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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)

just finished my first listen to the Art Hodes - wonderful indeed! now:

Oh, that was you, I remember that of course! And crazy enough, when i went back to that shop several weeks later, they had another copy of the box there!

Yeah! Played LPs 1-3 straight through. I've heard the music before, but it's so darn good, I finally needed to get the box for real!

The Complete Art Hodes Blue Note Sessions finally!

The one from the eighties? there's a second one from 2012 ... only know his "Free Jazz" so far, has been extremely helpful for me, back when I was in my teens and struggled with "Ascension" and the like. (And no, it's just the freaky quote function that went mad in Simon's post, I think.)

So you think it's the Atlantic studio recordings of the Giuffre 3? That would be a lousy move indeed ... the fact that a search for Jim Hall on the Nagel Heyer website does not turn up a thing makes it look pretty fishy indeed. The music is great of course, no doubt about that (even if it ends up being stuff I don't know, I'm quite positive about that).