Daniel A

Three more reissues are slated for January. Perhaps the choices could have been more daring, but the Jan Hammer album (recorded in 1968) has its merits. I have not heard the Stu Goldberg album, though. JAN HAMMER TRIO Maliny Maliny promising music / MPS / P441092 1968 Price: 18.00 € (incl. 19 % VAT, where applicable) JAN HAMMER - piano, organ GEORGE (JIRI) MRAZ - el-bass CEES SEE - drums STU GOLDBERGEye Of The Beholder promising music / MPS / P441112 1982 Price: 18.00 € (incl. 19 % VAT, where applicable) STU GOLDBERG - piano JIM LACEFIELD - acoustic bass DAVE CRIGGER - drums KEN GOLDBERG - tenor sax, flute, piccolo LEE PASTORA - congas, bongos DOUG CAMERON - 1st violin, concertmaster CLAYTON HASLOP - 2nd violin JIMBO ROSS - viola DAN SMITH - cello ALPHONSE MOUZONVirtue promising music / MPS / P441102 1977 Price: 18.00 € (incl. 19 % VAT, where applicable) Alphonse Mouzon - drums, perc, keyb, voc, arr Gary Bartz - soprano & alto sax Stu Goldberg - keyboards Welton Gite - el-bass

Either I've not been paying attention and all of these have already been posted here, or the source of this information (Swedish online CD store) is just not reliable, but it looks like there's a batch of RVGs coming up for February 11, 2009: Paul Chambers Quintet Grant Green - Grant's First Stand Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond Leo Parker - Rollin' With Leo Horace Parlan - Up and Down Stanley Turrentine - A Chip Off the Old Block

While browsing a Swedish online CD store I noticed several upcoming reissues of old OJC titles from Concord (several of which were recently deleted). They are not advertised on the Concord webpage and I could not find info anywhere else, so I'm posting them here. Release date is given as January 12. Abdul-malik Ahmed - Jazz Sahara Austin Claire - When Your Lover Has Gone Babasin Harry/Enevoldsen Bob - Jazz In Hollywood Bishop Walter Jr - Walter Bishop Jr Trio Brookmeyer Bob - Dual Role Of Bob Brookmeyer Burns Ralph - Bijou Cohn Al - Broadway Cook Junior - Junior's Cookin' Curson Ted - Plays Fire Down Below Dickerson Walt - To My Queen Draper Ray - Ray Draper Quintet Eardley Jon - Jon Eardley Seven Ellis Don - New Ideas Erskine Peter - Peter Erskine Farrell Joe - Sonic Text Gordon Joe - Lookin' Good Gorond Honi - Honi Gordon Sings Harper Herbie - Jazz In Hollywood Harris Bill - Bill Harris & Friends Hawkins Coleman - Bean & The Boys Jenkins John - Jenkins Jordan & Timmons Johnson Budd - Let's Swing Johnson Osie - Osie's Oasis Jones Carlmell - Jay Hawk Talk Jones Elvin - Elvin Lea Barbara - Barbara Lea Mabern Harold - Wailin' Mariano Charlie - Boston All-stars Matthew Gee All-stars - Jazz By Gee Mcintyre Ken/dolphy Eric - Looking Ahead Mckusick Hal - Triple Exposure Melle Gil - Gil's Guests Mobley Hank - Messages Moore Ada - Tbc Moore Wild Bill - Bottom Grove Pearson Duke - Dedication Pike Dave - It's Time For Dave Pike Poole Billie - Confessin' The Blues Prestige Blues Swingers - Outskirts Of Town Price Ruth/Manne Shelly - At The Manne-hole Priester Julian - Keep Swingin' Raney Jimmy - A Reece Dizzy - Asia Minor Richardson Jerome - Midnight Oil Rouse Charlie - Takin' Care Of Business Singer Hal/Shavers Charlie - Blue Stompin' Spann Les - Gemini Tatro Duane - Jazz For Moderns Watkins Doug - Soulnik Woods Jimmy - Awakening There are 50 titles, and all of them have "CC 50" added to the title. I don't know what it means - Collector's Choice?

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Here's the previous thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...=0&p=371898

From Wikipedia: I'm steering clear of CDRs. I got one print-on-demand title which was leased from Universal (A Clarke-Boland Big Band album); it does not play on older CD players. In that particular case, liner notes were also missing.

Although, he was the only one who didn't wear a suit... But thanks!

The release gig was successful, and one tune (Lady in Cement) is now on YouTube: Not in best visual quality, but the sound is decent. Filmed simutaneously with a laptop webcam and a mobile phone... I'm in the process of making a deal with a distributor, but so far the CD is only available directly from me. Prices: Europe: 11€ + 2€ shipping = 13€ US: $12.50 + 3.50 shipping = $16 If anyone's interested drop me a message.

It's from a Swedish police comedy, "Kopps".

Thanks for the notice! I got "Patterns", since I only have this session on LP. Somebody should get "Total Eclipse" immediatly! It's an incredible album. Harold Land, Reggie Johnson and Chick are all in top form on that album, and while Joe Chambers arguably is just a little better on some of his best recordings, his playing is nevertheless great too.

Went for 25 dollars. Stated as a Japanese import, no less!

Дмитрий, поздравляю тебя с днём рождения!

They are probably just doing what they can to stay in business. There may have been misguided decisions by EMI/Blue Note in the past, but this time everybody must accept that these titles have been repressed on digital plastic discs for the last time. If they are going the lossless download route - which will be the only way to distribute these recordings with a profit - it probably just makes sense to let many of them disappear to create some attention when launching the downloading service.

I wish you a happy birthday, David!

It is on this CD; 'Upstairs', written by Bacharach for the musical "Promises, Promises", covered by The Jazz Crusaders on 'Powerhouse' but not by too many others. Until now, of course! Thank you so much for your appreciative words! This is all about playing tunes we like (or that I like, since I've chosen them all), and while the interepretations are not advanced in any manner I hope they'll bring the good vibe we got going while playing them. 'Lady in Cement' has long been a favorite of mine; I love the time signature shifts! Bacharach was also using time shifts quite often and I've tried to get some of that into 'What the World Needs Now' which alters between 5/4 and 3/4 during the solos. And thanks everyone for your support! I feel very privileged to be able to bring tunes to a band and make music that people find - if not challenging - at least nice to listen to.

OK, will think of that next time! You others may still discuss it here, though...

Thanks for your enthuastic comments! I know I'm not the greatest pianist in the world, but the players in the band are really making the best out of my arrangements and I'm trying my best to keep pace.

Many years ago, while still a student, I led a short-lived band dedicated to playing jazz versions of Burt Bacharach tunes, called 'Young, Shy & Handsome'. We got the band name from a 60s instrumental Bacharach LP where Burt himself was described in those words, despite being around 45 years old by then. After a couple of gigs the band evaporated, mostly because I was unable to get anyone to hire us. Since then I've been playing infrequently with other bands (not so much these days because most of my time goes into my office job), but I was hoping that some day I would be able to put together a band of my own once again. Earlier this year I was discussing this with a couple of former band members and we decided to give it a try. I booked a studio for one single day of recording; only one day because I felt I could not invest more money in the project at that point. However, the results turned out good enough to make me decide to release it on a label of my own. The release party will take place next Tuesday at a hotel in Stockholm. I'm a bit nervous since the CDs haven't been delivered from the factory yet, but I hope everything will get settled before the gig. Most of the band members have countless other projects going on, but we're hoping that by using the CD for promotion we'll get enough of gigs to keep us going (playing a couple of times a year, maybe). Myself, I'm looking at this as hobby because I won't make much money from it, but I want to keep the guys in the band happy and I'm willing to spend a lot of my free time to make it work. I've made all of the arrangements for the 7-piece band which includes trumpet, alto saxophone, trombone, bass trombone, bass and drums. I'm playing the piano myself. So far, I'm planning to handle the distribution of the CD on my own. It will hopefully soon be available from CD Baby and digitally from iTunes, eMusic and a few other services. Not many people are buying CDs these days and most of them will probably just be used for promotion, but of course anyone interested is more than welcome to order it directly from me; the price will be around 11 Euro or 12 USD plus postage. Some may note that the price to the US is cheaper; that is because I only need to add VAT inside the EU. A couple of tracks from the album may be sampled at our MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/youngshyandhandsome Our website is still in Swedish only (and in reality it's still just an ad for our release gig. However, I hope to be able to update it with some more pictures, English text and an order form for the album soon. Track listing: 1. Manteca (Gillespie) 2. The Look of Love (Bacharach) 3. Someday (George Duke) 4. Pensativa (Clare Fischer) 5. Lady in Cement (Montenegro) 6. Upstairs (Bacharach) 7. What the World Needs Now (Bacharach) 8. Do you Know the Way to San José (Bacharach) (p)&© D-Disk, 2008

Somehow, Frank's fireplace (and the wall, too) looks somewhat fake, like the scenery from 60s TV series. Or is it just typical American design?

No expert here, but I'm under the impression that the life span depends on temperature, light and other environmental factors.

That's the big difference. On-line is great for finding something you specifically want, but not necessarily for stumbling across things you never heard of. Internet communities and forums will replace bin diving as a means to discover new and old things (and to a large extent it has changed already, look at all the blogs), but I agree it's not exactly the same.

Now that I've got the Fresh Sound CD reissue of the Hank Jones Savoy solo album I can attest that to my ears it sounds like the CD is transferred from vinyl, albeit decently done. The best sounding version would still probably be the 70s reissue from Arista which - if found - could be had for next to nothing, no doubt partly because of the ugly cover. To me, it really sounds as if it is mastered from tape rather than a previous LP release. If you don't do vinyl the Fresh Sound is however a decent option to get one of Hank's best albums.

Belated birthday greetings!

So, has anyone ordered anything from "Promising Music", or made any "requests" for that matter? I notice that some of the titles in the wish list are in print from Universal, so I wonder why those have been made available for lease-out in the first place. That said, there are lots of good stuff in the catalogue that should get out, and this initiative looks promising.

I see! The labels (not that it matters much) for the new "reissues" are Disconforme, Essential Jazz Classics, Jazz Track and Gambit, and all seem to be listed as available already. Why all these different labels?