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Can you put it on hold for me? I'll try and get in touch with that friend! Don't know the Prestige, but agree on the Debut, that's a great one! Good booklet, too! I got the Contemporary set around, but that one's not coming close (I even ordered that one twice by mistake, for 3€ or some similarly crazy price ten years ago, when that ZYX distribution deal over here ended and zweitausendeins.de - how useless they got! - had that unbelievable Fantasy sale going on).

I might know of someone interested in the Ayler box! Can you check about shipping costs to Europe? I guess it would end up around 100$, roughly?

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I've only got one - alas just the disc, not the booklet it was sold with: more details and full scans (7" scans by yours truly at the bottom) here: http://www.ayler.co.uk/html/iljazz.html

Oh, no, I never would! It's just that the packages were so outright ugly ... but I cherish the probably three dozen 32Jazz reissues I've amassed (most important being all the Sonny Stitts and the Shaws ... Camden jumped in to close the Stitt gap, luckily). Did anyone get in touch and ask Mosaic about the chances for other Muse sets? If I may dream for a second: a Complete Clifford Jordan/Cedar Walton would be da shit!

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I agree with many of the points the merikins made during the night ... the Berlin live set is fantastic indeed! Actually that 2CD-set (w/Iron Men on the other disc) was the frist I'd heard of Shaw's, back when I was familiar only with a few sideman recorings (the Larry Young one!), and probably just around the time I got the Mosaic (which took me a while to "get" - I've never been too much of a fan of album where line-ups are constantly jumbled around, though I've long since realized that's kind of silly, but each of us has his faults, dig?). And indeed, it's the pre-Columbia Muse albums that are the real deal! It's been quite a while, but I think I really enjoy the standards album with Walton from later on though. But in that category, it's really hard to beat "The Moontrane", "Love Dance", "Little Red's Fantasy", "Live at the Berliner Jazztage" ... and yeah, "Iron Man", too, though that's a different animal. Anyway, the Berlin album is terrific and an additional track from there, plus Fred rulz, plus the Mosaic quality package (as opposed to the Dorn crappity crap) might in the end just push me over, eventually. Hell, I have the Mosaic plus the recent albums collection from the Columbias (plus the CD and LP versions of "Setting Stones"), so why not duplicate the Muse material? (edit for typo)

Hm, I'm not that familiar with Muse, but I don't think I've ever seen additional/unissued material on any reissue. If there is some of that, I might be in for the Mosaic (if there's none, I might still be in ... depends, I guess, in various factors to be in action in the years to come ).

says 1958 here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-janos-starker-dies-20130428,0,1963880.column

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Yeah, that would open a whole new bag of possible sets if it wasn't a one-off. And as for Shaw, his Muse albums include several of his very best. Struggled to find all the 32 Jazz reissues ten or twelve years back when they were just disappearing.

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SAL to Switzerland, three discs in the cart ... try it! Must be some "non EU" crap or some such. Oops - I must have mixed up the total shipping and total order costs! Phew! Okay, consider CDJapan a *very* dangerous site now!

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Is there any better source than CDJapan to have discs sent to Europe? Nearly 40$ for shipping three discs that cost less than 30$ is bit crazy - I could only order two at a time to evade custom fees and tax. Dustygroove seems not to carry them ... or at least not the one from 2012 I just looked up. Guess using re-sellers on amazon.fr is the way to go, as so often for Japanese discs. And yes, alas they left off the medley - too bad, I'd have loved to hear it, but it shan't be then. I also have the LP of "Off the Top" and am not willing to spend any more money on that.

Fondly remember seeing Bradford in concert -- with the wild bunch that is Frode Gjerstad's "Circulasione Totale" gang no less. He remained seated, quiet, amongst the youngers standing in a semi circle spread across the stage ... whenever he played though, his tone was ringing clear, projecting, and cutting through whatever was going on around him. Wonderful!

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"Off the Top" was also in the "piano key" edition of Rhino's ("Atlantic [or whatever] Jazz Masters", in this case "Elektra", I assume), and that edition included all but the piano medley of the other JOS Elektra album. Very good reissue, in my opinion (JOS and Griffin!) Thanks a lot for putting together these lists - I slept on this series and I guess it's too late to find some of these reissues. But with plenty of them, I'm happy with whatever editions I have (Koch, Collectables, some vinyl, both generations of Atlantic digipacks - the later of those included other Warner labels, too, I think - and those Rhino reissues I just mentioned). But there are some things I never came around to find (the Owens/Barron, for instance - fine one! never owned a hard copy of it, though) and this edition would certainly be the best choice if they can be found!

(I'm doing my best not to be offended by the comparison of Masters of Jazz with Proper )

Good to hear, BeBop!

Didn't know that! Masters of Jazz, one of those abominable euro-pd labels (huh, really? all of 'em?), got about halfway there. (typo edited)

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