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received this one liner email from Mosaic this morning - no other explanatory text "https://a1.asendiausa.com/tracking/ 50S6BZZQ94" again, that number goes nowhere (it never did right from the start) - below is the response I get when inserting the tracking number into Ascendia Your Order Information Has Not Yet Made It To Our System But We Will Show Updates Once It Does! Check Back Soon!

fascinating - just watched Never realised there was a John Fahey connection with Fonotone - just ordered the Fahey Fonotone box set & book All my Fahey material is on vinyl

thanks for the tip - tried it with no luck - I suspect that code is actually not a tracking #

been using CD Japan for years - highly recommended IMHO for service, though they don't always carry the full range of Japanese releases

Almost 2 weeks (July 15) since my box was supposed to have been sent plus the tracking number when placed into the Asendia site repeatedly has come back as "Item Not Found". Anyone else from Australia had any better luck?

Got mine today too - Australia bound - can't work out whether it's going via Ascendia or USPS. Inserting tracking code in Ascendia comes back as "Item Not Found" - too early??

Beautiful!!

same here (Australia) - maybe overseas orders go to the bottom of the pile

had no trouble extracting this recent 83min disc

I didn't think it was possible to have more than (up to) 80 minutes of recorded data/music on a standard CD I've just received a Horace Tapscott & Michael Session Japanese P-Vine disc "Live At Theatre Du Chene Noir, Avignon, France 1989" It's showing as 83 minute duration - have there been changes in technology?

The Dudu Pukwana "Black Horse" download (no previous CD or LP issue) has been released in Japan only as disc 2 from the 2021 double CD of "Diamond Express" (Freedom Paper Sleeve Series) https://1201music.com/js_albums/dudu-pukwana-black-horse/ https://www.discogs.com/release/19729930-Dudu-Pukwana-Diamond-Express Pity they didn't do the same with the Dewey Redman "Look For The Other Black Star" download ie add it to the "Look For The Black Star" Freedom Paper Sleeve Series https://1201music.com/js_albums/dewey-redman-look-for-the-other-black-star/ https://www.discogs.com/release/18706018-Dewey-Redman-Look-For-The-Black-Star

Looks very interesting - will probably go for that one

Going through the whole set today - sound is sooooo good!!

my CC has just been charged - hopefully my set will be on its way to Australia soon

now available (CD) - just received email & ordered http://www.darktree-records.com/en/horace-tapscott-quintet-%E2%80%93-legacies-for-our-grandchildren-%E2%80%93-live-in-hollywood-1995-%E2%80%93-dtrs16

oh yeah!!!

yes - two & a half hours of sublime solo Steve, mostly unreleased (15 tracks) with 5 titles (Hedges Cycle) from Switzerland (1981) that were released on the Ballets 2LP - these are also accompanied by a dancer who you can hear occasionally on these tracks - the remaining previously unreleased Swiss titles (two on disc 1 & five on disc 2 - got that wrong on a previous post) are sans dancer. The Hedges Cycle was originally written for sax & piano but here its with sax & dancer Tracks cover Shots, Sands & Hedges Cycles, Highly recommended - i'm biased of course - big fan of Steve

one of the other members here lined up for me in Orlando, FL for the Ayler LP set - here's his story (btw, This set wasn't made available in Australia). Thanks again Dan. He'd lined up previously (Dolphy LP set) for me so this wasn't his first experience "If you really want to know it was different from last time and not as satisfying. Over the years since I waited in the dark for the Eric Dolphy set the record store has been overwhelmed with customers. Hundreds are showing up now with some in line late on Friday! Starting this year they implemented a reservation system which you applied on line to them to get an entry time. I knew nothing of this until I telephoned them on Friday. The reservation list was full, starting at 9am and customers without a reservation (like me) could enter the store at 1pm. I got there about 12 hoping for a relaxation of the rules but not going to happen. Actually entered the store about 1:15pm. Store was jammed with people, the jazz section was tucked away in a corner since most people are not interested in jazz. There were several Albert Ayler LPs in the Jazz section but not the 5-LP set. I was suspicious that box sets were displayed elsewhere. I got ahold of a very helpful person who looked all over the store where box sets were under the counters. Still no luck. Next she told me to fill out a form which listed all the RSD items, where I checked the Ayler box. I then handed the form to a person in a back room where most box sets were stored and customers not allowed. Miracle: about 10 minutes later I was handed the box set. I then proceeded to the front of the store where the check-out line started. After about 30 minutes standing in line I was able to pay and leave. Last inconvenience- there was only one person operating the register! There should have been 2 or 3. What a day! I spent about 1 hour in the store, not counting the wait outside. When I left there still was a long line waiting to enter the store. I am happy to have done it and will do in the future, but more efficiently! "

LP #1 (Hedges - live Switzerland 81) of the double LP set (Ballets) was released in 2014 on the double Emanem CD "Cycles". The Emanem release has a further 5 previously unreleased tracks from the same concert. AFAIK the second LP (The 4 Edges) has never made it to CD. https://www.discogs.com/release/6122361-Steve-Lacy-Cycles-1976-80

Roberto Miranda (b) & Fritz Wise (dm)

Many thanks Ken - any Horace T is most welcome downloaded WAV files & burnt to disc - SQ is great (especially via CD player) https://archive.org/details/Hoarce-Tapscott-Trio-Four-Queens-Hotel-Las-Vegas-March-16-1992

It's up on the Dark Tree website with what looks like extra material - I'll do my usual order from there when available (coming soon on CD!!) LEGACIES FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN – Live in Hollywood, 1995 THE HORACE TAPSCOTT QUINTET HORACE TAPSCOTT piano MICHAEL SESSION soprano, alto, tenor saxophones THURMAN GREEN trombone ROBERTO MIRANDA double bass FRITZ WISE drums SPECIAL GUEST DWIGHT TRIBLE vocals 01 | Ballad for Deadwood Dick | 02 | Motherless Child | 03 | Breakfast at Bongo’s | 04 | Close to Freedom | 05 | The Theme | 06 | Little Africa |

RIP Paul my first exposures to Paul's piano were the 1994 Joe McPhee "Sweet Freedom - Now What" & the 2000 Victoriaville "Complicite" 3CD set

same here - been listening to them since the early 70s I was lucky enough to see them in the early 2000s - they came out to Australia to play at one of the "Big Day Outs" - my partner bought me a surprise ticket

Wow!! huge Nick Drake fan - have been since the late 70s Robert Kirby's string arrangements are sublime IMHO there is more footage (looks like it's contemporary though)