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The Randy Weston Select - not into the prev. unreleased session on disc 2 - great great music! Hawkins wailing on Hi-Fly is just plain crazy!!!

...cursed, kicked myself and applied self-flagellation a la Max Mosley... He he, sure you put on your olde SS uniform to do so!? (Why are all these formula 1 bosses nazis? His predecessor was in some kind of French SS troup, I read somewhere...) Clunky: you'll enjoy! I haven't made my way to the end of the Manone dates yet, but what I've heard was all quite good!

ah well, I'm at work so I didn't google too long for that... but I'll try and finally grab a DVD of "Blow Up" for the real thing some day... (I've seen it on the big screen of course, but it would be nice to have it handy at home!)

joyeux anniversaire!

any connection to mods?

Happy Birthday!

Congratulations, Allison & Jim! And all the best to the four of you!

Happy Birthday, Erik! :party:

Thanks guys - family celebrations and gifts upcoming (though I'm afraid the one wish I was granted didn't arrive in time... the Sonny Stitt Prestige box!)

hey, it gets even better here! thanks everyone! and hey, though we might be split personalities, one thread would really do! -_-

Yes, it was wonderful indeed! And I feel very lucky to have finally seen Randy live! Oh, and Neil Clarke never really struck me as such a masterly player on disc... it's much more Randy's gig when they're in the studio, it seems... live they were very much a trio, even to the point that I'd sometimes wished Randy to take some longer solos or longer intros or whatever... but then he played a long and marvellous blues solo on Berkshire Blues... so no complainin', no Sir!

Another round of thanks to everyone! Ha, good one, Chris! What the hell has this got to do with Switzerland? Though a google search also turned up this little chestnut: he he he

Yes! And while the 2CD set doesn't give complete track-by-track line-ups, it has an extensive booklet coming along, with synopsis etc. Very nice package!

Thanks everyone! I'll lay it low tonight... caught Randy Weston's trio last night, very very good! Not many plans to celebrate, just some dinner at my folks tomorrow night (my sister's birthday is two days earlier, so usually there's some kind of family reunion around this time...)

Wow, two threads this time!?! Thanks a lot, everybody! Won't celebrate much, but heard Randy Weston last night and it was a great, great concert!

Solo - and that club he's playing usually is reliable with their information. The night after he's scheduled to play solo in Basel as well, so I guess he's on a small solo tour, I didn't check his website, though. Weston did play in trio w/Alex Blake and Neil Clarke - wow, this was one hell of a great concert! The three of them really enjoyed themselves, and Blake went berserk over his double bass (playing seated on a normal chair!), doing flamenco-guitar-like wild stuff. Clarke is a master drummer! Weston could have taken some more space for himself, but he, too, played great. They did the usual "greatest hits": Little Niles, Hi-Fly, Berkshire Blues, Blue Moses, Mystery of Love, African Cookbook, and one or two more, plus a terrific encore that he didn't announce and I didn't recognise (or rather I did, but couldn't identify).

There's been some interest in the Keynote CD box again, I have this PDF with bare-bones CD covers on my HD, can't remember where I got it from: http://rapidshare.com/files/108041067/KeynoteCollection.pdf Also sorry for never cleaning up the first post... simply haven't had time for that

Just to make it clear: I have the CDs of all those, but of course if there's only the LP to be had, I'll take it as well! Keep me posted if you see it anywhere, please!

There's some Roulette and Enrica albums - don't know who owns Enrica masters. Great musicians both! And no Mosaic boxes. But none of these are modernists MG No, of course not, but that's the usual thread drift... Carter had about a disc's worth in the Capitol box (great stuff, of course!).

Something they could do is a 1962-66 post-CJB Verve/Philips/Limelight box. That's 7 albums, some of which have been on OOP Japanese CDs, and some of which are on inferior-sounding Andorran LP transfers. Only Night Lights has been out in the west, I think. Another idea might be the 1955-56 sextet sessions, three albums on EmArcy/Mercury. There are a lot of alternate takes from those sessions, so a 3-CD set would be possible. None of these albums has been on CD in the west, surprisingly. Two have been on Japanese CDs, and the third is on a Membran CD. All three are also on an Andorran set. Both great proposals! I'm not familiar with much of Mulligans non Pacific Jazz discography... what about that Columbia quartet album with Art Farmer, "What Is There To Say?" - is there more of that, or could it be added to the EmArcy albums? Just found this, will have some reading to do! http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/warehous...003721/0001.pdf

I once snatched up Griff'n'Bags, the Shihab, and the Calypso one from a dusty sale very cheap... great discs, all of them! I wish I also had the Clarke/Boland Rearwards reissues, never found those for acceptable prizes.

Oh, and how about more Mulligan? I was just playing discs 1 & 2 of the Concert Jazz Band box last night and considered for a minute ordering the Mulligan Select along with running low Moncur one (went with the Carmell Jones, instead, going by numbers). The complete Mulligan meets the Saxophonists sessions? The one with Webster is out as good as it gets in the 2CD VME, but the Hodges is a crappy LPR with no additional material, the Getz is an ooooold CD, the Desmond is stunning anyway (they could also add the RCA sessions with Desmond, possibly, as they did RCA material before, and Sony material anyway). Also there are boots of the CJB - from 1960 in California and from the Vanguard gig that resulted in the CJB at the Village Vanguard album. Not sure they'd fit onto a Select, but that would be one hell of a great release (though legally problematic, I assume...)

did you pull the trigger in the end? Yep - and after it had gone OOP ! huh? you pulled the trigger and then it was gone, or you came too late?

There was that Felsted project, as far as label-oriented boxes go. MG: the Getz Roost material is out on a beautiful Blue Note 3CD box (same design as the Morgan Lighthouse and Herbie Nichols sets). Much of that (the parts with Jimmy Raney) were on the Getz/Raney Mosaic, so that's not an option. I like Weizen's Teddy Charles idea, by the way! I haven't heard a lot of his music and he certainly holds quite some interest! That Bird album is magnificient! I guess there's more along those lines? The Bethlehem "Salute to Hamp" is quite nice, too. The session on the Mingus Atlantic box (all or most of that's on the "Word for Bird" album, I think, filling up the great tentet tracks) is rather tame, though, not to say lame... And what's the word about that Gary Burton RCA? Is that still in the pipeline? And as for Mosaic singles, there was at least one more Kenton Presents album that hasn't been covered by Mosaic (Cooper, Holman, Rosolino were in that box, Chaloff had one, too, no?) - the one I'm thinking of is the Claude Williamson trio - I had borrowed the LP once from a friend's late dad. I'm all for label-centred boxes, by the way! The HRS is magnificient, the Capitol collects loads of ok, good and some quite great material. As for Verve, I'd be all for an Illinois Jacquet that would continue the story from where the 1945-1950 box ends. Also Ben Webster, though there it's not really necessary... or is there something unreleased? Then how about Harry Edison? I have Swinger/Mr. Swing, Sweets, Buddy & Sweets, and the one with Buck Clayton that was on that "Swing Trumpet Kings" 2CD set... was there more that would fit into a box? I think he also did some easy listening stuff... Also how about some Lunceford? I have the Masters of Jazz series, luckily, and the later recordings (MoJ folded before they arrived there) seem to be somewhat weaker, yet... maybe a Columbia (Vocalion/OkeH whatever) Lunceford box? Or compiling all the non-Billie H. Teddy Wilson sides? Sort of a companion to the Sony box? Now that I'd love to see! Or some Benny Carter collection? Something Coleman Hawkins?

I just sent in an order for the Moncur and Carmell Jones Selects... wanted the Jones ever since it came out, and the Moncur to me will also be a first with regard to "Evolution" (in addition to "Hipnosis"), and that's an album I've wanted to hear for a loooooooooooooooooong time, so I'll be quite happy with this Select as well! I wonder, will these sell out more or less chronogically (hell yeah, selets sell out chronogically, ask booby or booger, they shall know!)? I have #3 and #4, but after that I only have the Hills and five or six more, and the first one I really wonder if I need it will be #5, the Chambers, as I have all the music, though the Jazz West quartet with Trane and the pianoless shorter session with more horns only on that brown BN double LP set...