neveronfriday

Hopefully NOT like this ... And, couw, thanks for the cake! Cheers!

Hi Randy, just brought the two disks up from the mailbox. Just wanted to let you know that the discs got to Germany in perfect condition. Nice and safe packaging! I will listen to the discs this afternoon while I'm redoing the shelves in the living room. Am looking forward to the music and will get back later with opinions/guesses/facts. Cheers!

Up! Cheers! [i scanned a Danish version and put in my own text. Non-sequitur will survive, I think.]

Question: What's black, white and red ... and can't walk through revolving doors? Answer: A nun with a spear through her head.

I'm looking any releases by Ronnell Bright as a leader. PM me if you have any. I don't have any trade offers, but I can, err, "reproduce" lots of stuff. PM me about price etc. or other offers. Cheers!

This board is getting to be too expensive for me. Just placed my order for the Mitchell. I had the JJ box in my cart but removed it again ... will wait until it pops up on the Last Chance page ... and then pounce on it. Cheers!

After I sent another mail to Corbis asking politely for another go at it, I actually got a reply from a nice guy. It turns out that Corbis only has one image which is not available because of legal issues. Currently the man is checking if there are any images in the BETTMANN collection. I'll keep you posted. Cheers!

Rooster, sorry to hear that. Best wishes to you and your family. V.

I just checked again. In my 2nd edition most of these errors were fixed. But the print job remains pretty horrible. Note: On the coyright page it states: "Special thanks to Art Farmer and Tony Outhwaite in identification for the second edition."

No, he's merely the Swedish chef. chef Cheers!

Well, they actually want to get paid for telling me if they have the rights or not. Screw them. And Bill gates.

Thanks everyone. And don't forget to join in again tomorrow. Have a piece ... Cheers!

I wrote to the German branch to find out if they have the rights. If they do, I think I'll try to propose a reissue project to some of the better publishers. I didn't mean Taschen, but they are certainly also a publisher I would write to. I was thinking of Nieswand, a small publisher who published Claxography, Pieces of Jazz by Karl-Heinz Schmitt and several other wonderful books. But there, are many other publishers one could contact about something like that. I have no idea what the commercial feasability is, but it can't hurt to try. Cheers!

Sorry, but your assumption is wrong. That was a cow that had taken the ferry to Denmark to get drunk on some much cheaper and readily available booze. Cheers! Note: It was indestinguishable from the other drunk Swedes loitering about Copenhagen (which is pretty much the case all year round). The only defining characteristic was probably that the cow was unable to pull a trolley with several crates of beer around, as the Swedes often do. Makes them easy targets and much more fun to play with ...

What a wonderful ( ) deal! As I'm sure that no one member could afford the $50k opening bid, what say we pool our resources? $50,000 % 600 = $83.34 each. (That'll give us a $4 buffer.) I really think this collection (?) should be a part of the Organissimo Music Library... someday to be housed in my apartment. Are we together on this? Well? ARE WE?! Count me in ... ... but only if we get lots and lots of "ablums".

Get this ....

I got my copy of the Ellington Reprise (German edition: "Spiegel Edition") from Zweitausendeins today and I'm simply stunned by the fabulous sound quality of these recordings. I'd have to think quite far back to remember a CD or box set which had me virtually glued to my speakers for almost an entire day. A perfect example of a set with superior music AND sound! Wonderful. Cheers!

Does anyone know who owns the rights to her photos (address of the Carole Reiff estate or the like [Hal and Florence Reiff])? I know of one publisher who has also published William Claxton here in Germany whom I would contact to maybe get her photos into high-quality print again. Cheers!

Yes, also for me this site has been running at about 1/2 speed for two days or more now. And, b3-er, we've talked about donations before elsewhere on this board. Most of us would not mind AT ALL to donate some cash to get this up to speed again. Why not consider going this way? Get your own server, ask for donations to meet the fee and off we go. $80 or thereabouts you'd have together in a split second. Cheers!

True, but so far, it seems to be the only collection. She shot some wonderful photos, some of the most interesting ones I have. Let's hope someone turns to her work again in the future. Cheers!

Hi everyone, the other day I came across an as-new copy of Reiff, Carole. "Nights in Birdland. Jazz Photographs 1954 - 1960. Fireside/Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York 1987" It also contains an essay by Jack Kerouac, "The Beginning of Bop" (from: Escapade, April 1959). I have quite a few books with jazz photographs, but I had never come across Carole Reiff besides seeing the odd poster reprint (the most-known one, I think, is the one of Chet Baker on-stage at Birdland) on various sites. I also think Lee Tanner included some rarer photos by Reiff in some book, but I'm too lazy to check now. Does anyone have more extensive info on her? Apparently she died very young? Cheers! P.S.: The photos in the above-mentioned book are far better than the two generic ones below!

Who WAS #600?

Sorry, mate! I asked another person to jump in on the second set. When the auctions were done, I felt like those people in the eBay commercials, Becker fist and all. Peace! Cheers!

Well, no luck so far. On any of the forums (or I'm too dumb to search). Well, I'll wait until the boxes get here. Most of the booklet stuff is in Japanese, but I'll have a closer look and I will post here what I can gather from the notes when the time comes. Cheers!

Thanks for the info. I didn't start a thread, but I'll start searching on the forums. All I know about these boxes is (if it is true), that they were only put out for the Japanese marked? I'll see what else I can find out. If anyone else has more details, please don't hesitate to post them here. Cheers!