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Also all the hat releases that were out on HatArt before turning into hatOLOGY releases had *very* different cover art! Not easy to find old ones on the web, though. The very last of the HatArt released made the switch in design, and some of those (Myra Melford, for instance) have then been reissued as hatOLOGY with the same cover.

Albert Ayler: First Recordings My Name Is Albert Ayler Witches & Devils Goin' Home Ghosts (also known as Vibrations) Bells Live at Slug's Lörrach-Paris New Grass Nuits de la Fondation Maeght all courtesy of the great Ayler website

are these yours, brownie? second and third?

And I like "Misterioso" even better! "Brilliant Corners" is another great one. Then the earliest Columbias, "Monk's Dream" and "Criss Cross"! "Straight No Chaser" is pretty good, too, with much restored music on the CD. Those Monk Columbias are one of the things Keepnews did right! And another for the Prestige box! All essential music, in my opinion!

Ditto. "Love Theme from Spartacus" is incredible. One of the most sublime pieces of kitsch you'll ever hear!

hellyeah! what they said!

well, ok, but if a jazz standard is what's been composed for jazz use, all what we've been discussing is off topic... I sort of made "standard" a "great american songbook" synonym... but then, the greatness would be the point to discuss... is "The Christmas Song" a standard? and I don't think just "anything that gets played the shit out of" is a standard... there are loads of good tunes that could/should be "standards" but are all too rarely played... unless you are of the opinion that standard = overplayed = bad, of course.

There are plenty of mediocre standards on the Billie Holiday Columbia box... but of course she succeeds in turning most of them into jewels... I can relate to disliking the Casablanca tune... rhytmically very awkward, melodically utterly stoopid and simple... but of course there are musicians who could do good with this one, too! As for the "soul jazz [what is "soul jazz"? where and how does it separate from "hard bop"? is Timmons or Cannonball one or the other?] standards", these are all what one calls "originals" (tunes composed by jazz musicians, as opposed to songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers-Hart, Burke-Van Heusen, etc. etc.), thus they're not falling under this thread's initial question, it would seem to me.

I used the smiley I intended to use, as an expression of my anger about part of more recent (and current) swiss politics and construction of identity... anyway, that doesn't belong in this forum

They did the same with the Bird 8CD set, it seems... first, there were two 4CD boxes (rip-offs of, I assume some Savoy edition and the Spotlite Dial box), then all of a sudden, lookie here, an 8CD set... But there, the real thing's da shit, I wouldn't spend a penny on the Definitive box!

Well, that first half of it indeed sounds just like Dollar Brand! It's been some time since I played the American Quartet Impulse discs, and I haven't played even half of the live shows I have, so... but I wasn't aware Jarrett was once so close to what I expect coming from Ibrahim!

There were many who thought so, alas, and there's no way anyone here can be proud about that...

I am totally unfamiliar with Ellroy, but I loved De Palma's "Femme Fatale" and am looking forward to seing this new one a lot. He's showing Hollywood the finger, and rightly so

Exactly how I feel Glad I am not German!

and the remaining 4/5ths are ..............what? They're all those weirdos producing the british humour!

And to answer the original question: the Elite Edition has been discontinued many years ago, the last batch was the one including Billy Bauer and Paul Quinichette (and George Russell, I think, plus one more, four only). The By Requests seem to have been stopped, too, and for some years also, now. In Europe, the Master Editions have turned into another series in slightly different (less flimsy but not as good-looking) digipacks, same prize, probably same deal, just a new name.... Also in Europe, the LPRs have turned into Verve/Impulse/ABC/whatever Originals, and been released in jewel cases for some time now.

Happy Birthday!

Well, at least some good news now: they'll replace the booklet, plus they'll send me a replacement Django box (I crushed it... bad luck, but two years ago) for free! Good news for you, too, Mike - to be dealed with by email later...

Thanks. If you ever run across Schweizer, say hello and ask him to get in touch if possible. I want to know what he's been up to lately. Hm, his appearances here are very scarce. I wouldn't even know if he's living in Switzerland at all... if I have an opportunity to hear him live I will try not to miss and will remember you, for sure!

I like Surrey... terrific on "Newk's Time" and funny when Blossom Dearie did it...

Don't forget Albert Ayler's version of "Summertime"! Gives me goosebumps each time I play it! As for "Autumn Leaves": when I saw Tom Harrell (see other thread in respective forum), he did it, and it was (together with "Darn that Dream") the definite highlight of the evening, a terrific, deeply felt version, a very beautiful moment of my life that was, when he played it... no way to just "have had it"! Also I enjoyed the version Jacky Terrasson did putting the "Chameloen" bassline below it (on "Alive" on Blue Note - funny thing was I saw Terrasson, he didn't play it, but later the same night at the same festival, the Ahmad Jamal/George Coleman Quartet did it as an encore and used... guess what? The "Chameleon" bassline!)

Thanks Larry, I'll print it and read it later! Let's keep this thread going, I think it would be great!

Oh come on... each and any Art Pepper version of this was great! There are some players that can even make something out of "Emily"... I don't really dislike any particular standards, I think I'm with Free for All on this... much of it depends on the context, the musician, the treatment, the blowing... Hawkins on "Night and Day" (Keynote) - no one can hate that, for instance, it's marvellous! And then, in a live setting, some old and wrought out standard can suddenly become alive again, if it's presented honest and comes across to you as a true expression of what the musicians feel right at that moment... I dislike the Beatles tune "Yesterday" quite a lot, but when Shirley Horn did her Kern/Lennon Yesterdays/Yesterday medley in concert, it was terrific!

I bought Hank Crawford's "More Soul" last week in a sale - great one, thanks for bringing this disc to my attention! I only heard Hank as a sideman with Ray Charles before...