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Thanks a lot @RiRiIII - much appreciated! An order from CDJapan with some of the first batch (#14, 15, 17, 20, is waiting to be filled as #11 is out of stock ... I've got a previous - prob. bootleg - edition of that, so no sweat). Will consider more of these (I do have previous eition of all the Shepp, Cherry and AEoC).

Excellent, glad to hear most of us who ordered got their deliveries or are about to. Really happy things did turn up well! Just started listening with Vol. 1 again today, and while sound is rough there (first gig for the engineer and his equipment, the short notes state), the music is rough, too, and bubbling and intense, and sometimes pretty wild - and that is great to witness indeed!

Yeah, mostly they're okay, but I've had some cost 30€ and turn up without 90° corners, cracks in covers (or even backs) etc. ... what started as a book dealer has generally gotten really bad at selling books (and good at supporting fascism) ... I've had plenty of new books ordered that were never delivered, i.e. the Ella Fitzgerald bio ... just gotten a new delivery estimate e-mail monthly for years, and when I canceled and created a new order for the paperback, the same thing started anew ... and of course the poor sobs in customer service have no clue. So I'm generally weary of them ... only thing that works reliably is major label music (classical CD box-sets mostly) that I pre-order or order right upon release ... if you wait a month or two, the same games started anew: monthly delivery estimate updates ... I've got a few order that have been running for two years, it'ss pathetic ... I just settled into accepting those items are oop, while amazon listed them as "in stock" for months and months - and sure I contacted customer service, see above ...) For the Ella book, currently they say 3 copies of the hardcover in stock, the paperback oop - I never got neither. https://www.amazon.de/Becoming-Ella-Fitzgerald-Transformed-American/dp/039324105X/ Sorry for the off topic excurse about lamentable american billionaires doing what they do best 🙃

Thanks, it is indeed - didn't check yet (one thing I'm really weary of is all the cheap - and not so cheap, price-wise - print on demand crappily crappily printed books amazon is selling nowadays ... but with a new book there's hope at least in the first few months they'll sell decent copies).

Okay, tried completing the order but it fails - seems they don't ship to Europe at all. Too bad, but worth a try.

20-25$ would be realistic for shipping, I think... probably after passing the order they will reach out about that? I have only gone through it until before payment and then stopped because it seemed wrong.

They are there now! Anybody done a complete list of the reissues and care to share? Would be much appreciated!

Agreed, indeed! Thanks Dan! But I wonder: free international shipping - can that be correct?

Yep, up to Vol. 11!

Got my CDs today from SoundOhm – yowzah! They missed one and included another one twice, so I'll have to deal with a return – but compared with what we assumed the situation to be just a few weeks ago, that's pretty great!

Ended up with both and the sound is quite similar (not to say almost identical) to these ears... not great, but very much okay. Guess I'll pass on the ezz-thetics, as I already have a reissue of "Three for Shepp" (Impulse Master Edition or whatever that was called, bought around 25 years ago, I guess.

Thanks, haven't checked the video material yet. Quite crazy how much music was performed at these sessions! And even crazier that all of it was recorded and eventually broadcast, too!

Not sure I have the recordings any longer, but here's some info for what was/is in circulation (there may be more accurate listings available, this here dates from 2006): Baden-Baden Free Jazz Meeting 1970 Südwestfunk Studios, Baden-Baden, Germany December 1970 (approx 7th - 12th) collective personnel: Don Cherry - trumpet, flute Manfred Schoof - trumpet Tomasz Stanko - trumpet Paul Rutherford - trombone Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone Steve Lacy - soprano sax John Tchicai - soprano & alto sax Trevor Watts - alto sax Willem Breuker - alto & tenor sax, clarinet Peter Brötzmann - alto, tenor & baritone sax John Surman - baritone sax Derek Bailey - guitar Gunter Hampel - vibes, bass clarinet Joachim Kühn - piano, alto sax Irene Aebi - violin, vocals Dave Holland - bass, cello Barre Phillips - bass Johnny Dyani - bass, cello Peter Warren - bass John Stevens - drums, percussion, cnt Han Bennink - drums, percussion, dhung Stu Martin - drums Pierre Favre - drums, percussion Karin Krog - vocals Norma Winstone - vocals ************************************************************ CD1/60:41 01. Let's Sing For Him (March In Memory of Albert Ayler) (John Stevens) 5:00 All musicians, solos: Cherry, Krog, Winstone 02. Piece for Two Quintets (Zwei Quintette) (John Tchicai) 11:29 John Tchicai Double Quintet (Stanko, Rutherford, Breuker, Watts, Bennink, Hampel, Lacy, Brotzmann, Bailey, Kühn) 03. After the Fight (John Stevens) 15:01 Schoof, Mangelsdorff, Lacy, Watts, Surman, Kühn, Phillips, Winstone 04. Duo No. 1 (Bailey-Holland) 2:12 Bailey, Holland 05. Sound As Time (Sound IS Time?) (Warren-Favre) 7:12 Warren, Favre 06. Duo No. 2 (Bailey-Holland) 4:38 Bailey, Holland 07. Depressions and Illusions From Peers Castle 3:08 Kuhn, Krog 08. Toy Room (Holland) Holland, Winstone 09. Man Peter (Schoof-Warren) [inc] Warren, Schoof 10. Birthday (solo) Kuhn Notes: - maybe sequencing should be: 1-2-3-5-9-4-6 (not sure where 7,8,10 fit in) - Duo No. 2 is probably actually Duo No. 2 (2:27) and Duo No. 3 (2:06) ************************************************************ CD2/69:29 01. Different Things 18:26 Kuhn, Warren, Favre 02. Whole Earth Catalog (Don Cherry) 24:46 All musicians 03. Blue Lake 10:51 Don Cherry Workshop (Holland, Warren, Dyani, Bennink) 04. Nude Minor Chase 15:23 Johnny Dyani Quintet (Lacy, Hampel, Holland, Bennink) ************************************************************ CD3/36:04 01. Round and Round and Then We Danced (Johnny Dyani) 11:30 Johnny Dyani Sextet (Bailey, Kühn, Phillips, Bennink, Favre) 02. The Day the Child Cried (Trad.) 6:40 Tomasz Stanko with the Baden-Baden Big Band incl. Cherry, Schoof, Lacy, Watts, Tchicai, Breuker, Hampel, Holland, Warren, Dyani, Stevens, Favre 03. First Duo (Schoof-Kühn) 3:55 Schoof, Kühn 04. Interactions 13:56 Manfred Schoof Septet (Tchicai, Hampel, Breuker, Warren, Stevens, Favre) ************************************************************ CD4/68:37 01. Ballad For Friends (Stanko-Komeda) 10:19 Tomasz Stanko Sextet (Lacy, Kühn [as], Holland, Warren, Favre) 02. Inspiration No. 2 (Manfred Schoof) 7:43 Schoof, Kuhn and Holland Trio 03. Precipitation Suite (Steve Lacy) 8:21 Cherry, Lacy, Aebi, Bennink, Krog, Winstone 04. Lizabeth (Peter Warren) 10:50 Stanko, Mangelsdorff, Lacy, Surman, Hampel, Kühn, Warren, Phillips, Holland, Dyani, Martin, Favre 05. A-C (Dave Holland) 5:06 Holland 06. Solo in a Ballad Mood (Joachim Kühn) 5:14 Kühn 07. Es Zeet (Willem Breuker) 5:02 Hampel, Breuker, Bennink 08. Women's Liberation No. 1 (Krog-Winstone) 6:26 Krog, Winstone, Holland, Stevens 09. Prana (Karin Krog) 5:47 Krog, Cherry, Dyani (cello), Holland, Warren, Bennink 10. Lazy Afternoon (Latouche-Ross) 3:42 Winstone, Kühn, Holland, Favre ************************************************************ CD5/65:11 01. Let's Enjoy This Day (John Taylor) 4:42 Winstone, Kühn, Warren, Favre 02. Please (Robert Creeley) 1:27 Krog, Favre 03. Santa Monica (Joachim Kühn) 2:11 Krog solo (vocals, Ring Modulator) 04. Song From Peer's Castle 3:49 Krog, Kuhn 05. Women's Liberation No. 2 (Krog-Winstone) 6:29 Krog, Winstone, Holland, Stevens 06. Celebration Music (Gunter Hampel) 29:28 Cherry, Mangelsdorff, Lacy, Tchicai, Breuker, Hampel, Holland, Bennink, a.o. 07. Centering of the Celebration Music (Gunter Hampel) 6:56 Tchicai, Hampel, Breuker, Cherry, Mangelsdorff, Dyani, Bennink? or same as #6? 08. Near Tear One 10:04 Paul Ruthorford with Lacy, Stanko, Bailey, Holland, Warren, Favre, Winstone, Krog ************************************************************ CD6/52:31 01. Sometimes We Walk Home (Albert Mangelsdorff) 9:45 Mangelsdorff, Rutherford, Brötzmann, Breuker, Hampel, Bailey, Kühn, Bennink 02. Trauermusik (Willem Breuker) 8:10 Breuker, Rutherford, Tchicai, Warren 03. Gut und Böse 9:26 (poss. something else - was labelled as a Kuhn-Favre duo) Kühn, Favre 04. Floating Room 10:23 Holland, Winstone 05. Unknown Title 9:49 Mangelsdorff, Kühn, Holland, Martin 06. Inspiration No. 1 (Manfred Schoof) 4:54 Schoof, Kühn, Holland ************************************************************ 6 CD/TT: 5:52:37

Earle Warren is pretty great here! Quite rough, with an r&b'ish delivery.

Good to know, thanks for sharing!