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It's on a different label, but "Octet Plays Trane" is also really good, if more straightahead than the 80s albums. That one bothers me, I can't really express it, just mentioned it a week or so ago in the "what am I listening to right now" thread: Can't put it much better, I'm afraid ... I just don't fully connect with it, even though parts or it are wonderful.

Price shouldn't be high, I guess ... but as brownie said: yes!

Yep, I know they're "real" musicians of course! But I think at least of them had a job as a technician at Swiss Radio - that's what I remember from some summer series when in half-hour broadcasts Swiss jazz classics were presented sometime in the mid nineties ... they broadcast an hour or so of Jazz Live Trio tracks with plenty of guests (Tony Scott was among them, singing "Lush Life" - now on Vol. 21 of the series!). They mentioned that back then, so forgive me if my memory has played some tricks with me since that's been a while! I should have chosen my words with a bit more caution though, making clear that these chaps were musicians with day jobs, not the other way 'round!

Congratulations and all the best, Colin!

I don't have a low opinion of Sanders there ... it's just that Trane is so darn amazing. His range, his control, the emotions - Sanders screams like sh*t and gets nowhere near as close to the emotion that Trane is able to convey. It's not fair game, of course, I guess nearly all of the young avantgarde players back then would have sounded pretty much alike next to Trane. Btw, that should have read "a bit less" in the post above on the Mosaic box - and was related to the 100$ price for their various 4LP boxes. But I see they're having a 3LP set on offer and are charging nearly the same amout (90$) for that.

the Antibes shows for now

:tup He makes Sanders look like a schoolboy in short trousers, he's so much better, truly worlds apart! VV Again is one of those Trane albums I took a longtime first to buy (I've had the LP borrowed from a highschool teacher once and gave it some spins, made me a K7 copy of it, but didn't return to it often) and then took a while to appreciate. I enjoy Garrison in general, less so Sanders, but the whole album is still very, very good in my book - and Trane is great on it!

The Barbirolli is much cheaper on amazon.fr and even cheaper on amazon.es http://www.amazon.es/Great-Emi-Recordings-John-Barbirolli/dp/B0031IHBCS Don't have it myself ... been considering it though.

catching up on some "Swiss Radio Days Series" releases from the past two or so years ... this one is in the player and I'm just repeating for the second time the final "All Blues": Sounds is very good here, clearly better than any other version I've heard ... I've got the Jazz Unlimited disc somewhere, might do a straight comparison, but from memory it sounds much duller and less clean, you can really hear the whole band, including bass and all of Jimmy Cobb's drum parts. In this clear new sound, I love it even more! MIght be mellower than Paris, and it's shorter than both Stockholm and Paris ... the audience seems to enjoy it (or at least stay quiet if they don't), there's none of that near-riotous, extremely tense atmosphere of the Paris concert, that might have inspired Trane even more, but restrained Miles, I think - his solo in "All Blues" here is just terrific, he takes tons of times, solos in a way that might just as well suite lush Gil Evans backings, but here it's just the bare-bones of his very, very fine rhythm section. Cobb is very busy, kicking, dropping bombs, but still very fluid, doing that light cymbal thing that seems to foreshadow some of Tony Williams' later playing with Miles ... and Coltrane is in great form throughout, starting with a terrific solo in the opening "If I Were a Bell" ... but I guess you all know the music well. Still, this most recent edition is most welcome. Sound quality makes me readily believe what it says on the cover (I've always had doubts about Jazz Unlimited, no matter it being a sublabel of Storyville).

Thanks for the report. My book arrived a few days back but went straight to the shelf as I have no time (and half a dozen other jazz books I feel like reading first, waiting in the shelf, too). Sounds good enough to me, don't think the academic part will bother me too much. Got to get the CD now, as well!

3LP Set, so a big less pricey, I guess ... might indeed be very tempting to get this! I was posting from my smartphone before, don't quite know how to copy/paste there, so here's the quote from David Wild's mail:

David Wild just wrote on the Coltrane mailing list that the new release will indeed contain the entire reels, all music in session order, it will not contain the edited takes Ed Michel produced for the original release .... and it will contain liners by Wild. Furthermore, Wild says Mosaic will be doing an LP version.

no relation to FKK

well, only for adults

heirs suck "... the law gave rights to surviving family members of a deceased artist which cannot be superseded by any other agreement — including a will." the law sucks, too - but in another way than heirs, which, I guess, are intended to suck, in some way ...

Good to know indeed! Will try and post some impressions once I'll have heard the disc. Btw, all those discs I've ordered last year sound pretty to very good to my ears!

Gave two listens to my disc so far and it's quite a trip ... field recordings combined with some free-flying tenor and plenty of interesting things going on. Looking forward to getting better acquainted with it!

same here

Oh, sad. I was just recently playing some of those seventies Ibrahim recordings again, love them very much, and the grooves, though simple, are always so infectious and bring a smile on my face.

Interesting, as to me this was one of the few "free jazz" albums I could totally dig way before I was able to really dig any other late Trane (such as "Ascension", "Meditations", "Interstellar Space"). I've long grown into loving all of it very much, but "Sun Ship" somehow holds a special place in my house. As music of stark beauty, and a kind of straightforward honesty that is solemn and sublime.

Got my paper version from amazon a couple of weeks ago but had no time yet ...

Thanks for linking there! I'm more excited than most seem to be over there, since, as I said, "Sun Ship" is among my very favorite Coltrane albums!

So you got the same ones from the whole list that I got ... only played the former myself, but the Lieb/Beirach was already a huge and pleasant surprise, and I also recently got hold of the ECM LP of "Lookout Farm" ... I guess I just love that period of Liebman's work!

They don't look like upcoming releases on amazon.fr either ... just the usual marketplace offers which are there on the US site, but on the US site you get a future release date, which you don't on the French. Weird. But it would of course be terrific if the series was revived!

so, which one was the bigger geezer: ( _ ) Lance ( _ ) Miles winner get's a shot of his favorite substance ...