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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.

Not on this occasion ... but yeah, I'm really looking forward! So far definitely my most extense and expensive concert trip, but I'll have the days to roam through the city (though with what's currently going on there, I'm not all that comfortable about that, honestly).

next big event ... programme isn't out in details but it's on their website since yesterday, flight and hotel are booked and I'm excited -- even more so as I only know since yesterday that Adasiewicz, Edwards and Noble will be there! 5 Nights with Peter Brötzmann – 75th Birthday Anniversary March 6–10, 2016 at Parton, To Tu in Warsaw, Poland ▂ Peter Brötzmann – tenor / alto saxophone, b-clarinet, tarogato ▂ Alexander von Schlippenbach – fortepian ▂ Han Bennink – perkusja ▂ Heather Leigh – slide guitar ▂ Jason Adasiewicz – wibrafon ▂ John Edwards – kontrabas ▂ Steve Noble – perkusja ▂ Toshinori Kondo – trąbka http://pardontotu.pl/?event=5-nights-with-peter-brotzmann-75th-birthday-anniversary&event_date=2016-03-06

Considerably longer for sure than 80-82 minutes, which is fairly common I think ... I must have some in the 83-85 minutes range (classical ones), usually they don't present any problems, at least not on playback, but I've encountered issues with the last tracks when trying to rip them (the Sabine Devieilhe Rameau disc - last track won't rip but plays fine for the time being, not sure what the future will bring ... and according to allmusic that one's only 79:52). Found this on rec.music.classical.recordings: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.classical.recordings/ydkckciV66k (added quote box, had to figure out formatting first as there0s no button for it ... we only get quick edit functions here, not the full functionality with quote, indent and the full emoticons displayed)

new one coming out that might be interesting: Owning the big EMI box by Ciccolini (and enjoying it a lot), I still have all of his Satie ... and I quite like it for what it is. Another one I really like, and my first Satie, is this here by Reinbert de Leeuw: This one has been reissued, just in case: just have to love the absurd poetry of automated translations - very much in spirit with Satie and with the dada centennial! content listing of the new box: Erik Satie & Friends • A unique collection of 13CDs to celebrate Erik Satie's 150th birthday • A box set of captivatingly idiosyncratic piano pieces, songs and ballets by Satie and his friends such as Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc • Features famous and popular pieces such as Vexation, a forerunner of Minimalism or the simple, haunting Gymnopédies (1888) and Gnossiennes (1890) who have become universally familiar from their use in TV adverts and movies • Five of the discs for the first time on CD • Plus a 1950 historic recording (CD1) of Francis Poulenc playing not only his own piano pieces but also those of his friend Erik Satie Erik Satie, that endearing French (though actually half-Scottish) revolutionary, has been credited with starting European musical history all over again. In 2016 the musical world will celebrate his 150th birthday. Sony Classical is marking the occasion with a 13-CD box set of his captivatingly idiosyncratic piano pieces, songs and ballets, which places the composer in his unique cultural context – the astonishing artistic effervescence of early 20th-century Paris. Satie was a famous eccentric, who wore only grey velvet suits, ate only white food and founded his own one-member church. He supported himself (barely) by playing at cabarets. It was there he met Claude Debussy, who became a close friend and fell under Satie’s influence. Those cabaret evenings can be detected in Satie’s own charming songs, performed in this collection by some of the finest French singers of the 20th century: baritone Pierre Bernac, accompanied by Francis Poulenc, and soprano Régine Crespin, accompanied by Philippe Entremont. Satie also left his mark on the music of Maurice Ravel and the young composers known as Les Six, including Poulenc. Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc are all featured in this set along with Satie. Indeed CD 1 is a historic 1950 recording of Francis Poulenc playing not only his own piano pieces but also those of his friend Erik Satie. Satie also befriended enfant terrible Jean Cocteau after the poet-artist was smitten with the composer’s Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear – a work included twice in this collection in performances by pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus (a historic mono recording as well as a modern stereo one). Other typically oddball Satie titles include Bureaucratic Sonatina, The Trap of Medusa, The Woman Who Talks Too Much, Veritable Flabby Preludes (for a Dog), Automatic Descriptions and Desiccated Embryos – all heard here in authoritative performances by French pianists Philippe Entremont and Daniel Varsano. In 1917 Satie collaborated with Cocteau and Pablo Picasso on the ballet Parade for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, resulting in a scandal that led to Satie spending eight days in jails for being a “cultural anarchist”. After the premiere, Cocteau overheard a woman say, “If I’d known it was going to be as silly as that, I’d have brought the kids.” Satie’s disarmingly surrealistic score for Parade, which includes a typewriter, a foghorn and milk bottles, makes two appearances in the new Sony set, with Philippe Entremont conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970 and a historic recording from 1949 with the Houston Symphony conducted by ballet specialist Efrem Kurtz. Satie was largely forgotten after his death in 1925. But he enjoyed a renaissance in the 1960s and was elevated to cult status with the imprimatur of avant-garde composer John Cage, who put on concerts of his works and declared him indispensable to the development of contemporary music. Pieces such as Vexations – a page of music with an instruction to be played 840 times – are considered forerunners of Minimalism. Satie’s most popular piano pieces, such as the simple, haunting Gymnopédies (1888) and Gnossiennes (1890) – which evoke classical ancient Greece through the simplicity, repetition and modal harmonies – have become universally familiar from their use in TV adverts and movies. Debussy’s orchestrations of the Gymnopédies are also found in this collection. Each recording in this exceptional new set of 13 CDs – featuring facsimile LP-sleeves – comes from the best source. Five of these discs, including a bonus of historic mono recordings, are essentially appearing on CD for the first time. Set contents: DISC 1: ML 4399 - « Meet the composer » - Francis Poulenc plays Poulenc & Satie DISC 2: ML 4484 - « Soirée Francaise » Pierre Bernac, baritone with Francis Poulenc, piano in songs of Poulenc, Debussy, Chabrier and Satie DISC 3: ML 4854 - Gold & Fitzdale play music for 2 pianos by Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud & Satie DISC 4: MS 6323 - Robert and Gaby Casadesus – French Music for Piano Four Hands by Debussy, Chabrier, Satie & Fauré DISC 5: LSC-2945 - Music from France for Oboe and Orchestra – John de Lancie – London Symphony Orchestra – André Previn DISC 6: LSC-3127 - William Masselos plays Satie DISC 7: M 30294 - Philippe Entremont conducts Satie DISC 8: M 32070 - Philippe Entremont: « A la Française » - Debussy, Ravel, Chabrier, Satie, Fauré, Poulenc DISC 9: M 36666 - Régine Crespin, soprano & Philippe Entremont – Songs by Ravel & Satie DISC 10: M 36694 - Daniel Varsano - Satie Piano Music DISC 11: M 37247 - Philippe Entremont plays Satie DISC 12: ARL1-2783 - “The French Touch” – National Philharmonic Orchestra – Charles Gerhardt – Music by Ravel, Satie, Fauré DISC 13: EARLY RECORDINGS from: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Erik-Satie-Friends/dp/B01A6NG7WU/

Interesting thought re: Roscoe - but yeah, makes sense!

Yeah, thanks, I got it now

depends on what part of the quoted post you relate his "yup" to ... but all the better then

okay, but still no one really knows if this IS a Left Band Jazz Society tape or not?

Indeed! Was my first listen.