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I really shouldn't have done this, but I also ordered: Gerry Mulligan Horace Parlan Joe Pass I think I've gone nuts, I took two years off and then ordered 9 sets plus 4 selects within a three week period. I know, it takes time to work up some courage ....

That fits! Cheers!

I think I'll have "BAND" tatooed on my private parts. And then I'll wait ....

Hippity Hoppity ...

Attention, attention! jodigrind, our new member, will be picking it up! Many thanks! And shame on all of you, who are letting this fine tradition go down the hatch! Cheers!

Ooops. I think that pic might be too much of a wardrobe malfunction... ? Should I delete it? Sorry, I had my eyes elsewhere. Cheers!

Hippity Hoppity ... Cheers! (image edited ...)

Welcome! [edit: the pic I linked to before blew that guy's account ... here's one of my fave record covers, scanned by ... somebody ... ]

The memories ... Cheers!

Love that cake, John! My mom used to get all creative on us with birthday cakes. I remember my favourite one, which was a train, complete with engine and railroad cars. The smoke coming from the engine was cotton, the windows were Smarties, the wheels ... can't recall. She worked on it for two days or so and then nobody dared to eat it. Next time I visit them, I 'll try to unearth a photo of it. Cheers!

Maybe the people who have done one, can do more? I enjoy reading these, and if nothing else, I would be able to add a few more, to say the least. Cheers!

Yes! Extreme Kidman and Lopez flogging. Sounds cool to me. Cheers!

Who's next? (I've not been able to post as much on the board lately. I'll add to this thread once I'm back in the saddle.) Cheers!

Welcome!!!

Time to feel presidential. I like that! Cheers!

Software? You mean I could have let the software do the job for me? B3er. Can you install some automatic birthday changing routine for me which works its way up to 99 and backwards again? Would save me lots of trouble. Thanks & Cheers!

Artist: Tord Gustavsen Trio Title: Changing Places Recorded: 2002 Company: ECM Records Edition: Only one available, released April 18, 2003 Comment: If you want to see what's happening in Scandinavian jazz today, try this album. Scandinavia has much more to offer, Bugge Wesseltoft, E.S.T., Nils Landgren, etc., etc. etc., both traditional and modern, but this album displays the lyrical quality and the sophistication so often apparent in many Scandinavian releases of today. BBC Online published this review: "Though at one point in ECM's history it was tempting to think that every pianist Manfred Eicher signed up was under direct orders to play like Keith Jarrett, (or 'The Eicher Sanction" as it became known amongst the jazz cognoscenti here at BBC towers), it's really Paul Bley who's been the most pervasive influence on the label's ivory tinklers. Bley took the chamber jazz approach of Bill Evans to its apotheosis, stripping it down even further but still retaining a deeply emotive core and in the process buffing up some of the shiniest jewels in the ECM catalogue. Tord Gustavsen's taken Bley's example to heart on his debut solo album. Changing Places is a beauty, less abstract perhaps than Bley, but soaked in a hushed, delicate romanticism that's hard to resist. Most of the record is pitched at a whisper, with the spaces between the notes easily as significant as the notes themselves. Drummer Jarle Vepsestad (also of Supersilent) is felt rather than heard much of the time, while bassist Harald Johnsen provides gentle, intelligent support and lovely, guitar-like solos. The leader's improvisations are yearning, tender meditations, occasionally coloured with the palest of the Blues, and the compositions (all Gustavsen originals) have the quiet, sometimes folky ecstacies of Pat Metheny's or Keith Jarrett's ballads, with a quiet insistence that'll have you humming them for days to come. Though the theoretical writings on his site talk of (gulp) "moving creatively in a neo-Hegelian kind of way", Gustavsen's music is free of such intellectual baggage; fresh, intuitive and heartfelt. A truly beautiful record that (if there's any justice) will find a place as one of ECM's finest releases of the last few years, and probably a place in your heart too. Gorgeous."

I think it's because Rudy is remastering the site.

Hooray! I'm not weird. Cheers!

That's why I'm on this board. Cheers!

They ain't payin' for me then.

"Dances with Wolves" (4 DVD). Oscar Peterson double pack (live in Paris). Discs by Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson, some Ben Webster and a never-before seen J.J. Johnson from beginning 80s. I'm a media guy. But, next, I will finally get those new pairs of pants I so desperately need. I promise. Cheers!

Claude, you're probably right when thinking globally, but I have been thinking along those lines as well. Second-hand CD shops, if you live in the right place, attract a lot of customers, and, if the city is big enough, one can easily sustain a habit by regularly visiting them. In Copenhagen, Denmark, there's a chain named "Accord" with, as far as I recall, 5 shops in town. Their stock is huge (their jazz selection is very extensive as well) and is refreshed on a daily basis. A central PC database will even direct you to the shop which has what you are looking for, and combined with a shop in the German city I lived in for many years as well, most (!!) of my several thousand CDs were/are second-hand CDs carefully selected. 95% of those were in mint or near-mint condition, and I probably still frequent second-hand stores or Internet sites more often than any regular outlet. I predict that the second-hand market will grow even more, especially because there are quite a lot of people like me, unable or unwilling to dish out all that cash for a new release. There's always someone unloading what you're looking for, you just have to be quick on the draw and (very) patient (sometimes). Just the other day I hit one of the (5! ) new second-hand stores in town, and they had ALL of the Universal Deluxe Limited at 12 Euro, every single one (including many not available in Germany). Someone must have unloaded his collection and I walked in at the right time. I just bought the lot and will unload 50% of 'em on eBay. Cheers!

Jazzmoose, that's just what I meant. To be quite honest, I've never been a big fan of Armstrong, but the set you recommend sounds like one I should get if I want some Louis. So, I'll start scouting around. Thanks! I'll post some more recommendations these next days. Cheers!