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I love the Monterey album and Electric Bath. The other recent BN/Pacific reissue was a little disappointing, in my opinion, too. The early Candid album, which I have in its recent Past Perfect incarnation (it has been mentioned in the Past Perfect thread in the reissues forum), is quite interesting, too. Byard (also on alto), Carter & Persip make for a very good rhythm section.
ubu
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Been more and more impressed of Shim after having heard his CD several times. Certainly was (is? - guess my chances over here are small to hear anything new, unless he makes a new CD) one of the most interesting of all those young tenors. And he's a master of his instrument.
ubu
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One of the advantages of being in bed with some fever and a hell of cold: I started listening to my Ventura / Phillips Mosaic! I head none of the Phillips stuff before, the Ventura maybe two or three times.
Generally, I like him well. He get's a nice sound on all his horns, the bands are playing some good arrangements. I would not need the vocal-backing on that one session, Ms McCall, though, is good for my ears.
My favorite sessions would be the quartet dates with Napoleon and Hank Jones, as well as the last date in the box, the one featuring a larger band and some very good playing by all.
I would not say I like the music for the sidemen only - though many of them do deliver very good work. I enjoy the way Ventura handles the material on hand. Maybe he is a little bit vulgar from time to time, but, so is life... Seriously, I like it a lot!
ubu
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Yes, it is the Jim Pepper song.
And Stenson is very good on Lloyd's "Canto". Anybody looking for more fine Stenson sideman dates would be well-served with Tomasz Stanko's "Litania". Another very good record!
ubu
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I also have a Clark Terry CD called "Flutin' And Fluglin'", featuring Jimmy Knepper, Julius Watkins, Seldon Powell, Yusef Lateef, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Benjamin and Ed Shaughnessy. Budd Johnson plays piano on one track. Another very fine album!
ubu
That was a Candid album too. Colours, I believe.
Yes, that IS a Candid date. They did license it, as they did the Ellis, Hawkins/Russell, Dolphy, etc.
ubu
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Hey! Today I just found a used copy of the Harry Edison "Swinger/Mr. Swing" for a reasonable $12.50!! Maybe they didn't know it was a double CD. Wah-hoo!!! Now I only have about 16 or 17 more to go before I have all the ones I want.
You will sure have many hours of listening pleasure with the Edison! Hope more of his music of that time would be available!
ubu
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I also have a Clark Terry CD called "Flutin' And Fluglin'", featuring Jimmy Knepper, Julius Watkins, Seldon Powell, Yusef Lateef, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Benjamin and Ed Shaughnessy. Budd Johnson plays piano on one track. Another very fine album!
ubu
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I do enjoy it very much! And "Delilah" is an opening of the sort you want to listen and listen again, and never actually make it to the end of the album.
There are some good moments from everyone included, yet generally, these musicians seem to be still quite deep in their formative years (Kippie maybe being the exeption - his take on "Body & Soul" might be an indication). This seemed to be the feelings of Dollar Brand who stayed behind woodshedding when all the others left for London with the "King Kong" play (I find Ibrahim's playing on these tracks to be very far away from his "signature style" he was to develop soon after that). Masekela, Gwangwa & Kippie all became part of that tory of success. (It's LP GALP 1040 I have, never heard of this label). That LP is has no date, but it must have been after 1957 for sure, as the story of "the real King Kong" (as it is printed on the backcover of the LP), ended in February 1957.
A date of September 1957 would make sense, September 1958 would be possible, too. The CD liners state the month of recording being September, and also states that after spring 1959, the Epistles were "a legend without a sound".
ubu
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Here we go:
01 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 1
02 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 2
03 Miles Davis ascenseur pour l’echafaud
04 Donald Byrd byrd in paris (live)
05 Donald Byrd parisian thoroughfare (live)
06 Holland/Clayton/Singleton club Session
07 Bill Coleman from boogie to funk
08 Chet Baker broken wing
09 Dizzy Gillespie the giant
10 Slide Hampton exodus
11 Django Reinhard django et compagnie
12 Django Reinhard swing from paris
13 Django Reinhard swing 39
14 Mary Lou Williams I made love you paris
15 Elek Bacsik guitar conceptions
16 René Thomas the real cat
17 Toots Thielemans blues pour flirter
18 Buddy Banks jazz de chambre
Bobby Jaspar quartet barclay
19 Henri Salvador pardon my english – plays the blues
20 Various Chanteurs/Chanteuses
21 Don Byas laura
22 Sidney Bechet/Claude Luter self-titled
23 Sonny Criss mr. Blues pour flirter
24 Guy Lafitte blue and sentimental
25 Henri Renaud New sound at “the boeuf sur le toit” (live)
Zoot Sims quintet barclay
26 Barney Wilen jazz sur seine
27 Bobby Jaspar modern jazz au club st.-germain
28 Lucky Thompson modern jazz group
29 Pierre Michelot round about a bass
30 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 1
31 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 2
32 Michel Legrand paris jazz piano
33 Claude Bolling plays the original piano greats
34 Rhoda Scott / Kenny Clarke self titled
35 Eddie Louiss bohemia after dark
36 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon aux trios mailletz
37 Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson paris blues live
38 Earl Hines paris one night stand
39 Kenny Clarke plays andré hodéir
40 Art Blakey paris jam session live
41 Eddie Louiss/Yvan Julien porgy & bess
42 Stéphane Grappelli improvisations
43 Jean-Luc Ponty jazz long playing
44 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 1 live
45 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 2 live
46 Lionel Hampton ring dem vibes
47 Various classic jazz à saint-germain-des-prés
48 Various modern jazz à saint-germain-des-prés
49 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 1 (Barney Wilen, Alain Goraguer)
50 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 2 (Art Blakey, Jazz at the Philharmonic, George Arvanitas)
51 Louis Armstrong and friends
52 Dizzy Gillespie cognac blues
53 Chet Baker quartet plays standards
54 Various clarinettes à saint-germain-des-prés
55 Various saxophones à saint-germain-des-prés
56 Stéphane Grappelli plays cole porter
57 René Thomas meeting mister Thomas
58 Django Reinhardt swing 48
59 Django Reinhardt django’s blues
60 Henri Crolla notre ami django
61 Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright piano aux champs-elysées
62 Lou Bennett pentecostal feeling
63 Rhoda Scott live at the olympia
64 Willie « The Lion » Smith music on my mind
65 Bernard Pfeiffer la vie en rose
66 Raymond Fol les 4 saisons
67 René Urtréger joue bud powell
68 Lionel Hampton mai 1956
69 Art Blakey 1958 paris olympia (live)
70 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir
71 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 3 (Goraguer/Jazz Groupe de Paris/Humair Soultette)
72 Don Byas ree-boppers
Don Byas/Tyree Glenn orchestra
Howard McGhee sextet
James Moody quintet
73 Lucky Thompson with Dave Pochonet all stars
74 Alain Goraguer go-go-goraguer
75 Earl Hines in paris
76 Various danse à saint-germain-des-prés
77 Lester Young Le dernier message
78 Don Byas en ce temps-là
79 Stan Getz quartet in paris (live)
80 Henri Criolla begin the beguine
81 Elek Bacsik nuages
82 Stéphane Grappelli/Stuff Smith stuff and steff
83 Sarah Vaughan & violins
84 Dizzy Gillespie & his operatic strings orchestra
85 Bobby Jaspar jeux de quartes
86 Gerard Badini the swing machine
87 Stéphane Grappelli django
88 Gus Viseur de clinchy à broadway
89 Henri Crolla quand refleuriront les lilas blancs?
90 Django Reinhard nuit de saint-germain-des-prés
91 Django Reinhard nuages
92 Jack Diéval jazz au champs-elysées
93 Bernard Pfeiffer plays standards
94 Blossom Dearie the pianist
Les Blue Stars
95 Sammy Price/Price & Doc Cheatham play gershwin
96 Max Roach parisian sketches
97 André Hodeir jazz et jazz
98 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 4
99 Various harlem piano in montmartre
100 Various jazz sous l’occupation
101 Joe Newman/Cootie Williams jazz at midnight
102 Django Reinhardt place de brouckère
103 Buck Clayton and Friends (with Hal Singer)
104 Kid Ory at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées
105 Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
106 Guy Lafitte Blues...
107 Stan Getz/Michel Legrand 'Communications '72
108 Sammy Price Good Paree
109 George Wein Midnight Concert at the Olympia
110 Raymond Fol Echoes of Harlem
111 Maurice Vander Piano Jazz
112 Jazz et Cinéma Volume 5, (Henri Crolla, Hubert Rostang, André Hodeir)
"Hors-série" (2CD sets):
01 Sacha Distel Jazz Guitarist
02 Bill Coleman The Complete Philips Recordings
03 Jean-Claude Fohrenbach Fohrenbach French Sound
[edited to add #102 / edited to add hors série #2 and #3 / edited to add 103-112]
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Well, Garth & jazz1, thanks a lot for sharing these memories!
I am just not long enough around here to have come through these sort of things...
I am listening to the Jazz Epistles disc (waiting for Jazz in Africa Vol.2 to arrive), and the "Blues for a Hip King" CD from Dollar Brand right now. Love them both. On the later one, there's a version of Blue Monk with Kippie. Great! The other tracks do not feature him.
Regarding the Jazz Epistles, here goes my question on the line up again:
Is the following correct?
Hugh Masekela t
Jonas Gwangwa tb
Kippie Moeketsi as
Dollar Brand p
Johnny Gertze b
Makaya Ntshoko d
And does anyone know the date/year of recording?
thanks,
ubu
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I have seen Stenson live about a year ago (with Jormin and Hart) in an intimate club setting. Quite impressive what these three achieved.
Long flowing and building tracks, they really seemed to breath together.
And by the way, just because we're entering ECM territory here: THEY DO SWING!
I hope I can pick this album up before leaving for vacation.
ubu
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Here's the cover:
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There are some good items in those Past Perfect singles.
They sem to have reissued some of the Candids
The Benny Bailey " Hard Sock Dance" was the Candid " Big Brass"
The Eric Dolphy Quiet Please" seems to be a culled from
Candids Abbey Lincoln, Booker Litte and Mingus
The Don Ellis is his Candid Quartet recording
The Eldridge seems to have the Newport Rebels sides
Others are taken from early Verves
These seem worth investigating further to determine just what is on them.
PDEE, the Dolphy is probably the "Candid Dolphy" disc. It has alternates not on the Candid Booker Little disc, "Stormy Weather" (same take as "Mingus", but GREAT track!!), and some tracks from Abbey Lincoln (I don't have that original album).
I have gotten the Don Ellis, and the Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell discs. The last one has the Jazz Reunion Candid album, with Bob Brookmeyer, Emmett Berry, Nat Pierce. That's another wonderful Candid album.
The others (Bailey, Eldridge, and the "Osmosis" or whatever Dorham/Flanagan/actually Dave Bailey's "Bash", which is also available from Past Perfect) I have in their original CD releases.
There was also a nice Buddy De Franco disc (though that's probably one where they've "stolen" the recordings) with some of the Verve quartet sides with Sonny Clark (this was discussed in the Discography section some time ago).
The Candid releases are licensed, it seems, so no rip off. But with releasing the early Mingus stuff, they make up for that again
ubu
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And this series in general ... ... I would not hesitate a second to pick up:
• Lucky Thompson: Modern Jazz Group — brilliant Lucky here.
• Don Byas: En ce temps-là
• Don Byas: Laura
(I like Byas's European work from this period a lot more than his American sides)
Also fine are:
• Le Jazz Groupe de Paris: Joue André Hodeir
• Kenny Clarke: Plays André Hodeir
These albums go well together, as the tracks not only are all penned by Hodeir, but are performed by a number of the same players.
Yes, these are all very good albums! I listed the Thompson already.
The two Byas discs are great, indeed!
And all the Hodeir-related stuff is at least very interesting!
Don't forget the Hodeir led "Jazz et jazz" album. There is some great music on that one, too!
And there was a Hodeir disc in the "Original Vogue Masters" series. Maybe still around on amazon France.
ubu
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great site ubu, thanks.
That's the site with which I keep a little bit updated on US/International/english newspapers. They won some prize, were shut down (no money) soon after that, and are back now again.
The scope of what they scan and read and select, is quite impressive!
ubu
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Interesting indeedd! Thanks for posting this link, tony!
ubu
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ahem, and one thing I forgot...
that guy far right is us, if you don't mind.
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Alright guys. The king has seen you had some fun at their expenses.
So please allow us to introduce myself:
Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi was translated for the Gaberbocchus Press by Barbara Wright and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. It has been described as "undoubtedly the most acclaimed book of the Gaberbocchus Press", and is radical both in its choice of text, as the first English edition of the play, and in the design of the book.Ubu Roi created a scandal when it was first performed in the Theatre de l’Oeuvre in Paris in 1896 and was described by André Gide as "the most extraordinary thing seen in the theatre for a long time". Having seen the play, W.B. Yeats said: "After us, the savage god." Critics were divided between those who compared it to Rabelais and Shakespeare (Père and Mère Ubu like the Macbeths without consciences or poetry), and those who dismissed it as rubbish and a degenerate schoolboy joke. With its bad language and schoolboy humour, the play tells the farcical story of Père Ubu, an officer of the King of Poland, a grotesque figure whom Jarry saw as epitomising the mediocrity and stupidity of middle-class officialdom. Aided and abetted by his wife, Père Ubu kills the King and claims the throne. Having amassed a great fortune by executing his subjects and seizing their property, he is finally driven out by the ‘Whole Russian Army’ and flees across Europe.
Despite the simplicity of the plot, the influence of both the play and the writer has endured. Born in Laval, Mayenne, France in 1873, Jarry wrote Ubu Roi at the age of twenty-three, and it remains his best known and most influential work. Derived from a schoolboy play called Les Polonais, Ubu was inspired by M. Hébert, a school teacher and the butt of schoolboy jokes at the Lycée in Rennes which Jarry attended. Lacking both authority and dignity, the physically grotesque figure of M. Hébert became for Jarry, as Barbara Wright relates in her introduction to the book:"the symbol of all the ugliness and mediocrity he already saw in the world", and he in turn became the inspiration for Père Ubu. The figure of Père Ubu was to be a potent one for Jarry, who became obsessed by his creation, to the point that he began to imitate him, adopting an odd way of speaking, referring to himself as ‘Père Ubu’ and behaving in a highly eccentric, Ubuesque manner.
Absurdity became the hallmark of Jarry’s style. Hailed as the father of the Theatre of the Absurd, he told a friend that "talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind and falsifies the memory, but the absurd exercises the mind and makes the memory work". It was through writing Ubu Roi that Jarry became the creator of the science of Pataphysics, a logic of the absurd, and "science of imaginary solutions", enshrined since 1948 in the Collège de Pataphysique.
However, the importance of the play lies not its plot but in its anarchic presentation in the theatre. A precursor of Dada and Surrealism, Jarry was to be of influence to Picasso, Satie, Cocteau and Apollinaire, and as a critic noted "almost everyone has seen in Jarry — and especially Ubu — an intimation, if only a shadow, of the future... His spirit… can be seen in all the Absurd Art, Anti-Art and so forth, which has obsessed the art of this century".
It was the anarchic theatrical experience of Ubu Roi that Gaberbocchus Press sought to portray in the presentation of the book, making its design as subversive as its text. Barbara Wright was persuaded to adopt the unconventional technique of writing her text by hand on lithographic plates, on which Franciszka Themerson later made her drawings. This, together with the yellow paper on which the book is printed, already gives a suitably anarchic appearance, which as one writer has noted "graphically communicates the play’s wild (and often scatalogical) irreverence".
Ubu Roi attracted critical acclaim, puzzlement and curiosity."...as exciting a piece of modern book publication as we have ever seen" claimed New Directions Books in their catalogue in January 1952; a "striking example of brains and imagination in book production" commented a writer in Ark, Journal of the Royal College of Art, 1954). Andrew Sinclair in Time and Tide (30 November 1961) wrote: "Jarry’s Ubu is perhaps even more powerful a satire today than it was 65 years ago…The weird and wonderful Gaberbocchus Press have dashed in where others fear to print". A columnist in Times Literary Supplement, (18 August 1966), commented on "the wit and the precision and the merciful economy of Mrs Themerson’s drawings" that capture the spirit of the play.
The success of the publication led to the production of three subsequent editions. The role of the Themersons was duly acknowledged by the Collège de Pataphysique and they were awarded honorary titles, Franciszka became Commendeur Exquis Petits fils Ubu, and Stefan Commandeur Requis ou Capitulaires Quatrièmes fils Ubu.
In 1952, Franciszka created masks for a dramatised reading of the play at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; she designed the stage production with life-size puppets by the Marionetteatern of Stockholm in 1964, and finally drew her own comic-strip version of Ubu in 1969. This tour-de-force of a comic strip consists of 90 episodes, with each drawing measuring one metre.
Finally, when the Gaberbocchus Press published Ubu Roi, time had added another irony. Both in the play and in reality, Poland was a 'nowhere'. In 1896, Poland was not on the map of Europe. From 1939 to 1945 it vanished again, and was under foreign, Soviet, control after that. The murderous and stupid Ubus had one thing in common with the multitalented Themersons: all had had to flee from foreign invaders of Poland.
Items on display
1. Franciszka Themerson, drawings for Gaberbocchus Press logo, c.1950.
2. Alfred Jarry Ubu Roi
London : Gaberbocchus Press, 1951
3. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi, 1951, title page
4. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi,
London : Gaberbocchus Press, 1961.
Second edition.
5. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi,
London : Gaberbocchus Press, 1966.
Third edition.
6. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi,
London : Gaberbocchus Press, 1976.
Fourth edition and limited edition, no. 9 of 50, with an original drawing by Franciszka Themerson
7. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi,1951, p. 31.
8. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi,1951, p. 67
9. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi,1951, p. 78 and 71
10. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi, p. 78 and 71. Lithographic plate.
11. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi, 1951, p. 104 and 93
12. Ordre de la Grande Gidouille, College de ‘Pataphysique.
Copy of the certificate electing Stefan Themerson as ‘Commandeur exquis’ of the Order, dated Sable 84 (10th December 1957).
13. Ubu Roi, programme of a dramatised reading, ICA, London, 18 February 1952, produced by William Jay, with Harold Lang and Selma vaz Dias.
14&15. Papier mâché masks made by Franciszka Themerson for dramatised reading of Ubu Roi at ICA, London, 1952.
There is also the orchestra of us, found here.
And of course, you can buy our original Polish Ubu Posters.
And acclaimed spanish painter Joan Miro made some nice Paintings of us.
By the way, there have been some instants in history, when we had been dubbed cowards, stupid, or also "père" (as in "...goriot") - BUT HELL WE WON'T TOLERATE SUCH THINGS HERE, will we?!
best regards & thanks for reading
ubu
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I have these both on LP. Yes, they're very good!
Four lengthy tracks, Rivers is featured on all his instruments (fl, ss, ts, p) for one track each.
Got to give them another listen soon.
ubu
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Here we go:
Dmitry chose SEK, Big Al got in between (thanks for keeping up the process
), I was Dmitry's second choice, and SEK has been so nice as to choose me to follow him.Now I'm going to be on vacation from October 4th to 20th, so I will choose AOTW for 10/19-10/25. I chose our host b3-er to choose another AOTW, as a way also of expressing my gratitude for his keeping up this great site!
And now let's start from the beginning.
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SEK will announce his AOTW soon (10/5-10/11)
b3-er's turn, then is to choose AOTW for 10/12-10/18, and to pass it on to...
... someone choosing AOTW for 10/19-10/24,
then here enters the king ( -_- ) - I will announce my AOTW (10/25-11/1 before leaving for my vacation,
and the AOTW for 11/2-11/8 belongs to someone who's picked by the one in charge of week 10/19-10/24.
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This is it. Pretty complicated, but life gets to be complicated sometimes...
And (obviously) I won't pass on my holiday for an AOTW
Glad to be around you, folks!
ubu
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Glad yer back, and I apologize for any confusion I caused. I hope I didn't step on any toes; I just wanted to keep the process going, and I may have jumped the gun in doing so.
Big Al - wait for the confusion I will cause when I'm going to explain how the AOTW-Saga continues...
Waiting for a PM, afterwards, I will start a new topic explaining things...
ubu
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Thanks, Lon. Will put it on my list (it was half there already anyway) - the only problem is that I am at a point were I want to have virtually all not OOP Mosaics, and therefore usually buy what's on the running low list, so I'll have to wait a while for the T set coming around...
ubu
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So it is Grenu, alright! Had some doubts just before I wanted to post and added the bracklets. Sometimes one should trust to ones memory...
ubu
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One particular title from the series is Chet Baker "Broken wing", one of his better albums from the late 70's. It had to be withdrawn for legal reasons, which is a bit strange considering the many Chet bootlegs that are on the market and the fact that Chet Baker rarely got royalties for the albums he made in his last years and only got paid for the recording.
If "Broken wing" is not reissued in a different form it may become a collector's item. Most online stores already list is as being unavailable.
Yes, this is a very fine album indeed! Brownie pointed me to it, I got it from amazon.de some months ago - maybe they still have it?
ubu
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I only have one disc from the Tzadik label, Marc Ribot's "Yo! I Killed Your God". Quite a noisy affair!
I have enjoyed everything I have heard yet by Zorn's Masada outfit. Then I heard some broadcast of Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Soul project, which I like very much, judging from that.
Generally, these albums are extremely expensive over here (almost 30$ !!). Anyone knows a good place to buy them online with not too much shipping cost to Europe?
ubu