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Happy Birthday, Evan! :party:

Thanks Lon. Will see if I can get the Japanese Hall for a good price!

Too bad I just bought the old US disc of Kamuca/Perkins, then... awww... I'm aware of some Japanese reissues recently (got the Les McCann with Frank Haynes & Stanley Turrentine!) but hadn't been aware of a "good" reissue of "Jazz Guitar" - does it offer the same restoration job (full versions wherever possible, all tunes included) as did the Gambit reissue (that for once, seemed to be the best way to get it so far - I only got a rip-off of it...)

wow, thanks for that, caravan!

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EMI Japan, or who did?

They also had a European set - some info here: http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/dis_fiche.php?ArtNum=60416

Well, the Ogun blurb says it's a one-off... so I thought either date was wrong and it was the same music indeed - but we won't know until we get the Ogun CD, I guess. If it's another date (and in better fidelity), that would be even more amazing news!

Vol. 2 was delivered today! Thanks a lot billyboy - wouldn't have checked back at amazon.com for it, had given up hope! So I have them all, wow! A couple of months ago I thought I wouldn't need them at all... but then I got hooked by JB's music BIGTIME! And amazon.co.uk had (has?) a few of them for really, really good prices, so there you go...

I thought I had the JATP but there are 2 cuts not included in the cd I had of the First JATP concert plus 2 cuts from a second concert the same month. I was too lazy to compare - I like these Hip-O boxes and this was a steal... have the JATP 10CD set though, not the single disc of the first concert.

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PM coming, all hurdles done away with!

Great to see he's still doing his thing!

not even a lousy reply for me they have... bugger off!

Have you sent them an email? Don't know anything, myself, but that's what I'd try.

Wow, never would have expected an official release of this! Hoping for a major upgrade in quality to what's "in circulation"! Thanks for spreading the news!

Mr. K's phone shall be ringing tomorrow... will keep you posted as soon as I know more.

I wish for the Washington to be around for such a great price some day!

Ok, I'll check again...

I've never seen this packaging, except for, maybe, in pictures. What made it a nightmare? I had to call Columbia customer service to have two of the four discs replaced. Glue from the sleeves got onto the discs making large portions unplayable. Same here! No amount of cleaning would make one of the discs playable after the glue got on it! Also, the Armstrong Hot 5 & 7s set is pretty good for scratching the discs -- I would recommend storing the discs in some other way away from that box. On the other hand, Sony's customer service is good at replacing defective discs with a minimum of fuss, which is more than I can say for some other behemouth companies! I don't recall where it was discussed elsewhere, but I had the same glue problem... got' J.A.W.'s set and it had it as well (so I gave one away to a friend whom I had given the 2CD edition already, previously)... now as a result of some baaad teeth surgery I've got going on, I have these alcohol prep pads (good thing their name is written in English on the box, else I'd have no idea what to call them) and with one of those, all of the glue was easily removed and the whole disc 1 just played through as it used to in the beginning! Let's hope the alcohol will not eat itself through the disc... I rinsed it with water immediately after. Will have to wait another few years to see if this did the trick. Anyway, with the 40th anniversary big box in my collection, it's not such a loss, but I guess I'll pass on one of these pads to said friend, too...

Happy Birthday, Allen!

Quite a steal! Ordered the Cole for this price, although I'm sure I have most of the music in some form (not the Decca Cole singles, the first sessions, nor the Dexter, but the stuff with Pres and the JATP material, too).

One more thing... who's that guy Talib Qadr, heard on "South Africa - Tears and Laughter", which ranks among my favorite Ibrahim albums? Anyone knows more about him? Does he also go by another name, or is he a virtually unknown saxophonist who popped up on that album and then vanished again?

And here's a beautiful late performance by Robbie Jansen: Cape Town 2005, w/Hilton Schilder (p), Steven Erasmus (b), Jack Momple (d), Alex van Heerden (t) Got to dig up Jansen's "Nomad Jêz" after that!

Here's a short Robbie Jansen & Spencer Mbadu documentary (in part 2 documenting, in part 3 promoting, the Western Cape Musicians Association):