David Ayers

I had an email from John Taylor today. I had written to him asking to be reminded who had been on the bill at a gig I heard him at in my early years of jazzthusiasm. Back in 1981 or 82 the line up had been Wheeler, Parker, Taylor, Jenny-Clarke, Motian. The date was at Leeds University and was a major eye-opener for me. Taylor has been taking care of business and spreading the word for a long time over here and it is good to know he is still going strong.

Well for sure http://www.earlyrecords.com is your best bet. You can communicate with Hiroshi Tanno by email and pay by paypal. He can order in any in print item, but remember that titles go OP fast in Japan. His shipping charges are certainly the lowest.

Looks like most of these are in jewel cases. An added novelty.

These have been coming out since June. Some are slated for future US release, others not. So far I have not heard any, and have one on the way from the H-man. Has anyone heard these and is there anything to report? I have posted the list below for those who may not have seen it. PS This list uses the original release number, not the TOCJ number. June 25, 2003 4001 Newk's Time / Sonny Rollins 4183 Talkin' About / Grant Green 4252 Sweet Honey Bee / Duke Pearson 4229 Got A Good Thing Goin' / John Patton 4060 At The Half Note Café Vol.1 / Donald Byrd 4061 At The Half Note Café Vol.2 / Donald Byrd 4227 Mode For Joe / Joe Henderson 4159 Judgement! / Andrew Hill 4085 Ready For Freddie / Freddie Hubbard 4129 Never Let Me Go / Stanley Turrentine July 23, 2003 1575 City Lights / Lee Morgan 1547 A Date With Jimmy Smith Vol.1 1548 A Date With Jimmy Smith Vol.2 4033 Soundin' Off / Dizzy Reece 4220 The Cape Verdean Blues / Horace Silver 4145 Shoutin' / Don Wilkerson 4174 The Way I Feel / Big John Patton 4277 Serenade To A Soul Sister / Horace Silver 4280 Midnight Creeper / Lou Donaldson 4260 Conquistador / Cecil Taylor Aug. 27, 2003 1561 Palo Congo / Sabu 4415 The Final Come Down / Grant Green 4141 Rockin' The Boat / Jimmy Smith 4200 Softly As A Summer Breeze / Jimmy Smith 4121 Elder Don / Don Wilkerson 4158 Good Move / Freddie Roach 4120 It Just Got To Be / The Three Sounds 4197 Out Of This World / The Three Sounds 4188 I'm Tryin' To Get Home / Donald Byrd 4118 Free Form / Donald Byrd Sept. 2003 4230 A Caddy For Daddy / Hank Mobley 4310 Goin' West / Grant Green 4106 Let Freedom Ring / Jackie McLean 4131 Silver's Serenade / Horace Silver 4238 Mustang / Donald Byrd 4172 Breaking Point / Freddie Hubbard 4326 Move Your Hand / Lonnie Smith 4136 African High Life / Solomon Ilori 1525 The Incredible Jimmy Smith At The Organ Vol.3 4164 Prayer Meetin' / Jimmy Smith Oct. 2003 4083 Dexter Calling / Dexter Gordon 4050 Home Cookin' / Jimmy Smith 4100 Jimmy Smith Plays Fats Waller 4092 The Golden Eight / Kenny Clarke 4342 Green Is Beautiful / Grant Green 4087 Let Me Tell You 'Bout It / Leo Parker 4189 Inner Urge / Joe Henderson 4177 Some Other Stuff / Grachan Moncur III 4214 Down With It / Blue Mitchell 4273 Hi Voltage / Hank Mobley Nov. 2003 4335 The Sixth Sense / Lee Morgan 4079 Gravy Train / Lou Donaldson 4144 Little Johnny C / Johnny Coles 4096 That's Where It's At / Stanley Turrentine 4165 Destination Out / Jackie McLean 1587 Back On The Scene / Bennie Green 4104 Buhaina's Delight / Art Blakey & The Jazz Mssengers 4170 Free For All / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 4323 Merry Ole Soul / Duke Pearson 1556 The Sounds Of Jimmy Smith Dec. 2003 1572 Bone & Bari / Curtis Fuller Vol.2 4257 Boss Horn / Blue Mitchell 4297 Schizophrenia / Wayne Shorter 4153 Evolution / Grachan Moncur III 4307 Time For Tyner / McCoy Tyner 4196 Blue Spirits / Freddie Hubbard 4239 Let 'Em Roll / "Big" John Patton 4334 Moon Rappin' / Brother Jack McDuff 1599 Soul Stirrin' / Bennie Green 4191 Wahoo / Duke Pearson Jan. 2004 4010 Walkin' & Talkin' / Bennie Green 4353 The Song Of Singing / Chick Corea 4178 The Thing To Do / Blue Mitchell 4128 Mo' Greens Please / Freddie Roach 4207 The Night Of The Cookers Vol.1 / Freddie Hubbard 4208 The Night Of The Cookers Vol.2 / Freddie Hubbard 4322 Down Home Style / Brother Jack McDuff 4259 Blackjack / Donald Byrd 4253 Street Of Dreams / Grant Green 4193 Indestructible / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Feb. 2004 1517 Patterns In Jazz / Gil Melle 4125 Good Gracious / Lou Donaldson 4218 Action / Jackie McLean 4290 Think / Ronnie Smith 4151 Black Fire / Andrew Hill 4160 Smoke Stack / Andrew Hill 4077 Doin' Allright / Dexter Gordon 4148 Two Souls In One / George Braith 4171 Extention / George Braith 4344 How Insensitive / Duke Pearson Mar. 2004 4176 One Flight Up / Dexter Gordon 4288 Reach Out! / Hank Mobley 4072 Feelin' Good / The Three Sounds 4313 Turning Point / Ronnie Smith 4113 Down To Earth / Freddie Roach 4245 Like Someone In Love / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 4161 Soul Stream / George Braith 4166 In 'N Out / Joe Henderson 1563 Jimmy Smith Plays Pretty Just For You 4275 Tender Moments / McCoy Tyner

Of course if we start hitting it they might pick up the traffic and then its curtains...

... inexplicably, this fragment Nas ne dogonyat! Nas ne dogonyat! With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls. Feel the force! Feel the force! Feel the force! FWIW you can examine other pages by altering the final digits (but not by following links). Am I the last to figure this out?

Maybe no more VMEs at all?

I thought so. It sounds pretty authentic.

Returns policy is a major issue, and we would all do well to ask retailers about returns policy before purchasing any disk. The simple answer is not to buy and to write to EMI. A decisive boycott at this stage could prove more effective than the courts. Even if a copy controlled disk you have bought works on the machine you try it on it may well not work on the next machine you use - and you can't take it back when it fails to work five years from now. After all, they warned you - it might not work.

I hope this comes to Europe. In the UK a full price CD costs £16+ i.e. $24. Even if you can afford it, it still feels like too much, and as a psychological threshold it is set very high. On the other hand a mid price sells for £10+ ($15) and they shift like Prince Charles rubber masks on Bonfire Night. It will be interesting to see if this works - I hope it does, though lower price points may not help independents.

The cassette I made from someone else's LP is in pretty good sound too - do I need to replace it?

Mike Fitz's Grimes discog will have the final word on this: link

The art was always a big part of the BN appeal and added to the mystery. In fact the art is sometimes better than the album and shame on those who say it is all about the music (all!!??). Pity that the mystique and allure of these classic albums has become somewhat marred in their Euro editions by the addition of the Copy Controlled logo in the fornt insert window, while the 'explanation' about how this disk might give trouble in some CD players and PCs competes with the barcode on the already crowded rear insert. I bet the US BN crowd won't be so happy when they see those, considering all the money they spend on design - the design is a big part of their marketing.

Evidently they are giving you guys a day or two extra - the 'sale' link is still functioning on the site...

Here What will they think of next. Research shows alcohol can make you drunk? There ar emore fish in the sea? The sky is up? Interestingly there is no thread for discussion of jazz, in general, as such, on this board, so I posted this here.

Or be silly like me and pop for the two titles separately in the Japanese SBJC series.

Well I am not dissing CD Universe! I have been fortunate to find Music Resource stock indications accurate and in my favour, but I know others haven't. The main advice for people planning to do this for the first time is to work out carefully how to avoid duty, and this can only be done by keeping the declared value below $26. Good luck Reg!

Music Resource is $6.50 for two. Dusty Groove is $5.70. I have seen similar on others but I generally use these two. Reg Two RVGs from Music Resource are 2 x 9.95 plus 6.50 shipping = $26.40 and a declared vlaue of $19.90 which is not subject to duty. That is less than £9 per CD which is not bad considering!

UK duty limit is £18 or about $26. Thnis is the value of the product excluding shipping cost. If you exceed this they charge you duty (about £3.50) + VAT on total value (including shipping) + a handling charge (can be £8 from Parcelforce). One way round this is to order from True Blue who declare the value at $5 per CD (or did so recently). SO you could order five, plus shipping of $12, but have no duty at this end. Last I looked there was a sale at Blue Note (handled by True Blue) so you could try that route. Otherwise the thing to do is order two at a time from one of those companies that charges less per CD than True Blue, but who WILL declare the full value on the customs declaration. This increases shipping but eliminates duty. Most companies charge about $6 shipping on two CDs - pay no more!

Thannks Hans, and thanks to Hiroshi - thanks to the H-men!

And one up on the equivalent 20-bit US versions.

Thanks Kazak! Er, you don't have the second 50 as well, do you?

Thanks Hans! I suspect that the original list came from him in the first place.

Er... well my Japanese is non-existent, but thanks anyway Claude. Hans - actually I thought of this one, but as you say the OOP titles don't show. We had this list on the BNBB and no-one worried about keeping anything in those days...

I used to have it but I lost it, and it went the way of the BNBB. Anyone? Pretty please?