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Of course not... I was just kind of bemused by Sangrey's (and some others) posts in the thread on the new Woody Allen flick...

gongs?

I'm thinking if there's a difference between consuming arts as escapism and (pretending) not to.

the advanced search function has never really worked anyway... better go the google route, put in "[search terms] site:organissimo.org" and ye shall find what yer seeking.

Hmm -- Grappelli on piano also shows up as "Unique piano session - Paris 1955" Sounds like a bit of a novelty act frankly, so I will refrain from purchasing Improvisations for the third time. But still good to know. Probably not a deal-breaker but neither of these newer releases have the three bonus tracks which are on the JiP CD. Forgot to mention the lack of bonus tracks, yes... got the "Improvisations" Heritage Series (or whatever that series was called again) from the bins one day, and the piano music is fun but totally inessential.

You can buy "Improvisations" a third time, too... this edition here adds a ten inch trio album with Grappelli on piano ("Piano à Gogo" with Guy Pedersen and "Mac Kac" Reilles).

Not entirely sure, but perhaps the Grappelli Sextet is also new to the JiP series. There are a few Oscar Peterson/Grappelli collaborations but as quartets not a sextet. I'll definitely take a closer look when Dusty Groove gets this in stock. The Grappelli was out as "The Nearness of You", the one-off that appeared a while after the original JiP series had stopped! Oh, that's the one that took me forever to track down. They never did get it at DG, and I finally ordered it from Amazon.fr. Yes, I remember! For me, amazon.fr is usually the very best source to get these anyway! The new Collector's disc sell at 8€ a pop... with VAT deducted, I just ordered the Louiss, Simmons and Nathan Davis for €20.04, meaning it's 4 cent over the minimal sum to get free shipping!

in a nutshell, the second batch (#31-40) of the Collector's Edition seems to be: Art Blakey - Olympia Concert (#69) Art Simmons Quartet (#61 + 8 new tracks) Barney Wilen - Jazz sur Seine (#26) Blue Stars - Pardon My English (#19, adding the Blue Stars EP from #94, but omitting the Henri Salvador-EP from #19) Eddy Louiss - Orgue (new) Memphis Slim / Willie Dixon aux Trois Mailletz (#36) Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (#3) Nathan Davis - Rules of Freedom (new) Stephane Grappelli et son sextette (#113) Zoot Sims & Henri Renaud - Night Session in Paris (#1-4 from #25 and the afore-mentioned Ducretet-Thomson album from the "Americans Swinging in Paris" series) the first batch was: Art Blakey - Paris Jam Session (#40) Bernard Peiffer - Piano Et Rythmes (#93 - titled "Plays Standards") Bill Coleman - From Boogie to Funk (#7) Bobby Jaspar - Modern Jazz au Club Saint Germain (#27) Chet Baker - And His Quintet with Bobby Jaspar (from the Barclay sessions - various editions) Django Reinhardt - The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt (#91 - titled "Nuages") Donald Byrd - Byrd In Paris (#4) Donald Byrd - Parisian Thoroughfare (#5) Elek Bacsik - Guitar Conceptions (#15) Guy Lafitte - Blue and Sentimental (#24) Jazz At The Philharmonic - Les Tricheurs (#50 - partly on "Jazz et cinéma vol. 2", including some never before released tracks) Jean-Luc Ponty - Jazz Long Playing (#43) Lionel Hampton - And His French New Sound Vol. 1 (#45 - Vol. 2) Lionel Hampton - And His French New Sound Vol. 2 (#44 - Vol. 1) Lucky Thompson - Modern Jazz Group (#28) Maurice Meunier - And His Orchestra (half of #54 - Clarinettes à Saint-Germain-des-Prés) Max Roach - Parisian Sketches (#96 - also part of the Max Roach Mosaic) Michel Legrand - Paris Jazz Piano (#32) Multi Interprètes - Jazz Boom N°1 (new) Pierre Michelot - Round About a Bass (#29) Quincy Jones - I Dig Dancers (new - includes a few cuts Mosaic missed when they compiled their Q-box) René Thomas - And His Orchestra (#16) René Urtreger - Joue Bud Powell (#67) Ronnell Bright - The Ronnell Bright Trio (half of #61 - titled "Piano aux Champs Elysées") Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan à Paris (#83 - titled "Vaughan & Violins", new version adds four alternates) Slide Hampton - Exodus (#10) Sonny Criss - Mr Blues Pour Flirter (#23, adding most but not all of Criss' tracks from #55, "Saint Germain-des-Prés") Stéphane Grappelli - Django (#87) Toots Thielemans - Blues Pour Flirter (#17) Willie Smith - Willie The Lion Smith (#64 - titled "Music On My Mind")

Addition/correction to Zoot/Renaud: The Ducretet-Thomson album as linked above, with seven tracks (here) ist just MP3... the CD version has eleven tracks, adding the Zoot/Renaud date (#1-4) from the old JiP disc (here) - the new CD version is thus this one: Again: #1-4 have been on JiP #25 #5-11 represent the Ducretet-Thomson album previously out in the "Americans Swinging in Paris" series.

Not entirely sure, but perhaps the Grappelli Sextet is also new to the JiP series. There are a few Oscar Peterson/Grappelli collaborations but as quartets not a sextet. I'll definitely take a closer look when Dusty Groove gets this in stock. The Grappelli was out as "The Nearness of You", the one-off that appeared a while after the original JiP series had stopped! That's weird... and unlikely. EMI owns the material that was on the "Americans Swinging in Paris" series, while the whole JiP material comes from Universal's vaults. Got to check this... The new one: http://www.amazon.fr/Zoot-Sims-Henri-Renaud-Orchestre/dp/B0045R749O/ The cover says "Ducretet-Thomson"... and that's indeed the one that was out as "The Brother" in the Americans Swinging in Paris series (here: http://www.amazon.fr/Zoot-Sims-Americans-Swinging-Digipack/dp/B000065BSD/) The old JiP one, for reference: http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B000051TKK/ That is super weird! I was always assuming Ducretet-Thomson recordings belong to the EMI ownings... maybe brownie knows more? If the JiP crew has access there, what else could they bring to the fore that has not appeared in the Americans Swinging in Paris series?

Interesting, didn't notice about the additional material on the Simmons yet (but didn't do a track-by-track comparison of the latest batch yet).

Thanks guys! I checked for some history on the site but didn't find the page linked above... so AM is just one piece of the whole thing... didn't want to derail this thread, but I guess some GHB releases would fit in here as well, and that "Marie La Veau" is easily recommended in my book!

Oh, and what with GHB? Is that related as well? I've got Papa Celestin's "Marie La Veau" from that label - very good! I see they're all covered on the Jazzology website... also Circle, Black Swan, Solo Art, Audiophile and Southland (all of these unknown to me, except for Circle). What's the story there, if you don't mind me asking in this thread?

Well, for starter's, here's Uma with a messy bob: I've got less than a dozen AMCDs so far, the Baby Dodds, a pair of Bunk Johnson's (1944 and 1944/45 - the second 1944 just got lost in a large package sent to me, alas), some Lewis (NO Stompers Vols. 1 & 2, w/Kid Shots, Trios and Bands), as well as one each by Kid Thomas and the Eureka Brass Band from 1951. Great to see a thread about this label - will gladly pick up on some recommendations! Btw, what's the relation (if any) with JazzOlogy and Progressive?

Very sad! Will play some of his music tomorrow.

Their free shipping worldwide is rather crazy! I wish there'd be some US vendors with such a policy! I've been mostly happy with them, but it happens that they offer some newish discs that they might not be able to obtain (happened to me with the Japanese reissue of "Cu-Bop", which I've now ordered elsewhere). If you accept that as a possibility (it happened to me two or three times over two or three dozen orders - and I was going for a lot of obscure stuff). Anyway, they're recommended, for sure! Also I think they are always helping customers save taxes etc. by mailing larger orders in several packages (I usually get each disc in a separate mailer, I might have three of their typical red padded bags in the mail the same day... no taxes for me anyway though, as I live in Switzerland, of course.) addition: I've ordered some of the Gullin Dragons, they took a while to arrive (they may even take a while to confirm, but that's better than some other vendors who confirm everything right away only to cancel two weeks later), but I got all I wanted - so I guess they do really carry Dragon.

Happy Birthday! :party:

The name of the Swiss city is Montreux. And there I always thought it was Montreaul

Should turn up sooner or later... I bought the recent Storyville releases from amazon.fr most often, they offer the best prices - best just to keep watching...

Actually, I just got the "Pure Ella" CD and that one's wonderful for sure! Sorry, I forgot to bring my album ... Who dat anyway?

I guess the line-up for the concert is: Miles Davis (t,org), Bob Berg (ts,ss), Adam Holzman (synth), Robert Irving III (synth), Robben Ford (g), Felton Crews (elb), Vincent Wilburn Jr. (d), Steve Thornton (perc) Ah yes, here's Losin's entry for the (never released) Warner box: http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Sessions.aspx?s=860720

Got the two Olympia concerts today - thanks for the recommendation, guys! (The two LaserLight cardboard packed sets, each with two regular jewel cased discs, in case anyone wonders.) As for the Impulse album... we just discussed this elsewhere today - along with "Percussion Bitter Sweet" and "Into the Hot" it was one of three projects Creed Taylor had intiated before he left to Verve/MGM, but there seems to be no actual production credit given anywhere (I only have the CD and searched the net a bit, don't have an original vinyl to check if Creed's signature is there or not). Did Blakey and/or Shorter handle this themselves? (Roach did so with his album, while Gil Evans supervised the Johnny Carisi and Cecil Taylor sessions that formed "his" album... he then followed Creed to Verve, but only in 1963 was his next album to follow, "The Individualism of Gil Evans"). Ashley Kahn gives no production details for the Blakey album btw, neither does he mention that Fuller was an extra at that time (did he join immmediately after or only after a while? When he joined for good, Morgan and Timmons were gone, replaced by Hubbard and Walton). I'd love to own a real copy of "Into the Hot" one day... got to check some stores for it!

Great deal, great set - whoever got it ! You don't happen to have any spare vinyl ones stacked away in your Alpine redoubt, do you? Alas no... the only vinyls I ever saw used (or rather: new but standing in a store for at least a decade when I bought them) are the Tina Brooks, the Art Pepper and the Buck Clayton. Other than those, even my OOP-Mosaic findings (online, mostly) were all CD sets. Right now playing the Complete 1950-55 Illinois Jacquet... wish it existed! Don't have all tracks quite yet (the chronos went through the roof, pricewise, and I already have the "Kid & The Brute" VEE twofer and the useless Quadromania 4CD set, so I went for "Jacquet à la Carte" on Ocium and the Membran reissue of "Illinois Jacquet & His Orchestra", which leaves me with a gap of "Lazy Blues", "Pastel" and "All of Me" from the Clef 1951-01-18 session's quintet part... the first of the four tracks cut, "Speedliner", closes the Quadromania - how silly! Guess they just copied some Chronos there).

Don't think I've seen this mentioned here so far... released today, it seems: Disc 1 (Remastered Album) 1. Tutu 2. Tomaas 3. Portia 4. Splatsh 5. Backyard Ritual 6. Perfect Way 7. Don't Lose Your Mind 8. Full Nelson Disc 2 (Nice 1986) 1. Opening Medley 2. New Blues 3. Maze 4. Human Nature 5. Portia 6. Splatch 7. Time After Time 8. Carnival Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of this 1986 album from the Jazz great, the most important album of Miles' late career. Features the remastered album and a previously unreleased performance from the Nice Festival of 1986. Warner. some more info from amazon.fr:

Guess this would belong into "recommendations"... there was a similar thread (including the years 1985-1990) which was in "reissues" but had the same subject you're asking of, really: