Niko

also only a 40 for me; but they list the nearest grocery store at 30 km when it's in fact 50 meters; similarly the japanese bookstore 60 km from here in Düsseldorf is not the best option for books (meaning the miss all the bookstores here as well as in Cologne ?!)

i mostly buy us import cds... but to the credit of the local brick&mortar store i must say at least if they have something on sale it's usually best to buy it there (for 7 to 9 euro but without shipping)

one of the most remarkable things i read in an interview was in a heinz sauer interview from shortly after mangelsdorff died; iirc sauer had just recorded a mangelsdorff tribute album or the like; the journalist said something (very roughly) along the lines of "must be hard to lose an old friend like albert?" and sauer said something like "there were dozens of reasons for why there could at no point have been friendship between mangelsdorff and me, i would rather call it respect" i mean, they weren't talking about, say, love... until then i had always (naively) thought that people who play in a (great, and not overly commercial) band together for years (decades) must be friends in one way or another... or at least, call themselves friends on the outside... (and mangelsdorff always looks so harmless and friendly, the other way around it would have surprised me less, but that sauer says "that guy could never have been a friend of mine")

Yes, indeed! Anybody know Michel de Villers, the bari player in this video? What's his deal? And saxophone geek question: What kind of horn is Byas playing in these vids? There's that weird thing on the neck octave vent... de villiers is on several of the jazz in paris discs: an octet ep led by him is on the "Saxophones a Saint-Germain-des-Prés" (which is great though his tracks pale a bit in comparison with the hubert fol and sonny criss eps on the same cd) another leader date is on "Danse a Saint-Germain-des-Prés" which i haven't heard... he's also on lucky thompson with the dave pochonet all stars (great cd, but i have never paid attention to him, though i believe the sidemen get some solos...) cheap: http://www.amazon.com/Danse-Saint-Germain-...7977&sr=1-2 highly recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Saxophones-Saint-Ger...8022&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Paris-Dave-Poch...8055&sr=1-1

Glad you've picked a picture that looks like you, Niko. I always find it a bit disconcerting not to know whether or not I'm looking at an image or near-image of the poster. I mean, does Allen Lowe really look like one of Richard Nixon's seedier henchmen? Or does Medjuk look like Clarence Williams - or is that a photo of someone else? me, only picture i have, actually even with some sort of beard, but that one was not intended

well the beard in the picture is not the (much fuller) type of beard i'd associate with a jazz fan... actually i look a lot like the portrait (which is why i picked it, haven't read any of that guy's stuff though i want to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rodenbach) but i don't have that beard

patton plays piano with fred jackson on a track on the lost sessions conn...

the first jazz radio show i ever heard featured mseleku... i was very impressed, heard that station for years but it rarely got that good again, but never explored mseleku any further... any recommendations?

just ordered my first mangelsdorff cd (now jazz ramwong) to check out whether i will need these for christmas...

:tup no reason to be modest with these! love the henry grimes...

Yeah, it's been that way for close to three years now... what's wrong with this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/094...ASIN=0940642182

one guy listens to U2 and REM and the like, the other listens to strange music, a bit like smooth jazz but based on chinese classical music instead of jazz

You, sir, have been officially cut out of my will! do what you have to do but don't complain when you find yourself sitting on a cloud together with that teacher some day... he seems like a nice guy (maybe he is one), even is a jazz fan of sorts... thing is he just got like two hours of stuff to say and afterwards isn't shy to repeat himself... he never prepared classes and always started at the same point for several weeks in a row, reportedly he had been a decent teacher in the late sixties... he even taught louis l'amour at the university... guess he just didn't want to read shakespeare anymore...

most hated here not to kill a mocking bird, that was third, but the volume of wild west stories our teacher had edited, only author i remember is louis l'amour, that one was half a year, david guterson, forgot the title, something with cedars...

only 8 and except for Brave New World and Little Red Riding Hood i had to read them for school... some of the better school reading except for To kill a mockingbird which i hated (and we spent like 3 months with that one)

just got outback and wondered whether the final track had made your list... it did november 68th

ok, this is against the new forum rules... but this wikipedia entry i just came across will probably not survive for long in its current form... written by chewy? (not written by chewy, chewy doesn't think don sleet is from NY) lots of information in here i haven't seen elsewhere... do i have to delete this post? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Draper Raymond Allen Draper (August 3, 1940–November 1, 1982) was an American hard bop tuba player. Born in New York City. After attending the Manhattan School of Music in the mid-1950s, he played or recorded with Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Don Cherry, Horace Tapscott, Archie Shepp, Teddy Wender, Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Howard Johnson. He also recorded as a leader in the late 1950s And upon being released from prison in the late sixties ,formed the first jazz rock fusion band composed of Established jazz musicians of the day.This preceded the normally accepted Miles Davis Bitches Brew as first jazz rock fusion group ,and recording by three years.Original band members include George Bohannon trombone,Hadley Caliman Tenor sax, John Duke upright bass Paul Lagos drums and Tom Trujillo guitar,This band after its first live performance at the Whiskey a go go in Holly wood,co billing with THE NAZZ was offered numerous top money record deals and was booked solid for the rest of the year at all the major rock clubs.But after his wife's attempted suicide after catching Ray with another girl,Ray began using heroin again, whereupon the more experienced band members all quit except for the youngest member guitarist Tom Trujillo and his landlord Chuck Goodn .This led for a search for new members some of which included .Don Sleet veteren NY trumpet player and one of Ernie Watts first gigs in LA many other musicians came and went but After two long years of searching Ray finally relented and Paul lagos was brought back on drums ,along with Richard Aplan on sax Phil Woods on Trumpet and Keyboardist Chuck Goodn Vocal Tom Trujillo guitar Ray Draper Tuba/ vocals Ron Johnson on bass.This comprised the new group eventually named by Trujillo because of the many food named bands at the time like Cream.Vanilla Fudge etc Named the band after soul food RED BEANS AND RICE,This group played with top rock bands of its time including, Jimmy Hendrix, Chicago Transit Authority, jethro Tull, , Gil Scott Heron etc And was on its way to being possibly the best band of its era due to the musicianship in the band and the originality, range and skill in its compositions, arrangements and live performances.Musically they blew everyone away. They went on to record the album produced by Jackie Paris titled " Red Beans and Rice featuring sparerib Ray Draper" on Epic Records. But when the band saw what Ray and his manager Forrest Hamilton had done putting only Rays picture on the cover , again the whole group quit and Ray was on his own once more. After this he sporadically performed and recorded but he was no longer able recreate the band and was ultimately killed during a robbery trying to tell a young robber who he was .Ray had unbelievable charm,and charisma that overcame his addiction ,his ability as a musician and composer and vision were unparalleled .Red Beans and Rice is a favorite among Djs and collectors for its eclectic mix of quality jazz and rock fusion un equalled at its time.

the first word i ever spoke was car, have driven maybe 100 miles since i got a license 8 years ago, the last time maybe 6 years ago.. when i was four i broke the antenna of my dad's fancy radio; when i was 15 i asked him if i could have it... my equipment is a cd player plugged into said radio... when i occasionally listen to my cds on my girlfriend's clock-radio-CD player i am amazed at the sound... still i rather spend the money on new cds

thank you! (bought the farrell (3 euro cheaper than the other four) and nate morgan's "journey into nigritia" (which was really cheap); having a good time with that one right now..)

i've gone to that used cd store for like 10 years and the only thing i ever bought was "live for the moment" by willy schwarz (not recommended), used to be the crappiest cd store in town, recently essentially all the other closed; then someone must have unloaded there a real nice collection, hope he's doing well... their pricing policy is pretty random except when they know the artist by name (say, anything by chet baker starts at 15 Euro) already got trippin with cal green, tapscott dial b for barbra, randy weston at monterey, doug carn adam's apple, charles williams grass and trees and things, valdo williams new advanced jazz... (in two bunches couldn't make it for four weeks, nothing i had put back was gone...) (not many cds from that guy, at most 30 but pretty focused)...

seems it's time to start the "do you have a beard" poll...

it's that time of the year again... tommorow i might come by this used cd store, and most likely they will still have the following japanese cds Joe Farrell - Outback Roy Brooks - Town Hall 1974 (Baystate with Marcus Belgrave, Sonny Red...) Paul Jeffrey - Paul Jeffrey (i think that's what it's called, the mainstream album that has Paul Jeffrey in pink letters on blue ground) Shamek Farrah/Sonelius Smith - The World of the Children they are all around 10 euro which i guess is a pretty good price but i've bought a lot lately so say if i want to buy just one... which one should it (not) be? thanks in advance!

happy birthday!

if this is really the survey used for this study i am either worried or impressed (the thing can't have found out how hard i am working) edit to add: put differently, i guess it's some other survey... the only lyrics i recognized were by amy winehouse and rihanna whatever that reveals about my listening habits what does hard-working mean and how do you find out whether someone is hard-working by asking questions