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Thanks! But I think subscribing might be the best. Usually the swiss frank tends to be in between 1.4-1.5 US$ - the current situation being rather extreme for the last two or three years. Subscribing might be the best thing, anyway, as supporting small labels is a good thing for sure, and Intakt has a very fine back list, which I think as a subscriber you can get for the special prize, too. (which is 25 swiss franks) ubu

May I recommend to you gentleman (ladies we miss in this region, it seems, hélas!) another recording which I find rather exciting upon one thorough listen: Irene Schweizer, Chicago Piano Solo (Intakt CD 065) (more) A stellar night recorded live at the Empty Bottle in 2000. ubu

Wow! Chicago Solo Piano is a great disc! I listened to it for the first time last night, and there are some tracks that absolutely blew me! I will have to look for some more! By the way: anyone knows a good (and cheap) online source for Intakt CDs? ubu

Uh, we did discuss about this (or rather I think I did ask about Chapin or something) earlier in this discussion. I just ordered it! Hope this doesn't break the bank... 54.30 Euros at Amazon Germany (with probably some custom costs added again later...) ubu

MALDOROR IS DA SHIT!! ubu

Chrome, I don't know what a "graphic novel" is, and neither do I know the correct word for what was published in today's FAZ. In german you call this "Photo-Roman". It's sort of like a comic (with text beneath instead of inside pics), telling a story. Hope this is understandeable! ubu

Might the Roach set also disappear suddenly?!? Bad perspectives, I'd say! Very un-cool! Adrian, while I do not YET have the Hodges, just one small remark: that's one of the sets were they made some mistake: the "Soul of" 2CD has two alternate takes of which people at Mosaic were not aware when they compiled the Hodges set, and they are missing. Oh, you'll have to keep that disc anyway, because of the Edison date, but nevertheless... ubu

Thanks for sharing these good news, John! I like that one solo Byard CD on Candid a lot! (that one was also not released back in the days, as far as I know) ubu

Yes, I'm a big fan of Friedlander's photos! The ones in the Coltrane and Ornette Atlantic box sets are marvellous! Guess there would be some in the various nice Rhino 2CD Anthologies, too (I did never pick up one of them, as I tend to have more than half of what's included if the artist interests me - Mingus, Eddie Harris come to mind). ubu

Jeeez!!!!!!!!! woowww!!!!!!!!!!, not only she sounds like the real thing, sings with passion and she looks like a real woman!!! and Italian too. Here I go, I'm falling in love again!!! Roberta, Roberta, Roberta.!!!!!

Can you watch swiss tv, Mike? SF2 (or sometimes 3sat) do broadcast Bern Jazzfestival concerts. I do not follow it (have no Video, no DVD-recording facility, and no own tv either, only watching at my girlfriend's), but it might be worth it! I have no idea though if they did broadcast anything from Gamabarini, as the Bern Jazz Festival had to change locations and had a whole new concept last year: the new location is some sort of a club, each artist plays for a whole week, and one of these evenings is recorded by swiss radio, broadcast partially live, and later they broadcast some more, at times the same again, in other cases (as with Gambarini, hence 2 sets around) other material. ubu

Mike, thanks for your interesting comments on Mangelsdorff et.al. "Expectations" is well worth 10 euro-zlotys, no? I think it is a very strong album, all together, and I wouldn't want to miss the tracks with strings, actually. I like it as it is. ubu

And here's some photos of her: inside out images © bruce moore ubu

had no time yet to read further than the first two paragraphs. took it from here ubu

I don't buy the SZ every day and neither check their website daily, but got it today because of the Helmut Newton obituary and saw that article. It's the start of a series. Maybe we can try to watch for them and post them here? I have no idea when the next one is going to be published - and they usually have their stuff available freely only on the day it is published. ubu

Check this one out, too, if you see it cheap (maybe 2001 has it for 10 euros? Or is that deal over?) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Afs2gtq8zbu47 ubu

congratulations! I like your CD better and better, by the way! ubu

Here's a rather interesting article from today's Süddeutsche Zeitung about the current situation of the music industry: Source: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sz/feuilleton/red-artikel1778/ ubu

Mike, were did you buy it? Here they want 38 CHF for Hyena releases (around 25 Euros!!) ubu

I notice this, too. Rather hard to get used to it. But over at AAJ I never was able to type something, then select it, click the bold-button. Always had to click B, then enter text in special opening window. That's even more of a pain. ubu

That cover is GREAT! One to get the LP, frame it and put it on the wall, in my opinion! ubu

So everybody who has not yet picked up this puppy, GET IN LINE! Still highly recommended! ubu

Today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has a photo-novel by Newton - they claim it to be his last work. Pretty unessential, methinks. Have no scanner. But I think you should be able to get the international edition of FAZ in the states. ubu

Hey! I'm just TRYIN' HARD, and I mean REALLY HARD to learn something about a subject I hardly know ANYTHING about... ubu