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Vikky Carr Bruno Carr Giordano Bruno

Samuel Blaser Karl Popper Ludwig von Ficker

Happy Birthday, Al!

Count Basie Jerry Lewis Al "Jazzbo" Collins

I agree. Like 'em so much that I went and bought both JPN Toshiba vinyl editions as well ('Surging Ahead' PJ-0067 in fabulous Mono) from MC's wife on eBay. Great sounding,they are! So she was selling his vinyl behind his back or what?

Led Zeppelin... haven't played any since I was 14 or 15... not bad at all! And this one here, for laughs:

For the record: I was comparing the 1993 Japanese CD reissue of the Rowles album and the same tracks on the Mosaic Select. I know, and I was adding a(n admittedly unqualified) comparison of the Mosaic Select and the Nocturne box. The original Liberty vinyl (heavy vinyl as a matter of fact) has excellent sound, engineered by John Neal, produced by Harry Babasin. And what do your ears say about the Select vs. the Nocturne version?

Yes - and you can get in touch with the folks from Südwestrundfunk (SWR) here: http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/jazz/-/id=659242/vv=email/nid=659242/did=661414/15alseh/index.html I have received session logs from their archives several times, they're very kind and usually pretty quick in answering! They might even know in which hall of the Liederhalle Art Performed (and all of that would be on their typewritten logs, where in handwriting they also added notes about the music and at which dates which tunes were broadcast etc). And I forgot to add - great to see the series going on, and great to see the fine Stuttgart concert released!

For the record: I was comparing the 1993 Japanese CD reissue of the Rowles album and the same tracks on the Mosaic Select. I know, and I was adding a(n admittedly unqualified) comparison of the Mosaic Select and the Nocturne box.

You mean he didn't know the composer of "JATP Blues", "Blues For Norman", "Jam Blues," and "The Opener"?

I'm no audiophile, but I think the Rowles on Fresh Sound set sounds about the same as the Pacific. There's no detailed info about their remasterings, but the Nocturne box was done in collaboration with Babasin/Harte. There's no info if there are still any masters around, there's just one name for digital transfers/masterings given in the booklet.

Garance Marcel Carné The Mamas and the Papas

Ha, you're all too generous! I don't drive, so I have to come on the back of a horse or some such... or hope no one will slit my throat on the greyhound Anyway, I'll bring some Jever pils to make sure you'll allow me in!

Well, this isn't about competition, really... the Rowles album is a bit of an outsider in both boxes, and the rest has no overlap. But still, it's worth pointing out what a fine set that Nocturne one is!

Too bad there was never (and as I understand, will never be) a Vol. 2! I think a few more sessions were on OOP Fantasy CDs, but I never managed to find any of them for sensible prices and don't want to pay a lot of money for discs where I have half in the Vol. 1 set!

Big Mama Thornton George Crumb Adam & Eve

Happy Birthday, Garth! :party: Hope all is well!

Most won't notice, but all this crap about celebrities and other totally unimportant stuff *is* politics, in the way that it is meant to (and succeeds in, mostly) keep people from bothering about the important stuff...

Still have that Shank/Cooper Select. Would be willing to trade it (for the Art Pepper Select - NOT SO SURE ANY LONGER ABOUT THAT! or) for the Pres 4CD set. New one for a new one, used one for a used one (I have one sealed of the Shank/Cooper and one open with a tiny scratch on one disc, but nothing to worry about!)

Bumping this up... I finally got hold of this set, as I've mentioned elsewhere. Played it all by now, and it's very, very nice to have! Not one that jumped in my face and sounded like the greatest most thrilling stuff, but certainly one that will grow on me! I have a question about the Jimmy Rowles set though. That one was released on Liberty and was initially planned for release on Nocturne. Fresh Sound did a 3CD set "Complete Nocturne Recordings, Vol. 1" - a mighty fine collection of music with a good booklet - quite out of the ordinary, compared to their track record, and while maybe not legally cleared, Pujol seems to have been in touch about that with most of the musicians, who contributed remembrances etc. In Jimmy Rowles' case, he also contributed two more tunes, an alternate take of "Let's Fall in Love" and the previously unreleased "All the Things You Are". Why did Mosaic not include those? Might Pujol have done a "better" job for once by getting in touch with the musicians, while Mosaic "only" went the "usual" route by digging through the archives, looking for the masters etc? This is the Fresh Sound 3CD set in question: http://freshsoundrecords.com/record.php?record_id=1228

Played "Solstice" twice in a row last night - pretty good one indeed! And the photo of a young Garbarek is funny! He seems like an unpretentuous guy there... tempi passati!

Ha, that's kind of funny Happy Birthday to Mr. Towner! I don't have many of his recordings yet, but the two Touchstones (Solstice and Batik) are fine! And his recent one, "Chiaroscuro" with Paolo Fresu, is very good, too!

Bonnie & Clyde MC Solaar Sun Ra

Cool! Didn't notice yet as I just flipped through. But allow me to say I enjoy your photos a lot! Many of them come from an era when jazz got less and less public attention and hence they document a lesser known era too (to a late-comer such as me, at least, who's familiar with tons of 50s and 60s photographs by Wolff et.al.)

Edward Furlong The Gubernator Beuys (... ohne Sonne... kein Reagan... )