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Looks like (could it be? ) I got The Bastards' last (CD) copy of both.

Middle Earth 1967-1969, Various Artists 3CD Box Set This has potential, but I can't tell whether the tracks are live from the club (vs. existing recordings). A lot of the usual suspects, which could be boring, but some more off-beat and potentially interesting selections, e.g. Chris McGregor Septet (!).

Thanks for clearing up the Tolliver, John. I just looked up the Mack Avenue bandcamp page and compared it to discogs. The Mosaic Select appeared to have all the titles, but the bandcamp page didn't give track timings so I couldn't be absolutely certain the "bonus cuts" were identical. Agree that the situation is confusing.

DG now shows Tolliver, Sanders, Rouse and Cowell CD/vinyl available for preorder, ETA 25 April. Sanders vinyl 12 April, part of RSD.

Just time for brief scans right now, but liking this BFT a lot! The brass passages and rhythmic pulse of #7 suggest Lester Bowie involvement, but that's my only vague thought so far. Hope to be back later.

Thanks. I have the Tolliver via Mosaic Select. No interest in Rouse. I have a Charly CD of Cowell's Musa, and sound quality is not good. I almost never do sonic upgrades (the Black Lion abomination of Cowell's Brilliant Circles is the only case that comes to mind right now), but this is another candidate.

The Andrew Hill East Wind albums: Nefertiti, Hommage and Blue Black.

Thanks. That explains a lot.

Likewise here for the Nate Morgan. Guess I have to hope for bandcamp some day.

Werner has a history of dropping tracks to make 2 original albums fit on a single ezz-thetics PD reissue. But at 64:41 playing time it looks like there was sufficient space to include the alternates here. Perhaps ezz-thetics didn't have access to the alternates?

Readily googleable (is that a word? 😁) material seems too scanty. Best hope IMO is for a Japan-based poster (mhatta?) to have some info.

Junko's name came up on a cdjapan search once. I had the same question, and tried to research it but got nowhere.

Have you searched Presto in the UK? www.prestomusic.com I've ordered from them. Price can be OK. Unfortunately, my credit card # was hacked immediately after an order, so I've refrained in recent years. I made a cursory search at cdjapan (which has English text), but didn't find any recent Sony Classical. I also looked at jpc, www.jpc.de but weirdly couldn't find new Sony Classical. Strange indeed.

+1

I have a P-Vine Japanese CD of Descendants of Mike & Phoebe (PCD-23846, 2006) that sounds OK, never suspected a needle drop (granted, my sound quality expectations of Strata-East are not high). I'll spin it again soon (one of my favorite S-E releases) with more critical ears. Listening now. I wouldn't rule out a needle drop, but if so it's a quality one. No joke, I've heard some pretty good sounding needle drops.

I'm out (placed a Valentine's Day coupon order), but cdjapan just announced a new 3-day coupon, 1,000 yen off 10,000+.

Toshiko?

All but one of the BYGs I ordered have expected release date of 26 March, so it's going to be a long wait. 😕

Yes, CDjapan came through with a timely coupon! I ordered a bunch 2 days ago, 8 BYG reissues plus one other.

I noticed this has a reissue coming up, so had to play it on Youtube:

I'm OK with Yanow. We seem to share many of the same tastes, and I consider most of his reviews reliable. OTOH he does appear to "mail in" a lot of AMG reviews, and I somewhat discount the most blatant (IMO) of those.