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Hm, guess I'll rather eventually get Amy's book!

By not falling for the nuclear lobby's pretensions that nuclear energy is "safe"... but this is not the time nor the place to get into political discussions about this.

I'm familiar with almost everything Coleman recorded as a leader and IMHO "Amsterdam After Dark" is one of his best recordings ever. "New Morning" is also one of my favorites. I'll back Amsterdam After Dark, too! I've heard the Coles before... but just gave the Coleman a first spin tonight - excellent, as you say! Hilton Ruiz' playing is outstanding, too!

Gee, it looks worse and worse! Hope there won't be a big nuclear accident!

Saw jewel case editions of the Collector's Edition reissues of Q and Sassy today! Guess those are the fastest selling ones of the lot?

Great photo! And welcome here! Don't have the book yet but spent weeks making my way all through "Coltrane Reference" last spring & summer - amazing!

I saw him play in the summer of 2009 - had a very short chat with him and he was most delightful and played great for two hour-long sets (in the quartet of Swiss tenor sax player Roman Schwaller, with whom Cobb has recorded as well). Great experience, Paul! Best birthday present you got, I assume!?

Glad to hear you're ok, kinuta and John! Seems it's much bigger than the first news implied... tsunami coming up farther south, and an atomic plant burning in Japan.

Nice find. I'm under the impression that this one is long OOP. Today, a pretty lucky find myself: Mick Goodrick-In Pas(s)ing-ECM Amazon list some pretty crazy prices in the $150 range, found this copy for $8. Yes, but the fact that a copy of "Linear B" turned up in the used shoppe might indicate an upcoming reissue? Not that I knew, but often that seems to be the case... I find some rare or OOP stuff and soonafter, a reissue is out. The Goodrick is good - got the LP some months back.

Glad to hear that! I overpayed... but nevermind - I wanted this! More Pres! Why weren't these Basie tracks part of the Roulette Live Mosaic? (Or are they and I forgot? Didn't look it up right now.)

Got the correct 2CD edition today!

Have you read the Hersch story in Jazz Magazine/Jazzman? It's in the great "at the table with" series of conversations.

Happy Birthday, Paul!

lucky day at the used store yesterday: Art Farmer/Frank Morgan/Lou Levy - Central Avenue Reunion Lost in the Stars - Bud Shank & Lou Levy Play the Sinatra Songbook Dorothy Ashby - The Jazz Harpist Slim Gaillard - 1945 Milt Buckner & Hal Singer (The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions) Buddy Tate - When I'm Blue (The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions) Johnny Letman - A Funky Day in Paris (The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions) George Coleman - Amsterdam After Dark Johnny Coles - New Morning Joe McPhee Po Music - Linear B

I guess I meant "soaring" Welcome! Hope you'll enjoy it! But then I do assume you've been somewhat familiar with the music for a while

Got my LP about a week ago... wanted to wait posting about it until I would have had time for a second spin, but anyway - this is a very good album, very much worth hearing! One of my favorite spots must be Lake's searing soprano playing on one of the four tracks! For 'merikins, there's also the possibility to order it from Adam Lore's 50 Miles of Elbow Room. Here's his blurb from his news mail:

It still is - very, very much so! I've been using it for lots of rock and related stuff, and it's very good in many cases. But have you ever tried looking up a French chanson singer? Brel, Françoise Hardy? They're completely useless... and that makes me think how much I'd like them to be better as they are good, after all, to read up stuff quickly, gain some basic information and impressions... but there are huge gaps with respect to non-US music, also in jazz!

L'Histoire des Big Bands / The Story of Big Bands 14.45€ - 2 left of this 10CD set compiled by André Francis & Jean Schwarz (the folks behind the other wallet boxes presenting jazz from the beginnings). Got mine today, outer box somewhat crushed but other than that, all fine.

I don't think the question is about using these guides as sole sources of information and trusting them... I'd be surprised if someone handled them that way! I've never, ever, made my way through a whole Penguin guide, and don't think I ever will (I've got five of them now, just for the fun of it and because they're cheap when you've got some patience). More often than not I look up stuff that I already have, just to see what someone else might think of these records... or I'll be checking out a few things by artists I'm already familiar with. In some cases, I've used the Penguin to check out "new" artists, too - but more with old jazz, where I find them very reliable and where I had not idea where to start - clarinetist George Lewis, for instance... what a flood of albums there are... of course I could have asked here, but then I'd have had to start with 25 of them, I guess... not that the overwhelming enthusiasm and love for the music here is a bad thing, but usually, a mixture of sources (personal recommendations, concerts, web discussions, web searches on AMG, AAJ, wherever) works best for me. There's not one existing source that I'd want to rely on exclusively! Btw, in the latest issue of The Wire (march 2011) there's a short note by Brian Morton on Richard Cook at the beginning in the reader's letters section (he is answering to some other guy's story about Cook that must have been in the Jan or Feb issue - haven't bought those, I think).

Not sure how well this sold as an RCA/Novus release originally, or how available its been since then, but... I'm not at a a Carmen McRae fan, yet I'd highly recommend this one. Very nicely done on all counts and on all fronts. That's a wonderful album! It was out in the Bluebird First Editions CD series. Will have to get a few single ones from both boxes, but have most of what I need, I think. Is the Clifford Brown "Beginning and End" still around? Don't think I've ever seen it in the past 15 years... was it part of Henri Renauds "Jazz Originals" series? Or one of the red-framed "Masterpieces"?

Thanks. Over there, we can only buy the February issue so far (for a whopping 14$ or so... though on the printed price on it says 3.50£ or something like that...). Will try to think of this in two months time... I know this is off-topic, but why do Americans need to have the April issue in the first days of March? Because they own the world?

Is that the march issue or are you guys already in april? French Jazz Magazine/Jazzman (got the march issue today) has an interview with Hersch - very interesting read, with lots of outspoken opinions on his own music, on music in general etc (but I'm not confident enough to translate/quote him here - with outspoken opinions it's important to get the words right, would be too much work for me, sorry... if you want some french quotes, I'll gladly type off a few). He is among other things working on a duo with Moran, btw... Didn't know about the hardness he went through after 2008 (he fell in a coma, almost died, had to learn how to walk, talk and of course play the piano again).

John Surman - Glancing Backwards: The Dawn Anthology Arrived today... apart from not having a personnel listing (relevant only for "Conflagration", actually - and some info mgith be in the liners), this looks like a nice package! Just got it in the mail, haven't listened to any of it yet.

This was in reference to Clifford Thornton's post (#46). Wonder also why that Zodiac remains unreissued! Oh, I'd *love* to get "Zodiac", too! But no way new stuff will appear in such a cheapo series. Alas the "main" series has come to end quite some time ago... too bad, as it was a truly fine series!