Niko

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

!!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?