Son-of-a-Weizen

Happy Brewery Day! A toast!

Has this ever been released on vinyl in Japan? .....or any other format for that matter?

God God! A national emergency of epic proportion!! Throw them out of the country before they drink up the brew slated for export and we're left with nothing over here!!! From Mirror.co.uk: 28 June 2006 BEER WE GO Germans fear we are going to drink them dry By Jeremy Armstrong ENGLAND's massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday. Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters. In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2 MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints each. Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: "Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time." His bar at a fans' tent in the city ran out after they drained all 32 of his 50-litre (11 gallon) barrels. Herr Murr calculated Britons were shifting beer at a staggering rate of 200 pints per minute. City official Peter Murrmann said: "The English proved themselves world champs. They practically drank us dry." In Cologne, where England drew with Sweden, bottles and barrels of the local Kolsch beer ran out because so many English took them to campsites and parties. Stuttgart bar chiefs said an extra 900,000 pints were sunk last weekend where 60,000 fans partied before and after our 1-0 win over Ecuador. The Veltins brewery also revealed it has produced a record 418,000 gallons in a bid to keep up with demand. A spokesman said: "It is incredible how much is being drunk but the hardest thing for the breweries is keeping up with the thirst of the English." In Dortmund, where most fans for England's Gelsenkirchen clash against Portugal on Saturday are staying, the giant DAB brewery is bracing itself by ferrying in extra supplies to boost production.

Incredible to me that they were unable to hatch a plan to properly tranquilize a 220 lb creature. This is dumber than dumb. Fed-Up Germany Kills Its Only Wild Bear By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, June 27, 2006; Page A18 BERLIN, June 26 -- Until last month, Germans hadn't seen a wild bear in their country for more than 170 years. On Monday, they showed they still knew how to hunt. Bruno, a bear who had romped across southern Germany since migrating over the Alps from Italy six weeks ago, was shot by a Bavarian hunter at sunrise. Government officials had authorized the use of deadly force after they failed to take him alive with an assortment of tricks, including a pack of Finnish tracking dogs, tranquilizer darts and nonlethal traps imported from the United States. The bear's demise prompted an outcry from nature lovers and animal rights groups, including callers who left death threats at the offices of the Bavarian Hunting Association. Many accused Bavarian officials of overreacting and questioned why plans were suddenly dropped to capture Bruno and confine him to an animal park. "That is the stupidest of all solutions," Hubert Weinzierl, president of the German Environmental Protection Association, told reporters. "In other countries, humans and bears coexist in relative harmony. Only in Germany would he be liquidated." Bavarian authorities said they regretted the outcome but blamed Bruno for forcing their hand. They said the bear had failed to show enough fear or respect for humans and was repeatedly wandering into Alpine villages in search of food. "We tried everything to capture him alive," Otmar Bernhard, Bavaria's environmental undersecretary, said in a statement. "The shooting was inevitable, even though it was difficult for everyone." Authorities kept the identity of the hunter a secret to protect him from retribution. They also said little about the circumstances surrounding Bruno's death, except to say that an innkeeper had alerted them to the bear's presence on a mountainside in the district of Miesbach. The last straw for officials came over the weekend. On Saturday, the bear stood up on his hind legs and snarled at three overly curious hikers who saw him in the woods and tried to follow him, but got too close. Later that day, officials gave the go-ahead to a team of hunters. Although Bruno didn't hurt any people, he was accused of eating sheep and plundering beekeepers' hives. He also gave people a fright in the village of Kochel am See recently when he ambled around a cafe, sat on the stoop of the police station and snacked on a little girl's pet guinea pig. Bruno, who was 2 years old and weighed an estimated 220 pounds, was born in northern Italy into a family that was resettled there as part of a wildlife restoration program. Italy and Austria have encouraged the growth of their small bear populations and have programs to compensate farmers and others for bear-related losses. German officials said they weren't opposed to bears in principle, only misbehaving ones. "If a normal bear finds its way into Bavaria, it is cordially welcome," Bernhard said. Now that he is dead, Bruno is welcome, too. Plans are to stuff him and put him on display in a museum in Munich -- next to the remains of the last bear killed in Bavaria, in 1835.

Ron, is he still on hold???? Please ask him to try to work some magic over there and see if they can't come out with a re-mastered 'Shelly Manne & His Men @ The Blackhawk' box!! That would be sweeeeeet!

Following CDs are going to be released. * means in cardboard sleeves On August 16,2006 Universal UCCU 9266(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Return To Forever* 2345 Universal UCCU 9267(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Light As A Feather* 2345 Universal UCCU 9268(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Crystal Silence* 2345 Universal UCCU 9269(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Piano Improvisations: Vol.1* 2345 Universal UCCU 9270(New) Corea,Chick(p)/My Spanish Heart* 2345 Universal UCCU 9271(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Mad Hatter* 2345 Universal UCCU 9272(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Friends* 2345 Universal UCCU 9273(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Three Quartets +4* 2345 Universal UCCU 9274(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Akoustic Band* 2345 Universal UCCU 9275(New) Corea,Chick(p)/Alive* 2345 Universal UCCT 1167(New) Stern,Mike(g)/Who Let The Cats Out?(Imported disc) 2548 On August 18,2006 Pony Canyon PCCY 30095(New) Baker,Chet(vo)/Cool Cat 1995 Pony Canyon PCCY 30096(New) Sanders,Pharoah(ts)/Moon Child 1995 Pony Canyon PCCY 30097(New) Melvin,Brian(ds) & Jaco Pastorius/Jazz Street 1995 Pony Canyon MYCJ 30391(New) Various/Swingin Amadeus: Mozart Meets Jazz 2500 Pony Canyon MYCJ 30392(New) Coleman,Cecilia(p)/Title undecided 2800 Pony Canyon MYCJ 30393(New) Kawashima,Tetsurou(ts)/Reason Of Reeds 3000 On August 23,2006 Universal UCCM 1099(New)24 bit Peyroux,Madeleine(vo)/Half The Perfect World 2548 Toshiba TOCJ 6821(New)24 bit Sinatra,Frank(vo)/Swing Easy / Songs For Young Lovers 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6822(New)24 bit Hamilton,Chico(ds)/Blue Sands 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6823(New)24 bit Criss,Sonny(as)/Jazz Usa 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6824(New)24 bit Baker,Chet(tp)/Chet Baker & Crew 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6825(New)24 bit Farmer,Art(tp)/Modern Art 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6826(New)24 bit London,Julie(vo)/Calendar Girl 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6827(New)24 bit Brown,Clifford(tp)/Jazz Immortal 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6828(New)24 bit Marable,Lawrence(ds)/Tenor Man 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6829(New)24 bit Shank,Bud(as)/Bud Shank - Shorty Rogers - Bill Perkins 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 6830(New)24 bit Mulligan,Gerry(bs)/Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1500 Toshiba TOCJ 66357(New) Lovano,Joe(ts)/Stream Of Expression 2500 Toshiba TOCJ 66358(New) Jazzanova/Blue Note Trip(2 CD) 2500 Columbia VQCD 10026(New) Kontomanou,Elisabeth(vo)/Waitin' For Spring 2540 Columbia VACB 1006(New) Bojan Z(p)/Xenophonia 2520 Columbia VACJ 1007(New) Simpson,Brian(Keyboard)/It's All Good 2625 Columbia VACJ 1008(New) Antoine,Marc(g)/Modern Times 2625 On August 30,2006 Universal UCCM 1100(New) Marsalis,Branford(ts)/Braggtown 2548 Universal UCCJ 3016(New) Corea,Chick(p) & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Live In Molde 2548 Universal UCCE 1077(New) Bollani,Stefano(p)/Piano Solo 2548 Universal UCCE 1078(New) Stanko,Tomasz(tp)/Lontano 2548 Universal UCCV 9277(New) Krall,Diana(vo)/Sings Standard(CD +DVD) 2800 Universal UCCV 1095(New) Krall,Diana(vo)/Sings Standard 2548 Columbia JXCC 1016(New) Nanri,Fumio(tp)/Nanri,Fumio(2 CD) 4830

That seller is pretty sharp. You go the private auction route and it keeps everybody in the game (to a certain point) rather than having potential bidders simply bow out because they cruised by and saw so & so's name --- and knew right away that their own chances of winning just dropped by 90%.

Damn straight! Just picked up a nice copy of Ronnell Bright's 'Bright Flight' from him.

Re: Bill Evans Japan releases. Why does '@ Shelly's Manne-Hole' sometimes make the 'cut' in a re-issue program.......other times not? 1999 -- 20-bit K2 paper sleeve run: YES. 2005 -- 24-bit K2/HD paper sleeve run: NO. 2005 -- 20-bit K2 jewel box run: YES. 2006 -- 20-bit K2 paper sleeves: NO. Who's nuts? Me...or some guy named Mr. Suzuki who's running the re-issue program?

Yes, decent list. I'm in for the Jim Hall and might even go ahead and pick up that 6-disc '100 Jazz Piano Standards' comp set (TOCJ-66351) w/Eddie Costa, Duke Pearson, Hank Jones, Eddie Higgins, Chick Corea, Ellington, etc. Heck, for $30, it would make a nice gift as well........2 copies might be the way to go on that.

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I feel like a fish swimming hard upstream here.....but I'll not be deterred. I'm not real big on musical adaptations and own very few, yet, I've grown to like this 'West Side Story' one a good bit. I rather enjoy Benjamen's bowed bass on "Lonely Town" as well as Flanagan's lovely spirited playing. That particular number has a lively bounce to it and is nice to listen to when you're out on your porch having an early evening glass of wine with your spouse. "Tonite" is another pleasant moderately swinging number with Elvin working the brushes and TF playing with some zip. Some excellent trio interplay imho. Side B is a good bit slower, and with the exception of the lightly swinging "Lucky to be Me" and "Glitter And Be Gay" it's definitely leaning more toward the laid-back late nite trio category --- but Flanagan consistently plays with a good deal of emotion on numbers like "It's Love" and "Make Our Garden Grow" (one track I actually don't much care for) and Jones brush work is excellent, as it is throughout the entire LP. Anyway, it was just a suggestion. I was just curious as to why it had been ping-ponging around in the Japanese jazz market for many years, but not available here. That's rather unusual for a BN TOCJ title. Here's what it looks like for those who might be curious (the LP cover is blue w/silhouette of the Manhattan skyline).

So, you DO have it in your collection then, yes? Fine that it's not your cup of tea....it is mine....and I'm sure that, in the vast universe of 'hungry for unissued material' souls out there, more than 700 could be counted on to pony up the requisite funds to have a listen for themselves and bypass your and my weighty reviews.

So a '59 trio date with Flanagan, Elvin Jones and Joe Benjamin that hasn't previously been released in the US and would be released as a BN will only sell 700? Interesting. How about the 2 riveting hours worth of Hill's solo piano that's in the works? Sales prediction on that one?

Should heads roll for this?

.....that Tommy Flanagan's 'Lonely Town' has been out in JPN as both a King pressing and a TOCJ but hasn't seen the light of day over here?

Let's get that Clark Terry-Tubby Hayes Columbia disc out in circulation again!!!!

I think I'd add one more. 46 - Hell! We actually have the spare funds to finally hire a landscaper!

25?? Damn....when you were born, I was wracking up my first car in a roadside ditch over at Loch Ness. Remember this important life lesson: No matter what, when renting overseas, always spend that extra few $$ on the optional additonal insurance and you're in the clear!

..btw, David, were you still playing when they added on these strange looking throat protectors to the helmets?

Right! ...and then in the mid-70's we had to don those clunky, godawful things with the weird chin 'cushion' that made ya scowl!

Allen, no bad jokes, okay? ....and no showing up at the funeral with your "buy both (boxes) for $90 shipped" sales pitch!

.....and just look at some of the thread headings over at the AOL board! That's a rough crowd. Yellowstone Tourist Dies in 500-Foot Fall YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (June 18) - A woman lost her footing after stepping over a retaining wall to take a photograph and went over a cliff, falling 500 feet to her death in a canyon, park officials said. The 52-year-old woman was visiting the park with her husband and two children. Her husband flagged down a passing motorist, who called 911 after the Saturday morning accident at an overlook along the Yellowstone River, park officials said. A ranger rappelled down the canyon wall to reach the woman, but she was dead at the scene. In Michigan, The Grand Rapids Press on Sunday identified the woman as Deb Chamberlin, 52, of Rockford, vice president of the school board in the west Michigan community. "It's hard for me to articulate right now because I'm still in shock," said Rockford Superintendent Mike Shibler, who said he spoke to Chamberlin's husband, Gary. It was the second fatal accident in Yellowstone this year. In February, a woman was killed in a snowmobile accident. 06/18/06 11:21 EDT

I'm in with Edmonton all the way! I couldn't believe it when they scored that first goal :14 seconds into Game 6. side note: how many busted sticks have littered the ice in this series alone? Dozens. I always loved wood sticks (Christian Bros) and think they made a big mistake moving away from them. Lighter 'schimter'....these composite sticks blow imo.

You can't sign Chuck's personal copies! .....they're all tightly jammed inside Ken Dryden's car cd changer!!! EDIT: All set with one of 'em! Thanks to AJ!