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Is everybody (Allen and J.A.W.) talking of the Sony Hot Fives and Hot Sevens set? Wasn't that big, just four discs ...

Many thanks for the additional bits of information, Ricky! Ignunt me asks though: which big 2000 Sony box?

YOWZAH! Wonderful!

All the best, Dan! :party:

No need, it seems - see post #44 above! (I've got the old edition of that geat Stadler album spread on two CDs and it's several minutes short of 80 minutes ... there were days when commercial discs couldn't hold more than 74 or later 78 or something minutes ... nowadays, they go up to 81 or 02 minutes - you can do that with CDRs, too, if you use the overburn function ... but I have no clue if that might diminish life expectancy ... I don't do much burning any more these days)

It's kinda weird, I tried ... but yeah, while I can hear things I like here and there, subtle moments of beauty, so to speak ... I can generally agree with what brownie said, I guess

Very good set. Now out of print (very quickly went from released to out of print, the estate dropped its deal with Concord). . . not easy to find. Damn! Had no idea! Seems impossible to find, what a pity! (All these "estates" ought to be shut down!) Struck lucky ... or rather tried my luck and went to see if the local disgusting used-to-be-discounter (the strategy of these darn chains is to be discounter until all others are closed down, and then the prices go up to regular crazy swiss level) still had the copy I remembered seing there, months ago ... and yes it was, and a wonderfully presented set this is! Looking forward to exploring the music (of which very, very little shall be familiar, I think).

Gave it a first spin yesterday - and indeed it's excellent! Not sure about TOOM, but it's definitively better than "Modern Times", which again was better than the last one ... but I love "Love and Theft", and the new one to me sounds more like a continuation, so it's more of a comparison point to me than TOOM (which I absolutely love, btw, I think a wee bit more than "Love and Theft").

Yeah, got the Waldrons (they're in that box of sardines) and the Ibrahim albums - fine player! He also did one with Rhoda Scott: (Ford is on one, Person on the other disc - no battles) Several of the albums mentioned will be put onto my shopping list!

Melis has three albums - enough for a box (see Lester Bowie). http://www.camjazz.com/s/artist/view/id/1508/ Spearman has even more - and that would be one hell of a powerful box, judged on the two I know (Mystery Project, Smokehouse). http://www.camjazz.com/s/artist/view/id/1000/

I'm glad to be proven wrong on Acrobat! But the OP set I've got is plainest boot (which I did expect, so all's fine) and the Jazz Couriers looks like cheapest crap (which was a let-down as it was my first Acrobat release and I quickly adjusted expectations )

Very good set. Now out of print (very quickly went from released to out of print, the estate dropped its deal with Concord). . . not easy to find. Damn! Had no idea! Seems impossible to find, what a pity! (All these "estates" ought to be shut down!)

I've heard bits from it ... pity this great series is usually so darn expensive! As for Acrobat ... I'd be extremly astonished if they'd release even just a burp that's not been out on CD somewhere else. Shabby label, alas, but some attractive offerings (I've got a Jazz Couriers disc and an Oscar Peterson 3CD set).

Wonderful, Allen! Ras Moshe! Love the groove on the second tune! How about naming the album "The Discreet Charm of the Underclass", too? - Would be a great title, methinks!

Great discussion here! There's an earlier thread on "Head On":

Their Bechet wallet box is MP3 sourced and the Quadromanias are generally crappy (also as far as documentation/session info is concerned).

beware of Membran ... (though it seems some of their classical release are rather okay, soundwise)

Yes, pretty cool little film! And Bob's detachment (though an old tradition) is rather cool, too!

I'm in constant fear of that happening to Julia Roberts and her frighteningly huge mouth whenever I see her But Louie must've swallowed the Matterhorn, too!

Thanks! Interesting reads ... and I guess for me it will be a one-time live experience in the end, too. I might try and listen to excerpts in a store, but I guess they'll only have Sinopoli and Yo-Yo-Ma and Lang-Lang there, alas.

Well, sorry 'bout that, but I promised my mother to get her a recording, that's what prompted my question ... tending to Belohlávek (Chandos 1991) right now, but Sinopoli or Kubelik would be other options. (For my own sake, I might tend to go for older recordings by Smetácek or Talich, but I want to make sure to get an okay to good-sounding version this time and don't have time to check out various ones first ... don't want to spend a fortune either since I've got no idea if it's of any interest to me.) (edited for fixing a link)

today's finds: Hamiet Bluiett - Birthright (India Navigation) Baikida Carroll - Shadows and Reflections (Soul Note) Duke Ellington - Nutcracker Suite / Peer Gynt Suites (CBS UK) Chico Freeman - The Outside Within (India Navigation) Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Sunshine (Pläne) Magog (JAPO) Werner Pirchner/Harry Pepl/Todd Candedy/Adelhard Roidinger - Austrio Drei (EGO)

Yowzah! great find, I assume ... great music for sure!

Is the Felsted one actually a McGhee album with Redd compositions/arrangements or a Redd album with McGhee featured? Not that it really matters, but I've often wondered and not found it in my iGarbage-can because I looked under the wrong leader.