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Yes, very good booklet I found, very informative!

Oscar Peterson, Bursting Out, Verve, $9 That isn't the twofer, but rather the "old CD", i assume? If it's the twofer, I'm all for it!

I've got this CD, with more music on it, I think: Beautiful music indeed!

the first is a great one to have back (yet if it will indeed, as is to be expected, miss all the bonus material, I'll stay with the CDR of the old CD, that's the best I could ever find for this one...) and a silly choice, since the later's been part of the LPR series (of which I still think the "Originals" series is somewhat of a continuation).

I quite agree with many of the points you make. I guess one of or THE most important thing to do is to actually attend live concerts and support the artists like that. These days it seems, generally musicians have to pay to release their music (at least if they do so on CD), and the only way to earn something is by drawing attention and audiences to their live shows... how many concerts have you been to where only 15 or 20 people attended? I know this doesn't apply to reissues and dead artists and their heirs etc bla-bla-bla (further point: if the heirs want bigtime money and are over-protective or in some cases just nuts, while not being dedicated to the heritage they're managing... is that "legit" or "just" or what?) - but for the scuffling artists still around, this is the best thing you can do: go to their concerts, and maybe buy some CDs from them directly (they often get a truckload for free, because they won't get any pay from the labels... and the 15$ they ask for their discs at a concert hence go directly into their pockets).

And another one that just came to mind: Erik Friedlander - Maldoror some samples and more on CDBaby

Oh yeah, Derek Bailey! His solo music is some of the most beautiful music ever committed to record! Ballads, Standards, Aida, or even more prefferedly any of his Emanem or Incus albums... Here's a review by Nate Dorward: http://www.ndorward.com/music/bailey_ballads.htm

Yeah, I'd love to hear more of that Sam Most session! The LaPorta is by now on a great Lonehill set (which also adds some unnecessary fillers, such as one part of the "Theme and Variations" Fantasy twofer-CD).

yuck, muehl on org... maybe bebop with all it's linear clarity and clean beauty helps him getting rid of his father complex? Still much impressed by The Band... in fact, I just ordered all their albums (except for "Cahoots" and the magnificient "The Band", both of which I found in the local summer sales just before departing for vacation, a few weeks ago), as well as the 4CD version of "The Last Waltz". Also, in the wake of this, I got into Dylan quite a bit again. He's been my first musical hero, back when I was 11 or 12, and on and off, I have listened to his music quite often. The most recent acquisitions were all the Bootleg Series volumes I was missing (the fantastic 1966 concert, the Rolling Thunder, the 1964 solo set, and the first 3CD set), the Biograph box, which I just finished playing for the first time yesterday (some great liner notes there), and the two nineties solo albums.

Yeah, I got mine much cheaper, it's nice to have - also it does contain some things not on the big Mingus Debut 12CD set (which is great, too).

Drop eloe omoe a PM, he can certainly help! But be prepared for hefty prizes...

Yeah, the Tea! Marvellous one! Definitely look for it! The Ray Brown is fine, too (by far better than the one in the LPR series or anything on the 2CD set w/Milt Jackson & Cannonball) The Washington was, with the Schifrin, the final ones I got. Learned to like the Washington a lot. The Schifrin is of course kind of cool, if only for the title and the allusion to Peter Weiss and all... but musically it's rather slight. The Peterson/De Franco I always found kind of lame, but before I got on my The Band-trip, I played a ton of Peterson and that one is up on top of the pile for once I'll feel like more Peterson... I have a hunch I might like it better by now...

Also, I used to be a fan of the Rollins solo disc mentioned in the first post, but by now I think it's more of a dud... it's maybe interesting to witness Rollins at work, but it's not a stellar moment at all, I think. Another great solo piano player is Martial Solal - Solo Solal, Nothing But Piano (both MPS), En Solo (RCA), Improvise pour France Musique (JMS), Solitude (CAM Jazz)... And Solal was one of the pianists of the great box set "Jazz n (e)motion", five discs of solo film music, performed by Steve Kuhn, Stephan Oliva, Alain Jean-Marie and Paul Bley. And that leads to three other great solo pianists, Paul Bley ("Homage to Carla" on Owl, for instance), Steve Kuhn, and Stephan Oliva (the Bernard Herman solo disc). And thinking of Kuhn somehow brings Don Friedman to mind... That then leads to the sadly hard to find Concord series of Maybeck performances (see, now and then Concord did some great things!)

Steve Lacy has been mentioned... I fondly recall the one occasion I saw him live, a beautiful Sunday matinee solo concert, short pieces, short concert, he still looked well though he must have been ill already... very precise music, bringing across his point most clearly. Strong, beautiful stuff! Another sax player I saw solo (at the same festival, the Unerhört festival in Zurich) is Roscoe Mitchell. That was a whole other experience, very intense, maybe too intense. I didn't connect with it as immediately as I did with Lacy, but it's still a very fondly remembered concert. Mitchell has a 3CD solo set (sax + percussion) on Mutable Music, which I picked up back then, after the concert, but somehow never got around to really explore:

Also, other favourite solo pianists include Abdullah Ibrahim and Randy Weston. Weston's solo albums are many, I'm not sure which one I'd nominate as a favourite right now, but with Ibrahim, there's a standout one, "African Piano":

Ramon Lopez - Eleven Drum Songs (Leo Lab 044) OOP but available as download

as piano solo records aren't off topic and she hasn't been mentioned, let me put up a good word for Irene Schweizer once again... top choice for solo record would be either Vol. 1 or Chicago Piano Solo - as most of her discography, they are out on Intakt. more info

Gianni Gebbia - Arcana Major, The Sonic Tarot Sessions (Rastascan) da shit, as they say - incredible solo alto sax playing, the site says only five copies left... I guess five or six years ago when I bought it, there were still 10 or 11 left... this was one of the top favourites of several regulars in the funny rat thread.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Spent the past two weeks in Budapest - great city! Not much jazz though, and CDs as overprized as elsewhere in ole yurp (that is, in the real, offline, world). Scored lucky though and found the Ellington 40CD box for roughly 65€ (new and sealed): Also picked up these three: Attila Zoller - The Horizon Beyond (w/Don Friedman, Barre Philips, Daniel Humair - Act CD reissue, rather pricey...) Ted Curson - Plenty of Horn (Fresh Sound) Bobby Hutcherson - Montara (Blue Note)

I read that story before but can't quite remember where... indeed nice!

Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne Leni Stern (to bring her up in a kinder context... I'm just back from the east, forgive my tasteless first post here!)

Lenin Leni Riefenstahl Leni Stern

Progress? TimeWarner, SonyBMG, EMI - that's progress... then come the hedge funds and down to the drain things go... capitalist idea of progress, I guess... That's an interesting point you're making... but I have given up ever having an Ellington set compiling all the sessions chronologically, in good sound and with alternates. I have two dozen or so of the Classics, but there'd be so many more, and then they lack the alternates and they aren't in that great sound. But I guess it's the closest we'll get. On the other hand, with SonyBMG having been under one roof for a while, why can't Mosaic try and get the early sessions all in one place? They could do an Ellington 27-31 (or whenever the ownership change of Brunswick/Vocalion took place) box. But I guess it's pointless in the current market situation to reissue again the RCA sessions that were around in the 24CD set as well as some 3CD sets for quite a while. And then you'd still have the problem of the smaller labels...

great read, thanks!