colinmce

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.

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.