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In the topic on Mal Waldron I stated proudly that I had collected all of Mal's music as a leader, and from 1964 all his music as a co-leader and sideman as well. I also put forward that I wanted to start a blog reviewing all of his work since that year. Well, I just got started and the first 4 reviews are a fact! I hope some of you guys come and take look now and then. I find it very hard to promote such a blog. I hope it's okay with both JSangry and of course Jim Alfredson if I post a update after every let's say 10 album reviews? You could find it here: https://snake-out.blogspot.com Thanks in advance for reading and I hope I can inspire you to spin some more Mal

Happenings was not releases as a Tone Poet. It was released in the 75th birthday series and my copy sucks. Loud pops and it sounds damaged although there is nothing to be seen on the vinyl.

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Yeah Hicks really is like a quiet genius in the background. I’ve had the same thing with Billy Hart and Buster Williams. They are on so many of my favorite records

Why would you buy these if you dislike them so much Bresna? You didn’t like the packaging and you don’t like the sound. Isn’t that a waste of money then?

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I am listening to the first volume of these series now and it's really, really good. Added the other volumes to my wantlist immediately!

In think my wife will disagree...

Both great records 👍

Look what Santa left me: ‘the Group’ consists of Ahmed Abdullah, Billy Bang, Marion Brown, Sirone and Andrew Cyrille.

It’s pimjazzcollecter, misspelled and quite orginal isn’t it?

I’ve got about 80 titles for sale. I think I sell 1 cd/lp per month. Not a lot of work to get it in the marketplace. Of course the packaging and shipping is a little more work so I don’t sell titles that are worth less than 10 euros. I don’t feel an urge to sell asap. When I sell something that’s nice and I buy something else in return.

For me no amazon or Dodax this year. We're in another full lockdown here in the Netherlands cause of covid 19. Record stores are also closed but most of them decided to deliver at home. So I ordered at my local record store here to support it in these tough times. What I ordered: On CD: On new vinyl: The last two are new releases on the great 'Pure Pleasure' label. Can't wait to give them a spin.

Haha yes it did!

Will turn 30 on the 25th of december. But now I am still in my twenties!

Hope all will be fine with your folks Dan!

That’s sad. Such a great pianist and still so active... he will be missed.

I know you said if you had to choose... but for 15 euros extra I’d take both

You could order stuff from Dark Tree directly trough Discogs. They ship cd’s for free worldwide! Ordered a copy from the Covina sessions last Monday and arrived 3 days later with a friendly note. Recommended! https://www.discogs.com/seller/darktree/profile

Wow, Shepps discography is quite big. Impressive! Wardell Gray is a huge favoriete of mine. And Tchangodei is a great pianist, not very well known so nice to hear more people follow him.

Well, I gave it a spin and must say... wow! This is some very intense music. it's my taste exactly: the eastern influences, and going out without losing itself in absolute chaos. Some highly talented musicians. But what surprises me the most is the sound quality. They did a very, very good job. Does anyone have the original to compare? Was this recorded so well, or remastered so well? Only thing I do not like so much is the packaging which feels a bit cheap. But I am very happy to add this to my collection.

Haha yeah it has seen a lot of the world for someone who isn’t a month old yet!

Mine arrived too! Will give it a spin tomorrow.

Haha yeah who would have thought that 😂

My item was shipped with UPS. I never had had a UPS shipment that was delivered without any problems. This time it’s not much better. It should have been delivered yesterday.... it was so close but for some reason it never arrived. In the meanwhile my package has seen the whole country. And it’s moving away from me now. Yesterday it was in Hoofddorp (20km from here). Now it’s in Eindhoven (150 km from here). What the hell are those guys doing.