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  1. I was very glad to see him @ The Jazz Standard 3 or 4 years back for his 80th birthday celebration. He was very frail but his playing was as I expected - still sublime.

    Good to hear he managed to get over to the US for that. When I saw him in Leeds on the same tour he looked very frail and played the whole time sitting down. Still sounded good though.....

  2. I have read nearly all of Waugh's novels, most of them many years ago, and number him among my very favorite writers. (Spark doesn't make that grade!) I've also read a biography of Waugh, but don't recall who wrote it. It was a single volume, so couldn't have been Stannard. Handful of Dust is my favorite Waugh novel.

    Back in the day I too read all of his books ... not sure I would enjoy them as much now.

    Anyway one book about him that is definitely worth reading is "The Letters of Evelyn Waugh" edited by Mark Amory. It shows him as funny (particulary in his letters to Nancy Mitford) witty and suprisingly kind when writing to his family. Used copies probably going cheap on Amazon......

  3. When you create a Lawson's account you have already entered your western style address. Once on HMV's website I get stuck at the following page. As you can see there is no continue button, and 'Send to Billing Address' has no effect. (Clicking the blue "Shipping Domestic' letters lets you enter a Japanese style address.)

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    Yes, that's exactly my problem too!

  4. No experience with HMV Japan but cdjapan works well. As soulpope says, customer friendly.

    Yes, I order from CDJapan all the time and everything works fine. Unfortunately they tend to sell out of new releases very quickly; HMV Japan seem to have quite a bit of back stock that I'm interested in.

    This is SO frustrating......perhaps I'll e-mail them to see whether they can help.

  5. I'm having difficulties in ordering through the HMV Japan website and wondered whether anyone can help me.

    I've set up all my details, put my order in the cart but am stuck on the "Change/Register Delivery Address" page. Whatever I do I can't get the system to accept my address.

    I seem to recall that someone here mentioned a similar problem a while back... Anyone got an answer?

  6. I've been playing my Affinity CD containing both of Charlie Mariano's Bethlehem albums today and I wondered whether anyone can comment on the sound of the equivalent Japanese re-issues. The problem with my Affinity CD is that whilst Charlie is up front and very clear, his backing group is way back in the mix and sounds very muddy. The music on my CD was licensed from Charly Records so is hardly likely to be the highest of fi!

    Anyway, I'm not sure whether the two Charlie Mariano albums were part of the release programme earlier this year and the information on the two albums showing on Amazon at the moment states that one is a "Toshiba" release and the other is a "Japanese Import". Both albums are also available as "Solid/Bethlehem" releases at HMV Japan, but like someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, I too cannot work out how to place an order with them.

    So, how do they sound and which version should I go for?

  7. The present wording seems pretty clear: " Reissue of Emanem 4107 (which was a reissue of Ogun cassette OGC531 with extra material). 77 minutes."

    I just wondered why he re-issued it with a new catalogue number if it's exactly the same as Emanem 4107. Anyway, I can live in hope, can't I? :)

    Are they remastered ?

    Martin Davison at Emanem has confirmed that the Paul Rutherford is a straight reissue "with just an improvement to the colouring of the photo".

  8. The present wording seems pretty clear: " Reissue of Emanem 4107 (which was a reissue of Ogun cassette OGC531 with extra material). 77 minutes."

    I just wondered why he re-issued it with a new catalogue number if it's exactly the same as Emanem 4107. Anyway, I can live in hope, can't I? :)

  9. Three new re-issues due out in September:

    http://www.emanemdisc.com/news.html

    Steve Lacy's "Cycles"... already mentioned in a separate thread here:

    plus

    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - "Oliv" plus extra tracks. This is the first official CD release of an album that came out on the Marmalade label over 25 years ago.

    Paul Rutherford - "Gheim". Although this has already had a CD release by Emanem, this version has addtional music on it.

    IMO both these two reissues are "must haves".

    I thought the Gheim CD is a straight reissue of the previous CD release - that's great if there is more material

    I'd actually been looking for a second hand copy of the earlier OOP CD

    From what I can tell, the original CD issue of Gheim had additional material from the first (cassette?) issue. The CD was 76' long so they couldn't really add to it. Maybe someone should write to Martin Davidson...

    Yes, it looks like it's might be just a straight re-issue of the 2004 CD although the description on the website is a bit confusing. It should become clearer once it becomes available in Sptember.

  10. Three new re-issues due out in September:

    http://www.emanemdisc.com/news.html

    Steve Lacy's "Cycles"... already mentioned in a separate thread here:

    plus

    Spontaneous Music Ensemble - "Oliv" plus extra tracks. This is the first official CD release of an album that came out on the Marmalade label over 25 years ago.

    Paul Rutherford - "Gheim". Although this has already had a CD release by Emanem, this version has addtional music on it.

    IMO both these two reissues are "must haves".

  11. I don't know whether this has already been posted here but Destination Out have quite a few of the FMP reissues available as downloads...

    http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/

    Looking at the album covers I realise that I must have bought quite a few of them back in the day. They aren't really my cup of tea but I honestly can't remember what happened to them....oh dear!

    When you find them, let me know and I'll house them for you :)

    I remember I used to have these two:

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    ... and listening to the sound samples they don't sound too bad.

    I probably sold them to Mole Jazz in London.........

  12. Same here - I only know his atractive tune "Next Spring" which Les McCann sang on his Pacific Jazz vocal album.

    JPC has 30 second samples of the frist disc - reminds me of many soul tinged pianists of the day, like Ramsey Lewis or Gene Harris or McCann, but has not as much individuality, it seems. His rendition of "Cubano Chant" is rather sloppy. Listen to Ray Bryant in comparison.

    I'm undecided ...

    Thanks for spotting the record samples, Mike. Like you I'm undecided....I'll add it to my "Perhaps sometime in the future" list.

  13. Found discs 3-6 of the Nat King Cole Mosaic to add to the partial set I bought last year.

    Where the hell do you go to get bits of Mosaic sets?

    MG

    I've seen random Mosaic disk at Half Priced Books, of all places.

    It seems incredible that people should flog half a Mosaic box, whether on e-bay or Half Price Books, or anywhere. Surely the value (musical and financial) is in the set?

    I've got the Joe Pass PJ Mosaic and only play the Les McCann albums that were included, but I'd never consider selling the other CDs, even thou I don't like them.

    MG

    Perhaps the dog ate the other discs... or the burglar dropped them in a rush to get away. There's bound to be a story.....

  14. It seems that the "Enlightment" label is releasing a number of boxes of pre-1962 (inclusive) recordings, some only as mp3 downloads. They've done Quincy Jones, Roland Kirk, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Earl Hines (1951-1961), Art Farmer, Odetta, Mose Allison, Pete Seeger (x2), Ramsey Lewis, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean (x2), Johnny Griffin,

    I don't have any idea re: sources and sound quality.

    F

    I have the couple by Quincy Jones and they sound OK. Minimal information but what do you expect for that price!

    I see there are two sets by Ahmad Jamal available for pre-order at CD Universe at the moment. His complete recordings from 1951-1962.

    BTW have you got a link for the Johnny Griffin set, I can't seem to find it?

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