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Here's an old topic with recommendations on jazz books that could be bumped: But I guess most of the interesting discussions emerged in other threads ...

A grand ol' anglo-saxon academic tradition, that ... and one that could indeed be stopped with little loss (except for U presses earning the sh*t ouf ot those books that every library all over the world has to buy).

Yes, it's one of his best (though I think at gun point, I might go for "Intensity"). Regarding the story Laure tells about how she acquired the master - did this end up with Charlie Parker Records as well? They released the Paich Quartet w/Pepper as "Chile Pepper", prob. 1961/62ish, which was quite a few years before Laurie bought it, and she mentions being offered the entire CPR catalogue. Who would have been the owner of that back then? And who bought it just after she had to decline? All I know is that cheapo box set which was discussed in some depth here: ... and looking up contents there, I see half of "Art Pepper Quartet" was indeed on a CPR album titled "Pepper Manne". And looking further, in Marcello says that: anyway, this is all a bit off topic here, but after all it was Laurie's mail and comment that triggered it

"Sittin' In" is a good one indeed! Will have to re-visit "Great Reunion"/"Big Challenge" soon, not that familiar with these yet. Hawk's relation with Pres was quite complex, too, I guess - seems at one of the European JATP tours in the fifties, when Pres more or less had stopped eating (same thing Hawkins would do, ten years later), it was Hawkins who tried to look after him.

Ah well, Hawkins said a lot of things ... seems he put down Chu Berry as well, but after he was gone, he was finally able to confess that he actually did like his playing quite some. Not sure where I read this bit about Hawkins/Freeman though (and even if I found it, as with so many things about jazz, that would still not be an actual source, so ignore if you prefer).

Recently read somewhere that it was Hawk who insisted on the presence of Bud Freeman since he loved his playing so much?

re: pads - is it all leather with saxophones? fish skin only on clarinets? (I got them all at home but I usually don't screw around on 'em myself ... once took my tenor halfway apart and it wasn't easy getting everything in place again, with my two left hands )

And he played at the same time?

Merci, monsieur! Je vais donc l'acheter!

http://www.jazzdisco.org/teddy-edwards/catalog/ eddy Edwards Quartet - Good Gravy (Timeless (Du) SJP 139) Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophone) Rein De Graaff (piano) Henk Haverhoek (bass) John Engels (drums) "Bimhuis", Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 26, 1981 Lady Be Good Oleo Georgia Good Gravy Good stuff, perhaps not essential, but oh well. Oh, thanks - don't think I'd ever heard of this before - guess it goes on the shopping list, there's not nearly enough Edwards out there ... I love that man!

the "Trésors" set being discussed here would be this: right?

pretty entertaining stuff - there's a previous thread with some discussion here:

Shirley Horn indeed! And Roland Kirk, too! but Keith is

some of the Timeless ones were part of their "black" remasters series (Cohn, Baker, Flanagan ... there were others not on the list, such as that fine George Coleman album). The Cobb is indeed the one that does look tempting! What's the Edwards? The Contemporary album? Or was there another one using that title? Only got the Griffin recently, haven't played it often yet, but I guess it's not amongst his best, yet as Mr. Sangrey said, definitely not one to categorically avoid (and surely not if you love Griff half as much as I do).

Thx Moms, no time for a real reply ... but the Tebaldi box is on my shelves.

DHM 50 for 39: http://www.amazon.it/Deutsche-Harmonia-Mundi-50-Collection/dp/B00NX4NMGO/ Monteux for 55: http://www.amazon.it/Monteux-The-Complete-Album-Collection/dp/B00MAPMAFQ/ Ansermet Russian for 37: http://www.amazon.it/Russian-Music-Ernest-Ansermet/dp/B00J498SOI/ Ansermet French for 36: http://www.amazon.it/French-Music-Ernest-Ansermet/dp/B00DT2322E/ Gould Bach for 44: http://www.amazon.it/Glenn-Gould-Bach-Edition/dp/B0086WQNZ0/ Ansermet European isn't reduced. Lenny DG Vol. 1 has been adjusted, too, it was in the 50-60 range this morning, european time. I went for the Oiseau-Lyre Baroque one, had been eying it for a long time.

amazon.it is evil again today: Living Stereo 1 for 35€: http://www.amazon.it/Living-Stereo-Compilation/dp/B009J3K4MI/ Oiseau Lyre for 50€: http://www.amazon.it/LOiseau-Lyre-Various-Artists/dp/B00IRQS24A/ Tebaldi for 54€: http://www.amazon.it/Voce-DAngelo-Complete-Decca-Recording/dp/B002WN6GUG/ and plenty more good offers ...

noticed that a while ago ... bought the two separate sets last year, after some discussion on this board - but, as with so many things, I've not started exploring it

(please fix thread title!) (or am I wrong, as I see the one-lone-l-spelling repeated in the thread?)

Pretty darn good album! Finally picked it up together with their "Dejeuner" reissue, late last year.

Same here - although I cut (shave) my hair myself ... norm is something like: 10% up to 10 swiss franks - but when you eat somewhere and the bill goes up to 200 or 250, it can still be 20 or somewhat more. With taxis, it's usually in the same region - but I very often am the one giving the highest tip in a round of people my age (30-40, so not that young anymore, but even they don't always seem to behave properly ;-)) I missed tipping the postman (the ones bringing parcels only, wouldn't think of tipping the ones bringing letters, now don't ask me why, but I never see that guy anyways) this and last year - somehow, around x-mas time I've not seen the regular guy for many weeks. Next year, I'll tip him in November to make sure (don't want to tip a sub when the regular guy does a fine job all year long). Also tipping the guy delivering the newspaper ... that would be 20 CHF or something around that - guess if all of his several hundred or thousand "customers" tipped, he would quite like it, but I'd assume very, very few people tip these guys nowadays. I learnt doing this when growing up. Not being rich, but well-off, it just seems a natural thing to do. But never at Mac or at Starbucks ... rarely visit these places anyways. At the bakery's where I sometimes buy a croissant and a coffee in the morning, they've got this little thing on the counter and I usually put the small change in there - but as they never fail to react with a big smile and a most friendly "thank you", I guess I'm one of but a few that puts anything in there.

Where does Owl belong these days? They were with Verve/PolyGram/Universal for a while ... asking because there'd been another Petrucciani album that belongs with his better ones (those include the Elektras and pretty few of the BNs, most of them are bad to okay-ish - I don't ever listen to the ones with synths and even the pairing with Abercrombie is of pretty small appeal, so there's the Ellington solo disc, "Power of Three" and the first one, "Pianism").

Yeah, I wondered a bit about all the Sinatra hype, too ... after a few spins, I like the new one plenty - the man has no voice, but after all, he can sing ... he hits the notes and some of it sounds pretty daring for what one would except from him. But thinking of Sinatra only is definitely taking a few short cuts - but don't music critics love 'em? would be more work to check out the whole tin pan alley vs. singer/songwriters of the sixties and all that stuff ... I like the idea of ol' Bob paying his tributes to some other great songwriters that were of an era he helped to bring to an end.

Same here! I had one totally unplayable disc in the EMI Ciccolini box. Return window had long been closed, but eventually I received a second (full) set from amazon (and didn't need to return the first - shipping costs would have been more expensive than what I had paid for the box in the first place, speak of craziness of our times! Instead I gave the box to a friend whom I knew would appreciate it). Other than that and the wrong disc in the Toscanini box (for which I got a replacement straight from Sony/BMG Germany), and a missing disc in a small(3CD), brand-new and sealed set from Supraphon (for which I got the missing disc via vendor), I was lucky so far. Oh, and a wrong sleeve in the Solti Wagner box (one sleeve is repeated, but the disc included is the right one). On the topic of CD players, after many years of using cheapo discmen hooked up to an amplifier, I've bought an Onkyo for about 300 (does it matter which currency right now? not really, as long as we're discussing real money) and have been very happy with it ever since. No more of the rattling noise and stuff the cheapo players always brought with them.

So this is the old BN set with the two Elektras added - those two were part of the lone batch of Elektrreissues BN did, c. 2000.