king ubu

Yes, that's one of the notes I read, so it was in the Thursday papers (i wanted to write Wednesday or Thursday above, but got it wrong). Swiss german is not a written language, there is no way of spelling correctly etc. All but SMS-kind-of texts are written in proper German here. The text reads: ******** New York jazz saxofonist Robin Kenyatta has died unexpectedly on Tuesday in Lausanne, two days prior to a concert, for which he had travelled to Switzerland. That's what his agent communicated on Wednesday. Kenyatta should have played close to Lucerne on Thursday. Kenyatta lived in Europe for more than 20 years, founded and led the Hello Jazz Music School in Lausanne, and lastly [?] was Director of Music at Bentley College in Boston. Kenyatta was born 1942 in South Carolina and grew up in New York. He became famous as a saxophonist and flautist. Inspired by contemporary bebop, he founded his first band playing Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ben Webster-styled music. With pianist Wolfgang Dauner, he already 30 years ago cut one of ECM's first albums. He appeared with the best jazz and blues musicians of the world, among them B.B. King, Dr. John, or George Benson. Kenyatta performed at the important festivals, among them Montreux Jazz Festival. ******** Hope this makes sense, it's just a very fast translation. ubu

The Basie is great news!

yup. this time even till Monday, but next weekend will be very short... life's hard, but I'll survive. This is what it looks like:

According to Futura/Marge website: FUTURA/MARGE, this one is already OOP. Gotta hunt it down fast. Pop Wine is still in print, though. And it is very fine! Chris Woods and Curson make a good team, the rhythm section is fine as well. There's a track with false starts in the middle of the disc, which, in fact, isn't really necessary, or should be at the end of the CD. However, the actual tracks are great!

As he lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, there were short notes in the daily papers (Wednesday? Tuesday? Being in the army at the moment I lose track of weekdays...) I don't really know his music, but I'm inclined to get to know it better. ubu

Hope you had a good one, Chris! Happy belated best wishes...

Guy, my best wishes to your birthday!

And yes, I am getting weekends off. Enjoy the Supersilent! The Necks started that night, then came a german-dutch nostalgic free jazz group, and to top it off, there followed the Supersilent concert you're listening right now. QUite a night!

are you getting weekends off? I didn't expect to see you back hear for a few weeks. I'm listening to the live Supersilent disc right now, very nice! The Necks played that same festival the Supersilent concert comes from.

Saw the Necks live three years ago. A terrific concert! I had a CD from a friend once, but that was before I was able to burn CDRs, so there's nothing in my collection. Live I would go and see/hear them anytime again, though!

Very sad news! I wish his Tome VI was available on CD!

Thanks, John! I missed that thread. Looks like some real fine stuff! ubu

yes I have this one I dont think you can go wrong with any of the Ayler / Cherry material. I prefer the way mine's looking, I have to admit: The music is what counts, though, and it is fantastic! ubu

In my experience Amazon Germany's prices are usually lower. Yes, but as the Emarcy releases *might* be produced by French Universal... no idea, was just a guess. The prizes are a bit steep. But how about the music? Any of you heard any of these albums? ubu

seconded - top drawer Ayler (& Cherry). That one is great, yes! But I prefer the Hilversum album (released by George Coppens on his own Coppens outlet - check the Ayler Supranet site for info on how to order, I think Coppens posted there). What I find a bit strange is that the longer of two dates by this quartet, released on Ayler records (Live in Copenhagen or similar title) is now in the box - this will certainly keep many of us from buying that Ayler Records release. Not so fair, I'd say. However I suppose the estate of Ayler did agree, and I really hope Jan Ström of Ayler Records was asked as well and did agree. ubu

David, these Emarcy's look mighty fine, though I don't know any of them yet! I guess Amazon France might end up having them for a nicer prize (they don't list any prize yet, though). Keep us posted! ubu

Had a wonderful time listening to this one: Wow! I really really like it! Music of great purity and beauty. Then: John Zorn The Gift Quite nice stuff. Zorn himself only plays piano and theremin on one of ten tracks, the band is Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista and Trevor Dunn, with a couple of guests sitting in, among them on one tune Dave Douglas, shining on his trumpet. The music is well, rather - what should I call that? - conventional? easy? It's got that southern laid-back feeling you alse have on Joey Baron's projects (mainly the band with Blythe-Frisell-Carter I'm thinking of, but also the band with Shepik-Cardenas-Scherr), and some south-of-the-border sounds. Ribot is playing quite undistorted, most of the time, with a sweet sound not unlike Bill Frisell's. Then, having dinner, I continued with: A great album! Ribot is on this one, as well, providing quite much to the success of the whole sound. While this may be (or: seem?) quite accessible upon the first encounter (which was the case tonight, never listened to it before, just got it, in fact), I really think it will reward repeated listens, and I have a feeling it may grow quite some over the years. It's all relatively simple, of course there's Waits' usual bag o'tricks, but there's no horns, no Tom-goes-Ol' Blue Eyes stuff, but just songs, with some guitars, a bass, and most often also some percussion. Among the songs are a few that I consider quite good, indeed. One of them, "Sins of My Father," grows to biblical lenghts and heights and depths, not unlike the quarter of an hour song Highlands on Dylan's great album "Time out of Mind". ubu

Ronnie Matthews Trio, Selena's Dance Should fit, I guess!

Happy birthday!

There's some real nice Jim Hall up to listen here. Here's the info: There's around 4-5 minutes of talking before the concert starts, you can skip that once you have the thing playing with RealPlayer. Of course you can also record it... ubu

one of her best parts, in my opinion!

"Tears..." is excellent, indeed! The only other Curson I have is this one (also on Marge/Futura): It's been quite long since I last heard it, though. ubu

One of the old Blakey Bohemia discs (the orig. Messengers recording) was the same in a store here, though I did listen first, luckily...

Aric, both "Repulsion" and "The Sweet Smell of Success" are fantastic films! Hope you get a chance to see the McKenzie soon! It's one of the darkest films of its time!

I plead guilty...