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They should all be. Thanks for mentioning the titles (I was far too lazy looking them up)! I meant these three Green albums, EKE! These are all great. You gotta have'em anyway, if you also like Green! ubu

cool! but 27 $ + 6.5$ shipping... this is would be too much for my wallet! ubu

thanks for your help, John, but I won't start buying from Japan now! Maybe once I'm not a student anymore, but for today... there's too much stuff around here anyway! And I am a patient man (at least I'm trying to be, I jumped for the Blackhawk two days before 2001 - you know, "those" germans - offered it for half the prize I got mine...) ubu

'that texan for "hélas"? Someday someone will sure produce a nice little reissue of that one... time will tell. ubu

I have heard it, and yes, you would! Hey, got an idea how I could? ubu

Have fun with your Dylan box... ---- Somehow, while hunting down (or just buy, not to exaggerate all the time) older or OOP stuff, it gets less important to have all new releases and new reissues. I mean I often only get BN titles when I receive a mail telling me this and that is going to be continued - this also has a further positive aspect in that I don't have the whole catalogue at home and get bored and don't know what BN titles I could still get. Same goes for other big labels. ubu

yes PLEEEEAZE!

Ahem, and yes, I do hunt down OOP stuff (but NOT on ebay - as a student, I cannot afford that), like, I tried to get as many 32jazz and Avenue/Bethlehem releases - and they were cheap, too. A great way to make discoveries. And BN recordings will be reissued periodically every 10 or 15 years, I think, so it's not so bad to miss one or the other. And I do not indulge in Japanes stuff at all. That would simply be too much for me to handle! ubu

I'm a huge fan, an enthusiast, actually, yet I have the collector's gene, too. Don't think one has to exclude the other. My collection (long time since I counted them the last time, but maybe somewhere in between 3000 and 4000), is usually alphabetically ordered, but there are always a few piles of either new stuff, yet little known stuff and some things waiting for a new discovery. The library aspect of my collection is something I do like. I usually don't give things away, rather seldom upgrade what I have (unless it's Mosaics or other box sets). Then, being young (and foolish ) I usually soak up as much (new) music as I can. And staying around here doesn't make things easier I often though about a self-imposed buying stop, but it's usually just then that I find like 10 or 15 new CDs for so few $$ that I cannot resist... However, I leave for vacation soon, and those two weeks at least I will not buy anything as there will sure be no good music store around... ubu

EKE, for Into Somethin'! And if you're into Grant Green, get his albums with Larry Young (they're 3, but one has only the trio of Green-Young-Elvin Jones - the core band of all three - and no horns, the other has Bobby Hutcherson and no horns and is a gem, the third has Hank Mobley is a lesser effort, in my opinion, but still very nice.) Otherwise, I, too, am no Larry Young specialist at all. ubu

yeah, some day I will! But I have so many new CDs lying around (and even more that I listened to once or twice only and want to listen more)... "those" germans, yeah! my other name for them is "bastards" if you prefer that! Not that I'm complaining, of course (the only thing I complain about is all you board members who bought the Trane box so it was sold out when I ordered... but having two Tatums & Evans, and one each from Pepper & Monk is certainly not bad - rather BAAD, actually!) ubu

Our friend D.D. has posted this over on AAJ: Some comments and questions I posted: I found those to be available at amazon.fr, for around 10 Euros, the Mingus for 18, which seems quite alright. ubu

Get the Mosaic The three volumes of "Complete Aladdin Recordings of Art Pepper" (reissued on CD by Blue Note) are very fine! As is the Quartet album available on Fantasy (link). I don't have any of his acclaimed Contemporary things, but will have pretty many of them some day, I guess... Then, the Vanguard box... And I recently got the Galaxy box from those germans, but have not yet found time to listen to anything in there... ubu

I would sure like to hear this one:

By the way, Garth, can you clear my question (above in this thread) on the personnel of the Jazz Epistles disc? Would be very glad if you could! ubu

Garth, thanks for sharing this story! Love reading those personal memories by people around the music so much longer than I! Masekela took part in that "King Kong" thing in London, yes? With Kippie and others, while Dollar Brand stayed back woodshedding in South Africa. I think I have the King Kong LP from my father (and some others with stickers from some record shops in Johannesburg on them, I think. The original mono pressing of "Love Supreme" I have - in horrible condition, though - came from South Africa, too!) ubu

Wow Lawrence! This strikes me as a very good description of what the rhythm section on the quintet sides is about! They certainly have a laid-back feel, coupled with Flanagan's cool, maybe even slightly distached feel, this makes up for a perfect mix. Chiming in a little late, but only yesterday found the time to listen to parts of this album. Thanks to Dmitry for making such a fine choice! Some thoughts: All those Harden compositions sure are very fine. They fit in the hard bop style perfectly, yet they have something that makes them different - while I don't know what exactly it is, I sure appreciate that. Then Harden's lyricism is wonderful. I never actually liked him that much on that Coltrane session (also from 1957, on Prestige). He has a wonderful, warm style of playing (while there are parallels for sure, in this respect he seems to me quite far away from the cool stylings of Miles). Coltrane (of course) is mind-boggling! I find him great on all his recordings from that time (1957 being the year he probably recorded most). He is overwhelming, yet does not overpower the whole date - these are NO Coltrane dates! The opening track of the first CD is the first highlight of the set. The groove's so tight and the solos are cool, too, can't help liking it! Then the sextet dates (I have listened to the second only once, some weeks ago, so I'm only talking about the first one right now): first, there is a clear difference in the time the rhythm section sets up. They're less overtly laid-back, yet I like them almost as good (sure, the great GREAT foundation of Watkins is missed, but his replacement does no bad job either. And maybe it's the fate of Art Taylor that everybody knows his style inside-out because everybody own at least half a dozen mid-to-late fifties dates with him on the drum chair). Curtis Fuller's full sound is captured quite well on these tracks (despite the otherwise relatively muddy sound), and I love his playing here (I am not a huge fan of his, though I like the Mosaic quite well, also like the recordings he made with Blakey). Once In A While is the best track of that first sextet date. Wonderful solos by Harden and Fuller (he, too, plays overtly lyrical here), and Trane tearing things up. Then, what's the matter after the drum solo on Andedac? Is there an edit or do they lose it completely? Everything is upside-down, before the theme settles again in a slower tempo than before. Is this only a problem of my ears? Will report back after having listened to the second sextet date. ubu

Wow! Garth, thank you for sharing these memories! Cannot say "wish I was there" really (I did express my sort of scepticism above), but if it were for the music only, I'd sure wish! Your description of Kippie's style is very accurate! I hear that too (though I know very little about south african music other than jazz, just heard one or two old LPs my father - who stayed in ZA in the late 60ies - brought home from there). Kippie Moeketsi and Basil Coetzee are two really great saxophonists, in my opinion. And it's just those embellishments, and the slightly-out-of-tune horn settings which make me love this music that much. Did you see Bud Shank when he was in Johannesburg in '58? Or was that after you left? (Or were you not able to make it to Jo'burg then anyway?) You sure know that one track with him playing the pennywhistle, don't you? And please tell us that story about Masekela's trumpet! ubu

Just listening to the Teagarden. What wonderful music this is! Love those Willard Robinson tunes - never heard of him (except knowing "A Cottage For Sale" without knowing who wrote it). Wonderful singing and playing by T! (The only recording of his I have yet...) ubu

Thanks, Garth, so I will look for it! Sounds nice indeed. I only have one Proper so far (the Webster), and of many of them, I have too much already (and then they often do not contain complete sessions) to get them, but at their price, their unbeatable! ubu

Yes, this ought to be on CD! But Tender Moments, too, as well as Expansions! I just found Asante, had no chance to listen yet, but the Blue Notes by Tyner I know (Extensions, Real McCoy, Time For Tyner) are very good! These would make a very nice Mosaic (I'm sure the reasons why this won't (?) happen have been discussed here or elsewhere, but maybe someone knows more?) ubu

Garth, does it make sense to get the Proper if I have the Mosaic already? Is there much non-Clef/Norgran/Verve stuff included besides the Pasadena concert (which, I suppose, would also be available otherwise)? thanks, ubu

Jim, this is a very good description of my feelings while listening to later Pepper stuff! It has a terrifying quality to it (while being terrific, and somehow bare-nakedly outright emotional). I guess it's this self-control and self-containment which (actually holding back some more/other/stronger emotions) makes to the music so strong. ubu

EKE, hope you like them! Casa Forte is a nice addition to the other Gitanes discs. By the way, in those "Helen Merrill Presents" series, there were three reissues not by her, but by Tommy Flanagan (with one very fine bonus track featuring Ms Merrill), Al Haig and Roland Hanna (I could not locate the later two). That Flanagan disc is very good, too, in my opinion. ubu

Sounds cool! RCA could reissue that in their Bluebird First Editions series, no? (By the way, where's the first edition with these?) ubu