Re: [ARSCLIST] seeking discography info -- Dizzy Gillespie album

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tom

On 05/02/07, Tom Fine wrote:
> Thanks again to all who helped with discog info.
> 
> I picked up a used copy of the CD for too much $$ via Amazon.
> 
> Typically strange behavior by Universal mega-glomerate. They reissued
> all of the Sonet jazz albums ... only in Europe. Yet, a lot of them
> were actually recorded in the USA and all but one of them feature
> exclusively American artists. Sure, Sonet was a Swedish/UK label, but
> it makes no sense not to release this worldwide, or at least in the
> country of origin of the artists and/or recordings. And, apparently,
> even though they were released in 2004, they are now out of print. And
> further bizarro, Universal didn't issue them as low-grade iTunes like
> they done with most of their jazz stuff that was out on CD and is now
> out of print.
> 
> I put my friend who is working a 15-month assignment in Sweden on the
> case and hopefully won't have to pay megabux to get the rest of this
> catalog.
> 
> Wonder how much more jazz made in USA but recorded for European and
> Asian based labels will never get reissued here???
> 
Have you checked out Amazon.de and Amazon.fr?

They are easy enough to use even if you don't speak the language,
because the layout is basically the same. If you have an account with
Amazon, it applies to all branches.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx