J.A.W.

Harrison-Fox-Thacker's The Essential Jazz Records, Vol.1: Ragtime to Swing and Harrison-Thacker-Nicholson's The Essential Jazz Records, Vol.2: Modernism to Postmodernism contain some of the best writing on jazz I've ever read. Highly recommended! Harrison-Morgan-Atkins-James-Cooke's Modern Jazz: The Essential Records 1945-1970 is also one of my favorite guides.

Yep, I am serious, and I was banned for that reason - at least that's what Mike Ricci told me. No big deal.

You will all get banned from AAJ for posting observations about AAJ here that are probably regarded as negative by Mike Ricci - at least that's what happened to me. B-)

This Golden Crest LP is listed in Vol.6 of the Bruyninckx Swing Discography. Recorded in NYC on March 5, 1957 Personnel: John Plonsky - trumpet Carl Janelli - clarinet O. Cortese - piano Chet Amsterdam - bass Mel Zelnick - drums Betty Ann Blake - vocal On June 7, 1957 he recorded another album as leader on Golden Crest, with Urbie Green (trombone), Bill Barber (tuba), Carl Janelli, Tony Aless (piano), Don Arnone (guitar), Jack Zimmerman (bass) and Mel Zelnick.

I'd help you if I could, but I'm not a Tete Montoliu fan and I don't have any of his recordings anymore.

Lon, My system is not prone to be bright, and it measures flat in my room; it does, however, bring out the "bad" qualities of a recording in a way that is sometimes hard on the ears. In that way it's not tailored around the average discs as is yours. Fortunately, it does not prevent me from listening to my favorite music; if it did, there'd be something terribly wrong with me. (I realize I'm opening the door to various comments here ) Oh well, as long as we're able to enjoy our favorite music in our own, apparently very different ways and are able to talk about it without getting into a fight...

Ten dollars? The Japanese list price of a TOCJ24 is 1,500 yen or about $14.70 at the current exchange rate when imported directly from Japan (plus shipping, which is very reasonable if you order from Hiroshi Tanno). I'd never buy them from stores that are charging much higher prices. Anyway, these TOCJ24 CDs were intended for the Japanese market, not for export, and in Japan these prices are in the budget range. This series was and is being released in Japan to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Blue Note. As for the sound, I'm satisfied with the TOCJ24s; the positives far outweigh the negatives on my system. Most (J)RVGs sounded awful on my system, while they did sound OK on the mid-fi gear I'm using in my kitchen.

Claude, Have you heard any of the new TOCJ24 remasters?

I'll post a UCCI sale list within the next few days.

Yves, I sent you a PM.

Wow, I'm surprised at the sudden irritation and apparent hostility; no one objected when I first posted this thread back in June 2004... And what's the difference (and I'm not talking about the sound) between RVG or someone else at Blue Note remastering many of these in 24-bit, which seems to be OK with many board members, and the Japanese doing the same for their own market, which some of the same board members seem to disapprove of?

Especially Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. Wonderful.

I remember when we, from the BNBB, decided to land at the Harlem.Org site. Wayne wrote that he didn't "have time for riff raff. Not politics. Not sports." Memories from Harlem. I will not hesitate in closing threads, accounts, banning IP numbers. I want 90% of the people to have a good experience. I simply don't have time for riff raff. I'm amazed the Harlem.org site still exists

Stefan's eBay auctions link

And what's gotten in to you? I don't get kicks out of Jankowski ... and tolerate a passion for his music only from people I know who have broad tastes which seems to be the case for this newbie I remember hearing Jankowski's 1965 hit Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt (the English translation was A Walk in the Black Forest...) ad nauseam everywhere while on vacation in the Black Forest that year...

Oh no, I just noticed deus62 has started having birthdays again...

I couldn't agree more.

Thanks for the update, Alison. My best wishes!

The exact date of the January and February 2005 releases is now known.

I'm thinking about getting rid of a large part of my avant-garde/free/improv collection; I'm totally fed up with a lot of the albums.

As far as I know some of these have been available for some time. I picked up Deals, Ideas and Ideals and Come Sunday months ago (they're on my sale list, by the way )

Great sale, Chuck.