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Exactly! I was always bemused by statements about Miles having no chops. As for Henderson - I like Henderson a lot when he plays "out" (well, "slightly out") - if you don't have it, check out his very impressive CD with Alice Coltrane called Elements (...I think) - it's on Fantasy/OJC. Thinking about it, I like Henderson even if he does not play "out"! What a monster muscian he was! I love Henderson - even when he's not "out" at all and smooth and all - he always has some sort of "edge" - don't know any of his Milestone/OJCs (as I always thought - and still do - I'll get the box some day...) What I have are the four readily available discs he did with K.D. for Blue Note, and some later stuff. I like the Montreux recording with Corea/Peacock/Haynes very very much! The Montréal disc keeps being good! Track two is an extended version of All the Things You Are (almost 20 mins), Haden and Foster solo beautifully as well, and it has a very loose feel! Haden had a very strong week back then in Montréal! I have the LMO, Bley/Motian (hardly know it - will spin right after), Allen/Motian, as well as a burn of the OOP Cherry/Blackwell, and I consider each and every one of them good to very good. I hear the Rubalcaba/Motian is maybe the best... will get that before it goes OOP. However, I can't really warm to the thought of buying the duo with Gismonti (on ECM, strangely). ubu as a PS to Henderson: I of course have "State of the Tenor"! (WOW!)

Tom, got your discs, thanks! ubu

Don't know too many discs with Bernstein, but I saw the Goldings-Bernstein-Stewart trio live once, some years back, and they definitively smoked! This one's most highly recommended: ubu

thank you for posting these links, ubu! I'll listen to the Miles once I get home from the gym tonight. I enjoyed the live Prince shows a lot more than I expected to. I downloaded them for a friend who is a Prince fanatic and gave the San Jose show a listen before giving him the cdrs. Great stuff! Haven't listened to a lot of the Prince shows yet, but what I've heard so far sounded REAL good and REAL FUNKY! Finished the Miles half way, irritated by the timings given on the Losin-page linked from darkfunk.com - same thing with the last Miles show on the darkfunk site: either the speed of those MP3s is wrong, or it's not from the date linked to... don't know the answer, myself, but I'll enjoy the music once I'm in the mood for it. While I have to be in the mood for almost any seventies Miles, I do enjoy it a lot, when I'm in taht mood, and I hope for more from the Fillmore as well, that 2CD thingie is some of best Miles ever made! Also, he's on fire there! Some of the greatest trumpet playing he ever delivered! Spinning now: First listen, starts off with a beautiful rendition of my all time favourite monk ballad, 'Round Midnight. Foster on brushes, Henderson terriffic, and Haden less Haden than often, and for the good of it! Wonder what "In The Moment" will be like - the CD liners by Haden mention Henderson coming to him before the concert, telling him he wanted to play "something free like [he] did with Ornette"... ubu

Never heard of Luther Thomas... There's a free downloadable track available from this CD via the Atavistic website - sort of free funk, with both the Bowie's involved, as well as J.D. Parran and Charles "Bobo" Shaw. here 'tis

could have gotten some more discs, but I picked up around a third of the jazz discs from all the bins I went through... far too much, of course, but at 70 CHF (+/-50$) it's quite alright... And I only went into that shop by chance... Now listening: some live miles from the seventies ubu

Never heard of Luther Thomas... Let me know how this Ornette is. I think it's OOP, so I am thinking whether it's worth searching for it or not. There's a free downloadable track available from this CD via the Atavistic website - sort of free funk, with both the Bowie's involved, as well as J.D. Parran and Charles "Bobo" Shaw. Will tell you about the Ornette (still haven't listened to the Björk, by the way). ubu

Here are the more or less rat-related items I picked up, all for the prize of 5 swiss franks: There are some more... Jimmie Lunceford, Dusko Goykovich, that Lytle doorbellist... ubu

Listening to this one right now - finally got it, and got it cheap. There's a sale going on, discs for around 3.5 bucks, and me just got a pile... among them this one. The line up is: Michael Wertmüller - drums Alex Buess - reeds & electronics Peter Brötzmann - reeds Stephan Wittwer - guitar William Parker - bass The label the disc was released on is Trost, Austrian, and, as far as I know, not involved with any other free jazz/improv releases. Buess is a swiss saxophonist and clarinetist, and it was him who produced the whole thing. Wittwer, of course, is the guitar player I mentioned several times by now, Brötzel must be known to all of you, and Wertmüller, a fantastic drummer, might be known by some of you as well, as he appeared on a recent Brötzel trio disc (don't own it), which, I think, also featured the other well-known of the above players, William Parker. First impression while not even yet halfway through is that this is quite a noisy affair, sort of what you expect when you hear the name of Brotz, and what I expected also knowing Wittwer was involved. Wertmüller does his incredible things, the reeds squeak and squeel, Wittwer and Parker provide a wall of sound, blending with the bass drum, and me likes... ubu

I'm a huge fan of Cannonball's! He was among the first musicians I "got" when I started exploring jazz - among a pile of Cannon discs I was allowed to borrow from a friend of my parents when I was fifteen or something were the famous San Francisco Jazz Workshop disc, Nippon Soul, Something Else, the big band date on Riverside, and several of the Landmark discs (now being reissued by Blue Note). Let's hope they'll bring us this GREAT one soon: I do own the Landmark LP, and hell, Lateef is blowing some BAD blues on "Trouble in Mind", and the band is on fire! Other favourites are "Them Dirty Blues," "Nippon Soul," and all of the earlier sides for Savoy, as well as the Emarcy dates I know. The Sophisticated something 2CD set is fantastic! ubu

Had a listen to Oliver Lake's "Again And Again" (Grammavision, rec. 1991). It's an all ballads disc (all composed by Lake), with John Hicks, Reggie Workman, and Pheeroan ak Laff. Pretty good, in my opinion. Not a disc to get enthusiastic about all of a sudden, I guess, but I think one that could slowly grow. Now back again to Ellington Uptown - fantastic! Last night (and this morning) spun the Masterpieces CD, and hey, this is GREAT music! ubu

Where did you order it? You think you won't need to pay any custom or tax shitte? CD Universe. If you mark it as "gift" the tax is calculated from the lower base. Total tax should not be morwe than 10-15 Sfr. Tell me once you get it, please! It's a bit steep anyway for my current financial situation...

Where did you order it? You think you won't need to pay any custom or tax shitte?

1:25 p.m. - who's STILL awake and who's ALREADY (!!! HEY FOLKS, IT'S SATURDAY!!!) awake? ubu B-)

not for me, had the old US OJC for a long time, and took note of that, as well as Percy Heath's goof on "Blue Monk" without having to update... Amazon, funny enough, only has this one and the 20K with image... ubu

Sure, please do! (I don't read JC)

Am I jealous or what? Hey, can anyone give the line up of the bands on all those downloads? I see Candy and Maceo, but have no idea who's in the current band (my favorite line up until recently was the one with Sonny T and Michael B etc... that could change, once I get to know these shows better!) thanks, ubu

best tuned studio piano ever found on this recording: ubu B-)

Oh yes!

This one's fantastic! might not be the ovious starting point if you come to Waits via jazz, but it's a great great album!

I don't have this one, from other 3-4 Bergman CDs I've heard, I've found his playing to be consistently boring. Yup - I never heard him, so I can't really say ANYthing about him. Other opinions? Got the new Björk disc, sounds interesting. Will listen over the weekend. ubu I had this & gave it away to a friend. Besides the fact that I don't much like Bergman's playing, the sound quality is pretty drab. Thanks, I'll definitely let that one pass! David, I'll tell you how I'll like the Björk - it got mixed reviews in all the swiss and german daily & weekly papers I read (four or five), but the things they did criticise made me want to get the disc all the more!

I don't have this one, from other 3-4 Bergman CDs I've heard, I've found his playing to be consistently boring. Yup - I never heard him, so I can't really say ANYthing about him. Other opinions? Got the new Björk disc, sounds interesting. Will listen over the weekend. ubu

And you'll get the moustache for free ubu

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ndpost&p=163540

what 10$ haircut? I didn't know the US are part of the third world, haircut-prize-wise! No way a barber would even touch your hair for 10 bucks! Absolute minimum, but far less than average, would be around 35$ here! No tips needed, at those prizes, of course...