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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!

still at home, leaving monday night - no time yet to answer all the mails, sorry!

I just found the single disc reissues of "The Band" and "Cahoots" and played both... continuing to be very, very excited! Also picked up some Joni Mitchell and Ry Cooder. I've heard "Mingus" and some 90s stuff by Cooder (mostly the cuban albums, including the fun one with Manuel Galban). These will have to wait for my return from vacation in about two weeks, but I'm looking forward!

Well, to quote myself from about 10 days ago, "...these are very pleasant recordings, done for easy listening rather than stretching boundaries. I like 'em.." I don't think they ever were intended or destined to be classics. Their individual releases were spaced out, remember, and they were listened to 20 minutes at a time, stacked on the old Collaro Continental changer with the Shearing and the Getz and maybe the Garner... Listen to them that way again, or just have them playing while cooking dinner. They're fine. You guys may have a point. I've been listening to the Avid set on Spotify and it could be all I need. The Avid set is 10CDs and also contains JATP material, and sessions with Billie Holiday, and horns - some you're more likely to have elsewhere (Young, Webster) and the odd rarity (Flip Phillips). I do think these Songbooks sessions have an interest though even if they may have been thrown off rather quickly. There's another bootleg box that fills the gap between the Mosaic and the Brown/Thigpen set but duplicates quite some of the Mosaic, as well as the recent Verve Original of Basie material (with Buddy Rich added to the Ellis/Brown trio). It contains 6 CDs and was released on the United Archives label. Amazon.de still lists it, but I got it considerably cheaper: http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Songbooks-Os...4945&sr=1-1 It's nice to have, as some of the Songbooks with Kessel were filled up by tracks with Ellis and I guess it's rather unlikely that we get another Oscar Peterson Mosaic (I wrote them about it, nothing planned as of now, and I guess the existence of these various boot sets diminishes the chances...)

Yes, this has been the case with several boxes, sometimes for many months (the Crusaders comes to mind). The Weston is a terrific set! The Carmell Jones is fine, too, of course, but if I had to pick just one of these, the Weston would definitely be my choice... great playing by Johnny Griffin, Kenny Dorham, Coleman Hawkins, Cecil Payne, Roy Haynes and others, and on disc 3 you get two of the most fascinating big band projects/albums of that era, "African Highlife" and "Uhuru Africa", both full of great playing by a bunch of soloists, including Budd Johnson, Ray Copeland, Julius Watkins, Booker Ervin, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, and many others.

sorry, my bad - read too fast I always thought there was a reason that his site(s) disappeared, but I never knew that reason...

I think it was on his page, yes - when did he die? I think he sent me an email a while back...

The Band! Got this great box set with the finder's fee (I found a purse with more than 1000 CHF in it... got 10% for bringing it to the next police station a couple of weeks ago... went home and ordered this one...) More info here: http://theband.hiof.no/albums/a_musical_history.html Definitely one of the most amazing groups I've ever heard. Endlessly nuanced, highly musical, terrific songs, great singing (quite a variety, with Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel taking turns) - and Garth Hudson, too!

I guess someone could still find the NDR disco with help of the wayback machine... I'm not good at that. It indeed is a fact that plenty of them were done not in Hannover or Hamburg. They usually were quite a bit longer than what an LP could hold, and of many, i think only a title or two have been officially released, if anything at all.

darn y'all - this thread made me look at the Liona Boyd website - jeeeeesus!

Capitol Partners? As in:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party: Hope you enjoyed that Luis Russell set!

Yeah, I highly doubt that a small niche company like Mosaic has any influence on what Sony/BMG keeps in print and what not... I guess it's rather the influence of Org that has brought too many lurkers to snatch up the remaining Ellington sets around and now we missed it (me, too, but since the Mosaic is now definitely announced, I don't mind much).

Got my set already! Wow, that was fast - even more astonishing as the cheapest overseas shipping option (20 CAN$) indeed said something like 2-4 months delivery time... I'm a happy camper, yessir I am!

Yeah, and while Chuck's comment about re-assessing what you do and why and why you don't do something different... while that comment may seem hard to those actually without employment, it made me think. I've been expecting to be fired quite definitely for several months (I got a bad "rating" for last year - change of bosses, me being a smartass and often cynical commenter... and more tough shit going on there before etc etc), and Chuck's comment definitely made me think quite a bit!

paps, that Luis Russell is terrific! *** today at the used store: Ry Cooder - Jazz Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

Just posting here to bow before Ms Pepper - I love Art Pepper's music very, very much!

as for Larry's off-topic remark - go here to get a touch: Diaspora of Rembetiko (Neatwork, 2CD)