Niko

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)

the compilation has a relatively high sentimental value for me, it was one of my first 10 or so cds, i got in when i was 14 as a soundtrack for reading Jack Kerouacs "Subterraneans" (which would remain my favorite book for the next three years or so); was surprised to see that of all my cds just this compilation had gained substantial value - though in the light of those other reissues i don't really know why... still it's not a bad collection as an introduction to lesser known Blakey bands, such as the Gordon/Gryce one, this one, or the band from S'Make It...

Lockjaw Davis - Trane Whistle marginally off topic, but i love this record and it has great Nelson Big Band arrangements

Wasn't that Frank Wright and not Frank Mitchell? (presumably this is referring to 'Bob Holland' - but based in Rotterdam I think). sorry, you're right (and it was Bob Holland )(just a Frank i was surprised to see in that context...)

does it say a year? i vaguely remember, that Chet Baker's manager could not look after Chet in the days before his death so he brought him to some other guy in Amsterdam who had the right, uh, connections and was regularly hosting musicians with these problems; well and that guy was hosting Woody Shaw, too, at that time and iirc Frank Mitchell; will look it up in de Valk... (that would have been 1989(?))

maybe you think of a different Mitchell? (Billy) http://jazzlabels.klacto.net/xanadu.html

i've asked this before without success, but: was there a Frank Mitchell vs Frank Haynes thread some time in the last 6 months or so, or did i dream it? besides: i was suprised to see this Verve compilation Compact Jazz Art Blakey http://www.amazon.com/Compact-Jazz-Art-Bla...9216&sr=1-1 is so pricey by now, but in case you have it and haven't really looked in years: the last two tracks are from Buttercorn Lady

Because Shaw could not make it to a 1958 record session with Langston Hugues and Mingus. Shaw had the flu and could not go, he tried to phone Mingus but could not reach him. Mingus called Shaw and threatened him. He later apologized to Shaw. Shaw refused to rejoin the Mingus band. This is described in the Gene Santoro book on Mingus 'Myself When I Am Real'. wonder who called the Andorreans and threatened them away from Gene Shaws Argo LPs...