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Can't wait! Thanks for sharing the news, Jonathan!

Hey, great to hear from you! I still have that Jazz in Paris thingie here... drop me a PM with your address (and I'll come raid that cellar and steal all those empty Mosaic boxes... they make good drawing boards for kids, you know!) Chuck, thanks! Hope they'll correct this!

Got my box... looks good! I like these Hip-O 7-inch boxes quite a lot, I must say! Too bad about the "Flamingo" goof (haven't double-checked it yet). I won't try and get in touch with anyone here in Switzerland, I think... once had a most unpleasant experience with Sony over the damaged Miles "Complete Bitches Brew" fourth disc and otherwise never, ever even got an answer to any inquiries to EMI or whomever I've already tried. I guess it would be most efficient to get in touch directly with someone in charge at Hip-O's?

Ships in 1-2 weeks, maybe? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O590N4 Thanks! Will give it a try, doesn't sound like it will absolutely not be available there... crossing my fingers! Seems these turn up and disappear again now and then.

Hey, if you'd be bold enough to sit through the Brözziman Onzetet, I'd treat you to some beer, too!

Will catch the Tentet + 1 on April 17 in Zurich... if any Londoners are thinking of dropping by, I'll treat you to some beers!

That's where mine is underway from... guess I'll get the very same version then. Btw, with these Hip-O-Selects, I put them into the "wrapper" at at 90° angle, so that on top there's the back of the hardbound book, not the top of it - like this, no dust will get into the pages where CDs are stuck in. But I guess it would still be smartest to store the discs elsewhere - but I hate separating discs from their package as in my mess they might never find together again...

Trumpet Time - Hot Lips Page Sextet / Buck Clayton All-Stars (Jazztone J-1024 10" LP) The Burt Goldblatt cover is in perfect shape! The vinyl looks very clean but sounds a bit less so (and has some hardly visible but audible scratches). For a lousy 15 Swiss francs, I would have bought the cover alone, I guess! Also found this one, of which I'd never heard before (for 10 Swiss francs - haven't played it yet): Unbroken - The Buddy Tate Celebrity Club Orchestra (MPS 21 20740-4)

Is there any comment about that? Makes little sense!

Gee, why did no one tell me "Jobim" and "Matita Perê" are the same? Guess I should have checked more closely, I know have the Verve By Request and the european Philips reissue... I know that "Antonio Carlos Jobim" is also known on Verve as "The Composer of Desafinado Plays"... are there any others I have to watch out?

Started playing the Johnny Smith today... into CD2 now - very nice!

PM coming...

Got "The Wildest!" by Louis Prima - the inner page of the booklet (p. 5-8) is there twice, but the first page (p. 1/2 and 9/10) is, alas missing I won't even try contacting EMI about this... my experience is you'll never, ever get a reply anyway. Can someone do some scans, maybe? Would be appreciated. Too bad I didn't look at the disc more closely before buying it. Guess those at the shop would just bitch around as it was sale, don't have the nerves to try getting it replaced.

Still waiting for my set to arrive... #1 is a minor issue, but #2 and #3 sound rather annoying to me! Too bad if it's so (not doubting your findings!) - quality control costs too much in these cheapo times of ours, I assume...

Yes, sound is fine - only thing I could compare it to is what's around in the blogosphere... compared to that, the new LP sounds pretty darn good!

The Tolliver of course caugth me off guard... the Lunceford is terrific news (though I must have all or most the music on Masters of Jazz... will definitely want a Mosaic booklet there! Call me crazy!). The Rivers also sounds interesting, though I don't quite know yet what my take on his big band music is... the RCAs take a while to "get" and I'm not sure I'm there just yet. Guess I ought to check out that disc "Aurora" as well, huh?

Well, ZZ Top is usually in the soul/black music section over here...

we share (or try to share) your concern. Really hope to see you and your posts back here when things return to normal! Same here. Wishing you all the best! Hope the worst won't take place... but the whole information situation seems to be about as bad as back when Tchernobyl happened. The concealment going on between nuclear lobbies, the whole power manufacturing industry and their politician slaves is disgusting... the spinelessness of politicians over here is hard to bear, just watch what's going on in Germany, for instance.

Yes, I got to grab that clarinet compilation, too - seems like a splendid idea!

Did you ever compare tracklists? Does either of them have complete Masters of Jazz discs included, or are they compilations?

Something quite wrong with that entry on amazon! The cover fits the "boxed" reissues of Masters of Jazz (mostly I think they just threw in three discs, but I haven't got any of them or even had a closer look at any, but some of them turned up in stores here last year). You can see the "Masters of Jazz / Média 7" logo on the bottom left. The tracklist with 12 titles has to be wrong for a 2CD set. The ones I've seen look like this though: http://www.amazon.fr/Masters-Jazz-Lester-Young/dp/B002TMLRCW/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1300062438&sr=1-3

who those? just hope not relatives of Slim Dusty (yours truly, a fellow 1/2 oz) What's a "fellow 1/2 oz"? Hackberry Ramblers - venerable and revered cajun string band; helped spearhead the string band cajun sound before the accordian came back into the music in the '40s and '50s. Their Arhoolie CD spans 35-50. There's also later recordings available from Arhoolie done by them that are very good. Roy Newman and His Boys - largely forgotten western swing pioneers from the '30s. The most pronounced jazziness of the early western swingers - lots of clarinet, some Bob Dunn on steel and great vocalists. I have a single sensational CD on the small German label Cattle. There's also a bunch of stuff on the JSP "Western Swing And Country Jazz" box, though not quite as solid. Half an aussie These two sound interesting, never heard of them!

It's a compilation of Pres' clarinet tracks and was mentioned favourably in the Pres thread. Haven't gotten it yet, myself.

Same here... though I dug deeply enough into that box to really, really discover and dig O'Day!

who those? just hope not relatives of Slim Dusty (yours truly, a fellow 1/2 oz)