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  1. Does anyone know why so few of the releases on this label are currently available on CD? Even the ones that are only seem to be available in Japan. I'm currently listening to a needle drop of the John Gordon album 'Step by Step' which is excellent but I can't buy it on CD because it has never been reissued (I think!)....strange...and sad!

    I'm not sure about the provenance or even if my memory is a little clouded, but I feel pretty certain that I saw a CD copy of Step By Step in the LA Amoeba several years back. It could have been an import, if the artificially high used CD price was any indication.

    It was out on German label Bellaphon a long time ago.

  2. Yuck. You'd get doughnut-frosting all over your fingers.

    Yes, the availability of a postprandial finger bowl for glazed digits would be my main concern as well :rolleyes:

    Perhaps you'd prefer something not eaten out-of-hand, or something for those times when you can't decide between a hamburger and a hot dog, when nothing but a dog's breakfast will do.

    Behold your gastronomic salvation :

    Dogs_Breakfast__1.jpg

    Dogs_Breakfast__2.jpg

  3. A little thread convergence, prompted by the fried dough thread...

    Americans' love of excess, combined with anxiety about same, has resulted in the clichéd, euphemistic exhortation to, "take it to the next level". In the caloric arms-race going on in hamburgerville, one of these higher levels evidently is achieved by the substitution of glazed doughnut buns for the traditional sesame-seed buns normally used to frame the softball-sized-bacon-and-cheese-covered-meat-spheroid...

    Mmmmmburger.jpg

  4. UNDER THE JASMIN TREE (1968) & SPACE (1969) by the Modern Jazz Quartet (a 2-on-1 CD)

    Two albums of high-class improvisational bebop recorded by Atlantic Records legends the MJQ while on secondment to Apple. With their unique line-up of piano, vibes, bass and drums, the Quartet brought old-style tuxedo excellence and cool organic jazz to the Apple catalogue.

    "improvisational bebop" ? "old-style tuxedo excellence" ?

    That blurb's so jive it could have been written by this cat :

    old-styletuxedoexcellence.jpg

  5. #1 is "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning"... not sure who's playing, though.

    Monty Alexander from his Echoes Of Jilly's disc.

    #6 The tune is familiar to me, but the title escapes me at the moment. Guitarist has a really nice broad, rich tone. Hmmm...

    I've heard this one before, but like you, can't place it. Szabo ?

  6. Looks like the Swing Journal is an early victim of Japan's demographic hara-kiri.

    As a gaijin, leafing through an issue was like returning to pre-literate childhood where image is all. And the images were fascinating. Pictures of impossibly rare album covers and labels; images of what I imagined to be executives of Sony or Toshiba sitting in their 30 m² flats next to their high-end stereo, with jazz records stacked floor to ceiling, a few ultra-obscurities proudly in hand; scores of tiny record stores (sometimes with charming engrish names) advertising records previously thought to have been chimerical. Only straitened circumstances kept me from contacting a JAL ticket agent.

    I still have a couple of old copies somewhere. I bet some of the articles are worth reading, though I daren't subject them to the haiku-like renderings of Google's language tools.

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