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best place to buy BIRDS EYES cds?


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Thanks for the link. It's amazing what's available from specialist sellers through the net.

OT - a word of caution anyway:

Normally you'd figure that the best-priced buying source would be a supplier in the country of origin.

So I checked the Italian RIVIERA JAZZ CD's on this site just for curiosity's sake. Lo and behold - most of them are 18.90 EUR yet I bought a load of them for 15.40 EUR apiece from a German seller only a couple of weeks back.

Strange to see the pricing policies of some of those sources (and this at a time when everything has become very transparent thanks to the internet) ...

So I'll keep my fingers crossed that this really is an attractively priced source for the BIRDS EYES CD's. ;)

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is that gene roland date even any good?

The CD is made up of 2 sessions; the Roland band from 1950, and a Red Norvo session from 1945. Is the Roland worth having? Well, it's fragments, - it's a huge band, and badly recorded, so the section lines blur .. but it's a band of Bird freaks - Maini, Lanphere, Ferrara, Bert, etc. so it has Legendary Value ... and there are flashes of great Bird... and, by the way, his famous quote "A Pretty Girl is like a Melody" actually occurs on track 13, not 14. There is also a brief interview between participants Eddie Bert and drummer Don Manning.

The 2nd session from '45 is purely a swing session, which is no trouble for Bird or Diz, that being where they both came from. The final (?) take of Congo Blues has about the hottest Diz you will ever hear. For my ears overall this session has a little too much bowin' singin' Slam, and Red before he saw (absorbed) the light ...

Bird is fine ...

Q

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what about this DIZ BIG BAND date w/ bird when they do manteca n stuff- theres a cd of that at this store and its only 8.99 big ones but the sound quality is abysmal- even for my tastes, and i usualy dont mind crappy recordings. 1/2 the disc is that, then the other part is like bird quinetet w/ miles in detriot and chicago

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