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Thanks for all the covers! Clifford, those Fontana covers are all rather cool (and some rather spooky I guess...) - there's a site dedicated to them, but I don't have the link at hand (it was posted here somewhere, that's how I found out about it).

i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...) nah, I should have looked up my stuff at home yesterday and shouldn't have started this thread, really... but after AMG was done newly, it repeatedly shut dome Opera for me, too... and the timing out is contstantly there, all of the time (rather unlikely if I'm not doing anything else, but I don't need all that bandwidth I have just to browse AMG... what a waste that would be... )

blocked at work, but I'll check them out tonight at home - thanks for posting them... I assume you found them in the interzone, Chas?

Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...)

Hm, the McRae was out in the US on Rhino/Avenue jazz's Bethlehem series some years ago. It included some alternates to beef up the disc to decent total time (the original was a 10" album). There are some issues there about the line-ups I think, but I don't have the disc at hand (a good Bethlehem disco would be very helpful anyway - though I do remember there being one good site, I think a Japanese one, the info on Jazzdisco is rotten).

I can't open the discography of an artist, it just re-loads the overview page again and again, no matter how often I try (using MSIE, being at work... not sure if it works at home, haven't tried - but then AMG is bad enough only to kill time while at work but looking things up there while at home would be a waste of time anyway...) I tried with the Nat King Cole page, yesterday I tried with others... that site is getting worse and worse, it seems...

the biggest heist it is only if you do not count that Amsterdam 1991 one, where the paintings had been found shortly after.

Just around the corner from where I live, in fact... too bad I didn't take a sunday afternoon promenade and saw the getaway car - there's a 100'000 CHF reward offered for any hints... http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/social_af...17000&ty=st by the way: don't ask where this guy got his collection from - I don't know, and at this moment I don't care (have the time) to investigate or even just google that... still, such a heist is a bad thing - these paintings were accessible publicly (though I confess we never made it there, they had very limited opening hours, just a few hours per week or so, as it's a private institution), and now if the paintings are not used for demanding ransom, they'll end up in some private collection by rich (and probably reputable/charitable) assholes who don't care about not being able to show them off...

How about the other 80s BN? I have "African Game", need to spin it again... but I skipped the other one in the same sale where I got "African Game". Can anyone share the other covers of "Outer View"? I never saw any other than the one on the OJC!

good to see some of you diggin' a homeboy of mine... I never caught him live, but seing this makes me think even more that I should! (I think when he's not on tour, he's still doing regular gigs in town - they used to be weekly public rehearsals, but I never made it...)

A Swingin' Safari and more over here: http://www.wise-old-uncle-bert.com/music.html

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I only heard her on the air so far, but that Time Out Trio is definitely fine! There was a one hour feature (done from a concert at French Radio's in Paris) and a "Jazz Club" (two hour show, on the scene, mostly in Paris clubs) with Pierre Christophe guesting on piano. I need to dig out these shows and play them again, thank you for the reminder!

Hey Al, thanks for your replies - so I recognised Junior (yup, him I was thinking of) and Al Grey, that's cool... the disc from which #1 was taken I've owned for years, but not played it for a loooong time... got to change that soon! As for putting down Jo Jones (and Tony Williams, too, on disc two) - well, shit happens... I was giving my honest impressions, and hey, maybe I'm not well equipped enough to hear all that greatness... or maybe I'm just still too young and too foolish...

here's some old LP art to marvel at: http://www.discogs.com/release/899964

That Dexter cover looks like a couw job, he he

Usually no compilations for me... but then having some short things together on a CDR is great, and also occasionally I get some oficially released compilations, like the Debut & Contemporary 4CD sets, which are very nice. Also have one of those Fantasy 1CD label samplers (HifiJazz/Nocturne). And just recently I found two of those nice Rare Groove samplers with the 60s covers with almost nude ladies... most of the music on there is new to me, and much of it is by artists I'd never buy full albums... also some stuff I'm familiar with - one track from Ted Curson's OJC that I just finally found, and Watermelon Man from the Lambert Hendricks & Bavan album with Bean... very interesting to hear that in such a different context, and I figure these two discs will be nice to put on when we have guests over, too... just some fun stuff for casual background listening that's still interesting if you listen more attentively.

belated best wishes, Colin!

The "dance sessions" are indeed great! The best way to get them, as well as lots of other good Basie material, including the great first album with Joe Williams, is by getting the Clef/Verve Mosaic. As for Roulette, I like the Atomic album, too - Lockjaw being the big asset there, to me! If you want to check out a later album of Basie's, I'd recommended "Basie Plays Bond", a pretty cool United Artists album (recently reissued on CD by Blue Note) based on some tunes from early Bond films, including of course the famous 007 theme song. Davis is great on that one as well! The main gap of course is still the Columbia period - some of that will be covered in the new Mosaic set with Prez's Basie sides, some other parts are covered in the Sony 4CD set "America's Band #1" (inlcuding most or all of the 1950/51 octet studio sessions and a full disc of fantastic live material previously to be found on Masters of Jazz discs, which alas are OOP but would be the best way to cover the missing Columbia period... at least the first years, I'm not sure how far they came before the label vanished). So to fill the gap you'd have to get all the Classics plus some Neatworks for the alternative takes. There's also the Definitive route for master takes only, but those boxes are very crappy in all respects, someone kind made burns for me (ripping of the thieves...), but I got most of the music in other form anyway by now.

The "dance sessions" are indeed great! The best way to get them, as well as lots of other good Basie material, including the great first album with Joe Williams, is by getting the Clef/Verve Mosaic. As for Roulette, I like the Atomic album, too - Lockjaw being the big asset there, to me! If you want to check out a later album of Basie's, I'd recommended "Basie Plays Bond", a pretty cool United Artists album (recently reissued on CD by Blue Note) based on some tunes from early Bond films, including of course the famous 007 theme song. Davis is great on that one as well! The main gap of course is still the Columbia period - some of that will be covered in the new Mosaic set with Prez's Basie sides, some other parts are covered in the Sony 4CD set "America's Band #1" (inlcuding most or all of the 1950/51 octet studio sessions and a full disc of fantastic live material previously to be found on Masters of Jazz discs, which alas are OOP but would be the best way to cover the missing Columbia period... at least the first years, I'm not sure how far they came before the label vanished). So to fill the gap you'd have to get all the Classics plus some Neatworks for the alternative takes. There's also the Definitive route for master takes only, but those boxes are very crappy in all respects, someone kind made burns for me (ripping of the thieves...), but I got most of the music in other form anyway by now.

How about Martin Speake? I picked up his ECM disc (with Bobo Stenson - one of those cases where the music upon its issue is five years old already, why do they do this?) and thought it was pretty good!

I don't know whether this one is recent enough to have escaped your notice, but I like the Domino Quartet's Radio 3 Sessions a great deal. This is the group with trombonist Gianluca Petrella, bassist Antonio Borghini, drummer Hamid Drake and saxophonist/flutist Sean Bergin. That sounds interesting! There seem to be some relations between Italian and South African jazz musicians, too... Moholo I think recently did concerts with Italians in his band...

Oh, man I want to get a definitive edition of Big Band & Quartet! Why can't they just finish their great run of Monk reissues and do that one, finally? (And the Nelson one, too - I've never even heard it and being a big Monk fan I'd definitely buy a new reissue, while I'm not sure I want to look for the old one...)

hah, the Jordan Transcriptions I also ordered!

yes, and the concern I expressed was also just for the position of the people involved... I guess MC earns more from his work for big labels than from running Mosaic, so... as for the Braxton Arista, I'd be all for it!