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Is FedEx delivering this in Europe? I had a post-it sticking on the door when I came home tonight, without any other information except I should call them up. Do they work Saturdays? I REEEALLY HOPE SO! If not, I won't be able to let them deliver it until Wednesday (hell, some people work during the day...) ubu

John, I'd heartily recommend his early trio discs, if you've been into "African Piano". They were recorded live at the Montmartre in Copenhagen, 1965, with Johnny Gertze (b) and Makaya Ntshoko (d). I only have one of the, "Round Midnight at the Montmartre", the other is called "Anatomy of an African Village" or something, if I remember right. That music has a freshness one still can feel today. Both discs are (were?) on Black Lion. I just heard an interview on swiss radio with Irene Schweizer. Ibrahim was one of the most important early influences on her playing (later came Cecil Taylor) and she heard him play in Zurich in the early sixties countless times. "African Piano", by the way, is her favourite recording! ubu

Same here. Before I tended to just pick up a dozen RVGs if I saw them for a good prize. Not anymore... three of the cc Conns in a special sale (the prize was so good I couldn't resist), other than those only a few older discs, like some Nineties Rare Grooves. I don't even check their site anymore.

Thanks Joe, I know Ntshoko - better than Tchicai, but only from those old Dollar Brand records. I guess I'll go. I will report. ubu

Thanks, this pushes me over the edge, I suppose

On MPS? I just received the 2CD set reissuing an MPS album (don't know if it was a 2LP set or two separate LPs) "Give me a double" was the title (double LP) - great music! Billy Brooks is on that one! That's also the title of the 2CD set I just got. Looking forward to hearing it! Idrees Sulieman is also aboard, as are a few other great ones, Andy Scherrer, Isla Eckinger, Ferdinand Povel... I guess it's a straight reissue of the LP set, then.

Same notion here. I guess we'll have to wait and check the tracks/timings once they're out. All pretty confusing. The Tree has material twice, I think, from different sources. ubu

So this would be the Maeght material exclusively in the Ayler tree until today? Will have to check once tehre's some tracklisting available, or rather: timing, as the tracks are, it seems, often difficult to title (several tunes on record with the same title and similar oddities in Ayler's discography). ubu

Let's keep our eyes open, yes! Sounds like a great band, thanks for the review. ubu

books on beer, CDs immerged in beer... but now we ought to cut the crap, as the man has already headed for weekend, and we are polite enough not to talk crap about absent persons... How 'bout Mikeweil & Jelinek?

Thanks for the link, brownie! Sounds all a bit over the top, but that's something many an artist's website suffers from. Will burn that concert and listen this weekend. ubu

John Scofield Live 1996 with Seamus Blake, Kevin Hays, Larry Grenadier, Bill Stewart, rec. at Festival Once Plus, November 8, 1996. This should be up for a month. Haven't listened yet, but I bet it's cool! ubu

Got the following from the CT list: ************* Cecil Taylor to Star in NYU Jazz Masterclass Series Webcast NEW YORK - The New York University Jazz Masterclass Series live webcast premiers 4 p.m., October 10 and will feature pianist Cecil Taylor at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York City. Taylor will be in a solo performance setting as he critiques a variety of student performers. The students will be asked to research Taylor and will be assembled for questioning prior to the masterclass in a round table discussion. They will also be interviewed after the masterclass to share any insights they may have learned. Log on to www.artistshousemusic.com or www.cjh.org to view the webcast on Sunday. The NYU Jazz Masterclass Series was created eight years ago to nurture a relationship between aspiring jazz performers at NYU and the most significant jazz artists willing to participate. The series not only documents and preserves the greatest jazz artists of our time, but also captures them in the process of teaching their craft, helping viewers to better understand their process of improvised music. Only through the resources of New York City, can a masterclass claim the significance and depth of the jazz artists that NYU intends to capture on camera. "Until now, the success of this series could only be measured by observing such interaction within the intimate setting of the masterclass series offered at NYU," said series co-producer Dr. David Schroeder. "With the expansion of the scope of this project through the partnership with our co-producer John Snyder, President of the Artist¹s House Foundation, we intend to bring the NYU Jazz Masterclass Series Webcast to the world stage." The jazz faculty at NYU includes some of the most significant jazz artists in the world such as guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Chris Potter, pianist Kenny Werner, drummer Bill Hart, trombonist Robin Eubanks, and 35 other world-renowned artists/faculty. "By combining these artists with the greatest living jazz legends scheduled for the masterclass series including Cecil Taylor, Hank Jones and Clark Terry, we have the opportunity to share our experiences with the world," Schroeder said. "Capturing this interaction is our mission for the future of jazz education, distance learning and the the preservation of great performances in jazz music. We hope that you will join us." This series is made possible through the generous support from the Center for Jewish History, the Artist¹s House Foundation, and the NYU Jazz Studies Program at Steinhardt. Admission is free to anyone who wishes to attend the event in person. ************* Same source, John? Anyone happens to know if this is ONLY available on Sunday 4 PM US time? Or will this be up after that? Will miss it if it's only a live broadcast. If there is actual Taylor music, it would be great if someone could provide me with a CDR! ubu

Why, beer is a nice and tasty cleaning device

On MPS? I just received the 2CD set reissuing an MPS album (don't know if it was a 2LP set or two separate LPs) of that band, great line up! Not listened yet. On topic: PREZ! He knew how to quote! Also there's the Getz quartet dates, the ones with Horace Silver for Roost, they have a ball throwing quotes at each otehr there. Desmond, of course! Dry Martini or not, he was the cool as can be! ubu

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