David Ayers

So I have this in my amazon basket (to monitor the price). And there's a note. 'For Chris Pearson's wish list.' I don't know anyone of that name. And I never saw this tag appear before. So... Anyone got any idea about this?

And re. Guy's original point, if you go on amazon nowadays to look for KoB it's a nightmare...

FWIW I compared the PW to the OJC on Spotify and the mastering sounds identical (at least in that limited medium) and the PW has an extra track, if that;s any consolation. Still it's annoying to always have to shop like a detective to avoid versions we don't want. At least somebody cares enough to keep issuing this stuff!

In the UK the Onion could be prosecuted for racism, correctly in my book. In case you are interested in the bizarro-world version of this, check this out http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24422742

What he said. There are so many of these PD versions around you always need to check. Caveat emptor.

I love late Lloyd and while it is weird to hear him cover standards and 'pop' tunes the fleet and fast passagework is, as ever, a delight. And Moran is no slouch!

It is not marked promo, and in any case I doubt for a promo anyone would go to the trouble of editing down an existing booklet, let alone creating a new inner tray image.

Get it all in one fell swoop: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-Recordings-CD10-Andre-Previn/dp/B006ZVI06E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382527546&sr=8-1&keywords=andre+previn

i find alternates often a dilution, but they are skippable. It is when we are given all the takes from a live recording with all the solos restored that had been previously edited out that I start to get really bored. We need nerdy folks to do the spadework and know what's there but then someone has to rein them in before they shower us with just absolutely everything. (Miles at the Blackhawk! Come on!)

I recently bought the Lloyd/Moran album from an amazon seller. It arrived without a cardboard sleeve but that was no problem. Then I notice the booklet is a simple foldover, and when I check online I see there is (as usual) a multi-page booklet for this album. One of the photos from the 'proper' booklet appears on the inside of the rear tray insert. The CD itself has 'universal' on the inner rim but not the reference to the plant and place of manufacture normally found. I have never seen one of these before but I conclude it is legitimate, perhaps with a small production economy to fit some local market (other than UK etc). Anyone seen this kind of issue? Surprised it is the first I've seen.

Good idea for a thread, not sure how I fit in. For me it was certain chart things that really got me into music. As the thread is about albums, I can say the first album artist I followed was David Bowie, then after that a move to non-chart with King Crimson. Once you are hearing KC you are already hearing British free improv, so when a few years later I first accidentally bought an Ornette Coleman record (James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black, in fact) then I was hooked on him, followed by Coltrane, Dolphy, Shepp, Ayler, Taylor, and other things I read about in The Freedom Principle, including those (over here) bastard-arse hard to find Nessa albums (ah but when you stumble across Saga of the Outlaws in the second-hand rack...). So my jazz obsessions were quite a few tracks/albums of Ornette (Atlantics, Golden Circle, some bootlegs) and JC (all the Impulses!), with Far Cry, Fire Music as major obsessions, and a big impact from my earliest Ayler and CT albums, Witches and Devils and Dark to Themselves. I guess I should add EP's Saxophone Solos as another favorite and big step into the abstract. After that the earth has never moved. After 20+ years of following classical and attending many performances, I'm still just getting used to it. Too grown-up to get over-enthusiastic I guess, which is a pity. But, you know, lots of favorite 'pop' songs and even some albums which do more for me than most of the other stuff I actually listen to...

i figure with selling that you not only get some cash but you are selling instead of buying, so you also save what you would have spent...

Well not quite, but I get phases where I like to have purges....

Breathe out (if only to allow for sharp intake of breath): £157.99 Woah. Haven't had the supposedly automated email yet. BUT, the first-advertised pre-order price sometimes drops sharply... sometimes. No wonder Herbie looks so hacked off.... 116.99 at Sainsbury's http://www.sainsburysentertainment.co.uk/en/Music/CD/Herbie-Hancock/The-Complete-Columbia-Albums-Collection/product.html?product=E11273913

You are so sensible! But you are right, and I scratched my itch for the Getz on Spotify, so no harm done... except... except....

Just some, uh, general advice from someone who went to pull out his Getz Roost set and then remembered.....

I did wonder if the left and right hand parts has been recorded separately at points....

That's because Manfred Eicher wasn't involved in producing it. So there isn't his usual emo-coma mode! As in, you basically confirmed what everyone has a problem with ECM/him. Well, yeah, but he issued it, didn't he?

On another topic, anyone else heard the new Tim Berne? Not sure it is quite my cup of tea but there is some pretty fiery and dense playing which ECM-doubters might be surprised to hear.

Maybe not a typical one of his but When Colors Play is a lovely warm record that I keep coming back to.

Thanks, erwbol, for taking the trouble to make these useful lists.

when the Conn series was launched, you had to collect 10 of the 12 OBIs from the first batch to get the famous Blue Note watch, which I wore until it stopped working. As well as sending you the watch - from the USA to the UK - they also sent you back the OBIs, each one stamped to show it had been redeemed against the offer. That's class.

I *especially* need the OBI for Blues in Trinity. Chuck? There's one or two others I need but it is BiT that stands out in my mind. Truth is, it's been driving me a bit crazy...

Same here. My only exception is Fresh Sound as they more often than not reissue music no other label cares for, or in expanded editions the original labels do not care to compile. I'd rather buy a Pacific Jazz CD that Cuscuna did, but when Blue Note says they can't break eveb with them ... Still I think it's the less informed average jazz buyer that goes for such issues, as they're cheaper and he has no idea. Less informed? Or just less well-off? In any case, someone who buys these economy sets might be pretty well-informed about the music if not about the remastering. PS tend to agree - outside Fresh Sound I avoid these PD releases.

I'm always saying it - what those labels do is legal and a service in the territories where they operate. Whether the product is good enough for you is another question.