Niko

seems recklinghausen '66 was indeed the ndr "south of the border" so i'd guess the others were as well; apparently it was ndr jazz workshop if hans gertberg did it... (not the most interesting facet about this report, btw http://www.jazzprofessional.com/report/BER...LETTER_1966.htm )

revisiting the stuff that bothered me before i found a new hobby in searching the web for traces of people like nathaniel meeks... http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/...ckingbear2.html

for a total of 20 euros... Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X Ornette on Tenor Philly Joe Jones - Mo' Joe and on Vinyl James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey Anthony Braxton/George Lewis - Elements of Surprise

stupid question from a mosaic newbie: can i still wait for the next pay at the end of the month (usually)? wanted to have those two badly... thanks Ron!

funny that quite a few of these concerts were outside the ndr territory (berlin (sfb), recklinghausen (wdr), frankfurt (hr)) - naively i would guess these weren't really ndr jazzworkshops, but who knows... (the current map http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...=20080108210754 )

Charlie Parker - In Sweden 1950 Charlie Parker - Verve Master Takes

used to enjoy ordering my cds in different ways but now i keep them in disorder... i often don't find what i was looking for initially but i always find something to listen to ... borrowed a cd from a friend recently and it seems to have vanished, rebought it for him, guess it won't reappear before i buy it for myself as well... got an empty case back from a friend, three weeks later he gave me back the cd and i put it into a case with some other cd that was lying around because i couldn't find the right case... now i have the case but i have no idea where the cd is - guess i'll have to open all cases some time in the near future (sonny stitt - legend of acid jazz: low flame, my favorite patterson/stitt cd...) so the approach does have its downsides (and it only works because i have a (by the standarsds here) small collection of only about 1000 cds...)

NICE! also art farmer, coney woodman and bill green http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=cr...0interviewer%22

didn't really smile for a bunch of days, then had a few beers and read this glorious interiew with gerry wiggins http://www.archive.org/stream/centralavenu...00wigg_djvu.txt and it really really helped... ; don't know his music but he comes across as a real cool guy

considering the troubles he apparently has with speaking (obviously because of the teeth...) i find it amazing how good he plays...

happy birthday!

i like ali g much more than the other two characters, and maybe that's because in the ali g things cohen contributes most of the fun himself (while especially borat is much more centered around confronting people with awkwardness...) (first became aware of cohen when a friend told me borat was an exact copy of my former neighbor from the student dormitory from uzbekistan... and cohen admitted that for borat he simply copied some guy he once met... we really did have situations like... girlfriend and me having dinner in the kitchen khusni comes in saying "what do you guys think about oral sex?" [don't know what we answered] "there's this huge problem with all these new tricks i learned from my girlfriend - what can i do that my wife doesn't notice" [waits for a question about the specifics of those tricks, question doesn't come]; or we meet khusni going for a walk in a relatively busy place "hey, khusni, where are you going?" "oh, i am going to the bath, me and my friends go there every friday..." "you like to swim?" "no it's just i like to masturbate in the children's basin"... against a guy like that it's hard not to feel incredibly square; (still feel bad about saying during a community meeting "see khusni, your girlfriend is a prostitute and there's nothing wrong with that, it's just, she has much different health risks than the rest of us and thus maybe, if it's ok with you, could you guys use the shower on the left so that the six others can use the other shower without worrying... you know very well one phone call from any of us and both of you'd have to move out"[because only one person per room is allowed]... or how he told - with obvious pride - those stories about his grandfather raping women in poland at the end of ww2 despite the fact that he had lost both legs... how the "business men" from his village stayed with us, they'd come walking 60 kilometers from the airport with a plastic bag full of dollar bills (through an area occupied by, say 2 million people) and spend five hours under our showers apparently they'd never seen such a thing... another neighbor from the east, rather the uncle of a neighbor who was also staying with us "sir, could you please clean the toilet you obviously just pissed and masturbated into the basin instead of the toilet and wtf did you put the stopper in?" "i am awfully sorry, but you'll have to wait until my niece comes home from work, where i come from men never clean anything" [borat would never have done such a thing] so to say i lived borat for two years and can't really find he is exaggerating or treating people overly mean - after all, he dissappears from there lives after a few minutes long post - in short i can't really find borat funny, it's to cheap a success... ("throw the jew down the well" is indeed a bit suggestive... but honestly i did not feel sorry for the football stadium full of people who freaked out when borat sang that potassium from kazakhstan is better than potassium from elsewhere in the world...) wonder if someone like ali g does indeed exist... have a similar problem with bruno, people like that actually exist... some ali g favorites: religion: science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKMhtyI3L8...feature=related the law:

FWIW when I had my netbook in the States I could use my Uk Spotify account... so there must be a workaround... you can use spotify while travelling for two weeks - then you must login from the UK again...

The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon

Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation can only shake my head about people saying nobody would listen to pete doherty without the attention he gets for the wrong reasons (indeed i loved his music before he met kate moss and entered mass media big time, still do...)

indeed that may be another one (i had assumed that was probably the same as 1) - but you're right, that was pretty arbitrary)

The Two Sides of Jack Wilson

where the name comes from people thought it rhymed with leaf i guess... (i've seen some funny german names from the US spelled with "ie" in a place where a "ei" belonged so that people pronounced it like "eye", such as "pfiefer" instead of the original german "pfeifer" (=piper), so that the pronouniation remains pf-eye-fer; but i wouldn't think zieff is such a name...) of course all this doesn't say anything about how he wants it to be pronounced... (quick google search: the name zeiff does exist in germany but it's rare, zieff is fairly common but mostly in the US - so maybe the name doesn't come from germany after all...)

guess this is not exactly the right thread - but does anyone know the details about the drummers named george brown? i mean there are probably hundreds of drummers with that name, i am wondering about 1) the guy who recorded with gene ammons between 1955 and 1961 2) the guy who plays on john patton's boogaloo 3) the guy who recorded with jean-jacques avanel and sonny simmons (also with avenel and steve lacy) are these three different persons? (possibly there is also the guy who played in that unrecorded trio with john patton and pharoah sanders... guess that is the same as 2), maybe the liner notes to boogaloo also say so, don't have them here...) there's also george brown, drummer with kool and the gang...

at least that's not what i was trying to say, had just read earlier today that it ws recorded June 16, 1959 and thought i'd mention it...

that session crosses the 50 year line today, actually

Jack Wilson Quartet featuring Roy Ayers Jack Wilson - Easterly Winds

what do you mean by later "advanced" big bands? raeburn, thornhill? or really the fifties (kenton, gil evans, something i just forget...)? i was a bit irritated when i first heard george handy (on the zoot sims riverside album, and to a lesser degree burns) expecting something remotely avantgarde... settled the issue for me by thinking that they were not early fifties avantgarde but forties avantgarde... (that said, i know way too little about all these things to contribute anything meaningful...)

two albums which i'd consider swing to bop and which i like a lot are ralph burns bijou (a twofer cd of two 10 inch albums for period, quartet with tal farlow) and with a larger band burns jazz studio album... but these are from the fifties...

coincidentally i played that too yesterday for the same reason but didn't get beyond the first ten minutes... (nothing wrong with it, just didn't grab me)