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That performance (and that program) duplicates the one on the Dragon CD, listed as from March 4, 1959, but the sound is much clearer on this video! Is this from a Jazz Icons release, or what, exactly? I've no idea where this is lifted; I just found the clip on YouTube. What's confusing is that the discography (as well as the Dragon CD?) states that this performance took place at "Södra Teatern" at March 4. However, in the video clip it clearly looks like "Nalen".

The Dragon CD added a some live concert material (from the same day as the broadcast), with Joe Harris on drums . A Moon CD contained some four tunes from 3/8/59, with LaRocca back on drums. All is dandy. The Swedish Jazz Discography only lists "St. Thomas" from that location (the famous Stockholm club 'Nalen') on March 2nd, but I think there's more to be found on collector's tapes. This is from Nalen in February 1959: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9h4VAdNpc It's from a 20 minute program that also included "Paul's Pal" och "It don't mean a thing".

Thanks, guys! I'll seek out the shops you've mentioned, and even if they don't have anything of interest (or if they don't even exist anymore) it will be as good a way as any to spend tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks Bob, though if it was Roxy Records, it seems to be gone: http://bazonline.ch/basel/region/Ende-Musik--Das-Roxy-geht-Konkurs/story/14001076

Later this week I'll be on a short business trip to Basel, Switzerland. I'll be having a few free hours on Thursday afternoon and I'm looking for recommendatons for jazz record shops in the city. Would be grateful for any suggestions.

It seems to be a mislisting. TOCJ-50156 is a reissue of a June Christy/Stan Kenton duet album.

In the cases where I've had the chance to compare them, the Kings have had more presence and have generally been closer to the sound of original BN or Liberty pressings than Toshiba editions of the same titles.

In the EU, the Copyright Directive (2006/116/EEC) set the length of the producers' and performers' rights to 50 years (although this is about to be prolonged to 70 years as has been mentioned in other threads). In the US, a combination of several different acts defines the protection. It may seem a bit trivial to post links to Wikipedia, but it is actually a good starting point that often provides links to relevant laws: Public domain in the US The "Bono Act" is outlined here: Bono Act

Yes there are. I'm speaking from a Swedish perspective and I'm no expert in US copyright law, but I believe the basic rules apply to most developed countries, most of which have signed the Rome convention. A sound recording is covered by a couple of different basic rights with different terms: authors' rights (a certain number - usually 50 or 70 - years after the author's - or composer's - death), performers' rights (a given number of years after the performance was published) and producers' rights (as for perfomers, but more complicated, at least regarding the US). This is Wikipedia, not the law, but it does give a hint (see espescially under "phonogram producers"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Related_rights Again, I'm no copyright attorney, though I am however a lawyer. EDIT to say that I'm way behind David, but I'll leave the post as it is.

Belated thanks, everybody! I'm heartened that I'm still remembered here, despite my low activity in later years. Since three months I'm the father of a lovely daughter who takes up most of my spare time and I feel very happy about it. I still got plans for another album, though. I was even thinking about releasing it on an all-analogue LP (+download, but no CD) and have been reasearching pressing plants across Europe, but it appears it would simply be too costly. The end product will most likely be a CD in a 6- or 8-side digipak with a booklet (as well as a digital download). There are tentative plans for recording in February-March.

According to a guy I know at Sony, it has been pushed back indefinitely.

I've always been intrigued by Ruggiero and would like to know more about him. Maybe there's even enough for a separate thread.

Further down at the same page: "When he refused to remove his hat at the Blue Morocco cafe in The Bronx, eccentric musician Thelonious Monk was swiftly ushered to the door."

From D to D: Happy birthday!

I'm not sure it really is of significance, but wasn't the 'Yellow Shark' album orchestrated by someone else?

I've always loved Duke Pearson's playing and arranging. There's a certain vibe to most of his work which communicates warmth and honesty. There are some nice reflections on Pearson in this (old) thread: Edit: Almost forgot - my favorite album is 'Sweet Honey Bee'!

It seems to be common knowledge that Jackie most often tuned his instrument sharp, but yesterday I happened to hear a tune from Walter Davis' Blue Note album on the car stereo (might have been 's Make It) where I could have sworn he's a bit low.

If this document is to be trusted, since 1999 there is a 50 year protection for performers as well as producers also in Andorra, so the original producer/rightsholder would have to give his permission to a reissue. Previously, I've seen references to a shorter duration of neighboring rights on Andorra, but apparently they apply the same durations as the EU.

I wouldn't say that the Japanese suffers from the reverb, because I find the original issue to be too dry, but in comparsion with the Rhino digipak from 1998 (cat.no 8122-75352-2) it sounds distant and indistinct, albeit easier on the ear. The Japanese version I'm talking about is "Inner Space", cat.no WPCR-13194. It sounds much like the 70s Atlantic LP twofer. The main reason for getting the "Inner Space" CD would be the unissued tracks from the session which are not on the Rhino release.

Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel.

Belated birthday greetings, Flurin!

I think 'Latin Kaleidoscope' is one of the most enjoyable CBBB albums. There seems to have been a string of recent SABA/MPS reissues of other artists as well, but I haven't been able to find any comprehensive listing.

I also love vintage gear. I've used a Harman/Kardon 930 from 1973 for more than ten years and wouldn't want to change it for anything else. My setup:

The rights on photographs are sytematically ignored on this board too! Get furious everybody!! Seriously, in fact as I pointed out in another thread cover images are now often doctored so as to resemble originals without infringing copyright, so this issue has plainly come up somehow and in some context. As for performing rights, of course the so-called gray labels make a point of saying they have paid that, and maybe they have. In relation to both those issues (of disfigured quotation and avoiding paying composers) it is worth remembering that one reason the tunes on so many hard bop style LPs are so uh unmemorable is that they are hastily composed nothings designed to fit a famous chord sequence, thus avoiding royalties to the composer and earning them for the new 'composer'. Of course why *this* should be is another whole question in the history of copyright, but it is that history people here get bent out of shape about. And of course no-one here has yet turned their righteous anger on Charlie Parker or Lee Morgan for ripping off George Gershwin with their grey market recompositions... I don't think the fact that bad art is protected by copyright is enough to quash the IP laws.

I have no problem with the moderating. These reissues may be legal in some countries, illegal in others; either way, they are easy enough to find even without direct links from here. While I don't think it would matter too much to allow links, I have sympathy for the view of the owner of these forums from a moral point of view. I can't say that I worry a lot about the sales figures of companies who are never doing anything else than copying the work of others.