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Thanks for mentioning these two interesting recordings, Larry. The Ted Brown sounds very cool! Does anyone have a good online source for Steeplechase? (And one that's also good for ordering from Europe.) ubu

The Eskelin / Bennink is really good, but you should be able to find it for reduced price fairly easily. Thanks, John. I picked that one up today (none of the others yet). Will listen tonight. I had a background-listen of the Zingaro/Lee and found it incredibly good and fascinating! Anyone here has that one? I guess I'm really sort of a "hat-hunter" these days (pun intended ) ubu

Just ordered the Atlantic NO set finally. But I will have to be patient, as I always use sloooow surface shipping (had some bad experience with air mail) - hope it's here early in april ubu

Picked up some more hats yesterday: Lauren Newton - Filigree Bernd Konrad & Hans Koller - Phonolith Mat Maneri - Acceptance Carlos Zingaro & Peggy Lee - Western Front, Vancouver 1996 Had time to listen to the Maneri, and I think it's a fine one. The Konrad/Koller, too. Beautiful solo rendition of "Body & Soul" by the late Hans Koller. Currently spinning the Newton, and guess what? I REALLY like it! General question: the Maneris, anybody knows some more about them? There are some others of their discs available at that cheap price (around 8-9$, usual swiss-hat-price being around 25$ or even more), yet I don't really know if I need that stuff. And regarding Matthew Shipp: his duo with Maneri is around, too, as is the OOP Strata. And for full price, I saw some others, as the Eskelin/Bennink, the Melford duo disc, and some other Shipp things. Anyone considers any of these essential? thanks, ubu

My sincere condolences, Tom. ubu

Check out Oscar Brown singin' it on "Sin & Soul"! I don't own many of Timmons' own records yet, but I love his contributions to many sideman dates for Blakey, and most of all, Cannonball! That album they made live in San Francisco is a real cool one! The Trio in Person disc on Riverside is another winner! ubu

Reflective in this case means that it reflects the sound waves it's exposed to. A non-reflective surface is acoustically damped in some way; it could be a bookshelf full of books, a drapery, etc. Thanks, Daniel! Something to be learned every day... ubu

Milan, of course I would have preferred a complete Basie set, too (and I read your posts on that topic)! But as sound is soo good on this 4CD set, I don't regret having spent some money on it. Re. Ornette - I think I understand and hear what John refers to. The spontaneous flow, the internal logic, the ease with which things are handled, changes discarded, played over - the source of this being a similar one with Lester and Ornette. Makes sense for me. ubu

my words! ubu

Uh, I missed that party going on here! ubu

Huh? Non-reflective? What's that? (And what's a reflective background?) (Audio-dummy's question...) ubu -_-

Strange how things go! Thanks for explaining this, brownie! ubu

So the reason their nice Avenue Jazz/Bethlehem reissue series got lost in some merger around 2000? Those were OOP reeeeally fast! They are not as active as far as jazz is concerned, as they were in the nineties, no? I love their Coltrane and Dolphy boxes! And then the Mingus one! They should have done more of these, instead of all the "Anthologies"! ubu

Uh, we could start a new thread and copy our AAJ posts into it, without any coherence, of course... ubu

Back on topic: I had some problems, too, yesterday. At noon I could log in (not in the morning), and somewhen late night I was out again. The funniest thing was: I could get to the site by replacing ".org" with ".net", but then I could not log in. And I was still listed in the active users list for some time. So I was standing there, unable to log in and post, and see, I AM still logged... speak of multiple personality... ubu B)

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count me in! ubu

So 2-8 is ANOTHER one I own. BUT: I NEVER HAVE HEARD IT YET! I got that Jarrett 75/76 box recently from someone on the board, and did not yet listen to anything on it. ubu

yup. and the only reason for me to pick that Select up, as I have both Conns and a TOCJ of Star Bright. All very good stuff, so my expectations on "Soundin' Off" are pretty high! ubu

Will do so! I only have one of his Nimbus CDs (Vol. 8, if memory serves right) so far. I picked up the Wallin 2CD set recently - some great music, I listened closely to disc 2 only, so far, which consists of trio live material. Very strong stuff! ubu

So they didn't inlcude that in the Vogue reissue series a few years ago? No. There's some cool stuff with Don Byas on that Vogue disc, however! ubu

Oh, and what we hear on this disc is a typical example of why there was not THE bop tenorist. All those guys (the one in question, early Dexter, early Lucky, early Yusef, and several others) were standing somewhere between swing and bop, taking from the great 30ies musicians (Hawk, Pres, Benny Carter, Hodges) and trying to absorb some of the Bird-stylings. So this might be one of the reason (another being not listening closer...) why rather many names popped up. They were not the individual musicians they became later on in their careers. ubu

All frantic indeed! I never heard this guy's BN date(s?), and never been very taken by his playing. Got two or three CDs and they're alright. And he seems not to produce very much anymore today, touring with some all star groups etc... However, he was/is a good tenor player, able on alto, too, and great on flute. I love his work with that strange-bearded-and-capped-man the best. ubu