David Ayers

And finally on to JJ #7. Some good stuff.

Someone maybe can set me straight, but when I hear Parker playing walking bass I have a few questions. Am I alone?

I can't refer you to the relevant thread as it was in the defunct politics forum, but I believe a certain Edward Snowden blew the whistle on these covert releases some time ago. Look what happened to him. just sayin'

I. Would. Not. Be. Without. This. Set.

Got to JJ #6. Nearly there...

MG and Jim both have good points. Jim's last point - that there is oversupply of of music and musicians - is the basic point. If all the people who had written a first-time novel came out demanding a living wage fro their work...well, I don't need to explain why that is a nonsense and could never happen. It is sweet that people feel so defensive of the earnings rights of the (often dead) musicians they admire, sweet too that they think jazz may be as worthy as the classical and opera genres which business likes to subsidy. But classical and opera are sell-out genres and much outside certain mainly U.S. institutions jazz - whose history is more or less over - is unlikely ever to [...insert opinion here...]. Breakfast time!

Amazon uk lists a CD of Schl8hof (as well as an LP).

No takers for JJ? Pushing on with #5 between bouts of work...

At which venue did you seem them, David? At the Veg Box Cafe in Canterbury! http://thevegboxcafe.co.uk/ Part of this series http://www.free-range.co/ The concerts are often recorded but we forgot to record this one.... Looks good....a long way from North Yorkshire though. I'd loved to have seen Tony Coe last May...... Tony originates from Canterbury as you probably know, but he rarely performs here. So lucky us when he does!

At which venue did you seem them, David? At the Veg Box Cafe in Canterbury! http://thevegboxcafe.co.uk/ Part of this series http://www.free-range.co/ The concerts are often recorded but we forgot to record this one....

The Prevost/Tilbury gig was a marvel of concentration and delicate interactions. The venue was tiny and I was a few feet from the performance which was very low volume in a small close acoustic where every refinement and complexity in the sonorities could be clearly heard. Tilbury played prepared piano, as he did here last year when he played Cage. Prevost played a bass drum laid flat, a side drum he never once struck, a large gong, and used cymbals,an oriental bell, a bow, pebbles, gravel, marbles and other objects to produce his sounds. Fascinating to watch close to.

Certainly am.

Due very soon here and looking forward to it. Meanwhile Prevost/Tilbury playing tonight locally as AAM. Oh my goodness.

Currently even cheaper at £20.79

Here I guess? http://www.qobuz.com/recherche?q=hatOLOGY&i=boutique Unfortunately there are not the Anthony Braxton releases i am looking for. No and there seem to be very few, as if they don't really believe in it....

Not me of course but I see that a review has by coincidence appeared.

This highly desirable disc is showing as up for reissue on amazon uk - for those who missed the earlier sold-out reissue. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Topography-Lungs-Evan-Parker/dp/B000FZERZ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1380715355&sr=1-1

JJ#4 There was a backlash against this set, IIRC, after it went OOP. Folks found it a bit placid maybe? Not sure. I think it's one of those Mosaic minor classics.

Martin Davidson on his Emanem site states that his labels are not licensed to sell downloads. I am not sure what he means by that but he may mean that the contracts he signs with the artists do not cover online distribution. I wonder therefore if this is not only a matter of preference on the part of labels - Hat in this case - or if the contracts those labels used - and use still - do not give the rights for digital distribution. The classical label Chandos operates a thriving download site which was opened some years ago to add to their online direct consumer CD sales business. They reported that within months of creating the facility they were doing more business with downloads than with CDs - and they were already very successful with the CDs. Now they sell digital downloads from several dozen labels. The lesson seems to be that anyone not selling downloads is surrendering a significant income stream. So I agree with what you guys are saying. It seems to me that CD-only reissues are perverse and that even where the company wants to continue with CDs a dual CD/download release strategy would help to cover the cost of CD releases and make more such releases possible. If the limitation on doing so is the contracts of course then it can't happen. I wonder if in this case it is contract or preference. edited to add: I see now I look that Hatology downloads *do* exist so scrub 77.5% of what I just said.

Am i the last to know about this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coltrane-Prestige-Recordings-fridge-magnet/dp/B003G2NSYE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1380689771&sr=8-4&keywords=john+coltrane+prestige

J.J Johnson #1-3 Gentle music in old-style soft-grained remastering. Just the job.

Thanks for heads up on Fopp. Will get there for sure this weekend. Any other notable jazz cheapies? Not that I'm greedy. Or cheap.

I'll just let my pre-order run, too ... and yeah, if anyone has any sources on the *entire* box being reprocessed to more roomy (hey, does a mono trumpet only need one valve? so KoB was in three-channel, right?), please enlighten us. If not, we've all got the point now, no need in beating a dead horse once it's dead. As for Monk at Newport, David, do look for this expanded 2CD Legacy reissue from 2002, it's OOP but can be found: Btw, why did he mis-spell his name? We all do know his birth certificate said "Thelonious Mono" Thanks for the suggestion - in fact I identified that when I looked around for the tracks. I don't have it. When I see it at the right price I'll jump I think.

Newport. I may have to cry now.

I don't seem to possess the two Monk tracks from Jazz Track! That's my excuse for buying it. Of course I could just listen to those two tracks on spotify, but it wouldn't be the same. Anyway I probably do own them I just have no idea where they are. Anyway... Sheesh I'd have hoped it was ok to buy a 'legit' Miles Davis box set at a moderate price without everybody getting as worked up as if it were Andorran. Familiar records, just sit and listen pleasantly for a while...who died?