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Friends and fellow rats, some have gotten this announcement via email, yesterday, some not, so I post it again here, to make sure no one misses out:

Again thanks, Garth! Things start to clear up a bit.

No, I'm afraid I wouldn't know how to find this stuff, but it sounds good! ubu

So tracks 2, 3, 5, 9 & 13 are with Mehegan, and all the others are with the Epistles? Or do you have any more information suggesting that not being the case, either? Thanks for clearing this! ubu

Happy birthday, my friend! Keep being crazy - it's good not to be alone Wish you a great day!

Is that from a reliable source? God, I hate Kaz and Camden I have Jazz in Africa Volume 1 on Camden, it has the tunes in question, BUT: I thought this was a Jazz Epistles ONLY disc!!! The full title reads: "JAZZ in Africa - Volume 1 - featuring The Jazz Epistles" (Camden CDN 1004, rel. 1998). The liners (by Donald McRae) tell the story of the Epistles, and don't mention any other musicians, BUT of course (crappy Camden), there is NO DISCOGRAPHY... (I think I typed one up in the Kippie thread, at least one that I then believed was correct.) Now Jazz in Africa Vol. 2 I have in its Kaz reincarnation (rel. 1992). That one has a discography, but there's no Epistles, and no Mehegan there... Now am I to suppose that parts of the Vol. 1 feat the Jazz Epistles are the "real" Epistles, while parts are half of the Epistles (the horns) with Mehegan?!? ubu

Thanks for these links, Garth! I printed both, will read them tomorrow.

so it looks! The new Golson photos are great, too, by the way!

Thanks for the nice photos, Mark!

Finally got this one! A great compilation, indeed! Only I'd wish for a complete discography! Amazon UK has it for 9 £. ubu Thanks for the link ubu. I actually managed to order it from one of their Marketplace sellers for £2.16 a short while ago. You're going to like it! Mine just arrived .... Loved it... rather eclectic .... and I REALLY want to find that John Mehegan "In South Africa" album (a cut of which, with Kippy, is on this CD), which was originally issued on a Gallo LP in the early sixties. I wonder if it was ever reissued on CD. PLEEEEEEAZE hook up with me in case you can find that Mehegan! I'd die to hear more of it!

Is that tradition maintained by Italo-Americans? And hey, you also need James T Cat in your avatar, no?

Didn't Katz also write those real nice and very informed notes for the 2CD reissue of all of Columbia's Monk solo sides? A real good writer he is, too (besides being a real good piano player, of course). ubu

Thanks for these recommendations, John! The Nessa is on the list, and I'll certainly get a few more some day, too, but NOT RIGHT NOW... x-mas is being hard on my bank account without me buying even more CDs...

I'm a big fan of the Wilson Mosaic, I had two complete listens so far (and some incompletes, of course), and I think this is one that continues to grow. Of the thirties recordings I only know the music that is part of the Billie Holiday Columbia box, and very little besides that. Oh, of course the marvellous Goodman trio, too! Love it! There's one nice trio date with Benny Carter, on the Verve disc "3,4,5", which I remember is compared by the guy who wrote the liners, to the trio date Carter made with Art Tatum. A beautiful date, will have to listen to that one soon again.

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Fred who? "On the Run" is great, but it's so far the only Anderson disc I own. ubu

Same here, but still sad news. Love those discs with the Mulligan quartet, brownie - and you were there, wow! Of course the Getz stuff is all classic.

"The complete King Ubu beheadings - the frozen broom series" (there are other volumes available, of course

The first one just lost his head, which made the second one in line lose his mind and escape, however, our true servants Pile and Cotice are now dragging him back. Let him have more luck than the first

We would yet have to try, but it would of course not hurt us polish kings - however, we would definitely let some of our subjects have a first try!

sure is true - don't ask me why, but many people here think we need that, I suppose. ubu

Boy, haven't heard that kind of attitude since, oh, about 1941-1945. In Europe WWII began in 1939, not 1941. yes, of course, but the US only came to know about it in 1941

(Leeway: take it easy - Switzerland was not actually ever a Nazi-state, BUT they did collaborate, and to an extent that was more than what would have been needed to survive. But, another BUT: those years have been meticulously documented in the nineties, huge reports by renowned historians in a way hardly ever a nation worked on its own history.) ubu

Thanks, Eric & Garth! Sounds like a nice set, indeed! I'll put in on my "list"... ubu

Ok - otherwise the mistake would not have been on all of the reissue's copies.