Niko

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)?

welcome to this board! glad you stumbled across my comment; of course you're right - given that i have tremendously enjoyed your recital for more than ten years - i should try some of your other stuff the next time i reactivate my clarinet playing... (advanced level... i will see what advanced level means, when i started playing Reciatal at age 14 this was about the hardest thing i could do technically, at 19 i could play Stravinsky half-decently and get some fun out of it (though mostly not when other people were around ) these days things don't look that bright...

for tapscott i just counted 15 albums on nimbus west http://www.nimbuswest.com/ so as he has four or five albums elsewhere (Flying Dutchman not a major?) he's in You missed my edit - yes, he's made loads. So has Harper. MG how can you edit although it doesn't say so below the post? is that because you're a moderator? (or did i miss something?) edit to try

for tapscott i just counted 15 albums on nimbus west http://www.nimbuswest.com/ so as he has four or five albums elsewhere (Flying Dutchman not a major?) he's in

don't the liner notes say so? gave that one to a friend two years ago and said he should give it back to me when i find the stuff he had lent me two years earlier... guess i should either rebuy or start searching for his stuff (sheet music to Nirvana Unplugged and Oasis Definitely Maybe) so i can get back my two "real books" the lockjaw album and the booklet of my Mose Allison compilation (which he has kept for over five years - he has certainly lost it) ordered two items cheaply from newbury via ebay which i didn't think i would find anymore Don Patterson - Dem New York Dues (already got the shipping notice) and the Lockjaw Davis twofer with Don Patterson

that guy must lead a life free of sorrows...?

great batch of records (recently lost my copy of Eastern Sounds it seems... will have to rebuy that soon, it's one of the records i need to have around) (just giving a first listen to a record you once recommend btw Woody Shaw's In my own sweet way... sounds like it will become one of my favorite shaw records)

Odd first post on a jazz bulletin board... pulling up a 3 yr old thread about moving. If this isn't spam, welcome to the board! just a trick to make us to believe that he is not a Universal employee... watch out for his next posts! (welcome!) (and after all what do i need the most, promo for an American Moving company, promo for an Ella Fitzgerald compilation or promo for a smooth jazz record... probably the first (and for most posters here)... think what makes people here upset about promo spammers is that these merchandise people do not recognize our good tastes we are celebebrating in thousands of posts... if someone had recorded a new Dizzy Reece record and promoted it here (almost) nobody would mind i guess... that people who run a smooth jazz label are not willing to accept / able to see that what they are selling is substantially different from most of the music discussed here is what makes people angry... a moving company - weird)

naming people who recorded just one album is cheating!

And that's what I did... glad i finally did something useful today (cocredits to tommy_t for pointing out this great site)

Du bist so schoen, du bist so toll, du bist der Niko aus Tirol.

Thanks. I already passed the complain about public transport. Actually I don't know if they paid for translation, knowing my sister I doubt it. I'll pass also your remark. Thanks. if they didn't pay, don't pass it, it's really ok, it's just an awkward level of language proficiency a bit too good for a computer program or most foreigners but too bad to be commercial I'd say... nice site!

very very sad to hear this didn't know the word mds but just looked it up, rare as it is, it is exactly the same thing my father had; (he didn't even get to the level where he would have gotten the bone marrow donation; will never forget how my lazy (or whatever you call it) aunt said she wouldn't check whether she was a possible donor because with her stomach flu she couldn't be a candidate anyway... didn't matter finally)

did they pay for the german translation? (the text is perfectly ok (maybe even charming) but there are small mistakes in many sentences so if they paid something i'd be glad to make a list for a complaint ) the only hilly italy i've seen is south tyrol and i love it, another non-driver here, MG's suggestion concerning public transportation seems like a really good idea, for me this is often the most difficult part in planning a journey