best place to buy BIRDS EYES cds?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

havent seen them anywhere since the demise of tower-- i have seen em on amazon-- but i dont use credit card-- is there another online place to get them you guys would recommend? i wish i cuold get them in a store somewhere....

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

in partiicular, chewy wants to hear the gene roland big band rehersal date on Vol 15.....

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

in partiicular, chewy wants to hear the gene roland big band rehersal date on Vol 15.....

[John L]

These may still be available direct from the source in Italy. Somebody posted something to that effect a few years ago.

[Big Beat Steve]

in partiicular, chewy wants to hear the gene roland big band rehersal date on Vol 15.....

Could this be the stuff that was also out on a SPOTLITE LP? (Title: "The Band That Never Was")?

[brownie]

in partiicular, chewy wants to hear the gene roland big band rehersal date on Vol 15.....

Could this be the stuff that was also out on a SPOTLITE LP? (Title: "The Band That Never Was")?

Yes... The Philology CD has a bit more:

The Gene Roland session

[Claude]

The italian store Jazzos is offering the complete Philology catalogue at a reasonable price (13.30€/CD). I haven't dealt with them yet.

http://www.jazzos.com

Edited February 16, 2007 by Claude

[Big Beat Steve]

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.

Edited February 16, 2007 by Big Beat Steve

[Clunky]

The italian store Jazzos is offering the complete Philology catalogue at a reasonable price (13.30€/CD). I haven't dealt with them yet.

http://www.jazzos.com

i've bought stuff from there before (not for some years though), didn't have any problems

[Brad]

I thought Cadence had a lot of these, if not the whole series.

[kh1958]

I thought Cadence had a lot of these, if not the whole series.

That's where I ordered them, and they are still listed on their website, for $15 each.

[paul secor]

I thought Cadence had a lot of these, if not the whole series.

That's where I ordered them, and they are still listed on their website, for $15 each.

And chewy doesn't have to use a credit card.

[kh1958]

I thought Cadence had a lot of these, if not the whole series.

That's where I ordered them, and they are still listed on their website, for $15 each.

And chewy doesn't have to use a credit card.

I'm sure they will accept a clump of crumpled dollar bills.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

MAYBE I CAN PICK SOME BIRDS EYES CDS UP THERE AFTER THE GENESIS CONCERT

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

is that gene roland date even any good?

[sheldonm]

I thought Cadence had a lot of these, if not the whole series.

That's where I ordered them, and they are still listed on their website, for $15 each.

And chewy doesn't have to use a credit card.

I'm sure they will accept a clump of crumpled dollar bills.

[Quasimado]

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

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

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

[brownie]

Try to get Bird's Eye volume 13. Most of the material is there.

Bird with Diz Big Band 1948

I'ld rather hear this in bad sound than not at all!

Also that Vol. 13 includes a 1956 WC session by Bird disciple Joe Maini with Zoot Sims and Jack Sheldon!