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Hilarious!

Any good?

PM on the Kenton Presents Bob Cooper, Bill Holman & Frank Rosolino. Each disc played twice. $80. $70

Yep UK!

Hi Got this LP Blues and Brass on the Deacon (UK cheapo Label) at a very modest cost. It has big band jazz n' blues and some pretty good Hammond on it. Any of you cats know who is playing organ and orchestra?

Get it while you can - look what happened to the Roulette sets!

Interested to know what the source of your Reminiscin' CD is - Japanese? - wasn't aware that this has had a previous digital release It hasn't. Does anyone else get the irony? You are quite right - it has no official digital release and hence I do not have it I overlooked that album in the box.

Any knowledge about the source for example the Gryce Set?? Have they copied other CDs from japan etc? Needledrops?? The note on covers on Digital Mastering and Enhanced is ususally not true since they do not have access to master tapes. Usually I especially stay away from "enhanced" since it can mean added echo or ambiance on mono recordings. BTW: I have all of them Gryce CDs already - painstakingly collected over years in good sounding releases. I go for quality because quality lasts.

Well there will never be new Big Bands like Duke or Basie. Let´s face it. This CD is however well above par with modern big bands recordings.

Like the CD!!

Ordered the CD from Amazon for the full 1411kbps experience

The sound of the Curtis Fuller 2-fer is OK but not more. It is somewhat dark and muddy compared to the Original Impulse Stereo LP. A listener friend commented spontaneously about the difference the other day. Listenable of course, but Impulses can sound really great when done right on CD. Especially the japaneese K2 issues have been proven to have high SQ for me.

Listening on Spotify it really sounds like a great album - and I'm quite picky regarding Big Band recordings. Good Sound quality too ;-)

PM sent on MS-27 Al Cohn/Joe Newman/Freddie Green $40 /Shaft

Wow Duke Pearson is one of my favorites!!! If his name is on a record I buy it for sure. The Phantom and his Big band record are the most listened to by me. Great great stuff. Kudos for posting this info. Shaft

I like the Esbjörn Svensson one a couple of posts up. Great Swedish jazz!

Thanks DMP. Come to think of it I really like the "Bossa Nova USA" too Maybe not so easy to get hold of though. /Shaft

Finally got the Clark Terry for about $6 as in new condition ;-) Nice find from a private seller.

Friends - longtime Brubeck listener here. I would suggest based on what I read above: -Dave Digs Disney. -Carnegie Hall Concert 2CD(This one is great!) - Plays Music from West side story. -Gone with the wind ( a real gem) /Shaft PS Please note that the jazz world community is somewhat divided when it comes to Brubeck. Many find him heavvy handed and "block-chordy" but I have always liked him - especially together with Paul Desmond ;-)

Great!! Better than Vol 1 too.

Got the Basie already but that was really too low priced....also compared to the others..... /Shaft

Hi - we have a lover of swedish jazz here KUDOS ;-) NOPE I'm sorry to say that that particular LP cover was not there - Beautiful cover though with the girl and the saxes Here is alink that you might have heard of: Swedish jazz covers Mostly Metronome from the 60's. /Shaft PS I haven't been back since last summer.... BTW The protographers name was Bengt H Malmqvist ;-) /Shaft

Agreed I would feel the same about dumping covers. Apart from being nice to look at they give a lot of useful information that I like to read. Strangely enough the opposite happened to me last summer. I was at an Antique shop that had purchased the remaining things from a photographer. He had been on of Swedens top photographers for jazz and pop music covers. Worked for Metronome in the 60s and also was ABBAs first choice for a long period of time. Anyway under a table there was a crate of Jazz LPs which looked interesting. Skimming through the lot unveiled a lot of interesting Swedish jazz. Bernt Rosengren, Harry Arnold, Rune Gustavsson etc. etc. The covers looked like new. However one big problem ------ there were no LPs in the covers! Why so? It came to me that he had got all those LP covers as print proofs to say to the printers that the print quality was ok. Not the complete product then - ok? They were asking $1.50 each. Had it only been with the LPs in them it would have been great find indeed (and they would probably have been sold long ago). I ended up buying just one title by Harry Arnold that was more like a marketing leaflet in 12 inch size with a really great picture of Harry himself later used in the Mystery Band LP release. So the opposite can happen also ;-) /Shaft

I like your answer Big Beat Steve; I see no really disagreement here. Strangely enough I think we are adressing two (completely) different things: 1. Music listening and enjoyment. Hey you can just get a spotify account (streaming online) to enjoy the music - fine. 2. Collecting and all that goes with it. Collectors are a different breed. However music collecting and music enjoyment can, and often go, hand in hand. But not necessarily so. Music lovers don't have to be collectors and get enjoyment in OBI-strips, ear-marks, or if RVG Stamps tell you that Rudy himselt mastered the LP or CD. So let's just enjoy the music and/or the best way we can I've myself been aquiring jazz LP and then CD for about 30 years so I guess I'm the rookie here. I just wish for that I can keep on enjoying jazz for the rest of my life. /Shaft

Hi again If we are talking about CDs and LPs the cover is a PART of the product. Not only does the packaging look nice in many cases, but the cover also protects the product of course. Pretty obvious. The fact that the cover is sold with the LP makes it a part of the object sold and a LP without cover is not a complete PRODUCT. That is why the grading of LP's most often has a grading of the cover alone. The music is just as good/bad regardless of the cover. I think we agree ;-) BTW I have a relative that is quite old by now. He bought only classical music on LP. But he did not save the LPs. He traded them back after copying them on reel to reel. So in the end he had no LPs but only a massive amount of RTR-tapes. Hmmmm. And my father borrowed a lot of jazz LPs and put them on RTR. Too bad he did not buy the LPs. It would have been a nice investment /Shaft