Niko

interesting to see that there is more sympathy on this board for a guy who kills animals to have sex with them than for a wynton marsalis fan...

i doubt it, but didn't ask... think she was just a loyal supporter of the conservative forces of the current system throughout her life (that is, she was a CDU member after the war), she run a business immediately after the war iirc so she can't have been "involved" too deeply...

funny thing was actually she said that while being fed by a 19 year old (me)

thinking of my months as an exchange student in the US i would tend to agree; history and english were both much more "facts" oriented, history i found pretty surprising i was used to working with original texts, interpreting them and stuff (from 10th grade on, before it was mostly facts, too) and the american history class in the US was just reading some text book carefully and then answering multiple choice questions... the english class was in a way similar we read many books and it was mostly the teacher who discussed them (he was excellent at that however) while in germany (both in english and in german) we would spend much more time with a book discussing in the whole class 200 pages for like three months which was often very very boring (in the US i read like 6 novels, 2 plays, 5 longer stories in the time in which we'd have read like one novel in germany) (to finish, physics in the US i find better than what i knew, more playful, stronger focus on how it's done in the US, (with the consequence however that we didn't get very far) mathematics in the US was by far the weakest class (but the teacher was also really dumb so i don't think i can say much about the systems here)

(note to bn82) just looking at the cds lying on my office table, i knew most of the artists by name before i joined the board not too long ago but didn't own a cd by any of them (namely: Grant Green, Lee Morgan, Lucky Thompson, Don Patterson, Ike Quebec, Sonny Simmons, Randy Weston, Johnny Hammond Smith, Bobby Jaspar)... wants to say: there is some common opinion on this board about what's the "real deal" in jazz, when you join you may agree with part of that (in my case Zoot Sims, Kenny Dorham and Tony Fruscella) and find some common ground, at least in my case it got more and more and the board more or less shaped my jazz listening; other artists are more controversial (to varying degrees, say, Keith Jarrett, anything on ECM, Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Amy Winehouse..., many here listen to one or another of these artists but be prepared that some people are very much opposed to these... if you want people to say something nice about a trumpet player you like try a Kenny Dorham or Lee Morgan thread...) (Wynton isn't actually controversial though, same for Kenny G ) and don't take things personal, people here take their listening seriously (and yours too, they're just trying to help )! i am sure there are places on the web where you can celebrate your love for Wynton with some likeminded folks but this isn't one of them (but then, what's wrong with fighting for your love ) i am sure among your 3500 jazz records there are hundreds upon which we all more or less agree (being 26 years old myself... funny story, wanted to post this off topic on another thread recently but why not here... when i worked in that place for retired people one morning during breakfast (when my colleague just read a story about some young criminals from the newspaper) the woman i was just feeding said very thoughtfully "some day we will need someone like Hitler again, but this time he should go for the young people..." one of only two instances where i almost forgot that we were supposed not to take seriously what these people were saying) (on the thread's topic: it's some time ago that i played an improvised solo... don't think i thought of anything far off i was mostly listening to the others, i am a bad listener so that was more or less all i could do)

herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag

is it smartass to say he was not controversial (unlike pat metheny, oscar peterson and so many others) until you arrived? besides anything else the attitude behind the music makes me feel uneasy about it; imho many of us would see him differently (and find him more interesting) if he had recorded his music in late 1923 in a cellar in sweden... he didn't (but how would we see Kenny G if he had put out exactly the same music 90 years ago...)

on the guy's homepage you can download his papers including this one http://www.econ.ubc.ca/nnunn/research.htm

is that one gone by now or am i just too stupid to find it? A few weeks ago i saw this at a Newbury Comics for $9.99 , when i went back today i found one for $3.99 ! check with Newbury . thanks, still a newbury newbie here...

is that one gone by now or am i just too stupid to find it?

i think miconceptions like this often arise from the way physical theories are taught in school...(as if they were facts instead of theories that fit very well) [what follows now might be utter nonsense i am very bad at physics] when we learned in school that in some respects light behaves like waves and in others like particles i didn't really care about how this goes together but we also didn't discuss it... only years later i realized that (arguably) the most fundamental lesson to be learned from this is that light is neither a wave nor particles but that it must be something third... (and that this does not diminish the usefulness of the two theories) (btw, looking back the physics class i had as an exchange student in 11th grade in the USA was a bit better in that respect having a strong focus on how theories arise from experiments...) don't really see the problem of creationism being taught in school (long as it is not the only thing...), how long does it take, 20 minutes? god put it all here and now it's there...

ordered a bunch of new stuff in the last two days, luckily for under 10 Euro each -John Patton - Boogaloo -James Clay - Double Dose of Soul and then some very cheap organ records (as the two i recently bought are so great John Simon Trio and Jimmy Forrest's Heart of the Forrest): -Jimmy Ponder - Jump (with John Patton and James Anderson - is that the James Anderson, Woody Shaw's "teacher" and from the title of Patton's "This One's for JA"?) -Radam Schwartz - OrganIzing (with Bill Saxton) -Jimmy McGriff - Main Squeeze and without organ -Richard Davis - Now's the time

nothing against Darwin and evolutionary theory but to me my existence (and the existence of the place where i am living) (where are not even speaking of my half-hungarian girlfriend) has always had a much more certain flavour... funny to think that some of your religious fundamentalists deny it

indeed! here is another telling favorite...

wonder why nobody has ever tried to play exactly the same notes chirping but at a much much higher speed (and then another guy might come along and play the same thing cleanly and nobody would care about him)

funny, i love both of these albums (although i like This is Billy Mitchell a bit more i think for the late night feel, this was pretty much the record i had hoped to buy when i got Gene Ammons Angel Eyes) but what surprised me the most when i got the second one (Finger Snap) was how different they actually were, imho both are very coherent, This is BM in its weariness (?), Finger Snap with its slight afro touch, both have a very strong "album feel", to them (despite line-up changes between tunes), more than many hard bop sessions which just collect great players playing great tunes... (and This is Billy Mitchell has one of the strangest album covers ever in a way "the most exciting tenor sax in jazz", can be had cheaply at the moment btw)

Ran Blake Horace is blue: A Silver Noir has some tracks in that configuration... wanted to add with more time http://www.amazon.fr/Horace-Bleue-Silver-B...6096&sr=8-2 this is an excellent cd, the lineup is blake on piano with two of his students david "knife" fabris on guitar and james meranda on alto saxophone, of the 14 tunes, 6 are solo piano, there is an excellent solo guitar version of senor blues, at least one duet track but also some tracks with the full band, very interesting to hear the horace silver compositions in this stripped down setting

IT is Kenny G's sax. does that mean he'll stop playing if i buy it?

just tried and i can still open discographies (tested it with sun ra) with ie 6

was sitting in the waiting room at an (otherwise normal) doctor this morning and like one meter from me people were doing just that behind a curtain - creepy

why you little twerp, you start this whole thing! just what i thought, as long as chuck nessa watches the grammies there is no need for me to grow up ... besides, i like the winehouse album back to black... not everything, somewhat ambivalent towards rehab (and the lyrics are silly even without her personal issues), my favorite is me and mr jones; imho of the many artists who are currently selling jazz-influenced pop music in large amounts (norah jones, michael buble, diana krall whoever) she is the only one who i know who does not have that creepy "adult contemporary" appeal, maybe authenticity is not quite the right word, but something similar

i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...)

funny, a friend of mine badly needed some reliability theory in statistics recently but Grenoble is pretty far off...

same thing with the two registers of the clarinet (?) (well, almost the same thing at least with an Oehler clarinet there are little differences don't know about Boehm; besides, of course i know what you mean)

started on clarinet, took me years to realize everyone else had an easier time with their f's edit to add: don't you also play guitar (where all "registers" are different)?