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Another one from yesterday's haul: Laurent De Wilde - Odd and Blue (IDA 1989), with Ira Coleman and Jack DeJohnette. Let's see if those "five spots" from Jazz Hot (sticker on the bottom left, mine has that one but not the "choc" sticker on top) were justified. Beginning is fine, but sound is, well, 80s...

A Musical Offering by Don Elliott Got the UK HMV edition yesterday. Pretty nice stuff!

Please don't take my comment as a verdict on what "our" Bill did or did not. The mere thought about what these criminals have possibly and likely done is making me feel sick! I'd honestly prefer living in a world were such things would never, ever, happen at all, it's utterly disturbing, no matter who did or does it, I just wish no one ever did even think of doing such things!

This is indeed sickening and very disturbing.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday, Lon! :party:

Happy Birthday, Louis! Thanks for all the music! Got to listen to other things in the next days, but have been playing some of his earliest music a few weeks ago - loads of fun! And very soon, tons of greatness, too!

"Yes." Oh, wait - is that "Yes" as in: more from the "Stepping Stones" sessions than was ever released, or "yes" as in "a more tangible answere will be available as the time to the release date becomes shorter"? If it's the first, it's great news! (Jim: funny Freudian slip with Shorter!) The first "yes." That is very cool news, then! I just hope that this will be available over in ol' yurp!

That question was asked several times now... guess it's "answers in your next life" "Yes." Oh, wait - is that "Yes" as in: more from the "Stepping Stones" sessions than was ever released, or "yes" as in "a more tangible answere will be available as the time to the release date becomes shorter"? If it's the first, it's great news! (Jim: funny Freudian slip with Shorter!)

It's Trygve Seim - none too difficult... can't put it phonetically, but it's rather easy to pronounce, too (can't think of an english word that has the same pronounciation as the "y" in Trygve though, but the first syllable is stressed, so it's 'Tryg-ve, and the e at the end is mute, similar to how it is in "the"... Seim... the "ei" is as in "aye aye sir", kind of :-) ) Anyway... that one looks interesting. Haarla makes some good music. The Trio isn't really happening too much for me, without Stanko, but I confess I only have the first disc (and found it rather boring, hence was reluctant to buy more). Me, I've just gave Miroslav Vitous' "Remembering Weather Report" a first spin today... I know it came out two years ago, but that's about as fast I get to new releases, most often. I quite enjoyed it!

Vinyl and CD - but the CD has the same 18 tracks (the UMS had 21, so 3 seem to be missing, but I didn't compare). This time I won't miss it! Ah, no... seems to be vinyl one - weird. Couple of weeks ago when I saw it first, I thought it said CD and LP!

Saw this on another jazz blog recently. Anyone have any idea what might be on the bonus disc of unreleased material? Might this not BE the Mosaic box, released by the content owner, Sony? It would have been simply leased to Mosaic for a specified period. Now, the rights have reverted to the owner. With the technical work done, Sony can release it without much new expense, just packaging costs. I don't have the Mosaic, but maybe the mastering was done by Sony people in the first place? Can someone look that up? As to 'unreleased material', could the reference be a bit outdated, and refer to content that wasn't out before the Mosaic set's issue? (And I disagree with the first poster -- considering EVERYTHING, I don't find Mosaic prices *ridiculous*.) It's not the Mosaic set, and the extra CD is from the previously unissued (now get this) SECOND HALF of the the Village Vanguard "Stepping Stones" concert. Essentially, Stepping Stones PART II. Woody and Michael had originally omitted it but Michael and Woody's son have brought it out of the vaults for Woody's fans to enjoy. It's also been remastered by Sony's SEVEN-time Grammy-nominated and THREE-time Grammy-winning sound engineer, Mark Wilder. So, this set is more complete than the Mosaic in terms of Shaw's Columbia recordings. Woody III co-produced, curated, and designed the new boxset for his dad. Cuscuna is behind the set and also did the new Dexter Gordon set coming out at the same time (all of his Columbia recordings), which also features Woody of course, plus new bonus material never before released, which also features more Woody. 2012 is looking more and more like a Woody year. "Stepping Stones" wasn't on the Mosaic... but what's that "Part II", then? Not the same bonus material from its Legacy CD reissue, but yet more? Expanding it to two CDs?

Nothing too commercial... Stepping Stones should have/could have been a double LP (or followed by a Vol. 2)... but the powers in charge didn't think so. What the CD did was restore the second album, but it had to omit a track from the original LP to fit in all the additional tracks. Happy owner of the CD and the LP here - great music, that's for sure!

Yeah... so Dorn being incosistent on the 32Jazz reissue would be kind of a weird homage to the Atlantic LP? ;-) But that's my best guess, too! Anyway it would be weird for Collectables to duplicate the same "newly found" tunes in their reissue... or would they have gotten the same remaster fron 32Jazz?

Thanks for the suggestion... but that's a bit pricey - maybe someone who owns it can check? Or someone can check if the latest/online issue of Lord's discography has any additions?

I've only heard very little of this, so it will definitely be of interest!

I'm starting to explore Hank Crawfords early Atlantics beyond his albums with Ray Charles and "More Soul" which I've been familiar with for a while... so I got the 32Jazz 2CD set "Memphis, Ray and a Touch of Moody" (quite fitting a title, methinks) as well as three Collectables twofers (one has his "The Soul Clinic" paired with Leo Wright's "Blues Shout", the others are "Dig These Blues/After Hours" and "True Blue/Double Cross"). Checking the Bruyninckx discography, there's something weird about the second session for "Dig These Blues" (New York, December 10, 1964). Bruyninckx says there were three titles recorded (actually four, but an untitled blues remains unissued): 8392 These Tears 8393 Dig These Blues 8394 The Crazy Saloon 8395 untitled blues (unissued) 8392/3/4 were released on Atl LP1436 ("Dig These Blues"), but according to Bruyninckx, only 8393 is on the 32Jazz 2CD set. At the end of the third session for the album, there's a not stating that: [..] "Memphis, Ray and a touch of Moody"; this set includes two possibly unissued titles, "Banana Head" and "It's a Sin". So the two tracks missing from the album (These Tears, The Crazy Saloon) were replaced by Joel Dorn for his 1997 2CD set with two others (Banana Head, It's a Sin)? So far so good, but now the Collectables disc I got (COL-CD-7659 from 2004) also contains those two tracks and omits the original two again! The original liners that are (partly?) reprinted in the Collectables twofer mention "The Crazy Saloon" ("there is the easy rocking, invitation-to-kicks of...") as well as "These Tears" ("And then there is even a touch of rockabilly, laced with wryness, in..."). The liner notes of the 32Jazz set list "Banana Head" (#15) and "It's a Sin" (#17) as the name of the titles (on disc two), but in the discographical listing two pages earlier, the tunes are called "The Crazy Saloon" and "These Tears". Anyone knows more about this? Are those just variants of titles? Some funny goof?

Ah well, guess I'll skip... some of these may stay in the 5£ range (some have, for a while, it seems) and there's not really enough to pique my interest. Will grab the Garrick and Rendell eventually and get some more Kirchin, too (all I have so far is one Trunk disc, that Industrial North one... pretty great!) Ah well, guess I'll skip... some of these may stay in the 5£ range (some have, for a while, it seems) and there's not really enough to pique my interest. Will grab the Garrick and Rendell eventually and get some more Kirchin, too (all I have so far is one Trunk disc, that Industrial North one... pretty great!) Ah well, guess I'll skip... some of these may stay in the 5£ range (some have, for a while, it seems) and there's not really enough to pique my interest. Will grab the Garrick and Rendell eventually and get some more Kirchin, too (all I have so far is one Trunk disc, that Industrial North one... pretty great!) Ah well, guess I'll skip... some of these may stay in the 5£ range (some have, for a while, it seems) and there's not really enough to pique my interest. Will grab the Garrick and Rendell eventually and get some more Kirchin, too (all I have so far is one Trunk disc, that Industrial North one... pretty great!) I love the automated-multiplier-when-board-is-constipated effect

This album consists of 38 of my absolutely most favorite minutes of music ever recorded - any style. If I could only keep 10 albums, this might be one. It's been a while that I took that Mosaic out of the shelf, but if only for the cover, I had to get this one! It was marked 16 CHF (about 14$ currently, but it feels a lot less to me) but I ended up getting it for 10! Don't, whatever you do, head over to the Vocalion thread... I'm rather out of danger as I'm more or less up to date there... excepting the new releases which are understandably not part of the sale...

Thanks for the thumbs up/warning (over here)... Shake Keane - DIG IT! & SHAKE KEANE WITH THE KEATING SOUND Is that one worth getting? Is it easy listening/lounge stuff... still worth getting? Don Rendell - Playtime & singles compilation And how 'bout that one? Guess this one I need: Garrick's Fairground - MR SMITH'S APOCALYPSE also... Tony Crombie - SWEET, WIDE AND BLUE & TWELVE FAVOURITE FILM THEMES The Kirchin Band - EMI SINGLES COMPILATION 1954-56: GOTTA BE THIS OR THAT Kenny Baker - OPERATION JAM SESSION, TRIBUTE TO BENNY CARTER ETC. Michael Garrick's New Quartet - LIVE AT PIZZA ON THE PARK The latest is a DVD and as I rarely watch the few I have... but it's rather cheap. Got the other few jazz discs that are in the sale... don't overlook the Ray Russell, it's excellent!

today's haul: Jazz at Preservation Hall 1 - The Eureka Brass Band of New Orleans (Atlantic SD 1408) Barbara Donald and Unity - The Past and Tomorrows (CJR) Dizzy Gillespie - Vol. 1/2 (1946-1948) (Jazz Tribune N° 2) Illinois Jacquet - Genius at Work! (Black Lion) Kid Ory - Creole Jazz Band 1944/45 (Good Time Jazz L-12022) The Atlantic looks splendid, and the cover photo is great! #3 of the series was there, too, but cost about twice as much (I ended up getting a huge discount, so I should have taken it, too... but how could I have known...) The Gillespie is all on the 2CD set, but that one's very no-noised - except for a the Teddy Hill tracks, the Lionel Hampton track, the alternates from the Metronome All Stars, and a few cuts with Johnny Hartman, all of it is on the French double LP and I'm sure it will sound much better. The Donald I've seen elsewhere several times, but it always was a bit too pricey... and the Ory, finally... now I've got two of these Good Time Jazz LPs, already have the one from 1954 with Barney Kessel aboard. Oh, forgot the Jacquet... smokin' hot stuff in trio with Milt Buckner and Tony Crombie - played the first track and had to absolutely buy!

some variant of this, it seems:

'merikan politicians are all out of their minds! No money for Mosaic now, sorry... spent way too much on vinyl and all the crazy CD summer sales that are going on (amazon.de and amazon.fr... co.uk has some crazy offers going on, too...)

It used to be just astronomical. Now it is mythical ! I can get Mosaic sets for about half the price I could get them in the worst days... but I've still got a few unheard ones. And I don't think the US$ will be worth considerably more too soon...

Yes, just went and checked here: http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.aspx?tabID=2867&productId=27205&state_2758=2 It's #1-22 of of Disc 4 in the "Duke Box"!