Niko

can't say i have particularily fond memories of my last trip to Belgium (Brugge and Antwerp), but Antwerp is definitely recommended fine shopping and the place made a lively impression without being too "touristy" (but as i think about it, Brugge could have been nicer if i had had the right mind for it... and the hotel wouldn't have been that cold and less rain... and the only pizza that cost less than 7 Euros was arguably the smallest one i have ever seen... but if you're willing to spend more on food you will get better value i suppose... actually we wrote some funny short stories about Belgium back then, Belgian doctors, Belgian prisons... during those days closest thing i ever got to naked lunch; but the photos of Brugge looked beautiful afterwards )

of course i can't correct you... imho that lesson was so bitter to learn (mostly bitter for others) that the very least thing we can do is try not to forget it and try to convince others in a less harmful way... i really hate all those black red gold flags which are in people's windows since the Soccer World Championship - the face of the country has really changed (sometimes it is for the reasons you pointed out Ubu, sometimes because i find it is simply ugly as an object - i don't really understand myself in this point)

It's actually a faux-pas to use that line... I am puzzled why you feel that way. I like the song for what it is.... a song. I am not making a political statement. I do not condone the aggression that Germany displayed over two world wars. I am talking about music and music only. If I say that enjoy listening to the "The Star Spangled Banner", does this mean I condone hundreds of years of ethnic cleansing (the native americans)? Does it mean I condone what the current administration has been doing around the world? I don't think so. It only means that I like the music. No more, no less. to clear up what Claude meant: today's German anthem originally had three stanzas (right word?), the first two of which were (for good reasons - they were in the spirit of the thing Ubu posted) considered not politically correct anymore after 1945 while the third one (by the same author ) was considered fine. (if you ask me it would have been a substantially better idea to throw away the whole text and keep only the much older music). Thus the third stanza which begins with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" is the text of today's German national anthem while "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" is the beginning of the "illegal" first stanza (which is of course still sung by a luckily very small minority - this is what claude meant with "faux-pas") Haydn's (btw Austrian ) melody is great, he himself used the melody several times iirc, it deserves a much better fate than being a national anthem...

The main reason is that most of great jazz collectors died, and their sons are much more interested in money then in vinyl. And what about the wives ? http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZado1357QQhtZ-1 so this is how i'm gonna end

if you're too cynical, I'm too cynical, too - let's hope for the best

another picture of the kenny cox quintet from this site http://www.jazznation.com (which also has some more recent soundsamples featuring cox - the only one that worked on my computer was the sam sanders one with cox - may be my fault)

scary... but i know pretty well that my girlfriend constantly looked at a pile of jazz cds when she told me that story about a collegue from work who is addicted to buying dvds... i am not saying it's all the same ... just have about 15 dvds ...

i don't know alto madness but another broadly related session which I like a lot is Paul Quinichette's "On the sunny side" which (besides Quinichette) has Jenkins in contrast to Sonny Red (so overall it's Pres Bird Bird...) (plus Curtis Fuller and a rhythm section of Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins and Ed Thipgen)

He also said, "In the long run, we are all dead." MG thank you!

actually in an ebay auction, the winner pays the highest price any of the other bidders wanted to pay so there is at least one more bidder who'd have payed that price... (but i do agree with your first assertion and like the Keynes quote)

i don't exactly know how you mean that ... still: if I'd ask myself that question i'd answer it with yes (if you understand the difference... otherwise: yes i think so too) besides: for me the Italian element which I imagine to hear is also an important building block in my fascination with Fruscella/Triglia (don't know if it is ironic or anything that Fruscella's ex wife Morgana King played in The Godfather long after his death...) and isn't "Tony Fruscella" just a beautiful name (and doesn't it already have a 10% junkie connotation in itself)

if this a correct way of quoting, i don't know... (to brownie it will make a difference, i suppose)

!great album! (and beautiful cover, too)

not a decent discography but a starting point is the contents listing of the gerald wilson mosaic http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.a...umber=198-MD-CD this is 60s for some 40s sessions there is the Hobart Dotson discography at jazzdiscography.com... http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Dotson/dotson.htm no idea besides allmusic.com for 50s, or a more complete listing

your post reminded me that I actually had "Homage to Billie Holiday: Body and Soul" but had completely forgotten about it... may sound like not much interest but I actually like it a lot... your Ben Webster analogy I found very much to the point - its a very unique way of playing the clarinet (at least compared to the other things I know)... a very wide sound... can'tdescribe it

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) NOK 83 = $12.87 or £6.74, so they're not that cheap. No way I'll learn how to handle this stuff to pay that much for some lousy MP3s! No sir! for 13$ I want a high-quality product and a cover, too! same here...

one of my first jazz concerts was Dave Douglas when I was about 15... and I had thought he was famous it was rather 19 than 13 people - still I was quite surprised

just found this snippet on google: Pettis/Petties seems to have this ability:

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