Niko

naive question, never having seen facebook - in order to not get emails anymore can't you just change the email address in your profile to a bunch of letters? maybe a bunch of letters that dimly looks like an email address?

this sounds like Doug Sides to me... ;-)

Happy Birthday!

the grossman set has (not surprisingly) three albums: Do it, with Barry Harris/Reggie Johnson/Art Taylor Small Hotel with Cedar Walton/David Williams/Billy Higgins Quartet with Petrucciani, with Michel Petrucciani/Andy McKee/Joe Farnsworth looks good to me...

we wondered about that as well in the other thread... looks like some sort of distribution deal (since at least the marcus miller mixes dreyfus and non-dreyfus albums iirc)

since it says three cds - unless there is a mistake, these should differ drom the existing Lagrene and Petruciani sets... wonder what the Steve Grossman will be...

i always drink the "coffee of the week" since i wouldn't want anything that has milk in it anyway, don't go often enough to remember the price and i can't say that it tastes especially splendid but the price is definitely right... ( something like 1.60 to 2.80 Euro depending on the size with the smallest being still substantial, it's more on the cheap than on the expensive side, definitely...)

i like the anonymity of Starbucks.. unlike in an ordinary cafe where you have to talk to the waiter every once in a while you can go to starbucks spend a little on a decent and huge black coffee and then they let you mind your own business for a few hours, and usually the seats are much better than at mcdonalds... i often go there when i need a place to work in a foreign city... the music varies widely, sometimes they indeed play a hard bop compilation, last few times i wasn't very lucky and they played compilations that varied far to widely between genres for my taste with lots of not so nice music in between...

fwiw i couldn't find another offer on the page ubu linked... here's another place, about the same price and shipping http://doblinger.at/Henderson_-_Jones_-_Jordan_+_Kleinschuster-Sextett_Vol-_1.pid.154626.htm shipping should be 6 Euro within Europe, say if you need help with the language !

seems tough to find! here's the only option I found: http://www.bocksmusicshop.at/db.asp?allg=kleinschuster&prod=

since i maybe didn't see this clearly enough: i am a big fan of Belgium... if i would plan a holiday of three or four days not too far away, brussels or antwerp or bruges would be may first choices (after paris)... just tried to explain my fascination (and you might say that some of it is for the wrong reasons...) say what you want but an idea like this recent one is so truly Belgian i can't imagine it happening anywhere else in the world... (except maybe in the UK ;-) ); i've used a Belgian painting for years as my avatar for instance...

depends on the region whether it would be fair... of course, this sort of stereotyping has its, ah, limits - but since we all know that and since it's fun... think it's wrong to deny that countries do have their character, and even if you can't really find out all about it from travelling a bit, that doesn't mean there is no chance of success in stereotyping...

one track from Marvin Cabell's Dream Images is on youtube now:

omg, what did i start here! i definitely sense a strongly sexualized atomsphere all over the country, especially in the french-speaking part, not comparable to any other place i've visited... maybe it's because i grew up during the time of the Dutroux affairs... but i always sensed a thorough darkness/creepiness in the country which is both fascinating and, well, creepy... i found Brussels much warmer and much more interesting than Amsterdam...

yes, they did a great job with that museum (which was opened at its present location only 10 years ago...), Cologne may not be as easy on the eye as other cities here, but there is a bunch of great museums... played Stories & Negotiations quite a bit by now, a great cd, even better than the group's two previous albums... when you sat down for the interview i was a bit worried you'd turn out to be one of those WDR guys who spoiled quite some interviews for me over the years - even greater was the surprise that they had taken the effort to fly in someone truly competent and you did a great job (that you said "Association for the Advancement of Chicago Musicians" i will carry on to my grandchildren though ;-) ) Belgium btw must be the world's most underrated country... i was a skeptic myself for many years - and there is something undeniably creepy about the place, but somehow, i have become increasingly fascinated with it in recent years...

most information is here: Freeman, Bruz, jazz drummer, d. ca. 3/28/2006 in Hawaii at 85. Cadence, v. 32 no. 5, May 2006 http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/2006.html

posted about this elsewhere here, I met him (unanticipated, here in Germany) last Tuesday where he conducted an interview with the vetrans playing with Mike Reed's People Places and Things (Art Hoyle, Ari Brown, Julian Priester)... could say hello only briefly and couldn't ask for his further plans but i guess it's safe to assume he's still travelling...

That will be a great loss. Hope my favorites over here, Spotify and Deezer, don't go the same way. yes! deezer was greatly restricted in germany now (no major labels anymore), spotify's expansion to further countries never really happened, lastfm's streaming service was shut down a few days ago... guess it's only a matter of time... was great while it lasted, still is, but i don't expect it to go on for long anymore

nail75, looks to me that most of those you perceive as Holland-haters have a point of view like "after conference of the birds anything seemed possible with holland and compared to that his later career was a disappointment..." would you say, his current band is live and/or in the studio "at the level of" conference of the birds? having not heard the band live: what is (roughly) that big difference you are talking about? can we all agree, that hollands recent output is more exciting than, say, recent Chick Corea, McCoy Tynr and Herbie Hancock albums? sorry for typos - can't really see what i'm typing due to IE

thank you! just in case a thomas completist drops by... in the ina.fr archive there are some radio shows with otherwise unreleased (and iirc unlisted at thomasia - which has been dead lately, anyway?) thomas on a few tunes...

since this thread crashed my computer three times yesterday... belated happy birthday, joe!

actually, i'm still right in the middle of it Thank you all very much for the good wishes! (and of course special thanks to Flurin for the great present!)

me, too

ohhhh... thanks! no searching on phrases then....? "hampton hawes" should do... didn't try whether you can combine these to +"hampton hawes" +"japanese releases" but iirc that doesn't work... out of curiosity: why does a search for the word "available" yield no results?

+hampton +hawes +japanese +releases should do...