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ha, blame the office! thanks for the alert about the two missing 1962 albums, didn't thin of checking - too bad, as I don't have either of them. btw, found a good source (I hope) for the first Ellington box, grooves-inc (around 40€, free shipping, not for trans-atlantic orders I assume but at least in western Europe as far as I know - hope it works out, though not holding my breath ... and not planning on giving away my Legacy reissues with their nice booklets either, but some Spanish boots and a Collectables disc)

@Larry: great story! @brownie: thanks for re-inforcing ... into the cart it goes!

(minus one "e" in the name - and sorry for my crappy proof-reading, I must have deleted half a sentence while hastily typing at the office - "Theory of Art"/"Second Edition" contained some of those alternate takes that were part of the "Bluebird First Editions" reissue of "A Night in Tunisia") I'm quite suprised to see that Blakey box, btw - other than the first Messengers album, none of the albums are die-hard classics I think (mabye "Drum Suite"? maybe "A Night in Tunisia"?) but they're one fine bunch for sure, and it's good to see them being paid some attention! Wish the Argo one would be properly reissued, too - best on 100" vinyl, if only for the size of the cover:

found tne new Matsuli LP waiting for me upon returning from work - looks (and sounds!) like the expected quality job! 'scuse me while I go read the new liner notes!

Only know "A Concert" (the 1979 one - thanks again, brownie ) - it's very good indeed ... you have piqued my insterest for that Bimhuis set!

- Jazz Messengers (Columbia) [plenty of bonus tracks, mostly or all also on "Originally"] - Hard Bop (Columbia) [bonus tracks, mostly or all also on "Originally"] - Drum Suite (Columbia) [bonus tracks, mostly or all also on "Originally" - including that short session w/Ira Sullivan & Wilbur Ware] - Plays Lerner and Loewe (Vik) - A Night in Tunisa (Vik) [plenty of bonus tracks on the "Bluebird First Editions" reissue] - Au Club St. Germain, Vols. 1-3 (RCA) - Au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (RCA) [3 vols / 2 CD set] - Art Blakey And The All Star Jazz Messengers (RCA) plus some more tracks/sessions on "Theory of Art" and "Second Edition" (both RCA, with complete or considerable overlap), compiling various tracks including some of those "Night, and then the non-album session from 1957-04-02 with a larger group the last one listed is from 1982 and I guess might thus fall outside ot the scope of this box (disclaimer: this is not what's in the box, I don't know that as the box is not out yet, it's just what can be found perusing online sources and my own CD collection )

The first ALS session, some of which is included in the deluxe edition (the upcoming 3CD edition will contain these tracks again as well). And "Ascension" as well, of course, but that doesn't look populated enough

great group! they gave an amzing concert in Zurich several years back, for an audience of 13 ... bad timing (took place in the midst of various local festivals), but I guess even on a regular night there wouldn't have been more than three to four dozen people around ... nonetheless, they were wonderful!

well, blame Umrika

Yeah, I doubt that, too. I also doubt the Brubeck live by now ... but these three upcoming ones do give some hope. And once they're through with the more obvious stuff and reckon they might make some more money doing other things, who knows, Ellington is still somewhat of a name.

One I'd also very much love to see: The Complete Non-Album Ellington, compiling all the Columbia recordings (starting in 1947, running to 1962) that has not been either on albums or added to expanded Legacy reissues later on - now that one I'd buy without blinking the eye, and I'd buy it full price, too!

Well, oviously it shouldn't matter to you! Re: Gordon - that one always cost over the top here (60-70€), so I never considered it - I think it was not even sold in Europe by Popmarket themselves (I don't understand their strange shipping regimen and pricings at all). Re: Getz - there was a french box there (longbox/book style), and it seems to me they consciously didn't sell the albums box at the beginning - I went for the French one there. Now the US one is available cheaply as well. The Ellington I missed as well - asking price is over 110€ for new copies, straight from amazon themselves (german site even wants 150€!). Not sure it was ever substantially cheaper, but that's not a bargain if you have most of the contents already. Just explaining why I'm a bit ambiguous about the whole series ... if the prices were consistent over here, I might look at it differently! The ones I have are: Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Dave Brubeck, Mahavishnu, Nina Simone (missing those bonus tracks on one disc - lousy move there! did they ever fix this, maybe even offer replacements?) The ones I'd be interested in: Brubeck live (hope this is still in the doings, but I'm not holding my beath), Gordon (if the price was right), Ellington 1 (if the price was right), Ellington 2, Blakey (though I have 90% of that as well, and most of it in editions that need no upgrading in my book - anyway, I'm still most ambiguous about this uprgrading business, there's so much new stuff to explore and my funds are limited, so ...). Oh, I also have the Sam Cooke and Earth Wind & Fire ones - the latter at around 50€ is a true bargain indeed!

Hm, still not enough to re-buy all that music ... though yes, the Mahavisnu set was indeed great, I forgot about that. And the Woody Shaw, too. The Brubeck obviously as well. But those all added new material or albums not previously on CD, so obviously they had to remaster. Would "Homecoming" be remastered in the Gordon box? Most of the others were around in recent (Legacy) remasters, I think?

Is there a source for your info? I cannot find any listing of the contents of this box? No. But partly yes: the box's title ... content should thus be pretty clear. With the only question being if those stray cuts released on other albums/compilations ("Misterioso" was yet another, and that two LP set from the seventies, "Always Know") will be added or not. Regarding remasterings I don't know, but with such cheap-ish reissues I'd not expect them to remaster anything they previously reissued. I would like to know specifics about that, too (Lon, if you have some to offer, please step up! I'm not doubting your insight at all, I just wonder if for instance "Let My Children Hear Music" was remastered; to my best knowledge, the Bessie Smith box was not when it should have; and I wonder if "Big Band and Quartet in Concert" might be ...)

Thanks for sharing! Coincidentally, finally ordered my copy of the CD last night.

The music is nice but rather slight. One album was initially on Prestige (included in the box and I guess out there in the OJC series, too?), the other on United Artists. Two completely different bands going by the same name btw. The UA album was recently (2011?) back on CD in Japan.

pic doesn't show, but I was able to extract the link: http://images.45cat.com/dave-brubeck-quartet-the-trolley-song-fantasy.jpg thanks!

I was under the impression they did so only when needed (i.e. only previous CD reissue was on Collectables)?

All of them (Tokyo, Big Band and Quartet, Newport, It Club, Jazz Workshop - each two discs - the three disc set contained some more stray cuts, so did the "Monk Alone" two disc set) ... and sound probably like in their respective latest editions.

Quite sure I once saw some pre-recorded MDs, but I wouldn't bet my ass on it ... And I guess I ought to shop for the AH and tje Telarc, then - always thought the A&M was fine. And yeah, the CTI too!

two more coming up there: Art Blakey - Complete Columbia/RCA Albums: http://www.amazon.de/Art-Blakey-Complete-Columbia-Victor/dp/B00YY03SJ2/ Thelonious Monk - Complete Columbia Live Albums: http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Columbia-Live-Albums-Collection/dp/B00YY03S10/ The Ellington goes for the same price there as the Monk (all three are interlinked/auto-recommended), that's how I found them, no idea if there will be more ...

Other than my new Art Hodes set, also the Max Roach one - so good!

Radio via several generations of dubs, I guess ... would be lovely to get a clean version of it.

OJC vinyl, bought sealed a few weeks ago

(the double LP, guess the number on the top right of this AMG pic refers to the CD edition) (which misses five tracks if I counted correctly)