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Same! It's in a GRP box from 1996, "Music Forever and Beyond". It was recorded at Van Gelders, but is not listed in any discography that I've seen. Allegedly, the session was unsuccessful because Getz was drunk. He sounds a bit lost at times, but it's exciting to hear the different rhythm section. In the early 2000s, there was talk about a potential 'Sweet Rain' reissue that would include some of this material (or potentially other unreleased tracks). According to what I heard, the Getz estate blocked it. There is a thread on that somewhere here.

Well put. This album resonates with me in a way I cannot really explain. Even though I was born in the 70s, it feels like a slightly nostalgic flashback to the 1960s, as if I had memories from that time. Now I'm listening to Joni Mitchell's 'Court and Spark', on a 1974 pressing (Discogs lists many pressings from that year alone, so it must have sold really well). Tom Scott usually does not get much attention over here, but his arrangements for this album work so well. He's not credited except for a couple of tracks, but it surely sounds like his voicings all over. I don't listen to him as a jazz saxophonist, but he's done really good work as a soundtrack composer and arranger, and really has a personal touch. Edit: BTW, HutchFan, have you heard the only track that has been released from a failed first attempt at this album, with Roy Haynes and Steve Swallow? There was a take of Windows on a Chick Corea retrospective box.

I am not a big Getz fan, but cannot help liking the bossa nova stuff. But I also like 'Sweet Rain'. Super-quiet Japanese vinyl: All of the other players make this album especially enjoyable for me; Chick Corea, Ron Carter and Grady Tate. In the light of another recent thread on Getz, this statement in the liner notes does not come off too well: "Whatever Stan Wants Stan Getz".

Isaac Stern/Mstislav Rostropovich, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Not the best vinyl (late 70s) but I am drawn in by the playing. I was just supposed to check whether cleaning the LP made it sound better, but now I cannot really turn it off.

Herbie Hancock 'Flood', Japanese 1975 original. A bit of a nostalgia trip for me; I listened to this album a lot at age 20.

But I guess they are still personal, as nobody else sounds remotely the same. I have not followed him in later years. Did he become more "mainstream" as the years went by? Now playing a bit of an oddity, the first Revelation album; a mono copy of Dennis Budimir's 'Alone Together', mainly consisting of Budimir overdubbing himself on acoustic guitar. The production is a bit idiosyncratic. During the first track a telephone can be heard ringing several times in the background. Note the comments under "Technical Data" :

Chick Corea 'Septet', Japanese ECM

Steve Kuhn, 'Childhood Is Forever' (BYG) Though I generally like 60s Steve Kuhn, I sometimes feel that his free-ish outbursts are sometimes a bit mannered, or at least samey. But this album has some really atmospheric and satisfying playing.

Lots of good music there, but I don't have a problem with Mike Post either. I quite like the theme from Magnum P. I. The less well-known first theme by Ian Freebairn-Smith is also good (and jazzier).

In Europe, the anti money-laundry regulations require payment service providers to monitor money transfers and to ask for receipts if there are larger amounts or suspicious circumstances. If you are doing legitimate business, there will be such receipts. I will confess that I don't know exactly what the new eBay/PayPal requirements are, but I have more than once heard of suspicions that used record transactions are used as a cover up for money laundry.

Perfectly understood. Through the years I have shifted from just trying to get hold of the music ("it's all about the music") to allowing myself the luxury of getting more "desirable" pressings and so on. Unfortunately, when I have now reached the point in life when I can indulge in such behavior, it is becoming too expensive again. Vinyl prices have definitely increased more than my disposable income. This is maybe the case of wanting to re-live those moments when I discovered the music for the first time. Getting that King or Liberty Blue Note is like finding that rare music in whatever format (CD or DMM LP) in the 90s. Unfortunately, too many wealthy middleaged guys(?) are in the same place.

sell I have avoided them for 20 years because of their dull sound and only have a couple left in my collection. But the market has spiraled out of control. I suppose there are people desperate for vinyl but who can no longer afford other pressings. Kings and sometimes even Toshibas sell for more than $100 these days. There is an element of suspense in relation to internet auctions and also "hunting" in sites like Discogs that seem to feed the same type of unhealthy behavior with some people as gambling does. Enough people seem ready to overspend, maybe as they don't "feel" the expense in the same as if they have to pay upfront in a physical store, that prices overall become inflated. An internet vinyl bubble? Last week I scored a King pressing of "Out to Lunch" for $25 on eBay. Seemed like a good price to me. Other times, it will go for twice the amount. So the market is really unstable these days.

Something seems to have happened to the vinyl market during the last two years. Prices have skyrocketed. This is the price statistics for the US DMM pressing of Search for the New Land (completed sales at Discogs since 2020).

Adam's Apple, abovementioned Disk Union Mono version. It actually sounds very good.

Yes, this was the series: https://www.discogs.com/label/1513760-Blue-Note-%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E5%BE%A9%E5%88%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA They even replicated the flatter vinyl edge of the earlier 1500 series releases. I got a couple back then (directly from Hiroshi). They were about 50 Euro each including shipping. Sound is fine, but I wouldn't be able to rate them against originals of the same titles (which I have never heard). The titles I got was Henderson's 'In' N Out', Dorham's 'Afro-Cuban' and 'Adam' s Apple'. Should have gotten additional titles really, but I couldn't afford more at the time.

It might seem unfair to fans of the music, but isn't the point of RSD also to make people visit record stores, thus helping them survive? Not sure whether there's any connection between the print run and the overall purpose of RSD, but that's what I'm thinking when I hear about "limited quantities".

I have the German version as well, and it sounds very good. This is my favorite among Elvin's Blue Notes. Now playing: A bit of a curiosity, which I am not pulling out that often.

I was hesitant to post this information here, but considering how important Hiroshi was to some of us I decided to share. Hiroshi suffered a stroke during the fall and lapsed into a coma. A couple of days ago he passed. I got this information from a mutual friend. My thoughts go to his family, and I will always cherish the music I got to hear at the time only because of him.

Do they even have hands?

As a sideman, his appearance on Chick Corea's 'Tones for Joan's Bones' is an eternal favourite. The way he is driving the band colors that album. Another superb date with Corea is Bobby Hutcherson's 'Total Eclipse'. He wrote several good tunes for the Hutcherson/Land group; my favorite is 'Ungano'.

This is really strange. Every copy I have ever seen of this album has been warped. I had to return a copy one time as it wouldn't play without skipping. My current copy plays tbrough, but it doesn't look nice.

What is the situation regarding the rights to these recordings? The Chet Baker Onkel Pö date is on Spotify with a 2017 Delta music production credit ((c) 1978 NDR), but also in a separate version (exact same tunes) with "(c) (p) 2019 Chet Baker Estate LLC", and in yet another version which is a total rip-off of the NDR release, which has "(c) (p) 2017 Jazzline". Can I choose whether NDR or the Baker estate should get the 0.01 Euro's worth of royalties?

A year ago this was ridiculous (and maybe it still is) but lately I have seen several King pressings of Blue Note titles go for far beyond $100. This is not madness, but amusing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334315356328 It would have been an interesting concept, but the album title is wrong.

Oh, yes, that's true!