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I bought a used LP copy of 'No Kidding' before Christmas. The music was amazing, but the recording is panned so hard in each channel, there is a huge dead middle in the sound. Very difficult to listen to. Perhaps the discs have been re-channeled?

That cover is hideous and makes him look like Sam Cooke.

Thanks for the heads up X 2! The samples sound fantastic. Another one to the ever-growing shopping list!

I had no idea he just died. John Norris and Bill Smith deserve such praise for their work with Sackville, and Coda magazine. Now that I have delved into free/creative jazz over the past few years am I especially indebted to everything they did for the art. I just found an obit for John here.

Attending that auction and $600 netted me the entire set of wooden LP frames depicting the covers of the 1993 Savoy re-issue program.

[moldy fig]An odd Ornette recording? They're all odd! You call that Jass?[/moldy fig]

No kidding. I've spent thousands on this series, and I've had to put off buying this excellent session. I expect more from EMI and Blue Note.

I loved the audio samples, but when I went to pull the trigger with PayPal, they quoted me $20.00 for shipping. Is this a glitch or am I painfully out of the loop with shipping charges in the US?

Wow, wow, WOW! Last Thursday, I ordered the two-DVD documentary on Sunny Murray. Directed by Antoine Prum, it is available here. It arrived today, Monday. Luxembourg to Canada in four days is unreal, and must have been powered by the raw energy of this film. I just watched the first disc, and am in shock. It is fantastic. It really illuminates a music that will forever live in the shadows. The supporting cast is top-notch: Khan Jamal, Bobby Few, Valerie Wilmer, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Simmons, etc. I will likely save the second disc for tomorrow, lest I die from sheer joy and sensory overload. The packaging is divine, and the directing and production top notch. I haven't seen the Albert Ayler or soon to be released Sonny Simmons documentaries, but Antoine Prum has set the bar very high. I cannot recommend this film more.

I saw this LP a few days ago. Is this previously released material? I figured it to be a sampler, but the Tolliver material made me think otherwise. Amazon.com just answered my question: "The New Wave in Jazz" is not an Impulse compilation as the album cover may have you think. It's actually a live concert from 1965 featuring four Impulse groups. The Classic Coltrane Quartet contributes an outstanding live version of "Nature Boy," and Archie Shepp contributes a septet version of "Hambone." But the album's real treats are two tracks each from Charles Tolliver and Grachan Moncur III. Both of these artists were fantastic, under-recorded players best known to this point for a few appeaerences on Blue Note -- Tolliver most notably appeared with Jackie McLean, while Moncur, in addition to appearing with McLean, recorded two excellent albums as a leader. On "The New Wave in Jazz," Tolliver, with the awesome band of Bobby Hutcherson, James Spaulding, Cecil McBee and Billy Higgins, plays Monk's "Brilliant Corners" brilliantly, and his own "Plight." Moncur's group also features Hutch and McBee with Beaver Harris added on drums, and they tackle two of Grachan's compositions, "Blue Free" and the indefatigable "The Intellect." It's too bad Tolliver and Moncur couldn't have each recorded an album with these lineups, but at least you can get this."

My view is that it's good to make maybe like 10-15 posts in the community before posting links to your eBay sales. Might work in your favor sales-wise?

To be fair, the seller is 100% reliable and honest, and it is the mono pressing. Perhaps those are scarce? I'll just stick with my RVG CD though!

Album received the other day and listened to in it's entirety this evening. There are many excellent ideas in the album, some that work, some that don't. Overall, a pretty essential album. Was sad to come across this though: http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=2746 as I didn't realize his life had been so difficult.

Sleeplechase?

If the above hold doesn't work out, would love to send $$$ for them! Thanks.

Total agreement here. Clifford's version of 'Ghost Of A Chance' is among the top 5 songs I've ever heard.

I used to work within the public library system. Our branch had a subscription to a periodical called 'Model Railroader'. We never saw a single person pick it up or check it out, but we kept getting it month after month. Someone must have been reading it though!

I am really glad I held off!

Jeez, the LP reissue is already going for $59.99 on eBay. I am so happy a friend in Japan is sending me one he picked up for $30! Does P-Vine have a website or anything? How many copies did they press of this title?

P.S. I have been a strict no meat/no fish vegetarian for about ten years now, so I think I should be able to buy these Horo discs guilt-free! It should balance out, no?

I don't like bootleg labels IF they are bootlegging readily available material. Lonehill and Gambit are prime examples of labels I do not and never will support. Plus, their packaging, sound quality are garish. Let's not even mention the high price they stick on those things! But I am first and foremost a music lover, and I sometimes buy CDs of dubious origin like Frank Wright's 'Church Number 9'. Why? Because I want to hear the music before I die, and because if and when the original LP shows up on eBay, it'll go for no less than $300. And even if I do go for the $300 LP on eBay, none of that will go to the artist anyway! These Horo releases fall under 'want to hear 'em before I die', and while it's sad that they may not be official, I will buy them and enjoy them.

The cover of the Paul Desmond 'Live' on A&M always reminds me of CNN's Larry King.

If I can get these first six for $120 (including free shipping), I'm a happy camper. I've never heard any of these sessions, and $120 wouldn't even buy me two of the LPs. I guess I'm just resigned to paying a premium for my niche lifestyle.

Welcome news! Lars Muller's 'Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM' is to be published this December (ISBN: 9783037781579). From www.amazon.com: Following the success of "Sleeves of Desire", a second publication is now being devoted to the cover art of the label ECM, Edition of Contemporary Music, focusing above all on sleeve design from 1996 to the present. Since its founding in 1969, ECM has been dedicated primarily to jazz and contemporary classical music and is a leading international label in both these fields. ECM has also received acclaim for its unique cover designs, which have always been an integral part of its productions. Over the years, the collaboration between Manfred Eicher, the label’s founder and producer, and designers including Barbara Wojirsch, Dieter Rehm and Sascha Kleis has produced an aesthetic of the cover that initiates a dialogue between the photographic image and the music. The search for a cover motif from a storehouse of possible images is presented in a few examples that shed light on how these visual worlds are created and trace their significance for the music. An illustrated catalog of all of ECM’s releases completes this publication. I never had the chance to get 'Sleeves Of Desire', and was never inclined to pay $400-$800 for a copy on eBay, so this is great news!

I always smile when I play 'On The Sunny Side Of The Street' on Dizzy Gillespie's Verve album 'Sonny Side Up'. It's just so beautiful. I also cannot contain my joy when I play 'Blue And Sentimental' by Sonny Stitt from his live 1954 album 'Live At The Hi-Hat' on Roulette. It just kills me how he digs in so deep!