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Totally not how @Gheorghe describes it around here ... maybe the posh places that had Griffin and Foster and Moody while I was in my teens would have hosted elegantly dressed audiences - but I could not afford paying ~50€ per set in the mid/late 90s ... and to this day when I end up in such surroundings, I have a hunch that at least half of the crowd is there for the social event and/or for distinction - to be seen by whom they desire to be their kin. Real, dedicated jazz crowds frequenting the not-so-posh places too, will dress like Tony Makaby does on stage

Mosaic left this off a box they did (one of the Columbias ... Condon Mob?) because it was readily available when they put that set together. Well, by the point I got it, the CD was OOP and it took me a few attempts to get it, but it's gorgeous indeed! I could certainly do with a few more of his albums, though I have him as a soloist/sideman on countless earlier sessions (Condon et al.), so thanks for the recommendations!

He was a great musician ... love his existentialist trumpet stylings. Played "Leosia" last night in memory. Was lucky enough to catch the polish quartet in concert twice, and then saw him perform with Globe Unity at Jazzfest Berlin in November 2016 - he looked quite frail at that time, actually, and I was worrying ... but it seems he was touring again this spring? Not sure what the one favourite album would be, need I pick one. "Litania", his Komeda album discussed above, was my point of entrance when it came out (1997 I think), later on I started exploring his early stuff, too. There is "Astigmatic" of course, then the two first ones of his own albums on Muza, and there is the glorious Calig albu, too (not on CD as far as I know). Not too fond of the electric stuff that followed, but the long run on ECM is indeed pretty awesome, right down to "December Avenue", his last release.

Yes indeed, it's very good (though the "Frère Jacques" thingie is a bit of a strain on my nerves ... but the ole sir is enjoying himself, which is fine with me). He has an upcoming gig in Vienna in September it seems ... would love to catch him live, but I can't make that one. Too bad, really!

And myself, after chatting with @Alexander Hawkins a few months ago, I decided to check out Martha Argerich some more ... and indeed, even if some of that I hear is not exactly how I'd envision it or how I prefer to hear it from experience with other recordings, I'm quite stunned again and again! Played some Chopin first, including the 24 (plus 2) Préludes and the third sonata, and now the disc below.

No, it doesn't ... I've read only parts of it so far, but it's definitely worth it!

Not following this thread regularly these days ... but so glad to hear you enjoy Weissenberg! My entrance point was the EMI Icon box (which bears the utterly stoopid subtitle "The Champagne Pianist"), which is full of good stuff. I can very much relate to how you describe the Scarlatti, and I found it unexpectedly good (I was on the fence about buying this DG set for a long while, but I've been glad to have it for quite a while now! Of the three easy-to-obtain sets, I think I still prefer the ICON over the others (RCA and DG), but they're all worthwhile for sure. Speaking of Scarlatti, do you happen to have the big Aldo Ciccolini box @Alexander Hawkins? Not much Scarlatti in there, but the few sonatas I enjoyed a lot. Same in fact for Marcelle Meyer, who is a great champion of French repertoire, but some of the other stuff in the box containing her recordings (EMI, 17 discs - by now there's a rip-off on Documents/Membran) was surprisingly good I found - Scarlatti, and also some of the (limited) German repertoire (there's some Mozart I think, haven't played any from that box for quite a while).

René Thomas: http://thomasia.free.fr/discography.php Swedish Jazz Disography: http://old.visarkiv.se/jazzdisk_en.htm jazzdocumentation.ch has a few other items of interest, in addition to the Milt Buckner discography: http://jazzdocumentation.ch/index.html

Dick Hafer is on the Impulse! albums by Mingus - and makes good use of his spots to shine! Agreed on the Braff - nice one.

Skipped the EP twofer disc for custom/taxes/fees reasons only ... but looking forward to checking out your music! To me, it still makes a huge difference if I'm listening a cut or two on youtube or bandcamp to listening an album on the (very modest) home set.

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Ordered the new 2-CD-set by now ... curious to hear it. The combination of all (so far) 16 takes plus the 10 with reverb was standard around here (= yurp) ... the 1988 or 1989 edition was around in shops for almost as long as they existed (the Jazz in Paris edition was around for a short time, and later on also the Originals edition - both only have the reverb tracks/master takes I think).

ordering ... and throwing in a couple of earlier physical releases - wanted to check out your music for a long time, if only based on the often thought-provoking posts of yours!

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Interesting, thanks for chiming in with some details @Chuck Nessa!

It's off topic here, but Wiki doesn't have a very clear entry, alas: Although the Apollo records catalog has seen few releases in the digital era, several doo-wop compilations have been released through Relic Records since the 1980s. Some of Apollo's jazz has appeared on Delmark Records. Bess Berman died in 1997. Cash Box said in 1954 that Berman "was the only woman ever to break through with outstanding success in the male-dominated recording industry."[11] Apollo Records and its affiliated publishing company, Bess Music, was purchased by George Hocutt on May 4, 1989. Shortly after that purchase in January 1990, Hocutt sold fifty percent of his interest to Couch and Madison Partners of the Malaco Music Group located in Jackson, Mississippi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Records_(1944

Hm, for me, it usually takes a week or more. Always registered (though when a parcel was lost last winter, oddly enough they told me they cannot track), and always sent via Dutch post (delivery by Swiss post, tracking, from Barcelona on, via Dutch post). Weird things to happen, but I reckon we get what little we're willing to pay for. (But I'm still and hope to remain, a happy customer of jazzmessengers, I just fail to understand all of this ... and I miss local stores to browse through stuff.)

My understanding is that the situation got more and more difficult ... Mosaic did a few "mixed" sets in earlier (the Illinois Jacquet comes to mind, the final CD there is from RCA, now Sony/BMG/whatever, the rest included material from EMI/Capitol (Aladdin), Savoy and others (no idea where ARA belongs ... and not sure of the Apollo/Delmark connection - does Delmark own the Apollo catalogue? License? Own parts of it?) Also maybe the fact that it was a "record club" issue did help in making things easier? Those seemed to disappear quickly as the 90s came along, similar siutation with books, I think, but there the demise is running at a slower speed it seems?

Oh, and I see your avatar is the other recent solo album ... based on the strenght of the old "Piano" and the new one on Hat, I'll have to order that one, sooner or later!

Got the new solo album Starcross Bridge (hatOLOGY) a few days ago and have given in several (some partial) spins by now ... introspective music, most beautiful indeed! Official release seems to be mid August (amazon.de and co.uk say 17th, amazon.fr says 24th - the later may be relevant as Outhere is distributing Hat by now ... which is why I have it already - buying plenty of stuff right from the local distributor of Outhere, mostly classical, but their carrying Hat is most welcome of course!)

Yup, possibly ... and I guess true for many, but not for yours truly Got Vol. 15 and it's a proper CD. Still waiting for some lower volumes that I expect to be all CD-R: Vol. 3-4, 7-9, 11 - I've got Vol. 5 for real, I think thanks to @brownie, and already got that darn CD-R of Vol. 6, Vols. 12-18 are all here, hopefully none of the later ones will be CD-R ... of those I'm missing Vols. 19, 20, 23-25. So far the line runs somewhere between Vol. 6 and Vol. 15, Vol. 11 is the one I'm curious about. -- Other thing: where has the used CD online market gone? (Most likely answer: Amazon killed it with their exalted fees and stopid "service" and shipping restrictions and all that ...)

None left that I'd frequent at this place ... I love to browse, but that's restricted to vacation and - locally as well - book stores.

He he ... I might go for it again sooner or later, guess it'll be around for a while (the CD version at least).

I stopped buying "new" CDs of older releases from such vendors alltogether, because of that (stuff like OJCCDs - will be CDRs most likely). I just wish labels selling CDRs for lack of means to re-press CDs would openly communicate that. In one case I even reached out to a label (a small one run by a classical music ensemble) and they flat-out denied that they're selling CDRs. That was about the weirdest thing. Others (Chiaroscuro, VAI) will openly discuss/admit/explain - but the usual vendors will still label their stuff as "audio CD", and obviously no one seems to care.