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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

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

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

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

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

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

You will sure have many hours of listening pleasure with the Edison! Hope more of his music of that time would be available! ubu

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

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

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]

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

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

Here's the cover:

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

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

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

Interesting indeedd! Thanks for posting this link, tony! ubu

ahem, and one thing I forgot... that guy far right is us, if you don't mind.

Alright guys. The king has seen you had some fun at their expenses. So please allow us to introduce myself: 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

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

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. -------------- 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. -------------- 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

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

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

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

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