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new one in my house - nice for late night listening (been tested twice now...): Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria the Great (the supporting cast features Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Horn and Ray Crawford, among others)

Yes, I can see what you feel about Cole and OP. I still feel the same to some extent, but I grew to enjoy OP's music a lot over the past few months (as I've mentioned elsewhere). I merely wanted to point out that Cole is much more a point of reference for OP than Tatum, in my opinion (YMMV - ha, done it, used that silly acronym for the first time!)

I don't quite get the comparison of Peterson and Tatum. It's more like Peterson and Nat Cole to my ears... if Cole wouldn't have turned into the big superstar singer, he might be known and estimated nowadays as the superior piano player he actually was.

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reverting to PMs

With me, I guess the Pac was a 9, the Shank/Coop musically a 7 or so (but I wanted it as badly as 9 - I love the Shank Pacific Mosaic and wanted to get the Select ever since it came out...), the Richards may have been a 5, the Pullen and Dexter a 7 or so... anyway... my card was just charged for another Shank/Coop order, so there's hope again (but this whole thing is probably EMI's way of teaching us modesty... hope is there to fade away slowly, ain't it so?)

I think that's where I got them from...

Do you also have to pay tax on goods from the European Union? If so, you'll have a hard time finding stuff for attractive prices outside your country... Yes. I haven't figured out how exactly things work, but big vendors such as amazon deduct the (French/German) VAT and if an order has a value of more than 50 CHF, the Swiss VAT gets added (7%), plus (that's the main part), the post demands a pricey fee (18 CHF currently, sometimes it seems to be only 12, I don't quite see a system in it). Anyway, with both French and German Amazon offering free shipping on orders over 20€, I can get good prices now and then (while good price inside my little country are only possible in special sales... there, I can get discs for about the prices that CDUniverse or Amazon USA usually offers...) Of all the black-hole Selects, that's probably the one I'm least put out about (although I'll probably regret that statement). Same here... didn't even try to find that one. But hey, as long as we don't know that was a mistake, let's just not bother about it!

My Pullen and Richards arrived today, but both cost me a lot of taxes as the prizes were so high (both over 50 €) - that sucks, but at least I got them. The annoying thing however is, I got the Pullen, Dexter and Richards, but not the Shank/Coop and Pacific Trios. Of course it was the later two I really, really wanted to get!

My Dexter set arrived yesterday... still want the Pacific and Shank/Cooper, no idea if the final round of orders will come through, but I certainly do hope so!

As for Fred Frith, the Arte Quartett also collaborated with him: The one with Pierre Favre is the only one of these I actually own, it's mighty fine! Finally, there's one more on Intakt, with Lucas Niggli's Zoom:

Understandable , given that these tracks are likely part of a Voice Of America transcription disc of a concert performance in Europe (possibly Germany) . They're "in circulation"... I have the date as January 5, and Köln (Cologne, Germany) as location. Wright and White are only "probables" there... at least so say my files... nothing certain there, really, but I guess the compended "knowledge" of collectors is more reliable than the (useful though) crappy jazzdisco.org site.

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Very odd. I'm pretty sure he never played the Cheltenham festival in 2007 and it would be an unlikely place for an international jazz gig outside of festival time. Could be wrong. He did play this year with McCaslin though not with Caine. It was fabulous! They fixed it now... it's just the Dave Douglas Quintet - I guess they read here...

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Happy Birthday Ronald! All the best!

had a message from the post office in the mail yesterday... prolly me mono box is waiting to be bailed out (30$ or so for taxes... still a lot cheaper than buying it locally, where everything except some of the single disc reissues is out of stock anyway).

maybe you're right, but these two should fit:

I know, I was just adding more info to the US remasters from a few years ago - the first album wasn't part of that series.

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As for the first album, I asked the same question (I think in the artists section's WR corner) and then bought the old (red frame) edition as well. And I also saw entries with 2009 and hence was wondering... Sony has a cheap series out here now, with no new liner notes, just a one-fold flimsy cover, on the outside you get the front and back covers (with a beige border) and on the inside, you get bare-bones discographical info plus production credits. I got the "Bill Evans Album" a couple of days ago (finally!) and also saw Garner's "Body and Soul" and "Concert By the Sea" in such editions (also some Miles, I think). The Evans looks like this (I think the beige border is a bit larger in real): Maybe the first WR album is around in such a version as well, hence the 2009 date? I haven't seen it however.

I didn't think of an embargo, rather sending some complaint letters, but I guess that's useless with such a huge corporation...

Yes, I got those US remasters as well (I have five, didn't upgrade "Heavy Weather" yet). Not sure "I Sing the Body Electric" was actually part of those remasters, but it looks nice and fancy... it was probably done in between the old ones (with red frames and masterworks logo in one corner) and the other newer ones (which would then be five: Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller, Tale Spinnin', Black Market, Heavy Weather). Live in Tokyo I have as a European edition with hardly any information on it. Then there's the Live & Unreleased 2CD set as well. The rest is just old versions, as far as I know. (But I'm not that interested in later WR, which is why I didn't upgrade Heavy Weather yet... it's the early open and experimental stuff that fascinates me.)

That's a great album! But I guess I'll stay with my old Warner CD... Mosaic Contemporary made some weird choices, offering stuff that is/was readily available for years.