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sidewinder: London seems the place to pick up OOP VEEs. It's been two years since I was there, but there were a dozen each of several then already long OOP titles (like the Ray Brown, for instance). There might still be some lying around there... but they've got prices that beat even our swiss ones (which are ridiculous already by themselves) ubu

Thanks for your Teagarden recommendation, Lon! I like those Verve LPR series quite much, actually, but have not gotten over the first couple of batches, yet. I thought Teagarden might be someone I ought to explore more. Someday I might come around to do it, and then I'll think of you Can you comment on the Mosaic? ubu

Aggie & Lon: HUGE thank you for pointing me the right direction to get that Collector's Disc! I have listened to it three times now, and it's on the way to become one of my favorite VEEs! Very glad I have it! ubu

Well... but mine's bigger

Finally came around listening to the third session. While Gold Coast is a very good performance, and the other tracks (while quite far from any african influence) are good, too, the real jewel of this date is "Oomba", in my opinion. A perfectly shaped and performed small masterpiece. Modal sounds, short solos, Trane at the height of his art, Fuller showing off his beautiful sound, and Harden in charge of everything. Art Taylor is very good on this one, too, shading the whole performance with a stunning display of his abilities - an undersung drum hero. ubu

Happy birthday, Bud! Needless to say he's one of my favorite artists ever. Bad quality, but nice pic: ubu

Yes, www.amazon.fr has them (I mentioned this above, but it turns out some people are too lazy to find out without a link posted... And yes, it's not the concert on Revenge. Was also on Fantasy (3LP) earlier, and on several other labels. ubu

There are also the two Shank/Cooper sessions that were on one of the Pacific Conns. I have no idea what else will be on it, but I hope it does not dublicate the Shank set! ubu

That was the one track I mentioned above. A nice Flanagan date, too! And yes, Jenela Ana Miketic is a great record! I got it out of some sale bin for 6 or 7 bucks. It's a grower! And Lacy is marvellous! ubu

They should all be. Thanks for mentioning the titles (I was far too lazy looking them up)! I meant these three Green albums, EKE! These are all great. You gotta have'em anyway, if you also like Green! ubu

cool! but 27 $ + 6.5$ shipping... this is would be too much for my wallet! ubu

thanks for your help, John, but I won't start buying from Japan now! Maybe once I'm not a student anymore, but for today... there's too much stuff around here anyway! And I am a patient man (at least I'm trying to be, I jumped for the Blackhawk two days before 2001 - you know, "those" germans - offered it for half the prize I got mine...) ubu

'that texan for "hélas"? Someday someone will sure produce a nice little reissue of that one... time will tell. ubu

I have heard it, and yes, you would! Hey, got an idea how I could? ubu

Have fun with your Dylan box... ---- Somehow, while hunting down (or just buy, not to exaggerate all the time) older or OOP stuff, it gets less important to have all new releases and new reissues. I mean I often only get BN titles when I receive a mail telling me this and that is going to be continued - this also has a further positive aspect in that I don't have the whole catalogue at home and get bored and don't know what BN titles I could still get. Same goes for other big labels. ubu

yes PLEEEEAZE!

Ahem, and yes, I do hunt down OOP stuff (but NOT on ebay - as a student, I cannot afford that), like, I tried to get as many 32jazz and Avenue/Bethlehem releases - and they were cheap, too. A great way to make discoveries. And BN recordings will be reissued periodically every 10 or 15 years, I think, so it's not so bad to miss one or the other. And I do not indulge in Japanes stuff at all. That would simply be too much for me to handle! ubu

I'm a huge fan, an enthusiast, actually, yet I have the collector's gene, too. Don't think one has to exclude the other. My collection (long time since I counted them the last time, but maybe somewhere in between 3000 and 4000), is usually alphabetically ordered, but there are always a few piles of either new stuff, yet little known stuff and some things waiting for a new discovery. The library aspect of my collection is something I do like. I usually don't give things away, rather seldom upgrade what I have (unless it's Mosaics or other box sets). Then, being young (and foolish ) I usually soak up as much (new) music as I can. And staying around here doesn't make things easier I often though about a self-imposed buying stop, but it's usually just then that I find like 10 or 15 new CDs for so few $$ that I cannot resist... However, I leave for vacation soon, and those two weeks at least I will not buy anything as there will sure be no good music store around... ubu

EKE, for Into Somethin'! And if you're into Grant Green, get his albums with Larry Young (they're 3, but one has only the trio of Green-Young-Elvin Jones - the core band of all three - and no horns, the other has Bobby Hutcherson and no horns and is a gem, the third has Hank Mobley is a lesser effort, in my opinion, but still very nice.) Otherwise, I, too, am no Larry Young specialist at all. ubu

yeah, some day I will! But I have so many new CDs lying around (and even more that I listened to once or twice only and want to listen more)... "those" germans, yeah! my other name for them is "bastards" if you prefer that! Not that I'm complaining, of course (the only thing I complain about is all you board members who bought the Trane box so it was sold out when I ordered... but having two Tatums & Evans, and one each from Pepper & Monk is certainly not bad - rather BAAD, actually!) ubu

Our friend D.D. has posted this over on AAJ: Some comments and questions I posted: I found those to be available at amazon.fr, for around 10 Euros, the Mingus for 18, which seems quite alright. ubu

Get the Mosaic The three volumes of "Complete Aladdin Recordings of Art Pepper" (reissued on CD by Blue Note) are very fine! As is the Quartet album available on Fantasy (link). I don't have any of his acclaimed Contemporary things, but will have pretty many of them some day, I guess... Then, the Vanguard box... And I recently got the Galaxy box from those germans, but have not yet found time to listen to anything in there... ubu

I would sure like to hear this one:

By the way, Garth, can you clear my question (above in this thread) on the personnel of the Jazz Epistles disc? Would be very glad if you could! ubu

Garth, thanks for sharing this story! Love reading those personal memories by people around the music so much longer than I! Masekela took part in that "King Kong" thing in London, yes? With Kippie and others, while Dollar Brand stayed back woodshedding in South Africa. I think I have the King Kong LP from my father (and some others with stickers from some record shops in Johannesburg on them, I think. The original mono pressing of "Love Supreme" I have - in horrible condition, though - came from South Africa, too!) ubu