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Again apologies, Marucs! That shouldn't have happened in the first place!

Enjoy, Lon! While I was absolutely stunned by "In the Mood for Love" and - even more so in comparison - less impressed by "2046", I still think it's a beautiful film and a very special one!

Actually there hardly is jazz on the radio stations around here, but most of the good stations have at least one weekly show where live recordings are broadcast, and that's the cool part. The good thing about Switzerland is that it's so small... we can get Austrian, French, and German radio stations in, in addition to our own (of course no private stations that are worth bothering with...). I started popping in a tape every Friday night six or seven years ago, to catch the live stuff on Swiss radio, but since I have had cable radio (a year now), I've been able to enjoy more music coming from the national French and Austrian, as well as three German stations. However, tehre is not one station around that you could just listen to in the background (but that I would not do, anyway). There is a swiss "Culture and Jazz" station, but that's a drag. No tune longer than 4 or 5 minutes (otherwise it could bore some listener), no bass solos (could bore some...), no drum solos (could be too loud and aggressive for some), no free-ish stuff (no need to explain on this point, is there? Ffree jazz does not exist, anyway, I guess they'd take 1964 Blakey as free jazz)... you get the idea, I assume.

That's a live recording. Oh, and you believe them? Fake applause is my guess... I told you I don't know it, didn't I?

glad you enjoyed it, Ray!

Mike, when I browsed the board a month or so ago and saw that thread you guys had going on on recent Maupin I hardly could keep my mouth shut! I am so in love with this broadcast of his! The sparse setting fits him just right, the two guys backing him are both very sympathetic, the setting in Diersbach seems to be a small and nice one, too... it can't get better. Maupin played tenor, soprano, bass clarinet, and piano, that night. A true master musician!

So let's hope that after 30+ black ones, this is the one starting the run of 30+ red ones! Thanks, brownie! I wasn't aware of Ch. Delauney being the painter's son (never heard of Sonia Delauney, I'm afraid).

Maybe you just didn't notice the experiment that was successfully pulled here: Parker never was in the same studio, in fact, he never went to any studio in connection with "Nailed" - they just cut fragments of his from many other discs and inserted them where they thought they'd fit, thus in my opinion, this is at least a failed experiment I hasten to add I never heard "Nailed"... B-)

That's not quite what I have in mind ... somehow I was afraid of that...

If you do a disc with the theme "Jazz from Hessen", you'll beat me! Seriously: glad I got you all stumped on some of this music! And even happier you nevertheless enjoyed it and posted some thoughts! For me this has been a very interesting experience, and I'm certainly looking forward to my next BFT (though I won't be able to pull the same thing again, of course). ubu

well, not you, David... On #13: I really can't say! I don't have much else besides some half-albums I recorded from those radio shows, and Koch is not that familiar to me as a saxophone player (I usually consider him either a clarinetist or an all-reeds-man, and the later I usually find hard to recognize on a specific one of those reeds). I'll have to think about getting some Lüdi, too, maybe try to hunt some vinyl... Oh, and his first name is "Werner"! ubu

Sounds great, thanks for letting us know, brownie! But let me ask: is this really part of the series, with that colourful cover? Very much unlike all the others!

So you'll be there for goon, on April 17? They are playing here in Geneva on April 15th (http://www.amr-geneve.ch/prog2005/jazzfest/affiche.htm), so unless I am exceptionally inspired to make a 250km drive, I won't make it your way. Who are they playing with in Zürich? Very same group, David. You'll be here for Gebbia? (April 12, I think) I meant, if there is any other band playing the same night with them. For Gebbia, I will try to come. Just the Brötz group that night. It's not part of a festival as it is in Geneva (please give me the RSR/Espace2 broacast dates if you have them, for this year's AMR concerts!)

brownie, there would be enough fine stuff for another BFT, I guess, but I did try to collect the best. Though obviously for timing and variation reasons, some things had to be left off. Disc 1 has mostly old-time trad stuff (like #2-4, but no Hawk... not all bands are that bad, though), disc 2 enters hard-bop territory (but not many cuts are as good as the Ambrosetti and the Erwin Müller tracks), then discs 3 and 4 go beyond, some more hardbop, some "modern mainstream", some free, some jazz rock... pretty varied, all in all.

brownie, I'm glad to give you some you never heard! You do know I'm but a youngster trying to act big, so... B-)

Finished the write ups here, too!

Answers completed above!

So you'll be there for goon, on April 17? They are playing here in Geneva on April 15th (http://www.amr-geneve.ch/prog2005/jazzfest/affiche.htm), so unless I am exceptionally inspired to make a 250km drive, I won't make it your way. Who are they playing with in Zürich? Very same group, David. You'll be here for Gebbia? (April 12, I think)

And Mike: you mixed them Ambrosettis up in your last post, the old man, Flavio, is the alto player. There is by now a third generation working, Franco's son, who plays sax, but I haven't heard anything of him. And I was aware from the beginning that the Byrd/Coles album is a Pearson date, I was just referring to the disc I got (I'm also aware of all the stolen Bailey dates). ubu

Also credited to Coleman Hawkins (see ASCAP website and the Ocium release "The Hollywood years"), AKA "Boff boff". Any light here? EKE, I have no idea about "Mop Mop", I actually just took the info from my source (that CD box). Mike, as far as I know the box can still be found, but it's way too expensive. I got mine used after having had a "review copy" for years The list prize, I think, equals at least 70 Euro (no biggie for 4CDs in Switzerland...)

So you'll be there for goon, on April 17?

Are you talking about the new Kurt Weill Trovesi/Coscia disc, Nate? I haven't heard that one yet. One of my favourites remain Trovesi's take on "Midsummernight's Dream" (released on Enja). Of course - AND I HAVE TO STRESS THIS FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW TROVESI - this track is not doing him justice AT ALL! I intended this as a piece of fun to get things going, that's all. ubu

and the mystery man from #18...

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