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Glad I got them both ... though they've seen little play so far (had half of the Dizzy on single discs before and haven't really started exploring Chu other then enjoying him pop up here and there in other contexts ... and got that Commodore disc where some of his tracks are paired with some Hawkins - phantastic music!)

Price on this goes up and down ... got mine from amazon uk when it was similarly cheap. Haven't listened to it yet, but there's a single disc by Harry Christopher and The Sixteen on Virgin that I enjoyed a lot.

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Sacred Works (Ensemble Plus Ultra/Michael Noone, 10CD) currently 32€ on amazon.fr

Les McPrez? Wasn't it him who said: the revolution will not be televised?

As some wise old man used to day: Drop your drawers, drop your drawers, drop your drawers ...

No idea, but I'm sure they're all covered in nicer PD boxes anyway ... I really hate those cheapo "classic" albums sets, forgive my grumpiness.

seems so, look here: http://ayler.co.uk/html/ghosts.html very good album, but I prefer Hilversum - which I've known longer, that one just has a very special feeling to my ears ...

Wow, that's amazing! 7500 Art Hodes boxes, that's a pretty big edition, wouldn't have expected more than 3500 or 5000 for that one! But then I guess traditional jazz still has a rather broad fanbase ... 60$, damn! I'd pay that for each of the four CDs and still consider that a pretty good price!

Not hip to the new Bradford/Carter, but looking forward a lot. But just a quick shout out to Jonathan regarding the Clare Fischer, which I finally got: excellent! I didn't quite know what to expect (although I have "Thesaurus" and the early trios on the Mosaic Select) and I was *very* surprised in a decidedly good way!

I'm not sure about that - the fact that the booklets only reflect the LP configuration and that there was an additional loose page of paper inserted for the CD versions made me think it may have been like that.

The Monk is much cheaper over here: www.amazon.it/gp/aw/d/B003V1ARGC/

That one wasn't re-done on CD at all, I think. Probably they didn't expect it to sell... Btw, how did that work with those sets that were (later?) re-done on CD (with those insert pages with adapted tracklists)? Were they planned from day one and part of the total edition or did the expand the editions in those cases?

Yep - it used to be much more expensive, it seems. The live one can be had on ebay for 300$ or even less nowadays - but I was glad not to have paid the usurious US shipping costs and not to have any transatlantic delivery involved. It got here in less than a week ... and I'm really happy now! I struck lucky with at least one more Mosaic box from Birka, can't find any mails about it, but it was one of the old-timey BNs ... I'm quite well-equipped with those in the meantime, having found vinyl of the Ammons/Lewis and CD of the Bechet, the George Lewis and the Hall/Johnson etc. I would *almost* kill for the Art Hodes though!

I snatched up a copy for sale on birka jazz, stumbled over it by chance and just had to go for it! Guess around 400 $ is an okay price, too ... but cheap it ain't. Anyway, I really did want this badly and I'm most happy about it!

Yowzah! Got my Basie Roulette Studio box today! Playing discs one and two now and enjoying the sh*t out of finally owning this great box for real!

Happy Birthday!

Yup. And that spanish label is of course just one (or various) shady PD reissues. It was on United Artists originally and EMI Japan did a nice reissue in 2011 or 2012 (which is PD as well, but I guess about as close to the original master tapes and stuff that you'll get).

I had a good laugh when I got to that point in the scam letter!

Yes indeed, she seems to have been an important teacher to many. Here's part of a blog entry by Dave Douglas:

Very sad! Saw her live once with Maria Schneider's big band and enjoyed her contributions on Schneider's albums, too.

Sheesh, you didn't take any photos, did you?

And the bands, while being dubbed with the same name, were completely different, too ... both have nice moments but are pretty inessential, I think.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Agustín!

Gee, you're even grumpier than me!