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Sun Song and Sound of Joy on Delmark CD. both possibly out of print technically, but not hard to find, and not expensive.

I get the sense from the release that the sampler is just a teaser and not indicative of future releases being digital-only.

This seems very promising. So far SE reissues have been mostly vinyl-only or from P-Vine, and absurdly expensive either way. Mack Ave does CDs, and very affordable ones to boot.

Generally, yes, though you have to be patient sometimes. I find this applies pretty much only to the 80s-2000s sets. The more recent ones, from the last 15 years or so, still go for list price and higher. The Braxton and Threadgill sets are still very high in demand. The classic jazz sets they did in the 2010s (Hawk, Pres/Basie, Hines, Webb/Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Condon/Freeman etc) are still very expensive. None of these seemed to last very long, and I think they pressed far, far fewer than they did of the older ones from the heyday of the CD era.

Nothing in print as far as I know. In the years since this thread was started the RCA material has come out piecemeal on various sets. The old 4xCD RCA box (1997 & 2001 editions) spans 1932-1947 with 2 tracks from 1956 The Complete Masters 1925-45, a 14xCD set on Universal France: https://www.discogs.com/release/9969471-Louis-Armstrong-The-Complete-Masters-1925-45 The Okeh, Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings - 1925-1933, a 10xCD box set on Sony: https://www.discogs.com/release/6023663-Louis-Armstrong-The-Okeh-Columbia-RCA-Victor-Recordings-1925-1933 The Fremeaux & Associates Integrale series of 3xCD sets than runs from the beginning up through 1949 and contains most/all of his recorded material during that span: https://www.discogs.com/label/1533003-Intégrale-Louis-Armstrong

Both of the BPA discs with Lyle are amazing, but I might say the one with Jaap Blonk is even better.

NEW [Ahmed]- Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) AALY Trio - Sustain (Silkheart) Sophie Agnel/John Edwards/Steve Noble - Three On A Match (Otoroku) Chris Byars - Boptics (SteepleChase) Günter Christmann & Nikolas Fite - Insisting (Corbett Vs. Dempsey) Marilyn Crispell/Jason Stein/Damon Smith/Adam Shead - Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) Kris Davis Trio - Run The Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) Ron Horton - A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle) Darius Jones - The Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (Aum Fidelity) Joëlle Léandre & Lauren Newton - Great Star Theater, San Francisco (Other Minds) Allen Lowe And The Constant Sorrow Orchestra - Louis Armstrong's America Volumes 1 & 2 (ESP-Disk) K. Curtis Lyle/George R. Sams/Adi Bu Dharma Joshua Weinstein/Damon Smith/Ra Kalaam Bob Moses/Henry Claude - 29 Birds You Never Heard (Balance Point Acoustics) + K. Curtis Lyle/Jaap Blonk/Alex Cunningham/Damon Smith/Kevin Cheli - A RADIO OF THE BODY 7 NEUTRINO BROADCASTS SEARCHING FOR 8 (Balance Point Acoustics) Jordina Milla & Barry Guy - Live In Munich (ECM) Roscoe Mitchell - One Head, Four People (Wide Hive) Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver - the blacksmiths, the flowers (Reading Group) Jowee Omicil - Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite (Bash! Village/Modular) Evan Parker - The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc. (False Walls) William Parker & Ellen Christi - Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) Jeremy Pelt - Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) Jim Rotondi - Finesse (Cellar Music) Lisa Ullén - Heirloom (Fönstret) ARCHIVAL & REISSUES Atrás del Cosmos - Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (Blank Forms Editions) Rolf Billberg - At Subland, Malmö, Sweden 1965 (Steeplechase) Black Artist Group - For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds) Arthur Blythe Quartet - Rivbea Live! Series Vol. 2 (NoBusiness) Karen Borca Trio Quartet & Quintet - Good News Blues: Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (NoBusiness) Charles Gayle/Milford Graves/William Parker - WEBO (Black Editions Archive) + Charles Gayle & Szilárd Mezei Quartet (Bass) – Oils (Fundacja Słuchaj!) Children of the Sun - Ofamfa (Moved By Sound) Barry Guy - Plays (Maya Recordings) Andrew Hill Sextet +10 - A Beautiful Day, Revisited (Palmetto) Byard Lancaster - The Complete Palm Recordings 1973-1974 (Souffle Continu) Phill Niblock - Boston Tenor Index (Alga Marghen) Charlie Parker - Bird In Kansas City (Verve) Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) Cecil Taylor Unit - Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9 & 10, 1980 First Visit (ezz-thetics) Various - Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions (Mosaic)

Interesting, that's good to know re: Dixon, had never seen that factchecked before. Guessing there's plenty of unissued Sunny to go around, would make a good box set to include the album takes alongside some other material.

Always been curious about the outtakes from Joe McPhee's Linear B sessions. Some 59 improvisations were recorded. I can't imagine something couldn't be fashioned from the tapes if they still exist. Sunny Murray Columbia session Steve Lacy - Stations So much Marion Brown from NYC ca. 64-67 ... music with Bill Dixon, Sunny Murray, Coltrane, Jacques Coursil Would be nice to get some additional documentation from Cecil Taylor's later years. The trio with Grimes & AkLaff and the orchestra, specifically. And of course forever holding out hope that more Coltrane from 1966/67 can be uncovered, studio or live.

It's an honorable operation, and this sounds like a good plan. But their holdings are about 95% new stock and I rarely leave there with more than a couple neat CDs from the dollar bin.

2 new box sets, 7 and 4 discs apiece, celebrating the 70th birthdays of Agustí Fernández & Zlatko Kaučič: https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/aesthetic-of-prisms https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/inklings

Fully seconded, awesome, awesome album. The first thing that jumped out at me was the bass playing.

The Lugano recording has been available in truncated form on streaming services for years. It's solid and generally interesting, though I agree that Wedgle is not one of Steve's more inspiring partners.

Very legit label. They've done a number of FMP vinyl reissues to date and many original releases. Though it's not clear, my presumption is that they're working from the tapes, and the great musician & engineer Martin Siewert does the mastering. Their packaging for both CD and LP is top notch.

Copper Press was a great magazine! Used to read it as often as I could get my hands on one.