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happy Birthday Tony Cheers, Tjobbe

I do suspect those will be the 12*12 (but don't sue me if they aren't ) as I believe those OJC stuff being the rest of the Fantasy stock from the previous German distributor ZYX. The boxes they have sold some years ago where older ones, but ZYX recently sold the US ones according to their WebSite.... Cheers, Tjobbe EDIT: 2001 might have skipped to add those to the current catalogue because of legal issues due to the distributor contract Fantasy had should terminate end of 2005 so maybe they will add them in January...will be another bad day for my bank account

I saw those three boxes in their online listing. Within the printed catalogue I haven't found those as well none of those OJC's so maybe they place them in stock later on as sell out of the ZYX stock. Cheers, Tjobbe EDIT: there is an option to search via ->CD->Jazz and sort by price/Preis(doesn't work with Firefox but IE only)

Those Universal-Mosaic's are the nearly identical to the original ones incl box and booklet but they do not carry a unique number and are boxes that Universal sells on their own responsibility. Cheers, Tjobbe

....www.zweitausendeins.de. They currently sell the 7CD Sets (Eldridge, FArlow, Farmer/Golson) for 45€ and the Basie for 50€ as well as the 4CD Mulligan for 40€ As they have re-done their WebSite the only downside is the inavailabilty of an english UI-version but you can order via email or phone as well. Not sure about international shipping rates. Cheers, Tjobbe EDIT: if you need help to navigate through the site, let me (and the other natives) know...

I can also cast a vote for the Astor Piazolla box and I was surprised how good the sound was... else no other membran in my collection. Cheers, Tjobbe

sorry Marty, he got cut-out somehow: FLUTE, ALTO & SOPRANO SAX : Ferdinant Povel Here one link to the Scene LP via Philip Catherine's HOMEPAGE: http://users.skynet.be/fa548661/pages/engl...d/2/scenes.html

the main interest was on entertaining and interesting, as well as European...promised

BFT31 Bonus Tracks and here's the rest just right before Christmas..... The whole record is guiding the live audience through a decade of Jazz from the Ragtime beginnings to modern electronic Jazz. Its quite a nice travel although I prefer not to mix the styles that much. The Vienna Art Orchestra definitely belongs to the forefront of modern Big Band sounds: Anna Lauvergnac – voice (not heard on that track) Thorsten Benkenstein, Matthieu Michel, Bumi Fian, Thomas Gansch - trumpets Robert Bachner, Christian Muthspiel, Ed Partyka - trombones Klaus Dickbauer, Florian Bramböck, Andy Scherrer, Harry Sokal, Herwig Gradischnig - reeds Martin Koller - guitar Georg Breinschmid - bass (acoustic rhythm section) Mario Gonzi - drums (acoustic rhythm section) Robert Riegler - bass (electric rhythm section) (not heard on that track) Thomas Lang - drums (electric rhythm section) (not heard on that track) Bonus Track 2: Zanzibar (from Mel Martin plays Benny Carter, 1994) Mel Martin, and Benny Carter himself, together with Jeff Chambers, Roger Kellaway, Harold Jones (ENJA) This track is taken from a disc mixed with three live tracks feat. Benny Carter and the rest –six more- are Studio recordings with Mel Martin, Kenny Barron/Rufus Reid and Victor Lewis. All in all it's a very enjoyable disc. Bonus Track 3: What's Going On (from same CD, 1994) Dieter Ilg (b), Marc Copland (p), Jeff Hirshfield (dr) (Jazzline) This is from an already out-of-business Cologne Record label called Jazzline (ran by the Alex Merck Music Group). Although this track is a bit lengthy, I always had the feeling that the three have met Marwin Gaye's tone quite well. To me Marwin Gaye always sounded very jazzy in his songs. Unfortunately this is OOP since a longer time. Dieter Ilg and Marc Copland have recorded one more trio album during this period. Bonus track 4: Con Alma ( from Masterpieces 1995) Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination and Brass (MPS recorded 1972-77), originally on an 1974 LP called Scenes, Live at the Ronnie Scott's One of the few Herbolzheiner re-issue currently available on MPS but even not a re-issue of a complete record but a compilation only….., here I selected one Dizzy classics. I hope there will be more soon, as there are many great albums on Vinyl only as this is a sampler containing tracks of various LP recordings of the seventies, !!Sorry!! guys, just checked and found I copied the wrong personnel listing from another track of the compilation, here the correct one: TRUMPET: Kenny Wheeler, Art Farmer, Palle Mikkelborg, Ronnie Simmonds, Ack Van Rooyen FLUTE, ALTO & SOPRANO SAX : Ferdinant Povel TROMBONES : Ake Persson, Jiggs Whigham, Rudi Fuesers, Peter Herbolzheimer ORGAN, SYNTHETISER, EL. PIANO : Dieter Reith GUITAR : Philip Catherine BASS EL. BASS : Gunther Lenz, Jean Warland DRUMS : Kenny Clare CONGAS PERCUSSIONS : Sabu Marinez MISC PERC, EL PIANO, : Horst Mühlbradt , BTW they show a Herbolzheimer feature on german TV WDR3 but very very late http://www.jazzecho.de/page_92546.jsp Bonus Track 5: Phrase Second (from Sometime Suite, 2001) Munich Jazz Orchestra & Kenny Wheeler (Bassic Sound) A very ECM'ish sounding record..... Kenny Wheeler - flh Franz Weyerer - tp Claus Reichstaller - tp,flh Merit Ostermann - vocals Johannes Herrlich - tb Johannes Enders - ss,as Thomas Zoller - bs Roberto Di Gioia - p Peter O'Mara - g Thomas Stabenow - bass Falk Willis - drums Bonus Track 6: Home (Live in Tokyo, 1996) Michel Petrucciani, Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson (Dreyfus) …I know that this type of song is not everyone's taste but I liked the nicely floating song from the first moment I heard it, Allmusic calls it a "lilting ballad" so it's a very personal choice. It's a kind of either love or hate thing…..needless to say I love it EDIT: I did some "tests" upfront and track 3/5/6 from that bonus selection had heavily different responses that led from oh great to arghh ...so I took them out there. Bonus Track 7: All Blues (live with the Berlin All Stars, 1966) Annie Ross &Pony Pointdexter (MPS) (as its filed under Annie Ross….) Yeah ! (Mike said it all! so no further comment needed from my side ) vocals: Pony Poindexter & Annie Ross (not heard on that track) alto saxophone: Pony Poindexter, Leo Wright flute: Leo Wright acoustic guitar: André Condouant piano: Fritz Pauer double bass: Jimmy Woode drums: Joe Nay soprano saxophone: Pony Poindexter trumpet: Carmell Jones Bonus Track 8: For heavens sake (Live at the Feuerwache Mannheim, 1995) "Just Musician" Frank Foster, Professor Jürgen Seefelder, Professor Thomas Stabenow, Professor Keith Copeland (Bassic Sound again but this is OOP, sorry) A very intensive interplay of Frank Foster with the three academics… Bonus Track 9: Albert's waltz (Live at Berlin jazz Galerie, 1970) Fritz Pauer (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Billy Brooks (dr) (and just another one from MPS) Pauer&Woode again …… and just for fun: Bonus Track 10: H and B Guitar Boogie (from Great Guitars, 1975) Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel, with -as completing the great guitar trio- Charlie Byrd but not featured here (Concord). Sidemen are brother Joe Byrd on Bass and Wayne Philips on drums. Cheers……

sounds really nice look forward hearing the full record... Cheers, Tjobbe

Tony Bennett - Snowfall (The christmas album) Cheers, Tjobbe

mhhh, I though we have overcome the theory of Darwin...we call it now business intelligence. Cheers, Tjobbe

check out that swedish capitol re-issue below as well where 6 out of 11 tracks are featuring Billberg on Alto plus small string septet line-up. Both are priced at bargain cost of 6€ and 9€ at cdon.com Cheers, Tjobbe

Shelly Manne - Checkmate (OJC) Cheers, Tjobbe

I'll post answers for the tracks on here end of next week.... Cheers, Tjobbe

and part two... Track 11 : Andantino (from Straight Four, 1999) Thomas Stabenow, Ack van Rooyen, Johannes Enders, Mario Gonzi (Bassic Sound 018) The Europeans tend to often mix their "classical" heritage with Jazz…this here features Dutch Ack van Rooyen on trumpet and German Johannes Enders on Tenor with a famous Jazz Composer Claude Debussy piece that is originally indented for a string quartet so its here transcribed one-by-one into the jazz quartet version. As the liner notes state: this was already prepared for a Jazz arrangement, you only needed to put your improvisations on top. The first of a set of four BFT-31 tracks from Thomas Stabenow's own record label Bassic Sound. Track 12: Air, Love & Vitamine (title Track from last CD, 2004) Wolfgang Muthspiel, Marc Johnson, Brian Blade (Quinton) Muthspiel is a versatile player and always good in what he plays.. not necessarily always straight ahead jazz . This is his second recording with that trio where he uses current material compared to before playing Jazz Standards. Unfortunately the trio broke up. As I'm a huge Pat Metheny and Gary Burton fan and as I tried to avoid a direct reference to both in that BFT, but I choose one player who also grown-up in the Gary Burton Kindergarden for Berklee College of Music. This one here was a kind of link back to his music, the title track composed by late Harry Pepl. As I 've discussed about Music&Taste with the producer of that records during the past three years quite often, I know that he shares a similar background of jazz and pop listening so you can call him a kind of musical twin , which is why I sometimes feel he produces the stuff just for me ! EDIT: one of his first apperance on disc was on a Gary Burton GRP record (Cool Nights shouldn't get more than three stars) where he played some Metheny composition done for this record exclusively Track 13: Samba JS (from A winter's tale, 1993) Jacques Thollot (dr), Francois Jenny-Clark (b), Tony Hymas (p) (Nato) The most optimistic track on that record and I had a hard time to choose this or one from another Nato record called Source Bleu disc with Hymas/Laurence/Coe …. Finally this one here made it. One comment on the piano player.. he's also known supporting Hard Rock musicians in his earlier carreer and played often with Jeff Beck (from where I knew his name…) which might be the reason why he tends to play to conventional and "lightweight". Having also classical education as background, he seems to be the "complete" pianist. This CD seems to be a set of tracks originally recorded already 1982 but waited 11 years for its release to disc. Nevertheless, he has studied classic composition as well as recorded one pop hit with Phd in 1982 and he was recently featured on the Minnesota sure Seine festival with his new quartet that got some notion here on the board as well. http://www.surseine.com/musica_tony_hymas.html Track 14: Ganglek fran Älvdalen ( from Jazz par Svenska, 1963) Jan Johannson & George Riedel (Heptagone) Couldn't resist adding a second one from his best recording ever with a Jazz adoption of old Swedish folk songs. The theme here is also picked up again more often e.g. in a lengthier form on e.g. a track called Emigrantvisa. Just recently the Heptagone label (founded by Johansson sons) has re-issued this as a single disc with Jazz par Svenska on it only but with MP3 of the recording as a whole including all cutouts of the recording session. This shows specially the folk heritage that Johansson has woven into his music compared to Track#3 being a nicely swinging Jazz Trio. This version is from the original Two-fer with Jazz par Ruska as second album….check-out the currently active thread around this. Track 15: Fronteira (from Gaitapontocom, 2004) Renato Borghetti (Atracao) Brazilian bandeon/accordion player Renato Borghetti is not playing straight ahead jazz but more a mixture of folk and Brazilian rhythms with jazz. His songs often follow some more Pop forms but are far away from any "Copacabana happiness". I originally wanted to include his European CD release from 2005 but I decided not to add another one of those Quinton's in. When it comes to Accordion and jazz linked together I prefer French Richard Galliano. The Band: Renato Borghetti: gaita ponto Daniel Sá: violão e guitarra Pedro Figueiredo: sax e flauta Juarez Ferreira: pandeiro e bateria at www.renatoborghetti.com.br Track 16: Touchez pas au Grisbi (Filmes de ma vie, compilation, 1995) Tony Coe (cl), Benoit Delbeq (p), Steve Argüelles (dr) and Claude Tchamitchian (b) (Nato) A small tribute to my second love… Film (and as well featuring another excellent Nato disc with an excellent Tony Coe on clarinette). The original track composed by Jean Wiener is featured on the Jazz In Paris re-issue series and is the title track of the 1954 film by famous Jacques Becker with J.Gabin and J.Moreau. Becker died much to young…. Track 17: Sax no end (title of same LP, on MPS two originals compilation, 1967) CBBB (MPS, Universal as released in the US on Verve) One of my favourite Big Bands and one of best of all time: Beside late Francy Boland (p) and Kenny Clarke (dr), we have some Crème de la Crème of European Jazz artists (but not all are Europeans ): Idrees Sulieman, Shake Keane, Benny Bailey and Jimmy Deuchar (tp), Ake Person, Nat Peck, Erik van Lier and Jiggs Wigham (tb), Derek Humble (as), Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott and Carl Drewo (ts), Sahib Shihab (bs) and yes Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis playing the Solo on that track, With Jimmy Woode (b) as one half of the Rhythm section and Kenny Clare (dr) the other half. Track 18: Dexterity (Jazz Clarinet 2001) T. Stabenow (b), Stephan Holstein (cl), John Engels (dr) (Bassic Sound) A classic Charlie Parker tune featured on BT4 already. I always liked the clarinets and specially that bass clarinet is seldom heard. Stephan Holstein plays it on another track of that record as well. (although the liner notes do state it's a Dexter Gordon track but I dot quite believe that…) Track 19: Guitaristic ( from Trio, Sextet& All Stars, June 1955) Henri Renaud feat. Renè Thomas (orig. Vogue Masters) The trio and sextet recordings, previously released on 4 track EP's only, compiled on this disc are way better than the all stars section at the end but still all in all a very enjoyable disc. The Sextet playing here is lined up with Jean-Louis Chautemps (ts), Christian Kellens (tb), Rene Thomas (git), Henri Renaud (p), Benoit Quersin (b) and Jacques David (dr). Track 20: Turn out the Stars ( from …Play Bill Evans, 2002) The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra feat Jim McNealy (Stunt/Sundance) This is to me by far the best non-Evans interpretation of this classic ballad. It's also the final track of the album as well as the Grande Finale of the BT31 Disk. Jim McNealy acts as the musical director of the Band and on that track plays the piano himself as well. For me this Danish Stunt album belongs into the Must-Have category for Bill Evans fans and those who wanted to be one.

I've tried to cover some BFT themes throughout the two discs. First I've tried an All-European disc (which I believe has worked out quite fine although not 100% but who cares), second to cover somehow all BT participants home countries (was not that difficult), third try smaller European labels only and last but not least I put a broad variety of music on that I love to hear on a day-to-day basis which was hard to do because of all the artists and tracks that still haven't made it but should have somehow deserved to get noted…oh and forgot: it had to be somehow car stereo compatible as that's where I verified the mix All in all, I hope you enjoyed listening to the discs as much as I enjoyed compiling them for you. Track 1: Blindfold test #1 (from Modern sounds of the West, 1954) Marty Paich Sextet feat. Conte Candoli (Lonehill Jazz re-issue from a 1954 Blue Note called Various Artists - Best from the West: Modern Sounds from California, Vol. 1) The perfect start into a Blindfold test CD….I'm wondering that no one ever used that before as intro … and a small contribution to Vince G. with Candoli and Budwig for those who missed him On here: Conte Candoli (tp) John Graas (flh) Charlie Mariano (as) Marty Paich (p) Monty Budwig (b) Stan Levey (dr) Leonard Feather (prod) Los Angeles, CA, December 31, 1954, originally on BN BLP 5059 Track 2: Tenga Nina – (From same titled CD, 1996) Jacques Thollot Quartet feat. Henry Lowther (Nato) A short track, first on the disc is than followed by intensive improvisations later on 6 tracks before compositions take lead again, so have in mind that the other tracks are quite different from that "funny, short little melody". J.Thollot (dr), Noel Akchotè (git), Tony Hymas (p), Claude Tchamitchian (b) are playing here with Guest Henry Lowther (tp). Recorded in spring 1995 at Studio Acousti, Paris and winter 1995 at Studio La Buissonne, Pernes les Fontaines. http://www.musiquefrancaise.net/221_fiche.html And here one track from his this album is available for download with his daughter voice accompanying: http://www.whiskyfun.com/music/La%20maison...20cellettes.mp3 Track 3: Prisma (from 8Bitar, 1961 ) Jan Johansson Trio (Heptagone) The swinging side of Jan Johansson…. This is a kind of "thanks&tribute" to CDBABY and this forum as without that Big-O forum I wouldn't have bought the Organissimo disc, so I would not have encountered their shop website hence probably not bought any of those Jan Johansson discs and I now wouldn't even know what I've missed out…. Although I'm a huge Bill Evans fan, I must admit I do rate Jan Johansson overall performance and specially his bandwidth even slightly higher…The Trio: Jan Johansson (p), Gunnar Johnson (b), Ingvar Callmer (dr) Track 4: Huchedu Part 1 (From Quatre Fois Trios, 1996) Daniel Humair (Label Bleu, OOP…sorry- EDIT: just checked the label Bleu website at http://www.label-bleu.com/artist.php?lng=e&artist_id=19&c=d and they have it for sale again ) I like Swiss Daniel Humair's drumming during the sixities but this rather up-to-date stuff with specially the Joachim Kühn trio recordings on there being bit more funny rats like. All players tend to use their instruments rather as percussion as well. The trio playing here lines up with B. Chevillion (b) and Marc Ducret (g) accompanying Humair. The French Label Bleu is a good address for up-to-date European Jazz. Track 5: Gabriella (from Lars Gullin with Strings, 1964) Lars Gullin feat. Rolf Billberg (Sonet) A rather rare Sonet CD re-issue and up to now I've never seen the CD on sale elsewhere outside of Sweden at all. The track is a Lars Gullin original and has been listed at Allmusic only recorded three times (within the last 3years) by Basso, Stenson and Bengt Rosengreen on Gullin Tribute recordings. Not necessarily the best Gullin record but an unusual one although there are some others where he played with Rolf Billberg on Dragon but I do not have those. That was a last minute BT entry as I got the disc two days before the final compilation from Swedish online shop www.cdon.com which I can recommend for Skandinavian Jazz in general as they ship quite cheap within EU but sorry not to US. EDIT: I need to correct myself here a little bit as I just found a lengthier version of that song as well featured with Strings and Billberg on a Swedish re-issue of Portrait of my Pals...recorded 1964 as well and I own this as well to much disc im my collection meanwhile Track 6: You didn't know me (from Confessions, 2005) Linda Sharrock (Quinton) Here is Madame Linda Sharrock with her first record after seven years of silence together with french line-up Stephan Oliva (p) and Claude Tchamitchian (b). This was the easiest –if you can say that at all- track on the record. The rest is less accessible but her voice is always catching you and forces to listen…. Or skip NEXT button BTW: the record was just rewarded the Hans Koller price as CD of the year http://www.hanskollerpreis.at/_Cd_of_the_Year/2005.htm and she is just up to release another record with leader Wolfgang Puschnig on Quinton Records with release date Jan 06. (it's a follow-up of the 2001 release called Chants) Track 7: Kobra (from Mauve, 2002) Arkadi Shilkloper, Alec Corrêa, Georg Breinschmid (Quinton) A Russian Waldhorn (frenchhorn) player who also plays Alpine Horn, a Brazilian guitarist playing percussion on his guitar and an Austrian bass player make a great mix! And that CD got the Hans Koller price 2002 Track 8: Traveller (Czeck it Out, 1996) Rudy Linka (git), George Mraz (b), Marvin "Smitty" Smith (dr) (ENJA) A very versatile guitar player who learned his lessons obviously well from Abercrombie (as well as he did several recodings together with him, one also on Quinton Records where John Scofield also attends as guest… but as Mike owns that one that I like better, so I've taken one track from his earlier first of the two not that mature ENJA recordings). Also recommended his duet recordings with fellow Czech countryman George Mraz on bass. Track 9: Satin Doll (from Jankowskinetik, 1970) Horst Jankowski Quartet (MPS) Inspired by the Catharina Valente thread recently, I decided to add a track from her musical director during the 60/70 Horst Jankowski. I also always linked his name with the way she plays as well with the 70's TV shows I found boring as a kid, but his MPS Jazz record (as well as his other re-release from 2003) are quite enjoyable and this version of Satin Doll has immediately reminded me of the way Big Oscar Peterson plays. Line-up:acoustic guitar: Hans Wenzel,piano: Horst Jankowski,double bass: Götz Wendland,drums: Branislav Kovacek Track 10: Too Trite (The three Sopranos 1999) Kühn/Daniels/DeFranco& hr BigBand (hrMedia) Seldom heard.. three Clarinettists as there are Buddy DeFranco, Rolf Kühn and Eddie Daniels are playing within a Big Band led by Kurt Bong with arrangements mainly from previous hr Big Band members . I've chosen not necessarily the best track from that album, but the one where all three played their part as well its only track where one of the big band members, Claes Crona (p), gets a solo. The Frankfurt based Hessischer Radio Big Band is frequently recording records and has now one out (that I do not yet own but is already on want list) with songs from Walter Becker and Donald Fagen…

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Thanks a lot Andrew.. that is very helpful ! Cheers, Tjobbe

Hi Claude, is there a chance to put the "sticker" closer to the real location in satelite mode ? Cheers, Tjobbe

even the rest of the "guesses" is not THAT bad...I wouldn't have guessed the drummer on (8) although the rest of the team is more "European"

that was #4 out of 5 Sir 2 on here, 2 on the second one you already got.. Cheers, Tjobbe

Big party Cheers, Tjobbe

you deserve some bonus !!

wow, looks great !!!! Cheers, Tjobbe