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"Blue Lester" (from the '44 Savoy date) - never fails to almost make my heart stop beating, the sheer beauty, and the melancholy...

Yes! For me, too - opened up my ears for a whole lot of interesting music! A couple of others: Coleman Hawkins on "Driva Man" (even though he almost gets lost and Max has to hit the "one" real hard all the time, he is magisterial!) on Roach's "Freedom Now Suite". Johnny Griffin on the first tune on his "Congregation" Blue Note LP Eddie Harris on "Funkorama", the opening cut of his "Listen Here!" disc on Enja. Sonny Rollins - virtually all his solos on "Saxophone Colossus" (another ear-opener for me)

Isn't Budd Johnson on one of those lenghty Roulette live dates? For me, Prez, once and forever... I love some of those later recordings with Lockjaw and Dixon, and of course the NT band with the Franks (and Billy Mitchell!!!), but Prez was the best. Evans, ok... Tate same, Byas, cool... Gray, a great player, but he didn't fit in really (but I love that foto of Fats with the pants up... and Eager, too!) Something true about the pairings, though (Evans/Prez and the Franks). But really, the vibe that Prez brought to the OT band, freely floating on top and in and out of the band, that's something we never heard again, and those moments are some of the most beautiful in all recorded jazz I've heard!

Interesting site! Thanks for pointing it out! One thing I saw while glancing through: the November 9, 1964 Hilversum session by Albert Ayler was released, and is (as far as I know) still available. More info here.

You owe me a new keyboard!

Huh? Miles with Booker??? Never even heard of this... I assume that's a label similar to those cheapo LPs (Chakra, Ozone... those had a front cover, but nothing on the back, and no info on musicians and dates at all). I hope Djangos will indeed deliver the four Devil's Music discs - still no mail confirming my order.

Thanks tjobbe... as I said: I will know when I have the things in my hands... But those JPC-guys are funny, too - go here and click on "CD" to the right of the cover, and look what it says... funny as hell! As if that was "normal"... And why does Amazon list UK imports (at almost Switzerland-conform high prizes)? All a bit strange...

FWIW, there is no mention of these being CProt over at amazon.de. As there is mention of CProt for the upcoming RVGs, I guess this means that the Legacy disks will be regular CDs. ← That would be great! Even moreso for the upcoming Slime dosage... But then I'll believe it when I see it... maybe Amazon just isn't aware yet that Sony turned copycrap...

This is all so feghing stupid, and so totally annoying! I mean: you are actually *buying* (hear that, you EMI Sony whoever executives! We *buy* your product!) the discs, and then you get that crap in return! That's so stupid! Why blame the consumers, the ones who actually buy the product, for the majors sleeping over the whole CDR thing? They ought to kick themselves in their fat asses, majorly, instead of kicking their customers' butts! End of rant - I'm feeling a lot better now, but I still don't know if I'm going to buy any of these releases if they are copy-crapped over here, too.

Thanks a lot brownie! I wasn't having any doubts about having to get the Uptown sooner or later, I was just wondering... and I did notice some duplications at least as song titles are concerned. I'll now first wait for delivery of the four Devil's Music discs and then see again...

But you weren't there, were you? Also just heard the broadcast? (I heard that you were in the South, so...) Maybe it's also the production (at least in the case of the Footprints disc) that made the music sound a bit... well, lacking warmth, sounding cool in a negative way.

Rabih Abou-Khalil wrote a composition he titled "Lewinsky March", why is that one missing?

Felix Krull (always loved that one!) Slow Drag is indeed a cool one! There's another musician connected to George Lewis, "Kid Shots" (or actually Louis Madison)

Just ordered all four volumes! 33.52$ (new!) from Djangos, free shipping! Cool! Glad I checked in there before I started searching through Amazon marketplace...

Thanks a lot, Lon! The Condon Mob is just too rich for me in its vinyl version... having just picked up the O'Day and the Ory sets! I'll orded the Devil's! And at some later time (some of) the Definitives. Is the Uptown covered in that 2CD live set on Definitive (would not surprise me...)? I promise, that's the last question for now!

Thanks Lon! So I should get those Devil's Music discs... The Black Lion, is that the duo with Ellis Larkins? I forgot about the Uptown - what does it contain? Some live rarities? The Condons I missed - pity! Same for the Commodores - those were all long gone when I first got aware of Mosaic (that was when they had the Tristano and Giuffre sets out new - I quickly started buying older boxes, but there were too many of them to get them all before they disappeared...) Back to Lee: what's that red one (the one of which I love the cover... see above) - is that one needed when I get the Devils? Or does that duplicate tracks taht are there anyway? And how do the Audiophiles relate to the 4CD Definitive? Included or not? Hmmmm many questions... pity I can't afford one of those CD-Rom discographies...

You haven't been impressed since "Footprintslive" or have you just not heard it? I was mightily impressed by that album already, and since by the Hancock-Shorter-Holland-Blade group (almost on the same level, I think, interaction-wise, maybe a little less spontaneous, and certainly different). Also some live gigs I've heard by the Shorter 4 are pretty impressive. And somehow I do think the Shorter 4 are a bit daring, for Ramatuelle's standards. I have heard practically the complete 2004 edition, and nothing there was even halfway where Shorter goes... What stroke me about the Ramatuelle set of Shorter's is that the music had an incredible warmth to it - something that it was often lacking a bit, even though I found it exciting, ever since the live disc.

Full prize then would be, uhm, twice 199.99, that is 399.99, right? That's business maths...

why, Booger of course... even today BN can pull a lame joke with his name...

$112 was the Mosaic list prize when the box was available. Not interested in this sale and I refuse to buy from people selling these items when they miss the outside box or any worthy document. ← Oh, these krazy kollectors.... Would you buy it if one of the CDs were missing? (just in case the music contained in it wasn´t a worthy document) ← I would sell you the missing disc from my own set, but only for 199.99$, of course, since the set is only worth half of the full prize with one disc missing, you see?

$112 was the Mosaic list prize when the box was available. Not interested in this sale and I refuse to buy from people selling these items when they miss the outside box or any worthy document. ← I know that it was 112$... that's what I paid. But guys posting such crap on ebay should not get 100% positive feedback... probably their customers are of the same breed?

Fresh Sounds has one RCA available: A Touch Of Blues Lee Wiley Featuring: Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra: Joe Ferrante (tp), Nick Travis (tp), Tony Faso (tp), Rex Peer (tb), Cutty Cutshall (tb), Hank D'Amico (s), Toots Mondello (s), Nick Caiazza (s), Al Cohn (s), Gene Allen (s), Moe Wechsler (p), Mundell Lowe (g), Milt Hil REFERENCE: 74321 90301 2 BAR CODE: 74321 903012 2 PRICE: 9.80 € Tracklisting: 1. The Memphis Blues 2. From The Land of Sky Blue Water 3. The Ace in the Hole 4. Someday You'll Be Sorry 5. My Melancholy Baby 6. A Hundred Years from Today 7. Blues in my Heart 8. Maybe You'll Be There 9. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 10. I Don't Want to Walk Without You, Baby 11. Make Believe 12. A Touch of the Blues Recorded in 1957 This one's not part of the Fifties 2CD set, it seems. (Probably one of the 2.5 RCA albums they left out on that set? Am I understanding their weirdo english right here?) It seems the Baldwin sets are much thorougher compared to the 4CD Definitive, since the first four volumes on Baldwin only cover her career up to 1940, while the Definitive goes up to 1951. Anyone has/knows the Baldwins?

Originally 199.99$ ???

And where did they steal the remasterings for their sets (Definitive, that is)? I am not aware of any previous box set...