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That doesn't do anything with the double cases. The worst thing about the double case they use is that if you get one CD off of one side, the disc on the other side is even harder to remove since they share the retention hooks. indeed! and something else I am (in the slightest way of slightly) worried about is those new double jewel cases where the tray doesn't have any kind of hinge, but rather just sort of a perforation that allows it being opened/flipped open - these will eventually just fall apart, I assume... question is, will they last as long as I live? (I am not quite yet 30, but it's only a few months...)

Hm, maybe I haven't just heard enough music yet... couldn't say I know many other albums who did better takes on what Barney did on "Moshi" - it's quite a singular album in my opinion...

PM sent on: Lou Donaldson, Quartet/Quintet/Sextet) (BN) $7 Lou Donaldson, Fried Buzzard (Chessmates) $7 Shelley Manne, Perk Up (Concord) $7 Wes Montgomery, Far Wes (Pacific Jazz) $6 Neil Swainson, 49th Parallel (Concord) $7 (Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw in band) Stanley Turrentine, Let It Go (Impulse) $7 Ben Webster, Gone with the Wind (Black Lion) $7 Ben Webster, There is no Greater Love (Black Lion) $7 Ben Webster, See You At The Fair (Impulse) $7 Grant Green, Iron City (32 Jazz) $7

mine got here very fast - likely it came by air mail anyway... got it about ten days or even two weeks ago already (ordered just a few days before the July sale ended), and the sucker made it even without taxes, for a change! good one, so far, but I'm only halfway into disc 3 after three listening/reading sessions.

yeah, I don't doubt your being serious - but you could let us know why you're of that opinion... also the word "legit" strikes me as weird (not sure I understand it in this context at all... I guess it was up to Barney to decide if his albums were legit statements of what he wanted to tell)

Tremendously enjoying the bits of music left by Luis Russell's terrific band (with Higgy, Red Allan, Charlie Holmes, and some other great soloists) - there's some celeste there as well - used to great effect, in my humble opinion!

a c'mon, you can do better...

I never thought of Wilen as a Mobley disciple - in fact I never thought of him as anyone's disciple... maybe a tenor sax disciple? (But don't forget his wonderful soprano piece on the "Liaisons Dangereuses" Blakey album! He was one of the first modern jazzers with full grasp of and technical ease on the bitchy small horn.) Barney is hard to pin down (but maybe that was one of the things he wanted to achieve), almost chameleon like... he did way out free stuff (with Tusques), world/free fusions (with Irene Schweizer's trio and Indian musicians), classic hardbop (Blakey, Miles, also as a leader with guys like Kenny Dorham and Duke Jordan in his band, or again as a sideman with George Lewis and pre-singing Sacha Distel), and then later on he played with mainstream guys such as Kenny Barron or several good French pianists (Alain Jean Marie, Michel Graillier), yet in between he did weird things like that album with Marie Möör or that Barry & the whatevers thing, where he's just doing some r'n'b honks and obbligatos, mostly... I love Barney! Here's the main >>Barney thread<<

You didn't get a price for it, did you? I still haven't had a response to my e-mail. No, but I didn't ask for that... just asked them to please put me on any future mailings.

Bix/Tram/Tea - disc 3 right now, been playing discs 1 and 2 a couple of days ago, some great, some good, but some annoying vocals, too...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotlan...ast/7562773.stm

yeah, what mike said - quite a story!

The "Greatest Jazz Films" DVDs are great - but I think they ought to be considered boots, too.... they're on idem Home Video or soemthing, and that label's distributed by Fresh Sound... anyway, even weirder is that the same distributor/label carries two series of "Jazz Casual", one called like that, combining two shows on short DVDs, the other series called "20th Century Jazz Masters", combining 3-4 "Jazz Casual" shows, both contain the complete series, I think... all rather shady stuff. The "Greatest Jazz Films" is also available on two single DVDs (which is how I have it), one being mainly the 1957 "Sound of Jazz" with some bonus material, the other being "Jammin' the Blues", the Herridge Davis TV show, plus the second Mili film, plus some more. Glorious, all of it, that's for sure, but weird editions, nevertheless.

Funny, his playing on "Star Bright" never caught my attention. I think I first noticed him on Comin' On as well. The sessions with the Three Sounds are also par excellence. ok ok, I don't get what's so hilarious about me mixing up two albums - or is that some kind of language joke that I don't get or what?

Both these tracks have been out before, perhaps not legitimately. The Zurich concert (4/8/60) is on Jazz Unlimited 2031. The Netherlands concert (4/9/60) is on Unique Jazz 19 and Natasha 4002. Yes, I think the Zurich is not legitimate either... another stupid decision along the lines of including just one of the Newport 1955 tracks on the 2CD edition of "Round About Midnight"... And what crap about the "Love for Sale" etc. session only being on the box? I thought it was on one of those old Legacy CDs (1958 Session or Stella By Starlight or whatever, never owned it), and of course it was on vinyl before that...

Yeah, I've heard it...it's fun, but not deep (Moshi is! It goes all the way!) I thought these WERE european releases, i thought that whole label was german or something... even crazier what prizes are asked for these releases!

I'm still doubtful about buying the Leary one - it's cool, ok, but these reissues cost almost twice as much here as on dusty (but dusty charge a helluva lot for shipping to yurp) - as crazy as rare japanese reissues... funniest is the George Duke one - it costs almost as much as the 4CD box that Universal put out themselves, which includes six more albums...

Ha - you ought to check out "Moshi" then - that's the real thing!

Add "Blues & Roots" and "At Beethoven Hall" or whatever the Russell MPS is called! Mingus is somewhere in between if we apply Larry's criteria (I did - that's why I mentioned Dameron instead of just some hardbop stuff that happens to have three horn frontlines, which is rather common if you give it some thought... Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Clark all did albums with three horns, so did quite a few organists, not just Jimmy Smith, I think...)

it shows up for me - I guess I'll get this once it runs low (might be faster than we anti-OP-organissimos think), but not before...

That's not what I said. I have plenty of organ jazz CDs, including all three Organissimo discs... what I said was that a friend of mine who doesn't like organ much considered re-selling his GW box to me. But in the meantime I had Mosaic put one aside for me anyway.

because AAJ is big business, doing promotion, reviews etc - the board there is just a small and not that important part of it? I remember when I interviewed Patrick Landolt, founder/owner/head of Intakt Records, he mentioned AAJ as one of the sites that do matter - contrary to old-fashioned stiff rags such as Downbeat.

Had them put a Patton aside... credit card issues This is quite a deal, and shipping to Europe (or rather: Switzerland...) is less than 6 pounds... probably the suckas at customs won't let this slip by, though... I'm not sure if this had been sold out already, but release date is given as August 11, but yesterday and this morning it was "sold out", but when I hit refresh today it was available... they told me it should be around a while.

Yes, the constant partial overlappings of Lonehill and Fresh Sound and Gambit (and whatever else there is) is annoying, too. Often ironically you end up buying a "complete" 80 minute CD for one original album, while you have the rest of it on another of their discs... also often their bonus track policy makes no sense at all.

off the top of my mind - and not counting your usual hardbop stuff where by chance there were three horns instead of just two (and mostly no real arrangements, unless you had guys like Gryce or Golson in the mix): Tadd Dameron! His Blue Note sessions are great and feature mid-sized groups with Fats Navarro/Ernie Henry/Charlie Rouse and Navarro/Allen Eager/Wardell Gray, respectively. His later "Big Ten" have more horns, I think (among them were Miles, Kai Winding, Dexter Gordon and others). Too bad most of Dameron's recorded output is crappy boots (courtesy of Boris Rose). I'd love to have a neat 3CD package (or would it fit on two?) with all the Royal Roost broadcasts culled together and cleaned up as well as possible. There you get more frontlines with Navarro/Rudy Williams/Eager and then later Winding/Williams/Eager. All mighty fine music!