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http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/70-2013/12947-horace-silver-dies-aged-85 also referencing social media etc though ...

I do lots of repeated listening .... but Richter is so far not one garnering those honours ... I mean I can hear that some his stuff is amazing (Schumann! and there's quite some of it on this new box), but so far he's not a favourite, so this might indeed be too much of a good thing ... Btw, interesting observation you made about the DG Wagner box not containing their best offerings ... would you think similarly about the EMI box? That one seems to be a pretty mixed bag just as well ... but would they have had many alternatives? Their choices for the new Strauss box seem to be almost exclusively immaculate, so ... (but then their Verdi was uninteresting again to me, but maybe that's just me). Oh, and the Boehm "Ring" is in that Bayreuth Decca box that has mostly Sawallisch and consists of - all or mostly - Philips recordings ... maybe they wanted to keep that separate, I think apart for the two early ones, the DG box actually contains DG recordings (and not just Universal holdings)? In light of that, could they still have done better?

another big sucker announced: http://www.amazon.it/Solo-Recordings-33-Richter-Sviatoslav/dp/B00GYHSYW4/ not sure I'll need it ... got his EMI box and am about to order the Brilliant Concertos box (in prestoclassical's box-set sale) ... also have had the DG box on the wishlist for a while ... too much stuff around, too much overlap, me losing overview ...

Oh, shit, no ... not that it hadn't to be expected for a while, but wow, this is a blow. Thank you for all the fine music!

okay, here's one I've always loved dearly: and one more:

Yes, and if you get the CD, you'll get the LP material as bonus (and with each version you'll also get the physically bought stuff as DL, too - that's my understanding at least).

I remember it as one of the earliest big boxes, like the Charlie Parker on Verve, so for me it was too expensive at the time (early Nineties when I was a student). I passed on the Parker for the same reason. The first big box I got was probably Billie Holiday on Verve. It felt like a big outlay -- but it was worth it. Yeah ... the Brownie, the Kirk, the Bird, the Billie ... all big 10CD suckers, all going for hefty prices (not sure about measuring/comparing to anything of today's time makes sense ... I paid 200 to 250 CHF for them, but the $ was worth more and the € didn't even exist). I saved up for each of the four ... in fact I had a list, on a small piece of paper, of the box-sets I wanted (other than Mosaics, which I bought after doing jobs on school holidays ... crazy kid, going to work to buy saxophones and CDs). The Kirk and Brownie were among the first ones I got ... don't think I knew any other Kirk than Mingus' "Oh Yeah!" and the old twofer with "Rip, Rig and Panic" and the one Verve album ... with Brownie it was "Study in Brown" and the live recordings with Blakey that made me want to get it all. These boxes just had to be, even though each one of them meant at least 2 days' work on the lousy salary I got! The JATP was too rich for me, but I snagged it up years later, when a slightly beat-up copy was on offer for less than half the usual going price ... it had been on display in the shop for years and the booklet was broken open in one place and showing wear around the edges, but I was still a happy camper! The Bird, Billie, JATP and Brownie were all reissued by Universal Italy by now, so it's indeed just the Kirk that's still missing!

Definitely international! Happy Birthday, Mr. Terry!

All the hardcopy editions are said to include "download of 4-track album" ... so I guess to have it all on hardcopy, you'd need the 2LP+2CD version (shipping to yurp is expensive!!!), but if you're okay with FLAC of the whole thing, you can get half of it on LP or the other half on CD (guess shipping for the double LP is nearly as expensive, of course). Weird. 20$ for digital only still seems steep to me ... I'm old-fashioned. Just got the Pepper in, though, many thanks for guiding the way!

on we go: might go for the Piau, Otter and Say ... not sure the listing is complete ... anyway, they're 10€ each on amazon.fr

Oh, wow, somehow I missed this ... DL only then? Too bad! Will have to get this!

more goodies from naïve ... probably the regular discs with a new slipcase added and for less $$:

added to the listing above

actually wanted mom to do that "whole stuffed camel" recipe for x-mas dinner this year, but we couldn't get a camel ... darn! haven't even started buying presents ... one CD on order for my dad, took amazon several days to ship it even though it was always in stock (and none of that "additional days until shipping" thing) ... hope it'll make it in time ... I never manage to do x-mas stuff online in time ... but then we do way too much online shopping and those having to pack and deliver it are working on gruelsome terms way too often ... I'll do the usual book shopping at my favourite bookshop and some more local shopping.

uhm, what's that?

Alex' solo disc is great indeed! :tup Don't know any of his group's discs yet though - they were sold out by the time I heard him with the Convergence Quartet ... that group's 2013 disc on NoBusiness is very good, too (thanks, Alex!) ... and so is the duo with Louis Moholo, but that one's too old to fit into this thread.

The Stitt and Jacquet won't happen, I guess ... too much stuff available on various cheapo PD outfits. Not sure about Rogers ... was actually hoping for a second JSP box to arrive. As for Waller, JSP covers it all, I think? Sure, these aren't coffee table sets or anything, but they're more than I really need (I got them all, but have never so far made my way through the huge amount of music). I'd be in for budget boxes à la Legacy/Popmarket, for these, but not for lavish deluxe stuff ... then rather make it single album reissues. I'd very much love the live Brubeck set indeed - let's hope the studio sold good enough that the live set will indeed follow (it was mentioned around here a few times, not sure if it's actually planned or considered an option of if that was just others wishing for it). They ought to add the Mulligan albums folowing Desmond's departure with the live set, though, please please please! I've got those ... bought the Ella/Duke a while ago - still unplayed, it's around, but not cheaply ... the Kirk would indeed be welcome, seems lots of potential buyers don't have it. If the Brownie set is any indication, it should be a possibility.

"Song of Singing" was on regular CD, I think ... can't check my copy right now, but here's an entry for US, 1987:http://www.discogs.com/Chick-Corea-The-Song-Of-Singing/release/1832759 There you see it adds "Blues Connotation" (track B4 from "Circling In", A1-5 and B1-3 are the bonus tracks on "Now He Sings"), and then there's indeed "Drone" (side A of "Circulus"). I've been totally unaware of the CD "Early Circle" - will need to get it, as I don't have "Circling In" on vinyl ... the remains of that twofer are indeed all to be found on "Early Circle"! It adds "Percussion Piece" (D2 from "Circulus", the only short track on that twofer) at the end. So the missing bits are "Quartet Piece" nos. 1-3 (sides B, C and track D1 of "Circulus"). I'm covered there, as "Circulus" is the one I've actually got on vinyl (punchholed, but in good shape). I'm also covered on the Ornette (again both punchholed or saw-cutted), "Crisis" indeed easily ranks among his ten best albums! And I gather there'd be more material around from that concert - too bad, really! Oh, and thanks Head Man, I do have that Shihab/Gilson disc!

No idea about price of the Lacy, there are hardly any offers though, so I guess after all it IS rare ... there's one on ebay now for around 120 $ ... now if I could walk into a store, inspect it before Ibuy it, I might pay that much, but still ...

re: Corea, I once proposed that stuff as a Select to Mosaic ... and got a reply (from MC) that this was a good idea ... however, we all know the fate of the Selects. and yeah, I'd love to get the Lacy set, too!

Bill Barron is in work at Freshsound's, I guess (not that I like it, and it will be a few years, too) ... but I'd love to get that Poppa Sammich phone record - anyone ever contacted the NSA about it?

Thanks Head Man! Guess I'll go for it too, then! As for Saba ... "Noon in Tunisia" ought to be properly reissued!

still waiting for mine ... ordered it together with the Pearson, shipping from the US, I guess it will take a while ... can hardly wait!

I stumbled over that Gilson disc whils browsing amazon a few days ago ... what does it contain? The link says "reissue", is it a compilation of previously released cuts or is it an archival release of newly dug up material, as the title suggests? Re: Ellington - I was thinking of those 1956-62 LP sets ... was that stuff all added to matching albums when the Legacy reissues of the late 90s and early 00s came out?

Yes to Ellington! I think there's be more from later in the fifties that never made it to regular albums?