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Thanks for all your impressions! Ordered mine from Catalonia last night - and from Mr. Sangrey's descriptions, this is going to be all as hot (and as much of a hoot) as I was expecting! Btw, Mr. Sangrey, do you know the Basle 1969 set with Joe Henderson? That one's hilariously fun, too! (isn't there an earlier thread, can't they be merged? or is chaos method here?)

Great news for sure! I think was Jim (who else ) who mentioned after the big Hancock Columbia box that a Cannonball Capitol box would be mighty cool and alike in some respects ... and that this would never happen - too true, I'm afraid, but I love the idea and I'm glad to see more of his late albums making re-appearance!

just got a cancellation notice for the Colbeck I had on order ... including this: "At this time, there is no indication to show whether or not it might be released at a later time in the future." too bad, really!

aka RYM ... though why even bother. But I'm in the love "Dance with Death" camp though generally I feel Hill never quite (but in the best moments almost) reached the heights of the first years again.

Don't think there's a requirement to use emoticons to signalize irony, right?

Hadn't even known he was a musician, but his Hawkins biography is great.

What does he recommend, buy any of the seven other versions readily available?

Prefer "Introducing", Strozier notwithstanding.

Look here:

yup, lots of goodies hidden in the vaults ... re: Parker, unissued ... wondering if it will be some stuff that has just never been out "officially", such as the 1949 jams from Paris?

Good news Joel!

It's been like that for a while, alas. .. but can't it be fixed by a simple cut/replace operation? I assume something in the url structure has changed during the update. This would need to be done by someone who can actually display the bb-code and copy it into any text editor ... alas we never got that display option back after the upgrade.

Thanks, interesting for sure!

Belated best wishes, Mike!

Congrats, John!

Is that on vinyl? Or was it ever on CD as well?

if at least they had the decency to include the Tyrone Washington album ...

as recommended by soulpope: very enjoyable indeed

Oh shit. Just now realise I got two mails on the SME and none for Colbeck. Would love to see that one coming out, it's such a good album!

Delayed until early May, according to an info/order update I just got from CDJapan (ordered the SME and Colbeck discs)

Yes on all your points. But so effin' glad to have "Holy Ghost"! I had it delivered to work (wouldn't be allowed to do so nowadays) and I still remember the excitement when I went down to the internal post office to pick up that huge box. Hat has since issued a few missing bits (that were part of the Tree but not in "Holy Ghost") on their second release covering the 1966 tour.

Hm, buy it a third time? #1-3 were on "Holy Ghost": http://ayler.co.uk/html/holy_ghost.html Edit: it's all there, sorry. No need to buy again then ...

Thanks for the reminder ... just did so! (via Wire, it's already sold out, no clue if that reflects fast sales in general or not) Also want the two disc set, read about it last year but somehow it went under.

Oh, wow, just thought there was a new Basie jam turning up with Charles McPherson on it ... kinda surprised I wasn't the last one here to get the McPherson disc (I bought is a few years back) - it's mighty fine. And "Get Together" is great! Budd Johnson makes sure Lockjaw can do no coasting!

Will if I do.