Niko

did you know hitler refused to take any money for his, ah, administrative activities, claiming that he earned enough money as a bestselling author; but that he earned tremendous amounts by (illegally but somehow it as overlooked) not paying any taxes. oops wrong thread actually when people said you should post outside the politics forum they were thinking of Jackie McLean

started the year mostly with Libertines/Pete Doherty/Babyshambles Bootlegs then in February I rediscovered jazz after a three year more or less consequent break and got more interested in it then ever, this board and the ojc sale at 2001 being the most important single factors besides the music itself - thank you; spent arguably the most productive six months of my life up to now from March to August with two daily visits at 2001 between working hours, no time for lunch in later weeks roughly i made the jump from 200 jazz cds (most of which i bought between 1996 and 2000) to about 500 this year... the three single records i played the most were Johnny Griffin "Grab This", Don Patterson "Boppin and Burnin" and Prince Lasha feat Sonny Simmons "The Cry"... these days "the complete imperial sessions of lou blackburn", Kenny Dorham "Round About Midnight At The Bohemia" and Yusef Lateef "Eastern Sounds" are important discs... hadn't seen it this way but seems like i listened to a lot of west coast stuff, too

i think the correct command should be "dark star" site:organissimo.org/forum so that google knows what belongs into the web address and what to search for...

have a happy birthday and a great year

thank you! too bad i have to work and can't continue discovering the endless possibilities of this...

and i didn't even know they were allowed to show jewish women on Iranian television... but luckily she wears something on her head

now it's there... East Coasting is great, at least just with regards to the contributions of Shafi Hadi and Clarence Shaw i might like it even much better than Tijuana Moods; Hope is great, too; will take another 50 listens to find out whether the Rivers and the Hill are masterpieces or great but overrated records and I just "ran into" an AbraxasEsp sale where I got Albert Ayler's Prophecy and New York Eye and Ear Control and Charles Tyler's "Eastern Man Alone"

well, don't forget we're collectors

why not disagree... nothing against the playing on Soul Electricity (Stitt simply means a high basislevel of quality) but the concept...

just to make sure everything Adams ever did gets a mention in this thread two fine Mal Waldron Prestige jams he's on are Gene Ammons "Blue Gene" and John Coltrane "Dakar"

reading Shirley for Rhoda i like them both a lot but i think i like the OJC of Scott/Turrentine "Blue Flames" even much better though it only has one album on it...

Which Stitt is the best? There are almost 10 of them! It kills me that Concord is going to delete these before I get a chance to listen to all of 'em! Guy 24236 Sonny Stitt (Low flame/Shangri-la) (the others i have are boss men (similar but half a star less) and brothers 4 (has been discussed in an aotw thread not everyone's thing)) (and don't forget the Patterson/Ervin stuff) edit to rewrite this with slighty more time favorite is 24236 Sonny Stitt (Low flame/Shangri-la), Shangri-la is the best/liveliest single album of the ones i know, just the trio of Stitt, Patterson and Billy James, Low flame is earlier and "adds" the guitar player Paul Weeden which is a nice change of pace; The Boss Men are more than two LPs of Stitt/Patterson/James, nice but as i said i my favorite trio lp of those i know is Shangri-la; Brothers 4 is Stitt/Patterson/James plus Grant Green this is the most controversial one I think, it has some very nice Patterson ballad playing iirc, this is the record where some people say the varitone attachment is not functioning properly / not plugged in whatever... it does not do much harm on the second half of 24210 Sonny Stitt/Don Patterson (Funk you DP/Soul electricity SS) the varitone is definitely working properly not really my thing... the first half is Stitt/Patterson/James plus Charles McPherson and Pat Martino, just listening to this, great duet track between Patterson and Martino not bad but i was a little underwhelmed, as 1) Pat Martino is very good, but not as good as on Patterson's Boppin and Burnin and especially not as astonishing as on the first half of 24237 Don Patterson (Four dimensions/(rest of) Hip cake walk + other bits from session) (first half=Houston Person half with astonishing Martino, second half fine trio of Booker Ervin/Patterson/James - not a full LP but a full session that contributed to three LPs) 2) the material and the overall impression, e.g. of McPherson is not as good as on really really great Patterson's Boppin and Burnin (with the same line-up except Howard McGhee instead of Stitt) [as I said i'm just listening and I already see myself editing this again and improving my impression] that edit: Funk You is really better than i remembered / described it above though maybe not at the level of Boppin and Burnin... Soul Electricity is odd - like an experiment what happened if Sonny Stitt played the old songs (Stella by Starlight, Strike up the band, Over the rainbow) again but this time using the modern varitone attachment - the result is pretty much exactly what one expects it to be - hardly anything has changed; but there is no saxophone sound anymore and instead there is - well not really anything... it's not that i hated the varitone or something... but if you just use to make some weird before/after picture that's somewhat thin

I think so. Isn't he a forward for the German national football team and Bayern? A midfielder, Dmitry, a midfielder. Bastian SchweinSchwagerSteiger in a rare photo without his guitar. never heard it, if his guitar playing is as fluent as his speaking, i am sure it's very special

this order should have arrived today Charles Mingus - Eastcoasting Elmo Hope - Trio and Quintet Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song Andrew Hill - Andrew!!!

A Johnny Griffin Riverside Box would be another fine box of non-Prestige material

even today's BN? BN is Lion/Wolff! Beyond that it's a different world just had the vision that Concord start putting out Michael Bolton on Riverside

even today's BN?

yes yes yes! i've thought about that set a lot, too... What would that comprise? One Clay/Newman, one Don Wilkerson, one Roosevelt Wardell; and one by someone called Morgan, which I've never seen or heard - is that it? MG my list from memory (so certainly missing something, maybe getting something wrong) would have included, Clay/Newman James Clay Double Dose of Soul Don Wilkerson Clifford Jordan Spellbound Lenny McBrowne and the Four Souls - Eastern Lights (with Don Sleet) Paul Serrano Blues Holiday (with Bunky Green)

yes yes yes! i've thought about that set a lot, too...

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)