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Lon, what's that 3CD set? By Dexter? Or a compilation? chewy, do get this one if you don't have it, it's glorious:

I once did something on "Nigger Heaven" (sorry for that title... wasn't nearly as loaded back then, but still... he meant good, for sure). Quite a fascinating character, that guy! What's the other novel? I remember this one was long OOP back when I would have needed it, had to get it from some library...

I greatly enjoy this one: It contains tons of stuff, much of it just excerpts, but there's a lot of poetry, as well as a few complete works (including Toomer's classic "Cane" - this is the book Andrew Hill based his first Palmetto disc on, btw). There is a second edition now (I have the one pictured above), with some new stuff in it: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/afam/nafam2/ And here's the list of complete works it contains: 11 complete longer works Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa: But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (new) Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nella Larsen, Quicksand (new) Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Amiri Baraka, Dutchman Ed Bullins, Goin’a Buffalo: A Tragifantasy Adrienne Kennedy, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White August Wilson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (new) Obviously they deleted from this new edition: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Soul of Black Folk Jean Toomer, Cane Melvin B. Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia Toni Morrison, Sula August Wilson, Fences (the first edition had 13 complete works, thus - also containing the ones from the first list not marked as new) This is a great starting point, and with 2600+ pages you won't exhaust it that soon... the chapter on the Harlem Renaissance is almost 400 pages. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston would be two other great authors to read. And then there's Carl van Vechten's weird novel.... hard to find that one, it seems (or at least I was unable to find it back when I looked for it, but that was roughly 10 years ago). And go for some of Hughes' Jesse B. Simple columns, they're a great and very enjoyable read!

I too sent you a pm only today!

German Amazon says it's gone, but I'll take a not, too, thanks brownie!

So it looks like I watch out for these here:

Thanks again, clem - took some notes... Seems what my mother heard was the Karajan w/Edith Mathis... won't buy that, no sir. As for Bernhard, I've read some of his stuff, of course... not that one so far, though, but he's a writer I like to return to again and again.

Thank you for the input, guys!

Must have missed this, too - happy birthday, belated best wishes!

This is for an x-mas gift... my mother would like to get the fourth symphony by Gustav Mahler and I thought I'd ask the big-o honchos for some recommendations. Should be some more or less readily available discs (there is one store here with a very good classical section, I hope to find it there, I'm sure they have plenty of versions available). So, what should I look for? Thanks in advance!

I did the ubu stomp last time I played the Rothko Chapel thingie... but I have to confess I prefer some ZA jive to do the ubu stomp - oh, and don't ask me how the ubu stomp goes, it just goes, get it?

Had this one on hold and decided to pull the trigger based upon your recomendation. Put "Modern Jazz Symposium" on hold as well! Thanks! enjoy!

Looks nice! And would likely fit the bill for the hardbop big band recommendations thread, too!

I am sure it's great, but I had the old CD and then got the 6CD Miles/Trane box and don't feel like buying it a third time... I assume the other, longer live date may sound quite a bit better than the version(s) I have, but still... I'd prefer seing them having some real jazz reissue programme, instead of just periodically re-re-reissuing their best selling albums (Miles, Weather Report, Mahavishnu...). At least they got Monk right (great, in my opinion), but then they can't even get Duke right...

I didn't get the 2CD "Round About Midnight" reissue... yes, now I remember one reason why being that it only contained that one big moment track... I never really got that anyway... there's plenty of Miles from 1954 that is better, but the public probably hadn't noticed by then, I assume... The "Miscellaneous Miles" CD is a good one to have, but I way overpayed it and in the meantime got all the stuff in various forms...

same old same old... I have most or all of this on various boots on Charly, Jazz Unlimited (I know I know... but their having the Newport gig out that's now "never before released" on one of those new boxes is a bit weird, no?) and other labels, partly even on LP... and the Birth of the Cool stuff has been out on the non-RVG "Complete Birth of the Cool" - stellar stuff, by the way! As usual, I'd say get the few things that were put out by reputable labels in a store, and get the rest by doing some trades... don't pay the bootleggers! (On the other hand, before I got into trading/bit-torrent circles, I'd have been oh so very glad to lay my hands on something like this...)

Red Rodney Quintet - Modern Music from Chicago (Fantasy/OJC) "Paragon" by Rivers is a pretty good one, I think! One of my favourites from the Rivers/Holland/Altschul gang (I don't assume I know all they recorded, in duo, trio or quartets with Daley and Lewis - all the ones I have are good, though).

I only knew him from this board, but I always enjoyed his contributions. Sad news.

African Waltz is quite fine! Two of the three albums of this Milt Jackson/Ray Brown Verve twofer are big band, too, one featuring Cannonball: This one's another good one, with Holman, Giuffre and other great soloists, and a slight west coast flavour:

Ra's "Jazz in Silhouette" is the feghing shit! This here might qualify, too, although it's only partly a big band date (rest is quartet and sextet or septet):

Happy Birthday, Jim!

Apologies, everyone. I quietly walk out the back door now...

What are you talking about? Jasmine in general?

And I apologize for peeing on your BN fetish party... I just felt like doing it, since we been there done that a dozen times and it doesn't go elsewhere just because we're doing it again. My point is not to bash Lee Morgan, I've got almost all of his BNs (where's that reissue of Delightfulee, please? That one I still miss), both the Mosaics, too... it's just that a lot of this hardbop stuff is formulaic in execution, no matter if the tunes are a bitch or the solos are da shit. There are days when I sort of get bored so much by the formulaic character of some of my favourite BNs that I just have to play something else... same happens to me with free improv - sometimes I realize 10 minutes into a CD that what I want is some Jelly Roll or Booby or Booger or whatever, not that freakin' free shit. And one last remark about hardbop: Savoy! It might not be as bluesy and all, but they did a whole lot of great albums that are rather rarely discussed here, and that offer some kind of difference if the hard-hitting BN approach gets tiring... maybe it's just me, but Introducing Lee Morgan or Jazz Message of Hank Mobley struck me as two of the finest efforts of both men from that period.

Give me a break... I didn't read anything up in order to be struck by Cecil's music - I've been a fan for a few years (yeah, about two thirds of the few years I've been listening to jazz), and I *occasionally* read something about the music. Just so happens Jost's book is a very good one and I happened to find a copy of it...