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hans kennel used one or more alphorns on a couple recordings on the HatArt (now HatHut) label 15-20 years ago.

I just wanted to share something. I heard roswell rudd and his band "Shout" yesterday at the lake george jazz festival. Afterwards I asked him to sign a few cd booklets I had. Two of the three booklets were dates with steve lacy-one live and one studio. Looking at the booklets, roswell signaled his preference for the live date. He stated that he prefered the live date because he specialized in "beautiful flaws." A short time later, he amended the phrase to "gorgeous flaws." Didn't sound like a pat line that he had used before.

concerts at The Egg this fall: regina carter quartet september 21 john mclaughlin and 4th dimension september 25 The Jazz mandolin project october 19 charles lloyd quartet october 28 http://www.theegg.org/events

From Between Trio is a collaboration of Tatsuya Nakatani, Michel Doneda, and Jack Wright. check out the sanctuary for independent media website for more information: http://www.thesanctuaryforindependentmedia...7-15.7249166865

DATE: Friday, October 19, 2007 TIME: 9:00 PM LOCATION: Chapel + Cultural Center, Rensselaer Campus, Troy, New York Admission to Anthony Braxton is free and open to the public. Anthony Braxton 12(+1)tet — Ghost Trance Music: World-renowned saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton, with his 12-piece ensemble the 12(+1)tet, will perform and conduct from his most recent series called Ghost Trance Music. The performers play and conduct, taking different roles, as they collage compositions from Braxton's Ghost Trance catalogue. As a collective, the group moves freely between the performance of compositions and improvisations, between solos and ensemble playing – and yet create a magical unity full of sparks. This is unusual music that carries away all those willing to let-go into its mystery. Come experience this optimistic and surprising frontier of contemporary music, performed under the inspiration and direction of Anthony Braxton, one of America's most dynamic musical forces. Curated by Micah Silver. Anthony Braxton 12+1tet [AB (reeds), Taylor Ho Bynum (cor), Jessica Pavone (vla), Jay Rozen (tba), Carl Testa (b), Aaron Siegel (perc), Mary Halvorson (g), Steve Lehman (reeds), James Fei (reeds), Andrew Raffo Dewar (reeds), Reut Regev (tb), Sara Schoenbeck (bsn), Nicole Mitchell (fl)] check out these urls for information: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2007/braxton.html (has link to directions) http://www.rpi.edu/web/C+CC/

as of yesterday, have about 100 sets of the ory in stock. about 500 of the jj johnson

while the kenton 43-47 set may have been a slower seller than others, that is it took a longer period of time for it to draw prices higher than the original retail, that has changed over the last six months. besides, something that might have effected that kenton set's resale value was that it was available through other on line sources and brick and mortar stores. put another way, supply outstripped demand for a longer period of time than other sets. as an aside, I called mosaic yesterday and they had about 180-190 of the Herman sets left.

received for christmas-#196 the Woody Herman capitol set. by the way they are up to number 2697. plus a $25.00 gift card!!!!!

epm reissued xanadu titles other than those issued by prevue. you can generally find the prevue cd reissues on ebay for a fair price. the tal farlow dates from a private recording have been reissued as one of those definitive label releases under a title like "the complete tal farlow private recordings."

the following was emailed to me. if you are drinking coffee, you may want to put it down: The following is an extract from the Reviewers Digest, Fourth Edition (sub-section: CD Reviews; sub-sub-section: Jazz Singers). Because this Digest was hitherto Top Secret, I am risking legal (and maybe lethal) action by the CIA, FBI, DDT and RSPB in making this exposé, I shall therefore be grateful if, after reading this message, you will eat it. Thank you. XXXXXXXXX ------------------------ Reviewers Digest, Fourth Edition (sub-section: CD Reviews; sub-sub-section: Jazz Singers). On receipt of the CD, allocate a notional score of 20 points. (This is to acknowledge the fact that someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make this and send it to you and that no one along the way has stolen it.) 1. Examine the packaging. If it is in one of those nifty little flexible plastic packs or the cardboard gatefold type, add 1 point. If it is in one of those so-called jewel boxes that crack and splinter when you look at them, deduct one point. 2. If the case is shrink-wrapped, deduct one point for the fingernail you are about to break. If, beneath the shrink-wrap, there is one of those sticky barcode thingummies redundantly gluing the case shut, deduct a further point for stupidity. 3. Examine the illustration on the front of the CD case. If there is a picture of the singer and more than 10% of the surface of the body is naked, deduct one point. This is in order to refute later allegations that you were seduced by the implicit offer of sexual favours. (NB: this rule applies for male singers as well as for female singers. The previous ruling, that a picture of a partially-naked man was penalized two points, had been withdrawn following allegations of homophobia made by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Also note that this rule applies equally to male and female reviewers.) 4. Examine the information on the back of the CD case. If you do not recognize the titles of at least half of the songs listed, deduct one point. (Singers who insist on writing their own songs must be taught a lesson. However, please note the rider to Rule 15.) 5. Now open the case. If the CD promptly falls out because (a) the sleeve design is so bad you couldn't tell you were holding it upside down, or (b) too many of the little plastic fingers have broken off because they are made of the same duff plastic as the jewel boxes, deduct one point. Health warning: Remember to pause at this moment and strain your coffee in case one of the aforementioned plastic fingers fell in your cup.) 6. Inspect the liner notes. If they are printed in a type size so small that it requires 20:20 vision, plus a magnifying glass and a bright light, deduct 1 point. If the printing is in yellow on a white ground, dark brown on a dark blue ground, pink on purple, or vice versa, or any similar combination, including white print on black, deduct one point. Black print on white ground, add one point. If the general design is clearly the work of a second-year art student with learning difficulties, deduct one point. (If the designer is one of the singer's younger siblings, deduct a further point. Nepotism will not be tolerated.) 7. At this point, you might wish to check the total of points. So far, a possible ten points might have been deducted. If this is the case, you may now discard the CD. No matter how good it is, there is no way it can make up a deficit of ten. Bin it, and move on. 8. If the CD has survived, you must now read the liner note. All of it. Sorry, but this must be done. You are supposed to be carrying out a public service here and so far you have done nothing but sit there. If there is no liner note, deduct one point. How are you supposed to know what's happening if no one tells you? If the liner note contains more than 17 spelling mistakes and/or typographical errors deduct one point. If the name of a composer and/or instrumentalist is misspelled deduct a further point. If the singer's own name is misspelled, bin it. 9. If the liner note actually tells you something you did not already know, add one point. (NB: Useful things, of course. Telling you the name of the singer's dressmaker is not regarded as useful information.) 10. Count the number of people to whom the singer offers thanks. More than ten deduct one point, deducting a further point for every five additional names. (This is to counter time-wasting attempts to break the World Record, currently believed to be held by Eve Cornelious in the liner for "I Feel Like Some Jazz Today", where 67 persons are named. This trend must be stamped out. If more than four of the people acknowledged are dead, deduct a further point. I mean, come on, they're dead for God's sake, they can't read the damn notes can they. Or hear the CD. Just because it makes the singer feel good is no excuse. Singers are not put on this Earth to feel good. They are here to entertain those of us who are too busy doing proper jobs to spare the time to sing themselves. (NB: For these purposes, God counts as a dead person.) 11. Now place the CD in your player and check the running time. Less than 40 minutes, deduct five points. More than forty but less than sixty, deduct one point. More than sixty, add one point. More than seventy, add two points. Remember, we live in a commercial age. Quantity beats quality every time. This might be a useful moment to re-check the points deducted and apply the same rule as before, binning any CD that does not have a chance of getting into the black. 12. Sorry about this, but any CD that has survived so far, must now be played. There really is no possible alternative. Just grit your teeth, take any medication prescribed, and press the start button. (NB: For these purposes, as indeed for many others, booze counts as medication.) Having played the CD all the way through (Yes, ALL the way), please return to these notes. 13. There, that wasn't as bad as you thought it would be, was it. 14. If you were able to sing (hum, chant, whistle, doo-de-doo), along with more than half the tracks without losing the beat, award an A. 15. If you are able to recall the melody and/or lyrics of any "original" material for more than seventeen seconds after the track ended, award an A (and think of nominating the writer to the Irving Berlin Hall of Fame). 16. If the singer lets the instrumentalists take solos, award a B. 17. If you fell asleep before the CD ended, award a B. (This is just in case it was really rather good and you wouldn't want to look a fool just because you took a hard-earned nap, now would you.) 18. If the CD is by a so-called jazz singer and she/he scats, award a C. (Billie Holiday didn't scat, so just who the hell do these people think they are?) 19. Anything that does not qualify for an A or a B or a C, award a D. 20. If you feel an irresistible urge to play the record again, don't. This is hallucinatory. It's the medication (or the booze) speaking. 21. You have now completed your review and all that is left is for you to write it. Please go to the website http://www.tirofllefu.com from where, if you follow the instructions, you can extract boilerplate reviews, clicking on A, B, C or D as appropriate. You will note that there are no really bad reviews, even the D is not actually cruel. Partly, this is because if you have followed these instructions correctly, you should have got rid of the truly duff stuff. Chiefly, though, this is just in case, one day, you happen to meet one of these singers. You don't want a poke in the eye with a finger, however well manicured it might be, now do you. (It has been known to happen.) Now download, print and sign and send off to the magazine/newspaper/whatever, and you are now free to spend the rest of the day doing something really useful.

if you have not visited their website lately, www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com, they have some new ECM titles available, ie., a couple louis sclavis, a yves robert, a few misha alperin. plus check out the hanssler label which puts certain artists like phil woods or slide hampton in from of the SWR band.

as of 2:30 pm, down to 4 kenton presents holman, et al cd sets

when I called yesterday afternoon, I was told there were over two hundred of these sets available

I have a box set whose number is #1905.

try cadence. they are handling soul note and black saint once again

the j. j, johnson, hrs sessions, and mobley set limits are 7,500 copies, not 5,000, which might suggest that their license terms were intended to run longer than 5 years. If so, none of these three sets may be designated "running low" for a year or more. the copyright dates at the bottom of the on-line discographies for the johnson, wilson, and mobley sets, which might indicate when they were first issued by mosaic, are respectively 1996, 1997, and 1998. These dates might be further evidence that the johnson and wilson sets had longer terms than five years with the original license or that the original license terms were extended. the online hrs discography has no such date on it. the mulligan is also 7,500 copies and somewhere we were told that 2,500 copies were designated for europe and that those were all sold out. if so, then an assumption that if there were 2900 mulligan sets already sold and that that number included those in europe, would result in the implication that only 400 had been sold domestically. on the other hand, if 2900 sets had been sold in addition to those slated for europe, and all those sets in europe were sold, then the mulligan set would seem to be selling extremely well. whew!! I need a cup of coffee.

i haven't used one of these in a while. it says only one per customer. how are they going to know if you use one a day until the 13th?

1. brother jack mcduff's "that's the way I fell about it" on the concord label with andrew beals on alto, jerry weldon on tenor sax, john hart on guitar, kip reed on bass, rudy petschauer on drums, and chris potter on flutes. Concord 1997 release. 2. marian mcpartland's piano jazz with henry mancini released by the jazz alliance on the concord label. original broadcast date was march 14,1985. both of the above are new sealed cds. no signs of being cutouts or promos. each are $4.00 plus $2.00 for shipping and handling. send me a pm.

jack de johnette-zebra jackie mclean-antiquity on steeplechase with michael carvin phil woods-the lp which has never been reissued where he plays greek music and/or with greek musicians. john coltrane-om cassandra wilson-jump and dance to the drums

"the first day" is some of the music that was available on the mosaic ammons/lewis set.

in fact, the veejay sets may not be completely gone. as of yesterday around 10 am, mosaic still had three of the morgan/shorter set left. they also had a almonst complete chambers/kelly set that was missing only disc 6.

a few observations to the newbies to mosaic. first, immediately check out the "running low" link to see if there are any sets there that interest you. particularly if the sets have moved from "running low" to "last chance-" that generally means they are going like hotcakes. may only last a couple days when they move from the former to the latter. you can call and find out how many sets are left if you want. second, some of the regular mosaic sets are available in e and brock and mortar stores. this means you might find them discounted online or if you walk into a borders store for instance. typically, mosaic lets you know if a set is available in a store in their catalogues. a good time to check is the summer when towers has a 50% off sale. the other side of that story is that these sets might not commend as much money on resale. also, since some sets are avaiable through retail outlets-out of print sets may be found through such outlets, i.e, the ellington reprise is still probably available online from sources other than mosaic even though it is officially out of print (This summer I picked up the nat king cole at a major national distributor's sale-it has been out of print for five years). get on the mosaic mailing list on the web site-once in a blue moon (every couple years) they might have a 10% off sale or a sale combined with their trueblue distribution company that will make it worthwhile to buy at that time (they also announce these in their catalogues). there are other types of "inside" information you can cull from this board-like those sets which have been "ripped off" by other labels or which portion of a mosaic set has been reissued in other forms (i.e., herbie nichols (blue note), grant green with sonny clark (blue note), paul desmond (rca victor?), chet baker pacific jazz live dates (individual discs over time)). Also, mosaic sometimes has "partial" sets available-if an out of print set woudl have interested you, you might partially assuage your disapointment by buying the left over individual discs. oh, by the way, if you get hooked=don't blame it on this board. The board adminsitrator has reputedly taken out special liability insurance in order to cover such a possiblity. I have been buying mosaic sets since the early nineties and have rarely been disappointed in any of the sets that I have bought-and only then because of the high standards that mosaic has set. I can still remember debating about spending the money for the larry young set, not being familiar with his music at that time since, at that point in time (1992 plus or minus), blue note did not have any of this music out in circulation other than perhaps the releases done with grant green. man, what a feeling hearing unity for the first time. and then there was the buddy defranco set-hearing this clarinet soaring over sonny clark's piano. more recently I had somewhat the same experience when listening to the the capitol set.

when I spoke to mosaic this past friday, they were down to less than 60 sets for each veejay. the week before the count was around 100 each. want to gamble on which day next week they will be gone? oh yeah, monday is a holiday.

about 130 new orleans sets as of today

mosaic might have copies of disc two and four available. four has the shirley horn session which the verve two fer does not have