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Alfons Gaisbauer is one of the French horn players of the WDR Radio Orchestra. There's a picture of the French horn section on their website (Alfons Gaisbauer is on the left). You can read some (German) info about the alpine horn player Alfons Gaisbauer here. Some brass and reeds players of his group are/were members of the WDR Big Band. You can see them on the website of the WDR Big Band. btw, I never noticed Alfons Gaisbauer and his band. Thanks for posting this.

Maybe it's trumpeter Hans Kennel though he was born in Switzerland. You can check him out on his website and at MySpace.

And those stickers plastered all over Columbia/Legacy's cd's. Those big square yellow ones in particular (those gold Miles stickers are ok to get off) whose glue comes right off the sticker and stays on the jewel case-WHAT A PAIN IN THE ASS TO GET THAT FRICKIN' GLUE OFF THE CASE I've stopped trying to peel those stickers off. Easier just to buy a box full of empty jewel cases and move the booklets, covers, disc, etc., into those. That's wasteful! You must hate mother earth!!!! Probably the manufacturer of GOO GONE also manufactures the goo for those stickers.....

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Between Dusk and Dawn (with Charlie Mariano)

So am I. Well, using font-style:normal for your posts you use font-style:italic to add emphasis to a word. What finally adds emphasis to a word is the fact that its font-style is different from the surrounding text. I do it the other way around. I use font-style:italic for the text, and I switch to font-style:normal to add emphasis to a word - or I just use font-weight:bold. It's as simple as that.

I don't know if this has been posted before. I did a forum search for "NVLP" as well as for "National Visionary Leadership Project" with no results. Anyway, it seems to be a very interesting project. Jazz isn't the main topic, but they offer videos of interviews with... Keter Betts Ray Charles Jimmy Heath Quincy Jones B.B. King James Moody Billy Taylor ...to name just the most prominent jazz musicians interviewed so far. URL: http://www.visionaryproject.org/

Here are some more samples of Barbara's playing: Enjoy!

If you're running IE switch to Firefox. It offers a zoom in/out by just pressing [strg]&[+]/[strg]&[-]. ...oh shit...eleven hours...

These are the credits given on the CD (released in 2001): Dear Old Stockholm (alt. take) (6:39) From the Miles Davis - John Coltrane box set Blues For Pablo (take 1) (5:25) From the Miles Davis - Gil Evans box set Hand Jive (2nd alt. take) (8:00) From the Miles Davis Quintet box set Early Minor (6:56) From the forthcoming In A Silent Way box set Directions (10:14) From the June release Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) - It's About That Time (entirely unreleased) backside of the cardboard sleeve:

Thanks for your comment on typefaces though being the first and only one who complains about my use of Book Antiqua. That's an interesting topic, and it's a heavily debated issue on the web. I use Verdana for my own website Miles & More. But when I started working on the website of Joe Fonda I sent a selection of fonts (serif and sans serif) to Joe, and he finally chose Times New Roman as his preferred font. When I started to work on my Charlie Mariano Tribute I thought about this topic again and finally decided to use Book Antiqua for this site. Maybe it's also a generation thing. I was born in 1950, and I grew up with books and newspapers printed in serif fonts. Hence I'm accustomed to those typefaces. Though I chose Verdana for my own site. I don't have any problems with neither of them. It might also depend on the type of computer screen. Though I got rid of my huge 19" tube just recently replacing it by a fine 22" Samsung SyncMaster 223BW (€219.00!!!) and I'm fully satisfied. No offense! As long as you're the only one to complain I'll stick with Book Antiqua.

The Alternate Miles Davis, Miles 75 Anniversary Demonstration • Not For Sale nice collector's item Dick Twardzik Trio • Complete Recordings with Carson Smith or Jack Lawlor on bass and Peter Littman on drums recorded 1954 I only became aware of Dick Twardzik when exploring the discography of Charlie Mariano. Dick plays on Charlie's "Boston All Stars" (rec. 1953, Prestige PRLP 153) and on "Serge Chaloff plays the fable of Mabel" (rec. 1954, Storyville LP STV 3117). Dick Twardzik died in Paris on October 21, 1955, after the injection of an overdose. He barely grew 24 years old. Serge Chaloff, his friend and colleague, shaken to the core, wrote in an elegy for Dick Twardzik: "He had a completely new way of approaching the piano and producing the sound of his harmonies. Dick's hunger for educating himself was insatiable. He never traveled without books about all topics of art and philosophy. He listened to symphony concerts as often as possible and as a matter of course he always practiced. I never met a guy dedicated to jazz on its highest level to this extent at this juvenile age. I'll miss him forever, and the music has lost one of its most passionate and most inspired disciples." source: Metronome, USA, January 1956, page 25 PS If I can still trust my ears at age 58 the piano seems to be out of tune at times.

Nathalie Loriers is a remarkable pianist and composer from Belgium. Visit her website.

Another musician from Germany: saxophonist/clarinetist Silke Eberhard. She has five CDs out, one of them a duo recording with pianist Aki Takase titled "Ornette Coleman Anthology." Visit her website.

Check out guitarist Susan Weinert. She's not really unknown in Germany, but will be unknown for most people outside of Europe. Visit her website.

I saw her with Jeff Siegel's quartet, and she got some nice rounds of extra applause for her solos. She also leads her own excellent trio.

I burn my CD-Rs at 12x most times. I remember having read that speed effects quality. But at Wikipedia I just learned that it's not a matter of sound quality but of lifespan. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R At other forums I learned that it also depends on brand and model of the burning device. It might be best to visit the website of the manufacturer of your brand for more info.

Those running time credits always irritate me. I bought the original LP release by CBS in 1966. These are the credits on the LP: St. Louis Blues (12:05) +3 seconds Koto song (7:44) +45 seconds Take The A-Train (8:30) +48 seconds Take Five (6:30) -39 seconds

Very interesting to watch. Only four years later this shy little lady took the lead in a quartet she founded with her teacher at Berklee and then husband Charlie Mariano.

One has to add The Jewel of Medina by American journalist Sherry Jones (which is about the young wife of Mohammed) which was going to be published by Random House, but has been withdrawn because they feared that the book might provoke attacks by muslims. The book will now be published by Gibson Square, UK. Who are those "mind controllers" who claim to tell us what's appropriate for our reading???

Being the second to thedwork Pat Metheny fan - it's been a must. I saw Mathias Eick with Manu Katché, and I liked him very much. Curious to hear him doing his own thing. Barbabara Buchholz plays the theremin. Stan Getz with Joe Farrell Art Farmer arranged by Benny Golson Got the LP back in 1968. Still one of my favorite male singers.

Yep, obviously the service guys got their act together.

Latest news from Michael Ricci:

Answering my email Michael Ricci replyed:

I think maybe this is a big part of it for me -- I don't watch TV anymore. That's the problem. I don't watch news ... nothing (except for baseball). ... It's TV in general that I can't stand! I moved from Stuttgart to Frankfurt on Main in July/August, and I did not yet get my tv connected again. I really don't miss tv. Probably I'll use it as a monitor for my DVD player only.....

Stunning! Did Jesus take any interest in the Olympics?