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Mingus at Antibes!

Happy birthday! Your avatar is one of my favourites around here! ubu

looks good! those guys are the ones Stephan Wittwer was involved with in the seventies as well. Also Grob, of course. Is that a reissue?

(Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/542291.htm) Meanwhile: Dissing the dirt: Slang outruns its iffy past Jan Freeman The Boston Globe Thursday, October 7, 2004 BOSTON In a recent New Yorker magazine profile, Teresa Heinz Kerry got some grief for her grasp of English idiom after she called her detractors "scumbags." "I doubt that she knows the literal meaning of 'scumbag,' wrote the reporter, Judith Thurman, "but perhaps, after 40 years in America ... she should have learned it." Thurman does not, however, enlighten her audience; maybe she assumes that all New Yorker readers know what John Kerry's wife doesn't. If so, I suspect she's wrong: When I wrote about the word in 1998, after a Republican congressman called Bill Clinton a scumbag, dozens of readers told me they'd had no idea of its origins. Though it's now usually just an all-purpose derogation, a cop-show synonym for "dirtbag," "creep" or "lowlife," scumbag originally meant "condom" (to many, "used condom" - scum being slang for semen). But if lots of people don't know this, do we really want to spread the word? Or are we better off letting scumbag enjoy life as a nonspecifically nasty term of abuse? A few slang words, after all, have outrun their unsavory origins. "Bollix" for "mess up" is no longer vulgar, having left "ballocks" in the dust; "nuts" (though it used to be euphemized "nerts") is likewise untainted by its past. "Screw up" is now acceptable, though other uses of "screw" vary in their vulgarity ratings. "Futz around," which may be either a euphemism for you-know-what or a descendant of the Yiddish "arumfarzen" (no translation necessary), is not uncommon in print nowadays, and even "putz around" is gaining ground. (Its resemblance to "putter" may make it seem milder than "futz," though in fact its root is Yiddish slang for penis.) Origins are not, in any case, what make a term taboo; it was cultural consensus, not any secret meaning, that once made "bloody" Britain's worst swear word. These days, though, consensus can be hard to find. Newspapers try to hold a conservative line on language - The New York Times, for instance, will print "crap shoot," but you can't say "crap" unless you're Lyndon Johnson (and dead). But print editors are the Canutes of usage, trying to turn back the usage tide rolling in from TV, pop music and the Internet. For would-be gatekeepers, the speed of slang evolution keeps reviving the essential scumbag question: How dirty can a word be if nobody knows it's dirty? For the past decade, the slang word most delicately balanced on this usage bubble has been "sucks," as in "Mom, these sneakers suck." Seven years ago, when I first wrote about it, I was sure it was headed for respectability: The kids using the term had no sense of any sexual meaning, after all, and (as my then-teenage daughter pointed out) the new usage was intransitive; there was no grammatical object being sucked. Sucks may have been borrowed from the slang for fellating, but innocent employment, I thought, would neutralize its iffy past. It had respectable relatives, too. "Sucks to you!" (origin unknown) had been ordinary British youthspeak since the early 20th century, and "suck up to," though probably of indelicate ancestry, was so thoroughly domesticated that in 1953, C.S. Lewis used it in one of his Narnia books for children. Besides, "suck" has so many standard uses that you can't really quarantine the syllable. "Sucker" meaning "dupe," for instance, is merely a babe in the woods, a still-suckling newborn; and to children in many parts of the country, a sucker is an innocent lollipop. But I didn't reckon with the literalists, who decided kids should know this was a bad word, even if they'd prefer that someone else explained why. We could have told the kids "sucks" was short for "sucks lemons" and left well enough alone, but no: Parents banned it, then Boston Red Sox baseball fans adopted it for their (increasingly pathetic) anti-Yankees slogan, and some of them, just to show that they really meant to be crude, dragged their rivals' star shortstop into it, wearing their "Yankees suck" T-shirts with "Jeter swallows" on the back. This is a shame; though every civilization needs a store of taboo words, "sucks" is a useful slang verb. The finger-waggers say we should use "more descriptive" words - "the Yankees are evil," perhaps- but in fact, "sucks" energetically fills a syntactical role that would otherwise belong to "to be," that essential but uninspiring verb. Strunk and White ("Use the active voice") would have to approve, and so do I. Jan Freeman's column appears regularly in The Boston Globe.

David, here's a thread I started about a show I saw/heard in March. Stubblefield was still there, then, but he remained seated while playing and didn't really look all that well. ubu

some more: - Miles Plugged Nickel - Parker-Guy-Lytton at the Vortex - Italian Instabile Festival (2CD set on Leo) - Cecil Taylor: Two Ts for a Lovely T (Codanza 10CD box) - Miles: Carnegie Hall 1961 (LOVE it!) - Monk at the It Club - Von Freeman, The Improvisor & At the Dakota - Irene Schweizer: Chicago Piano Solo - Ahmad Jamal: the few of his Argo/Chess sides I know still missing many, I guess

the Chatterbox is on some grey labels, GREAT music! Lester Young in full flight, certainly among my favourite live recordings, as well! Some others (many or all already mentioned, I suppose): - Bill Evans Vanguard (with LaFaro & Motian) - Coltrane Vanguard 61 - Monk: Misterioso & In Action dates - Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti - CT: Willisau - Ayler: Prophecy - Mingus: all the 64 Europe material - Barney Wilen at Saint Germain ("Barney" + more) - the great Dolphy/Little/Waldron/Davis/Blackwell live date - Art Pepper Vanguard 9CD box - Randy Weston: Monterey 66 - Randy Weston: Carnival - Randy Weston: that great solo piano Freedom LP recorded in Zurich - Abdullah Ibrahim: Yarona - Duke at Newport '56 - Sonny Rollins Village Vanguard - Sam Rivers, Portrait - Albert Ayler, Hilversum Session - Stan Getz at Storyville - Massey Hall Concert I'm sure I missed many a favourite...

ditto

Friends, I am in possession of the awesome Holy Ghost set since yesterday. Haven't listened to anything yet (though I know quite some of the music from the inofficial Ayler tree). I am very impressed by this box! First, it's much bigger than I'd have expected, and second it's beautifully assembled, with all the memorabilia and the hardcover boo full of beautiful photos. Then totally unrelated: anyone around here has heard the Zeena Parkins-Ikue Mori CD? Read the cover story of the October Wire and I am very interested in this CD it seems, so any opinion appreciated! ubu

Oh, if we're also allowed to talk bass clarinet, I'm sure our friend D.D. would agree with my nomination of Hans Koch!

That's what my girlfriend would say, would I be crazy enough to listen to this music while she was around... I won't probably even show her the box (or I won't tell her it's new, you know what reactions that provokes..., she might declare ME crazy... ) ubu (still verrrry , but I won't be able to listen to it until probably tomorrow night... )

I guess he is, yes. I consider him a marvellous alto, soprano & clarinet player. What he does is sort of adding a jewish component to jazz, often performing standards, but also his own material, in a rather extraordinary fashion (yet mainstream, I guess). His discs are on Enja, so go figure... as you said it recently, some mainstream, some ethno/folk... no vocals, at least on the live recordings I have. He's leading the so-called "Orient-House Ensemble" (named after the Palestinian headquarters). Living in London in exile, it seems he's a rather staunch supporter of anti-Israel or whatever you call it, anti-Sharon, for sure, policy. It seems he's also written at least one political novel about Israel/Palestine, so he may also be considered an activist. His musical programme might be a bit ecclesticist, playing Bechet's "Petite Fleur", medleys of Gershwin, Ellington, Weill and his own material, but also having some Shorter in his repertoire (Footprints). Definitely melodic, definitely not ECM-kind-of-beauty, but definitely no free jazz. Just good music. ubu

There's some more Sonore to be heard here: http://www.radiofrance.fr/listen.php?pr=rt...telenum/jazz.rm You can record it with a programme such as GoldWave that's available for free. This thread gives the necessary explanations how to do it. After you've got it on your HD as a wave file you can set track marks with Nero Burning Room, and then pop in the CDR you got from me, add those tracks and burn it all on a new CDr. There may be differences in sound. Also, I didn't yet check the tracks from Sunday's broadcast with what I already have. What you need to know about that broadcast is taht the Sonore part is only around 25 minutes. THere are a couple of new releases being presented first, as well as after the Sonore tracks. Skip the first 15 or so minutes and there the Sonore starts. ubu

Hey fellas, the rats coming out of the ghetto!

Gianluigi Trovesi Gabriele Mirabassi Michel Portal (yes, he can still deliver some goods!) Louis Sclavis

John Carter, Perry Robinson, again Gilad Atzmon... haven't heard too much of either of them, but I like them very much!

I don't at all want to argue about this threads in general, but Chuckster is at least partially right... some of the older are among the best. dig Charlie Mariano, for instance, te mention at least an alto player! Then there was Teddy Edwards, there still are Von Freeman and Fred Anderson, there's Wayne...

Can't take part in this discussion, really, but there's one disc that indeed hit me in the face like nothing else before AND it was pretty recent when I heard it: Gianni Gebbia - Arcana Major (not for the weak ones!)

this one, correct choice? Yes. It's OOP, so don't wait for too lonmg with ordering it. CDuniverse list it as shipping in 2 days, I;ve not known them to be wrong, here's hoping Neither do I. You'll be listening to it in a week! Please do report!

Zorn turned 50 last year. the question mark referred more to "favourite player" than to the age. frankly I don't really care about age... I mean, look at the tenor thread with the same topic: Wayne Shorter sounds younger and more daring at 71 than most of the players mentioned so far.

...musiques yesterday. Anyone has the whole of it? I missed the first and parts of the second tune ("Petite Fleur" and beginning of "There and Then"). I'd be delighted in any offers for the whole thing! Please PM me! b3-er: kill this thread if it doesn't fit the policy! ubu

I love the Enja discs he made with Ward! The following two are my personal and sentimental favourites, as they were among the first Ibrahim, among the first jazz, in fact, that I heard: ubu

this one, correct choice? yes! I thought it was OOP, but if you get it, you'll be a step closer to heaven... saxophonistically spoken, that is. This disc simply blew me away!