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Got mine today, all unsealed as expected. French might seal them 'cos they're cheese-eating surrender-monkeys, remember?

I wondered about that, too! The actual film soundtrack ... well, it's been ten years at least since I've seen the film, but I remember it as being *very* good!

Off topic, slightly, but a friend presented me with this book for my last birthday, and it's amazing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architectural-Cultural-Guide-Philipp-Meuser/dp/3869221879/ At the same time lots of what you read and see (plenty of photos) is astonishing, but much of it at the same time is pretty shocking and utterly disgusting. Baby dictator just held a speech in which he announced a possible mild glasnost regarding their relation to South Korea, but still, the entire system is unbelievably wrecked, it seems.

They will most likely not be sealed - Universal CDs are most often not sealed over here (at least the Impuse 2-on-1 weren't, if I'm right ... and those jewel-case-packed "Verve Originals" weren't either, I think). Link: http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?__mk_de_DE=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=jazzplus I had a look at the booklet of the Hammond Smith (not sealed!) at a store today and indeed they do look rather nice. I've ordered a bunch in that 3 for 15€ sales but am still waiting for them to be delivered. The Hawkins really should have been made a 2CD set as the bonus material there is, in my humble opinion, rather substantial, and goes far beyond just another take thrown in length-wise, too.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Sorry Eric, didn't see that the box I referenced was from RCA - thought it was a larger edition of the one you mentioned. Not sure I need to get into Stokowski at all, I might try some some day, but not right now.

Please do report, whoever gets them! Vol. 2 looks tasty ("Shadows"!), but I'm not sure I really need either of these, so having some first-hand reports would be nice!

This one would seem like a better choice for Stokowski: http://www.amazon.com/Leopold-Stokowski-Stereo-Collection-1954-1975/dp/B006ZJJ70O/ Don't know him yet, though.

From memory I think they married in Monaco around August 1976, when they returned from their last trip to Africa. There's a 20,000 word chapter on Wilen in the book on jazz in post-war France I've just finished writing. Hey, I want that book - NOW!

I hope so, too! Love the first one! Not sure anymore where, but looking her up I read somewhere that they were married. But then the linked page seems to have been written by her, so ... @Head Man: I guess it will turn up on amazon.co.uk eventuall, too. It's already listed on the site but with no date or price yet: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moshi-Too-Wilen-Barney/dp/B00A7CEDHC/

I'm using the pre-installed player on a Samsung SIII, no idea what player it is, but it works very well, except for the genres where somehow with some albums they get lost and I get that "ta". Long track titles aren't a big issue, if I turn the phone (from vertical to horizontal) I get to see enough in the list and once I'm playing a track, the titles run through and I get them in their entirety. What I can't see, alas, is the comment field (where sometimes I painstakingly add line-ups and other info), even though I can watch a listing of many (ten or so) fields while playing a track (I can switch between tracklist, cover-view or background info on the running track, and I can of course minimize it all and use the phone for something else like texting or browsing or reading kindle stuff). Obviously I could have all the covers and txt-files on the phone, too, but the gallery of photos will display each of these as a folder and as that's a nuisance I deleted them all. As for re-naming files, if ever I do that, I always put the track numbers in front. But usually they're just called "Track01" or I let iTunes do the work (M4A at highest quality) and it, too adds track numbers in front.

announced for end of January; CD or LP brownie, please tell us more about that lady ... icon of may 1968 and wife of Barney's, it seems:

the Bix/Tram sessions

I rather put it into the album title (i.e. "Mozart: Piano Concerto K 491").

I've not seen many, but Haneke's "Amour" was great. And I have highest hopes regarding "Elena" which just - finally! I had given up hopes! - made it to the movies here.

I go by artist (performer) and then by work. But having just changed from an old ipod to an android phone with extra memory card, I'm still unsure how to work things out best. And I have no symphonic stuff on there so far, just concertos, chamber and solo piano music ... guess I'd go with composers in case of symphonies, but that would still look weird, having Mozart or Mahler in the artist listing next to Rubinstein and Rabin. It would be nice if these new devices would indeed depict all those fields you can enter tags into, and let you sort by whatever you want (my android phone doesn't even recognize all the genres, some R&B works, some is displayed as Soul/R&B, some is - with some of the classical - in a separate category called "ta", whatever that stands for. Silly new world.

Oh, I have several of these ... while I did notice the US editions having different covers (see below), I somehow never arrived at realizing those other ones being German. I assume the remasterings used were identical? Nice series, all considered, the Terry being particularly good (the Gonsalves album!), the Jamal and Ramsey Lewis more than useful introductions ... also there's a great James Moody in the series (At the Jazz Workshop, some of his meanest playing to heard there!). Never saw the Herman, didn't even know of its existence!

The complete Armstrong Frémeaux series wouldn't be a wrong decision, I guess ... but a bit much maybe? (Not for me, though I've only got five of the volumes out by now.)

MP3toVinyl might be the solution for even higher-fi sound

What are those German (or wherever from) Chess digipacks? I never saw one! Any links, scans?

Great photos, thanks a lot for sharing them, David!

German Chess, what's that? Remember this thread?

And listen to the bass! Pops Foster is mightier and more swinging than most bassists to come for a long time (same goes for Wellman Braud and a few others).

sad news ... only know very few of her poems but love those - r.i.p.

Yes indeed!