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Enjoy "Modern Times" a lot - gave it only one full spin so far, and a few partial ones, but I like what I heard!

Truffaz has a new recording, Face-a-Face, on Blue Note France (a 2 CD set), but it has not been released on U.S. Blue Note (and is not shown as a coming release on Blue Note's website). One disc is with the quartet (Patrick Muller-p/elp, Marcello Giuliani-b, Marc Erbetta-d, plus Nya-rap), the other with the Ladyland group (Manu Cogjia-g, Michel Benita-b, Philippe Garcia-d, plus Mounir Troudi-voc and Nya-rap). Haven't heard it, but saw it in stores and was tempted to buy... Seems the Ladyland disc has a 5 second dropout or skip or some other error, in case anyone buys it and wonders if his copy is defect.

How do the Venus discs compare to the Blue Notes? I have the Hoagy Carmichael set (love theses tunes very much!) and the one with guests (incl. Shirley Horn and Frank Wess). Bought both in a sale and like them quite well, but if I read the above comments, I think they're a bit more restrained?

Sure, a very good disc! It's available from CDbaby, got mine a month or so ago and enjoy it a lot! Again, congrats Paul, on this fine job! Here's hope for some more soon!

Hey Milan! Great to see you here, hope all's well! These 40s Prez sides should be wonderful, let's hope they see the light soon!

Thanks Luca - looking forward!

This one killed me, Allen! Roche is one of the big ones in pharmaceutical industry, based of course in my lovely country... rather sad, that Braxton episode - wouldn't want to have to live on valium for such a long time... not at all, in fact!

A small little package (actually just a letter containing one CDR) has taken over a month to get from Switzerland to bluerein in the Netherlands... can happen, I was relieved when it finally did arrived, since I have never lost anything, neither to me, not from me. I'm sure your buyer is pissed, but maybe he should call up the custom folks and ask if someone has forgotten to let him know about some package hanging in there for him? I've heard that this happens sometimes... (never to me, so far... once I got a letter when they held up a Mosaic package, took about three months to get to me, in the end... one month due to the custom guys, at least...)

Read a nice article about the Charlotte album - will have to check it out, eventually.

I asked at a store and they told me EMI still uses CC on larger-scale releases (pop stuff), but it seems they have indeed dropped it for jazz and other smaller thigns.

good to see our bovine friend is well!

a bovine toupet?

all the best from rainy zurich! hope you're doing alright, sir! and if you can, do show up here a bit more often again!

These boots of the older (mid-sixties) quartet, can you give dates and locations? I've heard 1967-11-30 from Amherst, Mass (very bad sound, incl. Sadness, C.O.D. and a few unknown titles), and 1968-02-05 from Milan (Italy) (much better sound, incl. Tutti, Three Wisemen and the Saint, New York). Here are setlists of the new quartet (didn't put them together myself, wouldn't be able to do so): Liubliana (Slovenia), 2004-07-02: 1. Song X; 2. If I Knew As Much About You...; 3. Women of the Veil; 4. Skies of America; 5.-7. Unidentified; 8. New York; 9. Unidentified; 10. Turnaround; 11. Lonely Woman Austin, TX, 2004-11-14: 1. Unknown; 2. If I Knew As Much About You...; 3. Tone Dialing; 4. Mothers of the Veil; 5. New York; 6. Air Ship; 7.-9. Unknown; 10. Song X; 11. Turnaround Chicago, IL, 2003-09-26: 1. New York; 2. Unknown; 3. Picolo Pesos; 4. Woman of the Veil; 5. Unknown; 6. Song X; 7. Unknown; 8. Spelling the Alphabet; 9. Turnaround

Let's hope they got the spelling of Chet's sidemen correctly in the DVDs themselves!

a glass of ginger ale

Look, I say it again: the main reason why CC bothers me is that *I am willing to buy their product* - yet, instead of punishing those who download or copy, instead of buying, they punish me by selling me a defect (that's what the CC is, tiny errors on the disc) product. Something gone wrong here. This punch in the face of the buying customer is what puts me off. Everything else is debatable - I have some 5-10 CC discs, too (mainly Conns that I got in sales for 5-8 or 9 euros).

Video of the two tunes mentioned in the first post is widely circulated.

They could easily use the US masters. Not that I think they will - but it's an option. They'd have to redo all the inserts as well, and even the disk printing. But they love us! So maybe they will!! If they do that they could also start using real paper as the US editions have, not these flimsy covers that often have some marks and folds in them from the very beginning, even if shrink-wrapped! The difference is rather enormous - I have the US version "Dance of Death", and comparing it to the CC-"Passing Ship" cover, the US one is twice as heavy. Much better quality.

Well, I say if I see CC discs cheap, I get them, but cheap in switzerland usually means roughly full US prize, so it's rather unlikely I'll buy more of those. And I'm afraid they will just re-press the CC discs, too...

Something true about this... years ago that little jazz/blues store in Zurich (closed by now) had these weird and boring-looking b/w boxes... only after reading a review of the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh and ordering that one did I realize slowly what those boring b/w boxes actually were... I guess this being 10 or 12 years back, I could have found some long gone ones there, but the prizes were insane, at 35$ per disc or similar, since they had bought them from Mosaic at the regular prize obviously. Anyway, for a few of these long gone ones, I would be ready to pay a lot, if I'd see them in a shop, could have a look at the condition etc.

This one has been mentioned before, but I recommend it again: Very nice to hear Basie sideman Al Aarons on the first date!

Featuring the late Duke Jordan, along with Gigi Gryce (who wrote five of the six tunes, the first one is by Jordan). Very, very nice one!