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reading Rebop Kwaku Baah's name with Nick Drake and then with Randy Weston surprised me at first but since he played with among others Joe Cocker, Traffic, Viv Stanshall, Can, Bob Marley, Tim Hardin, Rolling Stones as well, guess he's the guy you have to expect on any record

paris in the late 60s produced dozens of those unusual combinations... (by memory i'd say pan-african festival wasn't one of them though)... many familiar discs have unusual combinations on them... john zorn or grachan moncur with john patton, mingus or coltrane with ellington, buzz gardner with frank zappa/rene thomas (guess seeing the name a second time is surprising no matter where you see it first), chris mcgregor with nick drake, all those west coast jazzers on tom waits albums, say, shelly manne (iirc)

spent a few hours in bukowski's birth town (andernach) for the first time on saturday... he sure would have turned out a different writer if his family hadn't moved on to LA (when he was two) (one of the most depressing, smallish towns to be found around here)

cool, thank you... guess this is where i'll find my desktop background...

happy birthday brownie!

please continue, indeed it's more of a chris albertson autobiography than a regular thread... but then what's wrong with that, you're easily in a position to fill such a thread with meaning...

It came out on Japanese Candid vinyl as well. I've seen at least 2 copies (one of which I grabbed). i bought the candid cd for 1,70 euro on amazon.de a few weeks ago, should be easy to find... just playing one of the rene thomas jazz in paris cds at the moment, might like both of them better than the ojc... think my favorite cd with thomas on it is the thomas/clarke/louiss trio cd under eddy louiss name... i am also just getting started with guitar players beyond grant green, another fine jazz in paris cd is the toots thielemans cd (he doesn't play harmonica on it, he just whistles a little) with the georges arvanitas trio "blues pour flirter"..., only have one of the bacsik albums (nuages) and can only second the recommendations... heard christian escoude for the first time last week (on teddy edwards live in paris) and will certainly explore him more thoroughly in the nearer future... i have the feeling that jimmy raney is the next guitar player i should give a try... if i just want one raney cd (for the moment) which one should that be?

happy birthday, daniel!

I knew there was a catch... one thing i've been wondering: if i get a credit and the bank goes bancrupt, do i have to pay it back ... [no need for an answer unless it's no (plus the details)]

The hound of music by Georges Arvanitas edit: since i can't see the image myself and don't know how to fix it here's the link, nice hound http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=704697

now that the thoughts have come in... is there an alternative book on the subject? say, a book that tells the real things about thollot (put differently, France 1965-1975 or so, is what interests me the most at present, but a broader scope is also appreciated...)

Ok, show me a coach that can fill a 70,000 seat stadium at a minimum of $50 a ticket if he doesn't have his team with him... (btw, 1000000 can't be a median over a large number of teams... or?) (and i guess the top doctoral-granting universities pay their tenured faculty significantly more... just know bits and pieces about that labor market) (and, yes, i know this was meant to be funny and it is)

can't check from work but aren't there longer sound samples somewhere... like on his myspace site... sounded a bit esoteric to me iirc (but this may be completely wrong)

Right. Wasn't this album cover design discovered in a 'black and white' format with no color? Kind of unfair to judge since we don't know what colors Reid would've used. yes, it's one of those...

I agree. It's almost worthy of 32 Jazz. i can't find the cover that bad... my copy has a stronger orange and a bluer blue though... now if they had made big john's read and the background in a nice light green... that would have been something (looking at the cover i find it hard to imagine how miles had originally colored it ...)

maybe we can agree that he had a very strong/characteristic/extreme face in some sense and that the thing with the ears could be much worse

but anyway he certainly wasn't a good-looking man so maybe it's a bit unfair to post his album covers here

if i am not mistaken it's taken from this excellent (and at times very funny) movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/

just saw a concert announcement for mid-november, just around the corner from here, hope i will make it... the line-up includes my two favorite local tenor players (simion and dudek) and a bunch of other people i'd really like to hear... Manfred Schoof (trumpet) Jiri Stivin (flute) Alan Skidmore, Stan Sulzman, Nicolas Simion, Gerd Dudek (sax) Rob van den Broeck (piano) Ali Haurand (bass) Tony Levin (drums)

happy birthday chris a!

happy birthday!!

i lived in this thing from early 2003 to early 2006, the first two years together with that guy... luckily he was not a roommate we just shared kitchen, toilet, shower.. together with five more people... moved into an ordinary two room apartment together with my girlfriend then (who had been living at the same place since late 2000) ... the experience there sure made us much less tolerant (not only with foreigners though...) could go on with stories like in the above post for quite some time i guess... that said, there are also nice things to be said about that guy, he certainly was interesting to talk to and highly talented in lots of things (say, his english which he had learned in two years of high school in uzbecistan was about as good as mine, he learned german really quickly and when we talked about maths it was apparent he had a much deeper knowledge than me...) (only disturbing thing maybe is he, who never felt responsible for anything [like he would bring another shopping cart home from the super market every week for several months and never returned them], was a graduate student in nuclear physics)

don't take people like that too seriously the upset you but i am sure they are in the minority [within their minority]! my dorm mate from uzbecistan was big at playing the nazi card all the time; he really wasn't easy to live with and i believe we did let him have his freedom (like nobody said a word when he sub-rented his room to a prostitute... nothing against her personally (though you don't want to know what she looked like without makeup, she took 50 euro a week iirc), it's just nobody is happy to share bath and kitchen with someone who has so much higher risks healthwise... one word from any of us and he would have lost the room from one day to the other...) well whenever anybody told him to do his dishes at least every other week, not to masturbate under the shower (or at least to leave it clean and not to talk about his erection problems in there all the time) until the second shower was repaired so that the others (six of us) could use the second one... the guy would write a long letter "i always thought the situation in germany had changed after ww2, i always felt welcome here, but now..." [looking back i can't believe all this really happened]

Unity is a monster and probably considered to be in the top echelons of organ jazz period. But concerning Woody's leader dates, I like The Moontrane and Rosewood quite a bit with Stepping Stones not too far behind; I would think that those are considered top shelf Shaw. Honorable Mention: Woody smokes on the Jody Grind. hmm... rosewood never really convinced me, the other two i must admit i haven't played as much as i should... remember liking stepping stones quite a bit... but given that shaw is one of the greatest jazz trumpet players (and maybe my personal favorite) i find his albums surprisingly weak...

this navarro chronology http://csis.pace.edu/~varden/navarro/chrono.html says 1945 July Navarro may have participated for a short time in Gillespie's first big band. 1947 April May have rehearsed with Gillespie's big band. so that doesn't make the trumpet section a bit less likely (plus there are numerous other gigs listed for late 1946/early 1947...) but of course this doesn't proof anything