Niko

the rates are fine, pretty much exactly the EU average, not quite as fast as in Germany but almost... what I really like compared to Germany is that all seems relatively systematic, one birth year after the other, everyone gets their call when the time is up... while from Germany I heard so many more stories of people trying to get ahead, getting their first shot earlier already after calling in favors, travelling through half the country...(Also, compared to Germany, I expect that keeping track of who has already been vaccinated should work much better). I am from 1981 so I could make an appointment some time last week and well get the first shot next Thursday finally...

ok, you guys have won, I am speecheless... what do people mean when they say the jazz world is toxic and unwelcoming for women... hmm... and now she even dares to diminish his income by complaining about the sex-for-tutelage arrangement she willingly entered... and the judge refuses to let her pay for the financial damage because due to a new law she is entitled to having an opinion on what happened... such an unfair world for men in their best age

Maria Grand - Reciprocity whatever brought me here... first reaction: someone took Steve Coleman's super dry music and tried to bring it back to life... sometimes, she may have taken stuff too literally, and the singing is what it is... but I would argue that it did work to the point where I much rather listen to this than to a recent Steve Coleman recording. recommended.

1) I'm not worried about her not feeling bad enough about herself 2) She didn't sue herself for defamation so that wasn't the question. He sued her. sorry. [find the one who's basically still a child... and the one who has trouble facing the fact that he's passed the middle of his life a decade ago]

I'm teaching 19, 20... year olds myself - if you do a half-decent job, some of them will think you're pretty cool (both sexes, of course, and even more so if you're Steve Coleman but even if you're not)... in a situation like this, it's the job of the teacher to redirect that energy towards more learning, and to not fuck up. What will it feel like to look back on your education as years of vanity fucks with people in a midlife crisis... Much better to luck back on a history of learning and crushes that didn't lead anywhere... And at that point, Steve Coleman apparently fucked up big time. What was at stake in court was Maria Grand's right to openly express on Facebook how disappointed she is. Seems like a nobrainer to me - even if it makes Steve Coleman look like a jerk.

regarding the "guilty" part: Basically, he sued her for writing on Facebook that she felt abused and groomed and all these things...so what the court had to decide here was whether whatever happened was so obviously not an abusive relationship that she was lying when she claimed she perceived it like that in retrospect... if you ask me, this is pretty far away from the usual "he said vs she said" situation - this was impossible for SC to win. So, yes, I do believe she was not guilty (which was the question here). Besides that, I agree with what others wrote above - you have a moral responsibility as a teacher and as a mentor which goes beyond the 18 year threshold... If SC wants to date an 18 year old he meets at a country club, that's creepy enough - but it's still completely different. Similarly, I do think that SC made matters worse by forcing her through all this legal stuff - even though, from a legal perspective, he can sue whoever he wants to sue

a completelt different esthetics I'd say

This version of p.6 should work better https://web.archive.org/web/20111105061531/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/disco6.htm it's a pity the webpage is gone, it was a good one, here are some more linksto subpages: Articles about Barbara Donald, Bert Wilson and Prince Lasha https://web.archive.org/web/20081228191238/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/donald.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20081228190749/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/wilson.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20081228191255/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/lasha.htm Simmons bio: https://web.archive.org/web/20081228123524/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/bio.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090101053605/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/bio2.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090101053611/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/bio3.htm main page: https://web.archive.org/web/20081228120419/http://www.sonnysimmons.org/index.html

I read somewhere these days that Heino modelled his way of singing the R after Freddy Quinn...

and now, a blink of an eye later, he's a 64 year old who's being accused because of an abusive sexual relationship with someone who is over 35 years younger... (and in between he made some pretty good music)

taken by itself, it's just a feature of some Southern dialects (including Austrian ones)... you can sing those Rs and still sound like Leonard Cohen rather than Hitler or Heino

without being an expert on the topic, I'd agree with that - at least, they embrace the sexual dimension of things like walking through fire wearing nothing but a leather coat to an extent that you cannot reduce it to nazi esthetics any more... even though that dimension is certainly in there, too... They played together with Heino after he covered their song at a time when other bands were offended... but I would just read that as an act of provocation without active support of his political views. They like to provoke... In Heino's case, I am not so sure I would place the rolled R's in that right wing tradition... it could also, e.g., be a reference to operatic singing or some forgotten dialect... what I find pretty clear is that something like that cover with the uniformed girl scouts on an album where he sings folk songs that used to be sung by Hitler Youth must have brought back memories of those days in his fans... happy memories, probably, kids enjoy sitting around a bonfire and singing songs... and of course, most of those songs are fairly harmless if you look at the lyrics and forget where they come from... they are kid songs... but still... Campino in that article cited up there says something like "Heino has been the face of Germany's ugly side for over 30 years"... guess that fits pretty well

I guess Germany between 1945 and 1968 was very much about working hard, getting the economy back together, not thinking too hard about what had just happened and listening to music like Heino's. (Just like 1968 in Germany was very much about starting a conversation about what had happened in those years...) There is very little German music from those years that I enjoy listening to, besides some classical, jazz and maybe instrumental pop... Afterwards, starting with Can or so, I have many softspots for local pop music, even some carnival stuff... but before the late sixties... I do have a somewhat positive view of Udo Jürgens I guess... Now regarding Heino and politics, there are some things I have wondered about for a long time... For instance, that recent scandal when he quoted Hitler by saying that despite his own advanced age he was still "hard as steel and quick as a greyhound" healthwise... which is a somewhat bizarre statement to make even if you ignore the origin of the phrase... Did he really want to quote Hitler? Or is this just the way someone talks who's spent decades hanging out with people who never stopped to say things like this. My general impression is that early in his career, he was a mainstream artist with a mainstream audience... And then, starting with the advent of the Beatles, he only retained a somewhat older, more conservative part of that audience, which drifted further to the political right as they all got older... To the point, that by about 1980 Heino apparently did think that all three verses of the national anthem might be taught in school again or that it was normal to sing the Schlesierlied about how some day we'd all meet again in our village in what is now Southern Poland... My feeling is that, depressing as it is, those views were acceptable in the most right wing 5% of the German political mainstream around 1980... What is also clear is that at least from the time of those South African tours on, listening to Heino was considered not only as bad taste but also as politically not acceptable by a fairly broad majority.... And the fanbase he still had after those events was far from balanced politically...

That Msc thesis has again more info...

this is the guy he sued (a friend of a popular punk band)... kind of understandably I guess... the other guy called himself "Der wahre Heino" (The true Heino), and e.g. published press releases claiming that after the most recent South African tour Heino had quit his major label deal to start his own label "White Terror"... this picture is the backcover of one of the other guy's records, collecting clippings from the court proceedings, the typewritten text says something to the effect of "By a court order we are not allowed to mention the name of the artist on this record. We wish to explicitly point out that the record is not by Heinz-Georg Kramm [Heino's real name]." some pictures around that incident

I thought his "rock" episode was reasonably successful - the music doesn't hurt anyone and the costumes, well... they do teach you that the golden age of rock music is over.... wikipedia says Heino is now performing classical music... hmm that said, it's nice that you have those fond memories of when you were young - but Heino is not "cool" and never was... the music is what it is ... plus: the music would have to be pretty amazing to compensate for things like regular tours through Apartheid South Africa in the 80s...

It's not my favorite Belgian beer but I do like it as well... I'd say it strikes a nice balance somewhere between the real heavy spicy beers (like a Westmalle tripel or Tripel Karmeliet), some lighter, less interesting blonde beers (like a Leffe Blonde) and then those really weird but fascinating beers that give you a headache that's completely out of proportion to the abv (like a Duvel or Orval, never have more than one of those on the same night...). The thing is that one could think that a small bottle of La Chouffe or Duvel (0.3*8.5%) has about the same effect as a big bottle of regular lager or pils (0.5*5%)... but the difference between having three Orval or Duvel vs having three large pils is something even inexperienced drinkers will notice (due to added sugars or whatever else it is that the monks are doing, those beers taste great though)... La Chouffe is something of a compromise I'd say, tastes almost as good, but there is a bit less variation from bottle to bottle, and a considerably smaller headache factor...

my Italian is pretty non-existent but indeed this looks like a live broadcasting of a trio (France, Price and drummer Candy McDonald) from some location in Milan which is specificed quite precisely... in the upper left corner it say "Saturday May 10" which also means it's from 1980

Re the Downbeat Archive: the freely accessible part currently stops at the end of 1961... No idea what the status of the remaining issues is... With that in mind 2 hits for Larry Young may we'll be correct

thanks, that's exactly what I thought - both of those clubs have elevated stages while this one apparently doesn't... I agree that this picture could have been taken anywhere... the bit of extra information (found e.g. in the other Green thread that's currently active) is that George Heid, who is from Pittsburgh, claimed that this picture was taken in Pittsburgh....

I've also been wondering what a good format for writing up my findings might be, and was similarly drawn to Michael Fitzgerald's Art Blakey chronology or a similar format... my focus has been more on understanding biographies than on covering artists that have many fans... but I know quite a bit by now about drummer Chuck Thompson, alto player Kirtland Bradford (Lunceford's lead alto after Willie Smith) and their family backgrounds etc. and should really wrap up these projects if I have the time (If anybody knows anything about Chuck Thompson between the summer of 1960 and his death in 1982, I'd be very very interested btw). So I'd definitely be interested in something like you describe....

Contracts... would be interesting to know how these were designed... and, e.g., whether artists actually had incentives to support sales of their BN albums or whether they played their hit tunes simply because that's what the audience wanted... I've also been wondering whether the ideas of playing Go Down Moses and displaying Feelin the Spirit at that gig were some type of running gag about JC Moses last name...

The Kenny Burrell Quartet ‎– The Tender Gender Grant Green is almost everything but not everything plus: thrift stores have reopened... found this one earlier today, a quartet with Richard Wynands on piano, and had it on repeat ever since

well, George Heid seems to claim that the picture with JC Moses was taken at a gig in Pittsburgh... so if the 28 June gig is the Iron City gig and it involves Dixon then we need an additional Pittsburgh gig with Moses & Young for the picture in the same time span, maybe somewhat earlier... could also be that Dixon did a few days and then Moses took over or the other way around... we know that the Watson/Clark/Green band was advertised in Indianapolis on December 4 and February 6. On February 20, the same place advertised the Getz/Green/Moses band... there are different stories which fit this pattern... but most of them would involve Watson/Clark/Green still showing up on December 4 and Getz/Green/Moses existing at some point before February 20 ... and then Young returning from Paris, recording Majesty King Funk with Dixon and Green in May... in November the band is announced as Green/Patton/Dixon...

DMP, do you recognize the club in the photo?