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If money is not the issue, I'd go for the Complete Savoy/Dial 8CD set. That's probably the best documentation available of Parker's most important recordings. (I actually have the 4CD Dial set issued by Spotlite, too, and it sounds very good to my - non-audio-fanatic - ears, and a 5LP set of the Savoy material.) Otherwise those JSP and Proper boxes (I don't know them) might contain most of the master takes, too, but with Bird, and alternate is not just some boring additional material, but each alternate take is worth getting (Famous Alto Break etc) actually. The Savoy live 4CD box is great too. There you get the working units, mostly with Kenny Dorham (the first disc has mostly Miles), and the Carnegie tracks with Dizzy, as well as a home-recording (both together make up disc 4). Then the Jazz At Massey Hall (Fantasy/Debut/OJCCD whatever) is pretty essential, too. Sort of the swan song of bebop. The Verve box is great to have, too, but maybe not the best starting point. And then you might find cheap used copies of the Blue Note Bird CDs, which are all worthwhile, too. This just for starters And be careful not to get an overdose! This music is still very very strong, and you might not be able to digest one of those boxes in its entirety when you're not too familiar with Bird! ubu

Second everything said before! I only have them up to volume 3 so far. Must get the fourth before it goes OOP! ubu

yes indeed! And Grant Green's take on "It Ain't Necessarily So" with Blakey (from the Quartets with Sonny Clark 2CD). Night of the Cookers (I don't know many are no big fans of this, neither am I, but sometimes I still like to listen to it!). ubu

And google turns up a link to our own home: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...opic=3520&st=0& ubu

Not much of a help, but there's some comments on him under one of the listed records: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=B2z5tk6kx9kr3 ubu

very VERY cool! ubu

brownie, thanks for all that information! I'd LOVE to hear this date in a good-sounding CD reissue! Copeland, Cleveland and Thompson make a great front line, and Dennard (I don't know anything by him except this date) is pretty good, too. I will have to ask for that LP again to check the details! ubu

Probably the trio sides are my favorite recordings, yet there are many I have never heard (as those ABC Pettiford albums - bring them out again, PLEEEAZE!!). "Lucky Strikes" is a marvellous album, too. And all those '56 Paris sessions (with Martial Solal and Henri Renaud) are cool - begging for a Mosaic! Then the few things with Jackson I have heard (Plenty Plenty Soul being my favorite of those), are very good, too! Begging for another Mosaic! And that Hampton date is very good, indeed! The father of a friend of mine has it on a very old, really beat-up LP (I've got it on some old tape, only). What was the label it was recorded for? ubu

Will those albums also be reissued as single CDs? I ask because I quite recentyl picked up the first two of those albums, and don't really know whether I'd jump for the set now. ubu

I see nothing wrong at all with doing it your way!!!!! B) Perhaps this explains why I forget threads I posted in, or to see what someone says on a particular thread.....so many are started some days, the one you wanted to checl ends up on the 2nd page, never to be seen again... I know this problem! I do it the Catesta of Moose way. Never used My Assistant, sometimes uns View New Posts (maybe three of four times since I became a member here) ubu

Hi Christian! Nice to see you joining in here, too! And thanks for clearing up things re. those Koller/Pettiford dates! I've read that Behrendt passage somewhere, too - that was the reason I bought the LP of "Vienna Blues" several years ago. Mike, a little bit further up in this thread you see that the MPS reissue will not include that track! A pity, indeed! But let us be glad they do finally produce reissues again (and such nice ones, too ) ubu

This is just not out yet, or has only just been released. See this thread for a little bit more info. And here you can get it from Amazon France. ubu

Hans, it's just segments of say 10 seconds, which he hums (or whatever you may call this, but "sing" would certainly be an exaggeration) while changing instruments. Nothing to worry about! And it's a great album in my opinion. ubu

No one has the Rivers or (I hardly dare thinking this!) no one LIKES it? ubu

might have been one of those "you know the deal" deals... ubu

Lacy will play here in two weeks. Solo. Will go there if I can! ubu

I also did some research on this one. No chance, it seems, to find it for a reasonable price whatsoever ubu

That's one of those funny-as-hell moments! Same goes with Alfred Lion! Zat zwings, Herr Löwe! Was quite a shock when I heard JEB on that disc for the first time! And thanks for checking the dates. However, still not certain those tracks are not identical. Knowing the playing time of the tracks on the Koller disc would help, but amazon.de lists nothing, and allmusic has none of these MPS albums listed. ubu

don't exaggerate! You might add another Hal Russell album to your order? ubu

And check out the interplay of Hancock and Carter on STANDARDS! The Billie Holiday tune they do is plain beautiful! ubu

While amazon.de does list it as OOP, you seem to be able to order it directly via the ECM homepage. I never ordered from them directly, and the prize is certainly a proud one, but if their shipping conditions are alright, it might be digestable. http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm/recordings/1122.html ubu

Let's hope these are two different sessions! What's the Jan.9 date from AMG? An inaccuracy? Maybe there was some sort of deal - you play my date, and I play yours or something? Sure was a small world, and most of these things then evolved around the late J.E. Behrendt probably. ubu

You know, sometimes it's a nice experience to miss the point... ahem... B) ubu

SAM RIVERS - PORTRAIT (FMP, rec 1995) He plays some flute and piano, too, and uses his voice to bridge the "gaps" when he changes his instrument. great, great, great, great! ubu