David Ayers

I missed the punchline.

I'd like to have the vinyl. True Blue advertised a Japanese vinyl of this in their catalogue, but when I asked them for it they couldn't supply it. I am hoping there are still copies out there, somewhere...

On the plus side, BNBB Europe could be a useful place to vent about copy control. I was also thinking that, since we know where all the old BNBB material is in cyberspace, I would sign up under all of the old handles and then painstakingly reconstruct the old board by entering every single post individually on BNBBE, time delayed by five years, day by day, so 14 Feb 1999 becomes 14 Feb 2004 and so on day after day... It could work! Don't all rush to help me.

Hey! We haven't all got the patience to track down all the OOP TOCJ!! My Sam Rivers' vinyls all sound pretty good though. (Actually they are all shot but I can't let on to that now, can I?) PS It is very important to talk down the merits of TOCJ -- otherwise we end up talking up the market value. Seriously, my only point is to remind people that titles they seem to yearn for are only an email away.

Some of the titles which people mention are already out (or about to come out) as JRVGs. I'd say if you really want to hear these titles just email Hiroshi Tanno and get them whizzing through the air to your door. It is a lot quicker and easier than campaigning for them as domestic issues which will be slightly cheaper. I think in any case that if sales permit some of the current JRVGs will come through as RVGs - this is already (apparently) happening with Fuchsia Swing Song, so maybe the other Hills (Smokestack, Judgment) and the missing Mclean will be on their way soon. . And I'd say anyone who wants Contours should just buy the Mosaic which I see someone has for sale on this board at an excellent price.

I'll settle for a single solitary bean.

I occasionally upgrade from CD to vinyl - but never the other way round!

The Hayes will sell out really quickly - the last ones did.

You're killing us. Spill the beans!

I don't know how you found that! Were you checking the HMV site just in case they had some rip-off Von Freemans? Well I am hoping that someone unearthed a stash of legitimate copies... I'm looking forward to hearing more about this - if it isn't a secret, that is...

This is a really good disk musically. A rare trumpet quartet record from Blue Note! The JRVG is fine and clear, though I find the balance odd, with the trumpet a little under-present and the bass too full. Even despite my usual JRVG reservations, I'd say buy this one.

Joking aside, I have become aware of a supply of the Applause issue of this CD. I have never seen one and can't vouch for the quality. The cost is £5 plus postage from the supplier (who is not me). This guy has other applause CDs such as the two rare and undesirable Turrentines. I don't know anything about Applause CD issues.

To my mind there is a difference between CD players shown up by the highest quality amp and speakers (mine are a bit old fashioned - I don't own the highest end gear, but I have auditioned it). However it is also my opinion that very high quality amps and speakers show up the (severe) limitation of the CD source no matter how good the CD player being used. The limitation on CD is inherent in the medium and the set up however good can't overcome this. In fact the greatest set ups bother me because they expose the limitations of the source. I am just not a true audiophile!

Well I laid in a few spares - you never know when the urge will take you - plus in the event of an unanticpated nuclear winter maybe one or more of my copes might wear out, you never know...

I got a good price for a copy on ebay and now have another - I am deciding what to do with it.

trade... hmm. Good point. I can't understand why this one hasn't been out since the CC issue - not even in Japan (AFAIK)

You got me - I was just going back to edit the post...

uhhhhhh... what's the legitimate asking price for a copy of McCoy Tyner's Expansions CD?

Thanks ghost!

Do we know anything about a possible Tyner Mosaic yet?

Low value of the dollar. In Europe these look like a snip!

Alexander's official endorsement of Jazz Improv will appear in the next issue. Here is a preview of the exact, unaltered text: Over the summer I wrote roughly a dozen reviews for this magazine. The new issue came out recently (it seems to come out a few times a year) and of the dozen reviews I wrote, several were printed! Good for me right? Life is wonderful. The one review that has my name on it is the one I wrote. I wrote a glowing review of Al Basile's "Red Breath" and that is what they printed. My review was brilliant, so stylistically they left it unaltered. A few phrases from my review were lifted and used as an example to others how to write great prose! I'm pretty delighted at the moment. So I think I'll be writing more for "Jazz Improv" in the future... B) by Alexander

20 releases. I haven't matched titles to numbers yet. Blue Train John Coltrane Candy Lee Morgan Congregation Johnny Griffin Cool Struttin' Sonny Clark Flight To Jordan Duke Jordan Fuego Donald Byrd Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims Jutta Hipp Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock Memorial Album Clifford Brown Midnight Blue Kenny Burrell Moanin' Art Blakey A Night At The Village Vanguard Sonny Rollins A Night In Tunisia Art Blakey Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia Kenny Dorham The Scene Changes Bud Powell Somethin' Else Cannonball Adderley Swing, Swang, Swingin' Jackie Mclean True Blue Tina Brooks Undercurrent Kenny Drew Workout Hank Mobley

Climb up on my knee, DS0823...

As well as sampling Intakt releases, you might also want to try Willi the Pig, with Tchicai, a rare LP of a 1975 concert dubbed to CD by Atavaistic as part of their Unheard Music Series.