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Agreed on Schneider! As for Mark Masters, other than the Grachan Moncur disc (thanks, brownie! ), I have one with Lee Konitz but am honestly not sure I ever played it yet. I also like this Swiss guy, Kaspar Ewald ... not sure he has any recent releases out, have two of his albums from around 10 years ago:

Like: there was a CD reissue boom going on from 1995 to 2005 ... a dozen years past it, the ones owning rights to Erroll Garner finally get on it, too? And yet the liners to the Complete Concert by the Sea stressed how well Garner's affairs had (and have! ha!) always been handled ...

taken from a Jazz Icons DVD, I assume: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazz-icons-series-3-sonny-rollins-65-and-68-sonny-rollins-by-c-michael-bailey.php finally about to buy these, had the first box for a while, just bought the fourth, lent a few single DVDs from a library years ago ... and going to pick up Vols. 2 and 3 on the way home from work today (gotta pay baksheesh for the cutsoms) ... leaves Vol. 5 which will be part of my next Mosaic order (not scheduled yet, though i wand the new Pres set badly)

JPC has nice prices on some of the Storyville boxes - these go for 35€ currently: The Duke Box https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/Duke-Ellington-1899-1974-The-Duke-Box/hnum/8707288 The Blues Box https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/The-Blues-Box-7CD-DVD/hnum/5557134 The Armstrong Box https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/Louis-Armstrong-1901-1971-The-Armstrong-Box-7-CD-DVD/hnum/9912297 George Lewis - Keeper of the Flame https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/George-Lewis-Keeper-Of-The-Flame/hnum/4080235 Billy Strayhorn - Out of the Shadows https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/billy-strayhorn-out-of-the-shadows/hnum/5247145 The Earl Hines goes for €43: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/earl-hines-piano-genius-at-work/hnum/8602936

@xybert yeah, I think I had one CD-R straight from Amazon, you're correct! And same here, would love to have been aboard from the first volume of DETS on!

Those OJC CD-Rs seem to be a US phenomenon though? We only seem to get them via those crooked US re-sellers on amazon that always fail to properly declare stuff and then fail to partly re-imburse or to even react to complaints ... bottom line: I don't buy any Fantasy CDs without being able to look at them first (in Europe, they're Universal CDs, and so far I don't think I've run into any Universal CD-R). But yeah, the blue frames ... those, we have them over here, too (via amazon itself), not always correctly declared either. But Storyville joining in (be it that they manufacture CDRs themselves, be it that they allow others to re-sell their - OOP? - stuff in CD-R format) is quite a let-down. I have several of the DETS from around Vol. 10 and was planning to fill the gaps eventually. Not sure if that's worth it now. Will also need to investigate the stray other volume I have from among the earlier ones (I think Vols. 1 and 2 only, but I keep forgetting such things, which is why I usually have my list updated and on my smartphone, just in case ).

yup, but I was away for a week ... and then back in the office, so instead of having an overflowing mailbox (and then maybe having to pick up some stuff again myself due to that) and not being home to receive tracked/signed mail ... I picked the option to go and fetch the stuff myself, was more convenient in this case

Very sorry about having to report this ... but DETS Vol. 4 I just bought (from jazzmessengers) turns out to be a CD-R. Wasn't aware Storyville (or whomever pirate) has joined that game now, too. This is the type of CD-R used in this case: http://www.opti-pack.co.uk/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/17/products_id/66 the number (ATW700T-2/0.4) can be clearly read in the inner circle, and the entire thing felt a bit odd and looked less shiny than it ought to ... so yeah, indeed

just returned from the post office picking up last week's mail ... and the Vocalion package was amongst the stuff - playing the Maupin now

Guess that's why I finally just bought "Streams" last week ... This new set definitely holds little interest ... I think the Tom Scott is the one album I don't know. It's neither a collection of Impulse's best albums nor a collection of rarities or oddballs. Seems almost like they're aiming at those that have no clue ... Re: Hines and Scott ... the Hines is a bit of an oddity, but a charming one - I wish for more playing time/solo space each time I listen to it. The Scott is brilliant, maybe the perfect example of the Turrentine/Scott team. The old GRP CD contained some substantial bonus tracks (but I think some cuts were still missing, compared to the vinyl releases of the material?) ... bet this time it'll be sans any bonus tracks? That would be a pity for the Ellington/Hawkins album, too ... just one bonus track there, but a gorgeous one (as is the whole album anyway). Also, for some, the Shelly Manne may be new? It has some prime Hawkins and some Eddie Costa, too. Mighty fine album, for sure (it was part of the recent Japanese Impulse reissue series, but I have a battered LP of it, too).

just the opposite ... it looks like all those Sony boxes (Essential Albums, Vogue etc.) - more details here: http://www.udiscovermusic.com/discover-your-impulsive-side-with-this-25-cd-box-set contents: I. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers- Jazz Messengers!!!!! II. Max Roach- Percussion Bitter Sweet III. Shelly Manne- 2-3-4 IV. The Gil Evans Orchestra - Into The Hot V. Quincy Jones - The Quintessence VI. Benny Carter And His Orchestra- Further Definitions VII. Roy Haynes Quartet - Out Of The Afternoon VIII. Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins- Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins IX. Freddie Hubbard- The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard X. Chico Hamilton- Passin' Thru XI. John Coltrane Quartet- Ballads XII. Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves- Salt & Pepper XIII. Charles Mingus- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus XIV. McCoy Tyner- Today And Tomorrow XV. Oliver Nelson- More Blues And The Abstract Truth XVI. Shirley Scott- Queen Of The Organ XVII. Earl Hines- Once Upon A Time XVIII. Sonny Rollins- Alfie XIX. Stanley Turrentine- Let It Go XX. Dizzy Gillespie- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac XXI. Tom Scott- Rural Still Life XXII. Alice Coltrane- Journey in Satchidananda XXIII. Charlie Haden- Liberation Music Orchestra XXIV Gato Barbieri- Chapter One: Latin America XXV. Keith Jarrett- Death And The Flower just in case, this was how it was originally supposed to look: don't have a contents list handy, but I'm sure it can be found here, somewhere ...

Went on with Opp. 20 and 33 by the Schneider Quartet - what a great bunch of pieces, and thoroughly interesting to see the development and changes from one set to the next ... now playing Op. 33 by the Mosaïques - quite a contrast, but I guess these two are cool to have alongside!

Thanks - I have ordered a few times and never had any problems. Off for a week of vacation tomorrow, will see if anything arrives in the meantime. If not, I'll deal with it afterwards.

Had this in the mail yesterday, and played Op. 20 right away ... that then prompted me to search for this here: Played Opp. 1 and 2, now into Op. 17 (quite a difference indeed) and looking forward to their take on Op. 20 later today or maybe tomorrow. Don't have any complete set, so alas I am missing Op. 9 as of now.

I bought his "Kenton Presents" LP a few days ago ... no time to listen so far. Sad news, always enjoyed him in Bud Shank's group.

Many thanks, worked like a charm!

Have not heard back and not yet received anything ... is that normal with Vocalion? It's been a few years since I last ordered, but the automated email I got, two weeks back, said they would get in touch asap ... and obviously they didn't. And yeah, I wand that Maupin!

Great, thank you!

Would be much appreciated - I'm home by now and have just checked my disc - faulty booklet, no scans of full notes included, and nothing on my computer, it seems ... I had totally forgotten the goof, enjoy that disc a lot, but it has been a while since I last played it.

Oh, I would be interested ... never got those full notes, I think!

True ... but that didn't exist back then

Oh yes, that IS a great moment indeed!

Yeah, but take out the master takes and this release wouldn't make much sense ... but yeah, this could have been Vol. 27 or they could throw in a fourth disc with a great live concert.

[rasp]Teo, don't say that to me[/rasp] Can't say I'm too flabbergasted by this news ... still hoping for sets of the 1971 and 1973 tours (and maybe a 1972/73 sitar band set, too?) and more the like. But still interested enough to buy and hope for a couple of revelations.

Great catch! It's worth alone for "Squatty Roo" that Johnny Hodges made with Dizzy's band during the "Have Trumpet, Will Excite" session! I heard that track on the Hodges disc of one of those Verve best of compilations from the 90s and fell in love with it, but didn't quite feel like buying that disc for one lone track ... was all the happier to find it again on this compilation!