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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!

You certainly can't blame ECM for that development, that's rather all-encompassing nowadays... and the bad thing is that in music business it seems to only fasten the demise of the big corporations... and you can blame ECM for jumping that train, for sure! Anyway, still waiting for Sam Rivers' "Contrasts"! (There the original cover should be ok enough to be re-used, I assume...)

Here's the "Montreux Alexander":

First, let me point to this other thread I started in the reissue section of the board: Monty Alexander, George Shearing etc - new box sets and some more MPS stuff Now I see the German Universal-related site www.jazzecho.de lists two other new boxes: And this one, which isn't new at all, but I guess it being listed as new means that Universal Europe is re-pressing it and selling it again over here (it came out in Japan first, I think, when Fantasy was still holing the rights - correct me if I remember that wrongly):

There's a new article up from yesterday on the Monty (and the Shearing) box on jazzecho.de. I guess that means it won't be too long until they'll be out. It also mentions a new reissue of "Montreux Alexander", I didn't check if that's part of the box, though. http://www.jazzecho.de/mps_piano_power_131043.jsp

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Here's what's circulating from that Ronnie Scott's gig - an official release would be most welcome, for sure! And having the Tyrone Guthrie thing out again is a great idea, too, as far as I'm concerned... can't say I ever heard it (but brownie showed it to me, so I know it's not a phantom, at least...)

I wish I could - and it's almost for free, too! You guys are lucky!

Over the weekend, I played the 3CD Dizzy Set (from Savoy, but also including sessions for some other small labels, as well as 50/51 dates from Dee Gee) - pretty fine! The early dates with Bird I have elsewhere, but those RCA Dizzy big band dates are a blast, and some of the small band stuff with John Brown and Sonny Stitt is mighty fine, too!

Happy Birthday!