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Wim Overgaauw - Blue Guitar a concept album, the concept being that all songs have the word "blue" in the title, Blues in the night, When Sunny gets blue, Blue in Green etc

Revisiting an old favorite from the 1990s Label Bleu catalogue... Not sure how well it has aged, but I did get into it after a while + remembered that this is one of those albums that work better if you skip the first track

Yes, indeed (even though I prefer the Sclavis Trio you played).... Back then, I also liked the Bojan Z albums like Yopla, will need to revisit, it's been a while.... (Ah, and there are also some nice Christian Escoude albums on Gitanes from that decade)

That Sclavis album is a great one ... I also really like Henri Texier's series from that time (An Indian's week, for instance)...

Europe is similar to America in the sense that there's a lot of heterogeneity... I live in a not-so-hip but central part of a big city and have three great vegetarian restaurants in walking distance, one of which is hardcore vegan + gluten-free... finding a restaurant that is not prepared for vegetarian customers would be a challenge but I guess it's possible... if you go to some hipster area in Berlin or so, there might be even more variety of vegan stuff, if you go to the wrong rural place in the middle of nowhere, they will think that bacon and chicken are vegetarian and still put no meal that they would consider vegetarian on the menu... to fix ideas, here's the current menu of the Bimhuis https://www.bimhuis.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/V03-BIMHUIS-EN-Menukaart-Juni-1.pdf starters are 8 to 14 Euro (which is about the same as Dollar), main courses 17 to 25, and the guiding idea is that there should be one meat, one fish and one vegetarian option available which is quite common in the Netherlands... (and I guess the Miso soup and the curry are vegan while the second vegetarian starter, the halloumi, obviously isn't). At the Bimhuis, there are, of course, no minimum thresholds, the dinner is an option you can add to the concert evening (and then you eat before the concert, in a different room). For me, a concert evening is usual a ticket plus two Orval at 21+5.50+5.50=32 Euro...

and Charles WIlliams is also in it, thanks for the heads-up! forum member Joel Fass also shows up on a few shows... since this thread is up again, let me just shout once again that there's a pretty nice session with John Patton in there as well https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133113

Thanks for the explanation! I followed it up with wikipedia ("In the United States, the fee averages approximately 2% of transaction value. In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards, while there is no cap for corporate cards.") and then it does make sense... Over here, when I read something like this, the subtext would be "hey, let's avoid taxes and split the difference"...

I saw those items but they're labelled as "Entrees" so for me as a foreigner that sounds as if it's not a proper meal... I do agree that the prices are less outrageous than I expected from the posts above... What I do find suspect is +4% if you don't pay cash... But again, that may be cultures clashing....

https://smokejazz.com/food-menu/ No vegetarian main courses it seems but you will find ways to spend your money without buying meat

the reference librarian apparently also fixed the other show that seemed to be restricted, a Mickey Bass Quartet with Carter Jefferson, John Hicks and Michael Carvin... https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133112

Wow thank you so much, playing it right now!!

Thanks for all those tips, Dan, it's super helpful... Any idea what the problem with this entry is? https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133113 the lineup of Charles Sullivan (tp), Bill Saxton (ts, leader), John Patton (org) and Eddie Gladden (dr) sounds pretty amazing but I can't seem to play it...

Ron Horton - A Prayer for Andrew an Andrew Hill tribute recorded 2016 with Frank Kimbrough at the piano and a similar sextet lineup as on Andrew Hill's Dusk (with Horton on trumpet and also Marty Ehrlich on alto) playing some Hill compositions and dedications

I am just trying to wrap my head around the new Louis Cole album Nothing, featuring the Metropole Orkest... Big tent but also a very large ensemble

It's a bit of a consolation that even Irene S. had that spelling problem with her last name (which she shares with me, it's a constant annoyance). Thanks for nothing, Albert ... (Albert S., not M.)

as a kid, I would spend hours at one of the local bookstores which had a row of 10 or so CD players where you could sample everything... nowadays, here in Amsterdam, most of the used-LP stores I go to regularly have one or two self-service record players... with used vinyl it's key to have a chance to decide for yourself whether the scratches affect your enjoyment of the music or not... Some also have a system where you need to convince the owner to play something for you over the shop system (and in one shop, the owner sometimes decides to punish clients with his choice of what to play next, e.g. Hans Werner Henze at very high volume)

Wow, thanks for posting!

I saw him last week at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam in Sylvie Courvoisier's band and - in an age where the comparative fitness of American senior citizens is a politically charged topic - he seemed totally up to the task even though the somewhat older bandmate Wadada Leo Smith impressed me more. That show was in support of Courvoisier's Chimaera album, a fine record, but if you look at discogs, you'll find plenty of more recent recordings as well...

I like it a lot, probably more than his previous albums... now getting started on this one

I like the Bzhezhinska/Kofi album quite a bit, both the cover and the music... the basic idea is to do a tribute to Alice and John Coltrane (and Pharoah Sanders) with just tenor, harp and a bit of percussion.... which works very well imho

The new Tony Kofi album, a tribute to Alice, John and Pharoah with only harp (the co-leader), tenor sax and percussion

It was really nice to meet Pim, and also a great concert - Wadada Leo Smith, Fennesz and Nate Wooley are a pretty unique frontline

Yes, that's an exciting lineup, I'll be there too...

Ah, sorry, I was in a rush yesterday ... Pretty sure it was 1956... But the article may welll have had a delay...

Looking through the Coltrane reference, the gig I meant was probably in Quebec in mid-April so the Jazz Podium article may have been a little bit after that