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I'm waiting for a bunch to arrive via various amazon.fr marketplace sellers - those were the best prizes (w/shipping) for me. I can highly recommend the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Mulligan CJB, and Louis Hayes/Woody Shaw for starters. The Don Redman may be a bit weak (albeit the great line-up it has), but I don't think there's a real clinker in the series (But I'm still waiting for the two Peterson/Fitzgerald/JATP and the two Hamptons, as well as the Coleman Hawkins... and I still have a couple of gaps).

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I still find way too much, can't buy nearly all I want! But one thing I noticed is that prizes for CDs from the big ones (EMI, Sony) have gone down quite a bit, speaking of local stores... it was a slow progress over the past 10 years, but in the past year or so, there have been constant "sales" where nearly each and every RVG (and many Conns) would show up, for instance, and the prices they were being offered for were at least 25% lower than usual (before, the prices went down in steps of, say, 2-3% or so). Anyway, those that complain that they don't find new music, maybe it's time to check out some smaller labels as long as they're operating? For instance... ACT Music Ayler CIMP/Cadence Dreyfus Emanem Enja ESP Disk FMP FMR Futura & Marge labels Hat Records Intakt Records Leo Records Nessa Records Nimbus West Silkheart Steeplechase Storyville Tzadik Water There'd be many, many a dozen of albums on those labels that I'd love to own!

another summer sales haul... The Verve - This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds and jazzwise: Charles Lloyd - Lift Every Voice (ECM) Coleman Hawkins - Bean and the Boys (Fantasy - I always thought this was a compilation, had no idea it contained a full album, amother other things) Paul Motian - Conception Vessel (ECM) Swiss Art Orchestra 91 (a Matthias Rüegg project) (MGB) Maria Muldaur - Meet Me Where They Play the Blues (TCB) B.B. King - Live at the Apollo (Universal Originals)

not strictly correct... Roy Ayers Ubiquity: S/T, has the bonus "He Gives Us All His Love" - previously available only on a rare promo 7". Yeah, it appears that McCoy's Today and Tomorrow is also retaining all the bonus tracks from the GRP edition. Oh, that's good to know! Will look for this one then!

anything new about this one, except for the cover photo? This reissue was newly mastered on April 2009, but as I don't have the original issue I unfortunately cannot compare. Thanks for the info - I guess I'll stay with what I have... I'd rather see Hat reissue some albums from further back, but then this one's excellent of course!

I have org as homepage and use Opera for 9 other pages... having org as homepage allows for 10 quickly accessible sites... I could use some more, really! Claude's idea sounds smart, but I'm usually too lazy to do that much customising work...

Happy Birthday!

gee, you guys keep getting older! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! I picked up this Gambit boot in the summer sales, some terrific blowing by McPherson on it: The Many Faces of Art Farmer line up is: Art Farmer (flhrn), Charles McPherson (as), Tommy Flanagan (p), Steve Swallow (b), Ron Carter (b), Bobby Thomas (d).

yup - "Cerca di cibo" by the folksy duo of Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia has Eco liner notes... ECM has also released some films by Michel Godard (as well as the soundtrack to his slightly earlier film "Nouvelle Vague"). All that might be shrugged off by many as artsy fartsy, but I guess it's part of the image ECM tries to construct.

anything new about this one, except for the cover photo?

There's also "Saturday Night Fish Fry" if that's more to your liking Here it was "Waltzing Mathilda", of all things

Some of the most interesting music I know of, performed and recorded by both the WDR Big Band and the NDR Big Band (one at a time only) can be found on the 10CD Box Set by George Gruntz, Radio Days (TCB). It can't be found anywhere online, it seems. It was released I think in 2007 and has been around for quite acceptable prizes (50€ range). Recommended if you can find it!

I have Rat Race Blues but not Sayin' Somethin'...how is it? Both on order. Should be here within a week. I typically post in the "buy" thread when I place the order. In fact, often simultaneously, as I press the 'place order' button. ... I should probably wait until they arrive. I have nothing with Gryce as leader now, but the samples on both of these sounded tremendous. When I've had a chance to spin 'em a couple of times, I'll certainly toss my impressions into the mix. I'm looking forward to both. I think I like "Sayin' Somethin'" best, among Gryce's three OJCs! (The fourth one, by the Jazzlab, I didn't get, as I opted for the Lonehill 3CD set... three single discs, that is). Fine stuff, all of it! "Reminiscin'" would also deserve CD release/reissue! ************** yesterday, I had in the mail: The Band - The Last Waltz (4CD) The Band - Stage Fright The Band - Moondog Matinee (still waiting for "Rock of Ages", "Music from Big Pink" and "Northern Lights, Southern Cross") and the day before, I found at a used store: Buster Williams - Somewhere Along the Way (TCB) Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues (OJJCD) Joe Henderson - Double Rainbow (now I'm only missing the Miles disc from his Verve years, I think)

That's not what we get here, happily... but the cultural sections of the daily papers are getting smaller and smaller as we speak. Film coverage is about to disappear, and jazz, well... it was never covered thoroughly, but it seems ECM records will be about the last thing they'll stop to write about...

found this one in a used store two days ago, gave it a first spin last night - very, very good! Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues That brings to mind another one (though very different, musically): Listen to Barry Harris ... Solo Piano two gorgeous covers as well!

ooooh, Yannatou! beautiful stuff, got to play these again soon! this reminds me, I ought to finally get a Yasmin Levy disc... now back on topic... well, sort of: the real book also contained virtually all of the great Atlantic album Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - just as a reminder to Mr. 7/4 - some more goodies there! I think the concept with ECM and liner notes is sort of... Eicher allows a selected few writers to do some for a selected few artists or something like that... Peter Rüedi (one of my guides into jazz, he had a great, great weekly record review, both new and old, I also learned about Mosaic from him) for instance wrote a liner in one of the first post-comeback Keith Jarrett discs, one of the last ones I bought). And there's still some press coverage for ECM releases, for instance, recently there was an article by a journalist who visited the recoding sessions of Jon Balke's latest project at the radio studio in Lugano (Switzerland). But then I assume you don't get that outside of the German language areas, or much less than we do.

Thanks - I might look for some Bubba then.... found the Williams disc w/Bartz, Nelson, McKinney and White at a used store yesterday. No Mulgrew Miller there.

yup... those who like this should consider the Randy Weston Mosaic Select while it's still around! It's just one album, but there's plenty of other great music in that little box! source: http://www.randyweston.info/randy-weston-d...63highlife.html

That's great! I read that he was to appear there from Wednesday night on for a few days - great to know he's playing again! (edit because i hit the post-button too soon...)

seems I missed a whole bunch of birthdays - belated congratulations!

Seconded ! Happy Birthday, Dmitry ! whatever they said... happy birthday!

belated best wishes!

Swallow's albums do... cool idea. But ECM is only the distribution (and production?) partner of Watt/XtraWatt, I think. The liners of some of those Carla Bley albums, documenting the band's way through ole yurp are hilarious, methinks!