Niko

maybe the right time and place to ask: am i the only one to find the spoken part of this video hilarious but disturbing?

actually, most of my first jazz albums i play late at night, miles davis (rarely play him these days, don't really know why) and horace silver's song for my father (every year in those hours before i get one year older...) [but when they were new to me i played them all the time...] post nr 3000! thank you jim, i know i'm not an easy poster!

off the top of my head, stuff i've recently played more than once in such settings: Eric Dolphy - Iron Man John Coltrane - Traneing In John Coltrane - Settin' the Pace Grant Green - Talkin' About Soft Machine - Third Enrico Rava - New York Days if i still have to work at 3 usually lighter fare such as Elliott Smith... played Steve Kuhn's Mostly Coltrane for the first time yesterday and felt it might be a great late night alternative to those Coltrane Prestige Albums

just in case anyone has still missed it, chris albertson's blog is great

thanks for the richard thompson and glenn ferris recommendations...! i also liked Ferris' recent X Actimo! maybe not quite as beautiful as the texier album but highly enjoyable (on deezer (as are the BFG and the Texier) but i doubt you can play it in the US... but who knows)

a bit flashy maybe... but i really liked milhaud's compositions for saxophone and piano at one time...

Jef Gilson Big Band - Enfin

if i were you i would google one of the sidemen after the other, some of them might still be around, have webpages (and email), and have been waiting for your inquiry more eagerly than bb king... al porcino got a webpage, to start with, but it doesn't look like he's maintaining it himself...

will check out christophe schweizer... just gave a brief listen to some of nils wogram's organ trio album affinity on deezer, needs to be checked out as well... ferris is one of the selected few who have a eugene chadbourne allmusic entry... long list of credits from frank zappa to philly joe jones...

Glenn Ferris - finally a trombone player who sounds just right ( ) so far heard him on Henri Texier's great "An Indian's Week" album and Bex/Ferris/Goubert - Here and Now (organ trio with trombone) but will check out more soon...

just to clarify: one disc of the select is bonus tracks not available elsewhere; that said, i have some of tolliver's other albums and i believe i understand what you mean by "musically limited"... the two selects i really want to get eventually are the tolliver and the first hill, at this point...

i used to know... a few years ago when i considered rebuying the book i had a look at the new edition and while i did like some of the changes (more on louis sclavis is all i remember) i decided to seek out the 1989 edition again (which definitely has more fusion in it than most jazz books i've seen, even mentioned kenny g's early work... don't know if earlier editions had even more); i'm 98% sure they (or actually: he, guenter huesmann who had written the 80s portion or so of the 1989 edition is now the sole author; nothing wrong with him but he's not as open to fusion as berendt, i believe) did alter the perspective in the way you mention... the book definitely doesn't tell you that the most relevant part of jazz history ended in 1968 or so like so many others (and i guess, that perspective was easier to maintain in 1989 than today... not so sure which view i have on jazz after 1968 - but it definitely helps in writing a fair and balanced account to take the seventies and eighties serious...)

ah, thank you!

Still have my copy from 1977 that I used to guide my early steps into jazz. I owe it a great deal. same here, lost my copy a few years ago but still know a lot of it by heart... thanks allen, will check out that site...

don't want to complain again that the getz thread was deleted, it's not like i didn't understand some of that... but if larry kart says he heard something from a source he considers reliable i don't consider that "rumor mongering or hearsay"...

actually, i'm pretty sure by now, that he (?) answered and deleted his answer (only evidence i have though is that it doesn't make much sense that a relatively easy discographical inquiry would have stayed unanswered for so long...)

if it's not outside your time frame, there's also groove holmes first pacific jazz album

another solution would be to make the nonpolitical part of the board invisible to posters who desire to have a political avatar - guess that might be the best solution in some cases such as berigan's (doesn't solve the issue of existing posts, but still...)

unfortunately, heinz baumeister's webster discography isn't online anymore, but maybe an email is worth a try... heinz.baumeister@kolumbus.fi

glad you like it! a tiny bit more about stella waitzkin and tony fruscella is in this book, didn't check exactly between this and the last marlin, but upon first sight there's not much additional information in there but some pictures of her art (it does say though that some of her glass pieces were molten from fruscella's liquor bottles) http://books.google.com/books?id=3CdgUwZBN...kin&f=false (it's called "Sublime spaces & visionary worlds: built environments of vernacular artists" by Leslie Umberger, Erika Lee Doss)

wasn't there a highly detailed answer by claude schlouch in this thread at some point - or did i dream that?

if the same thing also works for signatures i might give it a try...

find the new one less offensive than the last one... that said, i'm still all for banning political avatars and signatures, enjoy the board without the political forums (recommended) and don't want to be reminded (alternatively, i'd propose restricting user with avatars and signatures like those to the political forum) still angry that my post with computer advice and a link to berigan's avatar was deleted as a political post outside the political forum while berigan can post the same pictures wherever he wants...

another moment i will never forget was figuring how improvising worked ( ) playing the g minor scale up and down... i've seen people take those first few steps in extremely brief time, especially on saxophone... the single greatest moment in my brief history of leading a big band was giving all the alto solos to the 12 year old guy which drove the other alto player (who was 19) mad, but it sure was the right decision, musically... german jazz based entertainer helge schneider is self taught on most of his instruments (all but piano and cello) i believe... but obviously he didn't come out of nowhere (tenor sax, one of the few tenor players of his generation who really listened to dony byas etc, obviously) (piano with jimmy woode on bass...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8AgLsCi07I (trumpet) (guitar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLrL_hZqEd8 (vibraphone and organ)

and i've been told schaap actually discovered them...