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Oh yes, I'm a happy customer there as well!

The Henderson's from 1980 and is real good indeed. Mine looks like this: http://www.allmusic.com/album/mirror-mirror-mw0000102031 The Basie was recorded in Chicago in 1969 - not his best time I'd say. Line-up has Lockjaw though ... Gene Goe, Oscar Brashear, Sonny Cohn (tp), Waymon Reed (tp,flh), Frank Hooks, Melvin Wanzo, Grover Mitchell (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Marshal Royal (as,cl), Bobby Plater (as,fl), Eric Dixon (ts,fl), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bari), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Norman Keenan (b,el-b), Harold Jones (ds) Seems it was also on Groove Merchant back in the day, and on a Verve CD later on. I recently bought the Jim Hall in a reasonably-priced edition from Japan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-6113 Back in the day, I had the Sun Ra and the Archie Shepp. I think it's the only Shepp album I've liked; very intense, though. The Shepp falls in his very best period I think. Thanks for the link to the Hall - guess I might go for the new one though, if only to check out the series.

This one, too, Larry: Pretty darn good session!

Thanks a lot for filling in all these details, sonnymax! Whacky stuff!

That's not the TCB by Peter Schmidlin, right?

xept they walk like ducks and want us to think that's elegant

You're talking of the Gonsalves I assume? I've heard it, and I fully agree! Looking forward to having a proper reissue of it! Same for the Ronnie Ross ... couw made me a copy of that one, many moons agon, and it's really good as well!

Yeah, Solal, too! I've bought two or three of his MPS albums on vinyl by now (and have the one that was issued on CD - at least the one that was around everywhere, that is), so I forgot mentioning him. There's also "ZoKoSo" which took me a while to find - part of Universal's own MPS series which after all was more daring than this new Edel series - they got at least Mangelsdorff and - almost - Hans Koller right there - still would love to get the missing Koller ones as well ... and "Ellerine Harding", please!.

Just got my shipping notification, yippie ki-yay! (And put in another order for a couple of Red Garlands, an Arnett Cobb and that Freddie McCoy one that all seem to be OOP and no longer in stock at CDjapan.) Any luck, Head Man?

discs 1-5 (all but the classic first quintet dates)

Looks like a pretty uninteresting bunch to me, I'm afraid ... the Sun Ra was out previously as a double CD set, the Joe Henderson was in print for a loooong time (same mid/late 90s MPS series done by Motor Music), some of these are beyond light music (Kovac goes to the moon), though the Jim Hall I will have to get (only have a cheapo vinyl of it, not with the gorgeous foldout cover, alas, but some later pressing), maybe the Hank Jones, Golowin/Gulda, and also the Iturralde. Let's hope they'll do more and also go places the recent series by Most Perfect Sound Edition (who are no longer allowed to do any MPS reissues alas, by new owner Edel Music) went. I have a Japanese edition of the Shepp and Donaueschingen and Cherry's "Eternal Rhythm", but these do deserve to be widely heard! Most Perfect Sound did the Taylor solo one (but where's "Black Forest", please? Not sure Edel cares though, they might offer digital, but there I guess I don't care), the Tchicai, the Wilens and a few other fine albums. Not sure Edel will bother with that or if they stick to mainstream jazz and crappy club sounds (or rather stuff that appeals to that kinda crowd).

defenestration (don't think there's undefenestration, at least not literally )

Thanks for stating that.

What's the gist of the DB review? And who wrote it? Problem was: music was good, but the high-school-teacher-like announcements took the momentum out of it all ... here's my report from back then:

the yellow area is where the invisible button is located: glad to see btw I'm not the only one running into this - this is pretty weird ... I had no reply from customer service before finding the hidden button, but still, they ought to fix that!

Well done in getting an order placed....I can never get past the "use this address" page even with Google Chrome! Unfortunately for me, if CDJapan doesn't have it then neither do I! Well, somewhere underneath the address fields, there ought to be a pink button that moves you ahead to the next step - it's not displayed here when using Opera or Firefox, but in Chrome it was there ... I hit it once, than shut Chrome and was able proceed in Opera as well, that step was just skipped as I guess the address was automatically saved as default. Try mousing around at the bottom of the address/mail/phone fields and wait for the cursor symbol to change (as it does when you mouse over links or buttons) and then click there ... might do the trick, if Chrome doesn't help you either. Hope you can manage! Seems their prices on some items are better than CDJapan's, too ... and that buy 3 thing and get a reduction is cool, too!

I just left a comment on the blog, including a link to here - as someone's posted the news there, I hope someone will see it (comment moderation is on, so it won't show up automatically).

What's the counterfeit of a blue note? Going from colour theory, it would probably be a yellow note, right?

Totally forgot about these ... but regarding pseudo mini LPs with pseudo OBIs, I bouth Helen Merrill's wonderful Metrojazz album in such an edition ... really silly, no clue whom they want to fool.

Thx, I added the Owens/Barrons Atlantic - had to be a cheap one, all others I tried made the total too much to slip past the custom naz*s. But yeah, I've noticed the Zeitlin and plan to get it! Btw, only hmv.co.jp has those two it seems - they have the Zeitlin as well, but it would have been a few cents too much in the end.

Oh, wow, very, very sad. r.i.p. Hans, thank you for your knowledgeable posts and the good vibes!

r.i.p. Here's an obit from French paper Libération: http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2014/10/02/mort-du-batteur-de-jazz-jacques-thollot_1113413

Dang! Found I have Google Chrome and all of a sudden, there's this pink "use this address button" that isn't displayed with the other two browsers (but mousing over that era, the cursor does show there's a link - though how could I have known). Hate those flash and other crap sites. Now I need to find a third disc that doesn't push this over the limit, not sure that will work. otherwise it's just these two, which will be good enough even though rather pricey!