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Thought so too, but there's a regular way to find it: use the "True Blue Music" header in the horizontal top menu and it will get you to the relevant listing ... they are not treating it as their own reissue (which I guess it isnt?) My parcel (two copies) is finally on the way, it took three orders, the first two were cancelled and my card temporarily blocked by the bank -- no idea what triggered that, maybe "All Stars" is code for terrorist group nowadays?

... and sometimes they just add a second OBI on top (I think there was only one shrinkwrap in the one case I've seen/bought, so really just two OBIs on top of eacht other)

The Ampex is the one that was reissued as "Blues in Orbit" on Enja later, right? "Black Saint" and "In Europe" are still avalable in their most recent Japanese incarnations (which I bought a while ago): http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/CDSOL-45010 http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UVJZ-10168

Totally. This has just landed on my pile of yet-to-be-read books: I've made my escape from that part of the working world into administration and (not sure merikins can believe that) I'm very happy about this change ... also landed in semi-academia, so to speak, and on top of it all, I even get better pay. Just think about the potential savings that could be made in corporate communism (it's the US after all that has made communism work, ain't it funny? ) if all of those big-shots got fired and the actual skills of people and their ability to organise would be relied on?

my copy has shipped a few days ago, but I'll be on vacation from tomorrow, so I'll have to wait ...

Thanks for the alert @Chuck Nessa - will certainly be buying this!

Thanks again, everyone!

Thanks everyone! @brownieDevastating images from Notre Dame! I was fascinated by this (panoramic pictures taken from the roof, pre-fire of course), just shared elsewhere: https://www.martinloyer.fr/gigapixels-360/NotreDame/

Thanks Dan! I'm not around here often enough to catch b-days myself these days, so you have me blushing

Either way, Trane may have had a sweet tooth, but was he big? Tall, maybe ...

just pre-ordered, and could throw in the Sheila Jordan, I guess it ought to be some kind of upgrade over the late 80s US reissue

That way of programming is not something I appreciate a lot, but with CDs if you want it's pretty easy to skip ... are the takes in session order, or did BN by that time still not properly assign take numbers and nobody quite knows the correct sequence?

The Young is most welcome ... I guess I'll get the JOS and Poppa Lou as well (missed the Mosaic and it wasn't important enough to hunt down after it had pulled its disappearing act)

I stroke lucky with the Basie Roulette Studio, but it cost a bit ... One I'd love to get is the Quebec/Hardee, CD Version (LP version would be easier to find)

There's a bar on the left side (as when you browse artist/label/etc. listings) that can be used to narrow down what's displayed -- but you have to rely on data being good there (I guess "Genres" is of rather little use for instance, and obviously, as it's all release-centred, the "Decades" - as well as the "Year" in the header of the main part of the list) apply to release years.

Here's the beginning of my current list, sorted by artist - no clue why "Bennet*" is before Agusti, so yeah, sorting options are definitely not ideal. You can sort (in both directions) by all the blue keywords in the title area -- a/z on first click, z/a on second ... but empty values (i.e. items never sold or without year) will be on top if you have the bottom/up sorting in place. There is an option to add custom fields, but I just tried adding a "sorting name" field -- you cannot use that for filtering (it's displayed in black type). You can use it, I guess, when you request an export (comeas a csv, so that's alright) ... but I'm not trying that, and of course you'd have to edit that field manually and type in names ... EDIT: Just triggered an export ... the csv is okay, but it's not Volapük compatible (i.e. Frédéric, as in Chopin, reads Frédéric). Can ben handled, but that's all part of the drag.

I think I only learnt that beastly word I because of said shit happening ...

Datteln (Date) is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany -- I guess they made the rekkid there. And since that area is so non-photogenic, that's why they retouched the background on the cover photo. Must be. Seriously: the cover design only pretends to have become better

Coincidentally, I had a discussion with a musician selling his CDs after a gig -- "hm, do I have this already?" ... he mentioned he's been starting to manage his collection via discogs, so over the weekend I started checking it out ... I find it somewhat annoying, with many superfluous (sometimes duplicate) entries and stuff - not that it really matter to myself if I have the version or without barcode (I will not go and check, my CDs are in no easily accessible order, so if I go through a label or musician entry and mark the ones I own, I will not have them at hand). Oftentimes, promo copies are listed separately, which I find silly -- but I guess for all those that are receiving them and then illegally selling them on, those entries do make sense (and as a customer I'd not want a simple cardboard case promo copy if the regular edition has a proper booklet). With vinyl, I'm often at a loss to even determine which edition I have, with labels such as Prestige or Verve that kept repressing their albums. I have my excel list and copy it onto my smartphone every now and then, but accessing and reading a mutli-tab excel list on a smartphone isn't exactly handy.

Thanks - ordered two (one for a friend who I hope will not catch this himself)

Just in case: Irv Rochlin was from Chicago. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-Press-Photo-Entertainers-Lila-Leeds-Irv-Rochlin-in-Chicago-Nightclub-/401679473088?oid=372253205089#vi__app-cvip-panel Lila who? http://donstradley.blogspot.com/2014/08/lila-leeds-how-bad-can-good-girl-get.html?m=1

opinions on the two already out? and:

That is one crazy-ass letter there ... you don't happen to have ghosted it for MLW @JSngry Alas, I didn't see many of the musicians present that day - and each of them just once: - Johnny Griffin (in trio with Martial Solal and NHOP) - Benny Golson (doing his Coltrane tribute programme, with Buster Williams, Al Foster, Randy Brecker a.o.) - Sonny Rollins (in fine shape with his no more than okay band) - Hank Jones (in a pretty weird all-star gig that also included Ray Brown [now where is he on that photo?], Kenny Burrell, Mickey Roker and Bobby Hutcherson (though he seemed as if he preferred not being there and played like that, too, total lack of interest) Caught a few more that didn't make that photo shooting (Max Roach) or were probably not quite prominent enough to have been invited (Sheila Jordan, Curtis Fuller, Benny Bailey, Shirley Horn)

I just ordered the new Wadada from Barcelona ... Was wondering: has anyone started exploring the most recent Barry Guy box of goodies? https://www.nottwo.com/mw980