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Not sure how much I like that one... but Coles quite easily outshines Byrd. Very much a Pearson date, moreso than the "Little Johnny C", which is fine with me, but not Coles' best. The quartet album Chuck mentions above is a great one!

I would have -as I was 2h earlier than you my friend - but also no response so far..... alright, so I've saved some $$

Thanks, Kevin! I'm starting to believe it, then! Great!!! Hey! Why didn't you believe ME... ? sorry, I wasn't aware that you had seen the discs in real... gets clear from re-reading your post, though!

Sepp is one corrupt guy, I tell you! His name should be added in the dictionnary of synonyms! But that was so ridiculous! Why don't the referees get any help from some additional referees viewing the tv images? This is not stone age any longer!

Watched France-Korea (isn't that part of the US, anyway?) and it was so utterly boring. And so unfair that the second goal didn't get counted. Why did no one (no one at all!) protest? It was so obvious!

Anyone knows what's up with take5? I had no reply so far... also he seems to not have read a PM I sent (tracked) three days ago. Has anyone bought the Amy from him, already?

big for this one:

There have been threads about "tenor saxophonists under 40" and similar ones, do some searches!

Thanks, Kevin! I'm starting to believe it, then! Great!!!

indeed my version has that flaw, too, at 3:58 - on one player it starts skipping and I need to quickly hit the fast-forward button to get past it, on the other (a discman) it inserts a little pause and then continues (which is probably why I didn't notice when I played the disc some time back, while doing other things simultaneously). sucks!

It's a mandolin. A custom 5-string electric mandolin! Thanks for that info... he's quite astonishing, too, and makes a great sparring partner for McLaughlin... only after a while it can get a bit too much of the same for me.

So the theme, then is "euro grooves"? And that's Glenn Ferris... he's great, but I don't know lots of his recordings. On the most recent Lateef album "Influence" (on BFLat, co-led with the French Belmondo brothers), he appears as guest on CD2 and turns in a few terrific solos! Never heard the guy with who's band Wheeler's featured... waiting for some recommendation in the answer comments, Mike! Pity I misplaced the discs... haven't even had a chance to hear the bonus disc yet, and hardly any time to tidy up and look for it right now

I'll try and do so over the weekend!

The ones on sale in the UK are European manufactured and are NOT repeat NOT cc-ed. I can't promise, but I suspect amazon.de is in error. Let's hope you're right! I have virtually stopped buying BNs new releases. Picked up 4 or 5 cc versions but only on sale prizes (10€ or less, approximately). Of course they wouldn't tell us about their conclusions or even apologize or admit their strategy was bogus... but again, let's hope you're right!

Amazon.de says they are copycrap, not CDs!

pretty fun disc - mine (picked up in a sale last year) didn't hang anywhere, but I'd need to play it again to check if there's no glitches or small issues.

Oh, and let me add that I'm very happy I made those huge orders! For a long time, I had to spend almost no money on Mosaic, since I got the running low ones earlier... good move, for me, since after high school ended and I started to study at university, money was more than short for a time.

Hmmm, my first order was just the TKM set. Then I got hooked. Being in highschool back then, I had some jobs during holidays, and usually determined what amount of money I'd spend on jazz CDs... I proceeded to make two or three orders that had each around 6 boxes in them - but back then, there were many more smaller ones (Jacquet, Fuller, Thad Jones). Anyway, those first orders included (going from memory): Basie Live (Studio was gone already), Hamilton, Giuffre, Jacquet, Woody Shaw, Hill, McLean, Rivers, Ellington Capitol... this was also before I had a credit card, so the expenses for those annoying money orders were pretty high and I decided to do larger orders. Custom guys were not eyeing things that closely back then (late nineties) and believed the scaled down slips Mosaic included, so I was paying much less than I would today, for such larger orders. Also I always went for the surface shipping option (less damaged jewel cases - once they "forgot" that I sent money, several hundred $$ from a student (!)... and sent the order by airmail and almost all jewel cases from the TrueBlue part of the order were completely cracked and missing all teeth etc... so surface was my choice, always). Nowadays, with customs much more annoying (they once even hold one package back and made me send in the "true" slip from Mosaic - suckers!), Mosaic no longer offering the cheap surface shipping, and money generally used more for living than for leisure, my habits changed a bit and I usually only get sets that are running low, nowadays. If there's two at the same time (like the Vee Jays), I get two, otherwise I get one at the time (O'Day, Rich/James etc). And I even managed to let a couple go without buying them (Herman, Freshmen).

I saw the band live once, Hussain is indeed *the* master - I've also seen him in classical indian performances, I think at least twice, once with Hariprasad Chaurasia, one of the other towering figures of indian music. I generally liked that concert, but in the end the slower pieces got just a bit too close to kitsch, while the faster often ended up in the same little games and quick exchanges (with Shrinivas - that is the guy playing that small guitar, yes? - "apeing" what McLaughlin just played). Got a bit tiring after some time. But the musicianship in this band is astonishing.

What region could that be? The styles of the tracks is very diverse... from that sexy blues (pretty 'merican sounding, but that may be disguise... some of that "perfect BFT material", eh?) to the "ethnic" things... sounds like a collection of "displaced musics", rather than a compilation that could be pinned to one specific region... Strange notion, just thinking aloud: is Gerhard Gschlössl involved with any of the bands/projects on this disc? And last question: is #4 from that band that you went to see with RC? If I had more time at hand I might be able to find that thread, but taht wouldn't be fun, rather spoiling the fun!

These positive vibes certainly are a quality per se - I can fully understand that! And I felt them, too, upon my first listen. Not that I always like this positive vibe, but it's good to have it somewhere, if one needs it! Jim, thanks for plugging me to this new artist, and thanks for confirming my notion of the complexity of the music (or certainly of the arrangements, at least) - looking forward even more to a concentrated listen now!

Got me "4 seasons" (thanks to who posted the above link to Amazon.co.uk!). Played it once, liked it, but I must confess it didn't jump at me (yet?). Will play it again over the weekend, though! The arrangements reminded me a bit of some of the better Incognito things (the "100° Rising" I still like quite a bit, sort of a holdover from past...), but it's obvious there's more to it. Maybe like the music of Maria Schneider: subtle things that don't scream out how great they are and that you may not be able to really do justice to without repeated (and concentrated) listening?

Just make sure you don't mistake a record for a football, misters!

Only you're taking a turn answering? So it *is* the later BN sessions that are included in the Select, yes?