Niko

thank you! ... I would say about 30 percent of the amount they have out at the moment additionally would be fine for the moment

here in duesseldorf most of the atlantics were digipacks but some (essentially those suspected above Lateef, MJQ, Ornette on Tenor...) were not (piano keys = only about 10 piano keys in total? then those were the editions with the piano keys) didn't have much time to look through all of them (for some strange reason they put the digipacks in a special section and mixed the pianokeys with all the other CDs...)... if anyone is interested in a specific CD i can look up which type it is, of course...!

i thought the sale had essentially ended, in DÜsseldorf nothing new since the bunch that came with the Reste Merkheft (but they still have lots and lots of stuff in stock only some of which is available every day...) in Cologne they already more or less gave up weeks ago another bunch in between merkhefts sounds like a fine idea though

the video clip for the cure's boys don't cry is (at least very similar but probably) a more direct tribute to this performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsoej08T6v8

thank you for reminding me of twet, bought it years ago in poland on cassette (which is essentially why i forgot about it)... thought i didn't have any Stanko but IIRC i really like twet

funny thing is, seriously, when I saw "Chris Craft" first at the shop three hours ago (after having greatly enjoyed clifford jordan's spellbound this morning) I thought/hoped it was Jordan's Cliff Craft in the first half second

now that you are saying it: Lateef is no digipack IIRC. of the ca 50 they had at 2001 about 5 I would say were no digipacks... will report in more detail tommorow... someone like me btw, its not sonny criss but chris connor edit: another round of introspection reveals that 5 out of 50 was maybe somewhat pessimistic... will report again

those i have seen are (possibly german) digipacks... no piano keys

having recently read but since lost somewhere de Valk's book on Baker: Baker actually stayed with Dameron after he came back and Dameron made the connection to Carpenter... Carpenter recorded IIRC two more albums with Baker which also have Dameron compositions on them one with Frank Strozier... he just didn't sell those to Prestige which makes them less visible... (shouldn't think this way BUT it's a pity Carpenter didn't have a reason to force Dameron to play piano on those dates as well...) Other Dameron compositions on the five LPs are So Easy, Lament for the Living and Romas... the major mystery to me is, who wrote those more then ten tunes which are credited to Carpenter/Bruce... asked this on the Chet Baker mailing list some time ago and got as an answer that Bruce is singer Gladys Bruce who probably didn't write much more of those than Carpenter himself...) (easier to answer is who wrote the carpenter/stitt tunes ) Strangely enough none of the five liner notes writers named any composer in conjunction with these compositions; (unfortunately don't have them with me but it is unusual to read "... is a nice and brisk line with extended solos from ..." without the composer of the first ... being named) (only Bob Porter mentions Carpenter; he writes that Carpenter is best known as the Composer of Walkin' and that he supplied most of the originals... maybe I am overinterpreting this but being known as the composer of ... and being the composer of ... are two different things and Beethoven did not supply his symphonies, he wrote them... don't know whether Porter wants to point that out) Plus another for Cortazar edit: to shorten quote and to add that the bit I wrote about two more albums and strozier seems to be somewhat wrong... at least looks like it after a short google search

allmusic.com gives a (relatively) long list of recordings with Warleigh, most of it however is more or less pop... (and a short biography) there is an album as a leader... btw as miles davis is already spinning in his grave today, whatever Nick Drake to wanted tell us with it - its called bryter layter (the album title "five leaves left" comes from an "announcement" in a pack of cigarette papers) i think its difficult to tell exactly where Soft Machine was not really itself anymore... (the departure of David Allen? Kevin Ayers? Robert Wyatt's singing? Robert Wyatt? Hugh Hopper?)... (for me, personally, the beginning of the end is the departure of kevin ayers and the real bitter dead end is karl jenkins and mike ratledge doing adiemus) edit: i know David Allen is spelled differently another edit: "ray warleigh's first album" was recently reissued on CD it seems...

this description made me so curious that I searched and found this site http://lucky7s.org/music.php which has a number of mp3s featuring Berman for legal and free download (still downloading the first one)

i am even quite certain that he will like the 3000 Kind of Blue much much better than I will

isn't warleigh on some late soft machine albums (which i do not know), too will look that up (also love his alto playing on bryter layter (especially on chime of the city clock)) edit: (from the discography at calyx.club.fr) SOFT MACHINE - Land of Cockayne, 1981 (EMI) [CD: OneWay'96] Karl Jenkins (syn/elp/p [10]) - John Marshall (d) with: Allan Holdsworth (g [4/7/8/9]) - Jack Bruce (b [1/2/4/7-9]) - Alan Parker (g [1]) - John Taylor (elp [4/7/9]) - Ray Warleigh (as [5/9/10]/bfl [2/6]) - Dick Morrissey (ts [1/7/8]) - Stu Calver (bv [1/8]) - John Perry (bv [1/8]) - Tony Rivers (bv [1/8]) - orchestra [1/3/4/8] Rec: 16 Jun-19 Jul 1980 - Loc: Pye & Riverside Studios, London - Eng: John Temperley & Terry Evenett [Pye], Neil Richmond [Riverside] - Pr: Mike Thorne Tracks: 1. Over 'n' Above [KJ] (7:24) - 2. Lotus Groves [KJ] (4:57) - 3. Isle Of The Blessed [KJ] (1:56) - 4. Panoramania [KJ] (7:07) - 5. Behind The Crystal Curtain [KJ] (0:54) - 6. Palace Of Glass [KJ] (3:22) - 7. Hot-Biscuit Slim [KJ] (7:27) - 8. (Black) Velvet Mountain [KJ] (5:10) - 9. Sly Monkey [KJ] (5:00) - 10. 'A Lot Of What You Fancy...' [KJ] (0:35)

aren't these examples from a little later in Miles career when he was somewhat deeper into personal problems?

you sure know more about this than me... but isn't it the common story (doesn't mean it's true) that Miles and Gil Evans got to know each other when Evans wanted to arrange Donna Lee... maybe they just talked about publishing rights... still I would say it indicates that the Davis had more to do with Donna Lee than ... Richard Carpenter with Walkin (not that Carpenter's name would often be mentioned these days without a mention of Walkin... still I hope you know what i mean)

Just looked it up there: "Bird prepared three of his finest and most sophisticated compositions - Chasin' the Bird, Donna Lee (named for Curly Russell's daughter) and Cheryl (named for Miles' daughter). His fourth original, Buzzy (named for Lubinsky's son), is a simple, but attractive riff blues." (from James Patrick's article on "The 1947-1948 Sessions" in said 5LP "Complete Savoy Studio Sessions" from 1978) i think i read somewhere that buzzy was named after (??) boston drummer buzzy drootin (spelling?)

just realized I ate 200 gr of chocolate for lunch without thinking about it... can't decide between guessing dexter gordon and guessing albert ayler - suppose that means I have no clue...

shrink wrapped thank you!! can't decide which expression sounds more beautiful...

woa! more parentheses than in a Rooster Tie post. and one too many to top it off! my (mathematics) typesetting program always complains about lost parentheses - seems like I got used to that

i was told recently that the only decent song within all the noodlin from my room was horace silver's capeverdian blues (she sang it to illustrate...) (except for the saxophone solo..., I suppose she'd prefered Brew Moore instead of Joe Henderson - I can't decide but i think If i had the choice I'd take Henderson off that record and insert moore as well) (evidence is, that she liked cal tjader "latin kick" and (on my birthday) was content when I put in Moore's "If I had You" instead of Miles Davis "Collector's Items" (which she found too sad)))... it's complicated I'd say... it's not the greasier the better or the more ballads the better

got "Birth of the cool" in ninth grade as a present from the public relations agency where I had done a two week internship (second was Round Midnight few month later - no BB yet)

I used to do that too but finally switched to google when I wanted to search for Joe Guy

this has been remarked earlier: you can search on organissimo.org via google. just write site:organissimo.org behind your google search query, like, for clarence shaw search for "clarence shaw" site:organissimo.org on google

best wishes from me, too, and have a great day today!! niko

thank you a lot for that great show!! (and I will never again pronounce cecil the wrong way!)