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No idea, but with Resonance it was recently similar. Not sure if the Wes Montgomery "In the Beginning" set is out yet in the US, but it was available at jazzmessengers.com several weeks (even months) ago.

btw, there are two editions it seems - the one for 10€ (which I have) is a regular jumbo jewel case with a tiny booklet (small print, thin paper, one essay by some French dude I never heard of, plus a note by Cuscuna, 8 or 12 pages max). Then there's a a somewhat more expensive edition, not properly labelled on evil A, but I guess that one's the 7" cardboard/deluxe edition (design likely similar to say the Elvis deluxe editions of recent years). Not sure if that has more extended notes or just larger print and more photos - anyone can shed some light there? Sticking to aFR, this is probably the "larger" edition: http://www.amazon.fr/Lady-Satin-Centennial-Billie-Holiday/dp/B00TTZPY12/ Note regarding the booklet says: "Livret 36 pages avec les contributions de Sebastian Danchin (auteur de Billie Holiday - le roman d'une rebelle) et de Michael Cuscuna (producteur de la réédition) abondante iconographie dont de nombreuses photos rares." Which has me believe there isn't any additional text, just photos and a nicer design.

btw, once more these are already available in Europe - look here: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/69296/jr-monterose/live-in-albany-1979 http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/69297/billie-holiday/banned-from-new-york-city-live-1948-1957

are these new releases? wonder how they managed to get Grant Green and Horace Parlan back - as holograms? please someone merge with matching previous thread ...

Ha, missed congeniality there Thanks for sharing, Chuck!

Co-sign yup - r.i.p.

Well, all links in the European section seem to be dead - so there's that. Sir Winston's revenge, I guess, and right on time, too

The new Carter/Bradford certainly will be good enough for several months! But do we need an extra sub-forum, I don't know ... would only be useful, I guess, if some old threads got moved there as well.

Funky Blues! But yes, the entire set is very good!

Happy Birthday, Erik!

Thanks again! Btw, no RSD here ... the one shop still standing that I visitn more or less regularly doesn't even take part. But still plenty of new music coming in all of the time

Thanks everyone!

Btw, there's lots of photos, one inside the digipack, front of and inside the booklet (four double pages, I think), and on the back of the booklet you get the actual concert flyer. All in small format, sometimes two pics per page, but all annotated. Very nice job for sure!

Ha! Beer and wine since 20 years ... but I've reached the double-hard-stuff-age now, so I guess I can buy two bottles of whisky each time now Thanks all! Not planning much, will have the usual dinner with little sis (her birthday is on 16th) and our parents. Thankfully, after it poured yesterday, the weather is looking bright and friendly again now - but it's april and climate change is in full fettle, so you never know what you're gonna get ... such is life

Had my first listen tonight - pretty exhilarating stuff! Sound is okay, took me a few minutes to adjust, but really, it's just fine. But the music, wow! For starters, you get a 21 minute "Love's Dream" that is something!

just sent some $$

guru forgot Mozart But wtf do I know Maybe baroque and rokoko don't count because they're ornament (and that is crime, as we all know)

Very nice indeed!

Well, what's missing on the OJCCDs is little - the sextet title and the three quartet tracks from Town Hall. Plus probably some from the San Francisco and European concerts. But yes, the new complete set definitely should be the best if you want the full package - which of course every self-respecting jazz listener should

This thread is about as confusing as the "Discovery" CD, which surely wasn't "always clear" - there was a first print with the 1957 line-up and date, and then - purportedly, I never saw it - a "corrected" one. I've got the material in the four disc set Blue Note put out of their entire Monk output, the speed-fixed version of that tape. Obviously, though, I'd love to hear more of it as well!

here's a tracklisting of All Monk - The Riverside Albums, courtesy of jpc.de's: Disk 1 von 16 1 It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 2 Sophisticated Lady 3 I got it bad (and that ain't good) 4 Black And Tan Fantasy 5 Mood Indigo 6 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 7 Solitude 8 Caravan Disk 2 von 16 1 Liza (All The Clouds 'll Roll Away) 2 Memories Of You 3 Honeysuckle Rose 4 Darn That Dream 5 Tea For Two 6 You Are Too Beautiful 7 Just You, Just Me Disk 3 von 16 1 Brilliant Corners 2 Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are 3 Pannonica 4 I Surrender, Dear 5 Bemsha Swing Disk 4 von 16 1 April In Paris 2 I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You 3 Functional 4 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 5 I Should Care 6 'Round Midnight 7 'Round Midnight 8 All Alone 9 Monk's Mood Disk 5 von 16 1 Abide With Me 2 Well, You Needn't 3 Ruby, My Dear 4 Off Minor 5 Off Minor 6 Epistrophy 7 Crepuscle With Nellie 8 Crepuscle With Nellie Disk 6 von 16 1 Ruby, My Dear 2 Trinkle tinkle 3 Off Minor 4 Nutty 5 Epistrophy 6 Functional Disk 7 von 16 1 'Round Midnight 2 Rhythm-A-Ning 3 Sweet And Lovely 4 Decidedly 5 Decidedly 6 Straight, No Chaser 7 Straight, No Chaser 8 I Mean You 9 I Mean You Disk 8 von 16 1 Light Blue 2 Coming On The Hudson 3 Rhythm-A-Ning 4 Epistrophy 5 Blue Monk 6 Evidence 7 Epistrophy 8 Unidentified Solo Piano 9 Blues Five Spot 10 In Walked Bud / Epistrophy Disk 9 von 16 1 Nutty 2 Blues Five Spot 3 Let's Cool One 4 In Walked Bud 5 Just A Gigolo 6 Misterioso 7 'Round Midnight 8 Evidence Disk 10 von 16 1 Thelonious 2 Friday The 13th 3 Monk's Mood 4 Little Rootie Tootie 5 Off Minor 6 Crepuscule With Nellie 7 Little Rootie Tootie Disk 11 von 16 1 Jackie-Ing 2 Straight, No Chaser 3 Played Twice 4 Played Twice 5 Played Twice 6 I Mean You 7 Ask Me Now Disk 12 von 16 1 Blue Monk 2 Ruby, My Dear 3 Round Lights 4 Everything Happens To Me 5 You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart 6 Bluehawk 7 Pannonica 8 Remember 9 There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie 10 There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie 11 Reflections Disk 13 von 16 1 Let's Call This 2 Four in One 3 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 4 Epistrophy 5 Evidence 6 San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later) 7 'Round Midnight 8 Epistrophy Disk 14 von 16 1 Well You Needn't 2 Off Minor 3 Just A Gigolo 4 I Mean You 5 Hackensack 6 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 7 Body And Soul 8 Crepuscule With Nellie Disk 15 von 16 1 Jackie-Ing 2 Epistrophy 3 Body And Soul 4 Straight, No Chaser 5 Bemsha Swing 6 San Francisco Holiday 7 Crepuscule With Nellie 8 Rhythm-A-Ning Disk 16 von 16 1 In Walked Bud 2 Blue Monk 3 Rhythm-A-Ning 4 Bye-Ya / Epistrophy 5 San Francisco Holiday 6 Four in One 7 Epistrophy 8 Jackie-Ing 9 April In Paris 10 Epistrophy You don't get additional material from: "Brilliant Corners" (only "Pannonica (opening)", disc 3), "Thelonious Himself" (plenty of alt tks, disc 4), "Monk's Music" (disc 5, plenty of alt tks, also missing from the above box of course is the Monk-less "Blues for Tomorrow", which is prety nice), you don't get "Coming on the Hudson" by the sextet that did but that one tune on Feb 25, 1958 (Byrd, Griffin, Pepper Adams, Monk, Ware, Philly Joe). You then don't get the Clark Terry album with Monk, of course. However, you do get most of the additional takes for "Mulligan Meets Monk" (disc 7 - there's one more alt tk of "I Mean You" around, but frankly that date doesn't really come off, I think). Also, you do get the July 9, 1958 Five Spot material that was added on the OJCCD reissues of "Thelonious in Action" and "Misterioso" (and previously on "Blues Five Spot", Milestone 9124, which is the source of the sextet track as well - discs 8 and 9). You also seem to get (disc 16, #1-3) the Feb 28, 1959 studio date with Rouse, Sam Jones and A.T. (originally on "Evidence", Milestone 9115). You also get both takes of "Little Rootie Tootie" from Town Hall (disc 10). You also get the full versions of "5 by Monk by 5" (disc 11) and "Thelonious Alone in San Francisco" (disc 12). I'm not sure what's what on the last three discs though ... the complete Riverside box has 14 tracks from the sessions with Joe Gordon and Harold Land added to the quartet (which by then consisted of Rouse, John Ore and Billy Higgins) plus 20 tracks from the European concerts (LPs: Thelonious Monk in Europe", Vols 1-3, Riverside RLP 002, RLP 003, and RLP 004). "All Monk" has 26 tracks, minus the three from the above-mentioned Rouse date, makes 23, instead of 34 ...

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP. Is it the same with any of yours? BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up. Alex Jim's thread caused me to order a used copy and it arrived without a booklet. I ordered another cheap one in hopes of at least getting a readable booklet. Ha ha, exactly the same here. Second copy came with booklet, but with the same wrong page sequence. Actually, I kept the discs of the first set, as the second ones were somewhat scratched (and the first had a somewhat beat up digipack). My second set was sans booklet as well. Will be satisfied with scans from a friend. Sigh. Can help if necessary, just drop me a line.

Jacques Coursil!