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Rather give me some Jim Pepper please! Enja should do such cube boxes with cardboard packaging à la CAMJazz and ECM as well! Water Spirit Feelin' springin' Round My Head makes Me Feel Glad that I'm Not Dead

Yeah, I dug up the hatOLOGY 4CD set a couple of weeks ago... but as I felt I had no time for dedicated listening yet, I haven't started revisiting it... you need time, indeed!

The Time reissue series was done by Fresh Sound - were those "legally" ok as well? Not to debate legitimacy for once...

Got the CD today - hope to squeeze in a listen tonight! Thanks a lot!

Effing corporate American capitalism, ain't it so?

Echo the first sentiment, strongly. And yeah you are right - these ECM-alike covers [i mean the real ones, not the wonderful pastiches] are poor - they show up the virtues and consistency of ECM even if you *don't* really admire the Nordic Twilight aesthetic ('it's dusk, and here I am, all quiet and alone with just the echoes of distant feelings and fading memories...') Tough crowd. The psi in post #2 above comes closest, I think. This just proves that no matter what you think of the music (or the design, in terms of liking or disliking) of what high quality ECM's cover designs usually are (there are exceptions, I'm sure...)

They're effin' hilarious! Will have to let couw know that we had a good laugh again about these!

Distribution throughout Europe of this superb disc was very erratic. It's very hard to get a copy of it nowadays. Whenever I have run into a copy lately, I bought it and sent it to friends. Yes you did Will have to play that one again as well, it's been a while!

Just read it this morning (Niko averted me about it) - very good! I'll have to re-listen to "What It Is" with a new set of ears tonight! Always thought it was a bit too lose and "laisser-faire" in approach, but now my curiosity is piqued again!

Katche is a perfect studio drummer who plays with lack of edge and writes boring run-of-the mill tunes :-) Sorry, but that's how I hear him... I do like Trygve Seim though. But I just played some Atomic on the ipod again recently ("Feet Music") and that stuff is so much livelier and actually breathes... and yet it has a lot of nordic vibes to it as well (beefed up with some of the exuberance you often hear in South African jazz).

My hunch is that Amazon's systems are significantly, uh, "jankier" than they often seem. While most of the site's features work well enough, there are occasionally things that make me wonder if its overall design on the backend impedes building "commonsense" features, like combining Marketplace items from the same seller into a single order.* As an example of a product hole I noticed...the Amazon mp3 store seems to have been oddly "bolted on" to the rest of the site. As a consumer, it seems rather silly that you'd need separate sections of "Your Account" to view regular orders and "digital orders," yet that's how Amazon built it, which suggests to me that the two types of orders use a common frontend but likely totally separate billing processes, databases, and so forth. I downloaded $4 in mp3s last month from the mp3 store but forgot that I hadn't updated the credit card used to pay. With regular orders, they just make you re-order the item again, and start processing the new order once your card goes through. But with mp3s, the music hits your hard drive well before your charges can be processed on your card. The regular billing workflow breaks down when you apply it to buying mp3s and Kindle books and stuff, but Amazon hasn't gotten around to fully patching this flaw by creating a new flow in the part of their mp3 system that handles billing. So my card declined and I got this meaningless message from Amazon to "re-enter your card to complete your order," but I already had the music of course. Don't even get me started on my attempt to get Amazon's support team to re-charge my card for the declined amount. *Or it also could simply be that it's not in Marketplace sellers' interests to allow customers to combine orders (less markup on the inflated shipping charges), so Amazon just doesn't do it. Interesting... I never bought digital and don't plan on starting to do. I thought it was what you state at the end... likely the marketplace vendors would just up their prices accordingly, if you could indeed combine orders. Lucky for us yurpeens, many of the big vendors are also selling via www.priceminister.com, and there, if you order more than one item, the additional shipping costs are reduced (I think 3.40€ for the first item and 1.50€ for each additional one - that's kind of sensible...)

Fine comments there about the Ntshoko album! I've heard it, should buy the new reissue! Ntshoko has recently made some celebrated appearances in Zurich with Irene Schweizer and Omri Ziegele - together they form the "Where's Africa Trio". Their concerts were all sold out days before they took place - and I totally missed out - honestly I don't like Ziegele much, but Schweizer is terrific and she's got the African thing down as she showed for many years over many a disc... Here's their new CD (which I bought recently, but I haven't listened yet): Omri Ziegele Altosax, Voice Irène Schweizer Piano Makaya Ntshoko Drums Recorded June, 30 and July, 1, 2009 by Schweizer Radio DRS, Radiostudio Zürich. Sound engineer: Martin Pearson. Cover art: Christoph Hauri. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Photo: Francesca Pfeffer. Liner notes: Christian Rentsch Intakt CD 167 / 2009 (eng) Those who were surprised five years ago at how little Africa was on the first recording of Omri Ziegele und Irene Schweizer Wheres Africa (Intakt 098) will be astonished now how African this second Wheres Africa CD sounds. This is not only because of the nostalgic pieces of Dollar Brand, Chris McGregor and Johnny Dyani, and also not only because of Ntshokos discrete drumming; it is because of the attitude that is indeed so altogether un-European. See, in Europe music is not allowed to be so outrageously beautiful, so merry with melody and sound, so unbroken and touching especially not contemporary jazz. But: Omri Ziegeles Wheres Africa-Trio is far from being a colourful acoustic travelogue about townships romantically jazzed up. It is rather the result of long journeys through forty years of fiercely lived and sometimes suffered history of jazz. In the course of this history a lot of things simply settled: the vain virtuosity, the desperate originality, the bathos and the hysterical forced happiness, the false complexity and the pompous art gesture. The remains of the long journey to oneself is this masterpiece. Its about time. (Christian Rentsch, Liner notes, 2009) http://www.intaktrec.ch/167-a.htm If you want to be hooked up with Ntshoko, I'm sure the folks at Intakt or Schweizer (whom I saw at the movies yesterday... H-G Clouzot's "L'assassin habite au... 21") could help! I think he's been residing in Basel, Switzerland for quite a while now (edit: yes, he's even listed in the phone book - drop me a PM if you need assistance!)

If only amazon marketplace wouldn't ask such insane amounts of $$ for shipping! Why can't they make the costs for the second, third etc. discs that are part of the SAME order just 1.5$ more, instead of the full effing amount again? It's ridiculous to order five discs for less than 10$ but the total order sum is somewhere around 50$!

Are those couw's ECM designs? Or AfricaBrass'? Both are missed here! I disagree with most of the others... the types used are so much mor accidental and uglier than ECM's! Not that I'm a huge fan of ECM's design, but 99% of their covers do achieve a clarity that is rare. Even with covers I don't like it's usually like - no denying that!

I've not yet been able to completely find and sort out all the Tadd boots, I've got at least three of those Boris Rose LPs around... all mighty fine music! There's indeed an aircheck (or maybe even two?) from the Royal Roost with the "Big Ten" with Miles in the band. I think Leonard Hawkins was the other trumpet player who's been documented as part of the band. Too bad Fantasy only documented the tracks with Fats! And even worse they don't give exact recording dates. This stuff is a mess, as some of the tunes (The Squirrel, Tadd Walk...) turn up on every other date.

Sad news - way too young indeed!

Except he and everyone else here forgot this one, which to me is THE essential Dameron set to have (or the essential one besides "Fontainebleau" and the Clifford Brown "Memorial Album" and the various live sets from Fantasy and Boris Rose...)

Yep, found it: That doesn't of course mean it isn't Amy on "Soulin'"...

Amy is, I think, on that unreleased session included on the Capitol best of - will have to play "Soulin'" again though, it's been a while and I don't remember how the tenor there sounded...

Have a copy on the way now, thanks for the alert!

I do know... but forgot which album it was as I gave aways the OJCCDs once I got the Prestige box.

From the liners of which album is this again? Chewy and his crappy thread-titles... "Tenor Madness" or "Plus Four"?

Gee, I loved that one, but have sold off the single CD a long time ago and didn't think to make a photocopy...

Thanks for the reminder - I read about it somewhere... just sent an email!