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It's quite acceptable to my ears, Matthew. Really must give the set a spin, don't listen to it enough. Picked it up for something like $30 in the zweitausendeins bonanza ! Those were the days. Think we'll see another one of those anytime soon? I'm quite sure that one was only 9.99 or 12.99 euro-zlotys, back then (the two Tatums went for even less! Most expensive was the Monk Riverside at 15.99 or 17.99... - but I missed the Coltrane, which may have been a bit more... but I'm glad I missed it, as the Concord box is terrific!)

yup! and some of the Kenton is very nice, too! also some Benny Goodman (the Capitol Trios, BG in Hifi, BG Story) I've seen the McIntyre recently, the Grolnick I bought a couple of years ago, when it was already OOP, but it was the only time I ever saw it - great one! The Navarro/Dameron is terrific! The Stan Getz Roost 3CD set is also a great one! In the same series, the great Herbie Nichols, and the Lee Morgan Lighthouse boxes are recommended as well!

the Eric Dolphy discs - "Other Apsects" for its oddity, and the Illinois concert for greatness! Also Chico Hamilton's "Original Ellington Suite" featuring Eric Dolphy (the one thought lost and not included - except for three edited glimpses - as part of the Hamilton Mosaic). Good call on Lovano - I have most of his releases for BN and while non of them is really what I'd call a must have recording (Rush Hour closest to being that, another good call!), all of them have some great moments to cherish. Sheila Jordan's sole album Benny Golson & The Philadelphians (OOP) Stan Getz/Albert Dailey - Poetry (likely OOP, too) some of Greg Osby's albums, first to come to mind is "Banned in New York" (OOP, I guess), others aren't that great in their entirety, but as with Lovano's, most have some good stuff on them!

weird name for a label, but thanks for helping me "get" it... I only have that one from blogosphere, would have to pull both it and the "Long March" volumes out of the shelf again to comment, but I always kind of liked "The Long March"... Roach was a character I knew some about very early when I got into jazz, and this recording was one of the first I got with him, back then (along with "Study in Brown" and the Enja "Long As You're Living Yours").

Happy Birthday!

no cigars from me, I don't smoke anything... I don't know, I'm just more or less following the example of the others and thus not openly posting the links...

no more news here... what's that supposed to mean?

Yes indeed! Thank you Fer & Chuck! I have Volume 9 of the MoJs (thanks to brownie, of course!), and now I'll look for the Columbia & JSP boxes next (I have a Columbia ordered from some amazon seller, let's see if they'll come through... I hope so, though, because except with caiman and one single other case, these sellers always had what they were listing so far...)

free jizz? Even that label bugs me already... there's so much and so totally different stuff that's put in that shelf... same of course for avantgarde. It's all music, give some of it a try now and then, maybe some of it clicks, other stuff won't... Once you've been there, one really wonders why something like Ornette's beautiful Atlantic sessions may be beyond grasp and sound difficult or even ugly to some ears... that stuff's so beautiful, so simple in a way, and it grooves like hell, with Charlie Haden and Blackwell or smilin' Billy... (ever thought about the "coincidence" that Higgins played both with Ornette and at the same time was the drummer on many of your ole BN favourite groovy platters?) Thanks for posting that Art Davis thing, I'll print it out to read on the way home tonight!

Continued with disc 9 last night, the "chamber" sessions and the Benny Goodman ones (continued on disc 10) - very fine things on those chamber dates!

But just to make sure once more: I'll try and get hold of the Columbia box (via Amazon Marketplace - seems it's been OOP for a while and I didn't even notice...), and I have the OJC Gillespie/Christian "After Hours", nothing else. So with that, the JSP would be mostly or all new material, or does the Columbia contain lots of broadcasts and rehearsal material as well?

I'm crossing my fingers that all goes well!

Of course the discussion will only start on June 1, but I figured some may be like me and take a few days to finally download the files, so I sent the links out early...

Seems I have to put those Mac Steeplechases on my list, then - thanks for mentioning them!

Cecil Taylor's music around the time he did his two Blue Notes was *very* structured. Not "not in a formal way", but in a much more complex way!

links sent out to all in the above list - of course there's still lots of time to sign-up, in fact it would be fun if some more would join the game... (brownie's discs will leave tomorrow!)

That seems crazy. indeed! go do yourself a favour and watch "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and that weirdest of all westerns, "Judge Roy Bean", at least! Newman could have retired in the sixties and still be an important actor!

Yeah... my Mosaic obsession occasionally leads me to things I wouldn't have checked out (yet), otherwise... looking forward to delving into the Condon Mob and the Berigan next! (I love Lee Wiley, so there's someone I'm familiar with on the Mob box, at least...) Anyway, it's great to find out about these musicians that aren't well-remembered these days, and to discover so many hidden treasures!

not too meny of those on my kompilation - be not 'fraid te join, ye dear 'merikin friends!

Just finished disc 8 - the blues(y) session with Mary Lou Williams is terrific, and the rest of the material with the Kirby band is very good, too, including a sentimental favourite of mine, Willard Robinson's "Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer"!

I have today proceeded to disc 7 and this set is great! I'm taking it in slowly, at doses of one or two discs at a time, likely doubling up some stuff since I'm not sure usually where I had stopped last time... Anyway, it's really, really good. Bailey has a very varied delivery, a great way to treat tunes, no matter if they're great songs or bad songs, ridiculous ones or whatever, she most always succeeds in making them sound good. And some of the sidemen are great, too, of course. The Norvo band in general is very nice - I wasn't familiar with any of his works except the Savoy material (trio w/Mingus & Farlow and the date with Bird), and this came as a very positive surprise! Hank D'Amico stands out among the soloists!

go there to see what's going on in Europe: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34194 that's the reply to the me has gone mad post, too, by the way: the LPRs have, after they turned to digipacks designed like the Verve By Request series, turned into the "[Label-name] Originals"-series over here (and have supposedly been done with crappier than the US remastering, at least in case of the Yusef Lateef "Psychicemotus", which is a great album - you should be albe to find the relevant discussion by entering that album title in the search form).

"Fastball" and the Hubbard/Heath ("Jam Gems") have seen a more recent reissue after the 32jazz/Label M versions disappeared, I think that's the next label of Joel Dorn's they came out on, Hyena, but I don't have them at hand to check. I found them pretty ok, but certainly not relevatory. My favourites are probably the two Joe Henderson albums w/Wynton Kelly Trio (Four & More & Straight No Chaser on Verve), but then I haven't heard the Getz...

"The Cats" is a fine one! Sulieman is also on one or two of those Gene Ammons jam sessions on Prestige (these are still in print over here in new Universal-printed editions). Later he played with the Clarke-Boland Big Band, of course he's just one of many fine soloist (notably on trumpet also Benny Bailey), but he's got some fine spots on at least one of those recent MPS reissues, "All Smiles" or "More Smiles" - alas I can't check since I don't have them at hand - both are recommended anyway, though, if you like modern big band jazz...

Thanks Lon - now I got to think up something...