JETman

No, but I haven't tried in almost 20 years. Fripp, baby, what an inventive guitarist............and yet another musician who is worshipped despite his being a prick by all accounts!

I hope you were playing "Fracture" and "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 2" No...that band was a rock band - Zep, ZZ, Purple, Sabbath, Rainbow - named after the Rainbow album. The tune Difficult to Cure is Blackmore's instrumental version of the choral from Beethoven's 9th symphony. We never did get a singer. :rsmile: I was just razzing you based on what I know of your tastes in music. Can you play "Fracture"........if you really focused?

I happen to live in Westchester County, but wouldn't be caught dead reading that rag! The sports reporting has won more AP awards in the last three years than any other paper in NY. That may be so, but the Journal News is still a rag. Anyway, at least we know there will be a Michael Jackson week on Idol next year!!! Btw, MJ shared a birthday with Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington, Rebecca DeMornay and ..........ME!!! How does that make you all feel?

I hope you were playing "Fracture" and "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 2"

I happen to live in Westchester County, but wouldn't be caught dead reading that rag!

Carlos Diaz, on the other hand, hasn't a clue in his celebrity-obsessed head. No one here has made more of this than it is, other than one tragic misuse of the word "tragic". It seems to me that you're the only one getting overly dramatic with your moral majority stance. Btw, I'm a New Yorker and a baseball fan. Who the hell is Peter Abraham?

We're not trying to solve the world's problems here!!! We're just talking about music. Chill. The guy was obviously a huge talent. It's sad that he passed. That's all.

Thanks, Bev. I like my music to be a bit more daring as well. I'm starting to get the sense that as ECM ages, its repertoire as a whole is less and less likely to be daring. I could be wrong though, just my impression. FWIW, I'm a big fan of the label.

I can see that. Not sure how it did commercially but Kuhn's Live At Birdland from 2007 was very well received critically and deservingly so. This one is coming out next week and I am thinking about giving it a chance, looks intriguing: After featuring on a dozen albums with Carla Bley for WATT/ECM, Movements In Colour is Andy Sheppard s first leader album for ECM. The British saxophonist heads a specially-assembled international quintet in a program of buoyant and strongly melodic self-penned pieces. Sheppard s elegant saxophone and the strongly-contrasting guitars of Paricelli and Aarset are lifted up by the rhythmic drive of Arild Andersen s muscular bass and the crisp, dynamic tabla of Kuljit Bhamra. Been out here a while. It's nice enough especially at the start but isn't one I've been rushing to play again. I've seem some great Sheppard gigs (including one where he duetted with a bird caught in a conservatory!) but have found his discs a bit disappointing. (Having said that, I've been underwhelmed by Carla Bley since the early 80s; maybe other ears will hear more in Sheppard's disc as they do in more recent Bley). I'm considering getting this. What do you find so disappointing about it? Does it lack rhythmic presence without more traditional percussion?

According to someone at Mosaic, the replacements for disc 1 of the Armstrong set are going out this week.

I wouldn't count on it. From what I understand, Mosaic's Single series is toast. Scott Wenzel told me it wasn't a big enough seller for them to continue.

Great box! Chick's still got it goin' on

Angelica Sanchez - Mirror Me (Omnitone) with her husband Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek and Tom Rainey

IMHO, it's far better!

Yes, one cd: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7913266

Sounds like the packaging used for many classical boxed sets (Decca, EMI, DG, etc). I like it. Nothing wrong with cardboard and paper packaging; it's biodegradable and takes up less space. Amazon Canada has this for slightly more than grigorian.com, for those who don't want to register with another online store: link. Thanks to Ron S for clearing up the mystery; simple when you know how! I *think* only four of these albums have been released on CD: Porter, Gershwin, Ellington and Arlen (the last three with the relevant 1952 sessions as a bonus). Plus there was a two-disc set, The Song Is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks, released in 1996. So the 30-odd new-to-CD tracks will probably be all that were not covered by those releases. And the Kern was released last week.

Oh yeah, the 1600 series are as rare as hen's teeth. Nabbed a couple of them back in the day, which I think have seen domestic reissue. I have Sonny Clark's Blues in the Night, Herbie Nichols' Vol. Two and Sonny Rollins' Village Vanguards Vols Two and Three. I think I have a Burrell, a couple of Mobley's, and a few Jimmy Smith's.

Definitely an interesting list, including a couple of albums I wouldn't necessarily call "Prog". A little light on King Crimson though. Where's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" and "Starless and Bible Black"? :rsmile:

You're my idol! If that's so, I wonder what that makes me

Anybody have the lowdown on this yet? It's no longer listed as an import at CDU. It would be really crappy of Verve/Universal to include the Jerome Kern Songbook cd in this after releasing it separately the week before.

203-327-7111 They always answer the phone during business hours.

I believe I read somewhere that they've used the Mark Wilder 20 bit remastering from the 3 cd box set. I thought that mastering was really good, would certainly not be looking to pay for just a remaster. I agree, that's why picking this up would be re-re-redundant for many

No problem. It could be me, but this copy sounded much better than the copy with the error, soundwise.

I believe I read somewhere that they've used the Mark Wilder 20 bit remastering from the 3 cd box set.