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may I ask, whatever happened to Nina's? last time I was in Zurich, I could'nt find it anymore. Replaced by some travel agency replace by ... she went on to sell records in some of the old-fashioned high-brow stores on the other side of the Limmat, I think (not sure if that was right away, nor if she's still there). Her shop was a cool place, I spent many hours in there, I even happened to be around the afternoon a newspaper guy came to take a photo (for the eulogy to be published a few weeks later) ... was the only time my photo was in the paper Anyway, I loved browsing the Penguin guide there ... and listening to some music. She had some Mosaic sets, too (at crazy prices, like 2.5 or more the amount you'd pay for a direct order), but back then I had no idea what these boringly looking b/w boxes were all about (and the price tags put to halt any further inquiries). Crazy prices, though, were a general issue there ... i.e. she sold OJCCDs at full price as the only one in town (at Jecklin, which around that time - end of the 90es, earliest 00s - expanded to a second floor dedicated to jazz & world, you'd get a huge choice of OJCCDs for less than two third of Nina's price ... anyway, Jecklin gave up that additional floor after a mere couple of years and by now their stores are all closed too, taken over by the rival Musik Hug which only maintains the main store at Limmatquai with an okay-ish classical but lacklustre jazz department, not enough space, and on top of it all an elitist owner who actually would prefer selling grand pianos to the global elite residing at the shores of lake Zurich, instead of being bothered by normal people wanting to buy some pop (ugh!) music ... as I said: record stores ceased to exist (there are a few left, but frankly I've long been buying on the net and don't feel like visiting hip hop and dj stores with small jazz corners).

there's even a Barney love-fest (which surely I'd have joined if I'd been a member at that time, but I think I only signed up a few months before the big NoJo bash put an end to it ) here goes (includes jazzbo explaining "Moshi" ): http://web.archive.org/web/20020111080015/http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000165 the trumpet + rhythm faves thread (hey ta, Rooster!) I seem to remember (well, maybe I remember it's revival over here, who knows): http://web.archive.org/web/20020111090908/http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001034 another one, including some early-ish guesswork on "Iron City": http://web.archive.org/web/20020126114604/http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001099

Will these be released properly? I loathe that record store day crap ... record stores ceased to exist ten years ago, these are last gasps and attempts to sell overpriced produce. Actually Mike, I think serious shops would only sell this stuff in store and not on pre-order ... that seems to be the high moral principle of record store day ... I wouldn't know of a shoppe around here that takes part AND might even get one slice of jazz. (I think one shop in town does take part, but I never went there, don't think they have anything of interest to me.)

yeah ... and the Bud Shank date is gorgeous!

how's that compared to the Storyville disc (that is included in the "Dig Ben" box) - any overlap? http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-ronnie-scotts-1964-the-punch-mw0000141416 btw, there IS some other non-Scandinavian material in "Dig Ben", but not those Dutch albums.

the "Star Bright" and "Soundin' Off" sessions

I failed to check, too (not being sure where the Holland set is stacked away). The London disc is the lone one that's from outside Scandinavia in the "Dig Ben" box, right? I do remember "The Holland Sessions" being listed in the printed Blue Note catalogues that were around at the end of the 90s - but I'm quite sure it's an EMI Netherlands production, so might have had limited international distribution indeed. It's on amazon.com, but expensive: http://www.amazon.com/The-Holland-Sessions-Ben-Webster/dp/B0000A1M4U

I am playing "This time ..." just now. Wonderful. Dex really makes that record. The arrangements are great, the other playing masterful, but Dex propels the date to another level. Agreed! (Though I've got the old Avenue Jazz/Rhino reissue, good enough for me)

I gladly report I grew to like it more and more, in the meantime

hadn't been aware of this: sounds good indeed! http://www.allmusic.com/album/michel-petrucciani-and-niels-henning-%C3rsted-pedersen-mw0000810854

disc 5 of the Hackett

Maybe it lulls people who are just handling it into a sleep? I'd say not if they have ears to listen ... but then that pretty often proves a rather rare treat if you exit this place and enter real world. Crossing my fingers, Mike! If bad comes to worse, let me know ...

Same here! I guess those plus the White ones would have just about been enough to fill a second volume as Fresh Sound had it planned once.

Wouldn't say "fan", but yeah, I like some his stuff. Got te Blue Note box (just filmsy cardboard wrapped around the single discs) way overprized many years back ... and frankly some of it is dreck - the trio with Shorter/Hall is nice, so is te Ellington solo album and the first one, "Pianism" (w/Palle Danielsson, Eliot Zigmund) ... there's a wonderful duo with Lee Konitz on Owl, on the same label I have a nice trio disc with Jean-François Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano simply titles "Michel Petrucciani" (they didn't properly reissue their Petrucciani recordings on disc, rater did a 2CD compilation which I never got) ... and finally Blue Note reissued two really nice ones when they did those few Elektra reissues, "100 Hearts" (solo) and "Live at the Village Vanguard" (w/Palle Danielsson and Eliot Zigmund), both recorded live. Guess i should try the (semi-)eletrified albums on Blue Note again ... or maybe not (they're "Music", "Playground" and "Live" ... there's also "Michel Plays Petrucciani" with Gary Peacock and Roy Haynes plus John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez Al Foster, Steve Thornton ... not really electric other than Aberzombie, but I never connected much to that either). As a sideman, there's of course the wonderful "From the Soul" by Joe Lovano ... and a much less succesful but still nice one co-led with Steve Grossman. He might play too many notes a bit too often, but he certainly had it going!

discs 3 and 4

Okay ... so it was just the two discs by/with White - that rings a bell. I guess I should have another try. So there must be more material that is on either Vol. 1 or the single discs, as the White material alone would not have made up another 3 disc set ... there's no listing here and a web search doesn't help much either. But I stumbled over this: http://jazztimes.com/articles/9065-the-complete-noctourne-recordings-jazz-in-hollywood-series-volume-1-herbie-harper-with-bud-shank-harry-babasin-bob-enevoldsen-virgil-gonsalves-lou-levy-and-jimmy-rowles and this helpful thread here: EDIT: there's more ... by looking for "NLP 1" to "NLP 11" here, you'll find the details: http://www.jazzdisco.org/fantasy-records/discography-1953-1954/

post #30 here: too bad!

Don't think so ... all Dutch recordings.

It's a great one! from my list: CD 1: Ben Webster At Ease (1969 - Frans Wieringa, Gerard Holdgrefe, Tom van Steenderen) + For the Guv'nor (1969 - Cees Slinger, Jacques Schols, John Engels) CD 2: Last Concert (live 1973 - Irv Rocklin, Henk Haverhoek, Peter Ypma) rhythm sections aren't always up to Ben's standard, and the sound on the live disc is muddy, but ... I love late Ben!

Well no, those single discs on Fantasy contained a variety of sessions not in Vol. 1 (I guess they'd have been in Vol. 2) - but I've never really tried to get those (I remember I once figured out which ones I'd have to get, but I forgot). Anyway, guess you got the Rowles, but not generally "all Nocturne", sorry if I got you wrong and you know that

I think you're right And I think that's where they (Mosaic) did a less good job than the Nocturne box (didn't yet try to find it).

I'sn't the Rowles the same that's in the Pacific Jazz Piano Trios Select? I've not got the Nocturne set around to compare ... but yes, there's more around. Too bad this lovely set didn't sell enough for them to do Volume 2, it's one where they did things right! (There's even something they included, I think, that Mosaic missed ... need to dig out the Nocturne box, no clue where it could be though). Now playing: That box kinda took me by surprise, I had no idea it might even be around as a possibility ... I'd hardly known any of the material before (I think the lone one I had as OJCCD is "The Panther" - excellent quartet date w/Flanagan). Anyway, I've not nearly spent enough time with this and since I get a kick out of LTD right now, it's the time to give this (or parts of it) another spin. Now discs 4 and 5 (the larger parts of both), the Left Bank recording with Bobby Timmons - messy stuff, but I love it! Afterwards probably the Montreux set with Junior Mance and then "The Panther" (which goes into disc 7) ... oh, the set has plenty of previously unissued alternates. Not that I could really point out any merits or say they're superfluous at this point, but still ... plenty of prev. unissued alternates around ... from the Power/Tower sessions, there's one new tune and six alternates all previously unissued, plus one alt that was on some Dex plays the blues thing. There are also three newly issued alternates from "The Panther", one from "The Chase" with Jug (plus one already on the CD reissue), four from "The Jumpin' Blues" (plus one on that blues thingy), one from the "Generation" session (plus two already added to CDs), and finally an additional tune from "Blues à la Suisse" ... (and the tune added to the CD reissue of the Montreux set is of course there, too, as are all prev. unissued titles added to previous reissues, I reckon). Anyway, great set, a true treasure trove!

Yep, that series was excellent, I got about two dozen of 'em ... another one to look out for is the Pacific half of the McCann/Turrentine bargain ... and they did "Tenorman", too!) I'd still ove to see the missig one of the Lighthouse Crusaders ... wouldn't that be one for Dustygroove? They never did EMI stuff though, as far as I know, only Universal and lately Concord?

Yep, I agree ... though as I mentioned I'm still tempted by the "all in one" package in order to have it all in chronological order (does the 16 disc set also omit the handful of cuts sans Coltrane from "The Cats", the Draper album, the one w/Lady Q? anyone knows, I'd need to bether my friend again, but he's usually away from his CDs over the weekend, so ...)

Mine's under lock and key 1500 miles away (I hope) played the end of disc 2 again ... the one with the three vocal singers ... even there, there's some delightful trumpet/conret playing to be heard looking forward to the jazz stuff (discs 3 and 4), probably make that today's late night listen ...