David Ayers

Maybe you should just write to Fresh Sounds?

Maybe we should be glad they did? As a reissue only outfit it might have been dropped by EMI.

Thanks for the advice guys. My Fruscella set is merely a few clicks away!

Yes - but I couldn't find information about this CD on their website...

Has anyone heard either the Jazz Factory Complete on 4CDs or their Open Door CD? Any thoughts on merit of whole box versus just Open Door? Or on sound quality?

Uhhh... Maria Callas! I can't quite shake the feeling that I'm missing the point of this thread...

Heh heh... those were the days eh? Seriously, we know this guy don't we? Why is his name familiar? By the way I take this with a pinch - journalists are usually referred to as 'hacks' rather than 'geniuses' for a reason and this is just a bit of creative-writing style page filler.

Thanks for posting the link. What a dunce. The only alternative for these guys who pretend to be so expert is to admit they missed all the obvious signs which others DID pick up on. But if they admit they had no idea what they were talking about then their self-ascribed 'authority' (which rests entirely on the ability to remember and mentally compare performances) vanishes. So they are coming out all guns blazing. Sibelius claimed that no-one ever erected a monument to a critic, but the Hatto scandal is exactly that: R.I.P.

Hey! Happy Birthday!!

Have a great one! And send me a slice of that cake!

Here is the biography from Concert Artist website of the supposed conductor on Hatto's concerto recordings (now said to include, in reality, Salonen and Haitink, and no doubt others). Talk about cynical.

And on Joyce Hatto, you guys are right to suggest that the idiotic reviewers will never recover from this. These guys just puff whatever they get for free, and don't ask too many questions. In this case, lots of people had questioned the authenticity of the recordings, but these dunces just piled up their freebies and banged out the publicity. Gramophone is claiming credit for uncovering the scandal, but it was also Gramophone who defended these recordings and told sceptics to put up or shut up and have some respect for the dead.

As for Ern Malley, see the official site and the article in Jacket Magazine.

I agree with other folks in giving caiman a qualified thumbs up. If you order things that you know to be in print and with good distribution, and you are prepared to maybe wait a little longer, then caiman are fine. I've dealt with customer service only once and they were genuinely helpful. Stuff that you know is hard to track down - well, caiman's distributors probably won't have it and won't be able to get it.

You don't need to be in the UK! You can stream it from far far away, on demand, for a week after transmission!!

In the old days they were so down to earth. How times change.

No clues. No answer.

Here you go.

Hm. SACD is wasted on me then!

You're forgetting all those horrid photos... OK you convinced me. Mine went in the trash. Giuffre and Shank to follow. Chet who? Seriously, of all those, I wouldn't bend over too far backwards for the Shank. There are two actually good albums on it, and the last two disks worth are not good at all. That said, I get it out quite often just to make sure of my opinion. The Chet Baker is mostly track-downable without splurging on an ebay box.

It still leaves Sam Rivers' Involution waiting for a separate reissue though, I think.

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Short measure, bad sound, findable for a fiver in HMV. Only for the enthusiast. Info © me.

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