Daniel A

Happy birthday, Marcus!! Hope you are doing well!

I heard this story many years ago about Michael Brecker being asked what it was like to be the greatest tenor player in the world. His answer was "I don't know - ask Jerry Bergonzi."

"Greatest Motion Picture Hits" is another one which has its moments. I think that even the worn out classics are fantastic songs, which because of their over-familiarity are not appreciated as the great compositions they are. Bacharach the arranger is another forgotten story. His arrangements are often as idiosynchratic as the actual compositions and they often work just so well anyway.

A curiosity: On the '58 Sessions' the wrong take of "Stella" was mistakenly included. The original Jazz Track album (as well as the box set) has a different composite take.

Maybe a question about some forum member, which would force the applicant to spend some time on the forums. "Who did just unload his complete CD collection?"

GREAT news, Bruce!!! Actually, I believe several studies have come to that conclusion, and the insurance industry is not likely to have manipulated their results. PSA tests are of immense value, don't think I'm thinking otherwise, but only up to a certain age. In reality, if a man lives long enough, he will get prostate cancer. Many men who die of "old age" do have untreated prostate cancer, which however did not affect their life span, because it most cases it is a slow-growing type of tumour.

FWIW, Andorra signed the Berne Convention a few years ago, so the 50 year limit is in effect there, too.

Perhaps you could ask him if he thinks the fact that there will probably never be any more jazz releases on any major label affects the general development of jazz in any way.

Fischer is a solid guitarist and I can imagine that this album will be nice. His band featured Ingrid Jensen on some live gigs a while back.

BTW, there's a terrific collection of stories from the BG tour by bassist Bill Crow here: To Russia Without Love

Actually, he mentions Lenin in the liner notes, "Nikolai Lenin" that is.

??????????????????? What's it like? I imagine the idea came from Victor's time in Moscow with the Benny Goodman Orchestra on its State Department-sponsored tour of 1962. Local musicians who jammed with the visitors probably introduced them to these tunes. Leonard Feather (also the producer of the album) typically takes credit for the idea in the liner notes, having brought back tapes with Russian jazz musicians given to him during that Benny Goodman tour, but since Feldman and a few others from the BG band (Phil Woods is mentioned) apparently took opportunity to jam with locals I suspect that the idea was as much his.

I believe that the latest Collectables reissue has all of the original 'Tones...' album, as well as the two bonus tracks from the same session and two Corea compositions from a Hubert Laws Atlantic LP (it even fits on a single CD). But I've been hesitant to order it as I've had really bad experience with some of Collectable's "remastering" efforts in the past. I have the old CD reissue with just the four original tracks from "Tones" and would really like to have the two other cuts from the session. I can only hope that they will be included on the WPCR-13194 reissue. From this listing it appears to have 8 tracks, so it seems that it could actually be the case. Collectables released the Hubert Laws album on which 'Trio for Bassoon, Flute & Piano' and 'Windows' were orignally - included on 'Inner Space' because they are Corea compositions and includes Corea as sideman - but the sound quality was the worst I've encountered on any commercially released CD, at least with post-1960 studio material. I made a burn from my own LP instead which sounds 10 times better. That was encouraging information. Thanks, Late! I think I'll have to try this reissue of 'Inner Space'. BTW, I found the thread you mentioned here.

??????????????????? What's it like? I got this today and has so far only listened to it once. The unfamiliar themes are a great plus. While they are not particularly challenging or otherwise exceptional, they are fun to hear because you can be sure you haven't heard them before. And maybe there's just a slight east European tinge to some of them. Harold Land has one or two strong solos, Feldman is predictably fine on vibes. Zawinul (who plays piano on three tracks) sounds faceless and not too interesting. Solid support from Frank Butler. To sum it up; the album's a bit uneven, but there are a couple of tracks I probably wouldn't want to be without. The sound is slightly bass-shy but otherwise of surprisingly good fidelity.

Updated today. Has anybody had experience with Japanese reissues of 60s Atlantic (and related labels) material? Collectables are not always doing a great job with the sound. I was thinking of this one: WPCR 13194 Corea, Chick / Inner Space(SHM CD)* 2580

It doesn't load for me either, but it was still in my IE cache:

Victor Feldman 'Your Smile' (Choice Records, 1974) A somewhat uneven but occasionally beatiful affair, with Tom Scott in atypically jazzy form.

Interesting! Keep us informed, by all means! It's stored on "digital sound cassettes". Let's hope it's not on DCC; it would be difficult to find a playback unit...

Victor Feldman 'Soviet Jazz Themes' (Ava Records, mono, 1963) Nice group with Carmell Jones and Harold Land, among others.

Does anyone know what Zweitausedeins charges for EU shipping these days? Their website says that foreign shipping rates are quoted by telephone...

Mine's GXK- Guess they're both good!

There's a post from Brandon Burke regarding Technics SL-1200 here which I agree with.

This is one of those albums I've been looking for, but it always seems too expensive. Worth the top dollar?

Is there a misprint in the discography for the Akiyoshi/Tabackin set? The title track for the album "Long Yellow Road" is listed as "Yellow Brick Road". http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.a...;copies=3%20CDs

I've got both "Replica" and "ordinary" King issues of Herbie Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage', and while it was some time since I compared them I don't think the difference is that great between the two. So personally I don't worry that much if original tapes were used or not as long as the result is good - or even great - sound. Interesting information, though. Where did you learn this?