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Thanks for the 'heads-up'. It's available at amazon.co.uk for £7.98. Too good to miss - my order's in!

Thanks MG, I think you've sorted it! I have an LP of his on Discovery called 'Jessica' which I've been looking to replace by CD for many years. However the only three CDs I've ever seen of his are 'Love You Madly', 'Calafia' & 'Jenna'. Looking closely at the tracks in your discography and comparing them with those on my LP, I see that half of 'Jessica' is on the CD 'Love You Madly' and the other half is on 'Calafia'. Problem solved - many thanks!

Does anyone know where I could access a decent discography for the Discovery/Trend Record label? I'm trying to find out which of The Gerald Wilson Big Band albums actually got reissued on CD, so if anyone knows that I'd be grateful.

Yep, there's four of us going. The tickets arrived this morning.

The Warne Marsh/Lee Konitz 4xCD boxset is currently available at Amazon.co.uk for £15.99! Looks too good to miss...my order's in!

Thanks Chuck. I've just checked and found out that Bob Cummins died in 2000 - I wonder why Chico's taken so long to make the recordings available, assuming that these ARE the ones about to come out?

Isn't it funny how these threads take on a life of their own sometimes (always?). Here's me enquiring whether anybody knows how and what is being re-issued by Chico and the post then ends up being a technical evaluation of his musicianship. Me, I remember liking most of what he's recorded, especially the two 'Spirit' albums on India Navigation but then, I'm not a musician so what do I know?

Yes, I have this on vinyl and it's a lovely album. I wonder why it's never been re-issued on CD...or has it?

"Chico Freeman to re-issue himself back catalog During the upcoming weeks, Chico Freeman is about to put back on the market a large part of his back-catalog including the much sought after India Navigation LPs.. As an appetizer and during two weeks, radio.video.jazz gives away 16 Chico Freeman's Classics in 256 kbs. You download them either at radio.video.jazz or at Chico Freeman on GetJuke" Just seen this over at 'That Other Place" - does anyone know anything about what and how it will be made available? Surprisingly(?) there's no mention of it on Chico's website.

He's playing with his Octet at The Sage in Gateshead on 26 March and I'm looking forward to seeing him again now that The Appleby Jazz Festival seems 'to be no more'. BTW The Abdullah Ibrahim Trio are playing at the Sage the day before so many thanks to them for booking a couple of first class acts.

Yep, that's what I'm thinking anyway!

The solo Tapscott on Interplay looks tasty. In fact all the Interplay releases look good. Does anyone have information about them? ie are they good/bad/indifferent?

Pete King was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and the manager of London's famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's Well then it is apparently the same guy I'm talking about if we can believe this: http://peterkingjazz.com/bio.html No, that bio is for Peter King the ALTO player..a completely different person and, BTW, an excellent musician. Very sad news about the death of Pete King..the end of an era. I'm starting to feel old again!

Too much information!!!!!!!!!

Love the new look - well done! BTW I'm having no problems using Google Chrome.

Don't agree with that. Beyond the Wall isn't bad, but I'd take Songbook, Pursuance, Triology, Stars & Stripes Live, Black Hope, or African Exchange Student over it. There we are, each to his/her own!

His two earlier Nessa albums arrived in the post this morning (thanks, Chuck!) and I've been playing them all day. Absolutely top class music and it makes me ask myself...'how have I overlooked him for the last 30+ years'? Anyway, better late than never

By far his best album but 'record of the decade'.......I think not!

What a bummer! A beautiful bass player and a very nice person. Like others I still remember him as being 'youngish' - a sign of old age, I guess!

What a great review! Having received the CD this morning, I've been playing it all day and its a knockout. Please add my name to his list of admirers and thank you again, Chuck, for releasing it.

The one's I was thinking about that haven't had a release (I think!) are: I just wondered why some of the catalogue has come out, such as the the wonderful 'Billy Hart - Enchance' mentioned earlier, and others haven't. Does anyone know?

Does anyone know if there are any plans to re-issue the albums that came out on A&M's Horizon label in the 1970s? I know a few of them by Charlie Haden and Don Cherry have already been released but there are still releases like 'The People's Republic, by The Revolutionary Ensemble' and a couple by David Liebman and Richie Beirach that I don't think have ever seen the light of day. It would be nice to have them available again.

I have the same set and, yes, the booklet's in English. Contacting Mosaic is probably your best bet but obviously their booklet would be bigger.

I use 'Burrrn' to burn all my CD-Rs. Never had a problem! It's available as freeware here: Burrrn

Just sent my order for this one, Chuck.