Adam

It's music from the Ethiopiques Series, namely Volume 4, which is marvelous!!!!! I'm forgetting the name of the primary artist.

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Blue Monday by New Order? But seriously, I just came back from seeing the reissue of "Elevator to the Gallows" (please forgive my inability to give the correct French title). The Louis Malle film is playing at the Laemmle Royal in West Los Angeles. I imagine it must be at some other revival houses, or will be soon. That Miles Davis soundtrack is really quite marvelous in the film. Kenny Clarke's brush work throughout. Etc.

My deepest condolences, Berigan. Adam

RIP Al. Saw him in 2001 at the Bebop convention in Los Angeles - a delightful person & player. And that CD of his from 1999 is good as well.

heck, i'm looking forward to the Bechet Select!

didn't we just do this thread elsewhere?

Oh yeah! That's in 'Vanilla Sky', at a party scene. Another Cruise/ jazz reference. Hmmm. ← And yet another in "Jerry McGuire." Tom plays a tape or CD for Renee that someone has given him, and it's Mingus (I think "Better Git It in Your Soul" but I could be wrong). Tom asks "What is this shit?" and turns it off.

Can you line up some vinyl on your front lawn to sell? A nice back ground for the TV news crews when they show up.

Interesting. I'm curious to know, Adam, if that is the standard German understanding of Mangelsdorff and others, or if that is the idiosyncratic interpretation of Wolfram Knauer, the writer of this piece? If Tristano and Konitz are that influential on German jazz, then I'd be curious to hear a lot more of it (not that I'm not already curious about German and European jazz in general). RIP Albert Mangelsdorff. LONG LIVE ALBERT MANGELSDORFF!! ← Alas, I received this as a forward from a Swiss German friend. I'm not German and can't answer your question.

RIP. here's another story: From: Jazzinstitut Darmstadt <jazz@jazzinstitut.de> Reply-To: <jazz-research@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:18:41 -0700 To: <jazz-research@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [jazz-research] German jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff died German jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, Died Albert Mangelsdorff (born 5. September 1928, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; died: 25. July 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, probably the most important jazz musician in post- war Germany, died on the morning of Monday, July 25th, 2005 in his hometown Frankfurt am Main, Germany, after long illness. Albert Mangelsdorff had violin lessons as a child and was self-taught on guitar. His brother, alto saxophonist Emil Mangelsdorff (who is still alive and playing at age 80), introduced him to jazz. After working as a guitarist Mangelsdorff took up trombone in 1948. In the 1950s Mangelsdorff played with the bands of Joe Klimm (1950-53), Hans Koller (1953-54), with the radio orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt (1955- 57) as well as with the Frankfurt All Stars (1955-56). At the same time he led a hardbop quintet together with Joki Freund. In 1958 he became musical director of the newly founded Jazz-Ensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks and represented Germany in Marshall Brown's International Youth Band appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival. In 1961 he formed a quintet with Heinz Sauer, Günter Kronberg, Günter Lenz and Ralf Hübner which became one of the most celebrated European bands of the 1960s. During this time he also recorded with John Lewis ("Animal Dance", 1962). After touring Asia on behalf of the Goethe Institut in 1964 he recorded the album "New Jazz Ramwong" later that year which made use of Eastern themes. He also toured the USA and South America with the quintet, which was reduced to a quartet (1969-71) after Kronberg left, then revived with Sauer, Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall and Peter Giger (1973-76). At a festival during the Olympic Games in Munich Mangelsdorff first performed as unaccompanied soloist in 1972 which resulted in many solo tours and recordings during the next decades. In the 1970s he recorded with Palle Danielsson and Elvin Jones (1975), Jaco Pastorius and Alphonse Mouson (1976), John Surman, Barre Phillips and Stu Martin (1977) and others. He participated in Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra (from 1967 into the 1980s), Free Sound & Super Brass (1975-76) led by Hans Koller and Wolfgang Dauner, the United Jazz & Rock Ensemble from its formation in 1975, and recorded duo albums with Wolfgang Dauner (from 1981). In the 1980s and 1990s Mangelsdorff continued to perform in solo and duo and trio settings, also playing with the Reto Weber Percussion Ensemble. In the 1970s Mangelsdorff was a leading figure in the Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker and, together with Jean-François Jenny-Clark, led the German-French Jazz Ensemble. In 1995 he became musical director for the JazzFest Berlin. Since 1994 the Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker awards a regular prize in Mangelsdorff's honor, the Albert- Mangelsdorff-Preis. Mangelsdorff was one of the finest trombonists in modern jazz. Like most German musicians he was at first influenced by the cool jazz idiom of Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano, then played hard bop, later introduced modal means of improvisation, free jazz and jazz-rock elements in his music. His playing was characterized by wide- ranging melodic lines. He had an imposing technique and was, among trombonists, the most innovative player of multiphonics note, for instance his playing of the theme of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo" in three-part harmony on the album "The Wide Point", 1975, MPS, or many of his improvisations on the LP "Trombirds", 1972. Mangelsdorff life story is told in a biography by Bruno Paulot published in 1993. The story of the vivid Frankfurt jazz scene from which he emerged has been written last year in the book "Der Frankfurt Sound. Eine Stadt und ihre Jazzgeschichte(n)", written by Juergen Schwab and co-published by the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, the city of Frankfurt and Hessischer Rundfunk (Mangelsdorff was present at the book presentation last summer). Wolfram Knauer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jazzinstitut Darmstadt Bessunger Strasse 88d D-64285 Darmstadt Germany Tel. ++49 - 6151 - 963700 Fax ++49 - 6151 - 963744 e-mail: jazz@jazzinstitut.de Internet: http://www.jazzinstitut.de <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

They could start calling themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Yes, those are three. There are 2 or 3 on Pico in West LA (by Barrington) but I always have trouble with the names - Record Trader? Is Record Surplus one of them? How is Rhino's vinyl these days? They are on Westwood in West LA, and it woudl be easy to go by them and the stores on Pico. And you should go by Aron's when you go to Amoeba. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm not a vinyl hound. Adam

I'm gonna name my kid "Monoceros Trumps."

I think it is wise they do it this way. I mean, how many people are there in the world who are willing to plunk down on 7 or 8 CDs of Charles Tolliver at once? I personally have none of this music, and look forward to getting this affordable option. But if my option were to get The Complete Charles Tolliver on Strata East, and I didn't know his music at all prior to that?

There's a JACk station in Los Angeles now, and every time I check it out it's playing a boring MOR tune from the 70s or 80s. Never listen to it. The good radio station with that idea is Indie 103.1 here in LA, but they aren't following the "jack" idea, just the "eclectic mix" part of it, but with a better song selection. A real eclectic alternative mix, with healthy amounts of good punk. And Steve Jones, formerly of the Sex Pistols, has a show on which he plays just about anything, from absurd pop to scathing metal, one-off jokes, and plenty of modern stuff as well. Not a perfect station, but good enough to shake up KROQ.

I'm fascinated by how many people hate the first version. I love it, and I know a lot of people who do. It's bizarre and charming, and Gene Wilder is spot on. But there are lots of people who don't like it at all. Now, I have not read the book, so I don't have that comparison to raise my hackles.

So that would make them a water cooler?

Having not seen anyof the Live 8 shows (ah, a life without cable or satellite, and avoiding AOL), what did Pink Floyd play? And did Waters & Gilmore actually talk to each other?

I have only seen Body Snatcher,(Just checked allmovie.com, and all 3 Karloff/Lewton films were made in 1945!) but it is an excellent film!(My favorite Karloff film is the little known "The Walking Dead") Karloff, is just mesmerizing, just amazingly creepy! Here is a blurb from allmovie about Body Snatcher, but see the film, don't go there and have the ending spoiled! Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi were given top billing in the Val Lewton-produced The Body Snatcher, but the film's protagonist is played by Henry Daniell. A brilliant 18th century London surgeon, Daniell can only make his humanitarian medical advances by experimenting on cadavers, which is strictly illegal. Karloff plays a Uriah Heep-type cabman who is secretly a grave robber, providing corpses for Daniell's research. ←

I picked up an LP by Air (Air Lore or Air Time - I'm blanking and I don't feel like getting up) at a thrift store in Ogden Utah for 25 cents. Every other LP was typical beat-up pablum, but this one was in excellent shape.

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Uppity. Short of going the San Antonio Rose Bear Family box, what's the best way to discover the music of Bob Wills? The Rhino two-disc Anthology? The Proper Box? Something else?

I saw a second (new) Proper Box of Western Swing music yesterday at Amoeba Records. Anyone have it yet? I feel like I still haven't given all of "Doughboys" a proper listen yet (no pun intended). "Stompin' Singers and Western Swingers" From teh Proper site: Western Swing was the most eclectic form of country music and in its free-wheeling diversity, it set the stage for rock & roll. Based in traditional string band music, Western swing also incorporated traditional pop melodies, jazz improvisation, blues and folk, creating a wildly entertaining and eclectic form of American music. Bob Wills and Milton Brown popularized the genre in the '30s, and Wills became known as the father of the genre, since he remained popular for several decades, during which he had a remarkable string of hit singles. This Properbox follows on from our set of several years ago ("Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys" Properbox6), expanding on that set to look at the work of many more of the artists working in the genre from the '30s to the '50s, and presented with the same attention to detail with comprehensive liner notes, a discography and 4CDs of digitally remastered music. DISCOGRAPHY TRACK LISTINGS REVIEW Also, do any of you have an opinion about the Proper "Hillbilly Boogie" box?