Niko

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...

funny i never would have guessed that actress to be alive... this speaks very much in favor of the films naturalistic qualities i'd say

just in case other fanatics are around, just ordered the (youth) autobiography of the son of Fruscella's last girlfrined artist stella waitzkin fred waitzkin - the last marlin http://www.amazon.com/Last-Marlin-Story-Fa...6920&sr=8-3 the book has only 10 pages about fruscella, but then it is cheaply available and offers a rare glimpse at tony in the mid-sixites (he doesn't come across too charming, personally i find the part about killing a cat horrible and the thing with robbing a church amusing, non-vegetarians may see this differently, no offense intended) (actually the book doesn't look too bad, haven't read the rest yet, very well-written... it's mostly about fishing though...)

sorry, looks plausible, don't know what i saw there... welcome!

first time this thread appeared i thought it was ok because of the nice photos the one thing i have a problem with is that he deleted his original thread and posted it again the next day... would have been ok with me with new pictures though

first time i see bill green on a list that doesn't contain buddy collette

haven't heard them yet, just saw, zenon has several hours of free live mp3s on his webpage http://www.miguelzenon.com/live.htm

what's that thing in your pocket?

had never heard of these guys before i joined the board (actually, before i started to read the organ related threads) now i ordered the last don patterson leader cd i was still missing, and the next-to-last john patton cd... Don Patterson - Steady Comin' at Ya John Patton - Blue John

for an impression of jeffrey, can't look it up at work but there used to be clips on youtube of dizzy gillespie's big band live 1968 where jeffrey takes an excellent solo somewhere

saw a bunch of thoroughly low-priced cds featuring daerr or kruse at the shop today after reading this thread and thought i'd tell you... no idea how these are Daerr/Sieverts/Juette - Germany Twelve points http://www.amazon.de/Germany-12-Points-Dae...395&sr=1-43 Carsten Daerr/Daniel Erdmann - Berlin Calling http://www.amazon.de/Berlin-Calling-Carste...424&sr=1-51 young friends - great german songbook (featuring kruse) http://www.amazon.de/Great-German-Songbook...374&sr=1-35

intuitively i would wait whether the boxes show up in the october program of zweitausendeins... for instance they have the george duke box for 24 euro which seems pretty good http://www.zweitausendeins.de/suche/?q=Duke%2C%20George

additional question from me (ignorant to mckenna so far)... there is a mckenna / buddy de franco concord cd i see a lot in the bins overhere? do i need that one? i mean if he's best solo, a duo with a horn player can't be that bad?)