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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...

Up! No americans at all signing up, except for BM?

huh, I can insert a different thing there, now? how do I do that?

Wow, that's great news brownie - thanks for sharing! There's some more info on that session on the Lucky Thompson thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=dennard

Thanks, got such a Mantelstromfilter thingie for 24 franks at a shoppe today, works swell!

Thanks a lot for your help! I have the American sessions on a 4CD compilation on Definitive... may I go to hell for that... So it seems the first JSP and the Rome would be great to have, in addition to what I already own. Going the Fremeaux route would be an exaggeration for me, I don't need each bit and piece, but it would be cool to have most or all of the QHCF sessions! Btw: I can't remember who it was, but I think someone said the JSP sound a lot better than the Mosaic...

mine arrived, finally! looks great! did anyone save the online discography in time?

Oh, I see - makes sense, as EMI-owned material has been what Mighty Quinn reissued so far... seems that chap over on AAJ didn't do his homework!

Happy Birthday, Jim!

Here's an AAJ review: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23958 I wonder, what OJC was this on, or how was it called? I only know of "Basie Reunion", "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and "For Basie", and it's none of them: http://concordmusicgroup.com/artists/album/index.php?id=3998

Yes, the Jacquet! But then I wonder, isn't that part of the Lonehill Jacquet series? Or does that one start later? The two long jams with Ben Webster are *da shit*, as they say, while the rest of the stuff is sort of the same stuff as on the great Mosaic set of Jacquet's. The Bellson is merely so-so, too short, not enough substance for me to tell if it's really that good - the small group isn't that intriguing, but I think there's one great Tadd Dameron chart on the big band part, and there's a short glimpse (or two?) of Wardell Gray there, too! The Teagarden is great - BIG sentimental favourite of mine, Big T singing the songs of Willard Robinson (for instance "A Cottage for Sale", "Old Folks", "Where Are You" and the wonderful "Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer" - most warmly recommended, of course also for some marvellously beautiful trombone playing! The Dinah is old-fashioned stuff, I got it to have them all and paid quite a bit, but it's not that great a disc, I'd say. The Lewis, well - depends on if you like some stride piano or not... the De Franco I never really liked that much, too sweet, somehow. I think that one may be out on Lonehill, too?

yup - I bought the only in-store copy I ever saw, at the usual crazy Swiss Universal CDs prize, about 20 euro, roughly...

I just recently got hold of that one, finally! That's the one I mentioned above, it's easily available on CD at this time, here it is on US Amazon via big-o: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Berlin-Dizzy-Gi...1711&sr=8-1 cover of the current edition:

congrats, definitely worth having!

and this one is so great, it's beyond comparison anyway!

Guy, I'm not quite sure about Herbie. With him I always have a feeling that there's some kind of exploration involved (not to say he's an "explorative mind", I guess that would be a bit of an exaggeration). His "Rock It" stuff was what's happening at the time, as far as I know (I hadn't been around for more than a couple dozen months back then, so I don't *know*). I don't think Corea's elektrik (yuck, the spellink already hurts my mind!) band ever was about much, except showing off chops and doing doodly muzak. Maybe Hancock was there at some points in his career, but then he always gets out of it again, I think, for instance with his duo with Shorter (live shows may be a better example than the studio album), or later again with Shorter in the Hancock-Shorter-Holland-Blade band. Corea hasn't really done that kind of stuff often, anymore, has he?

Thanks for posting this link, it's good to at least know more exactly what's on that set, even though we'll never have all of it!

funny to see this thread up again on the day I bought another disc that I guess jazzkat should have tasted if he was still around: I quite agree with the alias-changing-one's assessment of Corea, though obviously I don't know that much about RTF (only original one for me, so far, but I haven't had an opportunity to check out later editions). One more recent (1981...) release I enjoy a lot is the Montreux "eat carrots" gig with Joe Hen, Gary Peacock and Haynes - a mighty fine live set! I also found this one recently, but it's not as good as "Now He Sings...":

so me being kind of a newbie (hey, I was born several decades after Christian had died - don't blame me for that, Mr Steve!), it would be best to get the Columbia and the JSP boxes, I guess? I've had the two old Columbia discs for a long time but haven't gotten that box yet although it's been on my list ever since it came out... anyway, there's some kind of Definitive sale around here, thus I wondered should I get their live box, but it seems the JSP might be the better choice, no? As for the studio, it's pretty obvious I'll get the Sony/Columbia, rather than the pirate version.

"Soulful Drums" is a great one! Don't have the other one, though... Recent arrivals: - Jimmy Heath - The Quota (Japanese edition, seems OOP in the US/Europe) - Ella Fitzgerald - The Gershwin Songbook - Johnny Griffin - Way Out - Johnny Griffin - Sextet and just ordered: - Don Patterson/Booker Ervin - Legends of Acid Jazz