Niko

same here, it's not only that he shared my birthday and that my late dad (who had the same disease) said those two soft machine lps were the two real good ones in his small collection (i must have been 13 or 14 then but i still remember reading that sentence "hugh hopper has joined the group..." on the back cover of volume two for the first time) grrrrrr! playing hopper's "memories" now, maybe not representative of his work but one of my favorite/formative/most treasured pop songs

Lo Borges - A Via Láctea been meaning to check out his solo stuff ever since liking his contributions best on Clube da Esquina

Phil Spector's Wall of Sound

Sun Ra - Night of the Purple Moon

Charles Earland - Black Talk

Dexter Gordon - Blue Dex if anybody wonders about playing the grey titles in deezer, drop me a pm, no need for fumbling with proxy servers here...

it's legit and they have all uptown cds i believe (as well as dozens of other stuff like all nimbus west and all timeless cds...) from the what are you listening to right now on spotify etc thread: Spotlite: http://www.lastfm.com/label/Spotlite/albums ESP http://www.lastfm.com/label/ESP+Disk/albums Nimbus West: http://www.lastfm.de/label/Nimbus+West+Records/albums Arhoolie: http://www.lastfm.de/label/Arhoolie+Records/albums Timeless: http://www.lastfm.com/label/Timeless+Records/albums vsop http://www.last.fm/label/Vsop+Records/albums uptown http://www.last.fm/label/Uptown+Jazz/albums

Isn't that title lifted from some Beat poetry? Keroac maybe? 99% that it's kerouac, and can vaguely hear him say that on one of the kerouc cds i had from the public library as a kid... edit: indeed it's on the kerouac/steve allen cd... almost bought that one yesterday, actually

did i get this right (in the booklet of the uptown cd) that in addition to the oklahoma prison band tracks on the uptown cd there is also this lp "aint got time to lose" by the "oklahoma prison band"? http://cgi.ebay.com/Aint-Got-Time-to-Loose...%3A1%7C294%3A50 assume bolton is on it - there's a photo of him playing trumpet during that session in the uptown booklet... has anyone heard it? how does it compare to the uptown tracks..?

Deezer Duke Ellington - The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse

found this pretty cool (and as it said on the page mike linked to, the music is from the set...)

The way the graphics are done does not remind you of a certain brand of a jazz label ? Looks familiar. Example? maybe freddie roach's brown sugar but i would say the parallels are rather superficial... somehow it reminds me most strongly of the recent blue note compilations (blue note round trip... and what's different with classic blue note is that the woman is never the artist himself... and i can't really recall a similar classic blue note cover with a male face... maybe something by stamnley turrentine) edit to add:

here are some more http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php amazing that people didn't give up at that stage edit to add, on the final pages of this here http://www.firstsounds.org/public/First-So...ng-Paper-04.pdf one can actually see the recordings...

remember this as a fine book - too bad physics knowledge never stays with me longer than four weeks (so i stopped trying), that book was one two or three things i noticed when i first came into my girlfriend's former room in her parents house (she has dozens of these books but kinda lost interest, wonder what she was like back then); wish i remembered everything as easily as discographies... just read the booklet of the dupree bolton uptown cd, my first uptown cd... (haven't said this so far but felt it quite a bit: welcome back!)

Dupree Bolton - Fireball James Newton - African Flower Melvin Rhyne - Organ-izing Christoph Titz - Magic Tom Waits - Blue Valentines (with ray crawford and charles kynard...)

there's a good chance that tonight i will get to a used cd store which has the stash edition of bird's dial recordings (4cds) for 12 or 13 euro; i already have them, but it sounds like a good deal to me (though i didn't check), pm if interested... quick edit: 9 euro actually plus shipping, don't know when i will get there the next time but it hasn't been sold for five months now send a pm and i'll try to get it next time i'm in cologne...

indeed... one of the best tracks (the least "obscure" one i guess) comes from ronnie boykins esp album which i also liked...

the trio one?

Teddy Edwards - Back to Avalon

The resurgence of Dexter Gordon (jazzland ojc/deezer)

some discussion in this previous thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=44009

Freddie Hubbard - Without a Song

Andy Sheppard - Movements in Color (nothing to do with this, but deezer now has pretty much the same emi collection as lastfm (and spotify i guess...))

bought that one about a year ago and it's still my first mosaic... played it again a number of times during the last week, you can't go wrong with that one, only along came john is available real easily and (knowing that with patton albums everyone has different favorites) to me that's the weakest of the bunch, my favorites are that certain feeling (which isn't even available on cd from japan) and oh baby (which is tough to find otherwise i believe); (concerning the packaging and stuff, i must admit i didn't quite get the magic of mosaic: the booklet contains a short note from cuscuna, less than a page, the original liner notes and reproductions of the covers of three of the five original albums, which is of course fine but not really better than lonehill, plus they messed up the sound at the beginning of the way i feel; guess the big boxes are a different deal) so this one didn't get me to buy more mosaics but to seek out pattons other albums which was difficult d expansive enough ...

i like that weird nightmare cd a lot (strange that you mention threadgill, never really noticed him in there, lots of fine don byron in there for instance, hal willner's project)... interestingly a lot of the material in there is taken from relatively early albums (bohemia, pithecantropus...) and somehow i felt myself when playing mingus tunes a few months ago that these made more sense played by me than later ones...