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A very solid guess my little North Sea dwelling citizen...accurate down to ze detail about the lid and the furrow! Yet, much like all those bunker busting cruise missiles fired willy nilly at Saddam's hideaways......your miserable hanseatic league self has missed ze target!! Ze boxes once housed glorious butter-drenched, marzipan-stuffed, powdered sugar dusted loaves of BORS Christstollen from Bocholt! Impossible to guess, nobody eats those here. They are all exported to the South. Those silly Austrians seem to like them. It's a good way to get rid of the crumbs sweeped from the bakery floor I guess.

Great tune, always sends shivers down the spine here. The version on Morgan's Last Session is timeless of course if only for the awesom bass work. I got Billy's "own" version on Strata East some time ago. A killer tune is a killer tune! These non-musician ears hear a lot of tension and release in there, the thing builds and crumbles, builds and crumbles, loud and soft, dense and sparse, rasp and smear. Absolutely marvellous. HELLYEAH!

I believe zweitausendeins also offers these for 15EUR no?

Herr Couw, as they say in zat famous American television commercial, 'Can you C me now?' Tell me what you think zee little wooden boxes holding some japanese mini-lps are? I give you a free cd if you guess correctly!!! yas, I see you now! those boxes seem to originally have hidden a nice bottle of wine embedded in wood chips to prevent it from breaking; shove the lid through the furrow in the side planks to open. Nice.

there was a not so favourable review posted somewhere on this board I believe

yes, just edited it. I had some comment on Bartz on the other thread (Greatest Finds). Apparantly he fell ill and had only just returned to the scene when this recording was made.

I doubt that. It was not released by Amiga the GDR label AFAIK. This site has a complete listing of Amiga Jazz releases and We Insist is NOT on it. BTW: this one is: If is is a GDR Amiga, it should either have Amiga written in the font as depicted on the Wright album above, or have an orange J like this: The label varied through time, here's an overview pic: big ones here

I haven't gone that far into it yet. I understand the drummer is someone you listen for first. I don't, and I think you will understand that as well... The liners also mention him as a "big guy:" (complete liners on this site, in German) Do you know this record?

Track 5. listening to another disk Jim has put me onto, I am thinking this may very well be by one of those Italian groups related to the Instabile conglomerate (or how to call it). The bari would then be Carlo Actis Dato. The mediterranean/arabic tinge is something Carlo Actis Dato likes to put on his music as well I have learned. This is just a wild guess, as my knowledge of this group and its music is VERY sketchy at best.

Higher shelves equals more storage space? Is there a step-up contraption at the bottom-right of the pic? MORE shelves equal more storage space. With higher I meant the distance between the shelves in one unit. Looks like 2 CDs would fit on top of each other. So why not have two shelves.

why are your shelves so high?

didn't see him and I may be wrong. Mine hasn't arrived yet either and the cute post women here can be trusted, I am sure of that!

I'm playing it right now (and recording it to harddisk). The thing is MINT. There is some (very) slight ringwear on the cover. Labels are like new. I am sure this one has never been played before. Sound is okay, considering this is a live recording from the GDR mind you. Vinyl itself is silent. WOO HOO! on the 3rd track, Dr Blues starts playing claviola, you know that thing that looks like a cross between a small piano and a harmonica with a hose on it. This is good stuff!!! (when's my next turn for BFT?)

well, maybe it IS yours and the postman found it after it "fell of the truck."

I just picked up a vinyl copy of this little gem: recorded: March 10, 1965 live in Dresden issued: 1965 (or 67 ?) AMIGA 855056 (Ex-East-Germany) LEO WRIGHT (fl, as); "DR. BLUES" CANDY GREEN (p, voc, hca); ANDRÉ CONDOUANT (g); WOLFGANG KRAESSE (b ); HARTWIG BARTZ (dr) Side A 1. Encore (Loose Walk or Stitt´s Tune) 2. It Might As Well Be Spring 3. Down Home Kansas City Blues 4. Kidney Stew Side B 1. Every Day I Have The Blues 2. Blues March 3. Grooving High AFAIK it has never been released outside the GDR. now the hunt continues for part 1 of the same concert...

so finally it's official. happy birthday Tom!

sssst!

so where do you put "WHITE"?

Xero Slingsby played a bikepumpaphone. no idea what it looked like. sounds weird though.

those "with strings CD's that are truly rotten" are all over the place. You just wouldn't think of them as jazz, but more as of novelty items. It's like organ jazz, where you find the same thing in the liners, which makes you wonder "where's the BAD organ jazz? I sure didn't hear it!" But there again, the "rotten" stuff is not found in the jazz bin. It's those records that show a Clayderman kinda guy at the hammond on the cover.

piling = organising!

damn! that doesn't seem to work! MSN wants us to be member to view the pics...

no I'm not familiar. I would appreciate some recommendation though. I have been reading up on (east) German novels that deal with nazi and post nazi germany and this looks like it may be an interesting read (or a dead boring one ).