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No, I think it's just that tariff business. But I am curious if it will affect everybody.

I have only heard of the US having tariffs being added to Japanese imports. Is the EU adding tariffs to Japanese imports too? I hadn't heard that.

Will this touch us Europeans or is it just affecting Americans?

Jaki Byard - Sunshine of My Soul: Live at The Keystone Korner (HighNote, 2007) Recorded 1978

October 9 Kenny Garrett - 1960 Saw him for the first time live with Miles Davis in Hamburg July 30, 1990. The concert is documented here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7We-LBEr-c and twice in Göttingen ...

👍 - on my shelf!

Here is another one : small group and/or 'orchestra' ????? Verve UMV 2686 (Japan 1980) - Roy Eldridge And His Orchestra " Rocking Chair" - rec. 1951 As listed in Tom Lord's Discography: Roy Eldridge (tp) / Buddy Tate (ts) / Teddy Brannon (p) / Claude Lombardi (g) / Charlie Smith (dr) Note: the liner notes of the LP list as rhythm section Oscar Peterson (p & org) / Barney Kessell (g) / Ray Brown (b) + string section dir. by George Williams on the following tracks: Basin Street Blues/ I see everybodys baby /Easter Parade and I remember Harlem.

Regarding "orchestras" in jazz: It's a duo album.

Thanks, that's useful info. I always thought the breakeven/crossover point for Japanese imports from cdjapan vs DG was about a 4-CD order. My last 2 cdjapan shipping charges, pre-tariff, were 3864 yen for 9 CD and 4042 yen for 10. I've always received orders very quickly, even within 2 days of shipping, so that appears to have slowed (though still reasonably fast). Don't have time at the moment, but I'll have to make some test carts and try to back out the formula for "customs clearance fees" vs regular shipping. Maybe also compare Fedex and DHL in that regard.

Dvorak String Quartet No.9 & No.14 Piano Concertos - Schumann & Chopin No.2 - Eugene Istomin

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Congrats to y'all. Any plans to offer the album via Bandcamp?

October 9 Chucho Valdes - 1941

A cold morning – 40! Starting off with The second half. Wow. On to Stan Kenton"Contemporary Concepts" Capitol cd

No Blythe, No Higgins.

I assume they're scratched? Have you tried getting them buffed? My local Bull Moose Music stores have a buffer that they offer as a service. It's cheap.

Last night I listened first to Aghartha. It was a cult record then and is a classic now. I have forgotten how good it is, since I had listened more to "Dark Magus" and "Pangheea" during the last years, but this is just wonderful and Miles is in top form, playing much trumpet. I´m crazy about Pharoah Sanders, saw him so many times live from the 70´s on. Actually the first thing I had heard in my early teens was "Healing Song" on "Live at the East" and it opened an universum for me. Pharoah Sanders is one of my very very favourite masters, I love him !

Hello friends, I´m glad I have quite a busy time as a musician. Last weekend I took my band, augmented by a great female singer (Lili Mae) and the great percussionist Andi Steirer to the recording studio for our next album. It was just wonderful to work with those fantastic musicians, and though we had a lot of work (12 tunes in 2 days), we also had a lotta fun and a great time. The singer did 6 tunes with us and she wrote great lyrics to my compositon "Tune for Pharoah". The other vocal tracks are standards like Round Midnight, Moanin´ (with some astonishing scatting by Lili, doing 4´s with the horn players), a very fast version of "I got my love to keep me warm", and one of my favourite ballads (The Nearness of You). Besides "Tune for Pharoah" I had written 6 other originals, one as a feature for my bass player. There will be also some heavy funk stuff, where the drummer and percussionist really did a wonderful job. My visual artist and fotografer Lilia Kirilova made a lot of session fotos. Now I can´t wait to hear the masters. The album will be out early next year as CD as well as double vinyl. Until now, this is a great year for me musically.