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AFAIK Proper comply with 50-year old rule (by the sound they get sometimes, it seems they use 50-year old sources too and don't rip from the more recent Mosaic, Hep, Bear Family etc reissues), so perfectly legal in the EU. They have done some decent work putting together most of the Fats Navarro and Wardell Gray recordings. Good value for money IMHO, even though the sound quality is not the best available. Joop Visser, the guy who signs the liner notes used to be the brains behind Charly, right? F

Maybe, but if I'm not mistaken much of this (if not all, apart from unissued tracks) is already available on CDs from BMG-Spain. F

Used to, but not anymore. In any case, try Collectables, I think their CD reissues keep the original tune sequences. Jimmy Giuffre 3/Music Man Travellin Man Four Brothers Sound Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet Western Suite F

I'm even more astounded that he founded Prestige when he was what? 20?, 21 years old? Definitely a different era. RIP and thanks for the records. F

About the Ellington Bethlehems, I actually listened to these before I ever got to listen to the *original* versions (long time ago), and IMHO some of the tunes are great (Jeep is jumping for one, if I remember correctly), but the tempo in Cottontail and Koko is probably too fast. Basie also redid some of his older hits in "The Count Basie Story" (Roulette 1961): see organissimo thread and allmusic review. Great recording IMHO F

I'd say Lord's has more stuff in it than allmusic. I wouldn't know which one's more accurate, but I know which one is free In any case, it's very likely that Hank Jones made enough *anonymous* sessions (commercial dates, etc), at least in the 50s and 60s, to put him at the top of the list. F

PM sent.

Since you asked for any information, it seems that King Jazz (Italy) would be somehow related to Fresh Sound (Spain). They had the same distributor (Camarillo Music Ltd) and their CDs were manufactured -at the time- by the same company (Tecval of Switzerland). Small world, I guess. F

I'm no expert on this, but there is a different recording to the one featuring Woods. It has Sims and Cohn with Roger Kellaway, Bill Crow and Mel Lewis (rec. 1965). Haven't heard it but read somewhere sound quality was so-so, so this maybe the one you're referring to? Done some Googling and there is an issue by "Naked City" and a Japanese one by "Jazz bank". Has anyone compared these two? F

From certain things Costa does, for instance, on "Opus de Funk" in the Fuerst recordings (1956), and his House of blue lights (1959), it would've been extremely interesting to hear whatever he might have done had he lived longer. There's also quite a quintet (apparently unrecorded at a festival in Washington in 1962) with Eric Dolphy, Costa, Don Ellis, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip. Top of my head, for fast-and-furious solos by Costa on piano, check his Yesterdays from Farlow's "Tal", What A Country from Clark Terry's "The Jazz Version of All American" (reissued in the CD "Mellow Moods" by Prestige/Fantasy) and Criss Cross (not the Monk tune but a fast blues) by the McKusick-Farmer Quintet, where he outswings everyone else. F

Hello UCCU-5109, a Japanese reissue from 2003, is in Stereo. As for the LoneHill reissue, they might as well drop the "complete" from all their CDs. F

Hello Bol I'm afraid I can only agree to what's been said about London. If the January sales are not over while you're here, HMV and Virgin may be worth a try (although even sales are not what they used to be). I think Honest John is now on the Portobello Road (?) not very far from the Music & Video Exchange shops by the Notting Hill Gate tube station. F

I won't enter into the details on whose idea this was, , but apparently, and courtesy of the surgical abilities of my dear friend EKE BBB I'll be starting a career as a castrato very soon. F (as in Farinelli) PS Happy new year to every one.

That is a bit difficult to understand. What is the "fixation" in the case of the Bird-Diz recording. I'm not really versed in law, but if a *phonogram* is the actual physical *thing* containing the music (be it an acetate, a master tape or a CD or whatever), the actual acetates produced in 1945 and used by Uptown would not be liable for producer's rights in the EU, but the actual CDs published by Uptown (© 2005) would, right? Ethics are rather clear. Any lawyers in the room? F

I thought these rights apply (and expire after 50 years in the EU) to the actual records. I mean, in the EU you could reissue the Goodman Carnegie Hall concert if your source were the 1950 LP, but if you used any of the CD reissues by Columbia you'd have to ask Sony for permission? About the Bear Family/JSP affair, this is within the EU. Are there any similar cases between European and American companies? What is amazing is that the record industry seems to have been a legal quagmire from the very day Edison came up with the idea of preserving sound. F

Completely top of my head, but didn't British label Avid copyright their remastered version of Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert? Also, the European 50-year threshold applies from the release or the recording year? F

This one? F

For the sake of completeness (haven't actually listened to it) you should add this: Brad Mehldau & Jorge Rossy Trio: When I Fall In Love (Fresh Sound New Talent, FSNT-007) Featuring: Brad Mehldau (p), Mario Rossy (b), Jordi Rossy (d) Tracklisting: 1. Anthropology 2. At A Loss 3. When I Fall In Love 4. Countdown 5. Convalescent 6. I Fall In Love Too Easily 7. I Didn't Know What Time It Was Recorded in Barcelona, 1993 F

Thanks everyone for the two threads on pronunciation. For us foreigners interviewing jazz musicians sometimes it's a pain to mention names (especially of not too famous people) we may have read but never *heard* before. English is sooo complicated phonetics-wise. Spanish is much more logical (one letter=one sound, in any combinations, with very few exceptions). F

Given the sales of jazz CDs and the income they represent for the major labels compared to the really big sellers (like Dion), it doesn't seem worthy to introduce some software that's basically a pain in the neck and alienate a group of mainly loyal (or is it compulsive?) buyers. If the brains behind this is so concerned about copyright matters, he should be sent trekking in mid-Winter to the Pyrenees chasing Lone Hills. F

FWIW, in BG On The Record (first edition, so it's worth checking a more recent one) there are only three recordings of "The Monk Swings" (aka "The Swinging Monk"), first two on video: one from a rehearsal on August 6, 1966, and the other from the afternoon concert on August 7. Parts of these were recorded in Comblain-La-Tour (Belgium) and were broadcast by the NBC TV network on February 26, 1967. RTB (Belgium National TV) also recorded the whole August 7 concert, apparently. There's a third version (audio only) recorded on December 31, 1966 in Las Vegas (a sustaining radio broadcast from the Hotel Tropicana). All three takes by a sextet including Goodman and Doc Cheatham. F

Just out on the BBC Website Malware is the generic term for malicious software and includes viruses, spyware and any other program designed to hijack or harm a computer. Writing in the blog, Jason Garms, one of the senior managers in the anti-malware team, said the XCP software qualified as spyware under the "objective criteria" Microsoft uses to assess potentially malicious programs. The XCP system is controversial because it uses techniques more often seen in computer viruses to hide itself on users' machines. Specifically XCP uses a "root-kit" to conceal itself deep inside the Windows operating system. "Root-kits have a clearly negative impact on not only the security, but also the reliability and performance of their systems," said Mr Garms in the blog entry. As a result Microsoft will put utilities to find and remove the XCP system in the next update of its anti-spyware software. The same utilities will also go in to the December update for Microsoft's malicious software removal tool. Bad publicity The row about XCP blew up following an expose by Windows programming expert Mark Russinovich. It led to widespread criticism of Song BMG and several class action lawsuits have been started against the record label over XCP. The stealthy software is intended to stop illegal copies being made of Sony CDs. Mr Russinovich's discovery led to a string of bad publicity for Sony, which culminated in the news that virus writers were starting to use XCP to hide their own malicious programs. In response Sony BMG suspended use of XCP as a "precautionary measure". The XCP software was only used on CDs sold in the US. Speaking about the suspension Mr Russinovich said: "This is a step they should have taken immediately." F

May come as a surprise, but Costa is in more than a hundred albums (nearing 150). With Costa I think it's a problem of proper exposure (like he had with Farlow's trio) and visibility of his own records (as a leader he recorded for Mode, Jubilee, Dot and half an album for Verve). I'd go for Fats Navarro. I think everything he recorded fits in four CDs. F

I think Goodman's version was the first one to interpolate "Christopher Columbus" (written by Chu Berry?) Surprising piano solo by Jess Stacy with Goodman at the Carnegie Hall... the studio version was released along two sides of a record, no? BTW, could anyone recommend a good alternative to the "Birth of Swing" 3-CD set from 1991 (RCA 61038-2)? The idea was great but somewhere I read that it sounds like it's been remastered under water, not far off-mark IMHO. F PS For blasting brass big bands tunes, although Goodman had Harry James, Ziggy Elman and Chris Griffin, I have a soft spot for Woody Herman's First Herd: The Good Earth, for instance.

Going back to the original question, there's more Jay & Kai stuff coming up from the Pyrenees (LHJ10218 J.J. JOHNSON & KAI WINDING QUINTET An Afternoon At Birdland), but I don't know whether it includes the Columbia recordings Jim R was asking about. F