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i admit that i have no clue about geffen or the management at verve before them. but from the history of sampling by rappers i know that they at least listen to and dig some jazz. so from that perspective i think there is at least as good if not better a chance to see some reissues than from any other commercially thinking management.

maybe one had to grow up in a german speaking alpine country. i could never totally avoid him. he was in the jukeboxes of every alpine ski bar probably. i even did not mind him. too much this shit was aways kind of funny too me. it was obvious for me that it was more for the older people. he lead the charts in german folk, schlager and even pop he did well and now sings for aging punksand metal fans or what ever it is that he does. the fact is that he sold more million albums than the beatles in germany and still sings that his dream is to get that villa on an alpine lake for his old lady. from a pop kinda way he is a genius to me like Andy Warhol. .for me they even lookalikes. longstory short i find this fascinating and funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-39Unh0X2E

have heard Soji a couple of times at the velvet playing his praise music with similar groups (Su Ra instead of Avreeayl Ra was on drums most of the times) but don't know anything about the Atons. Soji is a cool dude.you may want to contact him thru either site.

Birth Of A Notion (an amazing record in so many ways). Will look for those, believe it. if you still have it you will see on the back cover a liitle note: join the shadow vignettes fan club wrte to box.... i found that funny and wrote a short semi-serious fan mail to them from zurich.. i got a short semi serious thank you letter back. later in chicago when i got to know him a bit better i knew that he would play funny little jokes like that; i do'nt know when that's normally done but maybe at the beginning of the second set the mc or the bandleader would say that some musicians would like to make some announcements . one or twp would say when and where they can be heard nexi. one would say that he/she has a new cd coming out etc and wilkerson woul say something like I have a microwave for sale. funny cat and an extremely nice guy too. somebody made a documentary about the shadow vignettes. you can see a excerpt on the tube. i have it somwhere but i am in a situation like you, i am unpacking so i can't give you more info now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNM4N2WZpg

what Chuck said Henry Huff died young an before i moved to Chicago i think(1990) don't know much about availability but just checked the thrill jockey website and these two seem to be available on site did you ever hear this? i doubt that it's available but it is a particularly fine release with Bankhead. Reggie Nicholson and Rod McGaha on trumpet.

in the spirit of the more the merrier i am posting two more that i added to my to listen to stack. the first because last nite i heard younger generation aacm musicians (Nikki Mitchell, Jason AdasieviczTomeka Reid and Mike Reed) honoring the organisation by playing a bunch of tunes/compositions of their elders, they played Braxton,Roscoe,Threadgill Steve McCall Amina Myers and others, the second because of this thread i was trying to figure out what was the first aacm record i heard; j kinda narrowed it down to a jackson in your house. the attempt sent me down deep my own memory lane. this was all early in my days of music discovery. i vividly remember the days we, all young kids with much more time than money, spent days in the music booths of the biggest music house in the small town i grew up in.. the booths themselves were very hip to me couple of leather fauteuils, nice stereo equipment nicely soundproof individually closed off from the rest of the store. we were more of a raggety group and more tolerated than liked because we did buy records as money allowed. I have to give it up to Krompholz & Co.( even googled them and they still exist. in some other form. apparently they stopped selling records quite some time ago and concentrate on selling instruments and music sheets but they also organize some live jazz events)

and this as well, at least in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72SVN9sO4P4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BD8Ixr3w48

that's certainly a good reason to break the rules and to celebrate the 50 year anniversary. i added another one to my to listen to list. i presently can only play cds.

cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOEjiHZrdqc

I just figured that, sooner or later, most of the great live Bird recordings would be posted, even if it were limited to one per party. somebody sgot to post this

And 1960 - a time often referred to as the jazz boom. i don' know sales figures but the narrative has it that since the end of the swing dance bands in the late the 30ies the popularity of jazz has been declining.i don't know if there where peaks in between but the trend was downward. one thing for sure can be said the music itself is incredibly resistant to the temptations of audiance expectations..think about it, for maybe 70 % of it's total history up to now it went it's own way. .

good morning! you are already up to a good start. i do'nt know how you got where you are. a good way to discover imo is branching out. go from what you like check out records from sidemen. records from the ones you like with other musicians. you may alredy have done that. so my suggestions may be nothing new to you but you seem to like sax and trumpet; so, from jarman and Don moye to the art ensemble of chicago to lester bowie and since you dig ' liitle fox run", Fed Anderson I think he composed the tune. miles to Coltrane to wayne shorter to tony willams, marion brown to anthony Braxtox, Benny maupin archie shepp frank wright to cecil taylor, and eddie jefferson sonny rollins to coleman hawkins to don cherry to Ornette coleman, thelonius monk....bud powell and Charlie Parker.

thanks. Read the stubblefield and lowe. t as interviews go I am about 30 minutes into this one in a similar way and very down to earth, regular and fantastic at the same time.it will take me a couple of days to get thru this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4e0i0vxMIE

Really some amazing facts, Somebody on this thread mentioned that KennyG was or is the last popular instrumental music in Engl . . I wander how many of the 75 million people who bought his album know that he plays soprano sax. no need to go into a is it or isn't it discussion. for the purpose of this dicussion let's call it what we wanna, post fusion or whatever. from the fact alone that he sold 75 million albums and that he is reportedly street level popular in China i'd almost t be tempted to call it post Cagean. .

Haven't read the interview yet but Wayne Shorter with the WSQ is sure something i'd look forward to. as well..

Sorry my response was not up to your literary standards. I posted that at 11 pm after several drinks and a very stressful day of caring for my very sick cat. Please send him positive vibes. He has liver disease. I greatly appreciate it. Apology accepted. I hope you are now over the effects of the drinks While jazz is and remains my first love I listen/listened to a lot of different musics. It would just be that much easier for me to understand your point if you would name one that is not in decline in your opinion . And frankly if you don't want to play nice, I don't give a rats about your cat.

Quite. But that could be because 'very few younger listeners listen to jazz' also gets extended to 'jazz is dead'. Which then leads to 'no it's not'..... The odd thing is that in jazz, folk and classical music I experience the sea of grey-hairs situation constantly. Yet in every one of those genres the stage generally contains a more than generous number of young players. Maybe it's an inevitable shift in the population dynamic. We (in the West) now have an increasingly large, retired, wealthy (in some social classes), elderly population with time on their hands. And a younger generation for whom employment, housing etc is a real struggle. So the market has led to the latter servicing the entertainment needs of the former. Can't see any other reason why young people would want to spend their lives playing to a completely different generation. It's not so in pop/rock. Interesting. This leads back to what I wrote in post 52 or whatever. I think it is simply because jazz is no longer culturally relevant. It has become a legacy genre just like classical. When an art form is thriving, the listeners tend to follow; when it is on the decline, the artists tend to follow listener expectations. in order for me to understand what you are saying i need to know if there is a music that is not declining and if so what.

i have a law degree and will defend you without fees if necessary.

even for single artists these favorite lists for me are always too dificult/impossible. with an organisation like the aacm it multiplies. so i am just listing the four(sorry) that are presently on my stack of records i want to listen to next. it does not do justice to the history or the multitude of individuals i admire abrams/lewis/mitchell - streaming anderson- black horn long gone Mitchell- turn Dawkins- afro straight

I heard the trio about a year ago and of all the times I've heard Broetzmann her was at his most lyrical, Enjoyed it much.

forgot, the schedule posted is from http://eremite.com/news

maybe he changed his mind 2015-03-11 MAY 2015 BRÖTZMANN / DRAKE / PARKER TRIO NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 07 V houston eldorado ballroom 09 V potter valley (private event) 10 V san francisco the chapel 12 V portland mississippi studios 13 V seattle seattle art museum 14 V calgary festival hall 15 V edmonton yardbird suite 18 V kelowna summerhill pyramid winery brötzmann solo 19 V victoria the copper owl brötzmann solo 22 V halifax the obey convention brötzmann solo 2015-02-05

I have enjoyed both those games and was not all that surprised about the outcome. I thought the in the match in paris PSG played better and Chelsea was a bit lucky with the draw. to get the equalizer in overtime after playing already about 60 minutes with 10 men was a special effort. yes the"chosen one" is an arrogant mofo but but he adds a bit of color and i would not hold it against the team. my little bit of schadenfreude was with the commentators who in the first game were all over Chelsea without giving PSG any credit and generally seemed to me to act like there is no soccer outside England.