Niko

Details? michael fitzgerald did a monterose discography... http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Mon...se/jrm-disc.htm btw, i played rene thomas "guitar groove" the other day and it's amazing album (ojc!) with great contributions from monterose (actually, i used to not really get this album but decided to make it my favorite thomas album now)

love el hombre, also love the trudy pitts legends of acid jazz disc (but it's completely different)... fantasy put out four eric kloss twofers, martino is on three of those, one album on each, about time (only have that one, martino with don patterson (there are various excellent albums with patterson of martino)), sky shadows in the land of giants (with jaki byard/cranshaw/dejohnette) and "& the rhythm section" (with corea/holland/de johnette)

oh, i definitely do consider myself lucky (actually, often enough i feel she understands the music i love better than me, she just doesn't like it - guess we couldn't be more different as listeners (and musicians, too)) (funny incident a few hours ago; we're about to start a new band together with a few other people, jazz fans, and she honestly told me "it's not what i really want to do but a jazz band would perfectly be ok with me")(and i said i don't want to hear myself soloing over night in tunisia, and i guess i'm with pretty much anybody who has his senses together on this... no jazz band, definitely - hope we can convince the others) will never forget living without a roommate for the first time. this feeling of going to the toilet thinking "it's only 100 euro more a month and you don't have to share it with anybody" - priceless, i waited far too long

don't overlook the weston and sims! sims is one of my favorite cds actually

package from nimbus west arrived today (could hardly have been faster) (customs receipt signed by mr albach himself btw) no reason to worry about reliability apparently!

doesn't it say in the notes burrell was just a guest for that night? one of my favorite trumpet players!

Sounds familiar too ... but what do you (or your girlfriend mean by "guitars not played properly"? Is playing single note lines "proper" or isn't it? she is a pretty good "folk-style" guitar player and finds indeed that raney-style guitar players don't use the instrument the right way (must admit, i can't really understand this) - guess she feels a really good guitar player should play several melodies at once or the like... don't think she has a problem with the tone (because at heart she is an acoustic guitarist) (besides, she is always pissed when she hears people in rock bands who are not at her level techincally but don't have to do a sillly job like her) she did like the elek bascik jazz in paris disc, for instance... concerning brass players, i think a single, not overly brassy trumpet player is ok with her (like she had to watch "the glenn miller story" at school years ago and said something along the lines "the guy is all the time trying to improve the sound of the band, but it's obvious that the sound cannot improve if you triple all the instruments nobody wants to hear so that they completely overpower the better instruments such as guitar, piano, clarinet...") (but as i mentioned above, she did acknowledge that the edelhagen band we watched on tv was a tremendously tight band technically (and that bora rokovic was an amazing piano player)... shake keane's solos she didn't like at all though)

i think my girlfriend actually likes jazz more than she said initially... it's just, she has a problem when brass instruments appear, when guitars are not played properly (notably includes playing single note lines), or when a notable coltrane influence is present (like in woody shaw's music)... but we actually agree on many things (like if you give her a hank mobley, a pat metheny and a norah jones album she will certainly say the mobley is the only decent one while the other too are pretty creepy)

rip love that Jazz in Paris album with Eddy Louiss for instance...

here you should find everything with a little browsing... http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/ like BN 45-1802 Ike Quebec - I've Got The World On A String c/w What A Difference A Day Makes Ike Quebec (ts) Sir Charles Thompson (p) Milt Hinton (b) J.C. Heard (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 25, 1960 tk.12 What A Difference A Day Makes tk.19 I've Got The World On A String BN 45-1803 Ike Quebec - If I Could Be With You c/w Me 'N Mabe Ike Quebec (ts) Sir Charles Thompson (p) Milt Hinton (b) J.C. Heard (d): same session Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 25, 1960 tk.6 If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) tk.21 Me 'N Mabe BN 45-1804 Ike Quebec - Everything Happens To Me c/w Mardi-Gras Ike Quebec (ts) Sir Charles Thompson (p) Milt Hinton (b) J.C. Heard (d): same session Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 25, 1960 tk.9 Mardi-Gras tk.24 Everything Happens To Me (short version)

my dad's dad died ten years ago on december 6 1998 (and i guess i am the first person to remember thanks to this thread...)

at work and while she's on the phone (like now)... from the total amount of time this is ok, ponly drawback is i tend to listen to the same small fraction of my cds all the time (because i can't keep that much stuff at the office... maybe i should put it all on some sort of usb stick/ mp3 player...) my girlfriend has her own, rather negative, views about jazz but she just watched a surprisingly good kurt edelhagen concert on tv with me (even though she had wanted to watch something else) an hour ago so i'm not complaining...

in town (bonn) we have one real cd shop left, which has a small but pretty decent jazz section (meaning, they got rvgs... at good prices and sometimes surprise me with having something unexpected in stock at a reasonable price (say, the two cds of humair louiss ponty for 9 euro a piece) and they are nice people... i like to go there but to some extent this is just due to the fact that i like to spend time in record stores... no good used cd stores in town (i am only aware of two actually both with very small selection and high prices i check them out once a year maybe), zweitausendeins opened recently but that mainly means i can order from them without shipping, the selection in the store is just a random fraction of their catalogue... in nearby cologne there used to be a great used cd store called music rebel but that one closed recently as did some of the others... i am probably not aware of all places but i think essentially all that is left there is the big "saturn" shop, not bad, the claim they have the largest cd section in the world - i doubt it, i mostly find something when i go there but rarely the type of thing i'm looking for at a good price (means, amazon marketplace is better) and there is a used cd shop on the other side of the street... staff couldn't be less knowledgable but that means at least they tend to set completely random prices with nice outliers in the cheapo range (and since they are the only ones left the selection has improed considerably recently)... given that the two cities with their surroundings have like 2 million inhabitants a pretty depressing picture...

I was interested in the Bob Scobey album offered by Mikelz777. Mikelz777 just informed me, that he will not ship outside the US. I was not aware that this thread is for US residents only. Meanwhile I got a PM from someone who is interested in my Ellington set. I will ship the Ellington twofer anyway, so I have one future cd free. hey, i didn't know there were US only threads... maybe we could start a visible/invisible thing as with the political forums... one thread less i have to read anyway... (put differently: tommy, if you're angry, i will gladly share your anger with you)

I went through a big Auster period in my early twenties. I think the first book of his that I read was either "The Music of Chance" or "The New York Trilogy." I got very into him, even opting to write my (aborted) Master's Thesis on his work (it was to be titled "Private "I"s and Missing Persons: Issues of Identity in the the 'New York Trilogy'"). The Master's Thesis was really doomed from the start because nobody on the faculity at my grad school had ever read Auster, so they sent me to the one professor who dealt with modern authors. He'd never read Auster either, but he agreed to advise me. After reading the "New York Trilogy," he called me into his office and said, "You're joking, right? You're not really writing about this pretentous clown, are you?" That didn't kill my thesis, but it certainly didn't help. What killed my thesis was the day my advisor called me into his office and told me that I "write like a damn newspaperman" (another grad school professor called me a "restfully clear writer," which means pretty much the same thing, but is more tactful). I've since come to pretty much the same conclusion as my old professor, actually. I still enjoy Auster's work, but some of his more "writerly" turns make me cringe. It's like reading a teenager who's read a lot of Kafka. when i was an exchange student in the US in 1997 nobody i talked to had heard of auster while in germany he was all over the place at the time... (the h word comes to mind) i really enjoyed moon palace, music of chance..., and then somehow lost interest when leviathan... came out; i even played in a band named after a character from moon palace for a few years (but at that time it wasn't me anymore who read these books); nowadays his stuff seems pretty flat (hollow) to me most of the time; (funny thing i was in a bookstore with a friend a few weeks ago and for the memories had a look into "land of last things", read half a page and then handed it to my friend saying "hey, isn't this exactly the way you are trying to write" and he had to agree that it all sonded completely like him...) btw, a great collection of short stories, somewhat reminicent of auster but more lively, discovered it back in the day at the public library (where it was filed next to kerouac) is "missing kissinger" by israeli author etgar keret http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/009949816...me=&seller=

had forgotten about that one... i remember that i read this in fourth grade, my baby-sitter's dad had also been a researcher on the easter island and i felt pretty much like an insider reading the book, it was pretty cool

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent)) Your dad were right...and wrong, one of 'my' book, like lot of great literature, (Conrad, Dostojevski, etc,) one probably would needs a life for studying stuff like Wittgentstein, Schoenberg, Freud and Einstein's theory to fully understand Musil, but it's an enjoyable reading anyway. think i know to some extent what you mean - reading it was much "smoother" than i had expected and it doesn't cost much effort to have a great time with the book - and still it is evident most of the time that one could go into much more detail and understand it all much better...

read that one too, as well as a book witrh his speeches around 8th grade and was highly impressed...

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent)) hey, but you're not 30 yet - it's supposed to be the ideal books for people at the age of 30, because there's that passage where Ulrich asks himself how he had turned into the person he was... without remembering any decisive or important decisions he made... I'll have to read it next year, shall suit me perfectly well then well, only last week i asked my girlfriend "we must have grown up some time in the last one and a half year?" and she agreed, also, i started finding white hairs a few weeks ago... maybe it's time to start reading again (though admittedly i don't know what type of person i am, maybe i should really wait another year or two)

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent))

will never forget an "incident" in sixth grade when i was helping to sort the class library and some kid said "the hobbit..., shouldn't we be over books like that for several years now?"... i had put it there and it's still one of my two desert island books... never liked enid blyton that much though i must have read a dozen or two of those anyway; i read lots of jules verne, dumas, treasure island... i also read many history books (like a 600 page biography of talleyrand - would never feel like reading a book like that nowadays) when i was thirteen or fourteen i discovered paul auster and read most of his books that were available at the time, kerouac came a little later, when i was seventeen i read most of joerg fauser's books, the only post-war german author i ever read more than 200 pages of, at nineteen i read the first joseph roth novel and since i've mostly been reading and re-reading his books... but i do hope that my interest in reading will come back some time ...

just a wild guess... you're also one of those don't watch the vienna opera ball on tv every year

thanks to everybody for their thoughts! placed an order for "retribution, reparation" and "i want some water"... as i mentioned above i only have two so far but those i would definitely recommend, tapscott's dial b for barbra and nate morgan's journey into nigritia (the latter has been one of my most played cds of the last few months, i used to be very ambivalent with respect to coltrane-influenced music (say, i haven't felt like checking out steve grossmann yet, although this is beginning to change) but this album really convinced me, it has that coltrane/spiritual jazz vibe and at the same time comes across honest and (more importantly) a bit understated (like they are saying (to me) "we play this music because it's our music, it's not like we seriously believe in revolution/africa and all that") [don't take this too seriously if you could]

good that you mention it... i must have lost your copy somewhere in the appartment and knowing the chaos here just ordered a second one... wanted to have it anyway

the album that made me look for more solal is wes montgomery live in hamburg 1965 (philology) which i found recently - solal is astonishing on this one (by my measures)... another album i'd recommend is "portrait in black and white" his duo album with trumpeter eric le lann... a very enjoyable and accessible set of music...