Niko

thank you for this encouraging remark - as I missed the big one I greed for evidence in favor ofthe Debut Story box ... don't tell me Thad Jones playing Portrait is not the best track in the big box..

back from 2001... they were busy so i could not ask... the Monk was three CDs (single jewel cases) in a thin cardboard thing - don't know if it's a box if it doesn't have a back cover... no place for a booklet in there... the rollins they had in two versions: once a 5 CD jewel case without a booklet and without a box; the other 5 single jewel cases in a thicker cardboard box... there would have been space for a booklet but there wasn't one (although there was "plastic around it" - don't know whats "eingeschweißt" in English) doesn't mean there isn't a third version

that's strange; in düsseldorf, if i am not completely mistaken, the discs do have some cardboard box, the rollins I think a more stable one, the Monk one is thinner and no booklet... will have another look and report again tomorrow (but they are not rigorous about little distinctions at least at the store anyway - of max roach "deeds not words" what was presented was the original ojc but what they gave me when I asked they gave me the zyx apogee 24bit remastered thing (and when I asked I immediately got the presentation copy ojc so from complaint on my side)) (just to illustrate that maybe they had both with and without booklet but sold them as one item - at that price I think no one can complain)

just wanted to throw in that IMHO someone who claims to come from Saturn purposely directs some public interest to his life outside music (even if he really came from there or really believed he came from there: he must have known that in this world he would better have kept that as a secret if he had wanted people to concentrate exclusively on his music)... thus I think one can't really blame anyone for discussing his sexual preferences as well (this is different for Cecil Taylor) (but although I believe the discussion is ok, I don't have anything to say in it )

in case anyone wants to know: it's plain CDs like the Sonny Rollins Freelance Years Set... no booklet

i also got some CDs from the 2001 where my (not very fancy but admittedly aging) CD Player had difficulties - although he finally played them... (though sometimes not from the beginning) I think Frank Strozier "Long Night" and Lockjaw Davis "Trane Whistle", Joe Henderson "At the Lighthouse" but my memory fails me here; some of the other people I frequently meet at 2001 complained about Harold Land "West Coast Blues" and Woody Shaw "Black Stone Legacy" but my copies of these play fine... niko ps i just put in the strozier to prove my claim and it played immediately and right from the start

I began to wonder whether the social/caritative thing (including the addition of Lawrence Jackson and Freddie Douglas) around Elmo Hope's Sounds from Rikers Island were just a trick applied in order to let Sun Ra allow Gilmore to participate

I looked again at this passage some days ago and (what I had not noticed initially) he does not answer that to someone who criticizes his letter the way I might have done but to someone who wrote (not with these words) "well, Jack, you know I'm a fan of yours but you might be slightly wrong with this letter, because here in Scotland (?) there are three guys [names didn't tell me anything] who really swing - I suppose if you ever had heard them you wouldn't have written your letter this way but you might consider listening to them"

I just greedily studied the booklet at the shop, so I can give you a rough idea of the Mingus sideman stuff: the trios of John Dennis / Paul Bley / Hazel Scott with Mingus and Roach; a session by Shafi Hadi with Clarence Shaw; a session by Jimmy Knepper with Joe Maini and Bill Triglia; two Thad Jones sessions one with Frank Wess, one quartet; Oscar Pettiford with Julian Watkins and Phil Urso; the Quintet concert with Dizzy, Bird, Bud Powell, Mingus and Roach (and the trio tracks with the latter three); and there is more...

taken from Les Tomkins Sonny Stitt interview which is found at http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Sonny%20Stitt.htm ...just in case anyone forgot

thank you very much! I always thought that I already had a lot of luck during the past exams and stuff but by now I think I could use some more! Ubu, I think you got me wrong, I have not yet turned it in but still have some things to add and (especially) livein the constant fear that my advisor will ave some more ideas about potential changes, additions... i have a job from October on but until then I have to turn the thesis in, get the Mingus, present the thesis twice, do a horrible final examination, probably move to another appartment... so at the moment I am also looking forward very much to being finished but I doubt this state will last long after October... cheers with your box sets, niko

sorry, no insider on this, the thing that stands around at their shops is about 30 cm times 30 cm big and has a booklet the same size, approximately half a centimeter thick, 12 CDs I don't know...but not much less, it definitely is not the 4 CD Debut records story set, will have a closer look at it tomorrow (will have a closer look at it tomorrow and report - decided to buy it after I turned in my diploma thesis as some sort of motivation... thus didn't look at it too closely yet... but the strong interest it raises here makes me a little nervous...)

hi ubu, got your pm (twice, at 6:58 and 7:00 (my time) yesterday evening), just answered it and even have the answer in my sent items folder... now off into one of the potentially most horrible working days of the last few months... Niko edit to add: don't know anymore when I got it, must have been like at 10 yesterday evening

this one appeared in the 2,99 corner of 2001 (saw it first yesterday, I think): Israels, Chuck HANNOVER PHILHARMONIC PLAYS MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY CHUCK ISRAELS Nardis explorations, Monkworks, Reflections on Shanandoah, Dark tapestry, Lover man, Great stream variations) Mit Ack van Rooyen/Flügelhorn, Thomas Clausen/Klavier, Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR/Chuck Israels. mood. Nur bei uns. CD 2,99 €. Nr. 599053. maybe you fell better after ordering it...

the düsseldorf store still had it yesterday... (though cologne is certainly a little closer to belgium, admittedly when I am in both cities on a day I also go to both stores, sometimes it pays off, mostly it doesn't ) also waiting desperately for the other jaki byard at lennies CD to turn up, after getting the "last" one on monday... I really hadnt expected so much great new stuff don sleet, don wilkerson "texas twister", joe albany wth warne marsh, barry harris "newer than new", zoot sims at falcon lair... to turn up just in the middle of a month... others I still hope for are howard mcghee, the 1960s contemporary stuff with phineas newborn and teddy edwards... more don patterson!

on the negative side let me add that jack reilly put a copy of his letter to the editor on his blog http://www.sequenza21.com/reilly.html another for this one and not only to keep things balanced edit to add: here is what reilly answered to a Jim Smart who wrote some comments on that letter - if this is poetry it sure is the most unfriendly and arrogant poem i have ever seen... it sure is weird

it's a pity they didn't let that guy write the article, might have been very instructive (more for Louis Sclavis and John Surman, however, than for the reader...)

didn't Ornette Coleman have one of his first professional jobs with Crayton?

similar thing (?) happened to me with The Cure sometime last year (depeche mode are still on my explore list)

i suppose this text is the answer to some sort of very rude attack

Yes. Devil is always waiting ´round the corner.... i don't like to say this but I just browsed their online catalogue and there really were some additions (Pat Martino - Strings, Wes Montgomery - Full House, Harold Land - In the Land of Jazz, and more...) I bought yesterday: Kenny Dorham 2 Horns // 2 Rhythm and Joe Albany with Warne Marsh

this is my first experience with "out-bop" ... sounds ugly (or s that a widely used term)

from what I found I would say anyone who has the possibility should check out the local 2001 store... (concordconcordconcord ) I bought Barry Harris "Newer than new" Don Wilkerson "The Texas Twister" Don Sleet "All members" for 2,99 each but left (for the usual reasons not more than two CDs at a time) there, among others, Sonny Stitt / Gene Ammons "God Bless...", Rod Levitt, Sonny Stitt "Goin down slow", Joe Albany with Warne Marsh, the third Chet Baker with George Coleman, Oliver Nelson "Straight Ahead" and "Afro-American Sketches" and many more which came in today

just saw this is not really correct, some stuff from this batch is already sold out (Kerry Dancers ) at least online, other stuff was (I think) added to the online catalogue after 1 July, like Philly Joe Jones "Philly Mignon", McCoy Tyner "13th House", the third Johnny Hammond Smith... I was early at the shop today they were just preparing the new items (not available online I suppose) and I could just see Oliver Nelson "Afro-American Sketches" and that three people were busy with the CDs so I hope hope hope that when I go there again (very soon) that there will be several very nice CDs waiting for me...

this somewhat cryptic entry *Lenny McBrowne & The Four Souls Lenny McBrowne & The Four Souls, PJ-1, 1959 (Re-released by Toshiba Emy of (city_____ , Japan-----year?) C.D.? on this Daniel Jackson homepage http://www.learningtreats.net/DanielJackson.htm seems to suggest that the album actually was released on CD sometime (btw on the page it also says that Jackson's mother came to California from Texas - so Jackson is another Texas tenor with "Ray Charles"-experience who appears in Cannonball Adderley's production series for Riverside (besides Fathead Newman, Don Wilkerson, James Clay (and anyone else? still lokking for a complete list of the Adderley productions))) I'd love to have those two albums, but on Vinyl I would not listen to them often enough