Niko

I'd want to know how cities earned points in their measuring system, before giving any credence to it overall. And I'd like to see how the 215 candidate cities were selected in the first place. I'm guessing this survey looked at primarily large cities that deal in alot of trade/business. Frankfurt would qualify in that respect, though I'd much rather live in any number of nearby cities over Frankfurt. walked around frankfurt for a day two years ago and while it wasn't quite the moloc i had expected there are dozens of city in germany i'd prefer... can't imagine living in bavaria so no munich for me (though that may be prejudice)... i did live in dusseldorf for a few months in 2006 and indeed it really was the best place i have lived in so far (berlin and cologne are of course much much livelier but somehow dusseldorf felt better...) don't know their criteria but big business surely was a huge factor...

at least three copies left at hebrew university http://aleph518.huji.ac.il/F/KGNK1XFKNHSPD...amp;jump=000021 coincidentally, two hours ago i just gave a book i bought from a library here to a friend who will probably take it with him to switzerland at some time in the future...

Avishai Cohen - After The Big Rain (deezer)

reading rosenzweig's bible translation was the best thing we ever did in religious instructions class in school...

Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project (lastfm)

"!!happy birthday joe!!

thank you all! took this one easier then the last two, even though i definitely feel like i'm approaching 30

Jacques Thollot - Tenga Nina (deezer)

the one thing that really surprised me was that bolton actually called gioia that day...

Paul Rogers - Time of Brightness (lastfm)

Jacques Vidal - Sans Issue (Deezer) great one!

Maurice Vander - Piano Jazz (deezer)

Lars. . . what a great player . . . I have all the appearances on Dragon, and a few others including Portrait of my Pals. wasn't too impressed with portrait but the 1952 one (which is part of dragon cd 7) was great. Now playing Bernt Rosengren - Notes from Underground those two rosengren albums are fascinating (are these digital only reissues?), stockholm dues has fine trumpet playing from lalle svensson he sounds a bit like kenny dorham but with some "old jazz" quality in his playing (somewhere on the web i read he was initially a trombone player and tried to have some trombone like quality in his trumpet playing - made sense to me)

http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interview...e-bolton-part-2 ...

a swedish morning (all from lastfm): Lars Gullin - Portrait of my Pals Lars Gullin - Quartet 1952 Bernt Rosengren - Stockholm Dues

http://www.geocities.jp/mmlg888/JazzCollectionIndex.html don't know if this link has been posted before but this page has an interesting collection of european jazz covers from the fifties and sixties plus there is discographical information for the elek bacsik bossa nova session which is missing on the nuages jazz in paris cd... (ARTIST) Elek Bacsik (g) Maurice Vander (p) Georges Grenu (ts) Raymond Guiot (fl) Pierre Michelot (b) Arthur Motta (ds) (TITLE) 1. Desafinado 2. Recado 3. Samba de uma nota so 4. Stardust (REC DATE) 1962

Bengt Hallberg - Dinah (deezer)

My favorite Atlantic Trane! same here - wonder why this so relatively little known...

guess bb steve didn't talk about buying them in the US... i ordered some of these from caiman through amazon.de market place - did i do something illegal there / did they do something illegal...?

Christian Escoude with Lou Levy - In LA (deezer)

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....