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I don't have any of those, but half of a live gig from the US (Chester, Penn., I think) that has been released on the slightly doubtful Jazz Unlimited label (they're linked to a serious one, Storyville I think, but what they release are actually boots that just look a bit nicer, are better documented and include some nice liners, but they're still boots, I think). Here's the cover - great disc!

Art Hodes please!

One kid was doing the hippy dance with some serious skill...and he yelled at the band, between songs... "do something in seven!!" Then he was all over the place. ... ... screaming "I wanna get laid in seven!"

I should be able to catch Stanko and the guys again in about two weeks! :-)

[politics below... sorry, simply couldn't resist...]

Just so there's no confusion, you're talking of this compilation of the three Verve 1957 big band albums, right? Soloists include Joe Grodon, Al Grey, Ernie Henry, Phil Woods, Billy Mitchell, Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly, Charli Persip is on drums throughout, arrangements are by ERnie Wilkins, Melba Listion, Tadd Dameron, A.K. Salim, Quincy and Dizzy... as for the vocals: 3 Dizzy ones (one with the band added) on CD1 (19 tracks), on disc two one track Diz/band, two tracks with some guy caled Austin Cromer (with the band, too), and one with a female singer, possibly Melba Liston. So vocals are no reason to keep you from buying this great set!

No idea how much of it has vocals, but it's excellent... wait a minute, I'll go and look for it and will report back in a minute!

They aren't European, but Cadence has always been the best option I've found for Venus discs. About $22 per disc - if you get enough, maybe shipping won't up that number by too much. Thanks! I may try them some day (I know they got a good reputation and all, but I think I only used them once or twice so far...). Still pretty steep 22$ a disc! (Is that US$ or Canadian$?)

Working Man Blues - yes! To me it sounds much simpler and straighter (and more acoustic) than Love and Theft. I love both that one and Time out of Mind - can't compare them really, Time is much more about a specific (production-)sound and about moods, no? Love and Theft then has the organ and keys in which make it different from Dylan's live music (and allows the band to sound so great on the terrific Charlie Patton song). The new one is more straight, sounds almost like it could have been done in a day (I mean that in a good way).

The thread title brought this to mind, first... looks funnier than the anal stuff above...

Is there a good websource (non-japanese, favourably european) to get Venus discs from? I have one or two I found in sales bins, but usually they are not distributed here or if, sold for astronomic prizes, which I'm not prepared to pay. :-(

Big anAl?

Flora is what you get when you combine Flurin with fora. Now you're going ad hominem and I only wanted a pretense to show you a pic of my dear friend Flora...

I agree. I usually insist on airmail deliveries because I've found them to be quicker and have never lost an item. Surface mail takes 4-6 weeks, and items get damaged even if you've double boxed and padded the item. With Mosaic/Trueblue I had the contrary experience. Once they "forgot" that I already sent in my payment (I had to provide and mail a photocopy of my money order - that was before I got the dreadful credit card) and then all they offered was shipping by air mail instead of overseas (which I had opted for). This resulted in me getting 50 discs with maybe 3 or 4 jewel cases that were not broken to pieces... lucky enough none of the big boxes ever arrived damaged... (I was worrying a bit after they started not to offer surface any longer).

If I have the unfortunate chance of having to choose between listening to Truffaz or Marsalis, I'ld rather go with Wynton Truffaz bores me to death Hm, I can't say I'm an avid fan... I could do without Nya, for sure. Heard some live recordings that I found pretty nice, and as this package consists of two live sets... of his Blue Notes I only have one that I got in a sale. Muller is nice, though. I don't know if he has any discs out, but his trio stuff (all acoustic, yet with some rhythmical stuff that at times goes into almost drum'n'bass territory) is quite good - heard him twice on swiss radio.

Excuse me, Mr. I-Took-Latin-In-High-School.

Sad to lose that great disc!

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...)