Niko

i've had times where my listening preferences were more conservative than the Marsalis agenda (which didn't mean i felt an urgency to call stuff non-jazz or anything, i just didn't feel like listening to it) but these days i think i am rather open to seventiesish stuff, Fender Rhodes, percussion, whatever, and i really don't think my problem with Rosewood is that it is not a straight hard bop date... concerning Kevin Ayers vs Woody Shaw: i gladly admit that Woody Shaw's albums are more consistent in their high quality (although in my world they are about equally important (among the 20 most important artists, i'd say))

don't feel like buying it right now but i think for the first time since i regularly search for Woody Shaw CDs there are affordable (13$) copies of Lotus Flower at some amazon sellers...

i thought of corny, too; listened to Kevin Ayers "That's what you get Babe" album earlier today and, as i didn't have a German word and don't like dated, i thought corny, although it does have some great songs, but they don't really come out (unlike on earlier and later Ayers records)... (besides, although i am more than willing to look for the problem on my own side, i do find that there is a certain stiffness/sweetness to the larger ensemble passages on Rosewood (or to the vocal tracks from some later album which are added on the cd reissue) that makes me prefer other records he made) edit for flip of words

needless to say there are previous woody shaw threads which i am not mentioning to say that we don't need another one but because they might interest you: www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=316 www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34704 i don't own in my own sweet way yet, but still, i think i can safely recommend Little Red's Fantasy... it's a great record and maybe a little more lyrical and less coltrane than stepping stones (Frank Strozier's presence may have to do with that)

!!happy birthday!!

any opinions on this item? not the most british of records but it has Deuchar, Keane and others and it can be had cheaply... from dustygroove:

a google search for dumbledore gay gives 5.6 million hits (for comparison "Bill Clinton" 9.8 million, "Miles Davis" 2.7, "Louis Armstrong" 2.4, gay dumbledore is a bigger cultural phenomenon by now than Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong together)

same here, i always feel a little bad when i see those jazz magazines i feel a little like i am no taking care of my fellow jazz fans enough, but then there is so much stupid crap in them (last time i looked into jazz podium there was a weirdly nationalist article that argued that Jutta Hipp's alcoholism was "better" than the heroin problems of her american contemporaries) and industry dictated things i don't want to see ( at least Jazzthing once gave a top ten of "ugliest promo photos we printed last year" ), this board is so much better

Debut Records Story - Disc 4

Details, please! http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/FS.HTM

given the current discussion in the concord fantasy thread it is astonishing this hadn't been noticed before same with re-issues and recommendations, afaik edited for typos

what i find so strange about their current reissue program is how greatly the expertise varies between the different branches of the reissue program, there is the Keepnews edition which is maybe a little smaller than i would wish, but there are titles that have been unavailable in there, some new extra trakcs like on the Jimmy Heath or Wes Montgomery..., then there is the RVG edition which would maybe be more impressive if there hadn't been OJCs but which at least i would consider a reasonably interesting reissue program and then there are these new 2fers... seems hard believe that for instance, the person who did the Roland Kirk 2fer talked to the person behind the Keepnews edition (Keepnews himself?) during a coffee break and the latter person said, great idea, that you will put out another version of Kirk's Works...

Depends on your age.

wonder how many of those who voted other would have voted "world music" (which is an abbreviation for "stuff that's filed under world music in most general purpose record stores" - of course, most genres have strong ties to this world...) where is the divide between Classic Rock and Modern Rock? Beatles? 1980? ?? guess some of what i am listening to like Bob Dylan or Syd Barrett is classic rock, some, is modern (like i am the last person who still believes in Pete Doherty's vast talents) but where do The Cure or Aztec Camera go? David Bowie?

another one for my post count and - like Kenneth Grahame - if god wrote today he would possibly admit that some of the characters in his own book are not as heterosexual as some would want to believe...

Thanks in advance! Klazz Brothers? No, I guess not... neither am I! By the way, the great John Lewis solo album "Private Concert" (reissued in Universal France's Heritage of Anniversary series two or three years ago) contains two adaptions of Bach compositions. And I still think there should be many such instances, where someone rather than doing a whole album of Bach, did adapt one composition in between originals and standards etc. But I haven't even been able yet to go through all of my own discs, looking for such "hidden" tracks... still, if anyone has any additional input, I assume it would be welcome! just tried a search for bach on jazzdisco.org, did not look through the results very carefully though there seem to be a number of things in between useless results... unfortunately this is unissued: Les McCann Quintet Les McCann (p) Leroy Vinnegar (b) Donald Dean (d) Victor Pantoja (cga) Willie Bobo (tim) RCA Studios, NYC, November 20, 1968 15703 Untitled Bach unissued 15704 Untitled Blues - 15705 Burnin' Coal Atlantic SD 1516 15706 Untitled Bach, No. 2 unissued 16488 Burnin' Coal (ed.) Atlantic 2615 * Les McCann - Much Les (Atlantic SD 1516) * Les McCann - With These Hands c/w Burnin' Coal (Atlantic 2615) but there was also Ornette Coleman - Tone Dialing (Verve-Harmolodic 527483-2) Ornette Coleman (sax, tp, vln) Dave Bryant (key) Chris Rosenberg, Ken Wessel (g) Bradley Jones, Al MacDowell (b) Chris Walker (b, key) Denardo Coleman (d) Badal Roy (tabla, per) Avenda Khadija, Moishe Nalm (vo) NYC, 1995 Street Blues Search For Life Guadalupe Bach Prelude ... and maybe more

think, i would rather make some major changes to the city i am living in (moving several people to some place where they don't do harm, remove the train station and put it somewhere where it makes sense but doesn't separate the city into two halves, a better appartment for us would be mandatory as well, get us a decent record store and several other stores a city of 300000 inhabitants should normally have...)

many interesting passages about interesting figures of many colors in there, Bob Graettinger, Dupree Bolton, Jimmy Giuffre... for more Baker at the gas pump and the like, try Jeroen de Valks Baker Bio (which can be had for 8 or 9 $ at the moment; there is an expanded edition released by now however but just in dutch so far, afaik)

West Coast Jazz is my favorite jazz book - it's definitely worth considering, no matter what you are looking for

a major step in the ongoing search for the white Strozier... is Watts really "white"?

a more recent sideman appearance: http://labjazz.home.mchsi.com/scott/scott.htm

I realize that it's not a contest, but I can't see anyone topping you, Rod. well, if you take "unusual" as compared to what you listen to usually yourself, then Rod is relatively easy to top actually, all you need are sufficiently narrow tastes...

happy birthday!

vaguely recall that upon a similar inquiry someone mentioned that this item http://www.amazon.com/Loft-Jazz-New-York-1...9577&sr=1-5 has the same content, but don't take my word for it; think in that other thread there also was some discussion whether this is legit but i forgot the answer if we had one... also, did you see that amazon offers mp3 downloads of the original set... http://www.amazon.com/Wildflowers-York-Lof...9577&sr=1-2