Niko

Au contraire i was talking about "many here"... had actually considered mentioning that some people (marsalis people) indeed draw the line there (which doesn't make charlie christian's guitar electronic but still...); but i guess nowadays it's safe to say that these people are in a minority (? never been to new york...) not only here ; and i guess it's only the most stubborn jazz fans who see bitches brew or the work of pat metheny in the same boat with dave koz's christmas album (which i just sampled to see what i was talking about)

welcome! i only have a vague imagination of what being the jazz person at a newspaper is like, but i wish you all the best with it and i don't see what's wrong with trying to cover a broad variety of music/the music people like to read about... i doubt that many here feel that your statement below represents their feelings about smooth jazz... doubt that anybody here sees, say miles davis' bitches brew on the wrong side of the fence... (and electric guitars have been treasured in the jazz world for much longer)... [ensuring that some of the flames hit me] for me pat metheny is right at the border, i do hear the differences to kenny g and obviously he does improvise but the... quirkiness i like about my jazz is missing...

happy birthday and a quick recovery!

found it for 2 euro on a flea market within a bunch of crap last year... the cd is great, notably for solal's contribution (iirc it's something like 4 pieces with the full band, three in a quartet without horns and then some more with griffin added...) the cd does however not contain everything from these sessions that's available "online"... there's also this dvd http://www.amazon.com/Live-Hamburg-1965-We...4371&sr=8-1

hmm looks indeed as if for the first time we have a decline in the biggest medium which is not backed up by a simlarly sized increase elsewhere... looks as if their service isn't needed anymore...

Nathalie Loriers Quartet - Dance or Die (deezer) not bad though not quite as good as the cover...

(very good) previous thread http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18281

I'd be interested to know which books you'd name under this heading. For me, the first that come to mind are Art Pepper's Straight Life and Hampton Hawes's Raise Up Off Me. still got to read the hawes bio... guess a huge difference between the two books you named and de valk's is that these are autobiographies... i really liked straight life, but somehow i don't feel an autobiography can really do justice to personalities like pepper or baker (after all - this generation of white musicians must have been the one of the most difficult group of characters in jazz history?(raney, getz, haig, marmarosa, and so many others) but what do i know, baker does not come across particularly troubled or unhappy in that book... btw, just out of a different world with all the difficulties that brings) it's just revealing to read the baker interview in de valk's book seeing he doesn't know about a good deal of the albums he releases, misplaces others by more than ten years, doesn't know the name of jean louis rassinfosse who had recorded six albums with him in the last few years... this type of thing wouldn't have made it into an autobigraphy... and then, i feel a complex person like that is much better described by the impressions of a few dozen others than by their own words... also de valk maintains an excellent balance between writing about the music, writing about the person and setting the two in relation (expect no deep musicology though) one excellent book which falls somewhat in between is aj albany's book about her father joe albany (we used to have a thread about that one) it's not much about the music and of course highly personal but still i'd say you certainly learn more about albany than in what i'd expect would have been in his autobiography... a particularly bad example concerning getting to know the person is buddy collette's autobiography... the book sure is informative but could hardly be drier - i wish (and am almost convinced) buddy collette is a more interesting person than comes out in the book...

Jeroen de Valk's Chet Baker Bio once again (while listening to the Rassinfosse/Baker/Catherine cd) such a great book, maybe of all the jazz biographies i've read the one that helps you get to know the artist as a person the best... somehow de valk figured out that he could write a great baker bio mostly by extensively interviewing people in the Netherlands who knew him from the seventies on - and i'd say he was definitively right... afterwards my two books of lovecraft stories that reappeared again (bringing the index of treasured but lost items in my appartment down to two...)

it rather is around 12$...

Jean-Louis Rassinfosse/Chet Baker/Philip Catherine (Igloo) fruitfull visit to my local brick and mortar... as i posted elsewhere - their selection is small, but for the only serious cd store in town they're beter than most i guess (and they're not specialized on jazz at all)... 8 euro...

Sean Levitt - Alone together (lastfm still waiting fot that order to arrive...

guess the one positive aspect about the miles/rollins box is that it shows concord aren't through with fantasy-prepared box sets yet...

at books.google.com you get all the old billboards and jet (which apparently is/was a publication targeting african americans with reports on billy eckstine, gene ammons...) and of course lots of books at news.google.com/newspapers you get the whole village voice (and other newspapers most of which which are pay-per-view or subscription only - maybe you can see them at the public library) haven't figured out yet how to search for specific issues but searching for keywords works fine with both... for instance http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fNsOA...=charlie-parker

then you would have enjoyed today's conversation over lunch at work more than i did... (the subject was "when did you first realize that "michael jackson" (as read and pronounced in german) and "michael jackson" (as pronounced correctly on tv and on the radio) were one and the same person?" surprisingly many people could contribute their experiences...) Would that be pronounced something like "Mish-ale Yack-zen" in German? Been a long time since my German O level, and I've spoken very little since. "Mish-ale" is not bad i guess though ("ch" is of course not "sh" but one of the sounds that don't exist in english), maybe "Misha-ale" comes even closer... (it's a pretty common first name in german as well...) Yack is good (with the "a" pronounced like the "u" in cup), "son" is closer to "phone" (but with a short "o") then to zen, it's a true "o"...(guess you have to be a kid to find that an ordinary last name but then it might work...)

then you would have enjoyed today's conversation over lunch at work more than i did... (the subject was "when did you first realize that "michael jackson" (as read and pronounced in german) and "michael jackson" (as pronounced correctly on tv and on the radio) were one and the same person?" surprisingly many people could contribute their experiences...)

bookmark set excellent idea, have been missing your thread ... thank you!

reasonably interesting article about sholes from 1961 billboard... http://books.google.de/books?id=IiEEAAAAMB...nard+joy%22+rca suggests that frank walker, leonard joy and eli oberstein could be names to consider (though i doubt that especially the latter is black...)

here in bonn (300000 inhabitants) amazingly all the stores that were there in 2001 are still there (with the exception of one used cd store, maybe) despite the fact that only one of them deserves to be called decent (a medium-sized one which sells more tickets then cds it seems, they have many rvgs at ok prices and behind the scenes there must be someone reasonably knowledgeable of jazz who organizes small sales of stuff that's available cheaply from the distributors apparently, like a black saint/soul note sale, an esp sale... i don't buy much from them but they do deserve support...) , then there's zweitausendeins since last year so actually, the situation has improved... in cologne there are still three stores plus zweitausendeins that i visit regularly (two used cd stores and the huge saturn, they still claim they have the largest selection of cds in the world, don't know if that's true but they have definitely reduced the size of their selection in the last few years), guess there are two or three more places for vinyl... guess the situation is still ok (and much better than what i saw in the uk, these hmvs are real depressing) but some of my favorite stores went away in the last few years....

guess you'd have to turn billy upside down to put rolls below it... still doesn't sound like a good idea to me (but what do i know...)

Hipp is just Hip "J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess)

Sean Levitt Quartet - Sean Levitt Quartet

Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw

Booker and Brass (deezer)

happy birthday!!