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well, there's just one real Guinness, isn't there... all the bottled and canned versions aren't the same either, here... but still I sometimes buy cans (44 cl, they cost around 3€, rather crazy... but then a pint of open Guinness is usually around 5-6€... quality has its prize, I guess... :-) though as it certainly qualifies as medication, there should be a tax relief or something!

Sure, I can vouch for Guinness being healthy... and tasty! Yum yum! Will have some tonight, after work... but first I'll have to make it through 8 boring office hours

I guess all of it... too lazy to look it up, but go to Losin's Miles Ahead site... roughly: an early date, the "Dig" album (w/McLean, Walter Bishop etc), the great session with Horace Silver/Percy Heath/Art Blakey that yielded "Oleo", "Airegin" etc, and both dates from that Prestige compilation album (one with a transitional post/pre-Trane quintet w/Rollins, the other one with Rollins and Charlie Parker on tenors). I think I'll stick to my old Rollins Prestige 7CD set...

Chuck, would you be so kind a post the list of these 18 releases, please? Just so we youngsters know what to hunt for... I am aware of: Roots Earthy Outskirts of Town and I own: Olio but I think that's all... (or I forgot some or file some under one particular artist, who knows... All Night Long and All Day Long are under Burrell and/or Byrd in my shelves, for instance) I include: Just Wailin' 3 Trumpets 2 Trumpets 2 Guitars All Day Long All Night Long Tenor Conclave Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors After Hours Wheelin' and Dealin' Cattin' Very Saxy Dakar The Cats Coolin' and you could add a couple of Swingville dates. Thanks! I need Coolin' and the multiple trumpets, have the rest, I think... didn't think of all those with Coltrane... The Cats and Cattin' are among my favourites from this bunch of albums! As for Swingvilles - the one on the Hawkins "Bean & The Boys" CD, originally titled "Stasch", was that a Hawkins album, or more of a jam thing? Looks kind of interesting... the disc's around as a cut-out in a local sale right now!

the egg-into-the-bottle-trick looks kinda cool... (should I be worried about me thinking that?)

Chuck, would you be so kind a post the list of these 18 releases, please? Just so we youngsters know what to hunt for... I am aware of: Roots Earthy Outskirts of Town and I own: Olio but I think that's all... (or I forgot some or file some under one particular artist, who knows... All Night Long and All Day Long are under Burrell and/or Byrd in my shelves, for instance)

yeah, I'm a fan of Rorschach as well

and you only post this here to harm scientific progress, right?

I can only talk for a small non-european (or partly european) island here Specialised music stores are closing down or sizing down, the few large ones (not exactly chain stores, there are two, both go back to old families also selling pianos and other instruments - the worse of them bought the better a couple of years ago, but they both remain with their own names so far) are still ok-ish. The jazz selection gets smaller and smaller, but they keep having special offers, usually by label, meaning: Blue Note/Capitol, Sony/BMG... some Warner stuff turns up here and there, too, sometimes they have these odd inventory sales with old stock from distributors (last time I found a huge number of Steeplechase, Storyville, some Soul Note, and various small labels stuff). A great recent sale was of Universal-printed reissues of OJCs, which didn't just include the usual stock of Ellington, Basie, Rollins etc, but also some rather surprising choices, such as "When Farmer Met Gryce", the Mingus Period and Debut single discs, some of those Fantasy compilations (such as the San Francisco one w/Mariano, Dodgion, Guaraldi etc) Plus, there are always good offers in the rock/pop area as well... So, there's still enough opportunity to browse through these sales and pick some things up every other week (usually the sales go on for two or three months, then they change). As for regular inventory... it's weird. I think only one of these larger shops has a person in charge of jazz that is pretty knowledgeable. But there are still plenty of odd things that they keep in stock, while some stuff I'd want to be there, they just never have. Also they have plenty of new releases, but usually for such ridiculous prizes that I only pick those up if I happen to find them in a clean-up sale a couple of years later. So it's all a bit hit and miss, but in the end there's still plenty of good stuff around!

I know "People Are Strange", of course... I think I had a tape dub of the 2CD best of set for a while, when in high school... one of the greatest impressions was seing the opening of "Apocalypse Now" for the first time... How about that Doors box, the longbox one, w/outtakes, rehearsals, live recordings etc? Worth getting?

Those interested should actually queue up... a marvellous set!

Getz/Gilberto #2 was never a VME, I think. It was packed in a regular jewel case, released in the mid 90s, when Verve still did nice reissues, not just fancy series and silly easy listening crap...

AP has the news now: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...7hejuQD99NBNU81

I suggested that one to Mosaic as a Single one time, but didn't hear anything beyond "we'll look at it," which is their stock answer to irritants like me. I think it's a great album that really captures Hackett's gorgeous tone well, and I've always wondered if there weren't more things recorded at that session worth issuing. greg mo Mosaic pretty much told me there will be no new "Singles". . . at least not for some time. That's too bad! Would that mean that the Johnson/Winding is gone? I wanted to add it to several orders, but it's always been "on backorder", whatever that now means...

Can't find anything else on the web, but this would be very sad - will spin some music of his today, that's for sure!

ordered today: The Doors - Strange Days The Doors - L.A. Woman (the two missing ones... got the old version of L.A. Woman though, never had/heard Strange Days!) plus: Joni Mitchell - Blue Joni Mitchell - Hejira an artist I'm just starting to discover - found her first three albums in the summer sales and I guess I'm slowly being hooked... somehow I sort of need to get over her voice... to hear how beautiful her music is and how well her voice forms part of the music!

is this the one? never heard of it, looks interesting!

"Amandla" was my entrance point into Miles music... not voluntarily, though. It was one of the CDs my mother enjoyed a lot, back when I was around 10 or 11. Next one I heard was "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet", but there were a couple of years in between, and I listened to a bunch of other things before returning to Miles again... Anyway, I haven't played it for many years now, I don't even have it, I think... I remember "Mr. Pastorius" as being very, very groovy in a laid-back/lyrical kind of way, and I remember loving that groove. (Of course I have a friend who was just started playing bass back then, and Marcus Miller was a big hero... then he/we found out about Jaco himself, too, soon after... I still play "The Birthday Concert" now and then).

Nice album indeed! I slept too long on these Prestige jam sessions, but the ones I've heard so far have all been good!

I'm waiting for a bunch to arrive via various amazon.fr marketplace sellers - those were the best prizes (w/shipping) for me. I can highly recommend the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Mulligan CJB, and Louis Hayes/Woody Shaw for starters. The Don Redman may be a bit weak (albeit the great line-up it has), but I don't think there's a real clinker in the series (But I'm still waiting for the two Peterson/Fitzgerald/JATP and the two Hamptons, as well as the Coleman Hawkins... and I still have a couple of gaps).

You just have to select the bookmark and tick the "Show on personal bar" option, which will put the favicon and title of the bookmark on your personal bar in Opera. If you want to save space on the personal bar, you can remove the page title from the bookmark, leaving just the icon. It's like having a TV remote control with station logos instead of numbers on the program buttons These settings are saved in your Opera bookmark file (opera.adr), so if you transfer the file to another Opera installation (other PC), the same bookmarks will be on your personal bar on that computer as well. That sounds pretty easy - will look into it, thank you!

I still find way too much, can't buy nearly all I want! But one thing I noticed is that prizes for CDs from the big ones (EMI, Sony) have gone down quite a bit, speaking of local stores... it was a slow progress over the past 10 years, but in the past year or so, there have been constant "sales" where nearly each and every RVG (and many Conns) would show up, for instance, and the prices they were being offered for were at least 25% lower than usual (before, the prices went down in steps of, say, 2-3% or so). Anyway, those that complain that they don't find new music, maybe it's time to check out some smaller labels as long as they're operating? For instance... ACT Music Ayler CIMP/Cadence Dreyfus Emanem Enja ESP Disk FMP FMR Futura & Marge labels Hat Records Intakt Records Leo Records Nessa Records Nimbus West Silkheart Steeplechase Storyville Tzadik Water There'd be many, many a dozen of albums on those labels that I'd love to own!

another summer sales haul... The Verve - This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds and jazzwise: Charles Lloyd - Lift Every Voice (ECM) Coleman Hawkins - Bean and the Boys (Fantasy - I always thought this was a compilation, had no idea it contained a full album, amother other things) Paul Motian - Conception Vessel (ECM) Swiss Art Orchestra 91 (a Matthias Rüegg project) (MGB) Maria Muldaur - Meet Me Where They Play the Blues (TCB) B.B. King - Live at the Apollo (Universal Originals)

not strictly correct... Roy Ayers Ubiquity: S/T, has the bonus "He Gives Us All His Love" - previously available only on a rare promo 7". Yeah, it appears that McCoy's Today and Tomorrow is also retaining all the bonus tracks from the GRP edition. Oh, that's good to know! Will look for this one then!

anything new about this one, except for the cover photo? This reissue was newly mastered on April 2009, but as I don't have the original issue I unfortunately cannot compare. Thanks for the info - I guess I'll stay with what I have... I'd rather see Hat reissue some albums from further back, but then this one's excellent of course!