king ubu

nah, as a jazz fan you love plenty of cats!

soy indignado

I believe it's '58 Sessions (On Green Dolphin Street, Fran Dance, Stella By Starlight, Love For Sale, Straight No Chaser, My Funny Valentine, Oleo). They use a Japanese cover. I have it as part of the Original Album Classics 5-fer. Thank you! I only know it by the old "pre-remaster" era US Columbia cover. That album was originally called "Jazz Track". One side had the US release of the soundtrack to Louis Malle's "L'ascenseur pour l'echafaud" while the other side had the '58 session minus it's highlight, "Love for Sale" (that track was later included on one of the albums Columbia put out during one of Miles' hiat... what's the plural there? Hiati? Hitachi? Hiatuses?) large images including liners on discogs.com: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=511939

"Essential" is the place to start. If you like what you hear there, go to the box set collection of the seven LP's. You'll need to keep "Essential" anyways for the single-only releases. "Greatest Hits" was a gem for it's time, but "Essential" renders it totally extraneous. Is there anything on it that's NEITHER on one of the albums NOR on "Greatest Hits"?

Got to dig it out and give it a listen, then... I think there are only three or four tracks on it that I don't have elsewhere.

There was a post somewhere about a Jazz Couriers reissue (the Acrobat disc "Some of My Best Friends Are Blues"?) having this annoying "windows sound" (that can happen if you don't turn sounds off and do a lousy amateurish transfer - shouldn't happen if you enter through some kind of audio gadget, methinks). Anyway, couldn't find that post anymore... what tunes are these sounds in?

Here's our cat... had her for about two years. Can't help it that she enjoys my Mosaics, my Jazz in Paris discs, my books and stuff - never trained her to do so Oh, and note her good taste in films... also, those Soulnotes next to her, that's the Jimmy Lyons discs - her favourite cattin' music

Happy Birthday! :party:

I love "There's a Riot Goin' On" - has been a favorite ever since I was about 13 or 14... the mix of funky horns and keys, rock drums and guitar, Larry Graham's dry and incredibly funky bass, as well as the all 'round good vibes coming from the vocals and Sly's keys... great and unique band! I guess "Stand" or "Life" might maybe make better entry points, though... "Stand" can be had as part of the "Woodstock Experience" 2CD set (coupled with the Woodstock concert). "Dance to the Music" is also very good, while the debut ("A Whole New Thing") is more a promise of greater things to come than a great album in itself. All of the albums have been remastered/reissued in 2007 (including "Greatest Hits" which contains three new songs from 1969 (when it was compiled with tracks from "Dance to the Music", "Life" and "Stand"). "Small Talk" is the one I don't have yet... and didn't know about the "Collection" - but I assume it being OOP it might be cheaper to get the original albums anyway.

How 'bout The Plusquamperfect Miles Davis?

Read the great biographical essay in the Bechet Blue Note box today - and played Bechet's music all day long (not just the Mosaic).

Charters also wrote liners for the ten Universal reissues (one of them pictured in post #3). Too bad there weren't more to follow!

Skipped the Lang/Venuti - money was short and it ran out too soon for me... got the JSP instead. Too bad. Anyway, I've been catching up on some OOP sets (most recently the Satchmo All Stars and the Blue Notes from Bechet and George Lewis) and I hope if I'll be patient, the Lang may turn up, too...

Fela - The Complete Works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti Again and again played discs from this in the past days... making my way through it, trying to sort things out (they could have programmed this chronologically, methinks... doing my own discography with help of this site now). Needless to say, the music's effin' amazin'! Btw, it's of course not quite complete... but 26 CDs will be more than most want, I guess... Me, I need more Koola Lobitos, that's for sure!

They could include the live stuff from the Half Note... but I guess legal hurdles would be way too big. Uhm, that's the *inofficial* live material I'm talking of...

The Parker finally... the Turrentine, the Hampton and throwing in a Select (Bechet or Hutcherson) I'd be under 300$ and the $ is worth sh*t... got to think it over.

We've got the whole lot of the previous ape-films on our hd recorder now... will spend a fun night drinking beer, eating crap and watching those

That Russell boot is sorry-assed indeed. The material is around and it would of course be great if it was released officially. As long as it's not, there will be folks trading it and folks buying the lacking boot (wrong info, less material in lesser sound quality than is around). I'd buy a well-done, official 2CD (or even 3CD) set of the existing Russell material from the early 60s in a whim!

Got my George Lewis Mosaic today (the Bechet and Satchmo All Stars, too)... hell, why could no one tell me I didn't need the two "George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers" volumes, then? Or do I need them because they sound considerably better than the Mosaic? Duplicates have become more and more frequent here, so I will likely just keep both versions, but I'd be interested in opinions regarding sound issued (Mosaic: 1990, American Music: 1994). Anyway, I've had the music on disc 3 of the Lewis Mosaic before, too (on that disc that came out for the 60th b-day of Blue Note... how times have changed since then, holy holy!) so it's just two thirds of disc 2 that are really new to me, but hey, there's the booklet, too, and I'm a fan of Mosaic's

The Compelete Blue Note Recordings of George Lewis (CD1)

hilarious! there should be a law that "estates" of crooks should be lawless...

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper - Mosaic Select Disc 1 (Cooper) of: Kenton Presents: Bob Cooper, Bill Holman & Frank Rosolino

yowzah! The Complete Blue Note Recordings of George Lewis The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet The Complete Decca Studio Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars not that cheap, of course, but hell! still... yowzah!

I've gone round and round on this before, but as a layman I've always relied on Karl Popper's view that science is in the business of disproving theories, not proving them. Through this ongoing process of falsification, knowledge advances. As you say, a little off topic. But Popper's paradigm does tend to make one a little more hesitant to accept certain judgments about cause and effect, for example. Popper's method may be sensible *within* science (natural, exact science, to a lesser extent also humanities). What Fleck does is analyze how theories get constructed - an aspect that sort of turns science back on its feet, as I see it. Science never happens to be exclusively about theories, science is never free from social, political, you name it, influences. That's what Fleck brings back in - and that's what I think needs to be reflected.

Also, to get the whole story of "Coltrane on Prestige", the info for one more Concord/Prestige box has to be added: Miles Davis - The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions - the albums contained are: - Miles - Cookin' with Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' with Miles Davis Quintet - Workin' with Miles Davis Quintet - Steamin' with Miles Davis Quintet Plus, completing the two sessions from which albums #2-5 of the above list were taken, the track 'Round Midnight, originally on "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants". Furthermore, on disc 4 of the Miles box, there are a few really cool live dates, released officially for the first time on this box. (Addition: the Legacy Edition of Miles' first Columbia album, "Round About Midnight", adds the Newport '55 "comeback" version of Monk's 'Round Midnight and one more very cool - Gene Norman presented/produced - live session that was never officially released before).