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It is strange... but that's how it is. Atlantic has never released this (are the releasing any jazz at all these days? Anything since the "Tutu" deluxe edition?) and it's great to be able to get it. On the other hand you can say: No one should ever hear it, no one has the right to release and/or hear it. Nothing wrong with that view, but curiosity just gets the better of me! If Mr Pujol doesn't have access to the Atlantic vaults and the material hasn't been available before, someone must have stolen it from the vaults.

I don't think Mr Pujol has access to the Atlantic vaults, and I wonder where he got this unissued material from. Strange...

I prefer McCracklin's early West Coast Blues/Jump Blues recordings to his later Soul-Blues stuff. Unfortunately, his discography is a mess, probably thanks to his label-hopping in the 1940s and 1950s. Maybe the McCracklin CDs on the French Classics label have his SwingTime recordings; I don't have them, so I can't check. My only McCracklin CDs are the two Ace UK releases with his Modern recordings. It would be nice if they would reissue the SwingTime recordings on CD as well.

That Parker/Cotton/Hare CD is indeed excellent; it's available from Amazon, though it might be cheaper elsewhere.

Bluegrass musician and banjo pioneer Wade Mainer has died. He was 104. Washington Post obit

You do what? Maybe you could quote the post you're responding to, that would be easier for dummies like me. Quoting all the time is pretty boring. There was no post in between mine and Larry's when I hit add reply, and I thought it wouldn't be hard to figure out. It may be boring, but sometimes the reply appears several posts later than the post it's a response to and its relevance and/or logic gets lost in the mist of a topic.

You do what? Maybe you could quote the post you're responding to, that would be easier for dummies like me.

I have pre-ordered from Amazon U.K. a few times and most orders shipped on the day before the release date mentioned on their site. Delivery was pretty fast most of the time (I'm in the Netherlands).

There seem to be some exceptions, but that's generally the cut-off date - until 2031 or until the term is changed again.

The extended copyright directive applies to all recordings that were not yet in the public domain. The EU Council approved the "partly retro-active" directive on Monday, September 12, 2011, so it applies now to all non-public-domain recordings that were made less than 70 years ago. Recordings that were already in the public domain when the directive was approved, are not affected. See also post #38.

BBC article, September 12, 2011

Wish I could find a relatively cheap copy of the Koch CD reissue of that one - though I'd better keep my cash in my wallet at the moment...

I've always liked Cream's Disraeli Gears album and a few of their non-blues numbers on other albums, but I never cared for their interpretations of blues songs, especially the stuff with Clapton's stretched solos. No thanks.

Shoot me for saying this, but I keep expecting Wynton to punctuate his solos with shouts of "Hey, Lordy Mama," like some guy in a straw hat and suspenders at the Red Garter.

Isn't this a crime against humanity?

As far as I know the rules PayPal has to comply with in the EU are different from those in the United States.

Down to $29.47. They should reduce all preorders to that price. If I'm not mistaken, preorders get the final price. I think Amazon calls it price protection or something like that. Correct.

Thanks for quoting the directive, Claude. The "partly retroactive" distinction wasn't made in the articles I've read.

According to several articles I read it WILL be retroactive. Here are two articles: article article

Why is it a bizarre decision? Because it will affect Hep too? Bizarre because it's apparently retrospective which is unusual I would have thought. Nothing to with Hep but I named them as they have never been labelled one of the bad guys in the past but appear to have the full force of the EU heading their way. My main problem with public-domain labels (or at least some of them) is, that they stole transfers and masterings that were researched, done and paid for by others. As far as I know Hep or Frog never did such a thing.

The European Commission who issued the directive was not democratically elected, as no European government is in a parliamentary system, but the directive was approved by the European Parliament, which was democratically elected. Besides, the directive will have to be turned into (national) legislation by all national parliaments of the EU member states, which are all democratically elected.

Why is it a bizarre decision? Because it will affect Hep too?

Don't forget the managers who did the same...

Yep, Proper will have a problem, and so will JSP and other public-domain labels that are based in the UK and other EU countries, as far as they have released post-1941 recordings.

It isn't, but it has a "special arrangement" with the EU. Don't know what that entails, other than the use of the euro. The EU directive will be retroactive, so all those releases will become illegal in the EU.