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Great to see a bit of a Wheeler discussion! I love what I have heard so far (which is not much...). I am still trying to continue my buying freeze as good as I can, and thus I did not pick up this 2CD set - I will put it on my list, though. And thanks everybody for sharing your knowledge! ubu

I don't have this album, but I'm quite a fan of what I heard of Solal. His early stuff was out in the latest nineties on three Vogue Masters CDs (titled Complete Vogue Recordings Vols. 1-3). Some great trio, solo, quartet (with "Fats" Sadi Lallemand on vibes), and band stuff! Didn't get his latest BN release so far, as it's copy protected here (although I saw it dirt cheap and was tempted several times). Is this one still available? I also heard Solal live once, in a trio with Johnny Griffin (bad night, though no booze, it seemed), and NHOP (did a great 12 bar blues solo that night). Solal was in pretty good shape, though the whole concert was quite a boring mess. I think I have a couple of really good live tracks recorded off the air with Griffin, Solal and a rhythm section. Got to look for that. ubu

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Chic

Great film

Sent you a PM!

By the way, three posts up, when referring to disc 1 I meant disc 3, the 1960 date - I decided to listen to the music in the sequence it was recorded.

Listened to disc 2 (1979) - GREAT music! Really! Michelot is much more of a presence (also becasue of sound quality - on the 1960 date he often almost disappears). If anything, Urtreger is more his own man, and Humair even better (he is awesome today, but then, as I said, he was awesome already as a youngster in the 1950s). ubu

Happy Birthday, Larry! And many happy returns! ubu

Forgot something:

Garth, HUUUGE thanks! I listened to disc 1 this morning - terrific stuff! Urtreger sometimes, in his Bud-Powell-inflections, reminds me a bit of Sonny Clark (the Trio record with Chambers & Philly Joe) - he is not a very individual piano stylist, I think, but he is very very good. And Humair is smoking! Makes sense that his name is mentioned first, indeed! What a great drummer he was at age 22, already! Looking forward to hearing the 79 and 99 recordings! ubu

First listen to this one - very impressed!

Ubu, we're cool. I was hearing you. And, yes, Two T's is exactly that: a week at work for the Feel Trio. William Parker is impressive in this setting -- he is an incredible fit.

Sad news to start the weekend! R.I.P. ubu

Me too. CRIPES UBU! Get with the program, would you! B) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks Hans for the information on the Brotz Hat release. ubu, you'd better standardize on 40 posts per page... don't test the limits of our tolerance -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All those american and russian imperialists! Holy shit! We small european countries got to stand together! (As the swiss do with the EU ) ubu

A very good one!

Yeah! Erdinger & Schneider Weissbier! And don't forget the slice of lemon!

Me too. CRIPES UBU! Get with the program, would you! B) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks Hans for the information on the Brotz Hat release. Did everybody except me adjust their board-settings? I'd be much too lazy for that - I stick with it: page 100! ubu

You might try a search for Gianni Gebbia - I'm much too lazy right now... "Arcana Major" is a solo alto sax disc, that absolutely blew me away! A truly masterful work of a young musician with (hopefully) a great future ahead. I am not sure that it can still be obtained.

Thanks, Chuck & brownie! Renewed interested here, as my radio programme about Cecil continues next sunday, and as I just found In East-Berlin used and dirt cheap in formidable condition. So "Legba Crossing" is the one to hunt! ubu

Hey, page 100 of the funny rat!! That has got to be celebrated! Great that some interest in this kind of discussion about this kind of marginalized music is around And thanks eternally to David for making me hear "Arcana major"! "Arcana Major" is da shit! ubu

This is widely stated to be the case. I wasn't here at the time and was unaware of it. I think you can assume this is accurate. Thanks, David I wondered since the day I got the set if this music was maybe taken from gigs that were spread over a long period (sort of choosing the crop), or if it was just a few nights' work - glad to hear the later is the case! Even more stunning! (Yet I still haven't made it through the whole set) ubu

I've heard that, too... I do enjoy spinning some understated piano trio stuff when people are over who think that's muzak - they might think you're pretty strange when they notice you're really ALL EARS and LISTENING to someone like Bill Evans... ubu

Posted this just now in the Cecil Taylor thread: This site mentions the 10CD "Two Ts For A Lovely T" Codanza box being recorded from August 27 to September 1, 1990 - this would make perfect sense, five nights, two sets per night. Does anyone know if this is accurate? The box just says "Recorded in London in 1990". Maybe someone here knows more? ubu

Lazaro, I have only just now realized that my post above could be read as me implying you took your ideas from Jost - I was far from wanting to say that! Why I'm actually posting here again is: This site mentions the 10CD "Two Ts For A Lovely T" Codanza box being recorded from August 27 to September 1, 1990 - this would make perfect sense, five nights, two sets per night. Does anyone know if this is accurate? The box just says "Recorded in London in 1990". And another question: the Berlin 88 stuff: I think there was some part not released on a single disc, but only in the box, right? The single releases are: "Riobec", "In East Berlin", "Regalia", "The Hearth", "Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)", "Remembrance", "Pleistozaen Mit Wasser", "Spots, Circles, And Fantasy", "Legba Crossing", "Erzulie Maketh Scent", and "Leaf Palm Hand". Is this list complete and correct? And what does the not separately released recording contain? ubu