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With these two, my JiP collection is inching towards a new shelf, the old 80cm one not being enough anymore. I hope they keep it going long enough to fill another shelf. I've discovered tons of wonderful music via this series.

I wasn't taking swipes ... I was just telling the God-honest truth. At least Ornette didn't have "Joan Crawford hair". That could have made it a lot worse.

I'm not alone! Thanks guys. I pulled this from riverwalk.org:

Harry "Sweets" Edison - Sweets (click to buy) A few weeks ago, Roundabout posted a list of new (re)releases that he called "the best batch of jazz in recent memory". That list consisted of Monk-Trane, the HalfNote Trane, new Blue Note Connoisseurs and the Cellar Door release. Instead of posting right there and then, I thought I'd save my comment for this AOTW. I'm almost embarrased to say it on this board, but no matter how stellar those above-mentioned recordings are and how many people on this board are into this kind of stuff, it's not really my cup of tea to the extent that it is for others. Mind you, I have tons of it and I get my regular dose of bop and whatnot, but I don't really share the enthusiasm for many of the Blue Note recordings, I get tired of Monk after a CD or two, and Ornette often reminds me that I haven't been to the dentist for quite a while. To stay with my Monk example above for another minute, I love listening to him and find his music fascinating, but I often find myself turning to less cerebral stuff again soon after. I grew up with a larger dose of Basie, Goodman, Wilson, Hawkins, Barnet, Webster and a myriad of other artists from mainly the 30's, 40's and 50's and yes, I even have the 10-disk Glenn Miller box, 4 different Goodman at Carnegie Hall issues by now, and - dare I say it - just about everything Oscar Peterson ever put out. Compared to you guys here, I don't come from another school, I just never really left Junior school. It might be a complacent attitude, but I like it there. I sometimes wonder if I'm a bit backward and I often try my ear again at hard bop and free jazz, but it never lasts long. I realize that it's good music, I even enjoy a minute here or there, but I don't listen to it extensively. It's the same problem I have whenever I try to approach opera and other classical vocal recitals ... thanks, but no thanks. After about 20 minutes I pull out my Glenn Gould, my Ashkenazy or my Fong 'Tsu and start enjoying myself again. To get to the point: So far, my best batch of jazz in recent memory (for me, that's 2005) is still led by "Sweets", a Verve re-release of Harry Edison and His Orchestra's vibrant 1956 recording. For once, AMG puts it quite nicely: "Harry "Sweets" Edison got the most mileage out of a single note, like his former boss Count Basie. Edison, immediately recognizable within a note or two, long used repetition and simplicity to his advantage while always swinging." Add to this a quote from the AMG review of this week's album, you have what makes this recording so special: "Neither an innovator nor an iconoclast, trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison is simply one of the bluesiest, hardest-swinging, and downright tasty jazz musicians of the 20th century." Hyperbole aside, this mother swings. And that's what gets my motor running, ready to go. Yes, it's steeped in tradition. Yes, there's absolutely nothing new here. Yes, you might even be tempted to say that it's the same old **** (insert expletive of your choice here), but I like it. No, I love it. Harry "Sweets" Edison Sweets Recording Date: Sep 4, 1956 Label: Verve Reissue: 2005 First issue: 1956 Clef MG C-717 Also: Universal Japan, 2005 (01) Hollering at the Watkins (Edison) - 3:37 (02) Used to Be Basie (Edison) - 6:01 (03) How Deep Is the Ocean (Berlin) - 3:47 (04) Studio Call (Edison) - 8:11 (05) Willow Weep for Me (Ronell) - 4:49 (06) Opus 711 (Edison) - 5:08 (07) Love Is Here to Stay (Gershwin) - 3:23 (08) K.M. Blues (Edison) - 3:35 (09) Walkin' With Sweets (Edison) - 7:13 P.S.: Sorry I'm a day or two late to the party ...

She plays some mean Rachmaninov. And someone frizzed her hair.

Fun thread. Thanks for bringing some life to the party again.

phising scam. That should be phishing, right? Not that the mighty Google doesn't spit out a million results for phising, mind you. Just shows again that we are all witnesses to the end of civilization as we('ve) know(n) it. fishing --> phishing --> phising --> grunt

I avoid anything with the Sony logo on it like the plague and have been ever since I had a TV and a DVD player (twice) blow about 2 to 3 weeks after purchase (both were only turned on once or twice and couldn't handle that. On the TV I didn't even get around to changing the channel once!). Absolutely shoddy quality control in the midrange product lines. I applaud everytime someone rips a Sony (or associated label) CD to mpc or flac and peddles it on the Internet. And, no, I don't have a bad conscience at all. They screwed me for several hundred Euro and provided the absolute worst service I've ever encountered and to be quite honest, if one could submit targets to certain terrorist organizations via e-mail, I would submit Sony so often that it would look like a coordinated denial of service attack. Sony. Sucks! Edit: There was a DVD stuck in the broken player and they kept it. Upon inquiry they simply denied that there had been one and called me a liar. It wasn't worth fighting them. Bastards.

Ah well, they still play -- I know I am lucky in that department -- and I for one cannot hear any difference. ← Make that four ears.

Very creepy. Kinda hard to hear the cameraman at the end. Had to turn up the volume a bit. ← Yeah, it is kind of hard to see, I had to put my nose up close to the screen. Very weird ← Definitely only mist.

Sorry, didn't see that.

Apparently Universal too ... Tech-Dirt

If you are a nerd, the text linked to below reads like a crime story. For the rest, here's a summary: Apparently, Sony copy-protected CDs install software to enforce digital rights management on your PC. Here comes the good part: After installation, the software hides itself (cloaking) completely and makes itself almost unremovable (for the average user). Cool, eh? Sony Rootkits Edit:

Those are the kind of people I like giving to. 5 points for originality.

I have this set and it is very enjoyable.

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Yikes! -_-

Never..., I think you missed the point about the book. It's not supposed to be THE book on jazz photos. It is a recollection of the travels that Claxton and Joachim Berendt made in 1960 through the various jazz cities over the United States. As such it is quite remarkable with a stunning number of interesting photos I had not seen before. And even if the reproduction of the images is not perfect (the book would then have costs thousan$$s, the standard raised here is quite high. Much better than on the previous Taschen Claxton book 'Jazz Seen'. Look at the new book with a fresh eye. There is quite a lot to enjoy there! ← I don't think I missed the point - I do have the original book and love it (and know it inside out). I'm questioning the purpose, really. It's basically the "remastered" version (with a bunch of extra tracks) and, to state again what I said above, Taschen, in my eyes, has been doing too much of that in its past history: recycling. What I meant was the following: just imagine they would apply more time (remastering doesn't take half the editorial effort), more editorial effort, and some ideas of their own to actually produce something new. At this price something else would and should have been possible. As it stands, this edition is great for people who don't have the original, but for people who have that one there's simply not enough here to merit the price tag (besides the much better reproduction quality) - and I'm speaking for those for whom 150 Euro is A LOT of money to shell out! For others it probably is worth the upgrade. I'm not trashing the book at all, I'm just voicing my (slight) disappointment with it. I'd rather spend my money on something else.

Have a nice one!

Definitely get it. It's a great book no matter what. Doesn't cost much more than a Mosaic box, really.

Hey, old friend... care to tell me what's this tune like? I can listen to the music but cannot read it ← It's Max Roach's drum solo in "Study in Brown".

I have a couple of these but forgot to ask William Claxton to sign them. This would have suited him better than the very heavy copy of the book he signed! He had a bit of a trouble lifting it and opening it to the first page to sign my copy! The book is quite astonishing. One of the very best jazz photos book ever! ← Of course the flyer comment was a joke referring back to the various JiP collectibles we were talking about a while back ("mine's bigger/rarer than yours", kind of thing). I got my girlfriend to get the flyer (it's actually a heavy cardboard card) signed by Claxton at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Sunday so I can put that into my rather torn first edition of the book. Today I spent quite some time studying the new book and without trying to be the party pooper here, frankly I was more disappointed than anything. Sure, it's a stunning book, but I expected more than what's in there. Moreover, some of the images are overly grainy, blown up to the size they are (and yes, I know they were supposed to be grainy in the first place). I'd rather get the huge Kubrick tome, especially since most of what's in there is new for me whereas the Claxton book I know inside out. Now just imagine they would have turned that one into a complete jazz photography of ... kind of book. There would certainly have been enough space for that. This way I think it's just another one of the by now many half-hearted Taschen Books, a reprint which didn't demand all that much editorial effort. Sorry, but that was my first impression.