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just rolled through the door

John Wright-Makin' Out

Hey! Where the fuck did you get that, my man???????

MG

DG (dustygroove), it's why i check it daily, for gems like that! 13.99 + shipping! and it freakin' burns.

A CD?

MG

No--Used LP. It's weird though because over the prestige design on the cover theres a sticker that says 'Status' with a weird S deisgn under it. And on the back on the upper left it has the same design, and on the upper right corner it says 'Status 7212' and also, on the botton it says.. 'For free catalog send to Status Records, 203 SO. Washington Ave, Bergenfield, N.J.' But the label on the record is a prestige yellow label. anyone have any idea what this is about? Was status records part of prestige??

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just rolled through the door

John Wright-Makin' Out

Hey! Where the fuck did you get that, my man???????

MG

DG (dustygroove), it's why i check it daily, for gems like that! 13.99 + shipping! and it freakin' burns.

A CD?

MG

No--Used LP. It's weird though because over the prestige design on the cover theres a sticker that says 'Status' with a weird S deisgn under it. And on the back on the upper left it has the same design, and on the upper right corner it says 'Status 7212' and also, on the botton it says.. 'For free catalog send to Status Records, 203 SO. Washington Ave, Bergenfield, N.J.' But the label on the record is a prestige yellow label. anyone have any idea what this is about? Was status records part of prestige??

Ah - nearly had a fit, thinking this had been reissued.

Yes, there were a lot of Prestige albums that reappeared with the Status logo - and not jusy Prestige; I've got or had MV and SV and NJ LPs with the logo on them. All NJ series LPs after 8303 were Status.

MG

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just rolled through the door

John Wright-Makin' Out

Hey! Where the fuck did you get that, my man???????

MG

DG (dustygroove), it's why i check it daily, for gems like that! 13.99 + shipping! and it freakin' burns.

A CD?

MG

No--Used LP. It's weird though because over the prestige design on the cover theres a sticker that says 'Status' with a weird S deisgn under it. And on the back on the upper left it has the same design, and on the upper right corner it says 'Status 7212' and also, on the botton it says.. 'For free catalog send to Status Records, 203 SO. Washington Ave, Bergenfield, N.J.' But the label on the record is a prestige yellow label. anyone have any idea what this is about? Was status records part of prestige??

Ah - nearly had a fit, thinking this had been reissued.

Yes, there were a lot of Prestige albums that reappeared with the Status logo - and not jusy Prestige; I've got or had MV and SV and NJ LPs with the logo on them. All NJ series LPs after 8303 were Status.

MG

I see, thanks for the info. Had no idea about Status.

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Only released last week!

A 1980 gig recorded at Salt Peanuts in New York. Etta and Houston with Sonny Phillips on organ and Frankie Jones on drums. No one else!

REALLY looking forward to listening to this! Seems to be 3 instrumentals ("Blue Monk", "Bluesology" and "Are you real" surrounding 5 vocals.

Gotta go out to get some cash soon. Have to wait 'til I get back to hear it!

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

MG

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Stumbled upon this Joe Zawinul CD 'Mauthausen. Had never heard about it. The brand new copy was on sale for a few euros.

This is what AMG says about it:

Mauthausen

mauthausen - album reviews

A little-known anomaly in the Joe Zawinul discography, Mauthausen was a multimedia event in which the Austrian-born composer/keyboardist tried to come to terms with some of the darkest hours in his country's history. It is a troubling, at times eloquent electronic tone poem that depicts life within the concentration camp near the small Austrian town of Mauthausen, where approximately 120,000 people lost their lives between the years 1938 and 1945. Anticipating limited appeal for such a project, ESC released the album only in Austria and a handful of other Central European countries. Originally presented in the camp itself in 1998 with holograms, lighting effects, and 50 speakers placed around the audience, Mauthausen is mostly a one-man show on CD; Zawinul commanding his symphonic arsenal of keyboards, with occasional narrations in German by actor Frank Hoffmann. As have a number of recent Zawinul albums, this one opens with a deep, moody pedal point in the bass, but the mood stays dark and threatening most of the way through -- a stark contrast to the bubbly, life-affirming rhythms that Zawinul had been pumping out on his jazz/world music recordings of this time. Once in a great while, a semblance of the Zawinul groove breaks out, but always in a subdued way. Mixed in are collages of storm-troopers, trains carrying the prisoners to the camp, prison doors slamming, commands of the guards, and other sound effects from wartime. As in Zawinul's symphonic poem Stories of the Danube, echoes from his jazz past turn up; this time, we hear spliced-in recordings of "Walking on a Nile" from Zawinul's Dialects. and "The Orphan" from Weather Report's 8:30 album. The latter insert is particularly appropriate, with Wayne Shorter's tenor sax and a children's chorus shouting "No More! No More!" contributing beacons of hope before Zawinul's final hymn of benediction. Obviously, for non-German speakers, some of the meaning of the piece will be lost; the booklet contains no English translations other than a brief history of the camp and the titles of the selections. But the inhumane, brooding atmosphere of the camp comes through powerfully enough in the music via a stereo CD. Although Mauthausen is not something one is likely to pull off the shelf too often, it is essential for those who want to understand all of Zawinul's long musical odyssey, and it deserves a wider release. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

mauthausen - track listing

track# song name track time

1 Introduction to a True Story

2 Tragedy

3 Life in the Concentration Camp

4 Orchestra

5 Interlude

6 Torture

7 Night

8 Executioners

9 Prayer

10 Saturday Night in the Camp

11 Wey Doo

12 Sunday in the Camp

13 Christmas 1944

14 Break Out

15 No More, No More

16 Mauthausen: In Memoriam

Will give it a listen later... when I feel more like it!

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Visited the Red Octopus store during our anniversary vacation week in Vienna to buy the second volume of the Erich Kleinschuster Sextet with guests Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, and Slide Hampton:

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Their store is nice with an excellent selection, but not cheap.

Bought several reduced items at Extraplatte:

The Herbie Nichols Project - Dr. Cyclops' Dream (Soul Note)

Tom Varner - Long Night Big Day (New World Records)

Don Braden - The New Hang (High Note)

... and, most importantly, a rare and hard to find CD with organ works by Jehan Titelouze played by Jean-Charles Ablitzer on a recently restored organ at Finistère, Brittany (audiophile recording on Harmonic Records, sounding terrific!)

(Titelouze was the first French organ composer of note - the more surprising it is there is no CD devoted to his works available.)

A visit at Vienna's prime classical store, Gramola, unearthed:

Handel, Harpsichord works Vol. 3 - Sophie Yates (Chaconne)

Darius Milhaus, Organ works - George Baker (Solstice)

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