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I'll let you know, jazz1 - will hit a store or two after work tonight to see what they have. Seems it's an issue these days that burner allow slow burning. That's worth a consideration, as that's most definitely recommended if you want your CDRs to last more than just a couple of years.

this is not funny: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPE...xGi8owD92258S01

http://www.keros.it/papetti/english.html too bad the cover images are so small, but I'm sure they can be found with google in larger versions

The Peterson and Hampton dates are terrific. The Peterson set (sans drums) is on my Nano. I've had the Hampton on my wantlist for a loooong time, but now I have to add the Peterson, too... thanks!

Didn't know about that Dragon set! I guess it's well worth checking out Getz' 50s output in a more systematic way than I did so far!

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I love the West Coast 3CD set, but then there are quite some gaps in my Getz Verve 50s holdings. The cuts with Fruscella (on the Cool Sounds album, part of which are also on the West Coast set) are marvellous as well. The Brookmeyer sessions are out on Lonehill but that would make a lovely Mosaic Select... The meeting with Mulligan is ok, but not that great (Mulligan's meetings with Hodges, Desmond - both Verve and RCA - and Webster are better, in my opinion). Then, what else? Plays? Does that count? In my Getz categorisation, it belongs to the Raney/Haig/Jordan/Silver early sessions... except for the bonus tracks with Jimmy Rowles & Max Roach - great ones! Then the jams/concerts, Diz & Getz (fine!), J.J./Getz at the Opera House (ok, but never really won me over) - there are more that I haven't heard... What else is there, what am I missing? (Getz in Sweden is one I'm aware of, also Getz/Peterson and Getz/Hamp...) The Fall 1960 VME with Brookmeyer, I know of, haven't come around getting it. Also the the 60s sessions with Gary Burton (the live album is in the Jazz in Paris series, another one was released in that all too short-lived Verve Discoveries series) are mighty fine, but they're from later years. Indeed a mighty fine bunch of recordings! How would Getz fit in with the recent "Verve was so conservative" discussion? His Roost recordings have an absolute freshness to them, maybe the 50s sessions are already more "classicist" in comparison? Somehow Getz seems to evade classifications, I wouldn't call him a bop musician, but then I wouldn't know quite what to call him...

And since the thread is up at the moment, let me put in a good word for "Hammond Bond" - the session with Thomas is in fact the weaker one, and the main album with Kriegel/Cavalli is quite a blast! Got it offered last summer when meeting another now-and-then Org member in Vienna by chance, and I've grown to like it!

My notebook's internal drive is slowly giving up, it seems. It wouldn't burn DVDs for several months now (well, it burns them, but verification doesn't work... they don't get closed), and now CDRs are giving me a headache, too. I did re-install the software etc, didn't help. Now to take some stress from my notebook (I can burn up to 100 CDRs in a weekend or a week...), I figured I'd rather get an external burner. I need nothing fancy and I burn reasonably slow also, so it needn't even be fast (8X for CDRs and 4X for DVDs would do for me, no need for 48 or 52X). Are there any technical specifications I need to make sure the thing I buy has or can do or supports or whatever? And what's a reasonable prize? (I guess I'll have to add 20% or some such, being in Switzerland...)

yup, that's why I bought a dreadfully expensive Japanese vinyl edition of that one - just as good an album as "Here and Now"! Of course that was two years or so before the Mosaic came out... and of course I also bought "Jazztet Plays John Lewis" on vinyl (though a cheap b/w Argo reissue of that one - it's likely my favourite album from the whole set!) I think I've got all of the Jazztet Argos and Verves (excluding 'Another Git Together') on Japanese vinyl but I'm still crazy enough to pick up the Mosaic . Fabulous stuff. Yes! I also got a b/w Argo reissue of Golson's "Take a Number from 1 to 10" - just for the four pieces missing on the not-quite-CD-twofer... fabulous music, indeed!

I see some red Xs above, so I hope this hasn't been in one of those non-displaying posts:

yup, that's why I bought a dreadfully expensive Japanese vinyl edition of that one - just as good an album as "Here and Now"! Of course that was two years or so before the Mosaic came out... and of course I also bought "Jazztet Plays John Lewis" on vinyl (though a cheap b/w Argo reissue of that one - it's likely my favourite album from the whole set!)

yup, that's why I bought a dreadfully expensive Japanese vinyl edition of that one - just as good an album as "Here and Now"!

two good news: Vol. 7/8 of "L'intégrale" is out on Soul Note and this humble king has just ordered - finally - an acceptably priced copy of Vol. 5/6

First heard Coleman on the My Funny Valentine/Four & More 2CD set - huge impression he made on me! A very nuanced player, lots of great moments on those two hours of music! I don't have many of his leader dates, but "Big George" is fine, so is "My Horns a Plenty" or what it's called, that Birdology/Dreyfus thing. Last week I found Joey DeFrancesco's official bootleg disc in the summer sale bins - some mighty fine Coleman there, as well! I was lucky to see Coleman live with Ahmad Jamal, around the time Jamal's live disc from Paris was made, with the very same band (James Cammack, as usual, and a smoking Idris Muhammad). That was one of the better concerts I've witnessed, though Jamal to me lost quite some of what made him so special back in the days of is Argo albums... Coleman was great, though!

btw, J.A.W., you forgot the first one that's part of the offer: #210 The Complete Capitol Bobby Hackett Solo Sessions "What was special about Bobby Hackett? In a world of hit-you-over-the-head, high-note, high-speed, supersonic, loud trumpeters, Bobby Hackett caressed your ears with understated astonishingly beautiful melodies." - Joe H. Klee, The Mississippi Rag

just sent in an order for Bix/Tram/Tea - it's now under 100 bucks, so the 6$ (wasn't that 12?) surface shipping option is available... won't get that one any cheaper, I assume... not that I can really afford it right now, but...

These were released on Verve originally, no? Or at least some of them? Of course that's a huge achievement, and the "Group Masterpieces" aren't far behind! The Gokudo site has some of the covers: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/12in1/Lpmik...keshi%20365.jpg http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/12in1/Lpmik...shi%20539_1.jpg http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/12in1/Lpmik...shi%20568_1.jpg (I can't seem to post them as jpgs because of the "%" in the url)

I don't have many Pablos I think... still need many of those Zoot Sims discs, but I agree that the Gershwin Brothers is indeed very good! I also recently got hold of both the before mentioned Milt Jackson "At Kosei Nenkin" discs. Just in case: the first one contains both original LPs (or the original double album, I think) minus two tunes, while the second contains those two tunes plus more than album's worth of additional music. Still need to digest all of that. The Edison/Grey/Davis JATP 1983 disc is also very nice! Also some other JATP releases, like the 1949 Carnegie Hall concert with Fats Navarro, Coleman Hawkins and others, and then that Frankfurt 1952 w/Prez... that latest one is designed to look as part of a little series that also includes live releases by Ellington (two, but one is designed differently), Cannonball (again several, but only the Paris 1960 is designed that way) and others. Then there was the Horace Silver Paris 1962 release, as well as some others that came around the same time - the 1957 Newport Adderley/Shearing, a Kenton I think, and also a Louis Armstrong? Those were the great days at Fantasy - all of those discs came out as Pablo releases though, and most or all indeed stem from Granz recordings (he did the Newport 1957 releases on Verve, then Pablo got some of the rests). Also the Coltrane "European Concerts"... those are all rather "from the vaults" releases, not actual Pablo albums.

and all the guys in the band want me to tell you: we all do love you madly!

there we go again - feliz cumpleaños amigo! espero que un dia nos encontraremos en Madrid (y beberemos algunos San Miguel...)

I finally bought "Live from Los Angeles" a couple of weeks ago and played it together with the second half of the Mosaic. I found it excellent, some great spots by Frank Strozier!

That's sad news. I wish the Shandar catalogue was more readily available! Besides the Water/ESP releases of Ayler's concerts, I know of nothing that is around. Here's an excellent site listing the Shandar releases: http://home.comcast.net/~ed_maurer/Shandar/index.htm

maria toledo ! she was the female singer on some bossa tracks by stan getz. i always wanted to hear more of her singing. has anybody already heard this album by maria toledo & luis bonfa? Yup, she's outstanding on "Jazz Samba Encore"! I mean, I do like the charms for Astrud Gilberto, but Toledo is something else! Will have to check out that new one as well!

The TCB is smokin'! And it's perfectly legit, all issues cleared etc - I guess the other one's just a cheap rip-off... (or does TCB now license their music? Would be new to me, as they mention Amazon.com being one of their distributors/sellers, so...)