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Well, droogs, I had a listen to this one: And I have to admit that - while I hear the technical brilliance, and lots of ideas - the whole thing leaves me rather cold. I like Shipp (I don't "love" him, though), and I admire Ms Ibarra, who's a wonderful drummer (and a beautiful woman, too)! Yet this whole thing which I understand is "energetic" and "emotional", still doesn't convince me, and leaves me cold to a point that I could maybe even argue the emotionality being fake... I don't want to say that, but the disc seems to be much too polished, too clean, and not really reaching its goals. Maybe a live recording, done on the spot by someone good at capturing a band's live sound (as opposed to the clean and perfect late nineties studio sound common to many major label releases, lately), would help a lot. Or maybe not... On the other hand, this one's a great disc, I think: Had another listen (only in the background, though), and it does quite convince me. Some beautiful playing by all three, and the two duo tracks with Leo Smith are very good, too! (How about those two tracks, are they part of an album's worth of Smith-Brown duos?) ubu

VERY definitely!

Yes indeed! His JiP releases are great!

Happy Birthday ubu

How about Gunther Schuller? Haven't heard much of his work, but some of the stuff on that strange Lovano third stream disc is GREAT! And he's the man who did Mingus' "Epitaph", too, so he can't be too bad. Also in the liners of the Miles/Gil box, there's a quote about George Avakian proposing two arrangers to do what would turn out to be "Miles Ahead" - Gil Evans or Gunther Schuller. ubu

Looking forward to it! Hey, I found "Ghostly Thoughts" today - a new copy showing a bit of wear, as it was probably lying around where I found it since its release... only 15 CHF (around 10$), which is pretty cool for a Hat disc, no matter if I like it or love it (let's hope I won't hate it...) ubu

Listened to #10 once more, and I really really like it! It's quite mainstreamy-stuff, if you know it a bit better. Solos are built just as one ought to, but then everything is a bit strange, a bit unusual, some notes are not exactly where they belong to... Love it! Got to look for that disc some day! ubu

Leffe (I currently prefer the Radieuse, but all four of them are good! Or: Then there's this one: And this: A good one I have only come to know recently: (Grimbergen) And a last one: Then there's Guiness, of course, and there's some other good Irish ales... but mainly my love goes to Belgian beer, as you may guess by now... ubu

She did some great work for Randy Weston!

there are some great releases on Nessa. Get the Fred Anderson, the Air disc, the AEC box and Roscoe Mitchell's Snurdy McGurdy and her Dancin' Shoes to start. The AEC I've had for at least five years! Love it! Other than that no Nessa so far, but no money to order right now - all the ones you mention are on my list, though, thanks! ubu

Waddya mean? That was humble yours truly... Don't have the Nessa yet, but I will have to order some of Chuck's stuff sooner or later... Check the sample track from the Elixir disc on the Atavistic site, Gary - you shall like that one, too! ubu

Then how about George Russell? Big

Of course Barry Guy! Don Redman (with Fletcher Henderson and with his own band) also George Gruntz ubu

Moby Dick (=rest of the world) of course. Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer! Ein Heeering so fett wie der Geeering (sorry, no relation, but fun it is...)

Grant Green's "Am I Blue". Ike Quebec's great "Bossa Nova Soul Samba" or whatever the correct title of that one is. Both are different, but then you won't find anything that's just like "Midnight Blue". You might also try Green's "Green Street", another very moody affair. Maybe something by Wes Montgomery, too. ubu

Just one to add: Tadd Dameron - he really has a sound all his own!

Well, Hi! It's me again Downloaded some stuff from the Atavistic website - listened to the Fred Anderson and some of the McPhee samples, so far, and am looking forward to hearing the Brötzles samples and more - some very good stuff available there! The only releases I have are a couple of the UMS (one of the McPhees, "Trinity", and the Hal Russell I just mentioned). Will have to order a lot from their releases, some fine day! Do they go OOP? Fast? Let's hope not! ubu

No photo from mainstation, but here's my favourite store there: ubu B)

But they're nice, no? I'll do good and replace them with smaller ones... but got to have dinner now, first. The whole first page of this thread is now 20MB ! Resized and comments added. Hope the images are ok now, as far as size is concerned. ubu

But they're nice, no? I'll do good and replace them with smaller ones... but got to have dinner now, first.

all resized now - should be ok (?) Zurich Mainstation, and the corny, pseudo-old "Landesmuseum", sort of an official museum displaying historical stuff, mostly too stupid to deal with, but not always. An ugly building, only 100 years old. The hall of the station, though is great. Maybe I can find an photo to show how it looks inside.

Gotta have some swiss banking institutes, of course... head offices of UBS and CS. The Paradeplatz - as the saying goes, you'd only have to dig through some meters of probably beton, and then you'd find tons of gold... some from Nazis, some from Jews, some from Swiss, some from other famous clients...

A view of the old town of Zurich, along the river "Limmat". The building right behind the tower of the church is the University of Zurich, right left of it is the Technical University (ETH), built by Gottfried Semper.

You can see the Uetliberg in the background - every tourist goes there, I haven't made it up there so far (though there's some sort of a train, no need to walk up there for me, and no urge to do so, either...)