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Yes, belated best wishes! :party:

Hmm - Bern has at least one jazz LP place (pricey, I recall) and Vancouver is heavily depleted on the LP front in recent years. Used to be good for CDs though with 'A&B Sound's' 20% off deals on everything on Canada Day. Not sure on Zurich but maybe The King can pipe in..? Nothing too useful, but we got them nets for that, don't we? There's a great used record store 20 minutes outside of ZH though, it used to be right near where I live but moved away several years ago. Jazz exclusively, too! You could easily spend a fortune there, and I'm not aware of any similar stores in the surroundings or the rest of Switzerland, so on that account, Zurich should win

"Perceptions" is great indeed!

For Musicians Only is indeed great! I have the old US CD, was there a Verve Master Edition reissue of it? (There was of "Diz & Getz" and of "Sonny Side Up", the later of which I have as VME.) To my ears, the old CD sounds very good! The drag though is that except for some silly Schaap sage-isms on the bonus tracks, there are no notes... or wait, that's on "Duet", I think, yes... still weird, having "additional comments" but no "original notes"...

Well, if Zurich would be on the mediterranean, it would be perfect... Other than that, this list is bull, though of course the local media are proud... (ZUrich was the winner for at least two consecutive years before). I think those that do this list don't even publicise the criteria they're using, so it's all pretty pointless. (And as for me, I'd never want to live in Berne - too much of a stiff old bourgeoisie there, it seems, and extremely hard to make acquaintances if you're a "foreigner", which I'd be there, though it's only an hour by train or car).

As Dan said, libraries take books out of circulation and sell them as "discards." Usually, the books are extra copies, or else the library sees that nobody has checked an item out for a long time - they put the discarded books on sale to the public for a very low price (in the US, usually .25 for paperbacks and .50-1.00 per hardback) and the money is used for buying new books. I would imagine that someone bought the book and brought it to the US. Yeah, probably that's what happened. I can't remember where I bought it from, doesn't seem to have been amazon.com, it's not listed there, but it's no big deal anyway!

I've been playing loads of Dizzy recently, starting out with the earliest date in the Mosaic (with some mighty fine Mobley!), and then playing many of the Granz dates not part of the Mosaic, including the two long Granz Jam Sessions, the album with Getz, the one with Getz and Stitt, Afro, the Verve Big Band 2CD set, the boots from that band, and the great Newport 1957 album, Modern Jazz Sextet, the jam album with Hawkins, Getz and Gonsalves etc... and right now, I'm giving "Duets" a repeated spin... while I have finally connected with both Diz/Getz and "For Musicians Only", I still find "Duets" great and possibly the best of the lot, particularly for several terrific contributions by Sonny Rollins. 1956 certainly was a prime year of his!

Yeah, but how did it get there from Jerusalem? And also, there's not stamp or anything that shows it's been sorted out... ah hell, it's just a paperback of 80 or 90 pages, nothing big, still, I just got curious and wanted to find out about that stamp!

Thanks, Bentsy! Now do I have to feel bad about owning this book? I bought it from a US amazon marketplace seller...

Ok, thanks for all the smartass replies, I enjoyed them! Allen, thanks! And also thanks to seeline. It's not really of any importance that I find out, I was just curious, really... The book is from 1985, it's a paperback I got used recently, a great book if you've got any interest in the subject: George L. Mosse: German Jews beyond Judaism. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1985 (Midland Books MB 355). Any of the Israeli members can tell me what that stamp says - Barak, Bentsy?

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party: you know there's lots of goodies waiting for you around here... or rather, waiting for me to wrap them up and bring them to the post office

Is this Hebrew? And what does it say?

Haven't dug out "En Route"... and it seems I would like "Uberjam" then... same band as on "Up All Night", I think? And yes, Mehldau is way too low in the mix on "Works for Me", he doesn't even get a push for his solos - very weird. Recording-wise, ScoLoHoFo sounded great to me, but also "Groove Elation" and "Quiet". I just don't get Metheny, he's all too much for me, always under "kitsch" suspicion... As for Eddie, I think "Hand Jive" is also recorded in a bit weird a way, and Harris hasn't got a big tone or anything (maybe that's just how it seems to me, his sound doesn't sound loud and big on records, and I've never seen him live, alas) and somehow he's just not nearly as much of a presence as I'd wished for.

Splanky! Or what's that one - great! I have this, "Fingerpainting" and "Number Two Express" from his early Verves. "Sci-Fi", too, I think. Pretty good albums, all.

the one thing that really surprised me was that bolton actually called gioia that day... Yeah, you see, so he's even better than me, because I'd take at least a day to dare and make that call...

That's what I'm afraid I might end up doing... but then I could definitely get rid of the Classics, which I only bought last year, in a moment where I forgot about the on-going Frémeaux series.... I have very positive feelings about this Intégrale Armstrong series and will get the new volume as soon as it shows up. Those Frémeaux sets are complete, indeed. Sound is very good to my ears. Frémeaux did a splendid job with their Intégrale Django Reinhardt. Hope they will tackle an Intégrale Ellington soon! That, on the other hand, makes much more sense... I don't have any of the Djangos, and I think I won't get any, as I have all the Jazz in Paris discs and the Mosaic... probably adding a JSP or two would make sense, but with the Fremeaux, there'd just be too much duplication (I once did a track-by-track comparison with their catalogue and my CDs...) As for Ellington... would be great to fill some of the gaps, yes! They could re-cycle the Masters of Jazz discs for a beginning!

Ok, I've been listening to Scofield continuously and almost exclusively (some Frisell in between) yesterday and am continuing today, and gee... I guess I was indeed wrong about that "cool" or "cold" thing... still, even though I like a lot of what I've heard, on some of the earlier BN albums, there's some kind of mood that I can't always connect with. What I played so far: Time On My Hands & Meant to Be - both with Lovano, both very fine! Grace Under Pressure - with Frisell and no solo horns, will have to play it again and listen attentively enough to be able to tell them apart (hey, I was working while having it on... but Joey Baron does make a difference, no matter how good Bill Stewart is, Baron is just so much fun!) What We Do - a revival of the quartet w/Lovano, less good than the two earlier ones Hand Jive - with Eddie Harris and with the organ making a first appearance (Goldings - he's on piano and organ here), not as succesful as I'd wish, being a big fan of Eddie's. Groove Elation - one of my favourites! Idris Muhammad on drums, Goldings on organ exclusively here, some good horn arrangements, funky playing... Quiet - the first one for Verve, and indeed more quiet than usual, lots of acoustic guitar (only acoustic?), Swallow on electric bass though (the earlier BNs all had double bass), some very, very good playing from Wayne Shorter (who's only on three songs, alas) - another favourite! Works for Me - now this one does definitely sound cold, and alas (it was smilin' Billy's last recording, right?) quite dead... Mehldau is a totally wrong choice, Garrett I like here and there, but on this one he sounds, well, cold and dead, too... and the rhythm section of McBride & Higgins never really gets started... (kind of like Osby's album with Hill, Hall et.al. - the parts are much better than the whole that results from their combination...) right now coming towards the end of "ScoLoHoFo", and although I quite like Lovano (yeah, I know, if I'm talking of "cold", he's guilty a lot of the time, too... but not on those two first albums with Sco!). Again, this just doesn't gel... not sure what's the problem, but maybe the Ho and possibly the Fo parts? Though Foster can do this groovy stuff, of course, but Muhammad might have been a more logical choice (ScoLoHoMu?), and Holland can do it all, technically speaking, but it's been so long that he's done groovy funky stuff (as opposed to his own groovy stuff, which I'm afraid often has a certain stiffness to it... not accusing him of stiff upper lip, though, he he). To be ended with "Up All Night" (and maybe I'll dig up "Trio En Route" if I can find it), where the grooves do gel as far as I can remember, and very much so.... that's the the kind of (moderately) dirty setting where Sco can really play...

Ok, finally read part 2 - quite a tragic story indeed... but I didn't see the part where Bolton deceived Goia... except for not showing up that day, but hey, that has happened to the best of us!

Gee, they're too fast for me! Also I have a long run of Classics covering roughly 1930-46 or so... the Mosaic would be a duplication (though certainly in better sound and with great documentation), and now this series is also entering those years... What are you doing, brownie? Sticking to those Fremeaux sets? I have Vols. 1-4 so far.

Chapter 3 is most welcome! And if I'm right, the old GRP CD didn't contain any bonus material, so this new one will likely be a better option all 'round! Also the Basie will be nice to have! The Roach is certainly amongst his finest albums - good reissue for those who missed/skipped the Mosaic! The Desmond/Mulligan is great, but the old Verve CD from the mid 90s had some astonishing bonus material...

Oh yes! All the best to one of the few true giants still around!

Thanks for that long rant, Big Beat Steve - I quite agree again!

Hey, that's not my order list, that's the list from the email... my order is: these Mighty Quinns: ADAMP05 ADAMS-CRITICS CHOICE 1.00 1.00 0.00 AYERR01 R. AYERS - WEST COAST VIBES 1.00 1.00 0.00 CONDE19 CONDON-TIGER RAG 1.00 1.00 0.00 ELLIDO07 DON ELLIS-ESSENCE 1.00 1.00 0.00 HALLE02 EDMOND HALL-PETITE FLEUR 1.00 1.00 0.00 LANDH06 LAND-TAKE AIM 1.00 1.00 0.00 QUINP03 QUINICHETTE-LIKE BASIE 1.00 1.00 0.00 NANCR01 R. NANCE - BODY & SOUL 1.00 1.00 0.00 plus: HUBBF19 HUBBARD-SUPER BLUE 1.00 1.00 0.00 SMITLO01VG L. SMITH-THINK! -VG 1.00 1.00 0.00 And in case anyone else is taking use of this offer, the JATP Carnegie Hall 1949 is highly recommended as well!

No problem, blame catesta! It's not that I'm a big birthday celebrator anyway... I rather go day by day than year by year, and I don't really feel any different than in my last days as 29 year old...