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Cornelius Zephyr Pompadour

Sonny Rollins Paris (FR), Salle de la Mutualité 1965-11-04 Sonny Rollins (ts), Gilbert Rovère (b), Art Taylor (d) Medley: I Can't Get Started > Three Little Words > I Can't Get Started > Three Little Words > St. Thomas > There Will Never Be Another You > When I Grow Too Old To Dream > Mademoisselle de Paris 41 min boot ("The Paris Concert '65", Magnetic MRCD 121)

The sale is in its last few days now, it will run until end of March.

George Barrow John Graas Grasella Oliphant

Mezz Mezzrow Lindsay Lohan Kris Kristofferson

Le Roi Soleil Mme Poisson Laurence Fishburne

Ian Carr Carter Jefferson Sonship Theus

A Guy Called Gerald A Tribe Called Quest ?estlove

"there's such an incredibly bright future ahead of us"

Wayne Gretzky Johanna Martzy Marzipan Pig

Walter Norris Red Dorris William Morris

Sad news for sure. "Jumpin' In" is where I first heard him ... and when opening up a huge Mosaic package and pulling out the Rivers, I was most pleased to find him there again. Still don't know much more. Any informative obits around?

Yes, some of this would have made a perfect Select, along the lines of the Booby ... I'd love to hear some more, missed too any of those short-lived Japanese reissues lately!

Slim & Slam Silm Dusty Dusty Springfield

I'd be interested in the Teagarden - can you venture a guess for shipping to Switzerland? Not sure if the recently changed prices will shy me away ... but yeah, I'd really be interested! (the Teagarden Fifties Capitol that is, I do have the Bix/Tram/Tea)

They are dinosaurs ... such as you an' me

Honestly, I wasn't aware he was still around. Somehow I never really got into the Mingus at the Bohémia material really, until getting the big Mingus Debut box - and then I fell deeply in love with Barrow's playing!

I thought is was "Fickle Sonance" which sounded very poor in its RVG edition. My Toshiba LP sounds so much better. I don't have much of an issue with "A Fickle Sonance", but then that one has such a wonderful band I've loved it since I first heard it (bought it in Poland, of all places ...)

Yes, in my experience (one order, Threadgill box) and that of a friend (several orders, I think), they can! They packed my Threadgill in a perfeclty fitting cardboard box, and that one was again put into a larger box similar to the boxes Mosaic uses. EDIT: but the boxes look like they have some shelf wear - nothing bad, but obviously they made their way from the US to Europe already, and spent time in shelves in the US and then again at Jazz Messengers - no issue for me, as they are in shelves again here and the shelf wear just adds up as time goes by ...

Jim's dead on with Miles/Coltrane, Trane 1965, Newk ... and yeah, McDuff Live! Also Ornette at the Golden Circle! And Blakey at the Bohemia, plus - not really a classic band, but still Blakey's core guys: the Birdland one with Morgan/Mobley - that one has been a top favourite in my house ever since I got it (which was a looong time ago, I was in my teens and ordering huge boxes of stuff from TrueBlue and Mosaic, one of the first of them contained that 2CD set). Then Mingus, of course ... the 1964 Europe tour! I'm hard pressed to name a favourite, maybe the two Enja sets? Cecil Taylor's "Student Studies" and "Neferetiti" Albert Ayler "Prophecy" Archie Shepp "Live in San Francisco" Mal Waldron "Seagulls of Kristiansund" Woody Shaw "Stepping Stones" Monk "Misterioso"/"Thelonious in Action"/w Coltrane at Carnegie Hall not sure which of these bands really qualify, the avant guys rarely had steady gigs and personnel changed ... the Little/Dolphy/Waldron/Davis/Blackwell unit would fit, but they only had one gig for one week - still a classic band in my book though! Btw, is there really no live documentation of Ornette/Cherry/Haden/Blackwell ca. 1959/60?

Well Chuck, I hope you weren't too serious! Jazz Messengers is a fine outfit, btw - they carry lots of small labels, but they weirdly only have about half or a third of the Nessa catalogue on offer!

That would be mighty cool! I assume (though I don't understand much about the business side) a fine reissue of "Les Stances à Sophie" might sell pretty well, too, if it gets some promotion in the right channels?

uhm, Hank Garland, you mean? (ducks for cover )

Oh, it was definitely great - I'd started collecting a few years before, but with *very* limited funds. The RVGs were a huge improvement in terms of availability and price (I did buy some TOCJs which cost me a fortune, but I still hang on to them, Booby's "Happenings" for instance, wonderful album, also found some of those ugly-designed ones like that Mobley, what's it called? and the JMac pee-pee album - how's that for old forum sagas, huh? - and they were very expensive, too) - and for those who care, they were a huge improvement in design, too! Anyway, I'm most grateful for the series, it allowed me to listen to plenty of fine albums I'd never had a chance to get before, "Stylings of Silver" is one of them, and I enjoy it a lot, too, btw! The grand JOS' with Turrentine ... I'm sticking to my old "Prayer Meetin'", just because, never bothered to compare, but I recently got hold of the RVG of "Back at the Chicken Shack" (after erroneously buying a second McMaster first, DOH) and I agree it sounds terrific! (I never warmed just the same to "Midnight Special", got to know it much later and I just enjoy the tunes on "Back at the Chicken Shack" quite a bit better).