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You'll miss out on a large booklet going the CDR route... if that's no biggie for you... I kept the 2CD Storyville box even though I have the "Duke Box", just because of the big booklet.

Wasn't 1998-99 around the time that the Verve Elite series came out too? A mythical time of riches ! The VEEs started earlier, 1996 I think. They came faster and 1998 might as well have been the best year there. The final few came in 2000 already.

well, I gladly volunteer to send my jacobins!

the royal (in)breeding

the royal weeding

Wot, was there a decapitation and I missed it? Sorry about your dog, paps, hope he'll be fine again!

I've just been to the loo...

Over here 'tis

Happy Birthday, Joe! :party: Hope you're still with us now and then... and here's hope for another disc by Organissimo, have and enjoy all the ones you did so far! :tup

Happy big 3, niko! All the best! :party: Curtis and Dupree send their regards

Jack Purvis Pretty Purdie Colin Purbrook

John the Baptist Jean-Baptiste Lully Sully Prudhomme

ODB Easy Mo' Bee Beyonce

Who's playing flute on the Mingus album? Clifford Jordan? Did he ever play the flute, really? Fun to read three-part excerpt of forthcoming autobiography: http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/guest-bloggers/running-with-the-big-dogs-part-1 (Sorry if already posted elsewhere)

Yeah! Hopefully that Beeb thingie will be out there soon! Great to know! Wuppertal is too far for me to attend, but a friend who was here in Zurich (and lives in Germany) will go there, too. I tried to talk to McPhee quickly, but he wasn't interested much, alas... just shook hands, told him how great it was for me to see him live and all that, and he replied - kindly so - that he had enjoyed playing the concert a lot, too... but that, alas, was it).

Well, it should be billed as the "Chicago Tentet + 1" correctly. Blame the organizer for that! +1 is Bauer, the most recent addition to the band. And yes, Zerang's drumming is very tuneful and musical! was rather unfair only singling out Nilssen-Love above, but he was so amazingly powerful! Bauer, too... he's a weirdo and probably the biggest fan of the other guys, too... but his playing was fine. In the Zurich concert though, Jeb Bishop was outstanding! They had a little 'bone trio once, with Holmlander on that weirdo thing - magic! What struck me as most amazing is the degree of musicality you get to hear within all this messy, blaringly loud music - even when they are all on fire, and all playing simultaneously, you get all these little shifts, duos and trios within the whole group building... I bet it helps a lot that they play acoustically and are hence free to move around! Was that the case at the concerts you guys saw, too? No mics except for the tuba, and a pair of amps for cello and bass - but besides that, just purely acoustic sounds?

I wanted to do a little write-up but didn't feel like doing it under the immediate impression, which was enormous! Also bought the "3 Nights in Oslo" set at the concert, but haven't started playing. To warm up, I listened to the whole "Chicago Octet/Tentet" Okka-set the afternoon before the concert

Caught them in Zurich. Two blazing, amazing sets - my head was spinning and my ears bleeding for a whole day... Brötzmann played alto, tenor and taragato. McPhee played pocket trumpet and some fine alto (him and Brötz did an alto duel in the second set). Gustafsson was mostly on baritone, solid but rarely exciting, and at the end he also played his fluteophone. Vandermark was surprisingly good on tenor as well as clarinet (I'm no big fan). Holmlander (who was plain amazing all the way through) also played the cimbasso. The drumming of Nilssen-Love was outstanding (so good to have him instead of Hamid Drake, sorry to say), and so was the trombone playing of Jeb Bishop - what force (they played unamplified, except for the bass and cello). Also it was amazing how McPhee could project through this massive wall of sound...

Just had to check... #11 is part of the Stitt Mosaic. Most of these have been around in the bins, but I've never seen #19, #25, #28 (it's in the Joe Pass Mosaic). Also it's nice to see the Sonny Criss and Chico Hamilton albums in there... it's a pretty interesting selection, I'd say! The Laurindo Almeida was part of the two "Brazilliance" discs, I assume?

Yeah, just the final three cuts of CD 4 for the Coltrane demos. While this music is fantastic of course, this definitely strikes me as just about the most superfluous box set I've ever seen. It looks like 6 complete albums (all very available) and then the 3 demos. I believe any other bonus tracks have already been released, as on the Complete Africa Brass. And all albums everyone already has anyway... Gil Evans' magnificient "Out of the Cool", "Africa/Brass" (at least all of it is in there! For those having the recent "Impulse Original" single disc, they get the full 2CD "Impulse Master Sessions" digipack contents, and that's one great reissue!), "The Blues and the Abstract Truth"... the one I don't yet have is the Ray Charles, but there's a 2CD edition of it out now, adding "My Kind of Jazz", "My Kind of Jazz II", & "My Kind of Jazz III". The Kai Winding album seems to be the rarest of the bunch: The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones. But then I guess it's also the least interesting of the bunch. Double and triple hmmmms... As for most unneeded box sets, Coltrane Legacy runs a close second... a full four discs of well-known Trane, with ONE rarity, namely the entire 1965 set from which only "Nature Boy" had previously been available (CD4#4).

Great! I've been a huge fan of Hal's ever since discovering the ECM "Hal Russell Story"! There isn't nearly as much as there should be of his!

Thanks a lot for weighing in, Chuck! I guess first I'll order the ones new to me (now how about shipping the Ha Russell LP to yurp? or is a[n expanded?] CD reissue planned of that one as well?) and then decide later on about the AEC music (which I've been loving for what must now be around 15 years!)

Chuck may offer his opinion, but I much prefer the sound of the new reissues over the sound on the AEC box. If Chuck hadn't done the reissues, I could have lived with the box. Now I'll probably only listen to the reissues. And you get all the great photos, too! I love those in all the new Nessa reissues! High quality printing of the booklets, too! I guess I'm sold anyway...

Some voices on later Atlantic productions... Eddie Harris comes to mind first and foremost, Lateef has been mentioned, I guess there's some on Fathead albums, too (I might have some). Stan Getz did one, too ("Voices" from 1966 - Manfred Schoof has one with that title but no voices, coincidentally). Shepp's "Cry of My People" and some other tracks on other later Impulse albums have some cuts with voice.

Chuck, I'll order once you're back! That Eddie Johnson looks mighty tasty and I still need the Braxton/McDonough, too... Can you ship the Russell/Williams LP overseas or will that cost a fortune? And what are the opinions (including yours Chuck, I'm really interested!) regarding the AEC box vs. the new single/double disc sets?