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Then you may read all the "Fräuleinwunder" stuff and add some of the morons reading in Klagenfurt barely able to construct a correct "Nebensatz"... Seriously: I hear you, but that's just not what I expect. We may simple as that agree to disagree. Jelinek is a very very intellectual author, for the good and bad of that. I find some of her texts ("wolken.heim" for instance, I mentioned it before) to be as off-putting as they are fascinating, but then her goal is most certainly not to just please. Her novel "Lust" is, for instance, is a terrible book, in what it describes - but that's reality, I guess, with maybe a bit of a twist, but that's perfeclty right again -, as well asin how she does it. But then the "how" is perfectly in sync with the "what" and thus the whole book makes sense, repetition and language and all is merged for one goal, in the end. Read Bernhard's "Alte Meister" for a few hours of good fun. ubu

I could go see him in trio with Makaya Ntshoko (d) and Vitold Rek (b). This is the "Peter Niklas Wilson Memorial Tour". Anyone seen that band? Haven't heard Tchicai live, and only on very few CDs ("Ascension", a Dorge disc). ubu

laconic couw her books are NEVER easy to read, some in fact are almost impossible, yet for fans of Bernhard, it shouldn't be a big problem. Try and see a play by her if you can (oh, I forget, you're living in the eastern dumps ), I think "Macht nichts" is a fantastic piece of writing, try the book! ubu

In comes the whining king again... the problem I have with all this copycrap is that actually we who buy this stuff (well, most often... but with all the money I spend on CDs, I have no problem owning a burn of some OOP or hard to find things - would they keep it available I might wait till I could buy the original) get criminalized. Really shitty, really the wrong turn. I don't care about the facts that "but you can burn it all nevertheless" and "you can't hear any difference" - that's not the point.

I went to see a fantastic band last night: Christy Doran (g), Erika Stucki (voc), Kim Clarke (el b), and Fredy Studer (d) "Play the music of Jimi Hendrix". They played around the tunes quite freely, Stucki is born to be on stage, while Doran is more an ascetic kind of guy. Kim Clarke played FUNKTASTIC bass lines, with her great deep old-school sound, the kind of bass that has to be felt rather than heard note by note, and Fredy Studer, one of Switzerland's most important jazz drummers (check him out with the Koch-Schütz-Studer "hardcore chambermusic" trio) was having a ball at the traps. The music was f*@#ing loud, but it was just great! I really enjoyed seeing and hearing Kim Clarke for the first time, but the whole band was great. Doran had quite a lot going on, and his arrangements of the Hendrix tunes were much fun, they're pretty close to the originals, but with some sly little changes and rhythmic twists that make for a good surprise almost constantly. The schedule of the band can be found on Doran's homepage. They'll be touring Austria and Germany now, and while in Vienna will professionally record. We talked to Doran & Stucki as we plan to make a radio programme about this and his nineties Hendrix project (that one was with Doran-Studer-Django Bates-Phil Minton and some bass player whose name escapes me, Ali?), which was much more "artificial" and "intellectual" than what we had a chance to hear last night. Doran said that Minton didn't know any Hendrix tune safe "Hey Joe" when they did taht tour & record, they rehearsed for a couple of days, and "Phil just did what he always does" (Doran). Now for this project, Stucki has really immersed in the music and lyrics of Hendrix and is using them in a very able way, starting to loosen up here and there, taking chances. After having talked to her for a quarter of an hour we decided to include her for our interview as well if she agrees. We will get parts of the Viennese recording we hope for our programme, as they felt something wasn't just right last night (the audience didn't notice, though, neither did I). I can post a link to that programme once we've done it (December, probably). The recording in Vienna *might* end up on CD, but it seems they didn't yet decide. ubu

Pilc, in Funny Rat?!? Don't think he belongs in this thread... Uh, we've had Coleman Hawkins, even Jelly Roll Morton... why not Pilc? How is he, anyway? No chance to listen yet. The announcer compares him to Solal (who's been in the rat undeservedly, as well, but then what is deserved and waht not?). ubu

Yes indeed! Btw that film was full of loooooong word by word quotes from the book! Certainly one of the best films ever made out of a novel! Huppert is impressive, and she's an intellectual, and a woman, so I guess it wasn't that difficult for her to try and relate to Jelinek way of thinking. Brownie, read that book for a starter, then try something like "wolken.heim" to see what power of language Jelinek is capable of. If you're in for a play, try "Macht nichts. Kleine Trilogie des Todes". ubu

How do you record it? With GoldWave, a programme that can be downloaded for free. There's a thread hidden somewhere with step-by-step explanations how to do it. I can't find taht thread... paging rockefeller center, paging rockefeller center! Here's the link to the GoldWave site: http://www.goldwave.com. ubu

Funny I just moved that disc on top of my listening pile - I liked it a lot when I heard it the last time. ubu

Here's a nice article and an interview: http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Peggy%20Lee_2.htm Check the site out, many nice things there! (Rooster just linked to the Horace Silver band's Blindfold Test in his new Tyrone Washington thread). ubu

Wow, they nailed it everything! Good read, thanks for the link, Rooster! No help from me, as I never heard any Washington besides that one Horace Silver disc, "The Jody Grind". ubu

Thanks Joe. I LOVE Schnitzler, then there's Hofmannsthal, and all the guys even further from the East, Kafka, Roth, Rilke etc etc - I tend to read more of that literature than actual German literature. Also the writers from the very eastern border of the German language as it was before WWII do fascinate me a lot: Celan, Ausländer, Rosenkranz. I have "Jahrestage" on my shelf since three or four years, but never came around actually reading it... not forgotten here, just postponed... I guess you know how it goes. ubu

So is Pharoah Sanders Impulse work. VERY much so, in fact. And Gato? He crossed the border himself, didn't he? (I only have some of his Flying Dutchman so far) ubu

you see, only needs some nice remarks about Miles and already couw drops by

So "Buddy & Soul" is the last of the PacJazz Riches with Watts aboard? I only have that one and "Keep the Customer Satisfied" so far, and tend to prefer the earlier. Funny I just got a nice Menza disc today...

Be careful to sort out the Washington stuff! There's three discs of music on two pages, and tracks are named ...t1 and ...t2, you have to rename them into ...t01 and ...t02 after you downloaded them, otherwise you will have to sort them before burning!

She's decidedly Austrian. Her language goes back I think to Hölderlin (check "wolken.heim" for that) most. Certainly there's some Thomas Bernhard in there, too, as is of the whole Austrian "lineage" I think (you know, the sort of "subversive canon", Kraus, Musil, Canetti, Bernhard, etc etc). Seems Austria has quite ambigue feelings about her, there even were some scandals... yet Austria still celebrates some nice fellows such as Karl Lueger, the anti-semite mayor of Vienna (address of the University of Vienna "Karl Lueger-Weg"... funny as hell ), so it's obvious many Austrians should have a problem with authors such as Kraus, Bernhard, or Jelinek. Yet at the same time this "climate" has nurished some of the most fascinating writers of the last decades. And to come back to your post: I'd not liken here to Schmidt (he's beyond any comparison, I suppose), and I don't really know Johnson, but I guess she's a different cup of tea. ubu

uh, oh, beautiful? me? Four more discs of music, by the way!

And everyone able to so really should try reading her in German. I think it's pointless to translate her language, if not impossible.

This is great news! They're really taking chances lately! Jelinek is a fantastic writer. I'm not sure if here best days have passed already, but then I'm not familiar wiht much of her latest writings. She has some great novels (two of them were turned into great films, "La pianiste" and "Die Ausgesperrten") and some great plays as well as "Hörspiele". She certainly deserves this honour! ubu

Listening right now (and recording), thanks! ubu

Yup, same opinion here, but then with the last few they had a lucky hand, in my opinion - finally some skeptics got their share with Naipaul, Kertesz etc... not only world literature light. ubu

Jean Michel Pilc on Radio Suisse Romande More to be found there, some great music! ubu

Sounds good, John! Wow, I'm excited! I guess I skip sleeping until it arrives to get even more excited... (it's almost 4 a.m. here, shit!)

Friends, I've just had a first complete listen to the great Marco Eneidi disc provided by John B - and I am impressed, I have to admit! Lisle Ellis (never heard him before) is smokin', and so is Ellis! Thanks very much, John! I'll have another listen to this disc as soon as I can, for sure. ubu