Niko

amazing i didn't know this thank you!

A second round of thank you for your nice gratulations! so glad i can be here! looking forward to the photo (i couldn't have handled the technical stuff either - maybe i will learn in my next year)

happy birthday! by the way: 29 April George Adams. Born 1940. Ray Barretto. Born 1929. Steve Gadd. Born 1945. Duke Ellington. Born 1899. Big Jay McNeely. Born 1928. Jean Toots Thielemans. Born 1922. Joe Gloss. Born 1970. 30 April Percy Heath. Born 1923. (Or was it 20 April?) Abdul Wadud. Born 1947. 1 May Shirley Horn. Born 1934. James Newton. Born 1953. Ira Sullivan. Born 1931. Carlos Ward. Born 1940.

happy birthday

thank you guys! will put on some EKE now, don't know why i don't already have that tradition! i am so glad i can spend at least some time every day at a place where Kenny Dorham, Johnny Griffin and all the others are considered as important as they are to me! (this is also agood place to apologize for all my uninformed posts of the last year - many more will follow)

i hope neither Membran nor Zyx are angry with me for not being able to tell them apart in my first post

169 pages by now... (still everything marked as sold out...) Looks like an error, doesn't it? With so many pages who can even browse through them properly? don't know, as you can see from my posts it appeared in at least two batches, the relevant stuff starts around page 50... (or search for the labels - as i said, it's all marked as sold out at the moment)

169 pages by now... (still everything marked as sold out...)

ah, you remind me of something; i have a brother who once sang in a full playback backing choir for Manowar

don't quite get what's going on there, the number of pages in jazz CDs went up from 69 to 121 today, seems like they are resuming last years OJC 2,99 Euro sale (with the same items? not all of them, but nothing i haven't seen before, wish i had a zweitausendeins store nearby like last year) lots of things like Johnny Griffin's "Kerry Dancers" and "Grab this", Fathead Newman / James Clay "Sound of the wide open spaces" are back in the list, though all listed as sold out (maybe this is just some temporary option their software gives them until they have "really" added this stuff ?? don't see another reason; the items can already be searched for)

best thing i remember for the moment, in 2000 i did an internship at the german academy of arts and once delivered an urgent (well only a two-line invitation) letter from writer Gyorgy Konrad, then the president of the academy, to Gorbarchev who was staying at the Hotel Adlon then (or rather, he wasn't anymore but it was my turn to find out)

thank you!

my sole Sun Ra records, the damusic/Freedom 3 CD set Calling Planet earth (containing three albums originally called Pictures of Infinity, Outer Spaceways and Calling Planet Earth) have after many years and several tries finally started to speak to me... (got them back then because they were so cheap, maybe not the best but also not the worst place to start, i suppose, will get some of the 50s material next, i think)

I grabbed Turrentine's The Spoiler on my last visit to the Frankfurt store. Didn't see a copy of the Dizzy box ... they really added this stuff just yesterday afternoon... they are still scanning the covers

it seems the new program at zweitausendeins has been entered today... Dizzy Gillespie Mosaic at 84 Euro numerous Impulse items at 7,99 (8,99 for John Coltrane)(good for me but i suppose most of you guys already have stuff like the Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane albums...) Allen Lowe's Devilin Tune (suppose he prefers to sell them himself) and a lot of stuff which looks like cheapo Membram type of stuff, not easy to see as long as pictures and more information... are not added

great one!

that's what i thought, too... until i stumbled across this board (picked a typical thread): http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=684879

happy birthday, Mark!

and a sad day becomes much worse;

from Nabil Totah's memories:

last week a student came here, so we could go through his seminar talk before he does it and he was 20 minutes early, so i said "well, your bad, i am not really done with my preparations, but it will work out, i hope" and he didn't say he was sorry or anything but said he had a long way for coming here and thus could not really plan his arrival (a fine excuse for someone who is ten minutes late, but 20 minutes early? besides, he works here so he should not complain about having to come here...) strange guy

wanted to post a link to www.azarlawrence.com but it's not working anymore (it did though a few weeks ago) What happened to Azar? I must have missed that. if you google him you find that it seems he started another round of activity mostly in california in recent years here it mentions a 2005 recording with McCoy Tyner for which there is no label yet http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2005/05/2601.html here is a link for a gig three weeks ago http://jazz.meetup.com/110/boards/view/vie...?thread=2876036 and besides the (not overly informative) homepage just didn't work yesterday but is fine today: http://www.azarlawrence.com/

wanted to post a link to www.azarlawrence.com but it's not working anymore (it did though a few weeks ago)