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http://jazzlabels.klacto.net/xanadu.html plenty of good looking stuff there!

just sent in my order for the following seven: Bra Ntemi - At Mavuthela - Vol.1 1975, At Mavuthela - Vol.2 1975, At Teal Records 1976 African Jazz Pioneers - Sip 'n' Fly Masilela/Phale - Cool Down Winston Mankunku - Yakhal'inkomo Robbie Jansen - Nomad Jez some items are listed with ten days delivery time, so if Kalahari works like amazon AND the shipping takes two months, I'll report back in summer

The EMI/Americans Swinging CD reissue? American's Swinging CD. To close and hard sounding, but not as unpleasant as I remembered. Nevertheless some exciting playing from Slide, Kuhn's 'singing' is a turn off. Thanks for checking it again - I hope this one comes through. Slide is an undersung musician, I still remember listening to this disc in a store when the whole series came out and I loved it... totally forgot about checking up on their status in time, but I hope it's not too late yet.

:excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: (just because even numbers never look good - you don't buy two or four roses for your misses, do you? )

Cuscuna himself did produce some fairly adventurous sessions in the 70s for Freedom/Arista whatever... of course more than just Braxton! There's the Andrew Hill "Spiral" for instance, with Ted Curson and Lee Konitz - I'm sure there'd be more music beyond post-bop/modern mainstream from the 70s that would be great to have in Mosaic sets (or maybe just Selects, as I assume costs and exposure/risk are smaller with Selects? How about a Sam Noto Muse/Xanadu Select? One of the major bad blogs has upped several of these albums - maybe even all of them - as vinyl rips, I'd definitely buy a CD reissue of those! All hail 32 Jazz no matter how bad the late Joel Dorn was as a business man...)

Pooh gosh, that IS obscure! Is it available on the Continent? MG I've seen it in two local stores this week - should I run and grab it? What is it? (I know Hal Singer's OJC, nothing else... never heard of Gilson)

Ordered several discs from EMI's "Americans Swinging in Paris" series, which I only just noticed is OOP by now, from various marketplace sellers on French and German amazon: Kenny Clarke Lucky Thompson both Bill Colemans (hopefully the sellers have logged them correctly and I don't end up with two of the same...) Zoot Byas Sammy Price Phil Woods Slide Hampton Lionel Hampton Decided to skip the Memphis Slim, Golden Gate Quartet, Earl Hines, Wild Bill Davis and Mezzrow. The Cat Anderson is gone, and the other four (Art Ensemble, Dicky Wells, Benny Carter & James Moody) I already have. Weird little series, not nearly as good as it could have been... (short discs, weird compilations, including sessions included on too many similar compilations already)

The EMI/Americans Swinging CD reissue?

I've got very little Moody, but that piques my attention. What is it? MG Hm, from what I know about your taste, you should like the Chess/Argo CD (expanded from the vinyl, hence get the CD!) "At the Jazz Workshop", which features his working unit in a smoking concert recording. His band go back to those "little big band" working groups in earlier years, like Illinois Jacquet's, with a couple of horns and some music to please the crowds, yet always very well executed.

I can't find the thread dedicated to this reissue series, "Americans Swinging in Paris" (EMI) - I know there was one, but a board search finds nothing and a google search while finding a thread only comes through as broken link... the search function continues to suck*! *) phrase searches or title only searches or "+XX +YY" searches only deliver a small part of what should be found!

Thanks, my order is still pending, will mail it in in a few days though and will look for Jansen and Gwangwa, too!

Very cool idea! There'd still be a lot of good 70s mainstream jazz to rescue, no? Muse, Xanadu etc, filling the gaps that 32 Jazz left, or rather also bringing back all the long gone albums taken care of by 32 Jazz (a Woody Shaw box would be marvellous, though I do own all the 32 Jazz reissues, and it seems the CBS Shaw set was one of the slowest selling sets ever).

Thanks a lot for posting that review! Makes me want to hear the two albums again, but alas my record player's not installed at this time (or rather it's still at my parents' place - I need a new one anway...)

Here's Rick Lopez' crazy Rivers sessionography: http://www.bb10k.com/RIVERS.disc.html

Conference of the Birds is a classic, of course! There's another sideman album that came to my mind: the Jason Moran one on Blue Note, "Black Stars" - not bad.

There are plenty of other threads but no general one (I assume lots of Rivers music was discussed already in those threads, though). I have the Mosaic - it's merely a prelude, fine though it is. The Impulse sessions should be out in a more comprehensive fashion. The LPR is fine (Crystals), the "Trio Live" or whatever it was called was good as well. "Streams" is great but I don't have it (I think it was on CD in the early GRP days). One of the most astonishing discs I know of his is "Portrait", his solo outing on FMP. He plays all of his instruments (tenor, soprano, piano & flute) and does some short (10 seconds or so) vocalising while changing from one horn to the other or adjusting his piano stool. The two LPs he did in duo with Dave Holland are fine, though not albums I play all that often. Other LPs I have (why aren't there more CD reissues of his albums?) and like are "Paragon" (Fluid - one of my top favourites), "Rendez-Vous"(Red), which pairs him with Italian alto player Mario Schiano, then there's his ECM "Contrasts" (with George Lewis) and "Waves" (with that Daley chap on tuba) - all or most of these feature the Rivers/Holland/Altschul trio as core unit. The RCA big band albums from the late 90s (Inspiration & Culmination) I'm not quite sure what to make of. I like them (as I like more recent live shows with the UK and Austrian RivBea Orchestras from London, Diersbach's Inntöne festival, wherever) but I don't play them often. Last thing I also have is "Tangens" his FMP duo with Schlippenbach - need to spin it again, can't say anything about it right now.

A sad reminder that JAW and Chaney left... D.D., too - he just vanished... I'm less and less listening non-mainstream music as has been discussed in this thread (the same was the case even more so with JAW), but I still attend live concerts mostly in this direction (or free jazz or whatever you want to call it... just stuff that would have most org-posters running away screaming). Here's the mail I got a few days ago from Potlatch: I'm not familiar with these two (Guionnet may be on some live show I have, though), but the Potlatch label is a fine outfit - it has been discussed in this thread before, and I posted some about it on my blog last year: http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/2007/06/potl...sale-order.html http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/2007/06/potl...-2007-sale.html

aw, shit... I figured I was about done with getting the best of OJCs and other Fantasy discs...

yeah well, he hung it out now and then, didn't he? that was him, right? the Debut session is in the big Mingus 12 CD debut box, i assume? and the Mitchell Bethlehem session will be a partial one only (some of that album was in trio) the Sheldon date is fine what about the Kenny Drew, that one was on a BN CD, right? never heard it... are those Gibbs Contemporary albums worth looking for? all of them (assuming the one[s?] with Maini being one of those Dream Band volumes)?

I usually post thumbnails w/image size infos to not waste those people's bandwidth/screen space that don't want so see the images. I'm taking full advantage of thumbnails. dreaded ol'yurpeen modesty, that! get extinct, willya! what are you doin' in Spitzbergen anyway?

This looks like a fine set - in the spirit of the Fruscella 4CD set! I'll be looking for it, eventually, although I have some of the recordings here and there.

no help on finding this, but you could go the Fremeaux Intégrale route...

holy crap, still waiting, hoping all will be well!

Hailstorm, correct??? If it was, how big were those suckers??? no, just some lame attempt - hopefully the last one! - at winter this year, which except for some cold days passed us by, no snow, no nothing...

sorry for my less than perfect tutoring of Berigan in this respect... he was faster than I assume, was done with everything and sent me the links before I could give my final tips... a fast learner, so to say