Niko

further back to the orginal topic, don't think we have mentioned Charlie Kennedy so far and especially Anthony Ortega

sorry to hear this! i had a very strange robbery earlier this year, i came home my neighbors were already standing in front of the house saying that someone had broken into our basements and that i should have a look whether anything was missing; at first sight is was clear nothing was missing, neither my bicycle nor the empty cardboard boxes, instead there was a lot of new stuff, an empty box of beer bottles, a full bottle of "booze" (Apfelkorn), an empty travelling bag with some childrens clothes in it more childrens clothes spread over the floor and then some drops of blood on the children's clothes and on the floor... i was REALLY scared at that point (partly because our elderly neighbors are somewhat suspicious about us, don't really know why, probably because we don't go to bed at nine)... turned out all the stuff had been brought there from other people's basements and the drops of blood were as the policemen said the typical remainders of someone shooting heroin or whatever, the children's clothes were stuff one of the neighbors had been collecting to bring them to africa... but i still don't get what had been ging on there, as it turned out, all that must have happened within at most one hour...

had hoped for a "fleshier" picture to continue the series... here's Frank Gratkowski anyway

in seventh and eighth great the other boys in my class always played chess during breaks but i never understood what was so interesting about it; quick googling, the guy who mostly won has a 2536 rating these days (10 years later)... congratulations anyway, don't know what winning in chess is like, but i guess its much like winning elsewhere (a nice thing)

ok, i need help too: i gave my copy of that !!excellent!! Jazz in Paris Barney Wilen disc that has Milt Jackson on piano to a friend several years ago who probably already didn't know where it was before he moved out from his girlfriend recently (and supposedly has long forgotten about it) - should i bother to ask him (which most likely just has the effect of making him feel bad) or simply forget about it and get a new copy? (probably not what MG is looking for?! - it has the Modern Jazz Quartet with Barney Wilen minus John Lewis, Milt Jackson in Lewis place and i loved it...)

Brubeck meets Bach - no idea what this is http://www.amazon.de/Brubeck-Meets-Bach-Dave/dp/B000NA205A and then vaguely recall hearing some of this on the radio and liking it somehow, Joachim Kühn and classical musicians http://www.amazon.de/Bach-Now-Thomanerchor...9594&sr=8-1 more Kühn Bach: http://www.amazon.de/Allegro-Vivace-Piano-...9809&sr=1-7 and shouldn't there be some 1950s Third Stream stuff?

seems like it http://www.jazzclub-life.at/Musiker/Praskin.htm for instance, some funny spelling on that site Mal Woldron, Joz Albany, Bud Freeman, Junior Cock, Wilbur Little, Fritz Pauer, Hans Kollar, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, Reaver Harris, Burton Green, James Zitro und Termusa Hino

That's like statistics - it can be skewed to say what you want it to. "Limited American Bias"?? How many of the total set of raters are American? 5 of the top 20 are American, but how many of the total set of raters are? 80%? I find it curious that the "Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery" for example can be considered a better beer than any number of European beers that I'm familiar with. And there are only 2 German beers on the list, one of which I've tried (Schneider Weisse). I've had numerous German beers that are far better than that one. Again, there's no credibility to this list, and it's far too U.S.-centric. and how serious can you take someone who can rank more than 3400 beers ? never heard of the two German beers on that list btw but i am really not an expert

great to hear they still operate it!

am i hearing this wrong or is there actually guitar on this one despite the line-up listing? i am asking mostly out of curiosity whether i am such a bad listener, during nica's dream it appears in numerous places, during the organ solo for instance... is this all organ? i love this cd, btw

would have tried Dance with Death or Passing Ships next otherwise, but will go for Judgement then...

if you don't mind vocals i definitely recommend the first two albums by thärichen's tentet, lady moon and the thin edge on minor music, soundsamples here: http://www.thaerichen.de/

remembered, that a search for Don Ellis had led me there... favorite modern jazz RECORDINGS w/ 10+ players, recommend specific releases: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14388 and linked in there: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14372 edit to add the answer to ubu's question is obviously YES

saw such a thread earlier today, one of these great recommendations threads started by rooster_ties but can't find it anymore... Oliver Nelson arranged a lot of such one-time Big Band sessions for people a really great one: Eddie Lockjaw Davis "Whistle Stop" a not so great one: Clark Terry All-American... Tadd Dameron did some such big band sessions in his last burst of activity on Riverside, Blue Mitchell's strings album Smooth as the Wind, Milt Jackson's Big Bags [both albums had other arrangers as well] and his own The Magic Touch (for him it was the step from ca 10 piece to real big band), iirc he also did something for Sonny Stitt round that time... some of the Randy Weston albums I'd like to know fall under your description, Tanjah, for example is there a Bill Evans Big Band album?

just to make the information complete in this thread as well (the other:http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36574&st=0&gopid=701793&#entry701793) this source claims that tenorists McCain and Rouse were annouced before the concert... http://www.jazzdocumentation.ch/philippi/4personenusa.pdf

ah, the Rouse/Byas mystery is solved there... so Ellington regularly had six saxophonists at that time? (strange idea that just in 1950 the saxophone section was bigger than at any other time...) (Hamilton, Procope, Hodges, McCain, Rouse/Byas, Carney)

according to this source http://www.jazzdocumentation.ch/philippi/4personenusa.pdf the announced line-up had Charlie Rouse and Alva McCain as tenor saxophonists... the same google query yielded this phd thesis on Julius Watkins, btw http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0012940/smith_p.pdf

since you've joined exactly a year ago today ( ) you should know by now that we prefer it when people dig out threads from several years ago which are vaguely related to post their inquiries! it helps us keep the information together

Happy Birthday

ah, thank you, Judgement... although i said i dislike Andrew!!! - interesting and i will take that serious because I've loved Hutcherson on all the other records i have him on..

ok, same question from me, i have (roughly in the order in which i like them) Lift every voice (clearly favorite so far) Compulsion, Grass Roots Point of Departure Andrew!!! i have the vague impression that i have not yet found my favorite Hill date, though i am reasonably glad about having the ones i have and the only one i really don't get into is Andrew!!!; what do I need next?

you'll see that assertion more often from now on...

(the expression on the left hand side of aparaxas formula gives 18,999098... or something like that, so its a close approximation to a fancy way of writing 19...) (and if the 9 on your calculator isn't working anymore and you don't want to write 8+1 this is another way to go, no, not very funny)

got out my calculator now... great formula for when the nine on the calculator isn't working any more... (who needs more than three digits after all..)

as we have a similar discussion going on elsewhere at the moment... it seems that nobody had noticed that The Jamestrane had also asked for other artists besides Patton that he might enjoy - that you really can't answer that easily with just the search function...