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Indeed! Has that one ever been on CD?

Happy Birthday!

some of the many I don't have yet Red Garland Revisited! and It`s A Blue World good choices, especially dig "It´s a Blue World" (btw has a really good cover art too !!).... I don't have too many of Red Garland's Prestiges yet ... half a dozen maximum, but it seems he churned them out almost monthly ... those two do look good (and I think according to CDJapan some of these japanese OJC reissues are already out of print).

which Red Garland`s did you order ?? some of the many I don't have yet Red Garland Revisited! and It`s A Blue World

I think I have some regular european pressing ... same for Hines/Byard.

The Barry Harris ("Vicissitudes", I think) is pretty good - found it on vinyl a while ago. Also the Byard/Hines!

Hm, that Roach surely looks interesting, with Steves Lacy and Kuhn in the band! What would "other work of the period" be? The Atlantic albums? It's Lacy that has me curious here!

Oh yes, that one's very good indeed!

I love them ... sure, there's some oddball stuff in those studio sets, but all in all, that's a pretty fine body of work! Though my favourites by Mangelsdorff remain his first two longplayers ("Now Jazz Ramwong" and "Tension").

hugely enjoyed revisiting the Vee Jay sets ... and frankly, I'd love to have a huge number of alternates on the albums that don't have any - "Kelly Great", the first Kelly trio w/Philly Joe and the Chambers with Lateef and Tommy Turrentine - that's one cool band right there!

No the ones I mean were later and added up to the complete Mangelsdorff on MPS. Universal's earlier series (that was intially all digipacks) included one: And then, they added the whole sheband - two double discs (live and solo) and two five disc sets (regular jewel cases with cardboard around them) with all the remaining studio albums - not duplicating "And His Friends"): The earlier ones you had in mind were these (Motor Music, same series as the Henderson I depicted, and the 2CD edition of the Sun Ra I mentioned):

Not sure if it's only a BE variant or just a general old-fashioned variant, but I've seen it before (prestoclassical.co.uk uses it as well when sending out their shipping - or despatch - confirmations)

I usually capture my cat and use one of her claws ...

Yup, that's of course what I've been reading about in the past days (got the big two part Whaley book on the way as well, not sure when I'll find the time for it, but what bits I read left a pretty good impression).

Happy Birthday, Allan!

Well no, why, it's all been out Sorry, couldn't resist ... but I guess this indeed does make sensse as the audience is probably pretty small. It is a pity though that Universal didn't keep their Mangelsdorff reissues in print longer, prices have indeed gone through the roof quite a while ago (except for the two double disc sets, "Solo" and "Live", which can still be had for fairly acceptable prices in used condition, it seems). The Mangelsdorff and Koller reissues were the best part of Universal's short-lived MPS reissue programme, I shall think. Though they also gave us some off-kilter things such as little box-sets by Art van Damme and Eugen Cicero and a few single reissues that absolutely deserve mention (Annie Ross/Pony Poindexter, Art Farmer in Vienna, Don Menza ...). I guess the fact the series didn't live all that long means there was pretty limited interested, so actually, all things considered, I'm rather surprised anyone thinks they can exploit it in a profitable way again (and I guess that goal, to make profit, explains all the odd club jazz crappy choices Edel made ... or maybe theire producer in charge just loves that kinda light music?)

Well, they had a Buddy Tate rekkid, specially for you:

Yeah, and this one's very nice as well! I think the photo is from one of those sessions, the liners tell a bit about it all - relaxed jam sessions and that night, luckily, tape was rolling.

Oh yes, I'm a happy customer there as well!

The Henderson's from 1980 and is real good indeed. Mine looks like this: http://www.allmusic.com/album/mirror-mirror-mw0000102031 The Basie was recorded in Chicago in 1969 - not his best time I'd say. Line-up has Lockjaw though ... Gene Goe, Oscar Brashear, Sonny Cohn (tp), Waymon Reed (tp,flh), Frank Hooks, Melvin Wanzo, Grover Mitchell (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Marshal Royal (as,cl), Bobby Plater (as,fl), Eric Dixon (ts,fl), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bari), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Norman Keenan (b,el-b), Harold Jones (ds) Seems it was also on Groove Merchant back in the day, and on a Verve CD later on. I recently bought the Jim Hall in a reasonably-priced edition from Japan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-6113 Back in the day, I had the Sun Ra and the Archie Shepp. I think it's the only Shepp album I've liked; very intense, though. The Shepp falls in his very best period I think. Thanks for the link to the Hall - guess I might go for the new one though, if only to check out the series.

This one, too, Larry: Pretty darn good session!

Thanks a lot for filling in all these details, sonnymax! Whacky stuff!

That's not the TCB by Peter Schmidlin, right?