colinmce

I came across this a couple years back in a dollar bin and grabbed it. I would say it's probably of limited interest to any jazz fan, but it's fun to have: https://www.discogs.com/release/27294612-George-Braith-Turn-Of-The-Century Has anyone heard Double Your Pleasure - Live At The University Of The Street? It's a jazz-centric session released by Bellaphon in Germany in 1992:

Unfortunately I have found that the sets released in the last decade or so tend to be the ones that go for the most on CD these days. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that very few were actually manufactured and sold, certainly well below the limit. This is when the sets started to only be around for months, if not in came cases even weeks. Referring to, for instance: Coleman Hawkins, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, Chick/Ella, Louis Live, Beehive, Savoy/Dial, Woody Shaw Muse, Condon/Freeman, Teddy Wilson. The last two Selects (Tolliver & Rivers) are the same-- based on how much I see them on the resale market vs. the other titles I would really wonder if more than a few hundred were even made. If I recall these went OOP pretty much immediately. Some that directly precede this era also go for quite a bit, but I think this has more to do with the popularity/desirability of the music, i.e. Braxton, Threadgill, Mingus 64/65, Clifford Jordan, Ahmad Jamal. Otherwise, with a few exceptions previously mentioned (Ferguson, Basie Live Roulette, Nat King Cole, etc.) I find a lot of the 90s/early 00s CD sets especially do not go for all that much anymore. I have acquired a bunch in the last year or two for $50 or less. Frankly the only thing keeping some of these sets above bargain prices at all is the Mosaic aura. Much of the music is losing its audience rapidly. As far as most valuable non-monetarily? If we're talking about the sweet spot between musical quality and (lack of) availability of the material, I would posit the Mingus Workshop set, where some of the material is *only* available there and is all of astounding musical quality. I would also never want to give up my Bradford/Carter Select due to the extra tracks and unreleased session. One final gripe! Most of the Singles do not go for much at all, except the Helen Merrill/Dick Katz, which people try to sell for absurd sums online for reasons I frankly cannot quite grasp. I have both of the EmArcy EU CDs of this music, but I would love a copy of the Mosaic someday as well.

Just saw this, which should be excellent: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-fingers-remember-mingus

Yes, it's tremendous. I might still give the original Intakt disc the edge by a hair but it's truly wonderful music. Others may feel differently, but I find that the blending of classical and jazz forms by this ensemble is at a stage beyond what anyone has achieved in the past. It feels as though it could be Guy's life's work.

A few off the top of my head: Reggie Johnson Vattel Cherry Motoharu Yoshizawa John Lockwood Ed Schuller Jay Oliver Doug Matthews Earl Freeman Lisle Ellis Russell Thorne Chuck Domanico Alexander Frangenheim Kiyoshi Tokunaga Hans Schneider These folks are maybe just outside the bounds of both obscurity and underratedness, but I will still throw in 3 of my pantheon bassists: Sirone Alan Silva Buschi Niebergall

He mostly plays cello and appears on several excellent recordings by Joel Futterman and Paul Murphy.

Great price on the RRK box, a prized possession in my household.

Second Clifford on Tenor, in my opinion it's the greatest of them all. I'm glad it's getting a reissue, hopefully it will get some attention, though I'm going to assume that Black Magic Man will be the one people want to talk about most. Variations On A Blue Line and Graphics are two other excellent early McPhee solos on Hat Hut. As Serious As Your Life is incredible, but it's not strictly saxophone. That FJB list is pretty thorough but I would especially call out Lone-Lee as an essential listen, particularly in its unedited CD form. This one just really gets my mind humming. I like Ken Vandermark's solo music quite a bit. Furniture Music might be the place to start, but A Knife In The Water and The Field Within A Line are strong as well. Charles Gayle's Unto I Am is mostly sax/reeds and is great. Seymour Wright's Seymour Writes Back is a masterpiece Kang Tae Hwan – Live At Café Amores and Makoto Kawashima – Homo Sacer are both fascinating Ab Baars has a few very good solo albums (Verderame, Time To Do My Lions, And She Speaks) Haven't listened to too much solo Mats but Torturing The Saxophone is a blast. The Steve Lacy tribute is also deep.

Correct, + Lyons, Grimes, and Cyrille.

Not linking it, but for interested parties there is a European CD of this performance around now, inexplicably crediting Donald Byrd, Steve Lacy, Denis Charles, and Wendell Marshall as the group. Tells you rather all you need to know about the credibility of the pressing but carpe diem if you see fit. (inexplicable in that it's clearly not true, but this is a mish-mash of credits from the 1957 Newport recordings)

I'm a big fan of this one, however for some reason or another I got rid of it at one point and it's not so easy to replace for the amount I bought it for the first time:

I find the Mooscius 2xCD to be fine enough, I certainly didn't notice anything when I listened to it. Like all of these Revisited endeavors, this pairing makes little sense and is redundant, especially given the very handsome 1990s Impulse! CD edition of Three For Shepp which was of course remastered from the original master tapes.

I came across the first two volumes over the last couple years and really enjoy them. I should seek out the rest.

Yes, all in the US. I have them all as well, so I don’t think I will be getting this either. It always surprised me they didn’t do this one in the 90s before some of these were reissued, it would’ve been major. But I’m likewise glad Michael committed to getting all of this music released into the general market.

Throwing my 2 cents in to agree with Clifford. Flaherty is definitely an American original. I personally feel that the first Dragonfly Breath CD is one of the greatest free improv discs of the last 20 years. His two duo CDs with Marc Edwards on Cadence are both great and might scratch an itch for someone who's not all the way on board with Corsano's approach. Fat Onions is another good Cadence title that you could test the waters with. Also agree with mjazzg re: Jumala, very good record.

His debut Score is sort of evenly split between excellent burning hard bop and very corny proto-jazz rock, but it's worth a listen for the strength of the former. And he is heard extensively on the Pendulum Mosaic Select, which is incredible up and down. Some others I can think of: Everything Is Everything - Just Flash In The Cosmic Pan (Columbia Japan) - more free than straight ahead (don't forget he was in the JCO!). Desperately needs a reissue. Horace Silver - In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note) Hal Galper - Reach Out (Steeplechase) Marc Copland Quintet - Stompin' With Savoy (Savoy) Marc Copland/Randy Brecker - Both/And (Nagel Hayer) John Scofield - Quiet (Verve) Lew Tabackin - Tenority (Concord) The Mingus Dynasty - Mingus' Sound of Love (Soul Note) Richie Bierach - Some Other Time: A Tribute To Chet Baker (Triolka) Miroslav Vituous - Universal Syncopations II (ECM) And I agree his playing on those great Grolnick albums is excellent.

Pretty silly & inconsequential article that doesn't really say anything much at all. I've tried to listen to her playing as widely as I can. Sometimes it really clicks, other times it doesn't. Bahkti is a strong recording, and I've particularly enjoyed some sets from YouTube with gabby fluke-mogul as a foil. I saw her play a truly stunning duet with Joe McPhee a few months ago that proved she has an advanced ability to listen. It just doesn't seem like she puts herself in the position to do that very much right now. I will just say that what I heard of the Beings album did not do a thing for me and leave it at that.

One of one. The history of recorded jazz music as we know it today would be incalculably different without his contributions. RIP.

Great set musically and quite possibly the total apex of the 1990s haute design phase in CD reissues.

Miles @ Plugged Nickel and Bill Evans & Coltrane at the Vanguard '61 seem a little too on the nose, so excepting those: Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Willisau) 1991 John Coltrane - Live In Japan Chick Corea & Origin - A Week At The Blue Note Miles Davis - In Stockholm 1960 Complete DKV Trio & Joe McPhee - The Fire Each Time The Ella Fitzgerald And Duke Ellington Côte D'Azur Concerts On Verve Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz – Two Not One Pendulum - Mosaic Select 32: Live At The Village Vanguard Cecil Taylor - In Berlin '88 The Braxton and Marsh/Konitz each have some studio sessions, but I think they meet the spirit. One that doesn't quite, but comes close, would be the Mingus 64/65 Workshop Mosaic, which would certainly rate as my favorite live box set of all. Per the Jarrett Blue Note box, another one that I find equally interesting and equally exhausting is Bill Evans' Turn Out The Stars

Young's book will be necessary.

What a fine sight. Came away with the Holman/Russo Charts, HRS, and Illinois Jacquet boxes and will surely be back for more.

5 minute drive from my work. I’ll be keeping an eye on those Mosaics.

Nelson plays on The Pawnbroker but it was composed, arranged, and conducted by Quincy Jones.

+1, the Cook doesn't hurt to read, but won't tell you much. Reading Cuscuna and Blumental is the way to go.