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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.

Well, I know about manufacturing and storage cots and all that ... what I don't agree with is that everybody (amazon, JPC, whomever) keeps selling these as "Audio CDs", which they are not. The only people caring about this is the one still buying a physical product, and it's those they're giving the finger with this practice. That's what bothers me. And of course initially they were all proper CDs - but the series started at a t ime when I had neither the budget nor any intention of buying so much Duke Ellington. That, luckily, has changed ... born too late, got smart too late, whatever, but I don't like being looked at as the stoopid consumer that will not notice the difference.

Does the box include very stable geniuses only, or others as well ?

Sounds good! What's your previous edition of this? I bought the Heritage Edition series (those also quite classy-looking French Universal digipacks from around 10-15 years ago) - took me a while to find it (and I wasn't quite sure the vendor would really sell that version, but he was ...) - not sure I want to buy it once more, but I am tempted! Lê Xuân was either involved with the "Jazz in Paris" series or with the compilations on SagaJazz that followed shortly after the initial run of 100-something JiPs in the original digipack design ended.

Ordering the missing ones now ... they will arrive within the next days/weeks. Vol. 6 got here today - CD-R. I still want the music and will make sure to back-up all the CD-R ones, just in case. Sucks bigtime that exactly those labels that would deserve support lie to those still willing to pay good money for their stuff and sell CD-Rs as CDs. I really hate it, but in this case I just want to have all the music, so in the end the will outweigh the I guess.

I'd say the ratio very good, it's the masterpieces that are quite rare, but the pace of good stuff they're churning out is totally nuts ...

I love it ... had less than half of it when it was announced and stopped buying more, but waited several years before actually buying it ...

I have been perusing the annual spring sales for several years and have also started following their new releases to some extent, and occasionally stocking up on stuff that didn't yet make the sales (older items still get cheaper after a while). There's tons of fine stuff there, but I would say hardly a true masterpiece. Off the top of the mind, going by artist (and not looking up all the album titles, no time for that right now): Eve Risser, young French pianist whom I like a lot ... she has a solo album that is minimalist and beautiful, a large group that is prob. composed for large parts, includin some solos I'd assume ... or they're "set"), and then there's a piano duo with Kaja Draksler, too Kaja Draksler, another young pianist, from Slovenia ... her solo album is marvelous, her duo with Portuguese trumpet player Susana Santos Silva is beautiful, her octet with two singers is weird but pretty good (saw the group live as well - Ada Rave and Ab Baars on saxes - not too shabby!) Susana Santos Silva, trumpet player from Portugal, she has a recent (early 2018) solo album out that is quite stunning, the duo with Kaja Draksler is wonderful, there are several albums by the group LAMA, two with guest Joachim Badenhorst and one with guest Chris Speed ... she is also on several collaborative albums (one "Life and Other Transient Storms", I also heard live and found it quite amazing), and she guests on the stunning fourth Volume of the "Basement Sessions" Joachim Badenhorst does his stuff himself usually, but his large group, the Carate Urio Orchestra, is wonderful indeed (with Pascal Niggenkemper and Frantz Loriot, some other Clean Feed labelmates are part of the group, which again I heard live in an almost life-chaning concert). Speaking of pianists, there is plenty of Kris Davis on Clean Feed, including a solo album, collaborations with various other musicians, and a pair of mighty good trio albums led by bassist Eric Revis, who again has more on the label. There is also some fine stuff by pianist Angelica Sanchez (actually, having heard the Davis/Sanchez duo at Willisau last summer, there'd be another piano duo album in the making there, but so far we only got some bits on Davis' mighty good "Duopoly", not on Clean Feed). Then, there is Tony Malaby, w/Sanchez, with his band Tamarindo, including a live set w/Wadada Leo Smith, there is also a pretty wonderful duo album by Wadada/Angelica Sanchez ... and there is so much more ... Joe McPhee ("Ticonderoga" by Jamie Saft with McPhee, Morris, Downs may be one of the masterpieces), there's some Brötzmann, some Evan Parker (including a duo with Alexander Hawkins of course, who provided liner notes to the Risser/Draksler duo album, btw), there's a Steve Lacy disc, there's Dennis Gonzalez, there's Gerry Hemingway, there's some BassDrumBone, Ralph Alessi, Nate Wooley, Harris Eisenstad ("Guewel" is big fun) ... and I'm sure once I'll be checking at home, I'll find I forgot plenty of fine ones

Great news for sure ... and my threshold will be pretty low for this as well. In addition to the releases mentioned, there are: - two by Sonny Stitt/Gene Ammons (Fantasy) - Stan Getz ("My Foolish Heart", Label M or whatever Dorn's outlet was at that very moment) - Sonny Stitt - Just the Way It Was (Label M as well, mean stuff! )

Vol. 1 is amazing ... gotta order Vol. 2 asap!

Add Bud Powell to the list ... and Glenn Gould if classically inclined. Also what about JMac's "whines" when he ends a phrase of his solo? A.T.'s squealing drum chair? Oh, and all those 'bone players humming while playing?

The AAJ review by @RogerF is out now (when I last looked, google found it but it wasn't yet published, I think?) Dave Gelly has done a short one for the Guardian, too: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/03/mike-westbrook-concert-band-review-last-night-old-place-ronnie-scott

Outstanding recording!

Thanks @Dan Gould - so a Bob Belden thing, it seems. Probably no compilation then.

What's that "Shades of Blue" one? http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCQ-9373 From those in this batch I really like the McLean/Onishi ... and a few months ago got Ralph Peterson's "Triangular" (also Japanese and SHM CD, I think), and it's indeed very good! And the Eliases are very nice if you dig her. Interested myself, I think, in the DeJohnette (M-Base Special Edition?), the Onishi, the two Adams, the Peterson and the Super Blue, maybe the Jimmy Smith and the Rosnes snd some Rubalcaba ... and hoping for more to follow! Saw Carrott the one time I managed to catch Muhal ... excellent!

Reading the name of Frank Haynes ... this one (missing in his Wiki entry) should not be forgotten (for CD folks such as myself, Freshsound has reissued) it: https://www.discogs.com/Randy-Weston-Blues/release/3304377 Mighty good!

We do in Zurich (where, so he says currently) he will stay put as musical director of the opera. Haven't heard him do any concert/symphonic repertoire, but his tenure here (together with director Andreas Homoki) has brought plenty of freshness into a house that was relying too heavily on stars and (Italian) core repertoire and not nearly adventurous enough during the long tenure of Alexander Perreira (who whent to Salzburg, breached his contract, went on to La Scala in Milan, where at least so far he didn't stop the tradition of ending their season with a contemporary/20c opera ... going to catch the upcoming Kurtág opera based on Beckett, "Fin the partie", in November!) But back to Zurich, the Homoki/Luisi team has indeed opened up in many directions and made the place a very interesting one for sure. We got some fine premieres, plenty of great baroque opera (with the likes of Christie, Dantone and Antonini conducting the period instrument ensemble that is also part of the house) and much more. Either way, based on this I'd just be curious and in a generally positive mood about this.

Started listening to the Basie material over the past weekend ... but somehow wasn't in the mood for swing (mood swings?) ... but yeah, looking forward a lot! Regarding if the Waller material is good or not, I'm curious ... I've got the JSP sets around but haven't dug into them too deeply yet, and when playing the Waller from the previously available DLs, I found it just right, though certainly not among the highlights (how about Hawkins's "Body and Soul"!?!)

Maybe.... but I've had parcels routed via Prague ... and jazzmessengers uses Dutch post (but the parcels are delivered by Swiss post). I've stopped trying to understand all that.

Did they send you my tracking number? The only friend I know from Switzerland who also ordered it got his set today, again no fees and taxes. So as so often in life, what works for some people doesn't work for others. I'd also wish DHL would get outta here, btw. Lousiest service ever as far as postal service goes ...