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Evan, hope you had a good one, and many happy returns (you know, all them Babes are a healthy thing ) ubu

I don't know the two you mention, but I'd start with "Student Studies", recently reissued (there's a Cecil-thread in the artists section where it was recommended - I got it after reading about it there). A great one, with lots of room and space and air to breath (the absence of which is the thing bothering me most about Taylor). My collection is not too strong as far as post 1966 Taylor is considered, but the "Willisau Concert" on Intakt is a great one! Also, if you see it, get "Nefertiti" in its 2CD edition on Revenant (it came out in 1997 and is OOP for some time now, but I have no idea if it might be easy to find). An awesome recording, just the trio of Taylor/Lyons/Murray. Then, the three tracks originally on Gil Evans' "Into The Hot" (now on CD "Mixed", by Taylor/Roswell Rudd, Impulse), are great. They are sort of a "bridge" between the Candid dates and "Nefertiti". btw, D.D., don't ask about the "Two Ts..." box - you'd get the same answer as for the "Alive", only that I have been through two whole discs, so far (one & two). ubu

The fact that this one has been lying around here for months, and I never made it beyond the first three or four tracks of disc 1 is one of the reasons why I won't buy any (read: not too much ) new stuff in times to come... I did like that half disc, but I am into other stuff mostly at the moment (non-funny-rat, such as Prez, Basie etc...) - I'll write my impressions once I got around! ubu

Well, no guitar player here, but another one of those strange cheese-eating swiss guys... welcome! ubu

I'm a big fan of "Deep In A Dream"! An awesome album in every way! Other than that I have some Freshsound discs ("Plays", some Boston stuff with Jaki Byard, and one more, I think), as well as some of his sideman appearances. I love his playing on Mingus' "Black Saint" - that's where I first heard him. His sound is very much his own, and as Jim did elaborate earlier in some other thread, his playing on "Deep In A Dream" is some of the most personal, most honest and touching committed to disc recently. ubu

Listened to this one today: (Cover by Hans Koller) Cool front line: Lee with Mark Turner, then add Peter Bernstein and the good rhythm section of Goodwin/Gilmore. ubu

And one more email sent your way! ubu

And a cool one! ubu

The Jones/Lewis is awesome, in my opinion! Also it features Joe Henderson playing some real hot stuff! ubu

Have heard this one recently for the first time, too. A very good one, indeed! It's one of two Braxton discs I own so far (the other is the large band "Eugene" on Soulnote) ubu

Good choice indeed! The "Number 7" track on the latest BFT made me want to listen to some Cannonball - the band with Lateef is probably my favorite, and their best recording might be the one still missing in the Blue Note Landmark/Capitol reissue series: Vol. 7 - Cannonball in Europe! The band with Victor Feldman, though, when I heard it first on the reissue (in that same series) of the Lighthouse date, was quite a revelation, too! ubu

I thought so, thanks! ubu

Lee can definitively play! I saw him live only once, with Swallow/Motian (the "Three Guys" disc - on Enja, I think - comes from that tour), and he was great! He is one of the least-licks-bound player I ever heard! Got to spin the 3CD "Motion" again some time soon! ubu

Thanks, Jon! Listening to the sound samples right now. But I really guess I have to stick to my buying freeze, I bought so much new music lately, and cannot afford it right now ubu

What's that disc? I know it was discussed here before, but I can't remember if that was on page 27 or page 51 of this thread ubu

Sure everybody found this one: Now, could someone do a scan of the front cover, in a size that would fit nice into the CD case I'm storing the downloaded CDR in? (Thanks a lot, Rooster! I'm listening right now, and it's a great disc, I never heard it before! ) ubu

I was lucky to find this one new, for around 25$ in some store here in Zurich! Found it just after I ordered the Lyons box - but all of this needs many more hours of (concentrated) listening here! Listened to disc 2 of the Leo Smith Kabell box tonight, impressed! Now listening to a CDR a friend of mine made for me with the MP3s of the Julian Priester ECM record that was linked on some other thread. Cool! (But maybe not for the "Funny Rat", but then, we did discuss some stuff that is beyond any classification, anyway) ubu

Clandy, I do have the Webster (though when I got it I was a bit deceived to see that Webster and Gordon are only performing two numbers together). I like the Redman - I don't know if there are many discs available of him playing his own music. However, I'm pretty new to pre-bop music, so... I will pick up the Hawkins, and the Cannonball, and probably the Blakeys and the Quincy Jones, too. The Terry is on my list also. Thanks! ubu

Here's the site of the label: http://www.tcb.ch And here's the link to the Allegro Music sale: http://www.allegro-music.com/label_search.asp?label=TCB And here's the link to TCB's Swiss Radio Days series on Allegro: http://www.allegro-music.com/work_search.a...e=swiss%20radio I only have a few releases outside the radio days series (Louis Hayes, Pago Libre come to mind). I highly recommend the whole radio day series, though! The Shaw/Hayes, Jones/Lewis, Don Redman are highly recommended, as is the Mulligan CJB. I don't have the whole series so far, but someday I will... Have not heard the Hawkins, but I heard it was a good one. ubu (edited to replace wrong link)

Hey, that's cool - when I was playing with the big band of one of the two Zurich universities, we played at La Fourmie, too! Don't know that disc, though. I will check the stuff with Terry Riley again, and try to squeeze in a listen to the Feigenwinter/Arte disc soon. It's this one here: http://www.swissdisc.ch/d/archive/archive_...62&uebersicht=4 (sorry, german only - David, this site might be one to check, I did not do yet, though) It's released on this label: http://www.altrisuoni.com/ And here you have some information in english: http://www.altrisuoni.com/catalog.php?code=as110 And here's the other one I mentioned yesterday: http://www.altrisuoni.com/catalog.php?code=as140 ubu

I have that book. When I browsed through the discographical pages or the recommendations, I wished I could cut the author's throat with a blunt knife. he seems to ignore every non-British issue made after he acquired his collection. Since most of these have different covers, titles or tracks it is almost useless to the non-British collector, and even the islanders won't have much fun considering the issues available today. Splendi isolation lives on in the head of this diehard old-fashioned collector. The text and historical outines in the book are okay, but the discographical part is a desaster, considering it is supposed to be a buyer's guide. For those interested in historic British reissues, the book is John Fordham, Jazz. I have the German translation, and the fact it was translated and "editorially worked over" by Peter Niklas Wilson, one of Germany's better jazz authors, doesn't shed a good light on the book or the budgets involved. Sonny Rollins wrote an intoduction ... You were posting at the same time as I. Think I paid some 7 Euros for the book... ubu

Well, looking through that book I mentioned (John Fordham's "Jazz" in a german translation, one of the books I picked up mostly because of its good prize ) Sonny Stitt - Stitt's Bits (Prestige/brit. release: Esquire) J.J. Johnson - The Eminent (Blue Note/Vogue) James Moody - Moody's Workshop (Prestige/XTRA) Shorty Rogers - The Swingin' Mr. Rogers (Atlantic/London) MJQ - One Never Knows (Atlantic/London) Jimmy Giuffre - 3 (Atlantic/London) Chet Baker - & Crew (Padific Jazz/Vogue) Lee Konitz / Warne Marsh (Atlantic/London) John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Atlantic/London) Elmo Hope - With Jimmy Bond & Frank Butler (Contemporary/Vocalion) Duke Ellington - At Newport (CBS/Philips) Eroll Garner - Concert By The Sea (CBS/Philips) Ella Fitzgerald - The Gershwin Songbooks (Verve/His Master's Voice) Mingus - Pithecantropus Erectus (Atlantic/London) Charlie Parker - The Immortal (Savoy/London) some strange ones: Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (Columbia) Getz/J.J. - At The Opera House (Columbia) Thanks, Garth, for that information on London! ubu

I am very well aware of the Taktlos! A great festival, though each year I went, I saw/heard some very bad things, too. Sunday night sounds cool (Gratkowski, Guy), maybe friday, too (for Larry Ochs, mostly, and Peggy Lee - both of whom I hardly know and would like to check out). The same programme also takes place in Basel - might be closer for you? ubu

The ARTE sax quartet is a fine group, by the way! They are part of Kaspar Ewald's (a young swiss composer/arranger) big band (he calls it "Exorbitantes Kabinett") - I saw them live and they're smoking, complex, funky, and full of power and humour. He did an arrangement of "L'homme armée", has tunes in 11 and similar stuff, some minimal music influence as far as rhythmic development is concerned. Also the ARTE quartet made a disc with Basle pianist Hans Feigenwinter (I saw him accompanying Joe Lovano with his trio GAS - Great American Songs, a mainstream trio, but a good one), and electric bass guitarist Wolfgang Zwiauer (who also is part of the Kaspar Ewald group). The disc is called "Tank", if I remember right, the label escapes me (don't have it with me). Pretty cool line up: sax quartet, electric bass, and sometimes piano. Then they also performed with Terry Riley - music of his written for sax quartet, and also music for sax quartet and piano with himself at the piano. ubu

great covers! Are you a subscriber of Intakt now? ubu