neveronfriday

This one costs an arm and a leg on sites I frequent. I'll keep an eye open for it. It sounds just like my kind of CD! Thanks! Cheers! (Anyone else here got a spare one?)

Cheers!

I missed it by 74 or so. But thanks to organissimo for this wonderful board. Cheers!

Come on guys! I have to leave in 50 minutes. Push it, baby, push it! [spam, spam, spam]

I'm away for the weekend (leaving in an hour or so) and I'm gonna miss it. Don't forget to down a tequila or two for me at the celebration! Cheers! (P.S.: Maybe I can logon where I'm going to be, just to see who gets the 100.000th.)

*hugs & kisses* Cheers!

So do you ... Cheers!

Hi Brad, jazzbo, danasgoodstuff, Claude, chris olivarez, brownie, couw,king ubu, skeith, EKE BBB, Brad, and mmilovan! Thanks for helping me reign in my passion a bit and making a somewhat informed decision. I ended up buying the box and after very (!) speedy delivery of a mint condition box, I am listening to it as I write this. a) brownie: The CD is included and is a wonderful small addition. B) king ubu: Yes, in addition to having the complete Brownie takes, the main incentive was actually getting the Helen Merril sides. Excellent stuff. Love it. c) I was a bit afraid of the possibility of inferior sound, but as someone stated above, it holds up well and on my stereo it sounds good. No regrets there. A final note. The reason why I went for this set (and might invest into remastered Brown/Roach releases in the future) is simple: "Jordu" was instrumental in getting me completely hooked on jazz. I played my dad's old LP thin just listening to that tune, and it is still at the very top of my all-time best-of list after all these years. I'm looking forward to studying the recordings in more detail. Right now, I'm just a proud parent who had lots of good people on this board help him make the right decision. Thanks, guys! Cheers!

Hi RDK, it really depends how you print covers. There are programs out there which will just automatically downsize any image to the cover size. What I do is this: I use Pagemaker (you can also use word or any other word processing prog). I set up a CD cover (guides which outline the final size of the thing the way I want it printed out), insert the image and size it so it fits into the guide grid. Then I print it. I'm sure there are freeware programs (mostly without much comfort when it comes to adding extravagant layout details) out there, which will produce simple but perfect covers, inlays etc. for you without you having to do much. Just check online with the usual download sites. Or does anyone have a good link? I won't have time to check these next few days, but maybe someone else can. Would be great to have a link to a decent cover-printing program in this thread. A free or careware one. Cheers!

If you are interested in that sort of stuff, check out this book: Spectrum 10: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. It's a wonderful series, currently in its 10th volume. There should be tons in there you like. And, the collectors' value is tremendous, if you go for the hardcovers. The first few volumes in the series have risen dramatically in prize, if you can find any, that is. Cheers! P.S.: It was the same Jon Foster. I have tons of good links here. Will post more in the future. I don't want to saturate this thread.

Jon Foster

David Ho

Monty Python Spam Song Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag. Man: You sit here, dear. Wife: All right. Man: Morning! Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Wife: I don't want ANY spam! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got spam in it! Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it? Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...) Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then? Waitress: Urgghh! Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam. Wife: I don't like spam! Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam! Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off. Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words) Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!

Well, let the contest begin then. As of right now, 1005 posts to go. Cheers!

Well, for better (I assume after having tallied the votes here) or worse, the box will be on the way to me on Friday. I'll post at some other time what my first impression is, what the sound was like, etc. Again, kudos to everyone who helped me make a decision. Cheers!

I haven't come up with more stuff so far, but I finally managed to read this entire thread. I'm surprised that I might actually have gotten some of this right which is really only due to the fact that I spent quite a bit of time over Christmas listening to some of this stuff ... and it is still reverberrating around my head. 7 and 14 I'm proud of, if they turn out to be correct. I enjoy this "game" very much. I'm also learning quite a bit from the other informed guesses who approach many of the answers via the typical style of playing of some soloist, via recording date info, etc. I know hardly any of this and just let my ears do the talkin'. Cheers! P.S.: To show you how good I am at this: While trying to figure out number 5, at the top of one of my Google search result lists was "anal jelly beads". Yeah, man, jazz me up.

Is that Garbarek on 13? Something doesn't sound quite right. But I think it is. Now I'll shut up. Cheers!

John, I received my CD today (was brought by that bearded guy again, no postwoman hereabouts), rushed into my living room and fired up my Marantz for a quick listen. First impression: I know I've been slow, but by now I should have listened to more of my newly aquired complete collection of CDs with those many colourful spines. In fact, the series takes up the length of almost exactly one 80cm shelf. There are definetely (my guess) two cuts from those releases I encountered when trying to master all 100 and something CDs over Christmas. Possibly even more from that absolutely wonderful series on your BFT CD. I'm not sure about #1 at all, but with the film mood and all of that, it's a wonderful opening. And, sweet Jesus and colour me happy, if those aren't Max Roach on 2 (I think I even have the sheet music for it flying around somewhere [which is one of those things my teacher drove me nuts with, 5/4 to the Max ) and Elvin Jones on 3, I'll eat my non-existant hat. Aren't those both on those CDs with the colourful spines? I need to check. It's just a gut reaction. I love you, John. Have I ever mentioned that? To start a CD off like that is just right up my alley. And Timpani for starters? *hugs and kisses* I also ran into Mangelsdorff on 4. Why I'm sure? I'm not a fan, at all. I know I should like the guy more, and I did see him countless times, but I always felt out of my water when confronted with his wilder escapades. It wasn't and isn't my cup of tea, but it could become an acquired taste. I'm sorry, and many people might get irritated, but I always thought M. just didn't have that sound that came from the heart. It always sounded too analytical to me. But, what do I know. 5? Hm. It sounds European, but I can't place the drums. I've heard that brush work before (the cymbal work is VERY distinctive), but it doesn't immediately fit any sound of the known guys I have in my head. This one I have to chew on for a while. 6. Why don't I have this one? Or do I? God, this is embarrassing. Just what I like and it is about as familiar as the tunes my mom used to play for me on the piano, but I recall hearing this one played with a vibraphone? And who is that humming there? Damn, this is good. If the rest is that good AND it turns out I don't have it already, I want this. 7. I'm getting that colourfull spine feeling again. If it is, I haven't heard much of it yet. I like it. At 02:25 to 27 there is this wonderful part where the trombone accents the drums (or vice versa). Where have I heard that before? Makes me think of Slide. But I'm lost for now. Have to check my colourful collection. 8. and 9. ?????? 10. That one I have. I bought it upon recommendation by someone over at vdrums.com and ... YES! Love it! especially that track. Love the vocals and the drum groove. Weird start though. at 00:05 it sounds like the drummer screwed up or the tape slowed down. Strange. 14. That one I have as well. Quite different from what the guy used to do earlier on in his career. The rest? I'm working on it. But I'm pretty lost. I'll post later. I won't have time to go through my collection until early on next week. But right now I will finally delve into this thread to see what others have come up with. Last points: Everyone who knows where I come from knows that I'm the piano trio etc. type, but your selections just prove once more that less is more. The instruments have a lot more room to fill out the spaces left open and altogether seem a lot less reigned in by the usual constraints. Secondly, I was hoping for some new stuff I could delve into as a result of this CD. #9 immediately jumped out at me. It's not what I usually hear, but it caught on immediately. Surprisingly - although that has nothing to do with it - at 01:36 to 01:39 Keith Emerson just jumped out at me. Not for long, mind you, but it's fascinating stuff. It's not your everyday fare and I'm interested in hearing more. But, if I choose to do so, I think my usual houseguests might think I've finally gone off my rocker. Thanks John! I'll be back with more.

The box was sold to a member of the organissimo board. Cheers.

Hi everyone, I'm slowly but surely getting with the programme and I was wondering if anyone (possibly in Europe, to save on postage) can provide me with the first 4 BFT Cds (couw was nice enough to supply me with #5, which will hopefully arrive here today). I would reimburse you, of course. Just post here or PM me. Thanks!

The box is on hold.

I'm sending mail in about, err, two minutes. Cheers!

There was this commercial once showing first a young, then a teenage and then a grown-up guy pressing his nose on a shop window behind which the latest model of some Mercedes (now Daimler/Chrysler) was on display. When he finally walked into the shop to buy himself a Mercedes, now obviously old and rich enough to do so (expensive suit, etc.), the camera pans up to show his now grown-up face with one HUGE FLAT nose. I've been over to the Mosaic site quite often. My nose is so big, I can't get through my own front door anymore. Crap.

It's the old dilemma (which I have solved by buying the box ... ). Still, I often find myself in that old trap of wanting the music and having an audiophile's ears. Case in point. I love the music on that 24-CD Ellington box I'm selling a copy of (actually have sold) elsewhere. It's just mesmerizing to do the crazy thing and listen to the whole thing in four or five very long sessions. And Ellington is not really one of my faves (woud take too long to explain, so don't flame me, please). And right in the middle of listening to this fascinating set, some truly awful sound hits your ears. And they cringe. I have gotten very careful when it comes around to buying vintage stuff, just because some of the mastering is just so bad that one could cry (BTW ... some of the RVG stuff is really not all that good either, sorry). I also remember (many, many years ago) having an old stereo and playing K-tel records on it, not giving a rat's ass about the sound, just dancing around my room having fun. The loss of innocence. Apple from the tree. That kind of stuff. Sad.

I can't help but think that the reaction to our beloved Norah Jones Fan was arrogant, no matter what. Fire away. Cheers.