Niko

you must try to get a refund... of the 30 $, 1$ are the seller's actual costs and 29 $ are the margin he added to the price in the hope to find an idiot... unless you want to be that idiot try to get at least the 29$ back...

think david liebman is the one saxophone player my sax teacher (who is a bit younger, in his mid-thirties and who likde grossman iirc) used to say rather ugly things about (though i vaguely recall him saying about some record "in that context even dave liebman doesn't sound bad")

easily the best jazz book i read in the last two years... lots of interesting background on the paris music scene around that time, about djangos sidemen..., reasonably insightful writing about the music, a good (though a bit short) chapter on gypsy jazz after django and dozens of funny django anecdotes,... (stuff like when he was in the UK for the first time and told one of his companions "see, they also have a moon here")

durium wrote two very interesting entries on kuiters in his blog... (and included a tune of his on his bft...) http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/2008/07/p...erdammer-1.html http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/2008/07/p...erdammer-2.html

guess i should be more thankful for my sequence of three month contracts... plus the money is not for research anymore but for doing all sorts of other stuff; last week i had appointments with two of the top thirty mathematicians in the world... with one i discussed how to fit his stuff into only 200 boxes and then into his tiny new office, with the other i discussed the color of his new furniture...(we ended up choosing a somewhat darker grey than what the company had suggested) (not that there was anything else i'd rather talk to with heavy guys like these); don't know, at least i managed to feel better the last five or six weeks though nothing has improved on the outside; wishing the two of you and anyone else here all the best (and i did think of you, shawn, when you said you had your interviews... didn't help apparently, but i will continue to do so, just drop us a note! )

wow! looks great, most of these i don't know but there's hardly one in there i haven't considered buying...

tough to find anything... the first half http://www.membran.net/images/4252_223997_back.jpg seems to be also on this classics cd http://secure.swapacd.com/cd/album/314580-1945+1946 and here is a bit on the second half "1953 - Tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, with Dick Cary on piano, George Barnes on guitar, Jack Lesberg on bass, and Don Lamond on drums, records the tracks "Margo's Seal", "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans", "I Could Write A Book", and "Blues For Tenor" (aka "Dorsey Brothers Blues"), in New York City for his self-titled Capitol Records 10" album that is part of Capitol's "Classics In Jazz" series." from here http://popculturefanboy.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

Happy Birthday Yann!!

now that it comes up, i have two "OJC20" cds where i really would like to now how they compare to other versions... does anyone have an opinion concerning Art Pepper - Smack Up Pat Martino - El Hombre (maybe also Gene Ammons - Blue Gene...) i have maybe 10 of those cds and in some cases (namely Pepper and Ammons) i do suspect that they sound a bit awkward though i really know little about this type of thing) thanks!

No guv , just a bunch of choice , non-commercial , 70's , extended jazz-funk of the type Bev was asking about . Hm, here's the list again There's really not a lot there that I'd recognise as funk, though I confess that the only one I've heard is the Lee Morgan - but as my copy was fucked, I chucked it twenty years ago, so it's been a long time. That didn't sound like a funk record - we're talking here about James Brown influences, not Rock influences, yes? - to me, though. And I can't imagine Cecil Payne making that sort of album, or Woody Shaw, or Frank Strazzeri... etc etc. The only ones I CAN imagine in that context are McDuff and Connors (though I've never even HEARD of Cheatham, Yellin and Farrah). So, are we not seeing this the same way, or have I missed a load of Rusty Bryant-type stuff? MG have the gary bartz milestone albums been mentioned? (remembered them because chas list rather lists (to me) bartz-style than bryant-style music... btw i only have one of the bryant prestige albums, rusty bryant returns, and (although the tracks are not that long (between 5 and 10 minutes)) this is one of my favorite albums in this vein...

from jazzdisco.org http://www.jazzdisco.org/bethlehem-records...00-5000-series/ BCP 6066 John Coltrane In The Winners Circle Art Farmer (tp) Rolf Kuhn (cl) Eddie Costa (vib, p) Kenny Burrell (g) Oscar Pettiford (b) Ed Thigpen (d) NYC, September, 1957 Lazy Afternoon Sea Breeze She Didn't Say Yes At Home With The Blues Donald Byrd (tp) Frank Rehak (tb) Gene Quill (as -1,4) John Coltrane (ts) Al Cohn (bars) Eddie Costa (p) Freddie Green (g -1) Oscar Pettiford (b) Philly Joe Jones (d -1) Ed Thigpen (d -2/4) NYC, October, 1957 1. Not So Sleepy 2. Love And The Weather 3. Turtle Walk 4. If I'm Lucky

Yep! could you maybe upload your great don patterson discography again? it was apparently lost in the updates... btw, i might even have an addition for you; the version i last saw didn't have this prestige christmas compilation which has iirc two tracks from patterson's christmas album http://www.amazon.de/Christmas-Collection-...4320&sr=8-2

or you order it from amazon, not yet one of the rare ones... http://www.amazon.com/Kelly-Blue-Wynton-Tr...8955&sr=8-1

played All the Gin is Gone a lot in the last few months... tough to describe it but it was much more of a hard bop album than i had expected, and a gorgeous one, such a beautiful tone indeed btw wasn't john simon's legacy don patterson's last recording? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legacy-John-Simon/...8652&sr=1-1

my suspicion that a guy who looked so much like me had to be talented was right... strongly recommended if you like dark late 19th century stuff... just placed an order for Cruel Tales by Rodenbachs friend Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

saw some of leslie's paintings in a book on the eat generations and found them really good... he has a web page, too http://www.alfredleslie.com/

thank you so much for this tip!

biting the hands that feed them

Never liked her - no real organ sound there, all too clean (and I don't dig her electronic extensions of the organ) - sorry. Ok, now on to disc 2... and hopefully soon on to BFT #61 as well! Wow - I thought she was pretty big in Germany/Austria/Switzerland ! not so sure; my impression is that the big media attention, now that mangelsdorff is gone (who was widely respected though few knew his music i guess) lies on till broenner, klaus doldinger and on (to varying degrees) jazz based entertainers like goetz alsmann, roger cicero and helge schneider... [schneider is the only one of these five that i can identify with at all, doesn't play jazz most of the time (unless he is pissed at the audience and plays what he calls "punishment jazz", but i always like to hear him on piano or saxophone; this one could be titled )]; ten years ago, dennerlein seemed to be up there with them but then it seemed broenner took her place (the position in public that's reserved for a jazz instrumentalist under the age of 60)

finally checking out the guy in my avatar Georges Rodenbach- Bruges La Morte

thanks and a happy new year,too!

a few weeks ago i played a new allen lowe cd in a dream and after waking up i believed i actually owned the cd for a few minutes (maybe not a brand new one actually, since there was no grey hair and he had a short braid (right word?)), don't remember many details, the lineup was something like tenor, guitar, piano, bass, drums... and all i remember about the music (now that a few weeks have passed) is that i thought this is exactly the type of music i hope for when buying a gene ammons album (but have always been disappointed so far))

just played it, i have a tendency to find piano trio records boring (i know we don't share that ) but this one definitely held my interest, which had quite a bit to do with izenons contibutions, lots of fine cello-like arco passages... definitely recommended!

another very fine album with izenon is jaki byard's sunshine of my soul!

happy birthday!