Niko

no possibility to vote for "European"

I guess it's more some kind of leftover sale - they get new stuff in now and then, it seems (when I did my second order - the above one is the third - I bought all I wanted, so most of the above wasn't in stock back then...). But I wouldn't wait too long, if there are things you really want... (Screams stage right from bank account) Thanks. (Screams stage left from hifi.) It's taking me three days to play through all my recent albums at present. Ah well. MG of course, whats sold out is sold out, but usually they change their programme every two months (= next time from August to September) maybe then there will be new 2,99 ZYX CDs but from what I see at the local shop I don't really believe it, the market seems to be somewhat "filled" (like Booker Ervin "The Song Book" for 2,99 lying around for more than a week without being bought)... I don't know if I remember the number right but I think they had bought about 300000 CDs from ZYX I suppose they can't continue until they sold them all

looking at his early record covers now I find the clothes very ugly in the first place (don't have the pictures right now but I think, e.g., Robert Smith of the Cure wore similar (but much prettier) Hawai shirts around that time) but as you said it paid off...

first saw that cover filed under Pop/Rock at my local record store... (wouldn't know where to put classical musicians playing jazz either, world music? haven't heard it)

my dad (born 1949) left me only 9 LPs (i think he essentially stopped listening to music around 1972 and was just beginning again at the end of his life when I began listening) this is the list john coltrane - kulu se mama miles davis - nefertiti gary burton - feelings and things don ellis - electric bath soft machine - vol. 2 and fourth pink floyd - ummagumma and atom heart mother rolling stones - it's only rock'n'roll but I like it very much late 60s but still pretty flawless and a great collection for someone who didn't buy more... looks a little like someone helped him (when I asked him about his LPs in the mid 90s he said, well they were sure not bad, the best ones were by a group from the netherlands called soft machine)

this is indeed a good argument - at least there will always be as much chet baker available as one may want to buy suppose i will take mabern and once upon a summertime and will later add the other too if I want more baker or more coleman (which is rather likely - but this is how it always turns out)

thank you all for your recommendations - looks as if the decision is really not that simple, (partly because the stuff is not so essential that one is forced to say "get all of them" - especially given what else there is at this price) I think I take one of the Baker/Coleman CDs and than get the others depending on how much I like each of the two... (although de Valk seems to favour "Once upon a Summertime" of the three Baker CDs) (but as I am typing I'm listening to Johnny Griffin "Grab this" and think that I should maybe get Griffin's "Kerry Dancers" first, one at a time turned out to be a good rule, since I usually can't keep from going there twice a day - you never know what's in the "blue boxes") (thank you, Ubu, also for that short moment of imagining the Bud Freeman / Chet Baker record - those 20 seconds before it dawned on me that you meant Russ certainly belong into the better part of this day)

admittedly, buy 299 get 1 free doesn't sound like a great offer... strange thing is, i think, that inbetween all those 2,99 and some 1,99 CDs there is one CD, Stan Getz "Quartets" which is supposed to cost 3,99 - I am constantly tempted to buy it just to find out why... but have resisted so far

i prefer to call them Fantasy/OJC 2,99 € discs

fetish = buy all the seven (?) Baker albums they have for 2,99 = no problem -_- it's not that easy

after having bought about 150 CDs at 2001 2,99 sale in the last two months I try to restrict myself a little, for the usual reasons, now, there are those four CDs which (of course) are somewhat different, but also somewhat related, and I decided I'd buy one first and then maybe add some of the others... but I can't decide with which one to start. I don't have any Chet Baker except the Paris Studio album with Dick Twardzik (but just read the de Valk book and am curious), no George Coleman except Maiden Voyage, no Mabern, no Gregory Herbert, no Buddy Terry... these are the four CDs, I'll write in brackets what "attracts me to them" Chet Baker "On a misty night" (3 Dameron tunes, curious about Baker and especially George Coleman) Chet Baker "Stairway to the stars" (also 3 Dameron tunes, curious about Baker and especially Coleman) Chet Baker "Once upon a summertime" (curious about Gregory Herbert and Baker) Harold Mabern "Few miles from Memphis" (Blue Mitchell is on it and I'm curious about George Coleman; might be sold out soon) I'd really be thankful for a hint at a good starting point... niko

i recently switched on the TV at 10 in the morning and found a 30 minute excerpt of some concert of Don Menza and Carl Fontana with the WDR big band... nice surprise

in this interview: http://members.aol.com/pgrsel/barrett/twink.htm Stars drummer Twink mentions that all Stars gigs were recorded... not the greatest interview possible (my favorite Q/A is Ivor Trueman: What about Mick Farrens solo album, Mona? Twink: I play drums on that.) but it's also a little about Tommorow that predecessor of Yes

sad... his solo albums are so beautiful, had thought of him this morning, (my favorite Barrett song) FEEL You feel me away far too empty, oh so alone! I want to go home Oh find me inside of a nocturne - the blonde how I love you to be by my side they wail... the crowd on her side she straggled the bridge by the water... She misses her crawl far ley grew heady aside in a dell inside an eye be the lonely one, my bride how I leave on the waddling wheel they flail... a gasp shringing a bad bell's ringing the angel - the daughter... You feel me...

funny, when I posted I also thought it was Danny Thompson... but Thompson only plays on Drake's first album "Five Leaves Left" (don't have it here but I think it doesn't have any arrangements for bass section), on Bryter Layter the bass player is Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention??) and on one selection Ed Carter... I once read a (relatively old) interview with arranger Robert Kirby who really seemed to feel a little bad about getting this wrong credit, so one might think it should have been corrected by now

on nick drake's "bryter layter" (not exactly jazz but ray warleigh, lyn dobson, chris mcgregor on it) the brass arrangements are still listed in the credits as "bass arrangements" - must be somewhat depressing for the bass player...

my brother started (at age 5 or 6) playing using the suzuki method... the advantage was that he (and the other children) really had fun playing together, started to love playing music... the disadvantage was that at age twelve when he got another teacher he had to learn a lot of technique because in that suzuki group he didn't hold the violin the right way..., he didn't stop playing then but I think some of his friends did. I think whats problematic with violin (oboe is similar) is that it often takes years until it begins to sound good (on the other hand it is at most technical levels relatively easy to find people to play with, orchestras... later on) edit: i would also definitely not recommend starting violin without a teacher... there may be instruments where one can just try around for some time, maybe clarinet, piano, drums (although in all those cases there will be technical arguments against it). with violin i do not think this is a good idea (besides the technical issues i suppose its not that easy to figure how its supposed to be played)

just rembered that spann's flute playing on side by side were one of those things that brought me to jazz (12 years ago when I was 14) - haven't pulled it out in years but will do that this afternoon...

this record is great + you have another French horn player (David Amram) on it and can figure out if you have difficulties with the French horn as a solo instrument in jazz (my tendency) or with Watkins as a player. Just heard Watkins' short solo on Our Delight from Tadd Dameron's The Magic Touch and thought that this was a place where maybe a French horn solo was really more fitting than a trumpet or trombone or ... solo; still I don't think there are many

it's good that you bring her up - she must already feel like Dewey Redman with her daughter being discussed here all the time... (Monday Michiru is her (and Mariano's) daughter, or am I making this up (?))

in the amg review of elmo hope's sounds from rikers island there is a strange use of another word which is used extensively in jazz journalism: legendary. "Hope surrounds himself with musicians whose reputations are now legendary: Philly Joe Jones, John Gilmore, Ronnie Boykins, Lawrence Jackson, and Freddie Douglas." I immediately aggree that each of these artists is legendary in some sense or another in which the word is frequently used when writing about jazz... nevertheless it will be hard to find a meaningful definition of "legendary reputation" for which the reputation of Philly Joe Jones is about as legendary as the reputation of Lawrence Jackson... (whatever the difference is between being legendary yourself and having a legendary reputation) and the author (Thom Jurek) seems to know that, otherwise he hadn't arranged the names in that order...

thank you for your thoughts and for pointing me to Webster's... of course everyone knows what is meant by obscurity (in the case of jazz musicians) and that should be reason enough to just use the word without further thinking about it... what i think is strange about the way the word is used is that on one hand even jazz musicians who are by no means obscure are not leading a "glamourous" life in the light or are particularily well understood... on the other hand, e.g., playing trumpet or piano on Mingus Tijuana Moods is more artistic success than most individuals achieve in their lifetime so why call those guys obscure...

thank you! these days i'm pretty much addicted to their shops i was in düsseldorf twice yesterday (but bought nothing) and once in cologne... so i thought if i can get around beginning to order stuff at their website additionally that would be better (on the other hand there are the Patterson/Stitts, the Clay / Fathead Newman, ...) i asked the guy in cologne whether those records were out of their program or not yet really in it and he couldn't tell... now i have to work for at least two hours before i can allow myself to go to 2001 again...

does anyone know whether these additions are stuff from the Juli Merkheft... (and i can wait and get them at the store in two weeks) or whether they are items that have to be ordered in the internet? would be very thankful for a reply (left so much money at their store during the last few weeks and would appreciate the possibility to wait till july begins)

this is something i have been thinking about for a long time though i just realize that i can't really explain it well: when reading about jazz records one frequently reads the word obscure applied to musicians who did not become as famous as the rest of the band... as a native speaker of german i find that the word has some connotations of mysterious, spooky which may apply to someone who runs a homepage like this http://www.dickinson.edu/~zieff/index.html (don't know what's behind that) or to someone like dupree bolton who suddenly appears on the scene and doesn't want to say where he comes from, but i feel it is completely the wrong word for someone who just moved back to his home town / home country, quit music or just didn't record much in a long professional career for some other reason... does it have to do with my lacking knowledge of the English language that i find the word is used a little too much (yes i should give examples) or does someone else see it that way too? niko