Niko

some barney wilen albums above 200 euro at amazon.de Sanctuary http://www.amazon.de/Sanctury-Barney-Cathe...1222&sr=1-2 French Movie Themes http://www.amazon.de/French-Story-Barney-W...1222&sr=1-3 Paris Moods http://www.amazon.de/Paris-Moods-Remastere...1222&sr=1-4 (the first two i recently bought for a total of about 20 euro)

guess the two strongest are big sleep and lady in the lake but then if i'd say if you like/dislike one of them you'll like/dislike them all (besides i recall my dad saying he stopped reading this type of novel (the chandlers, then the ross mcdonalds...) because every few hours you've finished one and need another one; and i can only second that, they tend to be pretty fast reading, trying playback won't cost you much time)

happy new year to everyone!

the tony fruscella/stan getz version of dear old stockholm

got Trajeto last year (guess it still is available cheaply, another whatmusic.com reissue) and was also highly impressed with his playing, especially the trio version of round midnight... (iirc it's also claudio roditi's first session, 1968)...

up!

the album you linked too (Open Sky Unit - Open Sky Unit) has Michel Graillier exclusively on percussion (while i'm at it... i really like that open sky unit album though it's quite different from the other stuff i listen too - most (of the few) fusion records i've heard are very different from it, much less lively/quirky, this is more like "soft machine plus soul=?" can you recommend anything similar?[there are sound samples...] [is this what return to forever is like? havn't heard them] anyway this album is definitely recommended as is the other j&m pelzer album reissued by whatmusic "song for rene" [which is again quite different and in a genre i don't know much about, spiritual jazz from belgium?]

milt jackson plays piano throughout on barney wilen's jazz sur seine (jazz in paris)

forgot to say i can only second that, think i also like blue john (just a bit) better than the three other bn albums... (though just have the US version) i also have one of his prestige albums, the laughing soul, it's a bit smoother (maybe more commercial) than the bns imho, though still very original... wouldn't say it's better but i did play it a lot, probably more than the others

he's also on some tracks of james carter's "at baker's keyboard lounge" rip

happy birthday

my dad bought books the way i buy cds and listened to music only by accident or on one of the five or six records that he loved (which is roughly my relationship to books)... i learned reading (just like speaking) rather late and didn't really use it at first... (reportedly the first time i said more than one word at a time was when i said "muetze nehm ich fuer alle faelle glaub ich" ("hat i will take, just in case, i guess"), my manner of speaking/writing hasn't changed a lot since then, it seems)

girlfriend can't walk more than a few meters due to side effects of antibiotics (levofloxacin aka levaquin or tavanic - use this drug with caution i'd say - and if you start feeling pain in your hands or legs stop taking it before it's too late; some doctors may not as aware of this as they should...), doctors say this will take at least four more weeks (and they can't promise it will get better at all but most likely it will go away some time in the next three or four months) so i guess her family will pick us up on the 24th and then my folks will pick us up from there and finally bring us home again on the 26th or the like... won't be a splendid christmas either

J R Monterose "Body and Soul" (with Jon Eardley and Rein de Graaff i expect) took me a while to figure out i should try a search for "montrose" on amazon to get the full picture of available monterose...

from michael fitzgerald's monterose discography... Date: ca. 1964 Location: Studio 4, Rock Island, IL Label: Studio 4 Sue Childs (ldr), Tony Sotos (f, ts, bar), J.R. Monterose (ts), Gerry Lafurn (t), Sherm Mitchell (tb), Bill Pasquale (g), Bruce Anderson (b), Gaetan Caviola (d), Sue Childs (v) a. a-01 All Or Nothing At All (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) / arr: Gerry Lafurn b. a-02 Honeysuckle Rose (Thomas 'Fats' Waller, Andy Razaf) / arr: Gerry Lafurn c. a-03 Out Of Nowhere (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) / arr: Gerry Lafurn d. a-04 You'll Never Know (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) / arr: Gerry Lafurn e. a-05 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Cole Porter) / arr: Gerry Lafurn f. b-01 Summertime (George Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) / arr: Gerry Lafurn g. b-02 Lollipops And Roses (Tony Velona) / arr: Gerry Lafurn h. b-03 You Make Me Feel So Young (Joseph Myrow, Mack Gordon) / arr: Gerry Lafurn i. b-04 Lonesome Road (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) / arr: Gerry Lafurn j. b-05 The Girl From Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel) / arr: Gerry Lafurn All titles on: Studio 4 LP 12": SS 200 — Introducing Sue Childs J.R. Monterose (ts) on a, e. Further details needed on instrument specifics. LP issue gives no recording date.

well, given what your post contained, i didn't read on immediately... i would suggest you delete it

not that i didn't understand it... is "Effort" a proper word in swiss german?

until someone more knowledgable comes around... i dimly remember that firefox asked me whether i wanted to import the favorites from the IE version on my computer (or that there was such an option somewhere in the program...) but memory might fail me here... (at the very least IE is still there and you can open it to look up addresses) don't think you need many prerequisites to run firefox, i would just go here and download what they offer you: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/ edit to add, seems there is indeed this import option i remembered http://www.kb.indiana.edu/data/atus.html

unsure about woody shaw... maybe it's not his playing, maybe unity is just a better album than those of shaw's leader dates i have heard

once more everbody is nicer than me - guess i should be worried

recently spend a good time watching this heid documentary "that dirty thang" on youtube... nice recollections of playing hotel gigs in shanghai (and clips from those) plus memories of stitt/patterson/james... three parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5ZFGrCCz0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7je5D4NWGI8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1dZ4ly5vnM another nice heid video in two parts only have one of his albums, "da girl" and like it a lot, great frontline of joe magnarelli and scott petersen... interesting how often they mention mccoy tyner... btw in september heid was in hongkong http://www.henrychung.net/pastgigs2008.htm which of course doesn't mean anything... his brother's webpage with a phone number - maybe a good person to ask about his brother's whereabouts (not that i'd know where my brother is at this point in time) http://www.heidstudios.com/

i like these albums too (as you may have noted it's all three albums on two cds) besides braith and grant green they feature the very interesting organist billy gardner http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...8&hl=braith guess what should be said is that his music has some sort of quirky/busy quality, can't really put it into words, which might put some people off (in one of the threads there is the quote "Whenever I listen to Mary Ann from Two Souls In One, I always think I'm at the circus. ")... that these albums aren't everybody's cup of tea is more because of this than because of the two saxophones thing i'd say... two more threads, couldn't find the best one i guess http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...6&hl=braith http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...4&hl=braith

think i just googled the label name from the fitzgerald discography... keep us posted if you hear them! (guess i might pick up one as well...) got "live at the tender trap" this morning; highly recommended upon first impression!

any opinions on the six (!?) monterose albums available through this site? has anyone ordered from there? http://www.croscrane.com/ lineups like this one jr monterose, tenor sax walter donnaruma, piano teddy kotick, bass eddie robinson, drums donnaruma, never heard of him, apparently produced these cds...