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Having now checked the contents a bit closer (those listings come from amazon btw), I don't think I want any of these. The Teldec looks interesting, the Erato would be if it hadn't so many partial things in it (but then I often do have the entire thing already). I guess I have about 5-10 discs of each of these and they really don't wet my appetite all that much..

Thanks Lon! As for the 52nd Street date (July 6, 1948), Losin says this: http://plosin.com/milesahead/BirdSessions.aspx?s=480706 So I mixed this up and Knepper has nothing to do with it ... at least not with the recording per se.

"Bird at St. Nicks" and "Bird on 52nd Street" - both later reissued as part of the OJCCD series. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but 52nd is also in the Dean Benedetti box - Jimmy Knepper source there, I think? They were actually on Debut but labelled Jazz Workshop JWS 500 (Nick's) and JWS 501 (52nd) - not sure it was an actual sublabel or just a series or whatever ... the JWS label proper only came into existence a bit later, I think? I see Lon posted in the meantime ... so you say they appeared first as three Debut EPs (or 10" LPs)?

Answer to question two is - to my best knowledge - no, not sure if any yurpeen cheapo label has put it out again, but not Fantasy (or by now Concord).

Three more "cubes" coming up - only amazon.co.uk has a price tag so far (102£). Didn't have a closer look, but I don't think I'm game here ... Das alte Werk ___________________________________________ Erato ___________________________________________ Teldec

Went into disc four, nearly to the end of it, yesterday, but was distracted ... so it's discs four and five now - amazing music!

Sounds good, thanks!

well, hopefully so ... but beyond that?

anyone can say something on the Adderley?

Well, yeah ... but you were asking "what people have to say about Andrew Hill" and a lof of people here have said that. Some are still around and likely not to say it again, so it's worth looking up what's around ... and as for others who were not here back then, they could just as well post in a previous thread. This forum is used as a source of information by many - by many not registered here, also, because it often turns up high in google searches and there IS an awful lot of collective (and individual) knowledge around ... and my point is that it makes sense to keep it together. But I guess in these days of facebook and short attention spans my attempts to keep an overview of knowledge and even try and structure it make me look like a guy from 18c. But I'm fighting windmills ...

Ronnie Biggs Ronnie Wood Ronnie Scott

I love the album a lot - but the CD version is good enough, costs about half a kidney less, too.

Sorry to do it again - but really, if you're interested, why not do a quick search? Here's the official Organissimo Forums Andrew Hill SpaceTM: There are many other threads around, probably one to three on just about each and every CD he ever released (yep, others are too lazy to search as well), several recommendations threads, discographical ones, threads on Hill gigs etc. etc.

Oscar Peterson - London House Sessions

Here's the 1962 Playboy Jazz Poll listings (from the Nov. 1961 issue):

disc one

Bazooka Joe Papa Jo Billie Joe

I'll have to get a bunch of those! Only do have the Nance/Webster (thanks to brownie!) and it's great!

Actually, what's the story of the Mingus material? On Period and on Bethlehem, how come? Thanks for the Paula Castle vids ... nice enough, for sure! Oh, that one was part of the Rhino/Avenue series - very nice album! I'm game for "Grand Stan" - I mixed those two up!

digging into some of discs 2-4 of this set .... George Gruntz, Flavio and Franco Ambrosetti, Helen Merrill, Elsie Bianchi, Irene Schweizer, Pierre Favre, OM and more

Good, but these are mostly the most obvious choices ... not sure I can be bothered to get the ones I don't yet have (Bobby Scott, Paula Castle, Bobby Troup). And rather obviously from the weird lingo, these will omit the bonustracks that made some of the Rhino/Avenue reissues ... thinking of the Sims or the Mingus "Modern Symposium" (not included here). I might get a few of these to compare (I've only got some Charly version of Dexter's very good "Daddy Plays the Horn", for instance). The Helen Carr, btw, might not be too well-known, but is easily - and strongly - recommended. However, there, too, the Rhino/Avenue disc held both her albums and hence to my knowledge her complete (leader) output.

nothing against a good hump ... but no cars needed for that

Spinning the Stuff Smith I have (the Mosaic plus some earlier and some later stuff, but not too much) .... and checking out the Storyvilles, I don't find much real info on them. The "Masters of Jazz" I guess is a compilation? And is there any overlap between the others? Does anyone have them all and can shed some light? "Hot Stuff" then seems to include the entire OOP "Live at Montmartre" (#1-9) and adding four more tracks (#10-13) - the first four of the other OOP disc, "Hot Violins" ... but where's the remaining six tracks from there? On "Five Fine Violins" you get two of those six tunes, but are they the same recordings? You also get all four tunes that are on "Hot Stuff" also - but again, same recordings? Some of it all may be on "Masters of Jazz", too ... what a mess! Can anyobo There seem to be lengthy Jazzhus Montmartre dates from: March 18, 1965 (9 titles, "Live at Montmartre", later on "Hot Stuff", I assume) March 23, 1965 (9 titles + unissued "Caravan", "Swinging Stuff", the Storyville CD of the same name also has "Caravan" plus 3 titles from March 4) Then, if I get the blurb on the Storyville site right, the disc titles "Five Fine Violins" holds the entire April 4, 1965 session with Stuff pairing up with the violin of Poul Olsen (new name to me, I must confess). So that date was expanded from three released plus two known unreleased titles to 12 titles? Then there's the session with Henri Chaix, poss. rec. Geneva May 29, 1965 (10 tracks, and for once a clear case) On June 4, 1965, Smith recorded for Swiss Radio with the Jazz Live Trio (released on a 4CD set "Jazz in Switzerland") Next up was "Stuff and Steff" (reissued in the Jazz in Paris series, again a clear case), then some more Paris material (with Smith forced to use an acoustic violin as the promoters failed to put the promised amp on stage, or so I read). Then, as we get into 1966, there's more from Copenhagen: January 30-31, 1966 (5 titles with Svend Asmussen, 4 on "Hot Violins", but only the last four are on the recent CD titled "Hot Stuff" - where is "When You're Smiling", the first of the five?) On September 27, 1966, another date for Swiss Radio took place (part of a fairly recent TCB disc which I don't yet have, but it's been on the to-buy-list for a while). October 13, 1966 saw Smith in Warsaw at the Jazz Jamboree (4 titles, 3 on a Muza LP) Then, in 1967 it's back to Copenhagen: February 18, 1967 (4 tunes, 2 on "Hot Violins", 2 unissued) Now this is far from complete I assume ... ? I guess I can happily buy "Hot Stuff", "Swinging Stuff", "Five Fine Violins" and the disc with Chaix ... but I won't have it all then, as far as I can see - but right now I'm rather confused.