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music to ahem... drive (???) your scooter by?

music to clean the house by? Fine job, John! Thanks for this nice compilation! The Tononi is on my list since two years or even longer, the Negris and Fazio shall be added, so will the Instabile (I have most of their other stuff, but not this one).

Happy birthday!

another one, mentioned above:

Reading the title of this topic spurred my imagination... lacking "in nuance"? "in subtlety"? "in musicality"? "in whatever respect you may think of?" As for the guys and gals you want recommendations of, I can't help a lot, but these are a few that I have and like: - Turrentine "Hustlin'" (RVG - with Shirley Scott, Burrell, Cranshaw, Fink) - Shirley Scott "Queen of the Organ" (OOP? On Impulse, same band minus Burrell) From Shirley I have two recent Fantasy twofers, "Queen of the Organ Vol. 1" and that other disc collecting two Moodsville albums, which also feature her on piano. Soothing easy blue stuff. Then there's another organ playing Ms Scott you shouldn't miss: Rhoda! Check out this little puppy: Sorry for the bad jpg - it's a duo with Kenny Clarke, and I love it!

There's a Django disc, too: (haven't heard it)

Just sent in a mail, ordering: P198 No Waiting Derek Bailey l Joëlle Léandre P498 Hauts Plateaux Daunik Lazro l Carlos Alves "Zingaro" P299 Outcome Derek Bailey l Steve Lacy P200 Dark Rags Evan Parker l Keith Rowe P201 The Contest of Pleasures John Butcher l Xavier Charles l Axel Dörner P102 Madly You Daunik Lazro l Carlos Alves "Zingaro" l Joëlle Léandre l Paul Lovens P203 exaltatio utriusque mundi Frédéric Blondy l Lê Quan Ninh P303 Fibres Stéphane Rives There go another 100 eurozlotys... Btw: there's a few more days of sale - from the Potlatch site:

Whoah! That may then be the second best album of the year! Will this have the Ware-Shadow Wilson group? The working unit? Great news, anyway!

Forgot to say: after a quick glance at the setlists of the 2CDs in the box and the TV broadcast, I think there's no duplication. Kirk played other European cities that fall (I have Prague, I think, and maybe one more) with other rhythm players (his usual gang) and had almost identical setlists, it seems.

And the TV broadcast you have already, yes? What's your source then, some collector, not that Magnetic CD? No way to find out when the Mercury album was recorded? The 10CD Kirk set just gives the month - does the LPR (digipack) reissue give more exact info?

Thanks Claude! Your ears seem to be among the better ones around here, so I'll trust that (knowing that I myself am unable to go into the nuances...). I wonder though, why there are different tapes? Would one not try and get the master? Or are these lost, and the search is for the best/first generation of tapes?

That is a great disc, indeed! Some nice Wardell Gray!

I had the older The Bridge CD Keepnews compiled, still have the box, and yet I bought the new First Editions reissue - it sounds incredible!!! The first time they were able to use the original tape!!! You can almost touch the bass strings and sax metal. All other issues used second or third generation tapes. ← Same deal for the Paul Desmond US box? Uh... I always found sound fair enough on these, but... (also the Desmond has a very good essay).

It seems that you have to wait some weeks because UNIVERSAL was forced to stop delivering, due to legal problems... I've no exact informations so far, as the producer of the series is on holiday and will be back in two weeks time. I hope I'll come back with more and better infos then. Christian Emil, danke für Deine PM! ← Any more info? I haven't ordered a copy, but I am planning to do so... I hope it will be available again!

Yes indeed! I have to revise my own rather lukewarm post from above! Gave it a listen recently, and liked it quite some! Beautiful playing by all three.

Hope you had a good one! Happy Birthday!

you seem to act against your very own principles, sir!

Got mine too, yesterday. Funny, very funny! Glad the set is in... they should try and get their act together a little bit, and send the foreign catalogues not by rowing boat (or maybe they have some crazy guy swimming accross the atlantic?) - I really don't understand why their catalogue gets delivered so late over here!

WHOAH! That's the Fred Anderson/Barbra* Streisand duo disc, yes? (*How in the world can one mistreat this name like this? Belongs to Gitmo, I say!)

Thanks Hans! I was totally unaware they do twofers *at all*! Good to know, but I have at least "Bolivia" in the old French edition, and I don't care that much for these Gatos to replace them, I think... unless I'll want "Under Fire" desparately.

Thanks for weighing in! So I guess I don't have to replace the Gato old French versions with the French Gold Series releases... same for the Ornette? What is that Gato twofer? There seems to be some consensus, then, on this topic! I wondered about it for quite some time, but since I have very few RCA and/or Bluebird releases, I never bothered to ask so far. As for the Rollins: I'll stay with the (US) box I have. I assume the single discs don't add anything that's not on the box. Won't pick up single albums and have duplication there, same for the Desmond box, where I'm happy with the US Bluebird set. I assume the two boxes come from that generation of releases that also included the third pictured Desmond/Geru disc above, the one that Brad has, yes?

Is that the one with Shirley Horn's trio backing Carmen? If so, that's up on that sale, too... but I won't be able to make it there until mid next week, and maybe someone has snatched that one by then...

I know about the Mingus... and I *hate* that French edition for omitting material and still claiming to be all that great... Now sound-wise: I compared #2 of the Bluebird and the French edition, and the French is much louder, but I thought (on my limited system, at least), they sounded pretty much the same. However, based on your more expert views (and ears and hifi-setups) I will try to go for the Bluebirds more often (the only one I have so far, besides the Desmond, is the Carmen McRae Monk album, and that one definitely sounds great and warm!)

I gather there are several series of RCA reissues, the most recent ones the French RCA Gold Series (listed, for instance, on the Freshshound website), and the US Bluebird Jazz releases. The US ones look like this: The French reissue of this same album: And to make things even more confusing, there is yet another US reissue: My question: I picked up the French edition of this album a few years ago, and just today got the Bluebird reissue, since the French does not have the alternates/additional tracks. Now can anyone tell me about the quality of the remasterings? I am no audiophile, and I do realise that preferences depend heavily upon personal taste and hifi-set (again I don't have such nifty stuff). Still I want to ask: is there a general consensus that one of these series is the best? And can someone shed some light as to why some of the French releases do not have alternate takes, while others do? The French releases state that they were done from the master tapes, so I wonder...

Very funny, that strategy of holding sets back till everybody has the catalogue, no? I just got my catalogue that has the Byrd/Adams as "last chance"... glad I went online some time ago! Missed out on the Jimmy Smith set exactly like this - that was before I had any internet.