Niko

I think what you're missing is that this is something that has bothered John for a period of time, and Chris happened to give an example of it in this thread. A PM wouldn't do anything - Chris would laugh in his (anonymous) face. The point is to call people out so that maybe John's points get across to the board in general. i think this is an important point, maybe couw could have waited two days longer to find a better example, but then we all know that better example would have turned up anyway, so why wait... i think jim has reported on a gig they didn't get because of something we wrote...

right music at the right time for me, thank you very very much!!

similar thing here, have been wondering for three years whether my saxophone needs a repair or whether i just "forgot how to play"... will try to change that next year

"Today's active topics" is working again now, though some of the times are a bit suspicious. Looking at another thread, I see that, about the same time you posted, someone said there were a huge number of users on line. MG "Most users ever online was 322 on Today, 06:21 PM" no idea which 06:21 he means (maybe he put together people from different hours? (just kidding))

see my post above, the weill tune is for instance on this lotte lenya cd (under the name trouble man, don't know whether the two names correspond to different lyrics...?) amazon here it is called lover man: other cd

from the lotte lenya chronicle: http://www.kwf.org/pages/ll/llcareer3.html "Records Six Songs by Kurt Weill for Bost Records (BA 8) in New York. The recording is supervised by Weill. Lenya sings "Surabaya-Johnny," "Denn wie man sich bettet," "J'attends un navire," "Complainte de la Seine," "Lost in the Stars," and "Lover Man" (later revised as "Trouble Man")." so i guess this is where the mistake if it is one comes from, composing the lover man we all know is afaik the thing ram ramirez is most famous for...

i have one more story from that job, there was this theater performance where the "audience" would stand at the window in a building at a very busy four way street while the actors would run around on that street (it was about 5 in the afternoon and thus heavy traffic), my job was to stand outside and tell people that they had just had the luck of running into a free theater performance and invite them to come in (didn't work, maybe i was not as friendly as i could have been, but i guess there were other issues as well) it was raining real hard which meant for me that my job of standing outside was not overly pleasant, more importantly it meant that the audience inside could hardly see the actors out on the street 50 meters from them; not surprisingly it took less than 10 minutes till some concerned car driver called the police... after the performance was over the director decided that my conversation with the police men had actually been the most interesting part of the (?) play, (at least it was the only part of the play the audience could actually see), glad she couldn't hear what i said, i was not too respectful concerning the whole performance and the artist ("no they are not drunk, they are artists they know what they're doing...") (i actually was drunk, years later when i had a job in an insurance company i looked back and realized that in that environment it had been completely normal to drink to or three large bottles of beer during work...)(after these experiences it was clear to me that i didn't want a job that had remotely to do with culture later in my life...) (and i dare say people in insurance companies really are nicer with each other)(wouldn't want to work there either however) (the artists really weren't the problem, most of them were actually rather nice; but pretty much all the other people there, those who set up the exhibitions and stuff...)

between school and university i had a job at some very hip arts exhibition; one day i left a shovel like this one lying in the exhibition space during a cigarette break when i came back someone was actually standing there looking at my shovel (i think i have a fairly liberal attitude towards what deserves to be called art; still an object that isn't able to distract people's attention from a shovel does not really deserve to be called art imho) (what we actually did with these shovels is another story about modern art; in the museum there was some outside pool and some artist had the brilliant idea of a "art happening" where people would actually SWIM in that pool; unfortunately the floor of that pond was tiled with stones, so in order to make swimming possible (?! never understood that point) me and some other equally low-paid guy had to let out the water than put all the stones into three huge containers which some other people had to build then move them out of the building get them out of the boxes, clean them and put them back into the boxes and then back to the pool; all in all this took us about a week; as this was the only week of real "hard" work in my entire life so far it was an interesting experience, but still... i tend to believe that the artist herself didn't actually know how much work of others was behind her happening (which i didn't feel like attending); but during that week i strongly developed the thought that me and that other guy shoveling these stones and moving them through the exhibition space in small portions was actually the greatest piece of art they had at the time; we were 19 and i dare say at least we looked better than the other stuff they had... edit to add, looking at the picture i dug out of google - this is a more interesting and beautiful shovel than the one i had

:tup i have a constant smile in my face for almost three minutes now, hadn't even noticed, the possible departure of the board had bothered me THAT much...

forget my posts (just in case you haven't yet), this here sounds more reasonable

think i'd vote for global moderators, after all there are only two or three places where the problems usually occur, so say the aotw moderator would have an easy time (a friend of mine once upon a time moderated a the cure forum and they had nazis, vampires and all, compared to that even the moderator of the political forum would have an easy job)... MG and Ghost of Miles have said they'd volunteer and to me both seem like excellent choices (admittedly, i don't understand many of the problems, guess you have to be Yumerican to understand all the troubles, and then as an atheist who doesn't have a problem with believers i don't have many opinions to fear) also think jim a should get more of a ceo figure who doesn't hesitate to ask for more money (and who doesn't hesitate to put any extra money we might (should) collect into organissimo recording projects) no ideas on additional rules...

just for the first time made use of the fact that there is live jazz four nights a week just in five minutes walking distance from where i live, mostly locals, some names bigger than others (Simon Nabotov for a bigger name) but really jazz no norah joneses and the like; i caught a very nice set by the Sven Lehmkemper Quartet featuring Klaus Heidenreich (Trombone) Nils Tegen (Piano) Sebastian Klose (Bass) Sven Lehmkemper (Drums) and will certainly go there again pretty soon, my first jazz concert in several years (four years with one exception, a Gerd Dudek Frank Wunsch duo concert about two years ago)

thought i'd post this also in a place where it can be found... discovered today that on dizzy's myspace page you can listen to full length sound samples of his new cd (recorded in 1968) Nirvana http://myspace.com/dizzyreece you can also buy it from cdbaby http://cdbaby.com/cd/dizzyreece besides on his blogspot page there is a nice radio show with tunes from for instance his rare futura album with john gimore and siegfried kessler... http://dizzyreece.blogspot.com/

I love this one too, but Dizzy Reece's version of said tune on "Soundin' Off" gets my vote as best all time version of this tune. If you haven't heard it, check it out as I think you'd love it. if you want to lead this thread off topic i am with you discovered today that on dizzy's myspace page you can listen to full length sound samples of his new cd (recorded in 1968) Nirvana http://myspace.com/dizzyreece you can also buy it from cdbaby http://cdbaby.com/cd/dizzyreece besides on his blogspot page there is a nice radio show with tunes from for instance his rare album with john gimore and siegfried kessler... http://dizzyreece.blogspot.com/

voted for quarterly donor drives... maybe with some moderators doing the driving for jim alfredson for reasons vaguely related to this board i don't have things like a credit card or a paypal account, haven't contributed anything yet but will make up for that soon, i don't have much but i do have more than a year ago... edit, got a paypal account now, money should get on its way once it is loaded...

on my way home from work i was just thinking "well if we're moving on i will just go where brownie [father figure of yurpean board members] is going..." come on, losing this board is more than enough for poor souls like me, stay around for another board!

i would accept that quid pro quo (at least i have in the two and a half cases where such a thing has happened to me...) 1) Did I act inappropriately? I don't buy a ton of used CDs so I am not fully aware of the ethics involved. 2) Should I accept the quid pro quo of the refund for removing the feedback comment?

previous discussion of the album and the a love supreme similarity in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=16080 welcome to the forum!

!!happy birthday!!

great! thank you so much...!

political subject unpolitical motivation, a question to those located in paris / knowing paris better than me... i don't really know who else to ask... probably i am silly, but, my girlfriend is in paris at the moment, reading about the riots i was a bit worried, because the riots started in Villiers-le-Bel just about 6 kilometers (4 miles) away from the Charles de Gaulle airport and i have read they have spread quite a bit in the area... reading about 77 wounded police men in one night and the riots still continuing it seems like the situation is far from under control; is it totally unproblematic to take the RER to the airport tommorow evening or would you rather, say, stay a few more days or leave paris by train or something else... thank you very much!!

most obvious choice ever Miles Davis doing Concerto de Aranjuez (and he also did something by De Falla with Gil Evans iirc)

now tell us you didn't get what he meant... besides i think he wanted to exclude stuff like benny goodman doing Mozart's clarinet concerto... (and classical musicians and their relationship to the music they are playing and "what their message is" beyond the level of "this sounds good" is an issue deserving lots of discussion on its own imho)

ike quebec's bossa nova soul samba has two nice "classical covers", things by Liszt and Dvorak iirc; one that i didn't like that much is brahms lullaby on Clark Terry's Moodsville Quartet Album with Junior Mance... i also like Uri Caine's Mahler album