Daniel A

There was a Fiat Topolino in the 30s-50s: and i suspect that nickname is sometimes used also for the successor, Fiat 600: It was manufactured from 1955 and into the 70s. If you want to make one of these as well, click *here*.

Ubu, did you actually have a Fiat 126?! A safe choice as a family car, since the two-cylinder engine inspires a relaxed driving style.

I had a 350SE from 1975 as well, but sold it last year because it needed too much fixing and its ridiculous fuel consumtion.

I have a Mercedes 200 from 1985. It's just about finished, though. Rear suspension has severe corrosion damage. I will have to get rid of the car within a month, or otherwise it will be impossible to drive. Picture from France (summer of 2004):

But 640 kB RAM surely ought to be more than enough?

Thanks, Lon! S/H for four CDs to Sweden is $10, so it sounds as if it couldn't get much cheaper.

Does anyone know what the best (=cheapest) online resource for the individual JiP discs is (for someone living in Europe, but not necessarily au centre de Paris)?

Well, there you have it. Costs them next to nothing, but generates a profit.

That was a very fine concert, indeed! Jensen is in good form, and Seamus Blake plays beautifully, especially on 'Silver Twilight'. All of her Enja albums are strongly recommended. Personally I find the first one, Vernal Fields, the most enjoyable (I think the compositions by her sister Christine are wonderful), but all of them have their merits. The more recent Now as Then, is good too. I have never heard an uninteresting solo by Ingrid.

The rights to the music in films continues to be a problem. I know that an enrire scene from "Billion Dollar Brain" (semi-classic 60s cold war thriller, also featuring Michael Cane) was cut from the recent DVD release because it prominently featured a Beatles tune, and it couldn't be re-scored as someone is seen playing a Beatles LP and even showing the record cover.

Or was it perhaps a new Kuhn? It's of interest all the same, so thanks for the heads-up!

Harvey Mason plays very well on a couple of soundtracks of the time ("Three Days of the Condor", anyone?). And wasn't he on the "Baretta" scores as well?

Is this the Buster Williams composition? I'm very curious how they were playing it in 1973. Anything remotely like the version on "The Prisoner" (or even less likely, the Jazz Crusaders version)?

Thanks for letting us know, brownie!

Not recorded by RVG, and probably not whithin the range of a possible Hutcherson Select, but let's hope for it anyway: It's exactly as good as the line-up suggests. And I'm glad Bobby is thinking of his health; he's smoking filter cigarettes!

There's a wealth of European stuff which has never seen CD release and is notoriously hard to track down (Martial Solal, Stan Tracey, Ronnie Scott etc), but I'm not sure Mosaic would really go for something which would probably not sell that well in the US (or even in Europe). And it would perhaps prove more difficult to license the material, too.

Thanks for the info, Ken! For those interested, I have posted the timings from the original LP *here*. And if they decide to reissue it once more I have a clean copy to dub from right here.

This doesn't exactly count (three of the six tracks from the earlier recording are remade with the same personnel (minus Garrison), but anyway: 1959: 1993: Then there's this one: and this:

Ubu, my impression is that Pearson always sounded slightly more confident (and enjoyable) when he had some more influence over the arranging/producing etc. than on his typical sideman dates. As for what Pearson albums I think you should get, that's a matter for a different thread (I think there is a Pearson recommendations thread somewhere already). (I kind of liked the big band Pearson avatar as he has a sort of mysterious smile on that cover, but one day my avatar for some reason did not show anymore, so I scanned a photo from - guess what - the Donald Byrd Mosaic set instead!)

Just how cool can you get, man?

One seller at UK Amazon ("import cd-specialists") claims to have it in stock, "brand new factory sealed", for £43.23 (~75 USD or 63 EUR). "Ships to you same business day"... http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/det...2664648-7196462

I guess I'm now also known as mr. Joe Cool...

I had 25 people over here at a party yesterday night. When we got well past midnight, and there were around ten people left, I made some pancakes; it's an old tradition of mine. I served them as I prefer them myself: with strawberry jam and whipping cream.

Technically, there's nothing wrong with Byrd's playing on 'Fuego', at least not in my opinion. Musically, it's neither much better nor worse than his other Blue Notes of the day; it doesn't stand out from his late 50s output in any way. His tone was never the fattest among trumpeters, and it could sound somewhat uncertain from time to time. He sounds OK here, though, but plays it rather safe. Edit: As usual, just my very personal opinion of the date. (added after reading the praise in the previous post. I guess I'm just not a great Byrd fan, though I have most of his Blue Note albums which I enjoy for what they are; mostly solid and not too adventurous hard bop dates)