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J.A.W.
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2 hours ago, John L said:
If you ask me, Resonance filled a very important gap in Evans' discography with these two releases and Evans in England. The trio with Jack DeJohnette was one of the most interesting. Before these releases from Resonance, all we had from this trio was At the Montreux Jazz Festival and 4 tracks in poor sound on Secret Sessions.
True, but that doesn't alter the fact that I found them rather uninspired, and DeJohnette being barely audible on some tracks doesn't make it any better.
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Now listening to Another Time: The Hilversum Concert again to see/hear if I missed anything. At least it's DeJohnette on drums, not Morell.
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5 hours ago, Late said:
I wasn't crazy about Morell when I first heard him, but his playing on some live sets (I think) is quite good. Joe LaBarbera was a great fit for the final trio, though I would like to have heard DeJohnette guest, say, in 1979.
Which sets with Morell are you thinking of? And I totally agree about LaBarbera.
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7 hours ago, Brad said:
80 is definitely a lot. I think I have around 30. Why don’t you like Marty?
I find it difficult to describe, to my ears he just didn't sound "right" in the trio, not like Paul Motian did for example. There are more albums, some of them revered, where a musician doesn't sound comfortable/"right" to me, like for instance Kenny Dorham with Cecil Taylor, and John Coltrane on his Blue Train.
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22 minutes ago, Brad said:
They seem to keep finding more and more Evans recordings. It’s turned into a mini business. However, the latest one, Behind the Dikes, was very good so I’m not complaining too much.
Did you listen to the latest one. I liked it a lot.
No, I didn't, the two I mentioned were quite enough, and I don't feel the need to add to my 80+ Bill Evans collection.. Besides, I don't like Marty Morell.
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On 30-11-2018 at 2:57 PM, Brad said:
I guess Facebook is good for something
Good news. The Evans albums Resonance have put out have been very good.
Really? The ones I've heard (Another Time and Some Other Time) sounded pretty average, uninspired to me.
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I was on the fence about this set because I wasn't too fond of the guitar - the sound, not the playing - but decided to get it after all. Glad I did, and I recommend it to anyone who's not sure whether or not to get it - grab it while you can.
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Sorry to hear this. Met him once, in the 1970s, when he was touring with Lee Konitz and Jimmy Raney.
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1 hour ago, Д.Д. said:
OK, got back from the post office. The €45 tax-free threshold for private gifts seems to work (Hans, the Netherlands customs seems to confirm as much: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/belastingdienst/individuals/abroad_and_customs/receiving_goods_from_abroad/ ). In my case, I was charged VAT because the sender did not indicate his name, so the customs could not confirm the package is from an individual (as opposed to a company). What's annoying is that on top of the VAT there is a €5 "processing" fee charged by the post here.
Thanks for the info, David. I contacted Dutch customs about this a while ago and apparently was misinformed, they told me at the time the 45 euro threshold for shipments from private persons outside the EU would be abolished, just like the 22 euro threshold for everything else. Good to see it wasn't.
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1 hour ago, Д.Д. said:
Well, the Austrian customs page is fairly straightforward on this:
Für private Geschenksendungen besteht die Abgabenfreiheit bis zu einem Warenwert von 45 Euro. Private Geschenksendungen sind Warensendungen von einer Privatperson aus einem Nicht-EU-Staat an eine andere Privatperson in der EU, wenn sie
- gelegentlich erfolgen,
- sich ausschließlich aus Waren zum Eigenbedarf zusammensetzen und nach Art und Menge keine Einfuhr zu geschäftlichen Zwecken vermuten lassen und
- die Empfängerin/der Empfänger ohne irgendeine Bezahlung erhält.
I will probably go to the post office to retrieve my packages (one from UK another from Switzerland) tomorrow, let's see what they say. Will report.
I wonder if they forgot to delete this when the new rules came info force on 1 July
Dutch customs is clear about this: no such exception and I think it's an EU-wide rule, but maybe you're lucky. Please keep us posted.
1 hour ago, mikeweil said:I wasn't charged anything for this shipment of two CDs. Don't ask me why.
Maybe too much hassle for such a small shipment? Officials in the Netherlands complained about the amount of extra work that comes with the new VAT-rules for imports into the EU.
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2 hours ago, Д.Д. said:
Well, the only thing I received was notification from the post office that I should come pick up my package - and pay some fee. Let's see what it is, I will try to get it reimbursed. Fun to ensue.
As I understand it nothing is free anymore, VAT will be charged on everything that's imported into the EU, no matter if it's a gift from a friend valued under 45 euros, second-hand/used or whatever.
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On 30-7-2021 at 8:43 AM, Д.Д. said:
"Occasional" imports of gifts from individuals (not companies!) to individuals of value up to €45 is apparently not subject to VAT in the EU. I have something shipped from the UK this way at the moment to see if this works.
Have you received it yet? How did it go?
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1 hour ago, Harbour said:
Don’t you get screwed via customs that way, in the uk, my friend used to mark it was a gift and declare the value super low to avoid it.
Most proxy shopping I have seen is pretty expensive, unless you know of one you can recommend?
No idea how the current situation in the UK is, but for EU residents things have changed: from 1 July VAT is due on every item that is imported into the EU, regardless of its value; the 22 euro threshold has been abolished. I know this doesn't concern you since you're in the UK, but I thought I'd post this here anyway, it might be of interest to people here who live in the EU.
I've used CDJapan's proxy service twice, but only for a few items I really wanted and couldn't get anywhere else. It was very expensive indeed and I also had to pay VAT on arrival.
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51 minutes ago, Clunky said:
I'm looking forward to the game tonight. I'm hoping that Saka continues to shine and I really admire Southgate and his team who all seem to be level headed.
What I can't stand however is the incredibly jingoistic media hype that is a major deterrent for me in getting behind the English team. It just goes on endlessly and the media never seem to learn. A bit more humility would go along way in my book. Football owes England nothing and the country has no right to any outcome. It's not 55 years of hurt but rather underachievement.
Additionally I'm very disappointed to read today of Danish fans being verbally abused after the semi final. An absolute disgrace and a stain on the reputation. So I'll need to decide which beer I'm drinking tonight, Watney's Red Barrel or Peroni.....
I hope Southgate will refrain from further World War II comments...
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1 hour ago, mjazzg said:
I'll say again, not all the England fans, a minority. Disgusting behaviour, yes
That's why I said "English fans", not "THE English fans" - there's a difference
1 hour ago, mjazzg said:Well, we haven't done ourselves many favours in the last few years...
I used to be an anglophile, but I'm afraid that's a thing of the past... Going into that any further would get political, so I'll stop here.
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Haven't posted here, but watched most UEFA 2020 games and was not impressed by most teams, and that's putting it mildly. The Spanish and Italians were by far the best, and I really hope Italy win it on Sunday, the quality of their football should prevail over a rather mediocre English team - all in my view, of course
The attitude of English fans disgusted me, that's all I want to say about it.
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8 hours ago, Д.Д. said:
It's a bit of a hassle, but you might want to consider contacting the Discogs sellers - more likely than not, they will be happy to sell to you directly.
For EU residents that wouldn't make a difference now that the 22 euros VAT-free threshold for imports from outside the EU has been abolished; from July 1 VAT is charged on all non-EU imports. I don't know how VAT on private imports is handled by UK Customs post-Brexit, but I understand VAT is due on all imports into the UK as well.
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Scott Wenzel told me they'll be setting up a warehouse to streamline order fulfillment and have a better way for international shipments to arrive as he put it. I also asked him about the disappearance of the "Running Low/Last Chance" page from their site and he said it'll be noted on the page of each available set when it's running low.
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52 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:
It was extended to 70 years in the UK, correct? But the change was not retroactive. If something had previously entered the public domain at the 50-year mark, it stayed in the public domain.
Agree about Mickey Mouse and the Beatles.
Copyright was extended to 70 years in the EU; the UK was still an EU member state at the time, but I have no idea how the UK copyright situation is since Brexit.
1 hour ago, bresna said:That is correct. Even in the EU, post-1962 recordings are under copyright protection.
However, I was once told that Andorra, where some of the Fresh Sound family of labels reside, are not part of the EU, so they are supposedly still using a 50 year copyright. I have no idea if that is true.
I think it's sad that the US will eventually have an infinite copyright due to Mickey Mouse whereas the EU will have one due to The Beatles. Public Domain is going away.
European mini states Andorra, San Marino, Monaco and Liechtenstein are not part of the EU. The EU countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
I'm not sure labels that are based in Andorra belong to the Fresh Sound family of labels; there is a connection, but I don't know exactly how.
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44 minutes ago, miles65 said:
I tried to go to the Mosaic website I get a under construction message. Does anyone have the same trouble?
26 minutes ago, Brad said:Probably because they were in the process of giving the website a whole new look.
25 minutes ago, miles65 said:I hope so but there was nothing about that i their mail tonight explaining their situation.
The Mosaic website will indeed get a new look. I had no problems accessing the "old" site a few minutes ago.
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A Wayne Shorter - and also a Bobby Hutcherson - 1960s BN Mosaic would be very nice, with a sound quality as good as on the recent but already OOP Mobley 1960s set. I'd get those in an instant
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9 minutes ago, CJ Shearn said:
Well, mine just shipped from Mosaic. I got some birthday money from fam and I broke down and ordered, I did lose all the individual CD's in the fire (everything as you know). It's my 40th birthday this year, why not? Will be interesting to compare to the AP SACD of Page One (which I will still go to when I just want to play the album) and the masterings in the 5 Original Albums set which I'll keep for State of The Tenor.
I really enjoy the AP SACD layer of Page One. How does the Addey stack up to it?
If I remember correctly @erwbol doesn't like Steve Hoffman's masterings of the AP SACDs in general, so I guess he's not too fond of that one either.
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Just got a message from Jazz Messengers that the Henderson set is now out of stock at Mosaic (no update on Mosaic's website, though) and new stock is not expected until late July at the earliest.
Lee Morgan - Complete Live at the Lighthouse
in Mosaic and other box sets...
Posted · Edited by J.A.W.
Harold Mabern died in 2019, aged 83.
[edit] Just noticed Kevin's reply.
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Some people on the Hoffman board complained about the sound being compressed, too loud and too much 'in your face', compared to the earlier 2LP-set and 3CD-set. I don't have the new set, so I can't comment. I'm still on the fence, but those comments make me cautious. Hmm...