Niko

guess i do have a high self-esteem but i am certainly not outgoing or at ease and of average creativity - maybe i should check out chart pop ever wondered what you'd be listening to if you lost your self-esteem and weren't at ease? (Bollywood) and if you then lose your creativity and starting working hard it becomes country and western if this article gives even a half-accurate picture of the paper it describes the paper must be pretty crappy

seconded, i mean, for politics stuff i don't really see it this way, in 2 years palin's daughter will be long forgotten (or the president's daughter but that's another story) but with the jazz stuff it is different... still kicking myself that i only quoted from that lengthy interview with mitch manker/daniel jackson about their times with ray charles instead of qouting it in full, link is dead now (of course what i really should have done is save it on my hard disk)

Thanks and welcome! seconded!

just found out cat anderson died the day i was born (ellington's birthday) enough for today...

another one according to wikipedia Sir Charles Thompson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Thompson one where i was surprised recently is Hal Singer

four brother Herbie Steward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Steward if he is still alive...

Strata East, Strata East, Strata East, Strata East, Strata East? anyone know how to count those five? (plus, a used cd shop here has children of the world on cd for 12 euro... should i pick it up?)

dang! thank you talking about what degrees mean...

25 and 141 what's the answer to this one? (and why)? Q: What is the missing number in the sequence shown below? 1 - 8 - 27 - ? - 125 - 216 A: 36 45 46 64 99

that version of portrait with thad jones as the soloist is my favorite piece in the small debut box, maybe very much of its time, but so colorful (complicated) and atmospheric

one track (black swan) was released on the debut records story 4CD set by fantasy http://www.amazon.com/Debut-Records-Story-...2647&sr=8-3 i like the (short) track quite a bit, it somehow is third stream but it doesn't come across very technical or classical, it's a bit like a march (haven't heard it in a while) a pretty interesting cd set (maybe i wouldn't get it just for one track - but then there are various interesting things on it... (john dennis, for instance is another artist worth checking out...)) i would buy manhattan monodrama!

the mitchells weren't really brothers? in this (pretty interesting) article, owens mentions being a student of billy mitchell btw, so that may have gotten him the gig http://www.ocweekly.com/2001-05-24/music/s...t-into-teacher/ (and there's also this bit about saxophonist daniel jackson who would also played with buddy rich in the late 60s) "Earl Soto, David Woods, Daniel Jackson and Johnny Price were all in the neighborhood. Daniel especially helped me. He'd share chord changes with me, give me little licks to play, let me scuffle and make mistakes. He's still in San Diego and still my mentor."

Wow - Reading the book I'd assumed it was an accurate recollection of what actually happened but your comments completely over-turn them. Amazing how we'd assumed that such things were 'gospel'. it's funny, having a co-author who gets the scientific thing right doesn't mean the musician can't tell bs... wouldn't have expected this either (though looking back at the other isoardi book i would say, while tapscott comes across as a serious person in many ways, it does not completely blow me away that the story is half made up) bottom line is, i guess, tapscott would have preferred to bring in lester robertson for dick nash etc but it didn't work out... (and this is what i would have guessed from the line-up anyway)

on first impression, the sound on the tracks from love and understanding is indeed a bit better, could be just a better needle drop however, sound is still far from great; just listening to the great cello passage at the beginning of gemini... these are great albums, thank you!!

was pretty surprised when i looked at the line-up of a diana krall cd (which my girlfiend had gotten fom one of her colleagues who tried to convince her that jazz is not crap... not mine) and noted charles owens name in there... Charles Owens was also with Buddy Rich in the Pacific Jazz days & with John Mayall in the Blue Mitchell days. from his faculty bio at ucla (Lorenz Alexander=Lorez Alexandria) http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/people/owens.htm Owens has toured, performed and recorded with an impressive array of artists including Lorenz Alexander, Bobby Bryant, Terry Callier, John Carter, the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Dave Grusin, Eddie Harris, Gladys Knight, James Newton, the Buddy Rich Band, and Barbra Streisand.

convinced; will go to zweitausendeins on monday and get the copy of gap sealer/love... that has been standing there for months.... (great photos, too, marcello! guess i have never said that so far)

besides individual players, i tend to look a lot at instrumentation, too; for instance, knowing that i listen to about five hours of piano trio a year i rather buy quartets and quintets... (same with big bands...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich typical wikipedia, favorites are the hyperlinks on "world", "cafes", "picnics" and "packed lunch" (why not on "vegetables", "combination" "restaurants", "work" and "school") (on all word actually) and the [citation needed] in the end, scientific work at its best...

watched a group of japanese tourists last week posing for crucification photos in the cologne cathedral

whenever i read a thing like that i want to say this: i have met dozens elderly men, some greyer than others, and by far the most of them didn't listen to jazz... you can't see this as a generational thing (unless maybe if you were young in the 1930s)

had a very positive chinese experience this morning, we were visiting our new office building and when we were in that very nice looking room, which clearly was the best one i could hope for, our chinese colleague (who already had a better room elsewhere) went straight up to our boss with like five people in the room and said "niko will get this room, right?", a german person would never have been that direct i guess (especially concerning other people's business), think i have the room now while most other people will have to wait until january for a decision; this direct way can be quite annoying, too...

The old one I'm thinking of was central - but I am going back to the late 1980s!!!!! This is the one I found hidden upstairs: http://www.thebestof.co.uk/salisbury/57170...he_best_of.aspx The Oxford HMV used to be very good for classical; and Blackwells CD shop was still there 2 years back. Mainly classical but it had one of those small but eccentric jazz sections where you could pick up something unexpected! indeed, i forgot about the small and excentric jazz section at blackwells, rather pricey but one of those section that make you think if i could come here regularly i might find something from time to time read a good deal of andy hamilton's fine lee konitz bio there so no complaints

Sounds like Avid. It was next door to an indie theatre on one of the side roads, I think. checked the map, it was indeed avid, maybe for a vinyl person there would have been more to find there...

i went through oxford and cambridge in october and april with lists of record stores i had gathered from the internet, in oxford one was left (but about to close), none in cambridge, so both cities only had hmv and zavvi left plus fopp in cambridge, the only one of the four hv/zavvi that i'd say was half-decent was the oxford hmv (which had a nice sale of jazz in paris discs), high point was fopp in cambridge, where i found a lot at very decent prices (in oxford i didn't have that much time and may have overlooked something, in cambridge i must have checked eight or nine dead addresses - not the worst way to discover a city)