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I try doing so whenever I end up in that situation (if I forget doing it immediately, I might forget until it's too late ...)

My "context" was Nichols so far, not Neidlinger and/or Krystall per se ... but I guess I'll look for the Soul Note disc as well then.

Booker Irving Quartet??? -- My parcel (with Dolphy, Cannon and Etta) was just shipped, guess it'll be a week ... looking foward most of all to the Adderley!

Art Pepper as well -- there's an audience recording in circulation (rec. Sep 1980 from what I could find online).

Since the CD-R question may go back to my remark elsewhere ... I just ordered the three Nichols albums (Neidlinger, Krystall, Alden/Krystall/Neidlinger), and the earliest one, "Blue Chopsticks", I only got a CD-R of ... I guess they're sold out on CDs and in order to keep the music in print sell CD-Rs of it. The other two are proper CDs. And my understanding is that indeed it's Krystall handling it now - quite fast delivery, no problems whatsoever. I'm planning on a second order of another three discs soon (there's one with a track featuring Cecil Taylor I saw, and a few more including Nichols tunes).

Very sad indeed ... will spin some of his Jacques Demy music this weekend, I guess.

Thanks @Brad - forgot to check the uk site, customs is all same now (no uk/fr/de/it tax but swiss tax added since Jan. 1 ... but no more hilarious fees added as earlier).

amazon.fr finally has a release date (tomorrow), but 55€ is a bit steep (other offers range between 60 and 80) ... but I'll keep looking/waiting: https://www.amazon.fr/Monks-Dreams-Complete-Compositions-Thelonious/dp/B07HSLSQ7L

And add to that that the festivals do the same, book the same guys (and happily some more gals) in similar constellations (oh, they were good last years, let's bring them back and replace X with Y this time 'round ... or let's add seasond veteran Z to young group ABC that needn't more than a sammich for pay ...) All the happier I am about the outstanding concert given by Akinmusire's quartet last night ... the first set was probably more than an hour already and quite a trip, the second even longer and full with quite moments this time, including a wonderful hommage to Roy Hargrove ... I love their live album from the Village Vanguard, and consider them to be an outstanding unit--how they can shift gears together, let things roll and then hop on again, change tempos and all that ... threy really have their act together, the material is challenging I guess, but also attractive, and while all four have their own voice, it's a band that is very much more than the sum of its parts.

Those reissues are the continuation of the "Touchstones" series - basic two-fold cardboard sleeves with not liners or booklets, just the dicc inside the right half and a cover "flap" (fold out-like). Nice at the price (around or a somewhat less than 10€ a pop usually). Several in the run that I'm interested in! The Lovano, btw, must rank among the top 3 ugliest ECM covers ever ... looks like your usual us mainstream design of the 90s, noughties or 10s (db covers look about the same - don't get much uglier) and nothing like ECM at all.

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet tonight - quite excited, as good jazz concerts (i.e. not shows in classical halls that you can't really afford) by musicians from beyond the local scene seem to become more and more rare in Zurich these days ...

I'd buy that Francescatti in a whim! Regarding Rabin, what's wrong with this: https://testament.co.uk/michael-rabin-6-cd-set-for-the-price-of-4.html Don't think EMI (Warner) can better it ... there was an Icon before that ... and Testament has added a set of prev. unpublished recordings: https://testament.co.uk/michael-rabin-3-cd-set.html Not sure what else there is ... but the Masterworks Heritage box by Sony contains an "early recordings" disc by Rabin/Ossy Renardy (and two mighty good discs of Francescatti): https://www.amazon.com/Masterworks-Heritage-Collection-Various/dp/B00CUPQHT6 -- One thing I'd really love to see - that came up when the Dial Mosaic box was announced ... a set of Dial's classcial recordings - take a look at catalognue numbers 1-20 here: https://www.discogs.com/label/50041-Dial-Records-3

I figured that out in the meantime -- and yes, it seems Blake has a hand in this indeed, also came to that conclusion. Got to get this!

Great news for sure! Hope it'll be distributed over here (still no luck with Kimbrough's Monk set, Sunnyside is us only it seems, and I guess it's getting worse ...)

Very sorry to hear this. -- @Guy Berger try the Delmarks if you don't know them yet.

just in case: the complete Dreyfus box has just been reissued in a slightly expanded edition as well (and it costs a 40€ from amazon.fr): https://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Dreyfus-Jazz-Reco/dp/B07HHPZZQ4/ my copy arrived yesterday, sturdy box in the same build as the Vogue boxes, but glossy ... covers are designed LP-like, no liners or booklet, but most (for one album I didn't see any recording date, but I assume that corresponds with the initial info) of the relevant info is printed on the back covers And Petrucciani's five OWL albums were reissued (over a year ago already) as part of another, really cheap box (filmsy stuff, but you get what you pay for, right?): (edit: "five of" seems to be correct, there are more Owl albums?)

I have these two:

No, alas not. And never heard of Jones Jones, but I'll take a mental note for whenever I next order from Not Two.

Thanks, good to know! (Cuypers is the way his name is usually spelt though - but I guess that's the same as with Raaymakers then) And sorry about misspelling Noordijk's name - I should know!

Oh, I understand - weird, don't think I ever noticed the proper spelling (and I'm all for ignunts learning foreign names and not dumbing it down too much ... we're not talking Chinese names or anything)! So is it Leo Cuijpers, too? Does the "y" not exist in dutch names at all or are both variants possibley, what about Martin Van Duynhoven? (And for Piet Nordijk it's clear, never saw that with a "y")

Sad to hear this ... got that Breuker retrospective last year and am enjoying it a lot, including Raaymakers' contributions. (Usual spelling seems to be Raaymakers, not sure there are variants in dutch, but don't think so.)

waiting the Smith, Riley, Bradford and Brown/Burrell ...

I know he did the royal (whot?) wedding and stuff, Sheku Kanneh-Mason seems to be a talent to watch ... saw him in recital in December (with big sis Isata on pianer), they did a Boccherini virtuoso thingie to kick off the concert, then the Poulenc sonata, and after the break the Debussy, and one of fhe Brahms sonatas, and then the above Holst piece as an encore ... while it was not a polished presentation by far, and while I think he needs to work on projecting his sound a bit more, it became quite clear that he's really into it, not a wunderkind or anything like that, but a gifted you artist that hopefully will stick with it and develop into a truly outstanding musician.

any comments on the booklet (quality/length of essays etc)? btw, "label-side down" can end up much worse, as there's no thick protective layer of plastic on that side, a deep scratch on the label side may not just impact readability but actually destroy the disc

The CD edition seems to be complete though - tracklisting from jazzmessengers.com CD 1: 01. Minor Meeting 02. Nica 03. Sonny's Crip 04. Blues Mambo 05. Blues Blue 06. Junka 07. My Conception 08. Sonia CD 2: 01. Nica (take 2) 02. Sonia (take 3) 03. Minor Meeting (take 10) 04. Junka (take 1) 05. Nica (take 4) 06. Minor Meeting (take 9) 07. Sonia (take 5) 08. Blues Blue (take 1) 09. Minor Meeting (false starts takes 1-7) 10. Blues Blue (false start take 2) 11. Nica (false start take 1) 12. Nica (false start take 3) https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/79501/sonny-clark/the-1960-time-sessions