Niko

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

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!!