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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.

I just got "Sans tambour ni trompette" (French RCA Gold Series) - very good one! Can someone tell me: is Jenny Clark doing the fiddling and Rovère providing the bottom, or are they both doing both at different times? (I didn't read the liners yet, but had a glance at them and couldn't see this mentioned.)

Happy belated birthday! Hope you had a good one, and some more beer, after that one you mentioned!

There is a new Swiss series, by a label called Red Note...

same sale... (new version of course... seems Amazon forgot to replace the pic) (the US Bluebird version with alternates, although I already have the French Gold Series release, but with fellows like Desmond and Mulligan I want all there is!)

Interesting! You are probably aware that these Gryce (and Farmer) sessions were made around the same time the Brownie sessions for Vogue were done - when the Hampton band was in Paris, in October 1953. Now I have never really warmed up to those Brownie sessions... don't ask me why! I have just recently given the first volume a listen again, and I liked it alright, but somehow the "fire" is lacking there... the cuts with Dawson are ok, but when Viale plays, I think things get much lamer than any other Brownie I heard. Sorry to say this, as Viale is a good drummer, in my book. Just here, he doesn't do it for me. Now the Gryce tracks *did* grab my attention from the outset. They may not be the most advanced and best arranged tunes, but somehow I could immediately connect... Of course I will work on the Brownie sessions again and again!

Really? Coincidentally, I received from Mr. Tanno the 'Blues Inside Out' title yesterday and enjoyed the first spin. First exposure to Pauer....guess I'll have to check out one of those non-"dim" ones. ← Yeys, that trio stuff on Wewerka is right up your strassa! ← On Pauer: he is still highly regarded in Austria, it seems... I heard a recent (2004, I think) solo concert on the radio, and found it rather dull and drab... some grooves, some stride, some this, some that, some some, and some more, and all very much on the easy side...

Don't mention Dutton, pu-lleaze! I just gave the Forum West disc a spin. Verrry nice! Not one dull cut on there! However, let me rant a bit about the not so good annotation... #2: is this Koller overdubbed on multiple tenor saxes, or is there someone else? #3: who plays vibes here? Haider? #9: who plays the flutes here? I hear two, and no bari, I think, so Ross and who else? Can't tell if there's an alto or tenor in the ensemble... well, obviously I need to listen again, since I should find that out myself... one of the later Koller cuts (#12 or #15) has flute in the mix - again: is Koller overdubbing? (or is it soprano? man, I should take notes, my memory is not good enough to remember this stuff for more than two minutes...) Will definitely enjoy this disc again soon, and hopefully numerous times to come!

That's an understatement. In my opinion it sucks ← Thanks for letting me know! Hans, my not-reacting when you had it on sale has to do with several things: I may have been short of money (happens all the time), or I may have not seen it (I don't read the Offering & Looking for forums regularly). Also I buy music on impulse, don't have any list (except a mental one), and generally everything is beyond control...

Yup, sure! And you shall see that #10 fits right in with the rest of the disc! #9 though not really... also my opinion. About #10: maybe the cleanliness of the studio production (I find it almost off-putting, almost), does keep you from noticing how to fit it in? It's them mediterraneans re-discovering what they imported to the new land, vie New Orleans...