Niko

welcome to the board! (enjoyed your text "on the road at 18" tremendously yesterday!) don't have the tapsctt bio, but steven isoardi's other book the dark tree... there it says thinking about it, the story doesn't quite make sense (at least in the details) - tapscott arriving at the studio expecting to meet the guys he'd been hanging out with the other night, noticing other guys being there and then somehow getting Everett Brown on board... (btw, Ray Darper was a Tapscott man, too, iirc)

happy birthday!!!

got the select this morning and played the three albums i didn't own yet (the way i feel, oh baby, that certain feeling) twice, the others once... along came john i still don't quite get but the other two of the early albums i liked a lot better, especially the way i feel, love the front line of richard williams and fred jackson... understanding sounds as good as ever but for me the real surprise in this set was that certain feeling... much more open than i would have expected... or whatever [the message: get the select, you won't find that certain feeling elsewhere on cd and the price you'd mostly have to pay for the way i feel or oh baby is really high compared to the price of the select...]

happy birthday

rip time to link to his excellent oral history interview by steven isoardi again...

ordered Yoch'ko Seffer / Siegfried Kessler "Play Ellington" Tommy Chase / Ray Warleigh featuring Jon Eardley "One way" and (my first mosaic...) just found a copy of the john patton select at a local store, 40 euro... guess the price was ok but not great ,thought getting around the trouble with customs and shipping and waiting is also worth something...

link fixed: http://www.alexanderhawkins.com/blog.html wow to you playing with ray warleigh! (only now his recordings with nick drake which i treasure... guess that's the type of gig a jazz musician doesn't want to be identified with in the first place... but still...) saw a performance of one of stockhausen's electronic pieces which were performed with speakers in all corners of the room so the seats in the middle were best, came late and only got a seat in the front row so i sat directly opposite stockhausen himself for the two hours... he wasn't joe maini but he did have a scary aura...

has this been posted before? http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=682ddza0z2I lou donaldson, randy johnston, dr lonnie smith...

no hammond but lots of 70s charm (also if you're into guys with beards) Kovács Kati - Az eső és én feat. Szabó Gábor

mathematicians (and physicists even more so) like to say this is the writing style of someone who has never seen anything complicated postmodernist essay generator (not that well-done but i like the idea) http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

This is the chap for whom Ravel wrote the concerto, I believe. [There were various other relatively well-known commissions for Wittgenstein as well!] AFAIK Paul Wittgenstein never performed the concerto Ravel had written for him ... see my post above, guess you're confusing it with the concerto prokofiev wrote for wittgenstein from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concert...and_%28Ravel%29

we did have several such threads actually, http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9122 but this is not the one i remembered

tonight i dreamed i called jim alfredson to order groovadelphia, his wife was on the phone saying "do you know what time it is?", i thought about it for a moment and noticed that in america it was still in the middle of the night (and felt very bad about waking up the children), so i ordered groovadelphia and the two other organissimo cds... guess on friday i'll know a bit more about who will pay me what in the next one and half years... will place an order soon...(at least if friday's results are half decent)

the one thing i really don't get about the select is the inclusion of along came john... wasn't that easily available at the time the select came out (as it is now)? if they'd put in the first session from accent on the blues, instead of along came john, for instance, the select would have been everything that came out back in the day minus what was easily available on single cds (= along came john, got a good thing going and let em roll...) another inclusion that would have made more sense imho would have been harold vick's steppin out instead of along came john for instance...

Otherwise, Dave sounded a lot like Bird on tenor. Am I right? will take the cue and put on schildkraut on tenor now (from the schildkraut cd, which allen might still be selling?), definitely recall him sounding very fine on it

whatever this reveals about my job here are two mor things with diaz mena Katherine Dunham The Singing Gods. Drum Rhythms of Haiti, Cuba et Brazil http://www.ritmacuba.com/CDDunham.html and this mysterious looking thing, a movie? Conjunto de Bongoceras de Antonio Díaz Mena Santo contra los zombies (1962) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2461954/

guess i indeed know the stories much better than the poems (though i have seen a number of them...) will give them another chance...

from paul wittgenstein's wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein somewhere i read that if people said "wittgenstein" before WWII they meant paul and not ludwig... in that same place i read about the massive amount of money (a really large figure) they inherited from their dad, ludwig didn't take it, but paul used it to buy these compositions... from their dad's wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wittgenstein of the five sons, three commited suicide ealry on while the remaining two became really famous... fasincating family... since klimt came up earlier today elsewhere, here's margaret:

don't know much poetry funny, WC Williams would have started my list as well, Tzvataeyeva i don't know, Mayakovsky, Catullus (still disclaimer on spelling) were two of the few poets i checked out and liked quite a bit... but brecht i never got, he's so teacher-like and always has these cheap "catchs" (?"hooks"? what do you call them?) at the end of his texts (i did like bits and pieces here and there - but with brecht you never know who the actual author was) from his generation i much prefer gottfried benn... a few weeks ago i was at a reading where several people between 50 and 60 from eastern germany were reading, they were pretty good, but with every single one of them it was evident they came from a world where brecht had been all over the place looking at ejp's list, had been wondering this before: is there some sort of consensus that ferlinghetti is the one of the beat poets that stood the test of time (i just know the fine poem about the dog, not a good description)

do warne marsh and hans koller count? (or is that konitz-influenced tenor playing?), and hank mobley?

haven't seriously tried this myself but the first results didn't look bad...:why not start a blog?

Blue Note Lost Sessions Conn for 7 Euro including shipping on ebay

slightly off topic, anyone out there who really believes, that, say, almost the complete riverside output will ever be sold as downloads... (say, who believes that at some point in the next 30 years both the paul serrano and the lenny mcbrowne album on riverside will be made available for download by the owners?) i definitely can't see them getting this stuff out of iron mountain and up for download at this point...

besides vinyl under coats, there always were home-made cassette copies of albums....

cool, thank you! is what i was thinking, too... but it seems to be the case