Niko

What do the stars mean? There are people who have been banned who have them while plenty of others who have made real contributions here have none , so I'd say the stars mean absolutely nothing.... I've always thought of the member ratings as the most useful feature of the forums. Last time I looked I had five stars, but now I'm down to three so I guess someone who likes me a lot must have submitted a "one". I need an explanation about the rating system and how does it work. don't think it will change your life by much but who knows; never quite understood what those ratings are good for; go on a member's profile page on the left below the picture on the left it says rating, there are 5 stars you can give someone a rating by clicking on the appropriate star; the thing displays the average of the stars given so far to the member...

can only second what others have said on blackstone legacy and song of songs... blackstone legacy doesn't really click for me either... song of songs does have a certain roughness to it but since most of woody's leader discs are a bit too smooth/polished for my tastes i don't complain... think iron men is the only shaw recording that i really like better than song of songs... btw, i am pretty sure it says on the song of songs cd which tenor player is on the left/right channel; i've bought many (say, more than half) of shaw's albums after really digging him on demon's dance and unity and was pretty much always disappointed to varying degrees did shaw ever record an album under his own name that worked out as well as unity? (from what i've heard i feel the answer is definitely no)

hey! did they let you out early?

seconded!! glad i got at least that one, since most wilen records are relatively hard to find (cheap)... but so far i haven't got one that i wouldn't recommend without hesitation (may have to do with the ones i got, the first one of the rca live disc with dorham/jordan, the petit one, the jazz in paris disc with milt jackson on piano... new york romance is on its way here however...)

reminds me that i forgot to post my impressions of that joan baez concert...

why are you doing all this, robyn? love this one: "Don’t you hate it when you miss some of your favorite artist live? Well now I don’t feel bad anymore about missing Tori Amos. . I heard from my friend that Tori Amos is absolutely breath taking onstage and that I can catch her live at Montreaux during 1991-1992 performance DVD when its out in a few days, sept 30th. I cant wait to see it, im so excited. Robyn Fontana" http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?p=866943#post866943 http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=35790 http://www.folkalley.com/community/forum/i.../topic,150.html http://www.metrolyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3261 and many more - Niko DFG (following the tradition of using the name of the one who pays you as a second name)

thank you for this awesome thread!!

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from michael fitzgerald's list of tolliver's leader dates... http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/Tol...Charles-ldr.htm Date: November 1977 Location: Paris, France Label: Baystate Charles Tolliver (ldr), Charles Tolliver (t), Nathen Page (g), Steve Novosel (b), Alvin Queen (d) a. a-01 Earl's World - 13:10 (Charles Tolliver) b. a-02 Impact - 5:33 (Charles Tolliver) c. b-01 Compassion - 10:50 (Charles Tolliver) d. b-02 Truth - 9:42 (Charles Tolliver) All titles on: Strata-East LP 12": SES 8001 — Compassion (1980) fine album!

i find it hard to say what to make of the first article i posted... naively, to me it reads as if the guy overdoes it with contradicting everything in russell's book; makes me feel like the truth is somewhere in the middle between the article and russell... but then this may be a bias i have built up since i've known the book for so long....

and these two texts do not substitute the 48 page booklet, but still... http://jazzinchicago.org/educates/journal/...-dean-benedetti http://jazzinchicago.org/educates/journal/...-charlie-parker btw, what really surprised me was this bit from the first article "Benedetti recorded Bird early in 1947 during a two week engagement at the Hi-De-Ho Club. In 1948, like so many other musicians, Dean (and Knepper) headed to New York and lived a desperate hand-to-mouth existence. While in New York, Dean recorded Parker on March 31, 1948, and on July 7, 10, 11, 1948. That is the extent of the archive. He did not follow Bird around the country. " Benedetti recorded Parker only on like 5 nights? (assuming that most of the Benedetti tapes are not lost) this isn't any more obsessive than most of us here... just ahead of his time i'd say...

related question... what is this? http://www.jazzbeat.com/html/Dizzyreece.html

just listened to these one minute sound samples of messiaen playing his organ works... http://www.amazon.de/Orgelwerke/dp/B000002...380&s=music WOW, thanks for the hint!

Now we're getting somewhere. This means the elephant is superior to the giraffe. I figured they were more or less equal (long neck offsets long nose). i am inbetween (27%) and will be a Rhino...

two more amazon.de orders, if these things actually arrive they might fit into the great finds thread Jazz in Paris "From Belgium with Love" 5 CD set, already have two, but still at 8 euro a pretty good buy Joe Henderson Complete Milestone Years 8 CD set for 15 euro

filled some gaps in my jazz in paris collection at a local sale Donald Byrd - Parisian Thoroughfare Django Rheinhardt - Nuits de Saint Germain des-Prés Toots Thielemans - Blues pour Flirter Barney Wilen - Jazz Sur Seine (decided to buy this one again and not try to get it back from my friend who had my copy for four years now) Clarinettes à Saint Germain des-Prés (playing this one right now, was a bit hesitant, don't really know why, fearing something "too old-fashioned" or these medium sized ensembles which i somewhat dislike on many of these 50s Paris recordings; glad i bought it, very nice, swinging music, don't know much about clarinet players (although this is "my" instrument actually) this is a twofer of two complete LPs one by Hubert Rostaing with Martial Solal, some larger ensembles but mostly just clarinet with vibes (Michel Hausser) and rhythm, one by Maurice Meunier, this one is quartet or quintet (with William Boucaya on baritone) and Rene Urtreger or Raymond Fol on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass... very much recommended!) plus a great cheap find from ebay which arrived yesterday, more Paris recordings Mal Waldron/Marion Brown - Much More

happy birthday!

this is the guy pictures taken from his nicely done posthumous (?) homepage http://www.siegfriedkessler.com

apparently there is the beginning of a new line of reissues in the cheapo "jazz club" series from german universal, apparently one with complete albums and (almost) the original cover art, at least two such cds are announced for mid october, don ellis mps album "soaring" and Mark Murphy's A singin' swingin' affair not really more information, but i got this from here http://www.jazzecho.de/jazz_club_114603.jsp

just wanted to post the link again edit to add: neither link works anymore, but the interview and track is still found here http://www.dizzyreece.com/ scroll down a bit to the february 13 2005 post... guess it's still track 14

well i didn't say "am i blue" is a better record than "blue train"... i just said to me blue train doesn't quite live up to what you read about it, haven't played it in a while though... concerning idle moments, i do hear a certain "laid-back perfection" in it which i guess is related to what people rave about, i like it but i reach for am i blue more often (my favorite grant green blue note is feelin' the spirit btw)

each for 4 euro plus shipping on amazon.de... hope they will actually arrive Freddie Roach - Brown Sugar The rockin' tenor saxophone of eddie chamblee

once at the cologne opera house we heard some guy apparently singing along with the music... turned out a few days later it was a friend's friend's dad who was having a heart attack

played am i blue a lot a few months ago and for me it was just what i wanted to hear much more often than not... of course it does not suit all situations equally well, but this is (though maybe often to a lesser degree) true for pretty much any record... i like it! one that i do find overrated is blue train... and while i like johnny griffin's blue note quartet albums i don't think they hold up against the argo and riverside quartet albums...

iirc i saw johnston's name more than once on recent cds... for now all i can add is that he's on one trackj of daniel jackson's cd "life is but a dream" http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel3 (fine cd though i wouldn't get it just for four minutes of johnston's drumming (in a trio with jackson on tenor and art hillary on organ)) a similar surprise (at least for me) recently was this dan fogel cd on cdbaby which has billy james on drums http://cdbaby.com/cd/fogel3 some more surprising names on this one http://cdbaby.com/cd/clarence including johnston and horace tapscott veterans ed pleasant and ike williams...