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Tavernier has good soundtracks often! I have Henri Texier's "Holy Lola" soundtrack on CD - very nice one! I ordered five of the six you pointed out, brownie (took a pass on the Schifrin), thanks!

I put a disc in my cart out of curiousity, and the economy shipping to the U.S. seems to be €3.82. Two discs = €6.05. It goes up on a sliding scale. That's rather steep! But then I guess it's just a reflection of Swiss post's prices! Anyway, if anyone has wanted "Rara Avis" for years, this won't keep him! Even less the fact that the disc is listed for only 6 euro!

hm, it's weird - maybe the Zingaro/Lee wasn't OOP already at all, but I'm quite sure about the Mengelberg, and totally sure about the Clusone. The Maneri is still listed as OOP on the hat page, but the Clusone and Mengelberg aren't... Here's the link to the discplus site: http://www.discplus.ch/ Put Hat in the label and the labels will pop up, choose, "HATOLOGY" and hit go and there's all they have listed at the moment. On top there's a [chf] link, click on it to see the listings in €. Also you can choose the language (german/french/english).

Did I miss something? A swiss website (discplus.ch - seems they do ship abroad but I have no clue what that costs) has available the following early/long OOP hatOLOGY releases again, at the backlist sale prize, too (roughly 6€ or 7 US$): Misha Mengelberg - The Root of the Problem Clusone 3 - Rara Avis Joe Maneri - Coming Down the Mountain Carlos Zingaro/Peggy Lee - Western Front, Vancouver 1996 There may be other OOP items in the list that I don't recognize as such since I've had them for long (I have the Maneri and Zingaro/Lee of these four as well, but will try and order the other two).

btw: is there a list (or even better would be a website) with all the Universal UK Jazz reissues? I've never seen such a list and would be very glad if anyone had a list!

That's indeed great news, about time "Hum Dono" sees a nice reissue!

Thanks! I hope to post some stuff that you enjoy!

hey, feel free to create some that would fill the whole frame on top of the page! Send dimensions please. (in pixels...) no clue, sorry... it's more about proportions... I don't think I could check the pixels there, but I'll check tomorrow!

Hah, you don't even have the faintest idea what you're missing there! mine's on order! it's also online for free (see my web favourites) but you have to register. Kraus' monstrous play "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" (the last days of makind/humanity - the end of the world, in fact) is one of the important literary texts to document the madness that was World War 1, and his "Fackel", a publication he led for years, first with texts of himself and others, later exclusively written by himself, is one of the important periodicals of those decades, and it contains virtually his complete works, including texts not doomed fit for inclusion in Suhrkamp's collected/complete works edition... he's definitely one of the most sarcastic and fascinating personalities of 20c german (austrian, to be exact, very decidedly austrian) literature.

but it would be interesting to have some list of items that don't fall under the 50 year rule or don't awake enough interest for being reissued... of the ones mentioned so far, I'd say the Ken McIntyre UA set and the Don Grolnick most likely fall under that category.

hey, feel free to create some that would fill the whole frame on top of the page!

disc 10 of the Mildred Bailey

Yup, I have all of those still saved on my HD - even after a crash I retained them!

Well, I thought maybe Mr. Tata was about to buy the british empire... Why Rand? Is EMI half South-African?

Chuck may have indeed decided the buying question in almost as few words as possible, but it's always nice to read some more, too! Anyway, the Definitive would be around here, but buying the JSP from, say CDuniverse (yup, via the little box on top, Chuck!) will cost me half of what the Definitive costs here, I think! The Columbia is already on order from some Amazon seller - too bad I didn't realize in time that it went OOP, would have been cheaper back then I assume, and if there are issues with the crappy packaging, I won't be able to demand any replacements now!

what's Rs? rupees?

I guess I'm just weird... that's not restricted to my liking of chubby Mildred and that weirdo xylophone... in fact, some of it (and not just the Alec Wilder "chamber sessions") is pre-third stream and in that respect it's pretty interesting to notice the lack of reference for Norvo... the orchestra of his gets labelled as a soft one-trick pony (wrong!) and the chamber aspects seem to most often be associated with the later Norvo/Farlow/Mingus trio (not wrong, but only half of the truth). The orchestra was pretty good at swining, what with guys like Cozy Cole and George Wettling on drums, and had a bunch of good soloists, most notably Hank d'Amico on clarinet and Herbie Haymer and later a couple of others on tenor. Bill Miller (later Sinatra's accompanist for decades) was in that band as well. But the most important asset, it seems, was Eddie Sauter and his arranging... there's some really weird stuff going on there, some of it kind of at the jazz end of the spectrum covered by the Raymond Scott groups, for instance. Some almost atonal-sounding writing, too... and then there's lots of swing in there, too, sometimes all in one arrangement, and it never sounds like a pastiche-kind of medley. The one negative point of the set is the absence of the Norvo band tracks without Bailey, but I guess I'll eventually have to get hold of the Heps to make up for that (three of them, yes? or even more?)

Good to see you're still around, Daniel! "Kofi" is indeed pretty nice, got to give it a spin again some day soon! As for "Groovin' for Nat" - just my opinion of course, but Coles is providing most of the highlights there!

eke, I might have something, but you'd have to remind me in a few weeks or months... thanks for that brownie - added! didn't have it in my own favourites, so forgot to link to it!

Please have a look: http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/ It won't be updated as often as it is right now, but I'll try and post some new stuff now and then, after the sensation of newness has faded...

None are available at present. About 3hr28min playing time altogether. You'd think they'd make a good Mosaic select, wouldn't you? Particularly since MC fucked up the original CD reissues - forgot to include one track in the correct reissue and didn't discover another until later. MG The stray track on "After Hours"? What are the others again, the one with Jug, the one with Webster, and what's the fourth? A *great* select, I'd say!

The Mulligan material certainly is available in cheapo copy editions already. I think the BN set is OOP anyway, no? How about Groove Holmes' Pacific Jazz discs? I think there were four, but I never found the one with Ben Webster... the one with Gene Ammons is great!

yup, that's what it all boils down to, indeed

Yes! Some of the very best Pres ever recorded! And the "Five Spot" album, too, with Tina Brooks!

Yes, good call! Guy I've seen these 3CD sets for as little as 12-13 euro recently, in local sales! For those not wanting all of the Getz, there's the "At Storyville" single disc featuring most of the great live recording of the Getz quintet with Jimmy Raney. Two more that are not RVGed yet, for whatever weird reason: Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack not sure if these have been RVGed, I have the "old" editions of all of them: Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby! (one of my favourites) the Jimmy Smith album with Grant Green and the one with Quentin Warren done the day after or before the Green one and the 2CD set containing his first three albums (has one of these come out as an RVG?) Also the whole "Standards" series is pretty good, with discs by Sonny Clark (good), Jimmy Smith (ok), Lee Morgan (more than good!), Grant Green (also more than good - I like Green in sparse settings!) and the Three Sounds (don't have that one). I think they're all OOP but I've seen the Clark, Green and Morgan recently, the Smith is rare over here and the Three Sounds I never saw...