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It does sound like an interesting idea. Lord knows there's gotta be a new spin on the jazz biography, something that's been a recipe for the remainder bin for some time.

I thought Hazel posted something a year or so back about retiring from the distribution game. Does anyone else recall?

How did I miss that thread?

Anyone else love this French label? I am lucky enough to own a few LPs, but recently bought a bunch of their CD reissues. Many of the most exciting looking titles are currently out of print, but the ones that are available are handsomely priced and include shipping. Billy Harper's 'Awakening' is a desert-island disc for me. http://futuramarge.free.fr/index.htm Enjoying this right now:

What is the error in the earlier pressings of the Watts? Tape speed?

I emailed ESP last night after I found these videos. They say to expect them in March.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Thegooddoctor720 Check the ESP-DISK promo videos numbered one through eleven. Really looking forward to the Sanders box, and the Lowe and Wright discs. Thankfully bought the Get-Back issue of the Marzette Watts some time ago.

I regularly see Sky Dive for $8.99 or $9.99 in the used bins. Looks like I can say goodbye to that pesky full-time job!

Question for 'chewy': I have never known anyone so passionate about Hank Mobley as yourself. I own the majority of Mobley's Prestige and Blue Note work (as leader and sideman), and am not even 1% of the fan you are! Have you ever considered writing a biography on Hank? To the best of my knowledge, one has never been published, and you have the fire to make one happen!

I would have said that looks more like 1970's Blue Note. Think of later Lee Morgan and Lou Donaldson with pretty females on the covers!

People bash Denardo? I wasn't aware. Ageism?

I think I done good: GY 405/408 Golden Years of the Soviet New Jazz v. II; Disc 1 V. Rezitsky / Jazz Group Arkhangelsk - 74'56 Disc 2 Orkestrion - 69'27 Disc 3 Mikhail Chekalin - 65'58 Disc 4 Petras Vysniauskas; Ganelin / Vysniauskas / Talas - 76'29 GY 409/412 Golden Years of the Soviet New Jazz v.III; Disc 1 Homo Liber - 75'34 Disc 2 Vladimir Chekasin Big Bands - 79'00 Disc 3 Sainkho Namchylak, Tri-O - 66'11 Disc 4 Andrew Solovyev / Igor Grigoriev / Vladislav Makarov - 79'00 GY 4 Hartmut Geerken / John Tchicai / Famoudou Don Moye; Cassava Balls; GY 9/10 Famoudou Don Moye / John Tchicai / Hartmut Geerken; The African Tapes; GY 7/8 Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne and Toshinori Kondo; Jazz Bunker; GY 14 Sergey Kuryokhin; The Ways of Freedom; GY 16 The Art Ensemble of Chicago; Live in Milano; GY 17 Anthony Braxton; Solo (Koln) 1978; GY 20 Anthony Braxton; Solo (Milano) 1979 v. 1; GY 23 Anthony Braxton; Solo (Milano) 1979 v. 2; GY 28 Anthony Braxton; Solo (Pisa) 1982 CD LR 162 The Cecil Taylor Unit; Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil; Shipping's a killer, but it still works out to $5.61 a disc!

If you like Rudy Van Gelder, check out Roy DuNann's engineering for the Contemporary label. Preferably on LP on a decent system.

Is your Cecil Taylor a corrected version? Discs 2 & 7 in some sets are musically exact even though they have different titles on the CDs.

What about Arthur Jones' "Scorpio"? Why they didn't reissue it with the fabulous bunch of Free America discs a few years back is beyond me. Perhaps because it was also issued on BYG Actuel and might now be licensed by Charly? I'm satisfied with my BYG Actual original LP but would gladly buy a cd reissue of this amazing disc.

There's also some interviews interspersed throughout a Sunny Murray title on ESP-DISK.

Hiroshi Tanno is probably the most honest, dependable, and genuine people I've ever dealt with. I sent him original Blue Notes worth $2,000+ on eBay and let him decide how much to give me in store credit. A true gentleman. We need more people like him!

Lorraine's autobiography is excellent. Very unpretentious and honest.

Discs arrived today in pristine condition. Thanks!

Thank you! Hemphill and Dixon's 'Intents & Purposes' ordered.

I try my best not to give my money to frauds. Whether or not anyone on this board agrees with anything I 'say' on here (not just about Alan) doesn't keep me up at night. I had a number of people (4-5?) PM me and relay their own bad dealings with these people back when I wrote my original thread. Jazz Loft has had multiple accounts suspended here yet keeps making new ones, so perhaps I'm not alone in my opinions? The transactions have been cancelled, I have received my refund and the mistake in not knowing CD Hut was Jazz Loft was mine and mine alone. Case closed.

I just ordered the Hemphill and the Dixon from CDHut on eBay, because CD Universe is back-ordered on the Hemphill. As soon as I paid, I got an automated 'thank-you' from stephen@jazzloft.com! I didn't realize CDHut was run by Jazz Loft, as I do my best to avoid this cat. At least I've got these two on the way. EDIT: I just emailed him to refund my PayPal payment. I'd rather take my chances that the Hemphill sells out.

Out of the 50, I don't have the following, but if it's a cardboard-sleeve collection with unreadable covers shrunk onto the jackets, I'll probably pass. 3. Quincy Jones, The Quintessence 7. Max Roach, Percussion Bitter Sweet 8. Manny Albam, Jazz Goes to the Movies 15. J.J. Johnson, Proof Positive 18. Shirley Scott, Queen of the Organ 22. Stanley Turrentine, Let It Go 25. Dizzy Gillespie, Swing Low Sweet Cadillac 26. Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra 27. Rolf & Joachim Kuhn Quartet, Impressions of New York 39. Danilo Perez, Central Avenue 40. Michael Brecker, Two Blocks From The Edge 41. Alice Coltrane, Translinear Light 42. Jose James & Jef Neve, For All We Know 46. Tom Scott, Rural Still Life 47. Michael White, The Land of Spirit and Light 49. Max Roach – It’s Time