Daniel A

Clarke-Boland Big Band 'Sax No End' (MPS/Basf)

Happy Birthday, Chris!

The Shin-ichi Iwamoto Hank Jones disography (only including dates up to the year of 1989) lists over 970 sessions!! Regarding the Savoy solo album it really deserves to be reissued. I'm glad I found the 1970s reissue in a 0.30 euro bin(!) a month ago, as my Savoy original is getting rather worn.

So it was not about plastic players?

There are several good plastic alto players from Sweden... Johan Hörlén, Per "Ruskträsk" Johansson (not to be confused with the tenor and clarinet player Per "Texas" Johansson), Peter Fredman, Håkan Broström... More well-known is perhaps the late Rolf Billberg.

I finally found this one at a good price: "4 in Perspective" with Kenny Wheeler, Fred Hersch, Norma Winstone and Paul Clarvis; a 1999 concert released on Clarvis' Villiage Life label. This is simply a wonderful album! Hersch and Wheeler is such a good match. I suspect this is the kind of CD that will be very difficult to find within a few years. As noted in another thread Wheeler (or Hersch) fans are advised to check out this one.

Leroy Vinnegar 'Leroy Walks' (Contemporary/Vogue) Some nice Carl Perkins on this one!

Stanley Cowell Trio 'Close to You Alone' (DIW) No clothing stylist is given for the cover shot. General cover design credited to "DIW Design Room"...

Alas... Got the box from 2001 back in the day.

According to this site (which of course is known to have been wrong at several instances) the last title released both in mono and stereo was Elvin Jones 'Puttin' It Together' (BLP 4282), which - like 'Introducing...' (BLP 4276) - was recorded during the Liberty era.

Aaah, must spin some Clarke-Boland soon! Now it's getting too late and I can't find my headphones... I always avoided those French MPS pressings because it often appeared that the covers somehow didn't look as good as the originals. Probably the vinyls are quite all right.

Freddie Hubbard 'Blue Spirits' (Blue Note NY mono). Hubbard's forgotten Blue Note album?

A strawberry cake from me to you... Happy birthday, Reinier!

But that's when Andorran intellectual property law enters the picture... I found an English translation of a draft for an Andorran copyright law which says there's a 50-year protection for recordings (this document from this page). However, I don't know if it has been put into effect. If I knew Catalan the answer could probably be found here.

Heh... I'd strongly recommend Poland by car to risk lovers. I have bright memories from Gdansk... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Y4bffZxBg

Back cover:

Buster Williams wrote several good tunes for that band. 'Lighthouse '69' inlcudes his "Ruby P'Gonia", seldom (if ever) "covered"... (Edit to change the year to '69) Here's the cover, BTW:

I placed an order with UK Amazon (not the Monk set) on Tuesday 9th; it was delivered yesterday.

Well, I'll join in and wish you a happy birthday!

So what do you think abou it? Now, I haven't heard the Bakery album, but I know that Lundgren can play, if given the right setting. It seems that he is rather conventional when he's calling the shots himself, but can be forced into a more adventurous mode if the setting asks for it.

May he be remembered. I'll spin the Pastoral Symphony (no. 3) with Boult later - my favourite of Vaughan Williams'.

Cannonball Adderley 'Somethin' Else' (another 90s Toshiba pressing). Love Hank Jones' playing on the final vamp of Autumn Leaves - he's really one of the most sophisticated pianists jazz has had.

Joe Henderson 'Page One' (1990s Toshiba pressing which has a very pleasant sound). The King pressings seem to be universally held high in regard; the Toshibas are perhaps more uneven. I'll probably start a discussion about this one of these days - I suppose there are at least a handful of board members which will be able to offer some input on the matter.

This does not sound too promising. How reliable is this service? With the amount of sniping going on these days I wonder if it will really help to use a sniping assistant, as it will depend on the sniper with the highest bid anyway. I suppose the typical sniper does not follow the auction to the last second, so maybe a manual bid towards the end would work just as well. If not - the others were simply prepared to pay more...

When I ordered from UK Amazon (earlier this week) 17.5 percent VAT was added during the check-out process. I was surprised; thought they had to include VAT from the start. That's strange, EU Amazon prices always included VAT before check-out - I just remembered that during the check-out process prices were adjusted to include the VAT percentage of the EU country the customer lives in. Maybe they've changed it and just add VAT at the end. No, you're right! I checked my order and the VAT was not added, only adjusted during check-out. I was confused because in the order summary each item was listed with final VAT included, but the items subtotal just below was without VAT. Except from books, Sweden has the highest VAT rate in the EU...