David Ayers

I'll be ordering this set in the UK when a release date is announced, but I am uneasy about the faulty disk and replacement insert issues - I hope the export copies were corrected before they were despatched.

I can't remember. Yes.

Didn't someone say tha Lonehill was missing a track?

Same for bluenote.com - so it's a problem with their server, it seems.

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The same one I was thinking of going for. I hope you enjoy it!

Ahh ... thanks for that. I have decided to go with the Capitol Trio CD, then get around to the rest of the material if and as and when the mood takes me.

Yes it is the Mosaic I am thinking of going for - I'm just trying to evaluate whether the CD alternatives might meet my needs better - but I can't work out which the CDs are other than the Capitol trios on BN. Maybe that would be enough? LPs can be pricey... I added Mosaic to the title just to be clear!

Thinking of jumping on a vinyl issue of this, but I am not sure how much of the material is available on CD and whether it might be better to go a cheaper and more selective route. Any advice?

If you don't already own any Dolphy Prestige be prepared for hearing sessions which are more 'inside' than Out To Lunch. That said, I think you will want to hear almost everything on this set, and eventually replace the essential sessions with K2s or SACDs as and when.

Late Junction and Mixing It are also great resources for the curious - eclectic programs with world music, improv, turntables and electronica and even jazz all thrown into the mix. Just listening to a little Otomo Yoshihide on Mixing It - he is the proverbial bomb!

Dead musicians gig less well. The BBC plays this stuff on other broadcasts. Jazz on 3 is dedicated to recent live performances.

It is a matter of taste and preferences, but I'd say that over time Jazz on 3 has presented a pretty excellent and informative set of concerts.

Kjell Nordeson plays some mean vibes on the Vandermark date!

As I mentioned BBC Radio 3 the other day I thought people might be interested in this online service where you can hear the latest broadcast of the BBC's various jazz programs. BBC Radio 3 Player Start by checking out Jazz Legends - a great survey of Pepper Adams. PS The playlists ARE posted, but soemtimes arrive a week or two after the broadcast goes out...

Don't kid this guy! Kuisis, The price of new sets is generally $16, sometimes $17 per CD. The price of OOP sets on ebay is almost always higher, sometimes very high indeed. A few sets are very much in demand (Nat King Cole, Basie, Andrew Hill) but I doubt whther your friend would ask you for fancy collector's prices.

Apparently it will be released. It gets a mention in the Jazztet thread if I remember correctly. Cool. Well let's hope it comes in at the same price as the Tal Farlow. I'm going to wait and see.

Good point, Bill. Some of it is Landmark but the issues invovled are no longer clear to me. By the way if no-one downlads my list I'll be very upset!

As ever the moneybags who already have everything get to joke around while the rest of us can only dream about owning a record like this. Anybody do me a burn?

This is now the full list - I had missed off Pat Martino.

There were twenty of those camden titles. I don't have a list. The Donald Byrd was the best seller, though the Shaw was musically more convincing. The camdens mix-and-matched whole and part albums to fill two CDs, so their appeal to completists may be limited. They are no longer in print, AFAIK. PS Tell a lie. They have a website and some of the titles still seem to be listed. PPS A recent sale list from The Woods showed these titles as in print - this may or may not correspond to the Camden website listing: BARRON, KENNY Sunset 74321 61089 2 BOWIE, LESTER Mirage 74321 61090 2 BURRELL, KENNY At The Village Vanguard 74321 61084 2 BYRD, DONALD Attitude 74321 61085 2 CORYELL, LARRY Confirmation 74321 61087 2 HOLMES, RICHARD GROOVE Plenty Plenty Blues 74321 61073 2 JONES, HANK/RED GARLAND Master Class 74321 61083 2 MILLER, MULGREW Milestones 74321 61077 2 SHANK, BUD/AL COHN/ZOOT SIMS/PHIL WOODS The Summit 74321 61082 2 SHAW, WOODY Solid 74321 61079 2 STITT, SONNY Constellation 74321 61091 2 STITT, SONNY/LOU DONALD SON Keepers Of The Flame 74321 61076 2

A lot of people endorse burning OOP albums but I personally see it differently. If everybody burns an album that is OOP there is no incentive for the company to reissue it. The more burning goes on the less commercially viable reissues become. On another topic, I think quality of reissue masterings is another matter. There, quite simply, if people want issues remastered from original tapes they will hav to go to the owner of those tapes. That is a market matter. If they don't want that, then they needn't. That is not an argument for changing PD law. In the end, tapes will get destroyed, not everything can be preserved. And lets remember that the best reissues in terms of sound quality don't always come from the companies that own the masters.

Mosiac? Is that like the evil parallel universe version of Mosaic who rip off European masterings and refuse to replace faulty discs and dented boxes? It is cheap to pick on a typo, I know. I'm sorry. The amazon.co.uk price is pretty user friendly. Do we know whether the Jazztet is slated for euro-release?

Yeah, but blink again and they're back in print. But now they have got CARDBOARD SLEEVES! I mean - just think - real, actual 100% cardboard...!!! It's a sort of technological miracle.

Too good to be true! The only references to Pigeon Hole Oklahoma on Google are links to one version or other of this story.