Niko

The first four songs on it are fantastic but the rest is of lesser quality. Guy i'd easily say i like this type of music (to answer the initial question... not knowing a lot about Pop Music i'd call it Belle And Sebastian type music and would name Belle and Sebastian's The Model a my favorite song from the genre, or Memphis "The Phonecall") and i could well imagine hearing Ben Folds stuff on the radio and trying to find out what it is...(actually something very similar happened to me with a Ben Folds Song called Hiro's Song) still something about the whole package made me feel uneasy... it's simple to say it's commercial... don't think that's the problem... maybe artificial, corny are better words to end this post with something uplifting, the label Le Grand Magistery www.magistery.com has/had a number of great "sophisticated pop" bands such as Memphis, The Push Kings, Stars here are their soundsamples: http://www.magistery.com/assets/ (my browser didn't let me download them from the artists pages directly)(in the files it says what they are... lots of great songs in there!)

i like that album title "The unauthorized autobiography of Reinhold Messner" (though it's admittedly silly... and they are only a trio iirc) (also enjoyed that album though i don't think I went back to it after initial phase of regulary listening....)

just came back from a short trip to Cologne with Archie Shepp / Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited Paul Desmond Easy Living Johnny Griffin JG Laurent de Wilde Stories (used for 0,99 Euro... is it really that bad) Nicolas Simion Oriental Gates (the first one i put in... sounds great) Lou Donaldson Birdseed

Simmons looks fine... but how much is NOK 83,-? (if they make it available for download then why only in Norway? ) (sound samples sound fine however)

found on http://hughbrodie.com (among others!)

just a guess: what about live at the tender trap from that discography

two stupid questions on this one: 1) did anyone else try to buy this new issue yesterday only to find out that it was (other than the other new issues from this series) not available for unknown reasons (the guy in the shop didn't have any clue and suggested legal problems...)? 2) Who of the horn players gets substantial solo space? (especially: who plays the saxophone solos? do i get to hear dizzy reece and/or jimmy owens?) thank you in advance niko

!!Happy Birthday Brownie!! All the best for your next year!

this is interesting to hear, i didn't get the the OJC (could have taken it at 2001 but had already found 5 pr 6 things that day:angry: ) but did notice the unusual bass on the rvg which i've been listening to frequently these days

!!Happy Birthday !!

thank you! I never really took a closer look at this series, thinking they were all compilations!

from a lengthy interview with Ray Charles alumni Mitch Manker and Daniel Jackson (who also played with Rich ) which is found here: http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/profile/274134 and

another fine album with joe gordon on it is harold land's west coast blues (line up is: Joe Gordon, Harold Land, Wes Montgomery, Barry Harris, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes ) (and he's also on jimmy woods awakening which i do not know...) and another for those art blakey tracks with gordon and gigi gryce!

does anyone know details about this?

Low Flame is pretty much the best of the Patterson / Stitts I have, very integrated, some great Paul Weeden on the first half (which is a Jazzland LP iirc btw), Stitt sings on one tune....

this site http://www.oradell.org/se/beefsteak.htm contains a 12 second movie showing how this April

My most recent purchase Lou Donaldson Quartet Live in Bologna, my CD has the first version on front and a variant of the second photo inside; (both great photos are by Hans Harzheim and looking at the second one it could well be from Düsseldorf where he lives and where I lived until some weeks ago and not from Bologna )

(Still don't get here as often as I would like to, so I am a little late - hope this improves in a few weeks) Congratulations!

Amen to that. I just pulled this off e-Music the other night. Some serious mojo here. I like it better than "Conflict". Wonder why this guy just stopped playing? It's sure not for lack of chops. Up over and out. after it was mentioned in the Conflict AOTW thread that Woods lived in Alaska now I did some googling which turned up this site http://www.mtaonline.net/~midnight/james.html with a recent photograph - seems to be playing still (or again) but changed his name to James (almost back here now after moving to another town again - will take some more weeks until normal life starts again) haven't got awakening but recently listened to the Joe Gordon Looking Good with Woods again -

great upon first impression! got two more really really great albums from 2001 last week which were recommended here (both from brownie and ubu iirc) Art Blakey The Jazz Messengers (Columbia) and Barney Wilen with Phillipe Petit Flash Back (the latter is a shop-only thing i think, maybe they had it some months ago)

more desparately waiting for the list no party yet, will have to do a presentation tommorow morning and have to work though I don't feel like it at all... celebrated by buying johnny griffin "the congregation" and "wheelin and dealin" (and will get some other cd later today i think but not yet completely sure what, maybe the kenny burrell "blue lights" double CD from 2001... )

now i am finished with my studies!! the final examination took 90 minutes instead of 30 because the examinator (?) was feeling sick and went to the toilet three times for 20 minutes in the course of testing me...didn't make me less nervous... still very nice that he didn't cancel the exam...

indeed... maybe the emigration is your birthday present and she already organized everything - how disappointed would she be about the surprise being spoiled

i don't have much vocal jazz either but like this one a lot: dinah washington - for those in love yes, it's not a quartet/trio... but you can't have anything against (iirc) clark terry, jimmy cleveland, paul quinichette, cecil payne, barry galbraith, wynton kelly, keter betts, jimmy cobb arranged by quincy jones...

when i had my "Hammett then Chandler then McDonald" Summer three years ago I finished it with Ross Thomas "Missionary Stew". Somehow it's a political criminal novel in the tradition of "the glass key" (or, if you want a step, away from usual criminal novels into the direction of eric ambler) but what it keeps from the Marlowe/Archer world is the lonesome guy driving through southern california (iirc)... highly recommended... didn't check out any further Ross Thomas back then - the summer was over - should do that some time