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OK, thanks - it's not sane to buy everything on vinyl and CD anyway... but I might go for the wonderful gatefold of Ellington's "New Orleans Suite" - it's a bit pricey but in perfect condition (about the price of 5 cups of coffee... for which you'd have to pay around 20€ now, but to me, it feels less pricey as the € and everything else is worth sh*t now... or rather, the Swiss frank is way overpriced...)

Woody Herman - Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet Very enjoyable quartet date with Woody on clarinet exclusively (and no singing), accompanied by Nat Pierce, Chuck Andrus and the great Gus Johnson. Guess that one's another original? Looks exactly like the above, the number (right side in the small printing in the white bar at the bottom) is "PHM 200-004". This one was even cheaper than the Ellington & Coltrane... and I could pick up "Encore" dirt cheap, but with cover in just so-so shape... and I have the Mosaic Select... should I still reconsider and get the LP?) Here's one more and better pic:

Frank Foster - The House That Love Built (Steeplechase) CD seems to include a 10 minute bonustrack (#4)

Thanks for the update. I just looked at that DEMS link again and was happy to see that they're including 8 tracks from the 1943 Hurricane broadcasts. I have a tree of much of the '43 Hurricane material but would love to see an official release of all of it at some point. There is a Storyville release (I guess that's official) of 3 Hurricane broadcasts from '43 including one "Pastel Period" broadcast. "At the Hurricane" Storyville 101 8359. ... and it's also (I assume) the same material from the Hurricane, that can be found on the "Duke Box"?

Very nice! The Pops part will be on the upcoming totally superfluous Universal 10CD set... I already wondered about where the rest of it could be found... and with the Pops being in there, too, that's nice! I'll grab this for sure!

"Dixieland" featuring Ben Pollack and his Pick-A-Rib Boys (Savoy MG-12090) Can't find a cover scan anywhere... my first original Savoy LP, for sure, and a nice one, too! Great Teagarden feature on "Mighty Like a Rose"!

Catching up with news only now... and just found this in the shelves, had forgotten all about it - it's spinning now, and nice it is! r.i.p. Fran Landesman

That one will be on my turntable tomorrow, too! @clifford: true dat! Ain't it great to have a good laugh, too... guess Fos is laughing with us!

Very sad news - r.i.p. Frank Foster

Footage from Andy Bey and some others in Paris: Who's the dude reminiscing?

Thanks - that's exactly how it looks! I guess around 10€ for this WAS quite a find, after all!

Can someone maybe help me determine if my "Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" is indeed an original pressing? There's a deep groove roughly where the outher black "frame" on the label begins. In the dead wax on side 1 are the following stamps: "AS 30A", "...? Sound" (very small, can't read the first word, it's in a tiny curly type) In the dead wax on side 2: "VAN GELDER", "AS-30 B" (originally handwritten), "STEREO", and "LW" (vertically, L on top of W), like: What's the meaning of that anyway? Seen it before... Further, on the labels as well as the back cover: "A PRODUCT OF ABC-PARAMOUNT RECORDS, INC." and "PRINTED IN U.S.A."

Yes, that one's fabulous! But to me, it's by far Masekela's finest (Dudu smokes... and spews fire!) Don't know that much yet, but nothing else I've heard had a similar impact on me...

Bridesmaids just started here... but there's so much old stuff in the cinemathèque... that's the thing: you got to make picks, select, and live without seing all you'd like. And with me, most often I got and watch the old films...

Yeah, that's silly indeed! I love a good comedy... but of course - as you were expecting, I guess - I'm drawn mostly to great old screwball comedies... "Ball of Fire", "The Lady Eve"...

Hey, us weirdos actually watch all these arthouse films because they're fun for us Either way, to me it's all welcome, but if you're more comfortable in a separate thread, that's of course fine, too!

not sure if any of them qualify as great finds, but I got them all in good to very good quality (that means "good" as in "good", not as in "unplayable" in that silly merikin vinyllingo which I don't get - good is good, dig?) and for very fair prices: Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio (Reprise) The Woody Herman Quartet - Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet (Philips) Jess Stacy and Friends 1938-1944 (London/Commodore Classics) Willie "The Lion" Smith - Composer-Entertainer (Commodore Classics) Keith Jarrett - Concerts (ECM 3LP) Jimmy Rushing - Rushing Lullabies (Philips UK) Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (ECM 2LP) Keith Jarrett - Hymns Spheres (ECM 2LP) Sidney Bechet Sessions (Storyville) Dixieland with Ben Pollack and his Pick-a-Rib Boys featuring Jack Teagarden (Savoy) Art Hodes - Someone to Watch Over Me ("Live at Hanratty's") (Muse) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse AS-30) as well as a 2LP set of Swiss jazz from 1935-65 with a few interesting cuts (and lots of amateur dixie bands that I could happily live without).

To end my short derailment of this thread... the boxes I could have bought were indeed the Billy May et.al. re-recordings, those 70s 3LP boxes I liked to above. No need for them to use up my space...

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane "Impulse Stereo A-30" is what it says in the white circle below the label... seems to be an original stereo issue - found it today! EDIT: image fixed

Jimmy Rushing - Rushing Lullabies got exactly the above Philips version - lovely!

I saw that one... as someone who owns zero Floyd discs at this time, it might be of interest... but would be overkill, too.

so it's packed as a gigantic smartphone? I'm waiting for the day when they'll invent the inversion box set... as soon as you open it, you'll be swallowed by the box set and turn invisble (like Calvin when he's wearing his cape)... you'll need a special gadget to be released again, if you lose it (or buy a Chinese counterfeit) you'll never find your way out again! Oh, and shouldn't this be in the boxset bargain thread?

Berkeley April 7, 1967 with Al Stinson! There are also Portland May 21, 1966 with Richard Davis and the aforementioned Newport July 2, 1967 gig, and then there's Newport July 4, 1966, too! The two from Newport are VOA broadcasts. Portland is given as AUD on Losin, but sounds more like SBD, Berkeley is a radio broadcast. Fabulous stuff, all of it!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Yes, only piano on the 1967 tour. As for the rest... London hasn't turned up, from Helsinki there are but a few tracks around, but there's are full (compared to Losin's listings, that is) radio captures from Rotterdam, Berlin and Karlsruhe (which is partly on the DVD). Not sure a Vol. 2 based on these would make that much sense, but hey, I'd get it, too!