colinmce

It's tremendous, but a lot to take in. I'm going to have to spend more time with it. Ultimately, I prefer Wood Blues.

If anyone missed out on the [Ahmed] 5xCD box set, it looks like he ran a second printing: https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-beauty

I agree, it’s a pretty poor and baffling choice.

Just announced: https://first-archive-visit.bandcamp.com/album/1964-recordings-first-visit-completed 1–6 recorded September 3rd, 1964 Live at Club Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark 7–9 recorded September 10th, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark 10–15 recorded September 14, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark 16–21 recorded November 9, 1964 in Hilversum, The Netherland

Yes, I discovered this upon revisiting it a couple years ago. For whatever reason I remembered Happenings to be a little slight, and Oblique to be the stronger of the two. I found that I had it completely flipped. There's some very deep & outre stuff on there!

9/3 is right. The Copenhagen Tapes has the 6 9/3/64 tracks and the 3 from 9/10/64. https://www.ayler.co.uk/html/copenhagentapes.html

I believe this is erroneously dated on the Philology LP. It is from 9/26/64, the total of which was released on The Copenhagen Tapes (Ayler)/Copenhagen Live 1964 (hatOLOGY)/European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (ezz-thetics)

I'm not too sure about the Vanguard piano and V-Disc big bands sets, but I am all in for the Vanguard swing, and am curious to see what's on the V-Disc small groups one. Glad to hear they are staying busy.

They just added the rest of the Freedom & Fontana titles; went back for another big stack and now I think I can tap out. Grabbed the new Ofamfa CD reissue as well. Phew!

Finally grabbed the Jym Young, looking forward to hearing it for the first time.

DG has massively reduced these @ 8.99 apiece. They have quite a few titles in stock still, including Cowell, Andrew Hill, Tchicai, Jym Young, AEC, Marion Brown etc etc.

I love The Band, but I would honestly wonder how much they really varied their setlist and performances. I think it would be even bigger overkill than with the Dylan material.

Excellent choices. Marshall Allen is long overdue, and I’m very happy to see Marilyn included.

One of my favorite musicians. A trailblazer and truly a great master of this music. She leaves behind an astounding legacy, least of all as a co-founder of the ever strong Intakt label. RIP with gratitude.

Thanks for the heads up. I will pitch something in.

I love everything Dylan has done, but yes this has always been my least favorite. The arrangements and playing are too muscular and lack character. I almost sense that he didn't know what he was doing yet. The process of radical refinement would begin with Rolling Thunder and continue to the present day, but this tour has always just sounded like overkill to me.

Very sad news. RIP.

I think I might know who you're talking about and that guy is an asshole.

Wow. Interested in the Nate Morgan session, but the Mateen & Hart ones sound incredible.

Always happy to hear your thoughts. I haven't been listening to as many new releases as usual this year.

This was a fine band and I'll be happy to check this out, but when I heard about this series my gut sense was that it would all be pretty recent stuff of potentially mixed interest.

This is an excellent recent-ish disc that's worth tracking down:

as a younger collector (a spry 40) I fully support giving your collection away to someone like myself if you can but in all seriousness this is what I would like to do when my time comes if it’s possible. resale and donation seem only rarely viable, and it would go against my principles to see a record store offering pieces from my collection for arbitrary & predatory “internet” prices.

It appears that this CD also contains the Charles Shaw Moers LP Streets of Saint Louis, which is wild! I will definitely keep my eyes out for it.

I personally think the Select is perfect, though I agree Montara would fit both spiritually and on the level of quality. Same is true of the Montreux recordings but both those and Montara stand well alone on their individual CD issues. Linger Lane and Natural Illusions are worth a listen for the curious and completist but I have never been able to get much out of them over time. Head On quite frankly never did anything for me either, though I know a lot of people like it quite a bit. My final bit of unsolicited opinionating is that I would lop San Francisco off the new Mosaic. It's quite a good date but I don't find it to be on the level of the rest, the sound is spiritually just a bit different; the run from The Kicker through Spiral/Medina is just as perfect a program of music as you could ever ask for.