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Speaking of Donaldson and Argo albums, I also suggested a Lou Donaldson Select for the future. I don't know how the big box is doing so far and it'd probably be overkill to have both available at the same time but a Select seems like a good way to release all of those Argo albums of Lou's on CD in one go. I don't have exact running times for those LPs (except one) but I imagine they could fit all six of those on three Select CDs - I'd buy that immediately!

Sorry it took me so long - I got the CDs on Tuesday but that Tony Grey CD has just totally blown me away on first listen and not left my CD player for two days (seriously!). What a talent! Unbelievable that someone's debut album should be this good. Anyway, I finally found the time to *really* listen to your albums today. I think you guys can (and should!) really be proud of those CDs! Excellent stuff! While my jazz collection is already quite extensive (some 600 discs) I'm not very familiar with the current jazz scene at all, so I can only compare your stuff to "the greats" - and I must really say that I think it holds up very well! Given my strong prog background I'm particularly happy to hear some groovy tracks in odd time-signatures. Also love those little breaks on Smoking Section as well as the Zappa cover on the second album. My favorite track so far is Decoder - one of those tunes where you just can't hold still while it's playing. Big from me! I'll make sure to recommend both discs to some friends of mine! Btw, are you going to commercially release those old Christmas tracks you recorded?

Thanks, I'm always careful when it comes to these details. Two weeks ago I was trying to find the old US edition of Lou Donaldson - Quartet/Quintet/Sextet. Amazon lists just nine tracks while there should be 15 (or something - don't quote me on those numbers). I emailed some of the sellers and every single one confirmed that he was selling the 15 track edition despite the amazon tracklisting. Only one bothered to include that info in the product info, though. Let's hope I'm just as lucky with the Jimmy Smith stuff.

With "this issue" you mean the old "complete" sets, right? Still that one bonus track on House Party just doesn't make any sense at all. If it was the original LP sequence, OK - but this way it's just so inconsequential. I should just stop thinking about it or I'll end up all because of some CDs' tracklisting... Yeah, I have all three of the Mobley discs as the new editions but I ended up combining the individual sessions onto CD-Rs for more coherent listening. Especially with a unique pianist like Andrew Hill on one of the dates it just doesn't make sense to have the band change every couple of tracks. And the one short session that Straight, No Filter Connoisseur starts with should've just been added to A Caddy For Daddy (same lineup sans Curtis Fuller). Come to think of it this reissue policy has already cost me four beautiful CD-Rs. It was inevitable. If those extra tracks had been released in some other form that wouldn't be so bad but those two RVGs have been released in late 2000 - and they haven't bothered to bring those missing tracks back in any way in the six years since then. The Mobley sets at least got "completed" when the Straight, No Filter Conn edition came out. Thankfully there's the amazon.com marketplace, there are quite a few being offered there right now. I hope I can trade those RVGs for some other discs. Any takers? Awesome original LP track sequence, I tell you!

Same here. I think I even paid over $20 last year... It's a great disc, don't miss it! Who knows how they'll choose to re-issue this material next time, grab it while you can get all those tracks in one place!

Yeah. I just don't see what kept them from adding more bonus tracks once they decided to add that one to start with. They could've easily included the complete sessions on those RVGs while starting both off with the original track sequence. The Sermon RVG Edition Current playing time: 40:08 Add: What Is This Thing... - 15:12 'S Wonderful - 4.59 Blue Room - 5.31 Little Girl Blue - 5:21 Total playing time would be around 70 minutes. House Party RVG Edition Current playing time: 54:02 Add Cherokee - 20.18 Total playing time would be around 75 minutes. As I said, I just don't get it. If they had at least followed those two RVGs up with another disc that includes the missing five tracks - but they still haven't! I guess I wouldn't be half as annoyed if I didn't own those RVGs already.

Maybe it's just hearing loss in the high frequencies? I first noticed that when I played it in my car. With the wimpy bass of my car stereo it was almost unlistenable due to the treble. Then I put the dics on at home on my decent stereo and even my girlfriend cringed at the cymbal sound, so it's not just me. And as I said, I'm certainly no audiophile. I'm pretty sure most of those would go mad when they heard my self-equalized "remaster" of the first disc.

I guess I could somewhat understand that from a purist point of view. But the new House Party disc doesn't contain the original LP, there's also a track added to it. Just one. Randomly chosen, it seems. almost 26 minutes of space left on the CD. THAT's what I don't get. So it ISN'T the original album content. It just doesn't make sense.

Ah, now I found the correct track listing for the old House Party CD: 1. J.O.S. 2. What Is This Thing Called Love 3. Just Friends 4. Cherokee 5. Blues After All Seems all the international amazon sites got it all wrong, hence my confusion. Combine this with the seven tracks from the old The Sermon CD... 1. 'S Wonderful 2. Blue Room 3. Lover Man 4. Confirmation 5. Au Privave 6. The Sermon 7. Flamingo and you have all the tracks. Well, all of them EXCEPT Little Girl Blue. But given the personnel I guess it's not too much of a problem to have it on that Standards CD with Burrell. I guess it's time to get rid of the RVGs and hunt down the old editions. WTF was Cuscuna thinking when he put together those RVGs?!

So Blue Room was a trio recording with just Curtis Fuller and no guitarist. Interesting. And there's ANOTHER track (Little Girl Blue) from those sessions not on the RVGs. I assume Little Girl Blue (5:21?) is the recording included on the Jimmy Smith "Standards" CD. I just found another CD that *might* contain the two tracks not on CD otherwise so far, Cherokee and What Is This Thing Called Love: http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=113792 This is really confusing!

I don't buy that. Unless you get ALL the bad takes, there is no "flow". You might think "they were on a roll" after hearing two really fast and great master takes in a row but never know about a full hour of the band trying to get some other tune right inbetween those takes.

Thanks for the timings! Sounds like Blue Note might be going to milk the JOS cow again with this stuff. Do you mean LPs? Have the first two tracks ever been on a CD? I read that the original Sermon/House Party combo included all the tracks but all the tracklistings I found for the old House Party disc only listed the same five tracks that the RVG has. Maybe that's wrong?

The order of the sessions is correct. Or do you mean the order of the tracks within the sessions? Why would that matter?

When Blue Note released RVG Editions of House Party and The Sermon somebody thought it would be a great idea to remove all the extra material from the old 1990 CD issue of The Sermon. I've been doing some research and came up with four tracks from those sessions that I don't have on CD: What Is This Thing Called Love? August 25, 1957 Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Donald Bailey Cherokee August 25, 1957 Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Jimmy Smith, Eddie McFadden, Donald Bailey 'S Wonderful August 25, 1957 Lee Morgan, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Donald Bailey Included on the old CD edition of The Sermon Blue Room Date and personnel unknown to me at this point - none of the horns seem to have been present though. Included on the old CD edition of The Sermon Does anyone know what's gonna happen with these tracks? Are they going to be reissued on an extra CD at some point? Will they be added to some other set - or has this already happened and I just don't know it yet? How long are these tracks anyway? Any information would be appreciated.

Which reminds me - I'm gonna grab all those Mal Waldron quartet tracks from emusic later this month and burn me a disc with the complete session. I see your point but as long as they keep that "Complete Prestige Recordings" Monk set in print I think there's nothing wrong with individual reissues that stick to the "classic LP" content. It's just that I wouldn't buy any of that.

5 out of 5 from the same company - I think we have a winner!

I'd nominate this one: Especially since the Lateef session was already available bundled with another album of his (Suite 16). It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Oh wait, it does - now I get it! These two albums fit on one CD! There's your reason. No, wait - that's not it. After all it doesn't seem to be much of a requierement for their 2-in-1 combos. An excellent example would be this: Not only are the two extra tracks from Corea's Tones session missing - that would be understandable insofar as that they weren't on the original LP -, they also had to leave off a short track from the Vitous disc. THEN WHY BUNDLE THOSE TWO ALBUMS TO BEGIN WITH?! But hey, it could always be worse. If the first combo had been reissued by Lonehill Jazz, it would probably be called "Shirley Scott/Yusef Lateef - The Complete Bernard Purdie Sessions". Today I came up with another good 2-on-1 combo - the two Prestige sessions that feature Coltrane with Kenny Burrell and Tommy Flanagan fit nicely onto one CD and make for some great back-to-back listening!

Awesome, thanks!

Check out these live videos of Hiromi playing live with her trio! I love this stuff! Return of Kung-Fu World Champion (awesome hyper-funk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fKuTD52gQ If (beautiful piano ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcccRCdOx2Y

Done (using Acoustica)! And I'm very happy with the result! But seriously, how could they ever release this in this condition?

Noooo! Not another one!

Time to revive this ancient thread as I got my Stanley T box this week, hooray! I must really say that I think the sound on the first disc is downright horrible. WAAAAAY too trebly. Once again I must note that I'm anything BUT an audiophile, but this is really hard to listen to (the cymbals really hurt my ears). On my home stereo I can just turn the treble way down and then it sounds fine but I can't do this that easily on my discman and my car radio. Did the original US CD version of Comin' Your Way sound that bad as well? I fear I'm gonna have to do some doctoring myself (no idea how at this point...) or just grab a copy of the old version. It really is pretty annoying! Btw, the rest of the set sounds fine to me (yes, even disc two, although it often gets lumped together with the first when it comes to audio complaints). And the music is excellent, but then that was pretty clear from the start.

Sounds tasty to me: Kenny Burrell Sextet Stanley Turrentine (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Kenny Burrell (g) Ben Tucker (b) Bill English (d) Ray Barretto (cga) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, October 22, 1964 1449 tk.2 Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere Blue Note (J) GXF 3057 1450 tk.20 Freedom - 1451 tk.25 Lonesome Road - 1452 tk.31 G Minor Bash - 1453 tk.42 K Twist - * Kenny Burrell - Freedom (Blue Note (J) GXF 3057, (J) GXK 8170) Has there ever been a CD version or is one possibly planned?

Thanks. Media Player uses a database created by people who can make mistakes like everyone else, so I don't worry about that discrepancy too much.

You're welcome. I wonder when I'll receive my order with the new RVGs. For some reason they list them as "released on August 10th" (amazon.de says August 18th instead). But unlike the other RVGs (1-2 days) these are "ready to ship within 6-8 days". Hmmm...