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I've had one booklet were a page (or rather, 4 pages) were missing, and one where a page had a corner cut off (no text missing, just the area of the page number and maybe the line they often have at the bottom of the text just on top of the page number) ... I always flip through them when I get the boxes, just checking page numbers and having a quick look). Obviously it's not a problem at all to get a replacement with Mosaic! Any other reports regarding sound - comparisons of CD sourced and other tracks?

That one's a bit cheaper over on jpc.de (55€): http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/John-Coltrane-1926-1967-The-Prestige-Recordings/hnum/1988951

mine should arrive anyday now (same, all but the Murray) ... no news on the Murray, quite possibly he's one of CAM's biggest sellers and they have to re-press first?

BBS: it's all about having the info out, not having actual access to the session reels with all the breakdowns ... I see why with Bird all of that was released, but I really don't feel the need that each breakdown the Jazz Messengers ever threw on RVG's floor needs to be released. But why not included it if you do compile a discography? Surely everyone produces a dud every now and then, who cares, such is life. But then again, if David mentions such a breakdown take with a great Hubbard solo ... I'd be all for hearing that - that might even be of more interest than an alternate take that was for decades considered too close to the master to be worthy of release. If I was in charge, I might throw some compilations of leftovers out and test the market for that - buying the same over and over again for yet another alternate take or yet another remastering does get tiresome, even to unbounded enthusiasts like yours truly In that spirit, I'm a big fan of the "Lost Sessions" Connoisseur disc!

But then a discography is there to disclose, not to guard/defend/hound? I mean obviously if the intel is out, people will ask for it all ... but just that is no reason it has to be released, is it?

Someone better grab that Jacquet!

Hated the title track in my teens since our high school big band was playing a very simplistic arrangement of it (though you should have heard me go bonkers in Stanley T's "Sugar" ) ... but I dearly love this album, and in particular the song "Caravan". I'm also a fan of "Astral Weeks", musically that one might be more rewarding (what a band, anyway!), but "Moondance" is probably dearer to me and I'm tempted to get the big sucker (amazon.it has it for 46€, take off the VAT and add free shipping ...)

Strawberry Wine

If they want something special, why not reissue the remaining few missing pieces ... the Tyrone Washington, and that one Byrd with large band (orchestra, singers?) I've never seen ... and the unissued KD album, the unissued Ike Q. date with Grant Green ... Thanks for confirming those alt tks - I'm game for Dolphy, Shorter and Adderley, I guess!

as far as classical goes, off the top of my head: Bartók/Szgeti playing the "Kreutzer Sonata" Gulda playing the well-tempered piano Arrau playing Chopin's Nocturnes Rubinstein playing Mozart's K 491 and Schubert's D 960 Schnabel playing Beethoven's sonatas ... and D 960 Rubinstein playing Mozart's piano quartets Michel Portal playing Mozart's clarinet concerto Ginette Neveu playing the Brahms violin concert Ferras and Barbizet playing various sonatas (Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Franck) Samson François playing nearly any Chopin Marcelle Meyer playing Debussy Blandine Rannou playing Rameau Gardiner conducting Mozart's da Ponte operas and the Magic Flute Fricsay conducting Mozart's c minor mass Kathleen Ferrier singing english songs (mostly that one unacompanied one that Terence Davies made such wonderful use of in one of his cinematic poems) Gardiner's recording of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" Janet Baker singing Bach and Schubert Hans Hotter singing Bach's cantata BWV 82 "Ich habe genug" Hilary Hahn's recording of the Mendelssohn violin concerto Maria Callas' "Tosca" and some of the arias she did in her studio recitals (the coloratura arias album!) Natalie Dessay singing the second aria of the queen of the night in William Christie's recording of the Magic Flute Glenn Gould's recording Bach's two- and three-part interventions Stern's recording of Mozart's K 364 (with Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim conducting) Ida Haendel and Vladimir Ashkenazy's recording of the third Enescu sonata Szigeti's recording of the Bach violin solo partitas and sonatas Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier doing Brahms' piano trios Tragicomedia's CD of "Canterine Romane" by Rossi I feel like this list is still way too short - but then it shows how intense the past around 15 months of listening to classical for the very fist time in any degree of seriosity were ...

Very sorry to read this, BeBop. No prayer or mumbo jumbo available from my side, I'm afraid, but keeping you in my thoughts.

Happy Birthday!

Gee ... you just can't believe anyone actually enjoying Schnabel, can you? I get a kick ouf of Schnabel

dammit, did all the work collecting images, but of course it was way too many ... so I posted the list here, in no particular order: http://ubu-space.blogspot.ch/2013/10/albums-that-shook-my-world-excluding.html fun thing to do!

But Eric had to show him how to swing. Man. Oh, I love that one! Also this one's not bad: (reissued in that short-lived Capitol vocals series)

Never been fully convinced by any of the music I herard of his so far, I'm afraid. Too easy, somehow, for lack of a better word.

Super high? Hope no one OD's, though it would match all the bebop nicely ...

Okay, thanks! So what's an SHM-CD anyway? Not that I'd hear any difference, but ...

Not sure what's "unreleased" here ... certainly the Blue Train and Moanin' tracklist match well-known widely available reissues. But ... are the "Out to Lunch" alternates new? 6. Hat und Beard (Alternate Take) 7. Something Sweet Something Tender (Alternate Take) Guess I'd be in for that, but probably the three days window of availabilty will pass before I even notice

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Yes, yes, yes! That's a wonderful album!

Not sure what's in there ... but I just spent about the same amount getting a copy of "La Tarantella" (and already have "All' Improvviso"). Considering everything I've heard by Pluhar so far has been at least very good (some of it excellent, and most of it very thought-provoking, too), I'm interested: pre-order for 18.72 € at amazon.de http://www.outhere-music.com/en/albums/l-arpeggiata-christina-pluhar-the-complete-alpha-recordings-alpha-818

I would've loved to have been around for this. I feel like the 90s and early to mid 00s must have been a great time to have been a fan of reissues, Mosaic or otherwise. Guess they were ... I "joined" around 1996/97 and after a few years felt like I had arrived some six or seven years late (like, nearly all Blue Notes were out on CD around 1988/89 a first time, some never re-appeared afterwards, or for a few weeks in Japan). The two Vee Jay boxes (Shorter/Morgan and Kelly/Chambers, both six discs) disappeared overnight (as did the Stuff Smith Verve) for reasons never disclosed, as far as I know. Those are wonderful boxes, for sure, and I'm very happy to have them!

John Eliot Gardiner Collection - 23€ at amazon.it paid twice as much and thought it was a bargain still... details here: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4791044