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John, I had a casual listen to the Gumpert yesterday, and it is a beautiful disc. Free improvised pieces, only one is a composition of his. The concert, according to his liner notes, was actually not scheduled (however, this does not sound like a live recording at all, the place given is the FMP studio in West Berlin). I don't have the disc at hand so I have to go from memory: In 1987, 40 years of the german nations was being celebrated. The east Germans (as Gumpert says) were not willing to do something together with the west Germans. So it was fobidden to eastern German artists to do any performance in West Berlin/Germany. Gumpert writes he got a passport in order to attend a concert in West Berlin (some piano session kind of thing), when, only a couple of hours before his concert another piano player (west German, I think, Gumpert gives his initials, but I could not figure out who it could be, would have to look them up) who should have done a solo piano concert, had to call his concert off, Gumpert jumped in and did his "secret" concert (thus the title of the disc). The music is beautiful often in a quite traditional sense/way. Quite accessible, for me, but not mainstream in any way, either. To give some more elaborate comments, I would have to find the time to give it a thorough listen. ubu

Well, you know, Chaney, I actually wanted to do my countdown coupled with pics over there, but I could not find enough of pics of that norwegian lady (or wherever she comes from - I don't really care...), so I thought, why not start another thread - starting threads is not something I'm very good at, I actually rarely do it... and this seemed to be a fitting moment ubu

Can anyone provide a list of the Jazz Records CD (were there LPs too?) reissues? I've got one of them, "Live at Birdland 1949", with the following dates: Tristano, Marsh, Bauer, Fishkind, Morton: Remember Pennies Foolish Things Indiana I'm No Good Without You Tristano: Glad Am I This Is Called Love Blame Me I Found My Baby are the exact recording dates known? ubu

Thanks, guys! Rooster, you got my PM? ubu

Among my favorites of this great trumpet player is the Jazz Prophets Vol. 1 disc. Love "Blues Eleganté"! He will certainly not be forgotten in this house! All the live dates he made with Bird would alone guarantee that! ubu

Hell, what was Sue Mingus doing there?! You may be right about where Mr Buzzi's coming from (the name to me implies italian or spanish), but he seems to handle quite a lot of the NY productions of TCB. ubu

clem, now this one does sound interesting! AMG gives it four and a half stars (here), and has the following review: It seems though the 1996 CD version (on Raven) is OOP... ubu

my words! ubu

few things in the world as good as this one... ubu

Well, let's hope they don't shoot you directly into OUTER SPACE ubu

My problem is that I've got to real for University all the time (mostly stuff I'd rather not read voluntarily...), love reading good newspapers (I read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily, in the evening get another swiss newspaper from my father, add Süddeutsche Zeitung every weekend, Die Zeit every week, Weltwoche almost every week, and on sundays it's the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and the NZZ am Sonntag...). So when the decision has to be made: read a book or listen to music, I most often choose the second option... and feel I've got much too little time to listen to music, too. ubu

Rooster, I don't know if it was on a McMaster CD. It was no Conn, and I guess it will rather come out as a Conn than an RVG. I still hope for a Select, and I wouldn't mind the Jordan disc being included or not. That one would probably let the trio track off and be incomplete anyway, so we'd have to wait for a Conn (or RVG) as well. ubu

holy shit, rooster! don't remind me of how long it will take till I'm a funkateer... ubu

one! Hey guys! Just let me use this to thank you all for the nice surroundings here! Being relatively new to any online community thing, I really have to say I like staying around here, and this has got a lot to do with you people hanging around here. Keep it greeazy (err, well, then let's have some Ayler or Hal Russell, to recover from all the greaze ) ubu

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Dan, let Jim try first. I just thought to offer some help - I cannot guarantee anything, but the swiss scene is quite small, and it might be worth a try. I think I could get to Mr Schmidlin somehow and then pass it on to you. But let's wait till Jim comes up with something. Maybe the man (I cannot remember his name) who produces the "agb" series (agb being his initials) could help. He's living in america and/or is an american, if I remember right. ubu

I still consider Dylan the best to do covers of Dylan songs. Saw him live early november, and he was just GREAT! You never know what to expect from him! Regarding what I thought was the topic here, it would have been Nashville, too. I like the World gone wrong cover, and some others, too, but Nashville gets the nod... ubu

Д.Д., it would be great if you could look for some Ganelin trio stuff! I never heard them, but read some rave reviews! But maybe there are records available by them you rate higher than the russian ones, so you rather tell me what to get first, and forget about the russian stuff. thanks, ubu

I found two very interesting solo piano discs yesterday: Georg Gräwe, Six Studies for Piano Solo (West Wind) Ulrich Gumpert, The Secret Concert (ITM) both of them were recorded in Berlin in the year o 1987. About Gräwe I know nothing, except having seen him mentioned in this thread and someplace else on this forum, the only thing I have from Gumpert so far is his apperance on that very good Lacy duo disc, Five Facings (FMP). ubu

Thanks Chuck, so I was right doubting there are 4 tracks only. That Prestige CD is an essential addition to the early Tristano, Konitz and Marsh music: ubu

Thanks for this recommendation, brownie! Sounds like a good one! And Humair is getting better with age very much, in my opinion! (His "Liberté surveillée" project with Eskelin, Ducret & Chevillon is very good, in my opinion! And check him out on the Lacy CD, also a 2002 production, I mentioned further up in this thread. He is also on three tracks recorded by Lucky Thompson in trio format - this is before our timeframe, but nevertheless deserves mention - with Peter Trunk. These three titles were reissued on the second of Lucky's Complete Vogue CDs) ubu

Just got the disc yesterday, listened to it while doing some work yesterday night. It hits me as an excellent album, all in all. Both observations of Mike (Corea/McLaughlin and cymbal sound of DeJohnette) are quite true to these ears, too, however this does not make the record much worse. And DeJohnette plays very well! Garbarek IS the winner, I think, surpassing his lastly usual playing, and yes, taking chances. I remember having read the session was done in different locations (look at the credits, they're quite strange, giving two studios, no recording dates, but only a date when the mix was done. It is hard to imagine this being true, at least in regard to the core trio! They seem very tight! Vitous & DeJohnette MUST have been in the studio together at the same time, no? ubu

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I've got a Lee Konitz MMO LP, gotta check it out again. He plays some classics and standars, if I remember right. Basin Street Blues and such stuff. But I cannot really remember. Gotta dig this LP out. ubu