Niko

had some years where i hardly listened to music at all and bought just five or six cds a year (21 to 24 or so) but at present there's still so much to discover i can hardly imagine it will ever end because i've heard it all (rather because i lose interest...) i feel my listening is still far from reaching any type of equilibrium (at only 28 but after having heard much more music than other people in their entire lifes ) not only the styles of jazz that interest me change every few months with little interests that really remain constant for more than a year... it's also my listening, like at the moment i rediscover the joys of listening to the same music again and again - something i had pretty much lost in the last few years... my buying has luckily gone back a bit due to deezer and the other free listening services (an idea i like much better than downloads) but this has allowed me to listen to music i had never heard for almost every day this year - and there's still so much i'd like to have time for but didn't get around to so far...

played that monk disc five or six times this week, much more "guitaristic" than i'd have expected from bernstein, haven't heard the broom one... but this here is great, trio with doug weiss on bass and bill stewart on drums... ( http://www-v3.deezer.com/de/#music/result/...ernstein%20monk )

Somebody told me that the remains of Willie Dixon were also among the victims here (i guess that's how you'd put it...). Can anybody confirm or deny? can't find anything except that emmett till is not among them, not who is (what a list of names on that cemetery... kokomo arnold, sonny cohn, willie dixon, otis spann, dinah washington...) i mean, if they really tried to resell graves without anybody noticing (that's what they did, right, lots of new vocabulary for me in those articles...) then i guess the grave of willie dixon would be one of the last i'd touch... http://www.deadbluesguys.com/dbgtour/dixon_willie.htm

guess that's mostly a concern to those who still live up there... but you're right i'm not yet through with all this...

did you buy a plot at the cemetery already? here, graves will be emptied and re-used after a certain amount of time has passed (10 or 15 or 20 years, I don't know... you can pay to prolong it for some more years). would be quite crowded with cemeteries if all mankind still inhabited their own grave no, not yet (though i did tell my girlfriend that i want to go here if possible and if it's reasonably convenient for her... http://www.melatenfriedhof.de/html/meta/index.html )

wouldn't want to miss "my" graves... always thought of that whole procedure as the last service the dead person did for those who were left... (and not as something the dead person does "for his or her own pleasure")

here's more... (more than ever, actually as far as i can see) http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4...al;group=Items; edit: sorry a good deal is not available online - strange since the wiggins and the farmer can be found online, actually...

i like to call the thing that's missing BEBOP CHARM ... which was already lost in a lot of blue note hard bop, came back partially with ornette coleman... somehow i just don't hear the beauty of, say, early fifties al haig in the music of john scofield and joshua redman... that said, i do listen to and enjoy lots of jazz which is entertaining or doesn't have a lot of bebop charm in it... and i have checked out some recent stuff lately and liked it a lot...

!!happy birthday!!

similarly i was surprised to see that the joe thomas atlantic session was actually herbie nichols last recording date, not something he recorded before he did what he's... famous for...

lots of discussion of that sale in the last pages of this thread http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=39290&hl= (though i'm not sure your specific questions are answered)

just playing that one (peter bernstein - monk, on the reformed xanadu, listening on deezer), beginning to really like guitar trios with bass and drums.... nice!

does anyone understand this sentence from the german wikipedia and can translate it for me? (mainly, what is "black quality"?) "Webb war ein Präzisionsfanatiker, weshalb er, nach anfänglichen Headarrangements, andere Bands in perfekt intonierter Satzarbeit mit schwarzer Qualität übertraf, z. B. Goodmans Band."

another fan of the horace silver tribute here... (wouldn't call this an informed opinion though)

nice! i'd say three pages about the history of the label and then discussion of artists and session, going from memory i'd say three sessions per page (50% text, 50% pictures), photos of most performers, reproductions of all the original covers (all on two pages, so they're tiny...)... it's not uptown records but besides that it's really fine... here's an old article on alonzo levister btw http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0O0QA...alonzo-levister

looks like a completely different album to me...

Sean Levitt - Sean Levitt Sean Levitt - Unreleased Recordings (4 CDs) for 43 euro including shipping from some spanish site i could hardly understand... hope it works!

yuck, muehl on org... maybe bebop with all it's linear clarity and clean beauty helps him getting rid of his father complex? well, according to this biography http://www.archivesmuehl.org/bio.html muehl concentrated his efforts after his release from prison in 1997 on inspiring/forcing/whatever the kids of his new commune to become jazz muscians... this is a remarkable output for a community of 35 people i'd say... http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl http://www.myspace.com/olympiajensenquartet http://www.myspace.com/emesemuehlquintett http://www.myspace.com/lizapflaumquartet http://www.myspace.com/wenzlmcgowenquartet http://www.myspace.com/eddiejensenquartett http://www.myspace.com/giottoroussies http://www.myspace.com/charlyrousselband here's also an article by a former follower of muehl claiming that after attila's birth in 1985 it all went downhill in the commune... (sorry, both articles in german) http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/6/6154/2.html (funny how muehl is so much of what bruno leichts stalker claims about leicht...)

the teo stuff didn't make it to the set (though it's mentioned in the booklet as if it was) due to some legal conflicts... that alonzo levister track is cool, you get most of the teddy charles/miles davis album if you don't have it anyway, a john dennis solo track which is nice (also a trio one), a surprisingly good clarinet piece by sam most (?), some john laporta... plus a bunch of mingus, some of that shafi hadi/gene shaw session and that jimmy knepper/joe maini/bill triglia session... mostly only two tracks of a thing but good ones... it's a nicely done box set... thinking about it, of all the compilations i have this is the one that made me buy the most individual albums afterwards (dorham, knepper/maini, john dennis, shafi hadi, pettiford... and i'm not yet done, still missing at least the thad jones, maybe the mingus/nadi qamar, the ada moore...))

finally figured out that clarinetist oliver leicht and trumpeter bruno leicht aren't the same persons... (always thought i'd misremembered the instrument when reading about either of them...) so let me say once more that sean levitt - best remembered for the esp album he participated in at age 13 - is a real fine post bop guitar player, late in his life (he died in 2002 at age 48 or so) he recorded five albums in france and spain, four are on lastfm, one's on deezer, will order them soon... (also on emusic...) and there's a myspace sean levitt tribute page with some sound samples http://www.myspace.com/seanlevitt and a google search for "clifford brown" "sean levitt" leads to the fine 24 year old guitar player attila muehl, say about 24 year old boppers what you want... he has soul imho , worth checking out... http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl an albums worth of organ trio featuring muehl is here http://www.myspace.com/maxblumentrath son of this guy (there's a great tradition of sons of artists becoming guitar players...?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Muehl edit to add, here you can play (i believe) the one album levitt issued during his lifetime (rest is posthumous) http://www-v3.deezer.com/de/#music/sean-le...n-levitt-140009

"The webpage cannot be found" I tried searching the forum, but I can't figure out which thread you mean. just a guess: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=23493

happy birthday!!

They can still get in even with the new question new members need to ask. I guess it stops the bots but not the actual people who are spammers. this story apparently made national tv overhere (rare thing for anything jazz related, a documentary about stalkers on the web; the guy who comes in around 1:30 is a private detective; the thing started as a conflict on a jazz message board...) http://brunoleicht.blogspot.com/2009/05/br...spiegel-tv.html (so i guess the attacker knows his jazz well enough to get in)

I am just discovering a guitar player named Sean Levitt. I like him but I think he died a few years ago.

cool, thanks!