king ubu

Will order mine later this week ... and the Dial set as well (crazy, as I have most of its contents via the Spotlite discs, but I'm an official Mosaic nut).

Just how many Armstrong All Star dates do you guys have/need? Having both Mosaic sets, some glorious studio albums (Plays W.C. Handy, the Ellington encounter), the Storyville sets (the "In Scandinavia", too, hence the plural) ... with Ellington, I'm willing to go on and on and on, to name one example with an even larger amount of stuff available, but with the Armstrong All Stars, I really don't quite know (and frankly, the Storyville set, the large one, does contain a few less-than-great moments - Ricky is fee enough to tell so in his notes).

Don't think so, there was a newsletter announcing some upcoming releases just a few days ago.

r.i.p.

IMHO, the extra material on discs 3 & 4 are significantly less interesting than the original Bitches Brew release. So, If you're not a Miles completeist and you already own the 2-disc version of Bitches Brew, I'd say that you're fine. As ever, YMMV. I guess other than a few dozen albums, pretty much anything in jazz (or in music) is significantly less interesting than "Bitches Brew"

Great news indeed

Very sad news.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Any news on this? It's over 2 years now ... Q Well, the news is that Evensmo scolded us (the public/the subscribers of his newsletter) for lack of interest ... but please tell me how I can lay my hands on these (and add the entire Savory collection if you will) or whom I could write in order to be able to buy a legit CD release of it

well, I knew you knew but still we didn't have a pic of Miller in this thread yet (or it's hosted on a site that doesn't show on my work computer?)

That's a pretty nice disc! Bought mine from someone here (Lon?) many moons ago ...

well, that's Mitch Miller ... maybe DSM merged Bird and him there?

probably, yes - it looks weird!

what's this, no moustache but a beard?

yeah ... that's not Bird anyways ... but I like the cover nonetheless - maybe DSM thought Bird w/strings sucked and wanted to state just that between the lines? word of the day: moustachioed

Question for those that know better than me ... have been revisiting the great Hindsight 3CD set "Big Band Jazz – The Jubilee Sessions, 1943–1946" recently ... and lo and behold, there's a great honking Quinichette solo on the one Johnny Otis track included, "J.T. Stomp". But now ... the tenor player on the Elmer Fain track "Stampede in G Minor" sounds, to my ears, most similar. For Fain though, no line up is provided at all. Date given is "August 1944" (Jubilee 94). He plays a whole run of Vice Pres' pet licks, the tone and phrasing sounds perfectly like Lady Q, too. Check out the solo entry at 1:07, then that slur upwards (it's repeated at the end of the first solo). When he re-enteres after the trumpet break, again, the entry (1:30-1:33) sounds very much like Quinichette. Any other opinions there? Or has everyone known and I'm the last one to find out? Evensmo, for one, doesn't list that track in his solography: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/paul_quinichette.pdf He lists some other Jubilee sessions though, including the Otis - but mostly there he provides no dates whatsoever (the fact that the Otis turns up so early might mean Evensmo thinks it took place earlier than October 1945, the date given in the Hindsight set?)

Nice!

I like that one, too!

Blue and Sentimental w/Basie (Decca) for starters? Then there's this: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/herschel_evans.pdf

r.i.p.

Niko alerted me elsewhere that the tracklisting for amazon's mp3 offering seems to be correct: http://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B00W8OZV8C/ It's mighty good for sure! Only wish they would have had a proper translator and some quality control ...

After having finally read through this thread, just wanted to say thanks to Allen and to Larry for sharing their thoughts - very interesting! Agree that Allen's projects of recent times are sui generis and definitely cannot be lumped with, say, ICP or Breuker (both of whom I enjoy). And fully endorse Larry's comment about having to at least try and talk about.

how 'bout cheap, multiple jazz listeners?

Glad he wasn't! Seriously, Mitch Mitchell was indeed quite a drummer!

So Mitch Miller was on Bitches Brew?