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One of my three or four favorite duo sax/ bass ever.

the refering wasn't very good, that the least that we can say. And he has agreed later that he has blown his trumpet to quickly. He should have give the goal to Barcelone and a YELLOW cart to the goal keeper. This is what a real good ref will have done. The goal was perfectly on side.

You should have speak with VERYAN WESTON too. It's one of the most charming person I've ever met. Great sense of (an english) humour and extremely modeste, also. Always singing the praise of other.

I don't think than Domenech has to choose between ANELKA & RIBERY. The choice was between RIBERY & GIULY rather. And this choice is ok in my book even if RIBERY is not (yet?) the little marvel that you seems to think, BROWNIE. A good player, certainly, who have everything to proove and, first, that he is a world class player. We'll see. My concern about ANELKA was that the guy could feet perfectly with both HENRY and TREZEGUET or be on his own. And I don't see the interest to bring FOUR strikers to GERMANY when we know that there is great chance that only one will play per match. And, more than that, to bring three strikers who share more or less the same caracteristics (HENRY, CISSE, SAHA). Could have live CISSE home and brings DACOURT, instead. Or ROTHEN. There is nearly NO left footed players in this band (MALOUDA, ABIDAL, SILVESTRE, who else? BARTHEZ?) what could be a problem.

Not much difficult to be please here, as this is the best record of GEORG GRAEWE. If you have liked the rythm section, try the trio of GRAEWE/ KESSLER/ DRAKE on FMR. Title is FOR TRIO (16 FANTASIESTÜCKE). It's a little marvel, closed to the masterpiece of the piano/ bass/ drums format of this century so far, I'm speaking of the VERYAN WESTON/ JOHN EDWARDS/ MARK SANDERS TRIO (GATEWAY TO VIENNA, a double on EMANEM).

Maybe at the end of the WC it will be DOMENECH. The real bad news here, for me, it's, one more time, the left out of ANELKA. I'm not a fan of CISSE. I prefer SAHA, but CISSE and SAHA has the same profile and the same default (pace but not much technic). ANELKA had both + a lot experience. He is able to keep the ball and to make space for the other. Really, too bad.

PETER KOWALD. The photo get "distorted" when transform in an avatar. But I like it like that even if the great PETER looks like an hobbit.

His second goal, the third for his team, was, so far, the best I've seen this year. And what a timing to equalize, the 91th minute (and 44 second) of the match!

Me not (only a bad vinyl and a clunsy CD).

The best KAORU ABE are on the PSFD label and are in solo. Particularly, SOLO. 1972.1.21 (PSFD-40), my favorite, and SOLO 1972.7.13 (PSFD-66) Not too crazy about the DIW. This two PSFD feature a younger KAORU (recorded 5/6 years before the DIW and his early death) and you can hear the difference.

- PETER KOWALD: OPEN SECRETS (FMP), one more time.

AIR was a treasure and a marvellous act to see on stage. THREADGILL is a great musician and have a quite impressive body of work under his own. My favorites are SPIRIT OF NUFF... NUFF (BLACK SAINT), SONG OUT OF MY TREES (BLACK SAINT), MAKIN' A MOOVE (COLUMBIA), EVERYBODY'S MOUTH'S A BOOK. But I think than his best of the best and the two that I am listening to most often, are CARRY THE DAY (COLUMBIA) and WHERE'S THE CUP? (COLUMBIA). Seems than the COLUMBIA years was a great run for THREADGILL.

Good for you. Not for me.

Not an accurate statement. Probably a badly inform one. I've more than fifty saxophone solo albums - LACY, PARKER (EVAN), BRAXTON, NED ROTHENBERG, JOE GIARDULLO, BRÖTZMANN, LARRY STABBINS, HELMUTt GIES, MICHEL DONEDA, GIANNI GEBBIA, MATS GUSTASSON, DAVE LIEBMAN, JAMES FEI, BRANDON EVANS, SAM RIVERS and so on - and most of them are outstanding. I've also solo trombone, guitar, bass, trumpet, clarinet, bass clarinet and PIANO albums, all fines in their own way.

Best BADLAND record so far. Love it. It mixes the firing of early BADLAND with the approach of another trio impulses by SIMON H. FELL called VHF dedicated to explore "lowercase" in a very "introspective" way (their first CD was the first ever published by the label ERSTWHILE - by the way ther's a new fresh VHF on the French (?) label L'INNOMABLE). And yes, Steve Noble is a truly great drummer.

You should auction it on e-bay. I've the damn thing (I love it by the way) like every BEEFHEART lover. I've paid big bucks to get it some years ago. 50 is a fair price by the way.

Late to the party also. But, aniway, it's no reason to NOT celebrate your birthday my Swiss friend. As you certainly like pataphysic as the Alfred Jarry freaks that you must be: let me sing it to you in the Lewis Carroll way (but in french): "Joyeux non-anniversair KING U, joyeux non-anniversaire..." (but full of musical presents of course).

Yes, IASW is not and never has been a metal spin box.

Yes, there is, of course. I like EAI as (most) of other forms of improvisation that I've encounter so far, but, I'm sorry, EAI doesn't feel the map alone for me. Very far to. Ther's good, ther's bad and even VERY BAD EAI. Including on the ERSTWHILE label.

Promo copy too, here.

It WAS maybe a great label but most of the reeditions they done are terrible. Lot of CD are just taken from LP. Why they didn't use the masters? Where are these masters today? No idea. Do you know something about, Chuck?

And BILLY BANG in particular, even if he is not a "gypsy" violinist.

PM send!

It one of the two discs that was produced by BMG BELGIUM. It was recorded in 1997 in ANTWERP by GUIDO MAES & produced by ROB LEURENTOP & JOHAN VAN DEN ABEELE. The part of STEVE COLEMAN is overdueb from NEW YORK. It's more or less a sort of "best of" of his compositions. To say the truth, I've never like this album.