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I have to admit that my experience has been positive with ZYX disks, although some on the board have had problems with them. Was playing their version of Frank Wess 'The Long Road' yesterday and it sounded absolutely excellent, lovely big soundstage. 'Remastering by Kirk Felton' in the US is usually a very good sign (which seems to be the case with most of the '2LPs on 1CD' type reissues that Fantasy have put out and some of which are in the 'Zwei' bargain list).

Looks like they are quoting a 1-2 week availability for more copies. Why can't these #####ers get the Buddy Rich and Oliver Nelson in stock at the nice price. The frustration is killing me !

There was a limited heavyweight vinyl reissue put out of that one on Japanese Brunswick some time ago. I have a copy and can highly recommend it. Moody early 60s Euro hard-bop.

Nucleus 'Elastic Rock' (BGO reissue). Picked up in Oxfam today for £3 ! I just love doing my bit for charity and scoring on jazz vinyl at the same time.

About 25 euro (haven't checked in the last few days to see if it is still listed).

Various Artists - 'Jazz Wave, Ltd - On Tour' (BN Liberty). Side 1 - Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. Nice stuff !

Shouldn't be too difficult to pick up. I think I paid the grand total of £2 for mine in Mole Jazz, where it had been gathering dust upstairs in the overhead rack for years. It had me sneezing uncontrollably for several days until I cleaned it up.

Looks like the cover art was done by the guy who did the Solid State Blakey 'Three Blind Mice'. Showroom dummy fetish !

Yep, I've got this 2LP set on a Liberty pressing. I don't believe a volume 2 was ever produced (the whole thing hinged around a tour Sonny Lester put together I believe). Indeed, side 3 is incredibly short..

Ah - I'm thinking of the other one ('A New Sound', I think it's called). Agreed on the sound of the Jasmine reissue - and indeed most of the rest of this series. Have picked up most of them by now, which should save me about $10K+ on Tempos.

Holy **** ! Tape residue on the seams as well. For a 10" LP lasting about 20 minutes, that's about $200 a minute ! Prices on these Tempos are nuts. I'll stick with my £5 Jasmine reissue, which sounds good enough to me.

Evan - Zweitausendeins.de have the 'Group' box at a very tempting price, if you are looking for it.

Morgan/Shorter VeeJay box, CD1

Give it a good kick and tell it to shut up. I find that always helps. Just about to 'crack open' the Kelly/Chambers VeeJay box.

The one thing to watch with Andrew is his handwriting! Its bl****y awful ! He wrote a very nice dedication in my Mosaic booklet but work of art it aint ! He also signed my 'Smokestack' and 'Judgement' Conn CDs. Whilst chatting with him he mentioned that he really liked the taste of the Bath Ale that he was supping ( ) but didn't know the Bath area and wouldn't have the time to check out the sights. I thought that was a real shame, I don't think he's seen a lot of the UK.

One of the first LP sets I bought back in the 70s was an English Vogue 3LP sleeve set of Clifford Brown's Complete Paris recordings. Mind-blowingly, astonishingly wonderful. Starts off with 'Brown Skins' and doesn't look back. Still one of my very favourite vinyl releases and it cost £3.50 I think !

Not a 50th NY label? I am very disppointed in you Didn't want to mortgage my house for the $1k+

Hope it was a good one !

Fantastic - for this program. I haven't got the Mosaic set yet (incredible self-discipline required) but this will be a good taster before the guys at 'Zwei' get it in stock.

Great stuff! He's a nice guy. I hung out briefly with him after his Bath gig a few years ago whilst he was having a beer (Bath Ales, no less). Signed the Mosaic booklet for me !

Industrial grade?

Fingers crossed on that, hope he's OK. What a shame that we will now be seeing neither Andrew nor Sam at the Pizza Express.

Thanks, Tjobbe. Just gone for the Debut set and a bundle of those Fantasy reissues. Mabern, Billy Taylor, Bartz, Bobby Timmons, Eric Kloss. Get'm while there there.. . Too bad that the Charles Earland 'Intensity' and Byard 'Last From Lennies' are not listed though. Also noticed Pat Martino 'El Hombre' for 1.99 if anyone needs a copy. There's also a 4CD 'Good Time Jazz' compilation on these (traditional arm of Contemporary Records). That one looks interesting too. Still no sign of more Wes and Coltrane sets...

Sonny Rollins 'Saxophone Colossus' (Prestige Bergenfield DG mono) Thanks to Allan for this gem. Just arrived and sounds great !