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Whenever will be fine with me... I'm lagging behind some, still need the huge Ellington, the new Hawkins, the Threadgill, and several others. But then I guess it would help them bigtime if people bought more stuff just after release, rather than waiting.

Who's Dana and why does my copy take so darn long to get over the pond?!

Hm... I guess stealing back from the thieves is generally an accepted practice here, even if the thieves aren't, according to the laws of their countries But yes indeed - it makes one hope that Mosaic will indeed do their planned Chick/Ella box! I was afraid they might scratch it after the Universal box appeared, but that doesn't seem the case.

btw, where's the poll here?

Yeah - I'd rather have someone at my table that would be genuinly interested. That's rare enough with real people that you do get to know, so... but at this time, I'd say Matana Roberts. And it would be me inviting her, of course!

It's on my shopping list... told you it was a silly question since I did anticipate the answer

What could make me reconsider buying "Easy Living" is that Cuscuna (in his "post script" in the Bennie Green Mosaic Select booklet) says those three quartet ballads are among Quebec's finest... so I might take the plunge there, and will happily live on without the two 1959 tracks from the Japanese disc.

Now I know for sure you live in a dream! You suppose wrongly since you take my conjunctive statement as something you think I might believe is possible these days. As I know that's not an option, I let you live on in your dream thinking you know where I live. Btw, if you have those two CDs for sale (you do keep repeating CDs are worth sh*t, after all, don't you?), send them over to me, please, I'll send you two quid. Don't worry I do you know that. An idle pleasantry. I'm sure I could find you those CDs though - but I am not sure which ones you want...? I know that you know that I know that you know... "Easy Living" and the Japanese "From Hackensack to Englewood Cliffs" which is nowhere to be found on amazon or ebay nowadays. The former seems to be around, but I've recently had some bad experience with several marketplace vendors both via amazon and priceminister, and I'm really not sure I need two more Quebec ballads (Living) and two more organ tracks à la 45 Sessions (Hack Cliffs). That's why, in earlier days (such as 2000, when the Japanese CD reissued the first 45 Session, adding two prev. unissued tracks) it *would* have made perfect sense to pull this together with the tracks on "Lost Sessions" and maybe the two tracks added to Green's "The Latin Bit"... also there are two unissued sessions w/Green from 1962 (May 25 and June 1), where mostly the same tunes were attempted twice... some of that has to be good enough, one would think! (Not sure though, both dates are labelled "rejected", not "unissued", so...)

Now I know for sure you live in a dream! You suppose wrongly since you take my conjunctive statement as something you think I might believe is possible these days. As I know that's not an option, I let you live on in your dream thinking you know where I live. Btw, if you have those two CDs for sale (you do keep repeating CDs are worth sh*t, after all, don't you?), send them over to me, please, I'll send you two quid.

Gee, just found out that "From Hackensack to Englewood Cliffs" has yet another two tracks... from a three-track (?) 1959 session, likely with the same band as on the first of the 45 sessions... someone ought to pull together all those stray tracks (including those w/Green and those on the Lost Sessions disc) - that would make a lovely compilation! Why weren't those two tracks ("Uptight" and "Cry Me a River") added to the Conn reissue of "The Incomplete (it's official!) Blue Note 45 Sessions"?

Happy Birthday, Larry!

Loads of respect for "Chitinous" in this house And loads of love, too!

Silly question... (guess I know the answer for me is "yes") - do I need the "Easy Living" CD when I have the Bennie Green Mosaic Select? There are three quartet tunes from the session not on the Select, "I've Got a Crush on You", "Easy Living" and "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)". I've got the later on the "Ballads" compilation (which made a little bit of sense before the 45 Sessions came out again in the Conn series, nowadays I'm holding on to it for that one track).

ECM... esoteric cranky mumblings

Every music collector — whether they want to admit it or not ("Never! It's just the music!") — loves the challenge of the hunt. (I readily include myself in this compulsive bunch.) And finding these discs ain't easy. But, if you like this period of music, the reward is worth it. Great music, great sound. Here's the Wiki site on this series (with the extra zero in the catalog numbers) once again. Guy — 10 Euros is roughly 13 bucks (these days, I think). You got a good deal! Obviously... but then I've got some of the music in other form (US BN CDs, Mosaics) and that's good enough for me, after all. Still, with the great covers, I'd pick them up in a whim if I got a chance!

Thanks for reporting that, Justin!

Wow, I'd love to find these! Never even heard/read of this series!

And I thought this was about Chuck

Hm, guess it will take a few decades until I've heard Malaby dozens of times, alas... Just returned from a highly energetic set by Tarbaby with guest Oliver Lake. Lake has played in Zurich regularly over the past years... this was the fourth time I caught him, and I know of at least two concerts I've missed. Tarbaby is Orrin Evans (p), Eric Revis (b) and Nasheet Waits (d) and they're very powerful, very NYC tough - and very loud, too. The tunes they did were pretty wild (I thought of Dolphy now and then), often rhythmically very tricky (I once thought of Monk very much, too), and left lots of space for free flights by Lake and Evans. The biggest surprise to me was Revis, whom I've heard so far in mostly Wyntonite context... big sound, plenty of technique, lots of ideas, very good time and groove... he mixes with Waits and Evans very well. Evans was mostly in what seemed a McCoy bag... incorporating perfectly the tough, muscular, yet lyrical post-Coltrane/Tyner black music continuum. Lake was all over the place, the first set could mostly be heard as in that Trane/McCoy tradition, I guess... but after the break they returned and shifted gears quite some, both in levels of energy and in style. They did some mean funk, with Lake overblowing his alto (no flute tonight, just alto) and going for broke each time he started to blow. The most amazing thing though, all through the two sets, was watching and listening to Nasheet Waits... what a powerful, great drummer! Rather small set (bass drum, snare, hi-hat, one tom, the big tom standing on the floor, a ride, and one more big cymbal next to the ride, maybe a second ride, really?), sounding very good, and putting layer and layer of rhythm on top of each other... truly amazing, and all as good as I'd been expecting! Very intense night, to say the least!

And not all of the Hip-O's are that great... but yeah, times are rough and the cheapotists have more or less taken over.

Well, maybe we ought to start and play our own music... on Sunday nights, do a private re-enactment of "Kind of Blue" (or "Coltrane in Japan", if you dare) with friends and neighbours

One more once! All the best, Rodney! :party:

Von & Chico

Cool! Missed the first edition, too - this looks even better!

brownie, after reading various obits in the German and Swiss press, I must say I'm duly impressed! Faas seems to have been a truly great man!