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Thanks for this thread, Big Al!! It's been long overdue!! I wish I could have posted the great finds of the past year. There were plenty. And since I raided just about every second-hand shop for about eight years here, most of the real finds (you know, the ones that fell behind the counter and the ones that were simply in the totally wrong place, some back room or elsewhere) are gone. Now it's just that I have to be in the right place at the right time which, unfortunately, rarely happens anymore. Too busy. I love hunting around for second-hand stuff, but I live near a city with lots of good jazz and lots of jazz fans, so the competition is tough. Cheers!

Ralph Sutton. Wondrous Piano. The private family recordings - 1961. Arbors Records 2003. Added this one and some other piano stuff to my list after having read Agustín's recommendation in the, as far as I recall, stride pianists thread. Paid 1 Euro for it today. After having heard it, I would have paid about 15 times that ... or more. Wonderful stuff. Cheers! P.S.: I wonder if I'll ever get tired of this kind of music. I have tons of these (Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, ....) and have been listening to especially these for years now. I never really had a moment where I said: "Enough!" Maybe I wasn't in the mood for it here and there, but I've never stopped enjoying this kind of music to the fullest. Edit: Included image.

Now if that ain't one post which should be made sticky, I don't know which one is. Good points! Cheers!

Do I get mine first as well?

I'm always looking around for ideas because I like to get my homemade CDs and DVDs a bit spiffed up. If you are willing to spend a bit more money on cases, inlets etc., these things are brilliant (and no, I'm in no way associated with the people, the company, or the product(s) they sell; I just think it's cool stuff.) http://www.jewelboxing.com/ Cheers!

The Bollani/Bodilsen/Lund is a fantastic album!!!!! I'm also a big fan of Jesper and Morten who were stellar in Casper Villaume's Quartet (their first CD was a real discovery whereas the folliwng one was rather weak). I saw them live in a small café (it's actually more a bar) called "Sommersko" in downtown Copenhagen and it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. And I've seen lots. Those two are so good together (Ed Thigpen has worked with them regularly both as a teacher and in various groups) that they remind me of powerhouse rhythm sections of times long gone. Cheers!

I also have the Rhino Disco Box. It all falls into the greater category of the "aesthetics of bad taste". If you like disco you also watch the all-time classic, "Plan 9 from Outer Space", again and again and again, and do other silly stuff. You gotta have some fun. Cheers!

Call me weird, but I'm a fan of James Taylor. Love most of his stuff ... and have it as well. Cheers! Hair Bands? Hairwise he fits (I think by now he must have blow-dried himself to death) ...

I'll take everything I can get my greedy hands to latch onto. I've said it many times: I haven't participated properly for quite a while (because of that, I'll try to make it up to everyone with a nice disc which I will handle myself ... might relieve my bad conscience), but I find these discs to be of magnificient value when it comes to really discovering new music I had been previously unaware of ... or which people recommended but I hadn't heard yet. There's nothing more convincing than a good tune which makes me run to hit amazon or any other outlet. Bring it on! Cheers!

Mine is on the way. 1 The Complete Verve Sessions (Mosaic Records) [bOX SET] [Audio CD] Farlow,Tal Here in 7 to 15 days. Let's see if they can break their last record which sped the delivery up so it reached me 4 days later. Cheers! (Since this is probably a bigger box, I wonder if German customs are going to catch this one and delay things by, err, a year or two. )

http://www.ecmrecords.com/Tours/index.php?...+Gustavsen+Trio Manchester [Dublin] Birmingham Glasgow Bristol Oxford Nottingham Leeds

I have said it elsewhere on this board a day or two ago and I'll say it again. As sad as it is, EST are caught in a formula that is beginning to get tiring. And this comes from a big fan. I saw them live again last summer and it was a blast, but the new CD is so formulaic that it hurts, sorry to say. They're not evolving, although Esbjörn would surely disagree here. To my ears the new CD tries nothing but to fulfill audience expectations down to a "T" and I have to say that even repeated listenings could not change the fact that I felt hugely disappointed (the music is still good to great, and if you don't know them, do check the CD out, but if you have their other albums, you'll only find variations of things you've heard countless times). Pity. I'll wait patiently for the next one. Cheers! (P.S.: I haven't found a single review that agrees with me, so take what I said with a kilo of salt)

http://www.xray-k.com/ 2005 MARCH 17. BRD rundfunk "Jazz Live" recording session with the Dieter Köhnlein Trio. The session will be broadcast at a later date. APRIL / MAY Workshops and concerts tenetively planned for late April and early May in Tblisi, Georgia. JUNE 18. Workshop for Choreographers with live music performance, and compositions by Raymond Kaczynski. Places are available as of 27. December 2004. Contact the Volkshochschule-Ulm for details on how to reserve a place for yourself in the workshop.

I saw him in 2003. He is an exceptional percussionist. What fascinated me about him was the diversity he brought to his playing. Very versatile, always adding touches and flourishes that looked oh-so simple but were more often than not dramatically different from what I expected. It's that element of surprise (that might well only have been suprising to my musical mind) that makes me remember that today. BTW: The music was NOT my cup of tea. Didn't matter though. Cheers!

But that Stix is good. hey deus62, go run around that tree. If you move out of the way and stop barking up all the trees in the park, I might actually get a chance.

Be my guest. With Chávez in power? Err, no? Cheers!

Should have searched properly first. Duh. Found what I wanted to know. Cheers!

Love my set, but I was stupid enough to keep the CDs in the box anyway. Now I have all black stuff imprinted on two CDs. I was warned ... and didn't listen. Cheers!

Does anyone have this one? Worth about $30? Cheers! Edit: N.Y., PB, 168 pages

But that Stix is good.

No offense taken. I did get to hear lots of stuff. And got lots of freebies. Cheers!

Now, THAT really depends on the fantasy, I would think.

Zappa?

It's ok. We believe you.