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I like "Dusk" and "A Beautiful Day" a lot! If you go here and scroll down a bit, you can find two unedited performances that ended up (edited) on "A Beautiful Day". "Passing Ships" is great, as has been said. I am another Hill fan, so I like all of his BNs I heard, so far... ubu

Have fun with that one, Tony! Me loves it! One of the first Mosaics I got. ubu

Been one of my favourite CDs ever since I got it. It's in frequent rotation here. Cheers! you already know, but then I thought I'd remind you... ubu B-)

That's all on the 16CD set, Milan, right?

Cobb did two relatively recent recordings with the quartet of swiss tenor saxophonist, Roman Schwaller (he was with the Vienna Art Ochestra in the eighties). The quartet also includes Oliver Kent (p), and Thomas Stabenow (b). One disc is on JHM Records - I have and like it: http://www.jhmrecords.ch/de/katalog/index_a.php, the other one I just now found out about is on Bassic Sound: http://www.jazzrecords.com/bassic/cd019.htm. Very fine mainstream jazz, a couple of originals, Cobb is great, Schwaller is never less than solid, quite his own man, and the other two men are good, as well, Stabenow standing out shining on several tunes of "Some Changes in Life" (JHM). If anyone orders from JHM directly, they have a few other good things in their catalogue: the Clifford Jordan disc (here - ask Sangrey), as well as Schwaller's Nonet release, The Original Tunes. ubu

Thanks, Nate! Sunday morning listening: Another fantastic disc! I may like the Dakota disc a tiny little bit better, but there are some very good things on this one, as well. The blues in quartet with Jason Moran is fantastic! So is the opening solo. And hearing a chords-based group doing such fine playing, and featuring guitar instead of piano, and such a nice guitar player, is much to my likings, too. Then I continued with some heavier schtuff: Like it a lot! Very tough music, needs a lot of concentration, but I think it's very very good! And a few days ago also listened to this CD the first time: Solid trio jazz, more or less conventional, but very good. Mark Burdon plays drums and percussion, Joshua Dahlager is on bass, and Rich Halley on saxophones. ubu

Can you give some detail on the 2CD thing with Eskelin, please? Couldn't find anything on Eskelin's homepage. ubu

Samsara? ubu

Sounds good! What is a good online source to get Victo releases from? I'll need that Phillips, too! ubu

(thanks, David!) Very joyful, loose music. The first track makes me think this music would not have been possible if it weren't for Abdullah Ibrahim... Really like it! It's as melodious as the more "in" italian jazz (Fresu, for instance), yet there is more to it. All four musicians (all unknown to me before) are very good! Now listening to Henry Grimes' ESP disc the third time, and I think it does get better. ubu

Thanks for that link, Bentsy! Some fantastic photos! ubu I bought his book ubu (many years ago). If you like photography, it is a treasure. I have his "White Women" - quite some of the photos on that link are in there. ubu

Thanks for that link, Bentsy! Some fantastic photos! ubu

I guess Carla taught Paul everything she knew. Paul taught Steve everything Carla new, and Steve taught Carla everything Paul knew... must have been this way or similar Thanks for sharing, John! Hilarious!

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I wish you all the best of luck! Can't do much more than that, I'm afraid - hope you don't get hit too hard. ubu

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Quite. Dutch timing? You certainly could produce the most exact cuckoo clocks! ubu

Yup, those tracks for me are among (if not the) highlights of that set!

That's one of my favourite Jazz in Paris discs! It features Sacha Distel on guitar. ubu

Except for the Clarinettes.... I have all of these. All recommended, except maybe the Prez. I'd only recommend this one to people already familiar with earlier and later recordings of his. It's a pretty tough one. Not that I'd want to miss it, but then it can really be hard to listen to. ubu

Two of my favourites:

"I" - although he was Dollar Brand for me too, when I got to know him.

Haven't yet really started exploring his work. The only things I own are "Black Orchid" and that other partially live disc, with additional tracks, and Harris on organ, can't remember teh title. If there was more available on Blue NOte, I might go for it... Happy birthday! ubu