Niko

just playing the memoir cd (on deezer.com) thanks for the heads up!

bought that one two days after coltrane's sound and it never grabbed me quite as much as sound... now playing howard mcghee - jazzbrothers (deezer)

Superb, majestic! I'm inclined to use the word "classic", which shows how far we've come since 1959! Am now listening to Coltrane's Sound on Spotify, as I couldn't get it to play on Deezer, a problem which I often get. Am I pressing the wrong buttons, or do some Deezer-listed items not play for you? I should thank G A Russell for rekindling my interest in Coltrane by choosing so much Trane from Lala. I have about a dozen Coltrane items, mostly on vinyl from the 60s, but they don't get played too much nowadays, so it's great to be listening now to some Coltrane that's new to me. coltrane's sound is one of my two or three favorite coltranes... some things on deezer are not available everywhere due to different agreements in different countries (but still listed everywhere - i believe spotify is cleverer there); if you list an artist's albums, annoyingly, you cannot see the difference http://www.deezer.com/#music/artist/5123 but if you look at the albums' pages http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/123773 http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/82032 or search for an artist http://www.deezer.com/#music/result/all/mingus you can (because those play triangles on the left of the title are either shaded (unplayable) or not...

Mingus at the Boheia (deezer) how's bakai?

Earl Anderza - Outa Sight (spotify)

all i can tell you is that jeffrey magee's henderson biography calls him elusive (unfortunately footnote 35 to chapter 7 is not part of the free preview... but i guess that one wouldn't help either, otherwise there'd be more info in the main text... http://books.google.com/books?id=QPCzhsfro...p;lr=&hl=de (lord lists 11 sessions in 1931 and that's it - don't have lord and can't tell you what they were...)

It's an easy read if your French is OK. If you managed to get through a math book in french, you should not have too many problems. I had a lot of problems reading math books in french when I had to guess it helps when you know the type of statements a book should make (in maths, actually, if someone told me, the most accessible text is in norwegian or italian only, i might give it a try (because a well-organized text helps a lot there and when you have to spend a day with two or three pages anyway you have more than enough time to figure out those few sentences))... similarly with a jazz book, that someone recorded with dexter gordon is a bit of information one can easily grasp in many languages... but of course i hope the book goes a bit deeper (and luckily otherwise, the language of (good) jazz journalism is more flexible than the language of maths...) bottomline: the book is on my birthday wishlist

still contemplate getting it - my french is very thin (just two years in school...), does your "readable" imply it's not hard to read? (read some math book in french, it worked out ok but i guess (hope) the san quentin jazz band is different)

don't think this link to the san quentin jazz band book homepage is in the anderza thread... some nice photos on that page! http://sqjazzband.googlepages.com/home

on spotify (seriously considering getting that premium accunt since another one is not available here and i probably can use the brit acocunt only fro two more days...) Byard Lancaster - It's not up to us Byard Lancaster - Funny Funky Rib Crib

on the lucky thompson jazz in paris disc "With Dave Pochonet All-Stars" there's Date: April 16, 1956 Location: Paris, France Label: Club Francais du Disque (Fr.) Gérard 'Dave' Pochonet, Lucky Thompson (ldr), Charles Verstraete (tb), Lucky Thompson (ts), Michel de Villers (bar), Jean-Pierre Sasson (g), Martial Solal (p), Benoit Quersin (b), Gérard 'Dave' Pochonet (d) a. Fascinating Blues - 4:03 (Jean-Pierre Sasson) which does not contain a solo by solal however (but a 12 bar intro) just listened to most of this album again, great one! michel de villers and jean-pierre sasson have some fine solos too; on the other session there's a blues with a two chorus piano solo (one for the boys and us) but it's by henri renaud...

Sal Nistico - Empty Room (deezer) red records and laika both have quite a bit of their program on deezer...

Gabriele Mirabassi - Canto di Ebano

still marvelling at the two of you - who'd have thunk that such a distance can lie between the white cliffs and the city of dublin (and then, all this is just bumping the thread)

John Zorn - The Dreamers

finally figured out why i liked the story of someone in the final stages of selfdestruction ending up in the company of a man named großbatzhuber so much - it could have been lifted from one of my favorite joseph roth novels... concerning genius, agree to the other thing gheorghe said above, my view is something like after a bunch of highest degree geniuses, especially bird, laid the foundations for all sorts of challenging directions and extensions in the forties, jazz attracted hundreds of highly talented people including dozens of medium degree geniuses (the name that's stuck in my head here is yusef lateef)... the people involved in jazz nowadays are just a somewhat less brilliant fraction of the population (since there is also less to do in jazz for geniuses than in the 50s and 60s when, so to say, many challenging questions were open...) from my maths experience i'd say the difference between people's intellects are much much greater than is generally acknowledged; if i work hard for a week, i know very well, that while many people would need months to do the same or couldn't do it at all, others with less prior experience would come to my conclusions in 10 minutes... and there are huge differences between these others... [though i was really surprised to see that when teaching first year students i actually can give some guidance to people who are much smarter than me but lack experience] i tend to think of anyone who is much smarter than some people who are much smarter than me as a genius, but in principle i know that this is a deliberate decision based on my own skills... don't believe you can associate genius with "hard skills" such as "photographic memory" or "perfect pitch", these hard skills are mostly spread much more widely than genius, it's more about seeing stuff more clearly... but who knows one huge difference between the arts and science is of course that in science being highly respected among the other scientists is sufficient for success (not how it's supposed to be but how it is in fact) while in the arts the audience has much more to say

I met Carter, too----by the cube by St. Mark's place, both of us listening to Vincent Herring as a kid. That was where he played and made a name. Carter sat in, I think. Real nice cat. Sad that he died so far from home. In Poland, I think. \ I really did like Woody's band. I heard them in the earliest 80s, the first time I heard Mulgrew Miller. He played 'Bye Bye Blackbird' by playing the melody on the last A up a b5, so it sounded Lydian. Carter was probably in that band. I remember Steve Turre being there for sure. I saw Woody twice, once w/Carter & once with Turre. Not sure if they ever toured w/Woody at the same time or not. That would have been interesting to hear if they had, that book scored for three horns live. in some liner notes it said, the three were driving to a gig (and iirc it said they played three horn gigs from time to time if the money allowed it) then jefferson and shaw got into some argument and jefferson just walked away... when he was gone shaw offered the steady gig to turre

seconded, wouldn't have checked this out without these new services and am really glad i did! now playing some George Formby and then Frank Morgan - Frank Morgan

Bar Kokhba - Lucifer: Book of Angels vol 10 Jamie Saft Trio - Astaroth: Book of Angels vol 1 (this one is cool!)

Bar Kokhba - Lucifer: The Book of Angels Vol 10 (spotify)

seems futura/marge/impro continue reissuing stuff (one that looks really good is the pepper adams/georges arvanitas album for instance!) http://futuramarge.free.fr/

another hill cd with excellent (at least, i was very surprised) playing from farrell is dance with death played sonic text on deezer a few times and it did grow on me, some parts i really liked in the end, others i still didn't quite get...

Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier - Malphas: Book Of Angels Vol 3 (Spotify, which strangely enough still works overhere)

thank you so much for these great photographs!

McCoy Tyner - Nights of Ballads and Blues (deezer)