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To me, Jackie McLean's "Capuchin Swing" must be the worst ... and I'm generally not even interested in discussing all the audio/sonics stuff, but that one I hardly can stand. I kept plenty of old McMasters anyway (also the ones of "Prayer Meeting" and the Blakey Bohemias). Never had an issue with "Out to Lunch" (had the McMaster before). One I don't like either is Jimmy Smith's "Cool Blues" - fine music, but the sound bothers me. No clue if it's the remastering or the original (location) recording, I've never had any other edition of that one.

Eric who? George Coleman you mean? As for Donny Mc ... he was boring me to death last year with his uber-hip band (including Uri Caine, Tim Lefebvre and some ultra smart drummer whose name I don't remember). He was better when I saw the Dave Douglas Quintet (w/Caine, too, who was boring me to death that night). Ample talent, no direction. I guess he's a far better sideman than leader. His tunes in combination with his overtly virtuoso soloing (he had to play it ALL in not in each tune but in each chorus! ALL, dig? Nothing left!) were kind of unintentionally comic ... kind of like the tune is "Cold Duck Time" and then you get a Coltrane sheets-of-sound-solo ...

I remember it as quite alright, but not too great. Will dig it up, it's of interest as I revisited all oy m Freddie Redd dates last week and he's on it!

yeah well, I'm the (smug) king of a non-existant nation, so some might get that notion

Shipping rates seem to increase all over (not only from vendors but from postal services, I mean!) But blame the U.S., they were the first to double and triple all shipping rates, ten or so years ago (post 9-11 paranoia? btw, this morning when I watched my clock for the first time, it said 9:11 ... make what you want of that ...)

Yep, the rates went up around 100%, I think. Just ordered a disc from some amazon.com marketplace vendor and had to swallow hard before hitting the order button ... Actuallly I think this entire one-price-fits-all shipping costs policy sucks. I've gotten packages with a 1€ stamp where I paid 6€ for shipping, while officially it's amazon's policy that shipping costs shouldn't be a hidden part of the price of whatever you buy. But then, why do I pay 3.40€ for a CD from amazon.fr marketplace, but 6€ for same from amazon.de or amazon.it, when the actual shipping costs to Switzerland seem to be just around the same (and 3€ is reasonable)? When ordering multi-disc sets though, obviously 6€ is fine, but then amazon doesn't allow for a distinction.

Some more info, taken from: Peter Niklas Wilson: Ornette Coleman. Sein Leben, Seine Musik, Seine Schallplatten. Schaftlach, 1989 (Collection Jazz; 12), p. 155: ___________ titles on cover / titles on labels / correct title (year of rec.): Second Fiction / Second Fiction / Street Woman (1971) Summer Thang / Ridden World / Written Word ? (1971) Silhouette / Broken Shadows / unknown (1971) 14 Juillet / 14 Juillet / unknown (free improvisation) (1966) Fantasy 77 / Arabic Sounding Song / Rock the Clock (1971) Reminiscence / Sadness / unknown (free improvisation) (1966) All Day Affair / Dough Nut / Doughnut (1966) ___________ This must be proof about the meticulous research the Japanes put into their releases, huh? The book further says that the actual location isn't confirmed either ... just the year/tour from which each concert is taken seems to be more or less clear. Written Word is just an assumption ... the track is on the 2CD set of the "Science Fiction Sessions" so, it could now be compared (verified/falsified), but back then the book was written, it couldn't. (And I can't help as I don't have the Trio dopule LP, alas.) Is the 1971 material the same as is on the bootleg CD "Live in Paris 1971"? They have "Summer Thang" there and some chap over on AMG (I hope this link is okay!) makes fun of those who tried to staighten up the facts.

Damn, I was typing for one and a half hour and just lost it ---- might try again, but not tonight. In short: I hate opera (politically), I love opera (musically).

Details up now: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4791045 Some overlap with the -- mighty fine, I might add! -- Baroque Box: Bach's mass in b minor, Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, Gabrieli, Rameau's "Symphonie imgainaire" by Minkowski. Also it includes the classic Richter Passion of St Matthew, which many will already own, I assume ... in other places, they were kind to those who got the Baroque box, including different recordings of the Goldberg Variations (Rousset in the Baroque, Pinnock in the Archiv Produktion), Scarlatti sonatas (Pinnock in the Baroque, Kirkpatrick in the Archiv), or Händel's "Messiah" (Pinnock in the Baroque, McCreesh in the Archiv). Not sure yet myself, but it does contain some stuff I'm mighty interested in. Just in case, here's the link to the Baroque Box: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4790441

Bach - Violin Sonatas & Partitas (Szigeti, Szeryng*) Bach - Cello Suites (Casals) Mozart - Piano Concert K 491 (Rubinstein/Krips) Mozart - Don Giovanni (Krips) Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro (hard-pressed between Kleiber, Giulini and Böhm) Puccini - La Bohème (Beecham) Puccini - Tosca (Callas 1953) Bizet - Thaïs Méditation (Milstein, maybe?) Brahms - Violin Concerto (Neveu) Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer" (Szigeti/Bartók, Szeryng/Rubinstein) Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 10 Op. 96 (Szigeti/Arrau) Mozart - Clarinet Concerto (Portal) Enescu - Violin Sonata No. 3 (Haendel/Ashkenazy) Mozart - Violin Sonata K 304 (Szigeti/Horszowski) Chopin - Préludes, Nocturnes (Arrau, François) Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto (Rabin, Heifetz, Hahn) Bach - Inventions & Sinfonias (BWV 772-786) (Gould, Meyer) Rameau - Pièces de clavécin (Meyer, Rannou) Scarlatti - Sonatas (Horowitz, Hantaï, Meyer) Mozart - Sinfonia concertante K 364 (Heifetz/Primrose, Stern/Zukerman) Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (Wunderlich) Schubert - Winterreise (Hotter, Schäfer) Bach - Cantatas/Arias (Janet Baker, von Otter, Ameling) Mozart - Opera Arias (Popp) Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate (Popp) Strauss - 4 letzte Lieder (Janowitz, Popp) Monteverdi - Orfeo (Gardiner) Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine (Gardiner) Ockeghem - Requiem (Ensemble Organum) Pergolesi - Stabat mater (Kirkby/Bowman/Hogwood) Franck - Violin Sonata (Heifetz/Rubinstein, Ferras/Barbizet) *) only know the DG recordings so far some others that are easy to throw by lot in but I'd need to re-visit or listen more often first: Beethoven - Cello Sonatas (Fournier/Schnabel) Beethoven - Piano Sonatas (Schnabel, Kempff early fifties, Gulda, Solomon) Beethoven - Violin Sonatas (yep, the whole bunch, in plenty of versions, Francescatti/Casadesus, Grumiaux/Haskil, Szigeti/Arrau, Ferras/Barbizet, Menuhin/Kempff, Kreisler/Rupp ...) Mozart - Violin Sonatas (Szigeti/Horszowski [szell on two], Grumiaux/Haskil, Zimmermann/Lonquich) Schumann - Violin Sonatas (Ferras/Barbizet) Brahms - Violin Sonatas (Ferras/Barbizet) Mozart - Piano Concertos (Perahia, some by Haskil, Edwin Fischer, Gieseking, Gould w/K 491) Mozart - Piano Sonatas (Gould, Pires, Gulda) Mozart - Violin Concertos (Grumiaux, Szeryng, Julia Fischer) the Rubinstein/Heifetz/Feuerman and Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier trios

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The "some other thread", which I started, was linked above (my post #9). He was on-topic. Oops, sorry - this whole thing was discussed in several thread, I lost track! Yep, it's all about thinking outside of the box

Works fine on Opera (V. 12), MSIE (no idea what version is on my work computer) and Firefox (V. 19). No idea what all the screaming really is about. Also, one point that might help: you can switch between text only and html by hitting this button on top left of the area with all the buttons displayed on top of the post you're writing: If you hit that, you'll just have the text and you'll see the [ quote ] [ / quote ] displayed ... might be easier to figure things out that way. You can switch back by hitting that button again and will see if your editing worked out alright. As Mr. Ayers stated in some other thread where all this was previously discussed (in good ol' Org tradition, it was off-topic there ), you can also just go into the boxes, hit the enter button and quotes are split up: No Yes Sure seems so. I hear what you're sayin' Now what I don't know is why the size of the text get's supersized in some of these lines I added ... the board does that automatically, but I guess I could manually change it again, but then that's really not worth it, is it?

it's a Yamaha, so .... and whoever shot the pics was unaware which way 'round the mouthpiece is put onto a sax -

says he ate it ... just wait till it comes back out and have a lawyer stand by ... ya know, them lawyers are an honest bunch ...

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First listen tonight ... first half is glorious, after that I thought it meandered a bit, but the long twenty minute bonus jam is definitely great to have! Love the Band of Gypsys!

Oh, sure, I'm one of those who oughtn't say "never", too ... but Cliburn so far is of fairly limited interest to me. There are other things where I'm willing to shelve out some money right now ... still want that Clifford Curzon box, and loads of opera

Got to dig up the Duffy's material, too ... Now playing disc one of this new set:

you quoted me before I cleaned up my post ... freaked up there, sorry! shipping from amazon.es to Switzerland is 7€ for one or more articles - anyway, I won't go for the Cliburn box anyway, got plenty of recordings of the piano repertoire by now and am generally not on the lookout for more big boxes ...

Van Cliburn box for 30€ from amazon.es http://www.amazon.es/Van-Cliburn-Complete-Album-Collection/dp/B009EJSUBY/

so, when is soon? and could it be too soon, no matter when?