Big Beat Steve

Indeed ... J.A.W. says. As for "Records by Mail aka Discogs", the secondhand record shop my son works at as a side job at his university town is quite active on Discogs. But they MOST DEFINITELY are not a subbranch of RBM (which they would have to be if "Records by Mail aka Discogs" were true by any stretch of the imagination. And this is just ONE tiny example of shops selling on Discogs without having any connections with RBM. What RBM ought to tell, though, is their eBay account (and the data collected via eBay transactions) affected too? Because RBM do not mention Discogs in any way that is different from eBay in their statement. Or the other way round, the thread should really be about RBM only, not Discogs.

Funny discussion ... So ...:

I would have been interested in "To Bird With Love" when it came out (I had heard about it in a jazz radio show) and actually made an attempt to get it. (In these pre-internet days ordering from abroad was a hassle). At that time I still received the occasional jazz book newsletters from the Bloomsbury Book Shop in London (run by John Chilton's wife Theresa Chilton) which i had visited during a school stay in London in 1977. On one of those lists Theresa Chilton scribbled a note "Can supply To Bird With Love. £ 56. Ouch!!" Yes - Ouch indeed. So I had to let it pass. But maybe it would have been a wise investment.

Nice detail about the pricing. FWIW, I have the French pressing of that particular LP: But back to the original question: Was this price info on the spine of those brownish BN "Re-Issue-Series" twofers really present all the time or only during a certain period? My Art Pepper and Horace Silver twofers, for example, have that "0798" mark on the spine but my Fats Navarro pressing (BN LA 607-H2) doesn't have it. All of them are US pressings. Neither does my Gerry Mulligan set (BST 84548 XCT / BN-LA-532-H2) have it, but though it looks US-ish the very small print says it is a German pressing. So no surprise ...

I am afraid you aren't far off the mark. Unless many of those young'uns who increasingly buy vinyl again turn increasingly to jazz. It would be nice but how likely is that? The jazz section of my favorite 2nd hand records shop here is still going strong but unfortunately I couldn't coax the staff into telling details about the average age of the jazz vinyl buyers. Those that I do see when I browse there are rarely from the rather younger set. Very few below, say, 40. Just asked my son who has a side job in a record shop at his university town, and he tells me they every now and then have younger ones in the shop who ask for recommendations for "getting started" in jazz, but they ususally are in their late 20s and up. But still ...

Well, it "ought" to be pronounced the same way, except for the first letter, of course.

To top things off, did you know that that product was spelled and marketed as "PANTEEN" here for a very long time? The marketing people seemed to insist on playing it safe. As if the clients here were THAT unaware of the fact that an English-based word ought to be pronounced passably English-y Not sure of how that product was marketed in France back then where this kind of clashes of linguistic cultures would have posed much bigger problems but still ...

I shudder at the thought of how this will come out when pronounced with that nasal, chewing-gummy drawl common in certain quarters ... ("Flan" in New England, not so much, but others elsewhere ... ) I'll never forget the moment I overheard some very US-ish (Southern?) tourist clamor for a "Whhooouuuaaappwwrrrrr" in a Burger King outlet in Barcelona. Not sure of how the locals would have pronounced that ("Voppere"?? ) but the way he did it was way over the top, particularly abroad in non-Anglosaxon territory.

Your son does know you very well, it seems. Unless you are a fan or collector it takes some special awareness to single out this book. And agreed about the pictures. They do tell stories (though not always exactly the ones some of the interviewees make them out to be ).

Sorry - saw your reply only now. I did not name names because they probably would not have meant much to most of the forumists here. Some of these scribes were the staff at the German jazz magazine JAZZ PODIUM (including Dieter Zimmerle as the editor-inchief). They idolized the MJQ and their likes, including "everything Third Stream" (though I seem to remember the musician who originated the remark about the lack of smiles referred to quite different modern jazz musicians), damned and blasted Lionel Hampton and (though they did acknowledge the core of his work as "sui generis") were disappointed at Louis Armstrong's "commerical" leanings. Remember (though this may be hard to imagine for US jazz fans decades after the fact) that many European jazz publicists and scribes of the 50s (and sometimes later on) were constantly trying to "elevate" jazz to the level of classical music not just as far as its "art" status went but above all in its presentation, audience approach etc., demanding the same kind of "respectability" as a yardstick (and what they wrote often came down to ANOTHER attempt at "making a lady out of jazz"). I appreciate what that mag and its staff (and others with the same leanings) did for jazz over here but IMO this approach in this respect was a dead end and did a disservice to the vitality of jazz.

+1 Merry Christmas and a much better New Year to everyone. And nice to have MG back!

Talking about buses, I think these haven't been shown yet: At the latter one looks like this up front:

Like this ...?

Ho hum ... I KNOW records like those by the Carpenters would make my Christmas unbearable ... and several others on this listing would be a borderline case with me too. But tastes differ anyway ... So I guess I'll spin this one again for now:

This has been a regular in my CD player on Dec. 24 for most of the past 20+ years.

Keeping my fingers crossed, good luck and all the best, Allen.

Sounds like you wouldn't like Carlo Manzoni. (Though I don't know if he has been translated into English at all)

Good to hear MG is doing well under the circumstances. I was thinking of him only yesterday when reading here about the forum as such an excellent resource for jazz knowledge. MG contributed a lot.

Yes. In the headline.

I think they tried to get rid of it (without looking closer or even inside) as fast as they could. Because an unattended package at an airport can spell BIG trouble once the anti-terrorism machinery gets moving ... Understandable reaction if you are way down in the pecking line and have nothing to gain in your poorly paid cleaning job anyway So the bottom line is that the owner who "left" it at the airport was way worse than careless.

Isn't that rather "The Old Masters" for TOM? At least that's what it says on my TOM label LPs that I have (Louis Prima, Sharkey Bonano, Fats Waller, Coon-Sanders a.o.)

Or to put it another way: The year the second AFM Petrillo recording ban struck - right?

No, not quite ... This pic has been circulating on the social media in France: Actually I really am keeping my fingers crossed the vaccine will improve matters enormously and soon. But it does worry me that there seem to be many doctors and nurses here who are exceedingly wary about rushing out to get vaccinated (and my better half who works in the medical field is hesitant too - what she has witnessed among a number of patients who for professional reasons had to have themselves vaccinated against porcine flu - that was rampant a couple of years ago in some areas - was not always pleasant as far as the side effects went and in at least one case she herself witnessed has caused lasting damage ...) So, honestly, I am sure many citizens would feel a lot safer if in these initial stages of vaccination it would be a matter of course that ALL the members of Parliament of a country that starts vaccinating would be among those who get vaccinated FIRST. The politicians place their bets on the vaccine and tell us that side effects or allergies - if any - will (yes, "WILL", not "should") be very light only (heard here from one in the news only yesterday, but how does he KNOW?) so they should be happy to serve as post-clinical-trial guinea pigs.

Talking about unknowns ... I am in a different age bracket but to me it remains unknown that (or why) a FORUM should be called a "bulletin board". (Yes I realize some are sentimental about that BN thing that once was, but still ...) Judging by the way exchanges take place, a forum is a forum is a forum ... (or maybe a "Message board" like the H.A.M.B. is ...) but a "bulletin" board? Everyone can place a message (on a forum, so things come full circle) but there is no place where everyone can paste up a "bulletin". The forum boss or the mods could, but the rest of ous? Nah. So ...

60 1/2. And this thread IS frustrating!