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More bad news... very expensive site, I only used to finally (I hoped...) get hold of the Wild Bill Davison twofer ("Pretty Wild/With Strings") that was omitted off the Condon Mob Mosaic. I added a Pee Wee Russell disc, plus international shipping made it 44 bucks (!!!). Money they took, nothing else I ever heard of after... and that was in March! Anyone has a good email address to contact them? I don't want to lose even more money trying to call to the US if all their contact info (http://jazzbymail.com/Contact.aspx) ain't good anymore... (the email there isn't obviously, as an alternative I have used jazzbymail@sbcGlobal.net with no reaction, either). I guess it would be time for a little Swiss invasion of the feghing US, soon! ************************ edit: see my post #10 of this thread for the happy ending!

I've not received an order that's now exactly a month old. I did get the order confirmation mail but no shipping mail. Two items were part of the order, in my profile on the site, one of these shows as shipped, the other has just disappeared. I tried writing to them (customerservice@djangomusic.com) but three or four days after I write, I finally get an error message. Anyone has a good email-address? I've been an extremely satisfied customer or Djangos for years now, and this just plain sucks!

Played disc 3 of the Jack Johnson Miles box last night, now into the Hermeto Pascoal tracks on disc 4... that bass-less jam and the two groovy numbers opening disc 4 were great... about the Pascoal stuff, I'm still not sure... first heard it on "Live Evil" which was probably among my first 10 Miles albums (has since been replaced with the cardboard 2CD set and then the Cellar Door box... still favourite stuff!), and the Pascoal tracks, while lyrical and nice, never really struck me that much...

That's a smart idea - alas I've never seen these great small plastic things, except in packages I got from you... will have to look around for something similar here (the usual paper sleeves would be too big to fit in). Thanks also Parkertown - it was more out of the need for consolation that I was looking for that thread anyway...

I searched for a quarter of an hour but couldn't find that thread - was that pre-organissimo days? It still seems that the search function isn't really working, though, so any help would be appreciated in locating that thread!

Yeah, I checked them all after finding out... no other damages, all discs don't move in as deeply into the cardboard cover as the damaged one - faulty production, I'd say.

I wasn't aware of that! And you or others also got replacements after a few years? I assume it was all in the US, though? Let's see what happens, if they bitch around (if they react to my mail at all), I mention this for sure!

It's worth a shot. yes, that's what I think - look, this is what I'd consider a high-end product, and if I sold it, I would replace it - I never treated the disc badly or like you shouldn't treat discs, never done anything wrong, and yet still it's gone bad... and this is not a production error that I should have noticed the day after buying, but it's a long-time damage thing... sucks if they'll be ignoring or denying my request, but I'm too pissed to really believe in getting a replacement from just writing a couple of emails... we'll see...

Ubu, You can probably buy the original album as a replacement for cheap. That might not be aesthetically satisfying but you will get all the original music (if I remember the tracklist of the box correctly). I sympathize -- I get really pissed off when a favorite disc becomes unplayable or even mildly scratched. Guy I thought of that, too... but it's a bit annoying a route to go, spending money on the same music again and having an incomplete box (not that I ever thought of selling it, but still...)

also played disc two, soon to play disc three - what a great box!

I like the design... but it sucks if it's a bad idea to leave the discs in the package designed to hold them... sloppy production control, in this case, I guess... or whatever it is, maybe I just got the one badly glued box...

bean and bags humpty and dumpty rather al and zoot, instead of stan! miles & max

I imagine the statute of limitations has run out for a replacement, beings you got it in 1998. I really don't care! The disc was still working fine when I last played it (probably 2-3 years ago) and had no glue stains on it... sucks badly! They really could be kind enough and replace it, no? I'm really quite angry!

Thanks for your kind offer, but I'll try for a while... I can still also go to a shop where they know me and tell them I got the disc there, in 1998... (I got it at a cheapo "media market" shoppe for a third less, but there they would definitely not help me...) I'll report back if something new happens... but hellyeah, the JJ box is grooving! I love these slow sexy grooves on all the tracks on disc one!!!

after what happend with my Bitches Brew discs 1 (see here), I skip that one and play Jack Johnson disc 1 now

I hate it! Just took disc 1 of the BB box out of the package and hell there's glue all over! #4 won't even be found, and putting it into the computer EAC started having trouble right at the beginning og #3 already (of a total of 4 tracks, that is). Sucks badly! I dropped a mail to Sony Switzerland, asking for a replacement, but hopes are low... what would you do in this case? It seems there's a fabrication error with the cardboard sleeve into where disc 1 is placed - it moves much farther in than all the other discs in all the other boxes. What a downer for sunday morning

bumping this up to report some of what I've recently watched: On TV a repetition of the 70th birthday special for Joe Zawinul (in 2002), with excerpts (full tracks, partial concerts) of him and a few of his sidemen and other special guests (Peter Erskine, for instance) doing a collaboration on Weather Report tunes with the WDR big band, directed/arranged by Vince Mendoza. Also a duo with Maria João, and a couple of tunes with his Syndicate (one with singer Sabine Kabongo, not bad, but João is so great...). Bass player Linley Marthe stands out in my opinion, among the Syndicate musicians - what a great, warm, rolling groove he has! (African in feeling, I assume...) Then I also watched the MPS film "Jazzin' the Black Forrest" - pretty cool! Too bad there isn't more music and too bad many segments are silent with music from different sources, and many others are cut short. But still, highly entertaining! Then some live material (off of dime): Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Baden-Baden 1961 (the show of J. E. Berendt, "Jazz gehört & gesehen") - great playing by all! Lateef on oboe (Brother John) is terrific, and the late Joe Zawinul has a few funky spots, too... Lester Bowie's New Organ Ensemble - Burghausen 1994 - only 20 minutes, mediocre sound, Bowie and James Carter shake around during their solos that they're mostly off-mike, too... but Amina is great, backing them, and so is Famadou Don Moye, who opens the proceedings with a great dum solo! Max Roach Quartet - Hamburg 1989 - wow! I guess I finally have to agree with Sangrey about the greatness of Roach, no matter at what stage in his long career! The concert (or the part I saw, over an hour) gets underway with a solo piece, after that it's mostly quartet (except for a bass feature in duet with Odean Pope on "Tricotism"). Pope isn't in that much of a great shape (he's a one-trick-pony anyway, no? I like some of his stuff, though, but here he doesn't do a lot for me), and Bridgewater is on and off (great blues playing though on one tune!), and Tyrone Brown also never really struck me as that interesting a player... however, at any given moment, Roach is playing terrific, driving the band like mad, grooving in his marching kind of way... lots of fun to watch! And he's enjoying the concert a lot, obviously, so maybe it's just my own ignorance re. Pope, Hill and somewhat less Bridgewater... Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra - Hamburg 1985 - wow! One of the most enjoyable concert DVDs I've seen! (Even though it's badly filmed - they manage more often than not to film the guy next to the one who's soloing... you hear a clarinet solo and you see the two alto guys riffing a bit...) Johnny Dyani's more heard than seen, but plenty of the great Marilyn Mazur in action, John Tchicai, Hugo Rasmussen, Dorge himself, and the one trumpet player, Harry Beckett, is contributing an awful lot! Then, the last one, just finished: Bill Evans Trio (w/Lee Konitz sitting in on the last incomplete tune) - Umbria Jazz 1978. The trio at that stage already included Marc Johnson on bass (very young, playing great!) from the final edition, but on drums is Philly Joe Jones, and wow, what a joy to see him play! Konitz is fun to watch (I only seen some record cover photos of his from the 70s... looks like he escaped from a Woody Allen flick... but his playing is the epitome of cool.)

That's one of the pieces that will be completely new to me and that I've read about - looking forward to hearing it soon, after all!

Don't tell me - McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson and SFJ Collective at various festivals plus some vintage Bill Evans perhaps? Skipped the Tyner & SF Jazz (too big, my ratio is bleeding anyway), caught parts of Hutch on tv, skipped then, too... But what I watched is: Max Roach Hamburg (he's terrific, Pope is mostly boring, Bridgewater has a few nice spots, but Roach, oh my oh my!), Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra also from Hamburg - all 'round fun! Marilyn Mazur is great! So's Harry Beckett, and Johnny Dyani's in front of the camera for a second, too (but you can hear him also when he isn't seen... weird, seems like they rarely managed to film the soloing guys there... clarinet solo but you see the two alto guys, Mazur solo but you see the other percussionists, stuff like that... but the music is terrific!), then an older one, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy from Burghausen, he and James Carter are shaking so much they're mostly off-mike, too bad. Sound's not great anyway, but Amina and Famadou are! Now I'll watch the Evans for closers... What? - 'On The Corner'? Nope, "In a Silent Way" - one of the earliest Miles albums I had (long before "Kind of Blue", took me a couple of more years to dig "KoB", when I long was into "IaSW"...)

Big fan! I just watched his Baden-Baden TV appearance with the sextet (doing "Jive Bossa" and two other classics). Actually watched it for Zawinul, but then at least here's a more positive context for it!

Well, not quite, if you limit it to "some" (and indeed it0s the "3,4,5" disc that's concerned... both parts of the 3 - why would a date by that line-up *not* be released if everything was fine? - and the 4..., but the rests is great, in my opinion!). Anyway, I look at it as a corpus of material, and as such, it's a great one, all considered!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Oh yes! except for the album "On the Corner", all of it will be new to me! The last major item in the Miles oeuvre that I don't know yet (with the other exception being Agartha/Pangaea). I started building up excitement today by listening to the studio material from "Circle in the Round" onwards (disc 4 of the 65-68 Quintet box). Made it up to the unedited session of "In a Silent Way", will play the original album later as a lullaby... but now I'm off to watch some DVDs with live shows off of dime...

Great! Thanks, Flurin. You're welcome! These small group sessions are terrific, in my opinion! If they'd ever been out in a little box, people here and elsewhere would hold them in much higher esteem (and Carter the instrumentalist, too, I assume - sure, there's still "Further Definitions" and the OJC and Pablo albums, but...)

will you stop repeating old news please? I thought it was yet a further delay first! let's hope there won't be any! Not 'old news' as far as I'm concerned. Just received an email from them to this effect to confirm it for sure. that sure is weird, as I got the message exactly a week ago! (Quoted in my post, repeated below): (edited to get quotes in the right order)