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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!

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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).

To me, Jackie McLean's "Capuchin Swing" must be the worst ... and I'm generally not even interested in discussing all the audio/sonics stuff, but that one I hardly can stand. I kept plenty of old McMasters anyway (also the ones of "Prayer Meeting" and the Blakey Bohemias). Never had an issue with "Out to Lunch" (had the McMaster before). One I don't like either is Jimmy Smith's "Cool Blues" - fine music, but the sound bothers me. No clue if it's the remastering or the original (location) recording, I've never had any other edition of that one.

Eric who? George Coleman you mean? As for Donny Mc ... he was boring me to death last year with his uber-hip band (including Uri Caine, Tim Lefebvre and some ultra smart drummer whose name I don't remember). He was better when I saw the Dave Douglas Quintet (w/Caine, too, who was boring me to death that night). Ample talent, no direction. I guess he's a far better sideman than leader. His tunes in combination with his overtly virtuoso soloing (he had to play it ALL in not in each tune but in each chorus! ALL, dig? Nothing left!) were kind of unintentionally comic ... kind of like the tune is "Cold Duck Time" and then you get a Coltrane sheets-of-sound-solo ...

I remember it as quite alright, but not too great. Will dig it up, it's of interest as I revisited all oy m Freddie Redd dates last week and he's on it!

yeah well, I'm the (smug) king of a non-existant nation, so some might get that notion

Shipping rates seem to increase all over (not only from vendors but from postal services, I mean!) But blame the U.S., they were the first to double and triple all shipping rates, ten or so years ago (post 9-11 paranoia? btw, this morning when I watched my clock for the first time, it said 9:11 ... make what you want of that ...)

Yep, the rates went up around 100%, I think. Just ordered a disc from some amazon.com marketplace vendor and had to swallow hard before hitting the order button ... Actuallly I think this entire one-price-fits-all shipping costs policy sucks. I've gotten packages with a 1€ stamp where I paid 6€ for shipping, while officially it's amazon's policy that shipping costs shouldn't be a hidden part of the price of whatever you buy. But then, why do I pay 3.40€ for a CD from amazon.fr marketplace, but 6€ for same from amazon.de or amazon.it, when the actual shipping costs to Switzerland seem to be just around the same (and 3€ is reasonable)? When ordering multi-disc sets though, obviously 6€ is fine, but then amazon doesn't allow for a distinction.

Some more info, taken from: Peter Niklas Wilson: Ornette Coleman. Sein Leben, Seine Musik, Seine Schallplatten. Schaftlach, 1989 (Collection Jazz; 12), p. 155: ___________ titles on cover / titles on labels / correct title (year of rec.): Second Fiction / Second Fiction / Street Woman (1971) Summer Thang / Ridden World / Written Word ? (1971) Silhouette / Broken Shadows / unknown (1971) 14 Juillet / 14 Juillet / unknown (free improvisation) (1966) Fantasy 77 / Arabic Sounding Song / Rock the Clock (1971) Reminiscence / Sadness / unknown (free improvisation) (1966) All Day Affair / Dough Nut / Doughnut (1966) ___________ This must be proof about the meticulous research the Japanes put into their releases, huh? The book further says that the actual location isn't confirmed either ... just the year/tour from which each concert is taken seems to be more or less clear. Written Word is just an assumption ... the track is on the 2CD set of the "Science Fiction Sessions" so, it could now be compared (verified/falsified), but back then the book was written, it couldn't. (And I can't help as I don't have the Trio dopule LP, alas.) Is the 1971 material the same as is on the bootleg CD "Live in Paris 1971"? They have "Summer Thang" there and some chap over on AMG (I hope this link is okay!) makes fun of those who tried to staighten up the facts.

Damn, I was typing for one and a half hour and just lost it ---- might try again, but not tonight. In short: I hate opera (politically), I love opera (musically).

Details up now: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4791045 Some overlap with the -- mighty fine, I might add! -- Baroque Box: Bach's mass in b minor, Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, Gabrieli, Rameau's "Symphonie imgainaire" by Minkowski. Also it includes the classic Richter Passion of St Matthew, which many will already own, I assume ... in other places, they were kind to those who got the Baroque box, including different recordings of the Goldberg Variations (Rousset in the Baroque, Pinnock in the Archiv Produktion), Scarlatti sonatas (Pinnock in the Baroque, Kirkpatrick in the Archiv), or Händel's "Messiah" (Pinnock in the Baroque, McCreesh in the Archiv). Not sure yet myself, but it does contain some stuff I'm mighty interested in. Just in case, here's the link to the Baroque Box: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4790441

Bach - Violin Sonatas & Partitas (Szigeti, Szeryng*) Bach - Cello Suites (Casals) Mozart - Piano Concert K 491 (Rubinstein/Krips) Mozart - Don Giovanni (Krips) Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro (hard-pressed between Kleiber, Giulini and Böhm) Puccini - La Bohème (Beecham) Puccini - Tosca (Callas 1953) Bizet - Thaïs Méditation (Milstein, maybe?) Brahms - Violin Concerto (Neveu) Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer" (Szigeti/Bartók, Szeryng/Rubinstein) Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 10 Op. 96 (Szigeti/Arrau) Mozart - Clarinet Concerto (Portal) Enescu - Violin Sonata No. 3 (Haendel/Ashkenazy) Mozart - Violin Sonata K 304 (Szigeti/Horszowski) Chopin - Préludes, Nocturnes (Arrau, François) Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto (Rabin, Heifetz, Hahn) Bach - Inventions & Sinfonias (BWV 772-786) (Gould, Meyer) Rameau - Pièces de clavécin (Meyer, Rannou) Scarlatti - Sonatas (Horowitz, Hantaï, Meyer) Mozart - Sinfonia concertante K 364 (Heifetz/Primrose, Stern/Zukerman) Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (Wunderlich) Schubert - Winterreise (Hotter, Schäfer) Bach - Cantatas/Arias (Janet Baker, von Otter, Ameling) Mozart - Opera Arias (Popp) Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate (Popp) Strauss - 4 letzte Lieder (Janowitz, Popp) Monteverdi - Orfeo (Gardiner) Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine (Gardiner) Ockeghem - Requiem (Ensemble Organum) Pergolesi - Stabat mater (Kirkby/Bowman/Hogwood) Franck - Violin Sonata (Heifetz/Rubinstein, Ferras/Barbizet) *) only know the DG recordings so far some others that are easy to throw by lot in but I'd need to re-visit or listen more often first: Beethoven - Cello Sonatas (Fournier/Schnabel) Beethoven - Piano Sonatas (Schnabel, Kempff early fifties, Gulda, Solomon) Beethoven - Violin Sonatas (yep, the whole bunch, in plenty of versions, Francescatti/Casadesus, Grumiaux/Haskil, Szigeti/Arrau, Ferras/Barbizet, Menuhin/Kempff, Kreisler/Rupp ...) Mozart - Violin Sonatas (Szigeti/Horszowski [szell on two], Grumiaux/Haskil, Zimmermann/Lonquich) Schumann - Violin Sonatas (Ferras/Barbizet) Brahms - Violin Sonatas (Ferras/Barbizet) Mozart - Piano Concertos (Perahia, some by Haskil, Edwin Fischer, Gieseking, Gould w/K 491) Mozart - Piano Sonatas (Gould, Pires, Gulda) Mozart - Violin Concertos (Grumiaux, Szeryng, Julia Fischer) the Rubinstein/Heifetz/Feuerman and Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier trios

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