Niko

well, that does sound plausible... sorry for almost misleading you...!

Earl Knight has his own allmusic.com biography by Eugene Chadbourne, he is the same person as pianist Joe Knight...:

one should maybe add that it is somewhat doubtful whether that third box will ever appear...

It's pretty good. It contains Pictures of Infinity plus two CDs of live dates, one from the early 1971. Discographical details are complicated. See http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/disc_b.htm#48b for info. I'm glad I own it, but would rank it between the Shandar sets and Solar-Myth Approach in terms of priority. I have no issues with the sound. Funny that some people would considering it's Sun Ra we're talking about. Thank you for the review. I normally buy anything by Sun Ra, but I was primarily concerned with the sound not the quality of music. i have some records which i hardly listen to because of the sound and this box clearly doesn't belong to them... i wouldn't use them to test whether my new hifi system works well either if i had one, but the sound on these discs clearly doesn't distract attention from the music... i don't have much sun ra but i really enjoy these albums, especially the second one, spaceways...

i followed your (now edited/corrected) assertion that Bizet finished the Hoffmann Tales and stumbled across this guy from wikipedia: strange, that the same (forgotten?) person finished what (according to the german wikipedia entry on offenbach) are the two most popular french operas...

(coincidentally again) don byas - laura (jazz in paris)

i first heard of Offenbach in seventh grade when we had a city tour investigating the city's "Jewish Legacy" or something... we started at the Offenbach square which is the place in front of the Cologne opera building (iirc = the place where the city's central synagogue stood before it was destroyed) and the guide started the tour by telling us about Offenbach one of the cities most famous but now largely forgotten Jewish sons... i heard two of Offenbach's operas/operettes at said opera house later, The bandits and Tales of Hoffmann... the latter is somewhat odd in structure (its three of Hoffmanns most famous stories and some framing story around it and the parts of the opera are in the languages of the countries where the stories play, Italy, France, Germany...) but this didn't bother me too much, it's great music imho and i would start there (which is i think also what a guide book would tell you?) (The bandits was not bad but couldn't really compete)

Attila Zoller was also, as I recall, involved with The Vermont Jazz Center. When I was living in Vermont I unfortunately only got a chance to hear him live once, with Don Friedman, Fred Haas & ?. He was indeed a superb player and is greatly missed. Steve Goldberg? I'll be darned. Used to hear him all the time when I lived in Burlington... And it's always nice to see Andy Shapiro getting a mention; the man is a legend in Vermont. Was it maybe Bob Gagnon on guitar? I'd been very busy with other things for a few days and only now got a chance to check out this thread. Wow! That Raney/Zoller duo is phenomenal!!!!! It's like two guys, twenty fingers and one brain. Thank you very, very much for that link, Larry. googling because my student didn't come seems like there are musicians Bob Gagnon and Bill Gagnon in Vermont http://www.vermontmusicshop.com/catalog/vmls-catalog.htm both are on this list, but bill is listed for a duo album with steve goldberg... bill plays cello and bass, bob guitar as it seems... and then there's this guy in Massachusetts http://www.bobgagnon.com/ "When you call Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating you get Bob Gagnon"

given it is the same person, the last time he came was over three months ago, so that would involve quite some waiting... also if i got it right, the thing with the house next door doesn't really sound like a person who knows the area too well...?

That's good news, all these are on my Blue Note wishlist (I didn'g get them because of the CD until now). they are among the 10 cds i keep in my office (more would look decadent i thought), just switched from Think! to Heavy Soul, they're a great bunch!

would buy that one immediately if i saw it as non-cc... has anyone?

iirc these used to be cc but i bought non-cc copies at the local store: Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul Grant Green - Grantstand Lonnie Smith - Think! Jackie McLean - Destination Out i also remember seeing the Joe Henderson disc with the larger ensemble (Mode for Joe?) as non-cc while the copy of the quartet disc (Inner Urge?) they had was still cc, also some of the Dexter Gordon discs were non-cc while others still were cc

Lonnie Smith - Think! usually can't resist when the local brick and mortar store has something that's remotely on my want list... always decide not to go there anymore, because i never get what i need most badly , but then i like brick and mortar stores and i don't really know what i need badly... have spun it twice so far, nice, but i think i will listen to Turning Point more in the long run...

there was one sideman date where Nat Adderley really stood out that i listened to recently... don't have it here to check but iirc it was Don Wilkerson's Texas Twister... get that one while you can still get it at least at a half-decent price! The REAL Sonny Cox was the alto player with a sixties Chicago organ band called The Three Souls. Made two LPs for Cadet under that name and one under Cox's name (augmented band). Cox sounds rather like a chicken being strangled at times. MG see that organissimo thread i've quoted... if Larry Kart says the're the same person...

wish i still felt like that

never heard of Sonny Cox... but taking the info from this thread that he is the same person as the basketbal Snny Cox http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry341737 funny to see him (still?) discussed on basketball boards... http://blogs.suntimes.com/preps/2007/07/ma...inois_it_g.html like this post: there was one sideman date where Nat Adderley really stood out that i listened to recently... don't have it here to check but iirc it was Don Wilkerson's Texas Twister... get that one while you can still get it at least at a half-decent price!

Happy Birthday to a fellow Yurpean, fellow Redhead and and now also fellow 26 year old... (i would correct the topic title if i knew how...)(ah, it's really aparxa and not aparaxa)

had posted this before, but just in case..., steven isoardi's extensive interview with Lee YOung is found here: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4w10...i&brand=oac

i only know the first four of them, but imho the third art of the trio disc is by far the best ("Songs" featuring a great version of Nick Drake's River Man)

click on options in the upper right corner of the first post in any thread, in the menu that opens click on "switch to standard" under display modes...

a much better formulation of what i had thought... (similar for Booker Ervin with Andrew Hill...?)

just what i wanted to write... very interesting indeed

may have to do with the fact that finding rhymes in English is easier than in other languages (can only compare with german haven't tried others)... hate it when they do that in song lyrics...

I've never heard it other than for a female in England. thank you... these names ending on "y" are tricky, like Sandy is female but Randy is male...

wish i was as clever as you thanks!