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I did, in all three browsers I use. Maybe this did the trick along with the server adjustments.

Dumbheads, to wipe all these - I assumed the BBC Brits were a bit more respectful towards jazz, but no ...

That's what I thought. If the truth has a bitter taste, we're all up to it. It doesn't feel good to see mediocrity all around for so many years. I'm a pisces, too, so I can see his point

Michael Howell did a solo guitar LP on Catalyst, and had the courage to attempt McCoy Tyner's Sama Layuca - I don't have it any more, sold it at some point as I'm not that much of a guitar freak. I love Howell's LP on Milestone, In The Silence, but that one is in a totally different bag.

I was re-directed to various ad sites connected with goodmayor Tuesday evening and Wednesday, using bookmarks or typing the adress didn't matter. Right now I used my old bookmark and everything was fine. I was afraid I had clicked something I shouldn't have as I kept getting a bunch of weird spam mails at the same time, but everything seems to be okay. What Jim posted about the servers makes perfect sense. But I wonder if someone registered that organissimo2 adress in knowledge of the server change to take advantage of the situation ...

Although I never tasted that beer, I find the ad rather tasteless, and if T.S. Monk ever consented to it, he definitely must have been made drunk from that beer.

Perreau, who wrote a biography on the composer, offers an insightfull essay on unaccompanied flute music, and plays with a lot of feeling.

... now disc three - really a great picture of the scene back then.

on to disc two ....

James P. Johnson is in the house! Took from Friday to Monday to bring it here - just opened it and threw in the first disc. Splendid sound for a 1921 session. My copy is # 1209 ...... did they really have all 5000 copies made? He was a helluva pianist, for sure!

James P. Johnson is in the house! Took from Friday to Monday to bring it here - just opened it and threw in the frist disc. Splendid sound for a 1921 session. My copy is # 1209 ...... did they really have all 5000 copies made?

I feel strange when I see Raymond Scott and Shirley Scott side by side.

In the early years of stereo some engineers audibly had no idea of how to make a proper stereo mix. Today I encountered another bad example: Chris Connor and the rhythm section on the left channel, woodinds, brass and strings on the right, with a lot more presence, often overpowering the voice. Using the balance control only partly remedies the problem, as there is still much of the brass leaking over to the let channel. I'm close to buying an original mono pressing - anybody here happens to have one to spare me a similarly bad mono mix? And please, go ahead to post other badly mixed stereo albums - I'm afraid Atlantic will lead the pack ....

It looks like I got the last copy Jazzmessengers had in stock, as it is no longer listed among the Mosaic sets they have for sale. Phew ...

FWIW, here's what's available at the moment (AFAIK). Listing from JPC, which says the Sun Ra is on backorder. Steve Lacy 1. Trickles 2. Revenue 3. Troubgles 4. Regeneration 5. Change Of Season 6. Dutch Masters 7. The Condor 8. The Cry (2 CDs) 9. Vespers 10 CDs Enrico Pieranunzi Albumtitel: Isis No Man's Land Flux And Change Seaward Ma L'Amore Mio 6 CDs Roscoe Mitchell 3x4 Eye Roscoe Mitchell And The Sound And Space Ensembles The Flow Of Things Live At The Knitting Factory Duets And Solos This Dance Is For Steve McCall The Italian Concert Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet) Spihumonesty 9 CDs Gianluigi Trovesi From G. to G. Les Hommes Armes The Village Fair Around Small Fairy Tales Electric Five Missa Bathet Cinque Piccole Storie Nvola 9 CDs Ed Blackwell (1929-1992) 8 CDs Max Roach (1924-2007) 1:Birth And Rebirth CD 2:Collage CD 3:Survivors CD 4:Historic Concerts Set I CD 5:Historic Concerts Set II CD 6:Bright Moments 6 CDs Max Roach Vol.2 Pictures In A Frame In The Light Live At Vielharmonie Munich Scott Free Easy Winners It's Christmas Again 6 CDs Ran Blake Improvisations Duke Dreams Suffield Gothic Short Life Of Barbara Monk Epistrophy Unmarked Van Indian Winter 7 CDs Chico Hamilton 5 CDs Andrew Hill 4 CDs Jimmy Lyons 5 CDs Mingus Big Band Reincarnation Mingus' Sounds Of Love Live At The Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris Vol.1 Live At The Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris Vol.2 4 CDs Archie Shepp 4 CDs Sun Ra 1. Reflections In Blue 2. Hours After 3. Mayan Temples 4. A Tribute To Stuff Smith 4 CDs Kenny Wheeler 5 CDs Andrew Cyrille Metamusicians' stomp Nuba Something in return Special people The navigator X Man Good To Go, With A Tribute 7 CDs Giorgio Gaslini Murales New Orleans Suite Free Actions Graffiti Sharing Live At The Public Theater In New York Ecstasy Four Pieces Indian Suite Monodrama Skies Of China 11 CDs Don Pullen Capricorn Rising Healing Force Warriors Milano Strut The Magic Triangle Evidence Of Things Unseen The Sixth Sense 7 CDs George Adams (1940-1992 5 CDs Lester Bowie 3 CDs Dave Douglas 6 CDs Art Farmer (1928-1999) 6 CDs World Saxophone Quartet Steppin' With The World Saxophone Quartet, W.S.Q., Revue, Live In Zurich, Live At Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Moving Right Along 6 CDs Julius Hemphill 5 CDs Oliver Lake (geb. 1942) 7 CDs George Lewis 1. Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet) 2. Jila-Save! Mon. - The Imaginary Suite 3. Homage To Charles Parker 4. Change Of Season 5. Dutch Masters 5 CDs Cecil Taylor 5 CDs Mal Waldron 4 CDs David Murray Octets 5 CDs David Murray Volume 2 7 CDs David Murray Volume 3 Interboogieology Live At Sweet Basil Vol.1 Children Live At Sweet Basil Vol.2 Southern Bells The Healers 6 CDs

That's a very nice set. I think the music here is better than his playing on his Prestige date or with Horace Silver. After retiring from the Berlin Radio jazz orchestra he was reunited with his old Californian buddy Lou Blackburn in the latter's Afro-Jazz band, Mombasa. I remember they had a fun time playing together again. They were really cookin' when I heard them in the rather small Frankfurt Jazzkeller.

As long as they do get another batch, that's alright with me - the later in the year, the more likely my budget will allow me to order one.

I, too, have all the Bessie Smith tracks on LP, but the positive voices here convinced me. I hesitated about the Earl Hines at first - in the end was very glad I got me a copy. But I can see your point. I decided against the Ella Fitzgerald set as I never was really enamoured by her voice and style, and wanted the Chick Webb instrumentals in the first place - I got me the two HEP CDs and am fully satisfied with them.

Ordered a copy from Jazzmessengers - I know I'll enjoy this one! Thanks for the encouragement.

This is some wild stuff .....

Laurent Stewart is always a joy to listen to - I never was disappointed by him. Here he plays a copy of a Hans Ruckers harpsichord, a type that was known to players in England as well as Flanders (Peter Philipps or John Bull) which is properly recorded; his playing is lively and virtuosic. The Dornel is not a must buy, but the Stewart is a fine selection of Byrd and Gibbons pieces I can recommend. Stewart's Louis Couperin disc, on an original Tibaut harpsichord, is excellent, too, if you can find it: There are only two more he made, D'Anglebert and Frescobaldi, all recommended, but watch out for decent pricing!

BTW there is another Chant du Monde box of the 1962 tour (10 CDs):