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I don't quite get the joke... OJC as in "Offensive junger Christen"?

ah well... I have most of Blakey's BNs, some of the Paris stuff, the Columbia album (or rather three of them...), the Bethlehem, two RCAs, the one with Monk, and the three Riversides... also the two Milestone/Fantasy CDs... I guess this, too, is way too much, but when I had Moanin', Free for All and some others, I just loved that stuff and just kept buying the others as they kept popping up all over for good prizes. I'll keep them for sure, but I rarely play most of them as I'm not even really able to distinguish them all... (same applies to most of Lee Morgan's BN albums... somehow Jackie McLeans or Jimmy Smith's or Horace Silver's are more distinctive to me...)

I remember those covers (from links in the funny rat thread, I think) but haven't heard any of these releases - they do look tempting though! I don't think they're ugly or dumb... they are very recognizable and have fairly simple graphics, which is always a pleasure (too much of the world is being flooded by badly designed stuff... and magazines and CDs are among the worst, all too often...)

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Gee, can't Obama quickly open a US army base in luv'ly Switzerland (in return for us catching Polanski) so that I can order one of these? Grrr!

Agreed, Lee's masterpiece in my opinion! No doubt. And I'm not going to chuck it out, of course. I just like it less than I like most other stuff with GG. Good to play when you need something like that. Modern jazz is not terribly important in my collection, though. MG I thought there'd be some explanation along these lines But I still wanted to make that point... as for Green, if I want to hear him, I'm not sure what I'd reach out for first... maybe the green ones (the trio Conn and the 2CD set with Sonny Clark)?

Here's a fun one: Up Up and Away - Plays The Hits Of Jimmy Webb (Jazz Club) Kurt Edelhagen 1. Up, Up And Away 2. By The Time I Get To Phoenix 3. Didn't We 4. Galveston 5. Where's The Playground, Susie 6. Evie 7. Sunshower 8. MacArthur Park 9. Honey Come Back 10. If You Must Leave My Life 11. Wichita Lineman and one more: Motions & Emotions (Remastered Anniversary Edition) [Original Recording Remastered] Oscar Peterson (w/Claus Ogerman) 1. Sally's Tomato 2. Sunny 3. By The Time I Get To Phoenix 4. Wandering 5. This Guy's In Love With You 6. Wave 7. Dreamsville 8. Yesterday 9. Eleanor Rigby 10. Ode To Billy Joe "Ode to Billie Joe"... I just love that one! And "Eleanor Rigby" is quite cool, too... I once subbed in a big band and my only solo spot (second alto) was on that one... it was arranged in 6/8 and more or less over blues changes. Booker Ervin tackles some goods stuff on "Booker'n'Brass" (arranged by Teddy Edwards), including "I Lost My Heart in San Francisco"... (and he does one of Hoagy's fine tunes, "Baltimore Oriole" - I love Hoagy, MG! Thought of adding him to the list, but somehow has more of a singer/songwriter than a pop-tunesmith I think).

wot? Search for the New Land would be among the few Mogie discs I'd never throw out! It's wonderful, one of his finest! Of the more hard boppish ones I guess I'd pick Procrastinator over all or most of the others... even over The Sidewinder, possibly, though that one is wonderful too, of course!

oh, and I seem to have forgotten some more... Paul Bley, Bill Evans

Gee, more and more keep coming up (each line in the previous post was a new post that was merged with the previous as it was posted immediately afterwards...) Mal Waldron, Randy Weston, Abdullah Ibrahim

Monk, Bud, Duke, Basie, Herbie Nichols, Tristano, Tatum, George Wallington, Duke Jordan, Al Haig, Joe Bushkin, Joe Sullivan, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Cecil Taylor, Irene Schweizer, Fredi Luescher... Wynton Kelly, Herbie Hancock, Jaki Byard, Martial Solal Sonny Clark, John Lewis

No Value Added Tax to pay? What's that worth? It depends on how the custom guys estimate the value of the package (since Mosaic doesn't properly declare it... sometimes they slip by, sometimes they may get estimated a bit too valuable... I've seen in handwriting the mosaic url on a package once, as the custom guy obviously was smart enough to look it up, but I don't know if they regularly do that). Anyway, usually it's around 20 to maximum 35 Swiss Franks (at this time, that's about the same in US$, or roughly 12-20€). Not that much, even more so as the US$ is dirt cheap, but it's still annoying. It's those silly import laws and all the protectionist crap set up by a conservative government (they call themselves liberal - in the European sense, and it only applies to economic, not to social questions). With this, they "protect" national economy from having to produce for market value... oh, and half (or a third in the worst/most expensive case) of the amount goes directly to the postal services, as a fee because they have to handle cash... that part is very annoying, but it seems private couriers like DHL rip you off by twice or three times that amount.

The worst has to be "Yesterday"... while "Yesterdays" is a pretty nice one... some guys like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin wrote some nice pop songs... Seriously: Joshua Redman did a disc experimenting with that, it's not all bad... (he already did a sweetish duo with Metheny on "Wish", that was a rock song as well but I'm too lazy to look up what it was). Brad Mehldau chose some good ones, I think (but I've lost interest in his music around 2001 or 2002 and stopped following what he does). How's Herbie Hancock's "New Standard"? It's been "original"-ised by now, but I'm still doubtful I'd like it (I don't like Michael Brecker). The other way 'round I like Björk's take on "Someone in Love" on Debut. It's been ages that I've played it though (I guess 2001/2002-ish as well). I though of her because Wasilewski's mentioned above - didn't he do a Björk cover as well?

Yeah, my big fat parcel w/Braxton, Pearson and the Brothers single arrived yesterday and the best thing is, it slipped through the customs! It's been a while that I was lucky enough for this to happen... Still waiting for any kind of news (shipping confirmation email, or better yet: a parcel in the mailbox) as far as the Shank/Cooper and Pacific Selects are concerned.

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I guess I have too much hardbop in general - though by now it's not that big a chunk of my collection as it used to be... I assume it's somewhere in the 20-25% area. Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean... I have almost all of their classic Blue Note albums, and while I don't think it would be a huge loss to be without several of them, I never actually thought of getting rid of any of them (hey, and I do like "Rajah"!) I'm not listing Mobley, as he's a favourite and hence I'd not consider him over-represented. I guess Stitt and Ammons are also sort of over-represented, but I'll still get Stitt's Mosaic box, as I just like him a lot (though I'd not consider him a top favourite). Similar with Ammons - I've got some of the early stuff and most of the Prestige albums... I could live happily with three or four of them but there are days when I want to hear Idrees Sulieman so I grab the respective jam album... and there are other days when I feel like hearing Ammons with organs... or with Stitt (with or without electric gimmicks...) Other artists I have a lot of include: Coltrane, Miles, Monk, Mingus (most of their recordings), Rollins, Basie, Lester Young, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, Billie Holiday... but I'd call all of them favourites. And I'd sure have many more albums by Booker Little, Sonny Clark, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Ike Quebec, Albert Ayler... if they had been around longer and had had more time to record their music!

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That sounds good! Thanks!

bump.... Sale of four Reboot Stereophonic titles, including "Jewface", going on at Allegro Music this week. I think I'll order two or three - is the Barry Sisters as horrible as it looks, or is the look just part of its, well... off-kilter charm? link Here's the label's homepage: http://www.rebootstereophonic.com/

I think with Columbia/Sony winding down their CD business, it's a sound decision to include them. I for one certainly don't mind!

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