neveronfriday

I have this handy little CD stand (holds just about 40 Cds, depending on the cover) next to my CD player and things get rotated in and out of there. In the beginning of the week, I usually pick 5 to 10 Cds to go in there (about 5 of which haven't gotten much air time), new ones are added if any arrive that week and the rest ends up in there as the various moods dictate I add this or that CD. This sounds a bit anal as well, but it ensures I always have a pretty good selection within reach. Cheers!

I don't really have a backlog. It just often happens, upon first listening to a new CD, that I don't like it as much as I thought I would. So, I shelve it. Anyone who has a collection of several thousand CDs can maybe agree that what happens is the following: one suddenly gets into things which are rediscovered years after having been bought. In my case this happens frequently and is not much unlike a fever attack - I listen to these newly discovered recordings extensively, maybe even for too long, and then I shelve them again. Experience tells me that these attacks disappear as sudenly as they come. Lately though, especially with Jazz, I find myself deliberately taking out recordings I couldn't "tune in" to before. After having heard other recordings which borrowed, for example, from the earlier ones I didn't really like way back when, and after doing lots of reading, I usually give them another spin, approaching them differently. A learning process, really. Often, the latter "process" is a lot more engaging than simply playing a disc for pure pleasure. Cheers!

I have a shopping backlog. - There are about 90 CDs I absolutely have to buy. Then there's the money backlog. - What I need to buy the CDs I don't have yet. Life sucks, and then you die. Cheers!

As an aside: I've done quite a bit of reading on "swing kids" under Nazi rule trying to get their hands on (American) jazz music and playing it when- and wherever possible. Whenever you study these accounts a bit more closely, Fletcher Henderson is a name that pops up constantly, always mentioned with the utmost respect and cited as one of those that had a huge (!) influence on those who only had limited access to jazz recordings. Somehow Henderson, perhaps along with Jimmie Lunceford, another name which is all over these accounts, seems to have been more "widely" available? Have to ask my dad sometime. Cheers!

Now THAT should be fun. Agustín: Give the Blue Note folk a good beatin'. GO! GO! GO! You want an all-Oscar-Peterson blindfold test? I thought we had already agreed on that?

Wasn't that a song by those fat Canadians?

They're up to 4 boxes now in that series (have them all but the last one and love them) and there's also other ones (Piano Music, for example). Excellent stuff at real bargain prices! Cheers! P.S.: There's so much in those CD boxes that I wouldn't be able to spot Coleman Hawkins if he himself was sittin' inside one of those darn things. P.S.S.: We Europeans don't go to bed. Thanks again for the great CDs! Cheers!

The Sony of today just sucks, mostly.

He just sailed in, I guess.

Found it through this board. Thanx! Cheers!

hey! that was my joke already! thief! Oops. I should've actually read all that stuff then, I guess? Cheers!

The soundtrack: ""Popcorn" by Hot Butter (Link to MP3 download page [full version, 1972]) Cheers!

Thanks everyone. I'm still waiting for a reply by an online retailer I tried last night, but I expect it to be the same as from the others: they all list it as available within 1 to 2 days and then let me know within a week that it's unavailable. Universal Germany, who seems to be shipping this one out to the retailers, has none left. So, I guess, for Germany that means nobody can get it anymore. BTW: I tried 6 Amazon marketplace dealers and all 6 had it listed as available right away ... and none had it. On top of that, no used copies are available at the moment. I'd prefer buying in Europe (I've simply had it with all this import, fees and waiting bullsh*t), so I might go the UK or France route ... have found at least one at a smaller second hand shop. Cheers!

Hi everyone, this is one collection I'm still looking for. A recent attempt at purchasing this box set fell through and all attempts at getting a used or new copy have failed. So, if you have one in good shape, preferrably in Europe (but not a must), send me a PM. Thanks! deus62

There's also this link (True Blue). Nothing new, really, but ...: http://www.truebluemusic.com/catalog/catal...&PKTitleID=7446

Thanks for that information. I'm considering a few days in Copenhagen next summer. Before you go, if you like, send me a PM and I can maybe give you some advice on some Danish musicians to check out who are playing when you're there (all that info is available on various Danish sites) plus directions on how to get to the various venues. Don't forget to let me know as well what kind of music you would like to see. Cheers!

Yes but only after I bought a couple of duplicates last year. Now all Classics discs are listed in a notebook which is referred to before making any new purchases. Opens up a whole new world of possibilities:

New (at a reasonable price): Second hand (and hoping they will be delivered by those German mail bastards): And that completes the purchases of the German dude for this year. Period. And don't nobody tempt me again. You BASTARDS!

There not selling these in Europe (yet). And I'm not a code-free kinda guy. Mind burning the Oscar Peterson Trio '77 and the Eldridge one for me?

Yes, same here, but my years were spent at the new Montmartre in Nørregade (Jazz-Kay ran that one, if memory doesn't fail me, from '76 until 1989/90, or so. Just checked. He did close in '90, that's at least what my photo album tells me). There was still lots of great jazz there, although, as far as I recall, Jazz-Kay didn't really like the music ... he just loved the people who played it. Getz, Webster, Thad Jones, and and and. They were all there, and I spent far too much time at the club. Often until I was swept out by the janitor. A great time.

Now THAT should be fun. Agustín: Give the Blue Note folk a good beatin'. GO! GO! GO!

Chris, could you elaborate a bit on the Teddy Wilson disc? It's high up there on my shopping list, but I've got to make some radical decisions these next months in regard to what I buy and what I push ahead for a while. I have quite a bit of Wilson and am always looking for quality recordings. I would assume the music is at least good, but how's the sound? Thanks!

Tom, one of my fave pieces by Bertholt Brecht is "Es war einmal ein Fisch mit Namen Fasch". It's basically a poem about a fish whose name rhymes with "ass" (shortened by Brecht, for convenience's sake, to "Asch") and he's just a lazy sod, too dumb (being a fish) to work, but not too dumb to flop after everyone once work is done to plunk himself down next to the warm fireplace and shovel in the food the others have worked so hard for. The only thing he can bring to the table is his white ass (... he did bring along a huge spoon as well which, in context of his described inabilities, doesn't really make all that much sense, but hell, it's a parable) and people laugh about that for a while. Of course, when famine strikes, his white ass is neither funny nor sufficient anymore and he gets it kicked. That's Bert Brecht for you, one of our greatest writers. Well, these past BFT's I've been presenting my white ass all over the place without contributing a bit (work, trips, bla, bla, bla). I'm sorry about that, but I've been enjoying the music very much. I hope I don't get my ass kicked before payback time with my own BFT (which, I'm afraid, might not be liked by all that many members of this esteemed board ). Thanks again, Tom. Cheers! Es war einmal ein FISCH mit Namen Fasch