Niko

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)

Horace Tapscott / Sonny Simmons - Among Friends (deezer) (tagged in a way that you only find it when you omit horace and sonny...)

too much... two soul notes Andrew Hill - Shades Mal Waldron - Crowd Scene two membran cds for 2 euro each Jimmy Giuffre - Tangents in Jazz Herb Geller - The Gellers and the last kenny dorham rvg i was still missing, una mas... (also the kahn kind of blue book in that special (german) zweitausendeins edition for 10 euro)

do as you please! but you reminded me that i wanted to check out this one for a long time: Kenny Wheeler - Music for Large and Small Ensembles (deezer)

great (though at times depressing) book (actually what kept my spirits up most of the time was that she aparently survived to write it, and even laugh about it, see the beauty in it... in a novel i doubt that would have happened...)! can be had for little money...

welcome! (and, great album)

Walt Dickerson - A Sense of Direction (deezer)

neither an organ trio nor something you can play nowadays literally (imho), but how about the doug and jean carn albums...