Niko

you mean like every time I pronounce "Christmas" the way I usually do HE is hurt a little bit? and i always thought that nobody took me serious, but that's the thing with g_d i guess

Jimmy Smith - Cool Blues ( my first JOS record)

i hope very much that god pays less attention to my English pronounciation than he does apparently to that guy's spelling

it's the first hit google gives you for g_d; i don't think it's more than vaguely antisemitic, after all he believes that anyone can jump over to the good side just by changing one or two believes; it's a thoroughly american site in any case...

made an edit... in case anyone else wonders, what g_d means: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Basics/g_d.htm (still don't understand)

actually upon reading cliffords post i remembered that contrary to my initial post i remembered cucu ear and it was horrible, so it's good to know that in principle there is something better...

it seems redoctopus have both volumes... link

i guess this is rather obvious but he should get one of the city magazines which contain extensive events sections (iirc one is called Zitty and the other Tip or Tipp, the major difference between the two is i think that they each cover two weeks but appear alternatingly...)

from his allmusic.com credits page (guessing his name is fairly rare) it seems he is arranging and writing liner notes for bluegrass albums... (is that equally depressing? haven't tried)

i was late starting to talk and never really caught up - nothing wrong with that i guess (reportely i never said two consecutive words until one morning when i said "the hat i will take in any case i think"); probably when i finish school and then start working in an insurance company at 29 i will look back at these years here with fondness - but at the moment that prospect rather scares me, still believe that there is a better way out

intelligence is not the word i'd use, it's more about developing an eye for structures of texts/problems, as a matter of fact i am teaching students who are only three years younger than myself and there were several this semester who were clearly slower on things which seemed easy to me although they were obviously more talented (and will be much better mathematician than me in two or three years); i don't think that you can reduce that progress to having more knowledge, maybe developing an eye captures it pretty well; actually those beginnings of declining health were one thing i forgot in my last post

sounds vaguely familiar (fiction writing aside), i think until last year i simply got continuously better/smarter by getting older but this year (25 to 26) it seems that process has stopped... i had already suspected that - bitter as it is - this is how things are (especially as i am pretty certain that these months here - first year of working towards my phd - would be only half as depressing if i were only, say, 20 percent smarter ) trying to get used to the thought that high school teacher is a great job but it doesn't really work yet - but maybe that step - which feels ridiculously drastic at the moment - won't be necessary (to add the finest periods were the first half of 2006 when i was working very productively, was living temporarily in a nice city where nobody knew me and where i rediscovered jazz (and there was that great ojc sale at 2001 so that i could afford one or two new cds every lunch break) the other really fine period, was my civilian service in 2000/2001 at a place for old people where i did a useful job at which i was really good (mainly as it was not too demanding) (organizing a choir and bingo, reading from the newspaper and talking to people) and played a lot of music; the rest was somewhere in between, my mother said already in kindergarden i was not worse at singing and painting than the other kids i was just somewhat indifferent when the others were excited; after all i think i can consider my life a very happy one (given that things will get better soon )

the best jazz concert i've heard in berlin (almost seven years ago) was groove jazz (or whatever you want to call it) by Tapscott Arkestra veteran Fuasi Abdu Khaliq (www.fuasi.com) quick googling reveals he is playing every two weeks at this place http://www.badenscher-hof.de/programm.html about i which know nothing but you just missed him on wednesday (they have another fine concert tonight Takase with Mahall); hope there are people here who know (like) Berlin better than me if you miss takase tonight there will be 4 or 5 more chances later this month at the a-trane (this is where i used to go a lot back then but i was living pretty close) http://www.a-trane.de/

don't know whether i should start a new thread for this, but as there is some rene thomas with organ on it, why not post it here: saw this new cd from that cheapo JazzClub series at the store this afternoon but didn't buy it, Ingfried Hoffmann "Hammond Bond" which contains his album "From Twen With Love" featuring Volker Kriegel plus some bonus tracks three of which are from his album Hammond Tales and feature Rene Thomas... (this information courtesy of dustygroove...) http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=997...p;anchor=463515 (dustygroove lists it as out of stock but they seem to be in the minority) any opinions? must have? worth getting?

klezmatics!! forgot his name but he is such a great singer!

!!happay birthday!!

/don't have anything to contribute but) that sure was a really really interesting read thanks to both of you

ah, this seems to be pretty much exactly what i was asking for (alvin batiste, have heard the name, but that's all...)! thank you! Also, thanks a lot to the others! i have some Bennie Maupin sideman stuff including Blackstone Legacy but not as much as i should have, i guess, and mort weiss looks really interesting too (just read the two older threads...) [just looked up that cobham album, a collectables twofer with magic but immediately forgot the correct title again ]

now that we have this great search function there is actually no need to keep things together nevertheless, here are two pascoal threads http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9885 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14307 plus "airto flora and related" http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24192

what dvd is this?

reading the flute with organ thread, i wondered once more whether there are any recordings which feature clarinet with electric piano? i don't know of any but to me this makes so much sense (i have actually even tried it a little myself and it seemed to work just fine) has anybody done this? there is quite some clarinet with vibraphone which i would say is vaguely related... another combination which does not make too much sense on paper to me but which would certainly interest me is organ with clarinet... has this been done? (and i principally mean "ordinary" clarinet not bass clarinet, although if you have a good idea with bass clarinet pleeasse don't hesitate to post it!) curiously Niko

some more tracks from that tv appearance at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWA6VuOW6Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8hR2D9QgI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yiUw2rFVc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2ybFybtCk

Not to mention "random sex". Is that his current wife on that album cover? if it was, would that make things much better?

Quote from 2001: "Only EC card or cash - no VISA, no American Express, no nothing" that's germany, haven't tried but i was told many merchants give you reductions when you first tell them you want to pay by credit card and then ask what the reduction would be if you pay cash

Yup, I saw those too.... Can you tell me why new ECMs are so expensive there? Just curious... never understood why they always have these unattractive new cds at high prices standing between the good stuff, maybe for people who listen to new releases... strange thing about the cheap old ecms is that many stores had them before 2001 at the same prices (Mr. Music in Bonn for instance which I treasure as the only decent record store in town but which is usually much slower than 2001)