Niko

RIP one of his compositions was in a saxophone practice book i used to have, and of course i remember him from kevin ayers albums...

surprised to see that noone has voted for joe henderson (my #6 most influential after ayler)

in case anyone else keeps returning to jim's chick ramirez post, here's the band in question

fwiw there appears to be one more in the current batch: Howard Roberts - Antelope Freeway / Equinox Express Elevator

in michael fitzgerald's discography it says "Private tape still exists. Reportedly, Fruscella does not play on all selections. Specifics unknown."

i am really surprised to see brownie and you supporting this album which i really had trouble listening to for more than a few seconds in a row (largely due to the arrangements/compositions which come before and after the solos...); will have to give it another chance...

"Miles Ahead was the last Miles Columbia I bought, and I never listen to it (in fact, I think I may never have listened to it)." so you noticed only after buying? there are exceptions though (like those Dexter Gordon Savoy recordings where every single tune is called Dexter... ) but in principle i agree and in the back of my mind there's this particularly outrageous example which i just can't remember...

totally agree, strange of her not to even give him a clue, i wouldn't want to be mentioned in the credits of, say, "Vampires in the Midwest" either...

when i went to Krakow (recommended) i made a stop in Wroclaw which is nice, too, though not quite as spectacular; only changed trains in Poznan and it seemed considerably less charming than the other two

fwiw, Live At Berkeley Jazz Festival Vol.2 is on the Enja CD Inside Story

indeed though i don't think it has been circulating wildly, otherwise some people would have known

see my post above, i am fairly certain that someone somewhere on this board said that the album had been heard by a handful of people which at least opens the possibility that some copies were out... it's a bit short at least for a 12' album so maybe it was aborted or it was a late 10' album that fell through the cracks...

track titles and stuff look weird, there's a huge variation in running time between different takes, the titles reveal either a "blues project" or titles assigned by the engineer or such (the info in fitzgerald's discography with the matrix numbers looks as if it comes from session logs or so?)... and even with the longest versions of each tune it's barely 28 minutes (the cd is longer but there are 6 alternate takes) so apparently unfinished... or 10'?

from the info on Michael Fitzgerald's page (no track timings etc) i don't think it was in circulation (he doesn't update the page regularly anymore though i believe, so this info is as of two years ago or so...); iirc someone (larry?) mentioned here that ira gitler had heard it or might own a copy but that's all i know... hadn't been aware that this was actually the first Fruscella Atlantic album, not the second so apparently it stayed in the can...?

Happy Birthday!

The only thing depressing is that I didn't get to see what was playing that week-- Jaki Byard at Angry Squire (actually May 1 and 2), Dannie Richmond Quintet closes on May 3 (Sunday) at the Village Vanguard (followed on Tuesday by the Elvin Jones group) Fat Tuesday has Chet Baker West Boondock's has Sadik Hakim (who I thought recorded with Charlie Parker and disappeared thereafter). had forgotten that Alexander/Red and I are from the same week, and it's a good one... !

sorry! always had this quote of dadisi in mind (in one of isoardi's books, the dark tree iirc, you badly need it if you haven't got it, if only for the cd...) "crack cocain was my nemisis for a long time" so i was happy to see him still around and looking reasonably healthy...

just hypothetically, let's say you're undeservedly in prison because you're wrongly accused of stealing vintage postcards; would you ask someone to post on your facebook page that your addiction to vintage postcards broke out again and now your in trouble? sounds like the most absurdly illogical thing to do for someone who intends to plead on innocence... don't know if this is what hot ptah meant, but the presumption of innocence and stuff doesn't apply to me, i'm not your legal system (neither are you), and facts seem fairly clear... i have no problem with apologizing in a big way when the time comes, but until then i rely on the facts i have access to, and those look so bad i don't have any doubts...

1) you can't do both, practice your "addiction" to child porn and be innocent. thus if you admit the former you have admitted the latter. all this is too serious to whine about the legal details, guilt and crime are older than your laws; yet honestly i don't see the fine line between admitting a "serious child porn problem" and admitting a crime even from a legal perspective as far as i can judge that... 2) i did not say that i am convinced that bill has raped children, only that he had children raped by others on his behalf - that's what a "child porn addiction" is all about...

on another eminent jazz discussion board, bill's name was changed the day we found out here and that's it (more accurately, he's still named bill but there's no barton anymore) - i very appreciate that you give us a place to come, jim, wouldn't want to be alone with this...

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yeah, someone may have abused bill's admitted "child porn addiction", uploading stuff from his computer to become a member of the "dreamboard"... wtf

"Earlier in the thread, we talked about how a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Obviously a lot of people don't believe in that principle, but it's a cornerstone of our legal system." i do believe in that principle, it keeps innocent people out of jail etc... but i'm not your legal system and i guess the same is true of you; additionally, we know by now that "our" bill barton was involved in child porn and that "blackbart2010" uploaded to the "dreamboard" at least twice material that was compliant with that board's fierce rules (see the indictement if you haven't)... to me that proves beyond any reasonable doubt that bill is not innocent (and, yes, "proves" doesn't mean that a jury says he's guilty, that he's a monster or whatever); i know far too little to say how guilty he is, which punishment would be "fair" etc - but it's plainly absurd to tell me i should assume bill is innocent!

"As has been pointed out, it is easier for many people to find sympathy for someone addicted to heroin." see, if someone is addicted to lying in bed all day, then bad for him but why not... if someone is addicted to heroin and somehow manages to fill his needs without getting into whatever horrible stuff - severely bad for him BUT though i wouldn't quite call it sympathy it's an entirely different thing than being addicted to raping 3 year olds, or being addicted to watching while 3 year olds are being raped. it's so different i find the comparison quite offensive. i know what happened is hard to take - but could you please stop all that apologetic crap!

discographical details are here under probably October 16, 17 or 18, 1965 : http://www.dougpayne.com/on51-66.htm