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Itaru Oki "trumpet in modern jazz" (toshiba, Japan) Jazz Messengers "live at the cafe bohemia vol.2" (blue note, Lexington) Nucleus "elastic rock" (Phillips, Japan). My original UK vertigo swirl copy is a bit noisy so I figured $50 for a mint Japanese pressing will be cheaper then hunting down a mint UK vertigo! This and "belladonna" are my favorite Nucleus albums...

I've owned this album twice in my life, and I've got rid of it twice. The recording quality is just so poor I simply cannot enjoy it! It's a shame really...

Did a bit more digging through my retired friend's jazz collection today. Picked up a few gems for well below "internet" prices! Roy Haynes Trio "just us" (new jazz, DG USA) Donald Byrd "Byrd in Paris" (signature, USA) Booker Ervin "that's it" (candid, mono). Not a DG but for $30 and NM condition I won't complain...

Jazz record collectors are fanatic?

Masahiko Sato "palladium" (express, japan red vinyl orig) Masahiko Sato "transformation 69/71" (express, Japan...my copy is the same copy pictured in Julian Cope's "japanrocksampler" book with the Sato and Togashi autographs. Guess he copied the JPEG from whatever online place I bought it from??) Masahiko Sato "deformation" (express, japan red vinyl) yes I confess I'm in a Japanese jazz mood tonight...

Freddie Hubbard "goin up" (blue note, mono 47 w 63rd DG ear) what a lineup!!

Jackie McLean "new soil" (Blue Note, stereo 47 w 63rd DG ear). Not sure why, maybe an early stamper, but this is one of my best sounding original blue notes. I have a fairly good amount of originals and they all sound great but for whatever reason this one just leaps out of the speakers!!

My small amp is a Fender Champion 800 from 1948! My uncle gave it to me...sits right next to my 1971 Super Reverb.

Yeah it was "fascinating rhythm". I found it rather unfascinating There was even a record store in Coombs!! So I think the record store is alive and well as long as you collect worn copies of Stevie Nicks, Cat Stevens, and other AOR from the 70s and 80s.

So I'm on a vacation with the wife and kids on Vancouver Island and I take a brief excursion to supposedly the best record shop in Nanaimo. The jazz section is admittedly fairly big but upon close inspection it's stacked with reissues and 70s/80s fusiony crap you could not give away yet it's still priced at $8-15. I'm on my way out and the owner asks me what I'm looking for and I essentially tell him "something good" and he looks up at me with a dour face and says "anything high end I put on eBay; nobody locally will pay what it's worth". Well that just defeats the purpose of shopping at a local record store, no? Yet another reminder that record stores, at least around these parts, are dead.

"Bohemia after dark" and "that's Nat" are two favorites over here...

Charles Mingus "presents Charles Mingus" (Candid, DG mono USA) Ayako Shinozaki "music now for harp" (Columbia, Japan orig)

Sabu Toyozumi Unit "the masterpiece" (Alm, Japan). Wow this is an amazing album. This was never at the top of my radar so for many years I never really bothered to search or bid hard for it; I think from the lineup I expected a bit of a typical free jazz blowfest. Anyways I finally found a mint copy for a really good price and it certainly is a lot better then I expected it to be. Very cool album. Maybe I'll dig out "message to Chicago" next!

Masahiko Sato "trinity" (Enja, Japan white label promo). I have a few Japanese pressings of Enja titles and they all sound phenomenal; terrific pressings. I have not played this in 10-15 years or so; a very strong "live in the studio" session featuring Pierre Favre on drums and Peter Warren on bass. Recorded in 1971 during a peak phase of Sato's career IMO so it's pretty much indispensable for fans.

Joe Henderson "In'n'out" (Blue Note, stereo NY USA "ear") Joe Henderson "page one" (Blue Note, Music Matters 33rpm reissue). The only Henderson Blue Note I do not own as an original. Which is okay because this reissue sounds sublime. I love all the Joe Henderson albums on Blue Note..brilliant stuff. And now: Akira Miyasaki "Kiso" (Victor, Japan original). A monster Japanese jazz album...really heavy

Thank goodness for that recent CD reissue of "movement" in stereo so us mere mortals can hear it

Sam Rivers, along with Ornette Coleman, is one of the few "legends" of the music I saw live. I thought of two more instances that fit this topic - I missed Derek Bailey because he fell ill and could not make the Company gig in Vancouver around 1993 or 1994. The silver lining was that Gunter Christmann rose to the occasion and sort of stole the show. A final example is AMM. They performed in 1994 but that very same night a New Zealand band called "bailter space" was performing as well. I had enjoyed Bailter Space albums long before I discovered AMM so I chose the NZ band. Neither came to Vancouver again, though I did see Eddie Prevost on many occasions in different settings in later years. I also got to meet and interview him as well...

I saw both Rodan and Crain live. In the case of Crain it was a bit sad as one of their bandmates(the bassist?) had an accident and could not complete the tour. It was a bit of a weird show and only about 30 people at the gig. I had exchanged letters with Jon Cook a few times in the past so it was good to at least meet him face to face. Caught Rodan when they were touring their first album. Wow; Sun Ra in 1961! Being born in 1973 did not help my chances for catching all of the jazz greats live...

What year did you see Sun Ra? With criteria being having the chance to but missing regardless then for me it would have to be Elvin Jones. The opportunity was there and I missed it.

I always preferred electric bass in a funk metal context...

Haha only in Japan...

Cohen-Solal/Canton/Reibel/Ferreyra "shadoks/etc" (Philips, France)

Today's mail brought: Stanley Turrentine "jubilee shouts" (blue note, king Japan) Kenny Burrell "K.B.Blues" (blue note, King Japan) Two strong unissued dates with excellent sidemen.

I have this first issue of the Waldron. I think the "rarest" ECM I have is the pre-release version of the "just music" album in an art cover and red(!) ECM label. I think some of these early "spineless" issues are quite hard to come by, for example, I've never seen a spineless issue of "output". Corto you should at least add "Afric pepperbird" to your Garbarek collection!

Did this come with a spineless cover? I always thought they ended around ECM 1010? Please enlighten...