Niko

the type of album you're allowed to record when you're famous (boning was one of the biggest tv comedians when i was a kid in the early nineties) album presentation in german tv (on tv total - reportedly the only show that still helps record sales) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWYy1-ysBk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE5ZVXrn7bk this is what he's famous for (doesn't get better if you don't understand the lyrics; "take me now though i'm stinking" is the central line) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3mLtv7s1X0 (the other guy went on to play drums for germany in eurovision 2006, also in a song without much intended comedy content http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlDm86hE99M ) hope their leading happy lifes...

four leaf clover is another label with some interesting stuff on lastfm (for instance that Gabor Szabo in Sweden CD) http://www.lastfm.de/label/Four+Leaf+Clove...s/albums?page=1 now playing from them Jan Allan/Bobby Shew - Dialogic

can hardly believe what i just read in the comments to the gioia article... the bolton/amy clips from the uptown are available on youtube (including the pictures!!) http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklyJazzTV here's bolton's feature on laura for instance

a brief "live version of katanga" (with bolton, amy, ray crawford, dolo coker), two tracks from a pacific jazz session with earl anderza and hadley caliman (same tracks as on the onzy matthews mosaic) and four tracks from 1980 by the "Oklahoma Prison Band" (didn't convince me as much as the other two sessions, but those two are great) don't know where in the world this works (vaguely recall it might work in the us), but i can stream the album here legally, free and even without having to sign-up http://www.lastfm.de/music/Dupree+Bolton/Fireball

from deezer Charles Mingus/Spaulding Givens - Debut Rarities Vol 2 Charles Mingus - Jazzical Moods (Period) can't believe i never heard the latter, thad jones is amazing in this context, what a wonderful album....

you are heartily invited to that ongoing thread where BillF, GA Russell and I discuss places where you can listen to albums for free - can't believe i hadn't been aware of those until a few weeks ago... (after sampling a few tracks you have to register with deezer - did it and nothing bad has happened to me so far)

guess many clifford brown fans have it it's my only clifford brown cd so i guess i can't help you much - the first four or five tracks under tadd damerons leadership are awesome, maybe my favorite dameron pieces, the second half from sweden with art farmer is also pretty good... edit to add, mixed up the two halves, first four tunes are sweden with art farmer, rest is dameron... can you hear it here? http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/104920

Charlie Parker - Montreal 1953 didn't know Valdo Williams was on this one...

Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Town Hall 1945

if only for my own convenience, here are some more labels: Spotlite: http://www.lastfm.com/label/Spotlite/albums ESP http://www.lastfm.com/label/ESP+Disk/albums Nimbus West: http://www.lastfm.de/label/Nimbus+West+Records/albums Arhoolie: http://www.lastfm.de/label/Arhoolie+Records/albums Timeless: http://www.lastfm.com/label/Timeless+Records/albums now playing Al Haig/Jamil Nasser - Expressly Ellington

Thanks, Niko! I can't wait to play the Allen Eager and Pepper Adams from the Uptowns. As for the VSOPs, I own all I want to hear. Pity they missed the Eddie Costa though, which I haven't got and have never heard. The Bob Florence albums that interested me proved to be a disappointment, as there were virtually no tracks for listening. (I guess I remain primarily a purchaser of albums and am using these sites to help me make more informed choices.) is the eddie costa on the second page, second row, second column another one?

Happy Birthday!

what i really like about lastfm is that you can search by label... nothing in here for you? http://www.last.fm/label/Vsop+Records/albums http://www.last.fm/label/Uptown+Jazz/albums

happy birthday!

i like to think the latter - hope i won't regret it one day... on a related note, i always wonder whether i should delete being a jazz fan from my profiles...

Dodo Marmarosa - Pittsburgh 1958 (lastfm) worth it alone for hearing him call himself "MIKE Marmarosa" in the intro... those great vsop cds of west coast jazz are also on lastfm btw

what's a typical example of good seventies jazz lyrics? i must admit i don't know the mainstream of prog rock (yes, genesis, jethro tull... played magma for the first time two weeks ago but i guess that's another case lyricswise) but funnily, when i feel like i want to listen to some real good english lyrics, fifty percent of the time i play canterbury stuff like caravan, early soft machine, robert wyatt or kevin ayers...

thanks! i like dial b for... so i guess this one's for me!

just a heads up that there are some new cds out from nimbus west Dadisi Komolafe - Hassan's Walk with Dadesi Komolafe Flute & Alto Sax Rickey Kelley Vibes Eric Tillman Piano Roberto Miranda Bass Sonship Theus Drums songs list here http://www.lastfm.de/music/Horace+Tapscott/Hassan%27s+Walk and depending on where you are you can stream it... __________________________ Curtis Clark - Reach, Believe it & Play __________________________ Lighthouse 79, vol. 1 Horace Tapscott, band(CD) anyone have any details about this last one?

trying out lastfm Byard Lancaster - At MacAlester College Jon Eardley - Stablemates (seems they have a bunch of those spotlite cds) while the site is not particularly comfortable to use (and i think you can play every song only a few times?) they also have the recent uptown cds like the lucky thompson and dupree bolton and a bunch of nimbus west... including dadisi komolafe's hassan's walk which as i just see has recently been reissued)

wouldn't mind if he came back but the link in the post below is still working for the moment...

always wondered whether different people get to see different pages in google books... i can see october but not november... 23 Fly to europe Newport Festival in Europe Tour 24 Brussels? Palais des Beaux Arts 25 Open 26 Open 27 London Hammersmith Odeon ("Jazz Expo '67" concert) 28 Rotterdam De Doelen NOS? Radio Recording 29 Travel Day 30 Prague? Lucerna Hall 31 Stockholm Konserthuset SRT Radio Recording so, what's on page 438?

guess this should belong into my personal thread but i'd take that back, starting from piano/saxophone and piano/trumpet duets i'm slowly developing an interest in piano solo and piano trio records...

I don't know why but I was looking at getting some more of Harris's work as leader recently, I only have "Newer Than New", but I started looking at some of his sideman dates, he was on quite a few classics, major and minor, throughout the years. Here's a few, as like me, you probably have more Harris in your collection that you think. ... most urgent addition i'd make to this list is johnny griffin's kerry dancers... together with eastern sound and jayhawk talk that is my favorite album with harris on it... only have two of his leader albums (newer than new and bull's eye) and played reflections on deezer recently - none of the three convinced me to a similar degree as my favorite harris-sideman appearances...

Jon Hassell - Surgeon of the Night Sky Burton Greene - Live at Grasland