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as you may know, this set was part of the sale at zweitausendeins and went for 20 or so EUR (NOTE: in its European ZYX incarnation, with a very small booklet and without the spiffy LP sized box). Probably it can still be found for a bit more at ebay.de (there's two there now I just noted)

happy birthday! having a beer with Weizen?

happy birthday Weizen! May your many beers taste good today!

and also considering the stuff he played when with Yusef Lateef

I didn't actually know how to end the little romantic scene above. It turned out rather nice I think with the girl fading and the guy returning to his pose of reminiscing. Here's another ending with more of a fairy tale character.

#Rooster Tom asked twice for this one. I am really anxious to see Africa Jeff's take on it, as he promised he'd do one. FWIW, here's mine. It turned out rather dreamy. To confuse Rooster Tom even more, I left out the BN logo completely (and BTW, it took one click on "auto-levels" in PhShop to make the colours look like they turned out on the second cover Rooster posted. Go figure. It has to do with optimising the spectrum of hues/contrast/brightness of a pic, but it will not keep such beautifully toned pictures like this one intact. So I clicked "undo" immediately) In all its glory, it can be found here: Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (470 Kb)

for all our organ freaks (there was a request for this one I believe): watch his hands move in more detail here: Jimmy Smith - A New Sound, A New Star (vol. 1) (250 Kb)

and a return to basics with this one. It should have been part of the first series... Big one: Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares (510 Kb)

As I had Lou walking graciously anyhow, I thought I might as well have him do this: and as usual, there's a big one: Lou Donaldson - Light Foot (490 Kb)

'nother lazy weekend, so here's some more! I did a Thad Jones too. I really like the one Jeff made. I of course had to make it much too difficult for myself and had to restore the entire background of the street, including the lettering of the theatre just behind Thad. Only then did I notice there is a lady standing behind him as well! You can only see part of her dress and her shadow. I got rid of her. Sorry for that. Further I focussed on the idyllic part with the pigeons and that gave me the opportunity to include another cover that would otherwise never have made this series. The big one can be found through this link: The Magnificent Thad Jones (490 Kb)

hey, is rooster re-organising his already posted messages again??

Yeah, now that I have TWO versions of Lou walking ready for use in PShop, this should be rather easy (little effort, lot of fun). Pity the PShop files are so big. I will see if I can downsize them a bit and then put them up so others can use the walking Lous I did.

The beer's in the fridge. When will you guys arrive?

AFAIK there's nothing extra besides a big cardboard box with the Eiffel tower on it. You should note that there have been 25 additional titles issued. I would have picked it up had I known earlier that I would be spending so much on this series. The box was offered at a special price way back when this whole thing started. I didn't have the dough and I thought I could do with a dozen or so titles. Yeah, sure... make that more than even just a couple of dozen as we speak...

I only have Fab Navarro Vol. 1 in its TOCJ BNW incarnation. Here's the tracklisting: The Fabulous Fats Navarro Vol. 1: 1947.09.26. Fats Navarro, tp; Ernie Henry, as; Charlie Rouse, ts; Tadd Dameron, p; Nelson Boyd, b; Shadow Wilson, ds; 1 Our delight T. Dameron 2 Our delight T. Dameron 3 The squirrel T. Dameron 4 The squirrel T. Dameron 5 The chase T. Dameron 6 The chase T. Dameron 1949.08.08. Fats Navarro, tp; Sonny Rollins, ts; Bud Powell, p; Tommy Potter, b; Roy Haynes, ds; 7 Wail B. Powell 8 Bouncing with Bud B. Powell 9 Double talk H. McGhee-F. Navarro 1947.09.26. Fats Navarro, tp; Ernie Henry, as; Charlie Rouse, ts; Tadd Dameron, p; Nelson Boyd, b; Shadow Wilson, ds; 10 Dameronia T. Dameron 11 Dameronia T. Dameron This should correspond to following tracks from the 2CD set: Disk Track 1 5 1 6 1 3 1 4 1 1 1 2 2 10 2 8 2 5 1 7 1 8 The tracklisting at AMG seems to be correct for the Fats disks. As you see it doesn't do much for pulling alternate takes apart. (If that was your objective.) Of course the 12" LPs were already reissues of previously issued 10" LPs. (And they are listed accordingly as compilations at AMG.) I wouldn't know the tracklistings of those original original issues.

just a thought that occurred to me... As long as it is taking "a few weeks" more to get this thing rollins fer real, it looks like this test is gonna put us into the next year (yup, time IS going THAT fast). From that point of view 2 disks is definitely not a bad thing. Getting a new test on its way seems hardly doable during the busy december month (busy at least for many of us, or so I hope). Hopefully I myself can spend some time then not only listening to Jim's spiffy new & improved double feature test, but also revisiting and re-evaluating the three existing BF disks.

Yes Jeff, you're still the KING!! Dave, take a look at the animated avatar thread. Africa Brass is taking orders over there...

and one more again! happy birthday!

Yeah, me too (i think ... )

I updated the large Blues Walk version. It has more detail now. Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (540 Kb) I slowed down some of the other files. Please refer to the initial post. Mike, there's a slower version of the Flip as well, the girl takes a lot longer between the flips: The Flip Scott, same goes for Unit Structures: Unit Structures

check out the big one here: Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious! Dan should be happy. I took Poppa Lou's face out of the Here 'Tis! cover and paster it on Good Gracious Lou. I like how the subtle nod of the head as he approaches the dame came out.

may I divert your attention to this thread? I would appreciate any insight into this. I listened on headphones (not the best in the world, but any headphones are more revealing of such click things as you shut out surrounding noise) and didn't hear a thing. My offer to send the copy I made to anyone interested still stands.

Will do this weekend. (that's weird about that cover...)

Jim, did you get my PM?

Same here. I make them on original size of the cover scans (500 px sq) first though and downsize them only afterwards. Most of the detail is of course lost through that, but it does somehow still show. I for instance created an entire "empty & lighted" wall for the Judgment cover, re-created Hubbard trumpet (a prize to the person who finds out where I borrowed it, and put a lot of work into Lou's grassy knol & woods. I am uploading a more detailed version of the latter now, just to show off