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Very sad news - r.i.p. Frank Foster

Footage from Andy Bey and some others in Paris: Who's the dude reminiscing?

Thanks - that's exactly how it looks! I guess around 10€ for this WAS quite a find, after all!

Can someone maybe help me determine if my "Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" is indeed an original pressing? There's a deep groove roughly where the outher black "frame" on the label begins. In the dead wax on side 1 are the following stamps: "AS 30A", "...? Sound" (very small, can't read the first word, it's in a tiny curly type) In the dead wax on side 2: "VAN GELDER", "AS-30 B" (originally handwritten), "STEREO", and "LW" (vertically, L on top of W), like: What's the meaning of that anyway? Seen it before... Further, on the labels as well as the back cover: "A PRODUCT OF ABC-PARAMOUNT RECORDS, INC." and "PRINTED IN U.S.A."

Yes, that one's fabulous! But to me, it's by far Masekela's finest (Dudu smokes... and spews fire!) Don't know that much yet, but nothing else I've heard had a similar impact on me...

Bridesmaids just started here... but there's so much old stuff in the cinemathèque... that's the thing: you got to make picks, select, and live without seing all you'd like. And with me, most often I got and watch the old films...

Yeah, that's silly indeed! I love a good comedy... but of course - as you were expecting, I guess - I'm drawn mostly to great old screwball comedies... "Ball of Fire", "The Lady Eve"...

Hey, us weirdos actually watch all these arthouse films because they're fun for us Either way, to me it's all welcome, but if you're more comfortable in a separate thread, that's of course fine, too!

not sure if any of them qualify as great finds, but I got them all in good to very good quality (that means "good" as in "good", not as in "unplayable" in that silly merikin vinyllingo which I don't get - good is good, dig?) and for very fair prices: Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio (Reprise) The Woody Herman Quartet - Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet (Philips) Jess Stacy and Friends 1938-1944 (London/Commodore Classics) Willie "The Lion" Smith - Composer-Entertainer (Commodore Classics) Keith Jarrett - Concerts (ECM 3LP) Jimmy Rushing - Rushing Lullabies (Philips UK) Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (ECM 2LP) Keith Jarrett - Hymns Spheres (ECM 2LP) Sidney Bechet Sessions (Storyville) Dixieland with Ben Pollack and his Pick-a-Rib Boys featuring Jack Teagarden (Savoy) Art Hodes - Someone to Watch Over Me ("Live at Hanratty's") (Muse) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse AS-30) as well as a 2LP set of Swiss jazz from 1935-65 with a few interesting cuts (and lots of amateur dixie bands that I could happily live without).

To end my short derailment of this thread... the boxes I could have bought were indeed the Billy May et.al. re-recordings, those 70s 3LP boxes I liked to above. No need for them to use up my space...

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane "Impulse Stereo A-30" is what it says in the white circle below the label... seems to be an original stereo issue - found it today! EDIT: image fixed

Jimmy Rushing - Rushing Lullabies got exactly the above Philips version - lovely!

I saw that one... as someone who owns zero Floyd discs at this time, it might be of interest... but would be overkill, too.

so it's packed as a gigantic smartphone? I'm waiting for the day when they'll invent the inversion box set... as soon as you open it, you'll be swallowed by the box set and turn invisble (like Calvin when he's wearing his cape)... you'll need a special gadget to be released again, if you lose it (or buy a Chinese counterfeit) you'll never find your way out again! Oh, and shouldn't this be in the boxset bargain thread?

Berkeley April 7, 1967 with Al Stinson! There are also Portland May 21, 1966 with Richard Davis and the aforementioned Newport July 2, 1967 gig, and then there's Newport July 4, 1966, too! The two from Newport are VOA broadcasts. Portland is given as AUD on Losin, but sounds more like SBD, Berkeley is a radio broadcast. Fabulous stuff, all of it!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Yes, only piano on the 1967 tour. As for the rest... London hasn't turned up, from Helsinki there are but a few tracks around, but there's are full (compared to Losin's listings, that is) radio captures from Rotterdam, Berlin and Karlsruhe (which is partly on the DVD). Not sure a Vol. 2 based on these would make that much sense, but hey, I'd get it, too!

Seriously now? Had no idea such a thing existed!

smart scanner that can develop negatives!

classic chewy! (btw, I just got a dixieland LP with an RVG stamp in it!)

One of the jams "Farewell Blues" with Bird and Bechet is available from Amazon as a download. It's on Bird's Eye Vol. 12. Losin says it's been shortened on most releases, including the Philology Vol. 12 and Vol. 61 (what a mess, these Philology releases!) ones:

Awww shit no. This is sad.

Awww shit no. This is sad.

how 'bout dutch treats?