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I got some interesting items from them, but this was many moons ago. Shipping fees from the US to Europe simply were prohibitive. I wish them well. They deserve their retirement.

The say they'll be selling their inventory to wholesalers. Where are the likely destinations for megabuttloads of all those micro-sized specialty classical labels? With the lack of old-school record stores, are their cutout bins left anywhere?

I'm sad to see them go, but I found their website maddening.

I haven't ordered from them in a long time. I used to get great deals on small label Jazz CDs & SACDs but I bet my last order was close to 15 years ago now.

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Yoko Yates Deepens Her Evocative, Original Vision with "Eternal Moments," To Be Released September 19 by Banka Records Pianist-Composer's Second Album Features 10 Originals In a Quintet with Jamie Baum, Sam Sadigursky, Aryeh Kobrinsky, Jeff Hirshfield CD Release Concert at Greenwich House Music School, NYC; Saturday, September 20   July 21, 2025 Pianist-composer Yoko Yates expands on her unique musical concept on her Eternal Moments, her stunning sophomore album, set for a September 19 release on Banka Records. Retaining the quintet from her 2022 debut Mystic Life—flutist Jamie Baum, multi-reedist Sam Sadigursky, bassist Aryeh Kobrinsky, and drummer Jeff Hirshfield—it also includes 10 original post-bop jazz compositions that explore Yates’s enmeshed fascinations with visual imagery, autobiography, and the natural world. Eternal Moments is thus a natural, entirely organic follow-up to the much-lauded Mystic Life. “My first album was dedicated to childhood memory. I wrote from experiences related to nature and the world,” Yates explains. “This one is a little similar, but inspired by more recent experiences or events. I try to express more emotional complexity and more phases of each event, exploring a little more deeply.” Yates also makes use of her visual imagination, spawning the evocative imagery of titles like “Winding River,” “The Flower Before Its Last Day,” and opener “Outer Space – Myriad Stars!” The music behind these and other titles is melodic and highly expressive. Yates, Baum, and Sadigursky (on clarinet) coalesce into a moody but flourishing glory on “The Flower Before Its Last Day,” while on “Collage of Life” that same front line—Sadigursky now on bass clarinet—form themselves into intriguing patterns, Kobrinsky and Hirshfield seeming to fasten them in place. The album’s autobiographical element occurs via Yates’s drawing on her own experiences and memories of nature in its many guises. Both “Aster” and “Song of the Wild” reflect her keen observations of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in the spring and fall, respectively. “Winter Calls” and “Steps of Spring” also paint pictures of the seasons as Yates has seen them. “Outer Space – Myriad Stars!” captures her captivation with the idea of space travel. Yates, who studied both visual art and classical music in her youth, approaches jazz with a painter’s eye, a chamber player’s ear, and a stubborn individualist’s sense of style. “I like to express my feelings and emotions and I don’t care particularly about the form or genre,” she says. When the results are as thoughtful and gorgeous as the music of Eternal Moments, that approach will receive few complaints. Yoko Yates was born in Sapporo City, Japan, to a music-loving family that from as long as she can remember exposed her to a wide variety of styles. She began her piano studies at the age of four. While the training was classical, the era was the 1960s, and Yates was soon attracted to rock music, then to jazz when she discovered pianists Oscar Peterson and Toshiko Akiyoshi. Beginning her secondary studies at her hometown’s Hokkaido University of Education, she transitioned to the United States and to Boston’s Berklee College of Music after winning Sapporo City’s Cultural Merit Scholarship and Berklee’s Professional Music Scholarship. She completed her bachelor’s degree in music at Berklee, then enrolled at Lesley University in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a master’s in education, followed by the doctoral program in music education from Columbia University, Teachers College in New York City. For nearly 30 years, Yates has enjoyed a career in music education. Since 1996 she has been a faculty member in piano studies at both Manhattan’s Greenwich House Music School and at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music—serving for two years as the latter’s piano chair. She has also taught at several other schools. In the meantime, Yates has also maintained a parallel career as a performing pianist (and occasional vocalist) and composer. She has written and performed for films, media, and literary events, including the Japanese news program Reuters Business Weekly; journalist Kyoko Gasha’s award-winning 2009 documentary film Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice; and author Akiko Endo’s 9.11, My Journey of Jasmine. In April 2022, Yates released Mystic Life, her first album as a leader, on Steeplechase Records with a quintet that featured flutist Jamie Baum, saxophonist/clarinetist Sam Sadigursky, bassist Aryeh Kobrinsky, and drummer Jeff Hirshfield. Eternal Moments, featuring the same personnel, is her second recording. Yates's label name Banka has the meaning of “‘many different kinds of flowers’ and ‘changing in various ways,’ so ‘kaleidoscope’ is a good description of my music, with many compositions about nature involving different styles and elements.” Yoko Yates and her quintet will perform a CD release concert at the Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street in New York City, on Sat. 9/20. Photography: Erika Kapin    Yoko Yates "Eternal Moments" EPK   Yoko Yates Website  

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PS plus Alexander Hawkins on piano, compelling.

Irving Taylor: The Garbage Collector In Beverly Hills And Other Work Songs For The Odd Job Holder. Warner Bros. Records BS 1254 [US 1959]

Disc 2 - works by Schumann & Beethoven

Thanks Ollie, great CD. I bought it after hearing some impressive extracts during your interview last Thursday on Resonance FM (Ben Thompson’s London Ear, a consistently excellent programme). Rachel Musson is amazing on it, as you say! Recommended. Anthony London

So long, friend.

Indeed.

Miles Davis “The Complete Live in Paris Volume 1 and 2” Lost Recordings UHQCD 2 cd set, disc 1 Recorded at the Olympia Theatre Paris, 11 October, 1960–Davis, Stitt, Kelly, Chambers and Cobb. I broke down and ordered this, and it arrived today. Not that much of this are really “lost recordings” but none-the-less a great packaging of killer music. 960×960 77.2 KB Certainly sounds great. Better than previous versions. 960×960 70.1 KB

I used to be a big customer and receive their weekly e-mails. Last week I placed my first order in four years. [No longer buy as much classical.] Today I got the following email. Kind of sad, like the end of an era. A Note from Berkshire Record Outlet Dear fellow music-lovers, The time has come to announce our closure within the next sixty days. In the interim, we have a backlog of new and restocked titles that we plan to offer you via our usual updates, in preparation for the subsequent sale of the entire inventory to a consortium of wholesalers. With one exception, we’re all well past retirement age, and the challenges of running a niche business in the year 2025 are more than this near octogenarian is willing to confront. In short, after fifty-one years, we bid you farewell. Thank you all for your patronage. Best wishes, Joe Eckstein

Legacy edition with unedited cuts

I was really sorry not to make the Vortex, very good by all accounts. I have now just placed my order for the CD.

See Niko's comment above.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Whistle-Stop The Dorham bio is advertised on the same page....

Another Charles Lloyd collaboration with Zakir Hussain:

Gluzunov, Glinka, Balakirev

What?! Thanks for the tip on this, Dan... any more info re author or publishing press?