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any news? how do you get news from then aynway? I sent them a mail, never heard back, never got any mailings or stuff...

I stopped using iTunes - I do all the managing stuff with WinAmp (which allows to move files back to your HD, too, in cases where you may have lost something or had to clear space or whatever). Though iTunes is still in use, since radio files (MP2) have to be converted, and iTunes does that (no idea though if it retains the original bitrate or just boils things down to 32 or whatever is their crappy standard). And I have a 30GB model... seems like that's a thing of yesterday already but to me it still feels like I only just got it... all that modern stuff... I prefer playing music on speakers, even if I have to do that at comparatively low volume. The iPod is mostly in use when commuting or while at work if those creeps there don't shut up for a minute or stress my nerves otherwise.

Ah well, little Switzerland... stuff like that is totally out of reach for me, unless I'm just not aware of what options there would be to get these for acceptable prizes!

Would be a cool Select, no? Maybe they could even unearth some more rarities/outtakes and stuff!

I thought "original" RTF was the amazing ECM album's line-up (Farrell, Clarke, Airto, plus Flora Purim) - still a fresh and lovely album, in my opinion. Never cared for later RTF, though I'm growing to like WR quite a bit (early WR, that is - just about the albums mentioned above are what I own so far).

sorry, didn't read the whole thread, didn't notice it was planned for release - no surprise though, should indeed be fun!

(some of) the Schaffhausen gig should eventually be broadcast on Swiss radio, just in case (it might also have been taped by/for Intakt)

Just picked up the Spanish 2CD set with The Route and Playboys included - thanks a lot again for your help, Swinging Swede! What I still need now is the recent Pacific/EMI reissue of "Sextet", then I'll have it covered, though some with older CDs, but I don't care much about that (meaning: I'll keep "Young Chet" and the old "& Crew", the old "Big Band" CD, as well as "Grey December" and "Best of Chet Baker Sings" instead of "Baker Sings" and "Quartet & Strings" or what that recent EMI reissue was called again). As for "& Crew", I assume for folks who don't have an EMI CD and "Young Chet", this one would be the way to go now: http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record.php?record_id=4847

great show. i've lost track of the times. can you give a clue< please? Read all about it here: http://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em...ion.php?e_id=19 I wouldn't know what time that is in your time zone... do you listen via internet? "Le jazz, probablement...", "A l'improviste" and "Jazz sur le vif" are other shows including live recordings (in the case of "Le jazz..." it's usually some tracks off new discs and then bits of a concert). The whole list of shows is here: http://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/liste/

I like the Bob Dorough theme used on the French Station France Musique's show "Jazz Club" - which is also a great show: two hours of live jazz, broadcast from clubs in Paris (sometimes also from someplace else in France).

These arrived yesterday! Still waiting for that newbury package including some of those cheapo multi-disc sets - taking looooooooong! Also bought the new George Duke MPS Fusion Sessions 4CD set last night, on the way home from work.

sounds interesting... but pretty unlikely I'll find something like this here, alas.

bought the Duke box for the price of one fully priced CD yesterday... will report later, looking forward to some fun stuff, though not expecting too much.

What's this, the film soundtrack (parts of) or a later album using themes from the score?

source: http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2008/...52421_3382.html

I have "Keeper of the Flame" - very nice one, also on Nagel-Heyer. R.i.p. Here's the Telegraph's obituary:

Happy Birthday! :party:

God, this is chaotic! Thank you so much, Swinging Swede! And thanks for answering my questions even though I mixed up & Crew and The Route! I guess thus best for me would be to get that 2CD Baker/Pepper set, as I have no versions of The Route and Playboys yet. As for & Crew I assume I'll stick to my old Pacific CDs.

latest arrivals (still waiting for three or four newbury packages - incredibly slow this time!): Miles Davis a.o. "Conception" (OJC) Michael Riessler "Ahi Vita (ACT) Eric Watson "Jaded Angels" (ACT) J.Kühn/M.Bekkas/R.Lopez "Kalimba" (ACT) <<<--- fantastic disc! Johnny Griffin/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis "In Copenhagen" (Storyville) latest bought-in-shop discs: Hank Mobley "Hi Voltage" (BN RVG) Freddie Hubbard "Ready for Freddie" (BN RVG) Portishead "3"

gee, I'd love it! There could be a whole series of boxes... studio and live, big band and small bands, and some bonus DVDs on top of that! There were some 2CD releases (three I think?), one of which I could have a look at when at brownie's last fall, but other than that it's just the stray disc - great to hear that Rearward is going to release more (though it's a drag that there's so much overlap with their own earlier compilations).

Raymond Fol does one tune on celeste on this great solo album: It's been released last year in the latest (last, it seems) batch of Jazz in Paris discs from Universal France. The whole recital has a ducal touch, Fol having taken the Duke's seat on one special occasion. Lovely disc, for sure!

Will try to catch The Ex & Getatchev Mekuria on Friday, but I'm not yet sure I can make it: http://www.taktlos.com/taktlos08-getatchew...-the-ex-guests/ Saw some songs of them on TV in a festival "best of" compilation, and they were absolutely great!

I'll be keepig my eyes open for that recent disc! This one here, from a couple of years back, is an absolute marvel I found:

watched lots of stuff since I last posted here... last night: two Miles Davis shows: the November 1969 Berlin show by the lost quintet - terrific Wayne Sorter! Bad quality of image and not great sound, alas... then the 1973 Vienna show with Liebman, Lucas, Cosey, Foster, Henderson, and Mtume - wow! Great one! Great guitar playing, and mainly terrific grooves, great playing by Henderson and Foster and Mtume, and Miles' touches of organ made a lot of sense. The white jewish kid on saxophone in between was kinda fun... but completely up to the task of course! And miles wearing those huge plateau shoes was quite fun to watch as well! Something else I watched recently include a full NDR Jazzkonzert show by the Timeless All Stars (smilin' Billy Higgins, Buster Williams, Cedar Walton, Harold Land and Curtis Fuller) with Dizzy Gillespie sitting in. Dizzy looks quite like his neck is going to blast in about a second as soon as he puts his trumpet to the lips. Land was rather unremarkable I found - too much Coltrane, too static somehow, not very agile... I prefer his 50s stuff by far, but Fuller was incredible, and Higgins a joy to watch. Walton - as so often, I'm afraid - struck me as doing just run-of-the-mill stuff.... never found him really interesting, but then maybe I just haven't tried to really listen to him anyway.