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No reason to hesitate, those are wonderful recordings! (In case you're not familiar with those Sony boxes and it matters to you: presentation is minimal, no booklet, just infos on the back of the cardboard sleeves.)

Playing my (French) LP now ... very noisy (and I was ripped of on shipping costs, hate when sellers do that), but even more enjoyable! Just flipped to side two and the title track is indeed wonderful! Thanks for the recommendation, Larry

I love it, but it took me years ... guess a similar story as with JSgnry, xept 35 or so was late enough in my case ("sooner", I thus guess )

JPC offers quite a few of TCB's Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series discs for 10€ a piece. Not a super bargain, but still ... hope the link works: https://www.jpc.de/s/swiss+radio+days

the 1952 mono "Aida" with Tebaldi, from this box:

First time I ever hear any Haydn concertos in HIP - makes a huge difference, truly ear-opening. Actually, to put it bluntly: first time, any Haydn concerto makes real sense to me!

Cheers! Just wanted to post that too. The real Taj next to all that foogliness.

Still not too big on WP ... but the Roscoe Mitchell is excellent!

Most of the Basie, I think, corresponds to the Laserlight two disc set here: http://www.allmusic.com/album/count-basie-laserlight-mw0000533810 There must have been earlier editions of the same recordings.

Some good offers here https://www.jpc.de/s/Box-Sets+um+50%+reduziert!?searchtype=campaigntext

Went down to the 60€ range on some yurpeen amazon sites. I pre-ordered and paid around 90 or 100 I think. Here 'tis https://www.amazon.it/gp/aw/d/B003M3UJIK/

CAM has teased us with the four upcoming boxes - or rather, just with the artists they'll be dedicated to - here's what's left for them, I think (correct me where I miss something): David Murray: David Murray Big Band - LIVE AT "SWEET BASIL" - VOL.1 David Murray - LIVE AT "SWEET BASIL" - VOL.2 David Murray - INTERBOOGIEOLOGY David Murray - CHILDREN David Murray With Dave Burrell - WINDWARD PASSAGES * David Murray with Randy Weston - THE HEALERS Mal Waldron: David Friesen with Mal Waldron - REMEMBERING MAL Judi Silvano with Mal Waldron - RIDING A ZEPHYR ** Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron - COMMUNIQUÉ * All Star Session - REMEMBERING THE MOMENT Mal Waldron Trio - OUR COLLINE'S A TREASURE Mal Waldron with David Friesen - DEDICATION Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy - SEMPRE AMORE * Mal Waldron - UPDATE Kim Parker with The Mal Waldron Trio - SOMETIMES I'M BLUE Max Roach: Max Roach - IT'S CHRISTMAS AGAIN Max Roach Double Quartet - EASY WINNERS Max Roach Quartet - SCOTT FREE Max Roach Double Quartet - LIVE AT VIELHARMONIE Max Roach Quartet - IN THE LIGHT Max Roach Quartet - PICTURES IN A FRAME Muhal Richard Abrams: Muhal Richard Abrams - 1- OQA+19 Muhal Richard Abrams/Malachi Favors - SIGHTSONG Muhal Richard Abrams - DUET feat. Amina Claudine Myers Muhal Richard Abrams - COLORS IN THIRTY-THIRD Muhal Richard Abrams - SONG FOR ALL Muhal Richard Abrams - FAMILY TALK Roscoe Mitchell & Muhal Richard Abrams - DUETS AND SOLO * *) part of earlier boxes by Murray (Vol. 2), Steve Lacy (Duos & Trios) and Roscoe Mitchell, respectively **) no one needs this, methinks! Pretty cool to see the rest of Roach's albums coming out - I was disappointed by the first one in that it only contained three (out of six) discs that weren't duplicates of the Taylor and Braxton boxes! As for Muhal, I've bought all the missing ones separately by now (already had a few of them when the first box arrived), but I'm in for the Waldron (I think), the Roach and the Murray! The Muhal will be the second one I'll skip - the first one was the Jimmy Lyons, where I have the albums already (and why did they omit one of the duos from the Cyrille box? there's not going to be a second one by him, I assume, right - nothing left in the vault?

If only traffic were as smooth as Jamal/Crosby/Fournier!

Ordered an LP of this (CD goes for crazy prices) - always in for more grand late solo Hines!

Okay, I have to confess I'm not deeply enough into Armstrong's discography ... I'm still a big fan of the series, and in light of their communicating that this Intégrale won't contain each and every note recorded but that they will omit some stuff, I assume they were frank enough about it. However, now that you mention it, I am interested in this - maybe you feel like expanding on it in the thread dedicated to the series?

Lost Chords Meet Paolo Fresu (still on Carla's own WATT, I think - distributed by ECM) Chiaroscuro - in duet with Ralph Towner both pretty nice! he has a couple more that I don't know: https://www.ecmrecords.com/artists/1435047562/paolo-fresu

Was just poking ... I like this series a lot and am somewhat pissed by the fact that there's always someone on these sides to step in and mention that "I've known this even before WW I broke out, why are you so excited about this?" ... not everybody was around to buy the Miles and Basie concerts in previous incarnations, not everyone is in some Sinatra fan club that allows 'em to know that this Paris gig was around before, not everyone has 200+ Satchmo discs including some fifty or sixty concerts by the All Stars etc., so this is a nice series, be it to fill gaps, be it to make people aware of some stuff for the first time. And with Fremeaux, usually production credits are very high, even if, like with this series, booklets are on the small side (and yeah, much higher, for instance, than with the previous two incarnations of Trema/Laserlight reissues ... the old "Pour ceux qui aiment le jazz" edition of the Miles concerts from the 90s has a large booklet, but again, the only other release I have from that time is Ellington's "Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 29-30 Janvier 1965" - I was simply not able to buy more in the day (and probably not even aware this was a series worth looking for, beyond the Miles)

My condolences, Joel - your write-up gives a vivid picture of your friend, sounds like you had some great time together!

Just giving the new "Karyobin" it's first spin - great to finally have it in a proper edition! Guess the second parcel (with the Shaw and McNair) will arrive in the next days, too (the SME package should also have contained the Colbeck, but I was too late in reconfiguring the order, adding another item or two to it).