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Tzara was not a poet. He was a clever businessman and a thief. Go read Walter Serner if you're in for the original! Tzara translated full paragraphs and sentences into French for his Dada-manifestos that Serner wrote in German. But then Tzara was the quizzical darling of everybody... and Serner the most obscure of them all.

Happy Birthday!

Ubu - have you heard her playing in the Braxton quartets? Don't panic! Yes, I'm aware of that... but I heard not much good on here recent Intakt appearance, and frankly I don't like her ECM-styled "lyrical piano" stuff (this got a not at all cliché-free ECM specialty, it seems - and believe me, I'm not at all an ECM basher!). I'll go for Grimes, anyway, and it's the first time I'll see Cyrille, too, so I won't miss!

What? Oh my god, this is sad news! Way too early! What a great career he had!

Finally sent in my order, too! Had to update that credit card first... me lazy dog, took two weeks to do it, but now I'm in!

Great photos, Mark! I hope to see the Grimes-Cyrille-Crispell trio in May in Zurich. I'd wish for someone else than Crispell, but I hope the two gents will kick her ass to move out of the ECM-ish lyrical shitte zone, for a change...

Happy Birthday!

I stumbled upon this statement and felt compelled to verify it... I'd say: fair enough!

Very nice, Stefan!

To add to what tjobbe said: indeed, relying on what english one can learn at school (assuming Switzerland and Germany are more or less comparable in this regard), you would not get that far. I've also started reading English books back when I was at school, and I suppose that helped a lot. As far as films are concerned, I'm very happy to live in Switzerland, or rather: in Zürich, as you can see each and every film in it's original version, with german subtitles. I'd *hate* having to see films in synchronised version! (I love the cinema far too much to even consider surviving with synchronized films, I *need* the originals, no matter if French, English, or Japanese...)

That sounds like I could skip the Sunday show... What do you think? (Consider that I never heard any of the guys live - so there's a point in seeing them at all, but also the point of not wanting to hear them for a first time in a mediocre setting...)

To add a serious post now: I've first started learning *some* english when I was 9 or 10, in some sort of private evening course for kids, which was fun, since my parents have friends from all over the world, and it was fun being a kid being able to at least try and talk to them... this helped me having a very very easy start with english at high school. Now studying history at University, I have to read English papers quite often, and usually don't have much of a problem dealing with them. However, I guess participating in discussions here is also helping me quite a bit, too.

Uh, well, being half a descendant of British convicts sent to the Pacific ("Aussies" being another name applied to these...) I'll be 13 tomorrow, and I have always been like this. I was seven when I was born, and spoke english fluently as long as I can remember, that is, since two years before I was born.

Funky. I'd call it "avant-funk" for lack of a better term. I really enjoy this album, but haven't listened to it in a long time. A good one! This one's a favourite of mine:

Absolutely! Some of us are still recovering from King Ubu's two-disc challenge. yes, I'm recovering, too! ubu

A groan-o-meter? Or a tool that prevents his head from bobbing up and down and around like it did on that evening on the Isle of Wight?

"Time out of Mind" (thank sal!) is the other one whose title escaped me!

I love "Desire" a lot, as well, but I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea, and I kind of see why...

Those are the ones I have. They have showed up in some stores over here but I haven't looked in a while. I see where Crazy Jazz, out of the UK, has both for around $15 each, but I think I paid less than that. Kevin 15$ would be an ok prize. German Amazon has them for 13 Euro. I guess with a little patience they could indeed be found a bit cheaper than 15$.

Oh well... this thread makes me want to get them, too! As well as the Uptowns and the Enja with Bailey and the Bossa Bacchanal (if that wasn't a copycrap disc here, I'd have it anway, I almost fully stopped buying and EMI/BN discs ever since...)

as usual... that's why I'm not so fond of these series, I preferred those older reissues... and they're looking like "by requests" anyhow, now, so why not just release the music and add what's around from those dates? Alright, I know, I don't have the right to hear anything, anyway, so...

Lon, in my opinion, you should definitely check out both "Love and Theft" and the one preceding it. While they're totally different (Love and Theft very straight, the other one a Daniel Lanois thing), I think highly of both! I've seen Dylan live last year (third time) and was once again amazed. He can't sing and all, yet his voice fits in with the music and the songs in perfect fashion. Very good show, if you can catch him (though I think he's expanded his band again since when I heard him, he had just drums, bass, two guitars and himself on keys then, nothing else).

Same here. Don't yet have the box, but this has always been far and away my favorite live recording of this band (that and the Moon release of the other set from the same festival). Great as the other stuff is, there's a quality of "impatience" to it, like they're waiting for something new to happen, but they don't know what it is, do they, Mister Shorter? But at Antibes, they sound fresh, invigorated, organic, and totally in the moment. I had a strange French edition of this one, thought it had another title, but I'm not sure about it anymore. However, this was the last of the albums in the box, except for Seven Steps which I heard but never owned, and the Tokyo which is new to me. Thus, as I have been loving the Berlin and the Four&More/Funny Valentine discs for years (they were prob. among my first 50 or 100 jazz discs, when I was like 15 or 16), it's hard for me to find the Antibes set "better" - there's just too much fondness in my heart for the others, regardless of how good the rest is... sometimes things are like this.