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Thanks for bringing that up, Rooster. The October 28, 1967 concert from Antwerp, Belgium is simply the best Miles live recording I have ever heard (I've heard almost all, including many bootlegs). As it is a radio broadcast, the sound is very good.

And the link to the closed message board is still the first one on the front page. They don't seem to care much about their web presence.

Here is the former european DVD release, by IDEM also: Collection Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual : Art Pepper / Bola Sete

Yes, it has been released by IDEM Spain, on a DVD with three Jazz Casual shows: Gerry Mulligan / Art Pepper / Art Farmer on www.freshsoundrecords.com It is a DVD with a PAL side and a NTSC side (regionfree), so it should play on any DVD system. Picture and sound quality are good.

I see a very strong Coltrane influence in the music he plays on the Jazz Casual TV show from 1964 (available on DVD). He still sounds like Art Pepper, although much darker than in the 50's, but the rhythm section plays in typical Coltrane style. Jazz Casual Air Date: May 9, 1964 Live music performances and interviews Art Pepper - saxophone Frank Strazzeri - piano Hersh Hamel - bass Bill Goodwin - drums - The Trip (Pepper) - D Section (Pepper) - Untitled (Pepper)

Yes, according to Wynton's website http://www.wyntonmarsalis.net/pressrelease.html

Wow! Almost as impressive as your new avatar

Yes Mike, you are right. I also wrote that in the first paragraph above

Blue Moon and Fresh Sound are related or the same company, that's why there is just one website.

http://www.disconforme.ad or http://www.freshsoundrecords.com Also check this one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3127

- Jim Alfredson (b3-er) for setting up and managing this board - John (Couw) for making those indispensable booklets for the Zweitausendeins Fantasy box sets - Hans (J.A.W.) for keeping us updated on the latest japansese reissues (I still haven't ordered some yet, but it's reassuring they exist ) - Chris Albertson (Christiern) and Johnny E. for posting interesting articles in the Politics forum (but some of Berigan's and Dan Gould's post were quite useful too ) - Michel Devos, the only board member that I've had the pleasure to meet in person Thanks and happy new year

Finally! Dolly Parton on Blue Note !

I heat the jewel case with a hair dryer (take out the CD first and don't heat too long, for the case might change it's shape ), which loosens the glue and lets you peel off the price tag easily. For the rest of the glue traces, I use this traditional cleaning product from Luxembourg, unchanged for the past 40 years. The label doesn't say what it is composed of, it must be a secret formula Roboto.lu

Except for those Mosaic sets which include many different sessions, I usually compile and burn CD-Rs with the individual album track order, so I can listen to one session at a time without having to check the booklet first. I have those CD-Rs in my CD shelf and use them most of the time. They serve as a backup too.

A very happy birthday, Jazzmoose !!

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Everything before 1953 (2003 minus 50 years) is in the public domain. Definitive has already reissued some of Monk's Blue Note and Prestige sessions.

That's sad. I have just discovered Hans Koller through the recent MPS reissues. I've included below some information (previously posted on the AAJ board) on these sessions which are hardly known in the US. Since 1996 there is a Hans Koller Jazz Prize, the 2003 event took place in Vienna only two weeks ago. Hans Koller -------------------------------- The six Hans Koller titles are available as from today from Amazon Germany (10 Euro each, 5-6 days shipping time). I've translated the short descriptions from their website. Click on the cover picture for the Amazon.de link. I've heard a Hans Koller CD sampler that came out some years ago and I'm tempted to get them all. The earliest records are the best in my view. Exclusiv (1964) Hans Koller's first MPS LP is one of today's most sought after records from the label. Koller plays in a quartet and nonett with outstanding musicians such as Attila Zoller (guitar), Jimmy Pratt (drums) and Ex-Ellington-bassist Oscar Pettiford. An absolute classic in german jazz - for the first time on CD. Relax With My Horns (1966) A legendary trio recording with J.A. Rettenbacher (bass) and Rafi Luederitz (drums). Remarkably, Koller plays up to four tenor and soprano saxophone voices in overdub and so creates a "one man sax section". New York City (1968) This album was only released in 1979, but the grandiose music for orchestra and solists was recorded 11 years before. The musicians are regulars of the czech Gustav Brom Big Band and top solo artists such as trumpeter Benny Bailey, trombonist Peter Herbolzheimer, saxophonists/flutists Joki Freund and Emil Mangelsdorff, bassist Jiri Mraz and of course Koller. Phoenix (1972) In the 70's, Hans Koller played a free but not chaotic music full of tension and intensity, with pianist Albert Mair, bassist Adelhard Roidinger and drummer Alex Bally. The album title expressed the fact that Koller, who had spend some years with painting, entered the jazz scene again, like Phoenix rising from the ashes. Kunstkopfindianer (1974) Together with constituents from the New Jazz scene, Zbigniew Seifert (violin & saxophone), Janusz Stefanski (drums) and Wolfgang Dauner (keyboards), Hans Koller created a sound world of melodic sketches and rhythmic structures. Despite the greatest possible freedom, the group never gets lost in noise orgies or sound babbling (literate translation ) Zoller Koller Solal (1965) For this MPS highlight, producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt had the idea to unite a group without a rhythm section, only saxophone, guitar and piano. This timeless and tension-loaded album received a five star review in Down Beat, which is very rare for european productions. -------------------------

Mike, I asked the question above because I have the impression that there are at least two "Past Perfect" record labels. Zweitausendeins is selling 10CD boxes of vintage (public domain) classical and jazz recordings from a label with the same name. There is no trace of these boxes on the pastperfect.com website.

OK, I'll stop ranting about the sound of this set You can read it here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...opic=1626&st=15

Thanks a lot Brownie for those insights Here's a BYG discography: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/byg.htm An Archie Shepp "Live In Antibes" 2CD release from Fuel2000 is available for only $10 from deepdiscountcd.com. I don't know if it is in stock. I have the Sun Ra "Solar-Myth Approach" 2CD set from Charly records which is great musically but not technically. I have the impression that the recording itself is flawed, although this suits this music rather well Another good album is Don Cherry MU Parts 1 & 2 which I downloaded from emusic.com some time ago. The recording is not good enough to make me upgrade the MP3s to CD.

Thanks for the info, Reinier. I hope Michael C. has some influence on EMI's decision to copyprotect their releases. I've seen some new EMI Classical titles being copycontrolled too (Prokofiev violin concertos), but most of them are not. EMI should know that it is counterproductive to do that with releases that are mainly bought by collectors.

Is it this "Past Perfect" label? http://www.pastperfect.com/pages/about.html

Thanks for the link, Weizen. I did not know there were so many JRVGs. So EMI Japan let old Rudy remaster hundreds of sessions only to let the CDs go out of print a few years later. It's no surprise RVG messed up a lot of those remasters, because he must not have had much time for every session or he wasn't very motivated.

The sound of the Mosaic is not very good. I found the Connoisseur releases of "Destination out" and "Some other stuff" to be superior.