Daniel A

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.

He'll happily let you stay, but don't count on sleeping very much as he is also very generous when it comes to beer...

Next I'll play the quadrophonic(!!) version of Ahmad Jamal's 'Tranquility' (ABC/Impulse), just for brownie! Beats even a good stereo pressing, don't you think?

If they can't make any money from the tapes, perhaps they could donate them to their respective national libraries, no? It would probably cost more to destroy them.

Funny, I could've sworn the 2004 design lasted longer, but the archive proves differently. After checking out the links above I realized I'd forgotten how the site looked like up to last week! So here's: The 2004-7 version

I'd really like to get that one, but always get outbid on the 'puter. Got my copy at a reasonable price just two weeks ago. I hope it wasn't you a couple of dollars behind me... Now: 'Have You Met Hank Jones' (orig. Savoy), an endlessly attractive record, probably one of my favourite Hank Jones albums as well as solo piano albums.

"Jazz in the Space Age" is marred by a lot of audible splicing. I suppose not much could be done about that. Tenorist Dave Young was a suprise for me first time I heard this album. It would be nice to see it in print in some form.

Belated but deeply heartfelt birthday greetings...

Up!

Don't have that one on LP, and I promised myself tonight would be vinyl-only... Struth! I'll try Hutcherson's "Total Eclipse" (Lib.) instead.

Louis Armstrong?

Chick Corea "Tones for Joan's Bones" (Vortex). Joe Chambers is amazing on this album, never heard him play like this elsewhere!

I second this! "Summertime" has everything that "Troubled Waters" lacks. Good Sebesky arrengements and CTI production - still on the A&M imprint at the time - at its best. It's exciting to hear the rhythm section of Hancock, Carter and Leo Morris or Airto behind Desmond; despite the big band and the reverb they are quite audible. Only offered as a download from the Verve site, but it may still be possible to get this from Japan, and not too expensive. Or get the LP!

I recently returned to eBay after some time, and to me it appears as if the prices on jazz LPs are about as before. But I noticed two differences: lots of Japanese pressings, and sniping en masse. If you're measuring in Euros the reason might be that the dollar has dropped about 30 percent in a couple of year.

"Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks", which means they don't really have it in stock. But it's cheap anyway...

This is more up to date: http://www.jazz-book.com/disc1.htm

The complete version for those who are not already subcribers (and paid a lot from the start) is much more. But I take it it's better than Lord anyway.

The fifth trio session in the UCCJ-9082/86 Corea box will be with Hadrien Feraud and Richie Barshay.

My opinion is that saying that prayers won't do it is no more in place than accusing someone who wishes George Cables all the best for not praying. That said, I really hope George is going to get well.

It would be an understatement to say that I don't give much for Clementine's posting style, but actually there was no bunch of guys; only one - albeit very hostile - post, following a possibly uncareful question.

No, he was covering Mary Martin. The movie was made in 1965.

Recently I bought a CD from Aebersold's (rather new) eBay business. After a couple of weeks I got an email asking me submit feedback. I responded that I had not recieved the item, that it's not unusual with an overseas shipping time of more than two weeks and that I assumed that I'd gotten an automated message. I received no comment on my response, but when I finally got the CD it turned out it had been posted two weeks after the end of the auction; in fact the day before I got the email...

I think at least the Quincy Jones (a nice, but ultimately lightweight album) was, but there are a couple of other releases as well. CDUniverse gives October 9 as "street date"; Verve's website has them as "upcoming" on both September 18 and October 9, but a search in the catalog will only come up with the old reissues, or even none at all. http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/buzz.aspx?bid=37 9.18.2007 Diana Krall - The Very Best Of Diana Krall - Verve Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Stanley Clarke - Children Are Forever - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Hamburg - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Mister Kelly's - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy And Bess Gato Barbieri - Ruby Ruby - Catalog/Reissue - A&M Jazz George Benson - The Shape of Things to Come - Catalog/Reissue - A&M Jazz Gil Evans Orchestra - Out Of The Cool - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Miles Davis - Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud) - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Oscar Peterson Trio - Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Quincy Jones - The Quintessence - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Ramsey Lewis - The 'In' Crowd - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Sarah Vaughan - Live at Mister Kelly's - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Sonny Rollins - On Impulse! - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Stan Getz - Getz Au Go-Go (Live) - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Lifeline - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Wes Montgomery - Goin' Out of My Head - Catalog/Reissue - Verve 9.25.2007 Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters - Verve Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Miss Ella's Playhouse - Catalog/Reissue - Verve 10.9.07 Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Lifeline - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Stanley Clarke - Children Are Forever - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Quincy Jones - The Quintessence - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Ramsey Lewis - The 'In' Crowd - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! RAMP - Come Into Knowledge - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Sonny Rollins - On Impulse! - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! 10.30.2007 John Coltrane - Africa/Brass - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - Ballads - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - Coltrane - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - The Impulse! Albums: Volume One - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! 11.6.2007 Charlie Haden Quartet West - Charlie Haden: The Best of Quartet West - Verve David Liebman, Roberto Tarenzi, Paolo Bendedettini - Dream of Nite - Verve Dion - Son of Skip James - Verve Forcast Steve Tyrell - Back to Bacharach - Verve 1.10.2008 Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith - Catalog/Reissue - Verve 1.22.2008 Lizz Wright - TBD - Verve Forecast TBD Bajofondo - Mar Dulce - Verve Clifford Brown - The Complete EmArcy Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Michael Brecker - The Very Best Of Michael Brecker - Impluse! Ella Fitzgerald & Gordon Jenkins - Invite You To Listen And Relax - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Porgy and Bess - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Ella Fitzgerald - Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles Vol. 2 - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Live At Mister Kelly's - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Bill Henderson - With the Oscar Peterson Trio - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Billie Holiday - The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Beverly Kenny - Born to Be Blue - Catalog/Reissue - GRP John Klemmer - The Very Best of John Klemmer - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Charlie Parker - The Complete Verve Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Mel Torme - Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Various Artists - Beatles Song Book Compilation - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Various Artists - Top Ten Tracks: Jazz - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Various Artists - Top Ten Tracks: Smooth Jazz - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Dinah Washinton - Dinah! - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Zucchero - The Best of Zucchero - Verve

I think "Study in Brown" is the best Brown/Roach album. It has it all.