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I know what you mean, I felt like this with my first Universal Mosaic (Farlow), too, but in the meantime I got others (Eldridge, Basie, Mulligan, Jazztet) and I really couldn't care less. But then I'm not one of the anal fetishist collectors (a collector I am, though, I confess...)

What Denis Colin Trio disc is the one being discussed above? I'm asking since the images have disappeared...

yuck yuck yuck yuck! you Americans are weird (you too, Tom ) but Elvis must have liked it, I hear...

I wouldn't know about Quincy, have no idea what he did and what not... I only have a burn of the OP CD, so this is great news anyway!

Why are you saying "being discontinued"? Has there been some clear communication on the side of Concord? Are the Westons being discontinued?

Ah well, I'm just lazy... and used to the search function working on more than one word for a few years, so... thanks for posting the links, however! I find it always helpful to have some cross-references in the threads themselves!

Wow, they're all OOP? I got Turn Out from French Amazon two years ago or so at a pretty nice prize... can't remember, but must have been around 40€. For the rusting along Verve I payed a lot, though (Barnes & Noble was where I got it from, about two years ago, too). Both last Fantasy boxes have been available from 2001 half a year ago, no idea if they're still there... Anyone knows about the status of "Secret Sessions"? That's the one Evans box I still miss... French & German Amazon list it for 90 something euros - pretty steep for 8 CDs. Also German Amazon has 4-6 weeks or something that makes me think it could be on the endangered list, too (French has 6-12 days).

That's great news! What would be in there, except the Tricotism sessions (terrific ones!)? Would that also include the two Oscar Pettiford ABC albums? Oh, how about compiling some OP and do a nice little box set? I'd buy that, for sure! And how about the Bags/Lucky dates? I am aware they're on various labels (Savoy, Atlantic, UA), but that would be a terrific set of music that's much too difficult to find (I have "Plenty Plenty Soul", burns of the UA and of "Jazz Skyline", plus a tape of a european [London?] reissue of some other Savoy cuts taken from at least two different albums). I guess this one is impossible to do, but I'd love it! And then a third Lucky one, compiling the complete Paris sessions...

Hi Greg! A great series, indeed! There have been separate threads about the Coleman and the Fofo elsewhere, as well as threads about the large 4CD boxes (I have none of them, alas) and at least one about the large boxes containing all the JiP discs, too. Alas, the search function does only work on single words, so the best chance to find any of these threads is probably to search for little discussed musicians (Bacsik, Jaspar, etc.). Oh, there definitely is a Sacha Distel thread, too! Still my favourite hors série release! Don't miss his non-JiP album with Barney and John Lewis, it has been on Koch CD, now reissued in a digipack edition by Freshsound.

Sad news. I gladly bought a duplicate of the above 2CD set from Lon some time ago - very enjoyable, to say the least.

Since the search won't help, I am posting this not knowing if it has been discussed before. Just got the following notification from Chicago University Press and thought it might be of interest here: Sun Ra The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets. Edited by Anthony Elms and John Corbett. Distributed for WhiteWalls. 144 p., 56 color plates. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 Paper $20.00 0-945323-07-7 Spring 2006 From the Arkestra to his experiments with synthesizers, Sun Ra was one of the most inventive jazz musicians in history. Yet until now, there has not been a collection of his earliest writings that reveal the beginnings of his work as philosopher, mystic, and Afro-Futurist. This new volume unveils over forty newly discovered typewritten broadsheets on which Sun Ra expounded his wholly unique philosophical message. While in Chicago during the mid-1950s, Sun Ra preached on street corners and occasionally created scripts to accompany his lectures—intricate texts that invoke science fiction, Biblical prophecy, etymology, and black nationalism. Until this point, the only broadsheet known to exist was one given to John Coltrane in 1956. These newly unearthed writings attest to the provocative brilliance that inspired Coltrane. Sun Ra annotated many of them by hand, and together the sheets reveal fascinating new aspects of his worldview. The Wisdom of Sun Ra is an invaluable compendium of writings by one of the most intriguing and influential jazz figures of the century. TABLE OF CONTENTS one of everything: blount hermeneutics and the wisdom of ra John Corbett broadsheet images transcriptions what america should consider jesus said, "let the negro bury the negro." language of gods spo de o de........hoc way..... a spook sho' is a dragg, man..... he's a dragg satan is the god of the spooks negroes are the children of the "devil" the negro is a burden to the white man! message to the spook negroes are not men jacob in the land of u.s. there's a nigger in the woodpile the way of the cross there are two ethiopias days of vengence the light isG the true way to life wake up! wake up! wake up! the bible was not written for negroes!!!!!! the great whore little i's i love you i don't give a hoot big brother left you holding the bag! the stumbling block moms & pops the poor little rich one: the prince of this world neptune is rex... the ruler with the iron fork... johnny one note "a nigger is a mess" why don't you turn again! the god of israel united states at the crossroads solution to the negro problem [illegible title] it is time to discuss basic truths humpty dumpty keys to understanding the hidden meaning of the bible the wisdom of ra the reach for a better world what negroes do to be saved the truth the truth about jesus i have set beore you life and death--choose life lucifer means light bearer zoroastrianism satan the end

Get well soon, Conn!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

These are the same folks who gave us the Verve LPR series. It's a good thing the albums chosen for that series have been so wonderful, but in the end they're just a bunch of nice-sounding needle-drops (at a nice price as well). Probably, yes... and the Lee Konitz "Motion" mentioned above is a sad case in point. I really don't see the use of reissuing that one without any bonus material if it would have all been handy from the 3CD release. I prefer the Verve Elite Edition a lot to the LPRs. Good thing about the LPRs is indeed that they're a nice bunch, and that many of them have not been around before for a long time. The prize was steep at the beginning, wasn't it? Only went down after the first few batches had been out, as I remember.

Isn't one of these the same as the Pettiford Vogue release? I only have the other of the Birdlanders discs, but I'm not quite sure if the Vogue covers the second one. These are all Henri Renaud produced NY 1954 sessions, right? Don't know the details about other releases of this material, though I think there have been a few over the years. These are the Renaud produced '54 sessions. Thanks Larry. I'll have to dig for my Pettiford CD, likely that the OJC contains another date, not just OP material? Will have to check AMG or other sources and compare to my own CD... fine sessions, for sure! (Even though Renaud the pianist is not that great... but him being in charge of things, I guess it was logical he played piano as well, instead of engaging another pianist).

I think Duke Pearson did what he could during the circumstances. For example, he did produce Herbie Hancock's last two BN albums, and they're good in my opinion. Oh yes, they're very good! But they're in a totally different direction than the things musicians like Donald Byrd and a bit later Bobbi Humphrey and the Mizells did... I assume that's the stuff that went down the toilet? Of course it's a question of taste, in the end, but I do consider most of the late 60s BN output in a different category (and a less intriguing, at that) than the stuff they released up to, say 1966 or 1967.

Chiming in late here, but in this case the "people" suck. Thanks for your account of the story, Kevin. What a pity that these tradinionalists/album-fetishists couldn't just buy the japanese reissues! As for the Smith, I have the RVGs and an old version of "The Sermon" and someone here kindly made me a burn of the old "House Party" disc. The Mobley's don't annoy me as much, as they contain all the material and I didn't ever hear them before, so the RVGs and the Conn is how I got to know that music first. Still I wouldn't have enjoyed it less if it was grouped by sessions. Main thing, in my opinion, is that all the music gets to see the light, not how it is grouped. Even the annoying bunch of folks should by now have caught up with CDRs and should be able to re-compile their beloved albums, no? And as one additional thought: the vinyl album is a past concept. That doesn't mean it is (or was) bad, not at all. But somehow it's a bit weird to wish for vinyl album replicas in the new and very different format... if you want the album, buy vinyl, if you buy the CD, do some burning if the track-order of a CD doesn't fit with your tastes.

Duke or Wayne?

This is strange... but the website, doesn't it stem from the time when they were still (?) linked to Atlantic? The only interaction I had with Savoy was about that disc of the Charlie Parker 8CD Savoy/Dial etc. box that had wrong speed... Dan Marx answered those mails, I think, and was very kind and helpful. But that was at least two years ago. (And it turned out my disc was alright, but me having gotten that set pretty late was panicking about them still being able to replace defective discs... he helped me confirm that mine was alright and was very kind in doing so.)

Here's the Marge, a pretty noisy affair, plenty of non-LP material on the CD (it's about twice as much music as was on the LP): No Lowe expert at all, but I love "Bodies and Soul" (CIMP) quite some. A few very, very moving tunes on it. Then I can add yet another recommendation for "Fresh". But I still need to hunt "The Flam"... and a few others, I assume, reading this thread!

It is good!

Someone better get that Randy Weston Monterey '66 now! Hell of a great disc, with Booker Ervin!

But Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is a dog, that I know for sure!