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I fear this might take a while...

In a way that's actually somewhat close.

*bump* The "guess who" competition ends this Sunday, so if you haven't sent your answer yet, it's about time!

It has, but only in Japan. Quite hard to get (and obviously expensive if you CAN find it).

After seeing the topic shortened to "Hiromi on Marian McPartland..." on the forum overview page, I think I know what you meant after all... Btw, two of the tunes played on this show will be on the new Hiromi album - Caravan and I Got Rhythm (the latter even as a similar solo piano version).

Looking around on the NPR website I found that Hiromi was the featured guest on Marian McPartland's legendary "Piano Jazz" show in October 2004 - you can check out the whole show here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=18821935

There's a short sample up at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?saId=89289435 But it's not exactly the most exciting excerpt from the CD, I guess... Btw, it seems like it will be released in Germany first - this Friday!

I can't wait to finally get my hands on that Louis Smith album.

Well, the backing keys were arranged by the band themselves (just two guys at this point - a drummer and a guitarist with some keyboard experience). The solos in question however are all played by one guy!

Hi there, my good friends from the instrumental prog band Relocator have almost completed work on their debut CD. Despite working on the album for over two years, they still haven't found a permanent keyboard player. So in the end a very special guest was brought in to play all the keyboard solos. The identity of that guest will be revealed shortly, but until then you can win one of five copies of the CD if you can guess who it is from the sound samples. For further details please check out the blog over at www.myspace.com/relocator And PLEASE: Don't post your guesses here! I will be watching this thread and it'd be great to get some discussion going, but if you're going to guess, send your guess via email (see the blog for details) and don't spoil the game by posting it here!

I actually wanted to post this on "The Real Allan Holdsworth Forum" first, but since "the administrator" hasn't bothered to leave an email address where I could reach him and my freshly registered account still hasn't been activated, I fear this might take much longer than anticipated... Anyway, here goes: Some of you may know that a live DVD of the Allan Holdsworth/Alan Pasqua quartet has been released not too long ago. I asked the production company if we could expect a Blu-ray release since it says "filmed in high definition" on the DVD cover. The answer: "Yes, we are hoping within the next 6 months". This is going to be awesome!

I got my stuff, too. Recommended!

It's strictly chronological and some sessions were indeed spread over two discs (all of those CDs are chock-full with music, the shortest clocking in at 73:18 and three going over 79 minutes!). But it's not like the original releases were much better in that respect. For example, the quartet date with Mal Waldron from February 15 1957 was spread over four LPs/CDs originally - here all of the tracks are on one disc.

Yeah, seriously - what's the point here?

How about an Al Cohn Xanadu recordings set?

I'm a huge Hiromi nut, so please bear with me if this sounds like a press release. I had to compile this information from several sites (some in Japanese) myself. The new album from Hiromi's Sonicbloom is called Beyond Standard - here's the cover art: As indicated by its title, the new album features several popular tunes and jazz standards reworked to fit the sound of Hiromi's Sonicbloom. As on the band's last album Time Control, once again Hiromi's trio with Tony Grey (bass) and Martin Valihora (drums) is joinedby the very unique guitarist Dave Fiuczynski. Here's the track listing: 1. Intro: Softly, as in a morning sunrise 2. Softly, as in a morning sunrise 3. Clair de lune (Claude Debussy) 4. Caravan 5. Ue O Muite Aruko (a Japanese folk song, also known as "The Sukiyaki Song") 6. My Favorite Things 7. Led Boots (from Jeff Beck's "Wired") 8. XYG 9. I Got Rhythm 10. Return of Kung-Fu World Champion (Japanese bonus track) * * recorded live in December 2007 at the International Forum And yes, according to bassist Tony Grey XYG is a reworking of XYZ from Hiromi's debut CD. I wonder if the G stands for guitar as Dave Fiuczynski didn't play on the original trio version. I expect I Got Rhythm to be a solo piano performance as it was at recent live shows. There will also be a two disc Limited Edition with a bonus DVD, this time (it's the third Hiromi bonus DVD - why don't they just release a full-blown concert DVD of her band?) it will feature the songs "Time Difference" and "Deep Into The Night." The album will be released on May 28 in Japan and June 10 in the US, I guess the European release date will be close to the American one.

And thanks to idiotic decisions like this we are now better off with reissues by the likes of Fresh Sound Records and Lonehill Jazz (who have actually included both of the two Zoot Sims albums mentioned before in their entirety on one disc). The music industry as we knew it really did dig its own grave, no doubt about it.

That goes only for those albums that I already have in my collection!

I sent a PM before the first of you guys replied to this thread.

that would be a great idea, really... for instance a 2CD set of the Gryce albums w/Williams (I struggled to find all of them for a while, they're fine!), or they could do something about the Jackie McLean sessions (though most of us will have most of them by now, I guess...), or even less obvious/famous guys like Bennie Green, hell why not!? I agree. It seems like they WANT to leave some of the business to the public domain labels. Even some of the two-fers they have now re-issued as single CDs are rather puzzling (like the Stan Getz one that includes the Tjader sextet date and a wild mix of his earlier quartet sessions for Prestige, none of the latter complete IIRC).

I'll pick this one up when I see it without the annoying CopyCrap that EMI Europe put on all BN discs at the time.

Well, Art disagrees with you, but what does he know about that... The suggestion was that Pepper became a lesser musician because he listened to Coltrane. I don't hear that, but maybe you do? Now why would I think that your suggestion was that there was no "Coltrane influence????" at all since "The only thing that came out of Art Pepper's horn was his own experiences"?

I agree with that. The two-LPs-on-one-CD Connoisseur disc is certainly worth getting!

Well, Art disagrees with you, but what does he know about that...

For now let's hope those two tracks are on the disc after all. I wish they'd release Yusef Lateef's 1984 on CD. It's available on iTunes and if you're an American, you can even get it as a Verve HD Download (why this isn't offered to Europeans will forever remain a mystery to me...) and it was released on CD in Japan (long out of print and hard to get these days), why not give us a regular CD release at last? Anyone here have a contact there?