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That will be a very spiritual experience, for sure! Saw him two or three years ago, solo, and it was a great concert I've already seen him three times, first in solo (early/mid 90s), then in duo with Max Roach (around 2000, I think), and last with his trio (early 00s). The solo concert was by far the best, so I hope it will be good once more! I'll try and see Brötzmann (with Pliakas/Wertmüller) here in late November! Never saw him live, looking forward to doing so a lot, even more so with this particular trio!

I can see that. Still, what happened to me recently was that Caiman suddenly listed an item (on Amazon Marketplace UK as it were) which had previously not been available. Suddenly Caiman indicated it as "in stock" (which of course it wasn't, as they have no stock). So how do they suddenly decide that they will be able to get an item? In the end, it costed me a dollar because of the varying exchange rates so it was no big deal, but still... Yes, that's the point I criticise: why would they re-list items they should have never listed anyway? I guess they sell their stuff to earn money, so I don't really agree that there's no way they can control... after the Fantasy/Concord debacle, for instance, they could have simply stopped listing all those discs. And even more so, after the first time they had been ordered and they weren't able to deliver, they could just delete their listing for good, instead of re-listing stuff again. Quality control is the point... a site like ZVAB is the ideal, I assume. I recently ordered a book, and the first item I chose was already sold. Within two or three hours I got a mail (personal) from the selling book shop, apologising, explaining to me that the item had just sold before I ordered it. So I ordered it from another seller, my credit card was only charged once, from the seller that actually was able to deliver (well, as far as I'm aware, at least... I'll see when I get the bill).

I had a chance to hear another one of McGhee's comeback albums, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" recently. The organ playing didn't strike me as *that* bad (see this earlier thread). It's mostly just a couple of songs for trumpet w/accompaniment, all songs short, McGhee in nice mellow mood, half of the songs McGhee's backed by Jimmy Jones (p), Ron Carter (b), Arthur Taylor (d) and on the other half by Phil Porter (org), Larry Ridley (b), Dave Bailey (d). And it has a nice cover!

So I'm not that naïve after all... or rather, the naïvete lies in assumeing caiman to play by the rules...

Going to see Abdullah Ibrahim solo tomorrow night!

I haven't yet had a chance to follow up on your recommendation and check her out, Milan! Here's some kind of discography (alphetical by song, but with most of the relevant info - except there's nothing about locations or musicians, but you get matrix nos, issue date, recording date, label and album info (I guess mostly singles?): http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/westonstafford/JoDiscography.pdf Here's the Jo Stafford Collection from the University of Arizona: http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/westonstafford/Jo/index.html And the one for her husband Paul Weston: http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/westonstafford/Paul/index.html

Yes, but in the case of said Woody Shaw disc, they deleted their offer and put it in again... so what should I believe? That they're lying? If so, Amazon should do something against what I'd consider an abuse. I guess I'm just naïve... anyway, it's not a good service they offer, at least not as far as I am concerned.

I think I've had one bad experience with them, but not nearly as bad as you describe I just got my money back after a while, no mails needed)... however, I stay away from them, too. And even if the'yre swiss, the shipping charge is the usual 6 euro for European marketplace orders, so there's no reason to prefer them to others, gladly!

Wouldn't that be because you ordered too many Funny Rats through them? nope only mainstreamish stuff, including recent discs they were unable to deliver...

Yes, probably it was bad luck on my side, but I can't afford their practice to just take the money first... I know all Amazon sellers do it that way, but it still sucks! Would be a lot nicer if these marketplace orders were being handled the same way normal amazon orders are: you pay once they fill in your order only. I wouldn't be nearly as outspoken about my negative experience with Caiman if that were the case.

I'm sorry, but that's no myth. Their delivery rate is probably only slightly better than 50% with my orders, which total - I guess - at 25-30, only. And they're not very likely to get many more orders from me.

I have reported already but I repeat again that I have to - alas - disagree with all these positive opinions on Caiman. Countless times (certainly 10 times!) in this year, they did NOT deliver items they listed. They did NEVER give me back my money without me either cancelling the order or dropping them a mail. I still have one order open (for Woody Shaw's "Song of Songs" or whatsitcalledagain, third attempt with Caiman for that item, third time non-delivery). So I agree with them being called "shady", as they seem to regularly list items as available that they do NOT actually have in stock. That is bad business, or at least bad service of their databases/warehouses. And it sucks. And when I complained by mail, all I got back was a mail I could always use the cancellation-function on their website to get my money back - so add superb customer service to the list, too... I have tried to avoid ordering anything from them if other marketplace sellers have the same item listed, too. And the only thing they actually did deliver in recent months took a month or so to arrive, which is far too long for the shipping prizes you have with international orders on Amazon.

That would be mighty cool, of course!

There's some video material floating around, at least from 1973, but I haven't watched it yet, so I have no clue about quality (I think Vienna 1973 is one I have, I caught glimpses of it and it lookd... alright, I guess at least). Duffy's 1969 is a bad-sounding audience tape that was part of the Lost Quintet tree wiht wrong speed (a corrected version was up on dime some time ago). As for the presence of John McLaughlin on this box, here's Losin's entry:

That's interesting... I have yet to hear anything with Brecker on it that *really* convinces me (I have the great Grolnick Blue Note 2CD set and the Silver 27th album, possibly some others - he's good enough there, for sure). Anyway, the one occassion I saw him live was with Benny Golson's weak Clifford Brown hommage tour package, and Reichstaller was easily the most convincing soloist on stage, playing with feeling and emotion, whereas Brecker - even on his t + rhythm feature "I Remember Clifford"! - was just all speed and flash and high notes, all at loud volume, as if he'd hidden a compressor under his jacket... dead, soul-less music. (It was a weird concert anyway, Golson tired, Buster Williams playing with an ugly 80s-like pick-up bass-sound... Mike Le Donne and Al Foster were fine, though.)

Interesting post, Daniel. I have thought about this myself, too. As far as new/contemporary music goes, I'm sure this won't be a big problem, many small labels are actively producing albums in CD format, beyond what the majors are doing, and the majors seem largely spent on many accounts - too bad only that they hold the rights/masters of so many historically important things! A guess for how things could possibly evolve is in direction of accessible storage repositories, to which you can get access, similarly to how you pick up a book from the library. I assum I'd be willing to pay for digital files if the quality is right, but then that may be the point... quality to the large mass of music (and film, too!) consumers is of no importance any longer.

continued to the end of disc 5 - mighty great stuff!

disc 2 now - big disc 3

Happy Birthday, Rolf! :party: I still owe you some for that lost McPartland CD...

disc 2 now - big

Miles Davis - On the Corner - disc 1

ah, I see... but at least you got shipping notifications (if not the set, too, you lucky bastard!), I'm still waiting for that, too!

Yeah, but has anyone gotten their set from UK amazon yet? I've ordered when... seems like ages ago... October 23rd - the new arrival date period commences this Monday... I hope this will not end up another case of British Amazon Monkiana...

my package with the latest batch (minus Kid Ory) arrived today, just after I came back picking up the On the Corner box from the post office... almost like x-mas! will take me a while to play all of that!

Ah well, so it's just a re-pressed set as is the Evans... wasn't aware of its existance, sorry!