David Ayers

That one is listed as number 9 in the series. Since they have so far released batches of four I'd say we should check back at their site soon for further additions. That said, I have almost all the Dixon...

Well yeah I don't disagree. I guess it's true of a lot of back-catalog on iTunes and elsewhere that it just sits there until someone stumbles on it...

Oh and these are all on Spotify, I now find.

Mosaic do not own any copyright in the music, even on in-print sets. The copyright information in a Mosaic booklet or on a Mosaic CD is the same information which is given on iTunes. The material in the Capitol Vaults series is (obviously) owned by Capitol and I suppose what we can hope for is that other OOP Capitol sets might make it to iTunes. The Maynard Ferguson and the two Basie sets come to mind. EMI/Capitol half owns Mosaic so may be more alive to this marketing option than other companies. On the negative side, no company so far seems to have been very systematic about converting its jazz holdings to commercial downloads, so who knows how many more of these we will see. I think they are recently posted, though, so there may be more in train.

These new sets are not even listed on UK websites yet, as far as I can see. I'm hoping they will be as they will likely come out cheaper with free shipping...

Noticed this 'Capitol Vaults Series' on iTunes. There may be more on US iTunes, but so far on UK we have the (six-CD) Mobley set plus three selects: Bob Brookmeyer, Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill (group). Prices are £14.99 on the Mobley and £12.99 on the Selects. Oh and on amazon.co.uk the Mobley is £7.49...

Well in past years I have sung the praises of Lou's Records, Encinitas, CA, which once upon a time was the best-stocked record store I got to visit. I hadn't visited for two years but called in a couple weeks back as my steps once again took me back that way. Lou's is now a shadow, stocking mainly second-hand CDs and cut-outs, very little new stock (maybe 10 new jazz titles, mostly compilations, though more rock which is their mainstay; the cut-outs contain multiples of things like Charlotte Church's first album and Hannukah and Christmas Holiday Music; pre-owned cassettes sell for $0.19). They told me that fewer people shopped there any more and they could no longer afford the stock. It wasn't their choice but they were doing what they could. It was a sad sight to me as this store was a cornucopia in the past with a rich and knowledgeably selected jazz stock (as well as rock, alternative, classical, etc). It was impossible to keep your $$ in your pocket. Like a lot of people I've tired of CD, so there's no point lamenting the disappearance of a type of store I use less and less, I suppose. Things change. I hope that as the recession ends Lou's can have something of a revival.

I am told it is tacitly understood in the sport that doping is necessary. People in the business defend it off the record. Armstrong is not being investigated by US authorities because he won races in other countries. The crime is not winning, and it is not cheating, it is doping. So anybody who doped broke the same law regardless of where they placed in whatever event at whatever level of whatever sport. Remember that the charge they want to bring aginst Armstrong is defrauding his sponsors, not winning by cheating. And I am saying to pursue one man as a criminal over ten years is just an obsession. In the end the US authorities want to bring down not only Lance but the French tour. They want to show that it's an invalid sport. And here's the thing, cyclists dope, they are right, but so what? Why spend ten years of your life being a wrecker? For the record, I was an Ullrich fan. Got a little burned there...

Isn't the point that the whole of professional cycling was likely relying on doping and on blood transfusions until at least very recently? Which (if correct) would mean that Armstrong was doing the same as everyone else and was still the best cyclist. This is about going after the best, not going after the 'cheats'. In any case it's all in the past. In other news, Charlie Parker has been found to have 'cheated' when inventing bebop and the whole of subsequent modern jazz history has now been declared invalid.

I contend that a book of transcriptions of actual jazz performances by the musician universally regarded as the greatest of early jazz musicians is a book about jazz. That it is a musical description of the music rather than a verbal description only serves to eliminate uncertainty and misinterpretation, for as Henry Osgood demonstrated two years previous to "50 Hot Choruses" in his book "So This Is Jazz", calling a music "jazz" doesn't make it jazz. Hey, not disputing that this is a book on jazz, a jazz book, a book pertaining to jazz, or whatever. But there are earlier books on/about/pertaining to jazz. Schaeffner and Coeuroy's Le Jazz is from 1926. It's possible there are others. That's all. Whether there is one earlier than Coeuroy I don't know, but I don't think so. Henry O Osgood's So This is Jazz was published in Boston also in 1926. There's another 1926 book by Paul Whiteman called Jazz Illustrated which I have never seen. It is nearly 300 pages. Paul Bernhard's Jazz: Ein Musikalische Zeitfrage is 1927 (never seen it). Robert Mendl's The Appeal of Jazz was published in London in 1927. There are other things then from 1928 onward. There may be other early ones I didn't find on this trawl. Ragtime Review began in December 1914. I don't know what was the first jazz consumer publication. Oh and there is a 1919 book on how to do jazz dances. Maybe someone has done the work on early jazz publication, I'd like to know. Oh and of course there are fiction and novels cashing in on jazz in various ways, notably Fitzgerald.

It has been mooted that cyclists, runners, anyone who ever went for a long walk etc. shouldn't hope to escape doping charges through death. To save on exhumation costs, anyone who ever went on a vigorous stroll or biked to the end of the street unaided will soon be cryogenically preserved so that as and when new tests become available they can be promptly applied. By that time it is earnestly hoped that Gatorade will be a classified substance. Once guilt is established, back in the freezer with Walt until developments in technology enable revivification, which will be swiftly followed by charging, expedited conviction and - since the future will be even more grimly po-faced about such matters than the present - execution. The corpse will then be once again cryogenically preserved to await its final destruction on the Day of Reckoning. In other news, professionals found to have ever gained advantage through prodigious caffeine intake will soon have their professional accreditation rescinded and be permanently removed from Facebook. Judgement Day my ass.

I find it bizarre that Armstrong is being pursued with such zeal. Yeah cheating is sport is bad, but it isn't like organised crime. They seem to be treating this like an anti-mafia trial with the henchmen cut deals to testify against the big boss. But Armstrong isn't a big boss, he's just a better cyclist than the other guys who are admitting cheating. It's great that Federal authorities don't need money for homeland security and other frivolous stuff like that and can afford to put so much effort into this. All those forensic and investigative skills that would just be wasted tracking down non-celebrity terrorists and murderers. The statute of limitations on these charges is ten years? For cheating in a bike race? No they just want a celebrity scalp. If they were serious they'd pursue all cyclists in this way. By all means let race authorities catch someone with a test on race day, but a ten year crusade? That's more than both World Wars combined back-to-back (and not just measured from the half-way points when you guys chipped in). Be serious.

OK so can the mods now change the title of this thread to 'Letterman has featured jazz on his show frequently over the years even though he might not like it that much personally of course one man's jazz is another man's pop witness Herbie's recent performance oh and Allen is in this thread too and the thread starter is a mate of Jims in any case before reading be aware that some folks have been a little lary but that's to be expected on this board and in any case we all calmed down a bit now so welcome to the forum, newbies!'

Very best wishes for all your projects in the future!

Glad to hear they made up. Losing the chain *can* be down to the way you change (if rapidly making huge jumps for example), so there is a technical element involved, it isn't necessarily purely mechanical. In my opinion.

Tricky one. I don't know how he lost his chain. Losing your chain will usually be a technical error, right? so it's not so clear cut. Just out of interest, were you biking or driving?

Upcoming ECMs listed on amazon - no sign yet of the Roscoe. Officium Novum by Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble The Rub and Spare Change by Michael Formanek, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, and Gerald Cleaver Stories Yet to Tell by Norma Winstone, Klaus Gesing, and Glauco Venier And If by Anat Fort Trio Maria's Song by Sinikka Langeland, Lars Anders Tomter, and Kare Nordstoga

Is it worth combining this with the ECM thread where we already discussed some of these releases?

There was also a Collector's Choice edition...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/prince/ Go get it! Well, if you are in the UK...

It's actually an implanted microchip. And it's compulsory. Welcome to the underground.

This is almost certainly the gig at Ronnie Scott's which was released on Jazz House (their own label) under the same title: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Soul-Wes-Montgomery/dp/B000024LUZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1278129497&sr=8-1 I don't have it but have others from this period at Ronnie's which were recorded on a single mic which gives a clear presentation of the soloist but doesn't do to well by the backing band.

We are emphasising a lot the first couple of notes but aren't there quite a lot of wobbles in the whole tape? They seem to show up particularly in the piano solo. I know some of it is just that horrible piano....

Hey welcome! So... FNAC has these on pre-order, expected 26/8...

Now that the World Cup is over (at least as far as I am concerned) .... [blah blah blah - I can't be bothered to say any more about it]