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I'll be pleasantly surprised if mine ever arrives... Oh, finally it's here! Got a bit of catching up to do ... I'm still waiting

Glad you snagged that copy! It's fine music - there seems to be a bias (with reason I guess) against Q on this board, but regardless of all the debates, the music on this set is great!

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Grant Green - Am I Blue I often go for singers... June Christy, Chris Connor, Helen Merrill... or piano trios or solos (Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues, for instance)

Missed this thread before... let's see... in January, I caught a horns quartet of a friend (t/natural horn/as/tuba), then caught the flu.. nothing at all in February in March, I missed BikBentBraam but saw the Sun Ra Arkestra ( ) in April, I was busy catching around 15 films of Jean Renoir's - no concerts... but on May 3rd, I saw the Circulasione Totale Orchestra (Frode Gjerstad, Louis Moholo, Bobby Bradford...), then later on I caught the band of a friend of a colleague, doing some rock or singer/songwriter stuff or whatever you'd call that... first weekend in June was the Taktlos festival, caught Xu Fengxia/Lucas Niggli, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, and Luigi Archetti/Bo Wiget all on one night. Then I saw "The Last Waltz"... almost as good as a live show!!! in July, spent two weeks in Budapest and saw two local bands, one pretty bad one, and one great trio (Cásbár Trio? No idea who they are). in August, it was Roman Schwaller's Quartet with Jimmy Cobb at that crazy Jazz Festival St. Moritz... September will be another blank month, but plenty of good things to come in October (Henri Texier, Cesaria Evora, BraffOesterRohrer, Richard Bona and Céu) and in November (Dave Douglas Quintet, titled "Cheltenham 2007" for whatever reason, the band with Donny McCaslin and Uri Caine)

these guys are great: http://www.arte-quartett.com/ they do modern "classical" stuff, but also various projects with other musicians, such as Pierre Favre, and they form four fifths of the sax section of Kaspar Ewald's great band (called Exorbitantes Kabinett), which plays music somewhere between Don Ellis, James Brown and minimal music... I have two of those discs and have checked them out live - recommended, but not classical (although Ewald - who teaches at the Zurich conservatory - has also adapted "L'homme armé" for that band). another thing I've heard by the Arte Quartett was a concert where they collaborated with Terry Riley - utterly fascinating stuff! though if any of this fits the label "classical" is somewhat doubtful... but then "classical" doesn't really apply to much composed music of the 20c anyway... I am always at a loss how to call all these kinds of musics... Phil Niblock also did a few pieces for saxophone - that's extreme music, your neighbours will love it (and your dogs will suffer even worse...)

Ha... "Lancelot du lac" comes to mind We all ought to send hateful mails to EMI I suppose, about letting their 50% owned subsidiary hanging in such a sad situation!

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see bixie, this is where you called me son... I played the Ellis disc again a couple of times recently, as I discovered his "Nothin' But the Blues" and wanted to hear more... Buddy Tate is great, and so is Ellis!

you absolutely have to check out this one here - no tango, just pure swinging modern jazz of the highest order! http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Dear-Richard-Ga...992&sr=8-10

I would be happy to pay 100$ for the Pacific and the Shank/Cooper... but first I'll wait what'll become of my newly put in orders from yesterday. If they get cancelled, I'll possibly start a thread in the offering and looking for section... I'm still mad as hell!

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Yes, I've stopped looking up things on half.com because of that... sidewinder, thanks for bearing with me... hope my very expensive new orders won't be another pair of no-shows... but then I don't hope anything right now. I'll live with copies a friend has offered to do for me a couple of days after mayhem began, if worse comes to worse.

Ten holy effin' days! G-sus! Have them britons no watches or politeness or anything? And then flat out lying to me and then keeping my money for another full week? Are they putting up fake offerings and using the money for speculating or what the hell? Gee, I'm mad right now!

ok, so now you please tell us how to do it?

Holy crap! :angry: The vendor from whom I'd ordered both the Shank/Coop and the Pacific Trios Selects has just cancelled both orders - after ten friggin' days!!!! And after answering my inquiry with "Both orders are due to be dispatched to you today." on September 16!!!! How lousy is that! I've given up on those now, although I put in orders, but the prizes are exploding (100£ anyone?)

is it contagious? at least you seem to have survived it...

Just in case, the four tracks from "Les Tricheurs" are also on this one: (all five volumes are recommended!)

I mentioned that before and also in another thread - I asked them about most of the backordered sets and they're all expected to be back later this year, or so they told me! Yeah, I guess I knew... I still felt a bit attacked. Anyway, I'm looking forward a lot now to the Braxton, but of course also to the OOP Selects that should come in anytime now!

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Yup, fine album! Got the UK version of it (on Corinthian, bought it via the Dutton Vocalion website - seems to be gone there, it was low stock when I bought it).

Russell Thorne John Zorn King Korn

Just in case: that's how I have them... wouldn't spend much for the Lonehill twofer, but didn't mind doing so for the Verve CD. Though I guess the album w/Giuffre is pretty impossible to find by now, and the blues one is OOP, so the Lonehill, alas, will be the easiest option nowadays...

The date with Giuffre is mighty interesting - but don't expect many horn solos (I think only one title has some), it's Giuffre setting the stage for Ellis. The blues album is close to perfection, in my opinion, great playing by all! I just recently bought a bit of a pricey copy from some amazon marketplace vendor, but I don't regret it!