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Ordered the Eldridge Mosaic from German Amazon!

(can I sue her? I need a new keyboard for my computer!)

I see only positive aspects in this - I never liked the way ZYX handled this. Can't recall who distributes Concord in Germany right now, but they have a more serious way of treating it, for sure. ← Concord has virtually no distribution here. And OJCs have been hard to find for several years by now. I'd love to see a good sale! Oh, and one thing ZYX definitely did wrong were the small editions of the box sets, with lousy to no documentation, yet selling them at full prize. In my pre-internet days I bought the Sonny Rollins box for ca. 120$ - doesn't even contain a discography, just tracklisting and microscopically small liners with some to most of the musicians being mentioned. Lousy lousy stuff. I'm still pissed on this today (obviously I wasn't pissed when I bought it, since then I didn't know yet...)

hmmmm... enjoying the perspective of my Eldridge being mailed within hours from now, for 45€... less enjoying the thought that it will be lined up next to several others that I got over the last year and have not heard in their entirety (Farlow, Ory, Basie, Jazztet, Mulligan...) but as they say, this is an investment, right? and me being young, one has to add: you can't start saving for your future early enough! correct?

Happy Birthday!

I absolutely love what the Bloomdaddies do to this tune on their first disc (on Criss Cross)!

Has anyone mentioned already that Jerry Van Rooyen kicks some real mean ass?

I don't know any Gerry Hemingway quintet stuff, and with the Braxton, I guess it depends on what Braxton we're talking about. But I honestly think that the only way a music 'lover' wouldn't be fascinated by this set wouldn't be fascinated by this set is if (s)he had a blanket distaste for anything even mildly avant-garde. Since you're into the Hemingway and Braxton, this clearly isn't the case, so go for it! ←

soon to come: this year's edition (the third so far) of http://www.unerhoert.ch/ That's the nice small festival where I saw/heard Lacy solo, as well as Roscoe Mitchell (solo as well), Irene Schweizer, Doppelmoppel and some other great concerts... Here's this year's programme: PROGRAMM AM FREITAG 25. NOVEMBER 2005, 20 UHR, Clubraum NILS WOGRAM – RUDI MAHALL – JAN RODER – ULI JENNESSEN Nils Wogram Trombone | Rudi Mahall Bass Clarinet | Jan Roder Bass Uli Jennessen Drums OLAF RUPP GUITAR SOLO Olaf Rupp Guitar ICP Orchestra Misha Mengelberg Piano | Ab Baars Clarinet, Saxophone | Michael Moore Clarinet, Sax | Tobias Delius Clarinet, Sax | Wolter Wierbos Trombone | Thomas Heberer Trumpet | Mary Oliver Violin, Viola | Tristan Honsinger Cello | Ernst Glerum Bass | Han Bennink Drums Nocturne 23.30 Uhr, Fabriktheater MONK’S CASINO – THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THELONIOUS MONK · PART 1 Alexander von Schlippenbach Piano | Rudi Mahall Bass Carinet | Axel Dörner Trumpet | Jan Roder Bass | Uli Jennessen Drums PROGRAMM AM SAMSTAG 26. NOVEMBER 2005, 15 UHR Clubraum KARL EIN KARL Peter K Frey Bass, Voice, Electronics | Michel Seigner Guitar, Voice, Electronics | Alfred Zimmerlin Violoncello, Electronics NIK BÄRTSCH RHYTHM CLAN Claudio Puntin Div. Klarinetten | Sha Bass- und Kontrabassklarinette | Björn Meyer Bass | Kaspar Rast Drums | Andi Pupato Perkussion | Nik Bärtsch Piano, Perkussion PROGRAMM AM SAMSTAG 26. NOVEMBER 2005, 20 UHR Clubraum PIERRE FAVRE – YANG JING Yang Jing Chinese Pipa | Pierre Favre Drums, Percussion HANS KOCH SOLO Hans Koch Bass Clarinet & Soprano Sax OBJETS TROUVÉS Gabriela Friedli Piano | Co Streiff Saxophones | Jan Schlegel Bass | Dieter Ulrich Drums Nocturne 23.30 Uhr, Fabriktheater MONK’S CASINO – THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THELONIOUS MONK · PART 2 Alexander von Schlippenbach Piano | Rudi Mahall Bass Carinet | Axel Dörner Trumpet | Jan Roder Bass | Uli Jennessen Drums ********************************************** I have no idea who that Rupp guy is, but I'm looking forward to being there on Friday night. Will miss Saturday night (might make it for the nocturne set provided I stay there on Friday and like it). Saturday afternoon I'll probably skip. Pity to miss Koch, but I have some other obbligations that evening. Looking forward to hearing ICP live a lot! Also Wogram's group could be fun!

My guess then: late Oct./early Nov. 2006.

Seems like both are limited editions, if I read the first post correctly.

Whoah! Great news! this recording is da shit, as they say! Great arrangments of great compositions, Julius Watkins... one of the best albums Mingus did, and truly a miracle why this is not readily available. Should not be a limited edition! Should be spread as far as possible!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday! Padania libera! Long live Silvio!

Oh ice cream hellyeah! Love that one! Night on Earth is great as well. But several others I haven't seen yet.

You, dear Sir, are one funny rat!!! Thanks for reporting, David!

I'll have to pick up the Braxton, too!

totally absorbed, no? in a world of his own - that's what I thought when I heard/saw him. Dudek is a fine post-Coltrane player - I haven't got a lot of discs or live things with him, but what I've heard I always liked. Never heard of Canneloni, though (is that his real name?... would make a funny songtitle "Pasta Jesus"...)

Thanks for this write up, David! Your experience with Leimgruber seems to have been very similar to mine (I think I reported about it here, too - saw him at unerhört at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, wiht a bunch of swiss guys). It's indeed stunning what he creates out of the tiniest bits and pieces of sound! Also there's something masterly/auratic about his appearance, no? Maybe off-putting, before you hear him play. I've heard a duo set of his with Fritz Hauser (2001 or 2002, on radio only), which was absolutely stunning, too! Love the word "Materialsack", btw! Nothing noteable about Dudek and Schoof?

the solution would then be to disable autorun and see what gives in terms of accessing the actual music on the disc, ja? Indeed what I was thinking. Don't panic just yet peoples.- ← I don't panic as of yet, but I maintain my position that these copy-shitte discs are like showing the customers/buyers the finger for something that just they are *not* doing by *buying* the official, legal release. I have picked up three or four Conns and RVGs since EMI went shitte, all on sale (half prize or less of our crazy list prizes). Before, I bought whole batches of RVGs and Conns within weeks after their release. I am really pissed off. And if the music industry goes in that direction, I am getting more and more willing to go for illegal downloads, just because I'm pissed. The main problem are the musicians, but thank God lables such as Hat or Leo or whatever labels are active in creative music do not even think of shitte such as copy protection. That's just my two cents. I am not at all into illegal downloads of released material, mind me - I *like* to spend some money on an actual quality product. I am willing to pay for a nice CD with some art and all, I don't want crappy downloads (even less so for such ridiculous prizes as you often see them offered - with no liners/art/discographical info coming along).

Hi! If you use the search function of the board, you should find at least two or three threads discussing that box - you'd hear some others' opinions there, too!

c'mon you britons: confess that you like Humph!

I was afraid of this, too, before I bought it... but once I had made my way through it once, I loved it! The music has such a free-going, open feel, it's so uncluttered. Yes, Bitches Brew and all this great stuff is overloaded somehow... doesn't mean it's not great, but it's definitely "produced" music, while all these "alternate takes" here allow the musicians to jam and stretch out, and I like what came out a lot. I had not heard the original album before I got the box, and for me the album itself is not even the point. It's Miles doing some of his most poised playing with a great, bluesy and funky band. Works for me!

so do I - also it often happens that I notice, in concerts or while playing CDs at home, that I like contemporary improvised music...

Latest additions: Basie Verve Fifties Mosaic (delivered yesterday, no custom fees! 60€ ) Lee Wiley Collectors' Ultimate Vol. 1 (Devil's Music/Baldwin Street) Lee Wiley "Music of Manhattan" (Uptown) (both delivered on wednesday!) Bob Dylan "No direction Home - Bootleg Series Vol. 7" Don Rendell/Ian Carr "Shades of Blue/Dusk Fire" (BGO twofer) some used stuff (can't recall all, but I'll try): Dave Pike Set "Masterpieces" (Motor Music/MPS) Ibrahim Ferrer "Buenos Hermanos" Steve Swallow "Real Book" Jeremy Steig (the Douglas album from 1970 with Ian Hamer)