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I see you've gone for the Hackett. Good move - I've done the same. Yes, with all the Selects suddenly hitting the "running low" list (glad I got the Booby a few months ago - came back in stock and out it goes ... the end of the Selects is pretty near now, alas!) I figured I'll just put in another big order. I'm nearing - for the very first time after nearly 20 years of collecting Mosaic boxes - the state of having almost all I want (missing the Luncerford, Artie Shaw, not sure about the Crosby and the Goodman ... skipping the Satchmo, not sure about Ella and Woody Shaw either yet ... and the new Satchmo will go to the wantlist immediately although probably I won't pre-order. I kinda feel ... saturated Seriously now, I enjoy Hackett's playing where he popped up so far (including the two albums he made with Teagarden) and even though it will probably not turn out a real "must have", it would be one of those cases where I'd be angry at myself for missing it (there are a few of those, but I've found a dozen or so OOP sets in the meantime, although usually not at crazily cheap prices, but affordable and fair).

€ 19.79 at amazon.fr (somewhat more on amazon.de) - indeed pretty okay I'd say!

okay, so who starts the "grumpy old men and their sleep issues" thread?

Why? If they're nicely produced LPs like the Connoisseurs from the mid/late 90s, and if they don't ask crazy prices like those collector's rip-off hi-end 350 gram vinyl labels reissuing every track on a separate 7" at 78 rpm or some such ... I might actually be in for a few favourites on vinyl. Anyway, obviously they could try and get back into documenting at least *some* new stuff, but hey, the NoJo days have gone and come and BN hasn't been what it was for quite a while.

Thanks for posting these lists, will have to look more closely ... some albums might be of interest indeed!

Well, some folks' Blu Spec CD 2 is vinyl, you know?

wish I could grab these two special reissues someplace, but I know of but one shop joining these silly RSD procedures here and I have no idea if they bother about jazz at all ... there's also this: BLUE NOTE RECORDS 75th ANNIVERSARY VINYL INITIATIVE Blue Note will commence an extensive 100-album vinyl reissue initiative on March 25 with the release of five classic titles (Art Blakey Free For All, John Coltrane Blue Train, Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch, Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil, and Larry Young Unity). The vinyl releases are set to continue monthly and will also include modern classics from Blue Note’s recent catalog such as Joe Lovano Quartets: Live At The Village Vanguard, Jason Moran Soundtrack To Human Motion, Terence Blanchard Flow, Medeski Martin & Wood Combustication, and Cassandra Wilson Traveling Miles. Click here for the full list of vinyl releases. Blue Note President Don Was says, “Two years ago, we began remastering the jewels of the Blue Note catalog in hi-def resolutions of 96k and 192k. In order to develop a guiding artistic philosophy for this delicate endeavor, we donned our lab coats, ran dozens of sonic experiments and carefully referenced every generation of our reissues. Ultimately, we decided that our goal would be to protect the original intentions of the artists, producers and engineers who made these records and that, in the case of pre-digital-era albums, these intentions were best represented by the sound and feel of their first-edition vinyl releases. Working with a team of dedicated and groovy engineers, we found a sound that both captured the feel of the original records while maintaining the depth and transparency of the master tapes... the new remasters are really cool! While these new versions will become available in digital hi-def, CD and Mastered for iTunes formats, the allure of vinyl records is WAY too potent to ignore. This year, Blue Note - along with our friends at Universal Music Enterprises - is launching a major 75th Anniversary vinyl Initiative that is dedicated to the proposition that our catalog should be readily available at a low cost, featuring high quality pressings and authentic reproductions of Blue Note's iconic packaging. Although this program begins in celebration of Blue Note's 75th Anniversary, our catalog runs so deep that we will faithfully be reissuing five albums a month for many years to come!” [...] For Record Store Day in April, Blue Note will also reissue the label’s first two releases as limited edition 12” vinyl: Meade “Lux” Lewis “Melancholy”/”Solitude” (BN1) and Albert Ammons “Boogie Woogie Stomp”/”Boogie Woogie Blues” (BN2). Other catalog releases, including a 75-track digital bundle spanning Blue Note’s entire history, will be announced shortly. http://www.bluenote.com/news/blue-note-announces-75th-anniversary-vinyl-in AVAILABLE MARCH 25, 2014 ART BLAKEY - FREE FOR ALL WAYNE SHORTER - SPEAK NO EVIL JOHN COLTRANE - BLUE TRAIN ERIC DOLPHY - OUT TO LUNCH LARRY YOUNG - UNITY AVAILABLE APRIL 22, 2014 ORNETTE COLEMAN - AT THE "GOLDEN CIRCLE" STOCKHOLM, VOL. 1 HERBIE HANCOCK - MAIDEN VOYAGE SONNY ROLLINS - A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - SOMETHIN' ELSE DEXTER GORDON - OUR MAN IN PARIS AVAILABLE MAY 27, 2014 Horace Silver - Song For My Father McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy Grant Green - Idle Moments Hank Mobley - Soul Station Madlib - Shades Of Blue AVAILABLE JUNE 24, 2014 Dexter Gordon - Go Lee Morgan - Cornbread Bobby Hutcherson - Total Eclipse Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack Medeski Martin & Wood - Combustication AVAILABLE JULY 29, 2014 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Donald Byrd - Black Byrd Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban AVAILABLE AUGUST 26, 2014 Lou Donaldson - Lush Life Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 Wayne Shorter - Juju Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child Terence Blanchard - Flow AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 Kenny Drew - Undercurrent Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual AVAILABLE OCTOBER 28, 2014 Horace Silver - Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers The Three Sounds - Out Of This World Dianne Reeves - I Remember Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1 AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 25, 2014 Curtis Fuller - The Opener Joe Lovano Quartets: Live At The Village Vanguard Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now Clifford Brown - Memorial Album AVAILABLE DECEMBER 30, 2014 Andrew Hill - Black Fire Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring Anthony Williams - Spring Grant Green - Street Of Dreams Bobby McFerrin - Spontaneous Inventions AVAILABLE JANUARY 27, 2015 Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple Art Blakey - Mosaic Jason Moran - Soundtrack To Human Motion Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 24, 2015 Don Cherry - Complete Communion Elvin Jones - The Ultimate Robert Glasper - Double Booked Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2 Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time AVAILABLE MARCH 24, 2015 Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits Kurt Elling - Flirting With Twilight Grachan Moncur III - Evolution Sonny Rollins Vol. 1 AVAILABLE APRIL 28, 2015 Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues McCoy Tyner - Time For Tyner Joe Henderson - The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! AVAILABLE MAY 26, 2015 Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land Medeski Martin & Wood - End Of The World Party Art Blakey - A Night A Birdland, Vol. 1 Bobby Hutcherson - Components Grant Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand AVAILABLE JUNE 30, 2015 Donald Byrd - A New Perspective Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter Hank Mobley - The Turnaround Bud Powell - The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 5 Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up AVAILABLE JULY 28, 2015 Miles Davis Vol. 1 Tina Brooks -True Blue Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure Joe Henderson - Page One Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing AVAILABLE AUGUST 25, 2015 Donald Byrd - At The Half Note Café, Vol. 1 Art Blakey - A Night A Birdland, Vol. 2 Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point! Sonny Clark - Leapin' and Lopin' Stefon Harris - Black Action Figure AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 Horace Silver - Blowin' The Blues Away Miles Davis Vol. 2 McCoy Tyner - Expansions Art Blakey - Moanin' John Scofield - Time On My Hands AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27, 2015 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special Sonny Rollins Vol. 2 Hank Mobley - Workout Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings Joe Lovano - Rush Hour **Release Dates Are Subject To Change**

here's an old thread discussing some of these post-comeback Blue Notes, including some for the Williams ones, which I've got by way of the Select, but I'm really not all that familiar with them yet, what I know better are some of the live recordings around ... and I guess the "good not great" bottom line works for me, too ... maybe the adult love even - anyway, for those interested:

Yeah, seeing the thread title I wondered ... but phew, I'm relieved now, Jon is still oder than me Happy Birthday!

Yep, I guess even two Selects, depending on how much beef you want ... but I don't got beef with you

just sent payment last night ... had them put aside some for me ... now can hardly wait for them to get here (Hackett, Zeitlin, Handy, Mercer, Boogie Woogie and Toshiko) - will have to bribe the mis-guided self-declared "liberal" politics of monopolising imports again for sure, fegh em, but hey, the dollar is still cheap so I'm not complainin' too loudly

Apologies ... having not been aware that "Hotcakes & Outtakes" was a box set, I thought the comparison ran between "Hotcakes & Outtakes" and some un-named (the 2010 Album Series possibly) box set. Darn, why does everything always have to be so complicated? It commenced so simpil, as Krazy once said

Boulez - Complete Works (DG) currently € 36.40 at amazon.fr (gee, that "link disappearing" thing is fun!)

Thanks page!

The Hahn has been out for a couple of months (I think it was released earlier in the US than in the rest of the world). Not worth being offended by your calling her "celebrity golden goose", I guess ... girl can play! And she's alive, too. Anyway, it's a fine release, but very dense - not stuff that makes an easy listen if you have a go at all of it - as these pieces tend to be rather all-encompaassing and it gets a bit much, needs to be split up in tranches (or actually if you take it at face value, one at a piece).

Thanks a lot! And there's the Leo Cuypers, too ... too much good stuff around to keep up!

Oh, good! I thought they had to close because the state stopped funding it? I was actually wondering how long these discs might still be around, as I plan to get a few others besides the Miles (the J.J. looks mighty tasty, of course Mulligan with Eardley and Zoot, the Loevendie, the Chet). And I see there's a Rita Reys one? What's on it? The Miles isn't in the list though, and the Sassy is missing as well Here's the link to jazzmessengers.com's page of NDA offerings: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/27832455/complete-catalog-of-the-label-dutch-jazz-archives Besides the Miles and Sassy, there's discs by Misha Mengelberg, Art Blakey and Lee Konitz/Zoot Sims, too - they all look tasty! But they don't have the Loevendie ...

I still don't have it ... but jazzmessengers.com is selling these Netherlands Jazz Archive sets. That though is the other sorry-assed aspect of those bootleg labels growing faster then some fungus ... they get wide distribution, wider than the original often.

The "Box Set versions" being? The ones in the new complete box?

well, we don't *know* it's a boot (but still we know, don't we?) ... but that's part of their game

Can't tell you ... haven't heard any other editions (besides an MSFL or whatever those are called of the debut album that a friend once copied).

Special? Probably that it's a blatant rip-off of the recent Amsterdam set that to my best knowledge was as official as these radio archival releases get? http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Disco.aspx?id=Amsterdam60 Not sure what "complete" means, but I guess adding the Scheveningen set (another disc) would ... an oft-circulated fine recording - alas Sony feghed up with the big KoB box by only adding one title from it.

I've got the Original Album Series with the first five, plus the two-disc ediition of "Waiting for Columbus" ... guess that's all I really need. But I would be tempted if I hadn't got these already!

Thanks! Not listed here: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hampton/lwh-disc.php

Great news indeed!