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I'd consider Ventura not someone who switched, rather (like a few others mentioned) one who used various horns most of the time... he also does some bass sax stuff on the Clef dates included on the Mosaic set.

Bud Shank did a nice tenor album with his quartet (part of the Pacific Jazz Mosaic set - one I wouldn't want to miss!)

it was "stolen" from a series of shares I did over on dime... great music, and if you don't do the trading thing, I'd not hesitate picking it up if the prize is right!

Ouch, this is hard... I was actually starting to consider buying the Venuti/Lang if it was still around, but now it's only #3 of these again and hence must be skipped... the Hodges is a no-brainer, and also the Prima/Manone would interest me some... (just last night I played some of the first Classic of Manone's). Hm, I assume I'll only be able to afford the Hodges, in the end, and I have to wait a couple of weeks before I can order... hope it doesn't go *that* fast!

Nor's mine. Post has been really strange here lately. I'm still waiting for a CD from London that was posted on 4 Feb. MG yeah, but then you know, stuff like that's bound to happen in nations without a constitution

Ah, that's the one! I wasn't aware you were involved - great site!

yeah, got mine today, too - thanks!

Thanks for all the covers! Clifford, those Fontana covers are all rather cool (and some rather spooky I guess...) - there's a site dedicated to them, but I don't have the link at hand (it was posted here somewhere, that's how I found out about it).

i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...) nah, I should have looked up my stuff at home yesterday and shouldn't have started this thread, really... but after AMG was done newly, it repeatedly shut dome Opera for me, too... and the timing out is contstantly there, all of the time (rather unlikely if I'm not doing anything else, but I don't need all that bandwidth I have just to browse AMG... what a waste that would be... )

blocked at work, but I'll check them out tonight at home - thanks for posting them... I assume you found them in the interzone, Chas?

Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...)

Hm, the McRae was out in the US on Rhino/Avenue jazz's Bethlehem series some years ago. It included some alternates to beef up the disc to decent total time (the original was a 10" album). There are some issues there about the line-ups I think, but I don't have the disc at hand (a good Bethlehem disco would be very helpful anyway - though I do remember there being one good site, I think a Japanese one, the info on Jazzdisco is rotten).

I can't open the discography of an artist, it just re-loads the overview page again and again, no matter how often I try (using MSIE, being at work... not sure if it works at home, haven't tried - but then AMG is bad enough only to kill time while at work but looking things up there while at home would be a waste of time anyway...) I tried with the Nat King Cole page, yesterday I tried with others... that site is getting worse and worse, it seems...

the biggest heist it is only if you do not count that Amsterdam 1991 one, where the paintings had been found shortly after.

Just around the corner from where I live, in fact... too bad I didn't take a sunday afternoon promenade and saw the getaway car - there's a 100'000 CHF reward offered for any hints... http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/social_af...17000&ty=st by the way: don't ask where this guy got his collection from - I don't know, and at this moment I don't care (have the time) to investigate or even just google that... still, such a heist is a bad thing - these paintings were accessible publicly (though I confess we never made it there, they had very limited opening hours, just a few hours per week or so, as it's a private institution), and now if the paintings are not used for demanding ransom, they'll end up in some private collection by rich (and probably reputable/charitable) assholes who don't care about not being able to show them off...

How about the other 80s BN? I have "African Game", need to spin it again... but I skipped the other one in the same sale where I got "African Game". Can anyone share the other covers of "Outer View"? I never saw any other than the one on the OJC!

good to see some of you diggin' a homeboy of mine... I never caught him live, but seing this makes me think even more that I should! (I think when he's not on tour, he's still doing regular gigs in town - they used to be weekly public rehearsals, but I never made it...)

A Swingin' Safari and more over here: http://www.wise-old-uncle-bert.com/music.html

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I only heard her on the air so far, but that Time Out Trio is definitely fine! There was a one hour feature (done from a concert at French Radio's in Paris) and a "Jazz Club" (two hour show, on the scene, mostly in Paris clubs) with Pierre Christophe guesting on piano. I need to dig out these shows and play them again, thank you for the reminder!

Hey Al, thanks for your replies - so I recognised Junior (yup, him I was thinking of) and Al Grey, that's cool... the disc from which #1 was taken I've owned for years, but not played it for a loooong time... got to change that soon! As for putting down Jo Jones (and Tony Williams, too, on disc two) - well, shit happens... I was giving my honest impressions, and hey, maybe I'm not well equipped enough to hear all that greatness... or maybe I'm just still too young and too foolish...

here's some old LP art to marvel at: http://www.discogs.com/release/899964

That Dexter cover looks like a couw job, he he

Usually no compilations for me... but then having some short things together on a CDR is great, and also occasionally I get some oficially released compilations, like the Debut & Contemporary 4CD sets, which are very nice. Also have one of those Fantasy 1CD label samplers (HifiJazz/Nocturne). And just recently I found two of those nice Rare Groove samplers with the 60s covers with almost nude ladies... most of the music on there is new to me, and much of it is by artists I'd never buy full albums... also some stuff I'm familiar with - one track from Ted Curson's OJC that I just finally found, and Watermelon Man from the Lambert Hendricks & Bavan album with Bean... very interesting to hear that in such a different context, and I figure these two discs will be nice to put on when we have guests over, too... just some fun stuff for casual background listening that's still interesting if you listen more attentively.

belated best wishes, Colin!