchmanx double delta eloe omoe eke bbb please confirm arrival here!

So there's hope for more US Bethlehem reissues! Even if the Rhino/Avenue don't sound as great as the Japanese, at half the prize I prefer them muchly... all the above stuff is good, "East Coasting" is terrific, the Dexter is grand, the Ellington and other Mingus are very good, too... but all of these could be reissues of their own Rhino releases (which were available only for a very short time, I think)... let's hope they'll release some reissues that have not been around for some time (not counting Japan - seems anything has been around there), as well!

Aren't we all? Also: who's that friend in Switzerland? I always thought I was the only jazz fan here! Received today (but paid earlier): Jack Teagarden: Jazz Great (Bethlehem/Avenue/Rhino)