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Oddly, the one Wynton Marsalis CD that I REALLY like is his Crecent City Christmas Card. I always smile during "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", where after Jon Hendricks sings "And I've bought some corn for popping" he slips in "Poppidity Poppidity Pop". Any CD with Eartha Kitt singing Santa Baby can't be that bad either...

The nice thing is that if you buy both the 5 CD JSP set and the 3 CD Verve set, you essentially have all but a very small handful of master takes Parker ever cut, both as a leader and as a sideman.

About how many titles are missing from the set? Are they masters? Alternates?

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...ic&frm=lk_jzmtz Wow. Is there any reason one should not purchase this without feeling guilty?

Lon, the sound is nice, though I don't know if it is significantly better than the remastered Bird with Strings or the Verve Latin Sides. The notes are ok, at best. It is NOT complete. They must have wanted to squeeze it on three CDs at the expense of leaving out a few studio recordings: Repetition Mango Mangue No Noise Okeedoke Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite Celebrity/Celerity Ballade I think songs two through five are on "South of the Border: The Verve Latin Sides", and the last two are from a session with Coleman Hawkins for some movie, I think. Repetition is from the same session as "The Bird", the first song on the "complete" master takes.

Ok, maybe I am a cloth-earned nitwit, but I can never seem to pick out at what point on the On the Corner CD there's a cello playing. I've read and heard more than a couple times that there IS one (w/ Paul Buckminster playing it?), but I can't find it. Could someone with a more discerning ear help me out? Thanks!

The K2 of Mulligan Meets Monk indeed sounds really nice. The only K2 I have that I don't think sounds *great* is "The Sound of Sonny", but it still is a considerable improvement over the previous version.

From jazzmatazz: Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Riverside) Oct 21 — 20-bit K2 remastered; with Sam Jones; Philly Joe Jones; from 1958 Thelonious Monk/Gerry Mulligan - Mulligan Meets Monk (Riverside) Oct 21 — 20-bit K2 remastered; 1957 Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar (Riverside) Oct 21 — 20-bit K2 remastered; with Mel Rhyne and Jimmy Cobb; 1963 I ordered the "Mulligan Meets Monk" from CDUniverse. I'm excited to actually hear a bass on this album for the first time, unlike my older Prestige copy.

It's purely self-serving because I can't find it anywhere... I'd like to see Kenny Dorham's Trompeta Toccata, so I could finally have all the Henderson/Dorham collaborations.

That is indeed bewildering. Looking at Peter Losin's killer Miles Ahead Sessionography, it appears there must be five or six CDs worth of studio material from 1972 to 1975. I don't remember if it was here or on AAJ, but someone mentioned that in Paul Tingen's "Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis" he says one is in the works, but that contradicts eveything else. LON -- is that a cool-looking Philip K. Dick as your avatar?

Or, paraphrasing something Miles said about Wynton, "What, didn't I get it right the first time?"

I'll second the comments on the shattering nature of Trane's playing during the tour, and hearing Sonny is pretty cool, too. However, one shouldn't overlook Miles -- he is incredible on both the spring and fall tours. The difference in his playing between the two tours, only a few months apart, is very interesting as well; he appears more fiery in the Paris and Stockholm shows from the fall tour, as if to balance for the loss of Trane. Essential music, I think.

I don't know if CDUniverse has an incorrect or incomplete track listing, but it doesn't look "complete" to me. Weren't "No Noise ", "Mango Mangue", "Okiedoke" from 1949 on Verve/Clef/? "Star Eyes" and "Blues" from an early 1950 session are on it, but no "I'm in the Mood for Love" from the same date? It has "Mowawk", "My Melancholy Baby", "Leap Frog", and "Relaxing with Lee" from June 6, 1950, but not "Bloomdido" or "An Oscar for Treadwell"? -------------------------------------------------------------- Charlie Parker : The Complete Verve Master Takes Track Listing Song Title DISC 1: 1. Bird, The 2. Cardboard 3. Visa 4. Segment 5. Passport 6. Passport - (based on "I Got Rhythm") 7. Just Friends 8. Everything Happens To Me 9. April In Paris 10. Summertime 11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 12. If I Should Lose You 13. Star Eyes 14. Blues 15. Mohawk 16. My Melancholy Baby 17. Leap Frog 18. Relaxin' With Lee 19. Dancing In The Dark 20. Out Of Nowhere 21. Laura DISC 2: 1. East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) 2. They Can't Take That Away From Me 3. Easy To Love 4. I'm In The Mood For Love 5. I'll Remember April 6. Au Privave 7. She Rote 8. K.C. Blues 9. Star Eyes 10. My Little Suede Shoes 11. Un Poquito De Tu Amor 12. Tico-Tico 13. Fiesta 14. Why Do I Love You? 15. Blues For Alice 16. Si Si 17. Swedish Schnapps 18. Back Home Blues 19. Loverman 20. Temptation 21. Lover 22. Autumn In New York 23. Stella By Starlight 24. Mama Inez 25. La Cucuracha DISC 3: 1. Estrellita 2. Begin The Beguine 3. La Paloma 4. Night And Day 5. Almost Like Being In Love 6. I Can't Get Started 7. What Is This Thing Called Love 8. Song Is You, The 9. Laird Baird 10. Kim 11. Cosmic Rays 12. In The Still Of The Night 13. Old Folks 14. If I Love Again 15. Chi-Chi 16. I Remember You 17. Now's The Time 18. Confirmation 19. I Get A Kick Out Of You 20. Just One Of Those Things 21. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 22. I've Got You Under My Skin 23. Love For Sale 24. I Love Paris

I am SO stoked to get this box set, I can hardly stand the wait. It appears that after this (1) the multiple two-CD sets of the Cellar Door material and (2) a box set of Seven Steps to Heaven and the various live sets pre-dating E.S.P are planned. Has anyone heard anything else that Columbia is planning to release (besides the bajillionth compilation, like "Limes Vadis for Dyslexics")? If they wanted to complete the reissue of his pre-retirement studio material, lookng at the Miles Ahead website, it appears there's a few CDs worth of material from around the "On the Corner" period, and a another few CDs to round out the 73 to 75 period. From http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions.asp : March 9, 1972 (1 item, 4:06) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=720309&c=0 June 1, 1972 (1 item, 19:57) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=720601&c=0 June 2, 1972 (1 item, 7:17) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=720602&c=0 June 6, 1972 (4 items, 34:52) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=720606&c=0 June 12, 1972 (2 items, 32:59) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=720612&c=0 September 6, 1972 (1 item, 6:51) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=720906&c=0 November 29, 1972 (1 item, 30:17) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=721129&c=0 November 30, 1972 (2 items, 26:59) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=721130&c=0 December 1, 1972 (1 item, 4:16) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=721201&c=0 December 8, 1972 (2 items, 33:10) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=721208&c=0 January 4, 1973 (2 items, 12:58) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=730104&c=0 July 23, 1973 (2 items, 14:44) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=730723&c=0 July 26, 1973 (6 items, 25:38) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=730726&c=0 July 27, 1973 (1 item, 4:09) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=730727&c=0 September 17, 1973 (4 items, 45:40) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=730917&c=0 June 19, 1974 (1 item, 32:15) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=740619&c=0 October 7, 1974 (2 items, 29:58) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=741007&c=0 November 6, 1974 (5 items, 43:51) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=741106&c=0 May 5, 1975 (7 items, 22:31) http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=750505&c=0

The last I heard (and according to jazzmatazz), The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions is listed as coming out Septembers 30th. Has anyone heard anything to the contrary? (Like many other folks, I've learned to take Columbia's Miles Davis box set release dates with a grain of salt.)

I do the majority of my CD listening at work on my PC -- if I can't listen to a new CD at work, or if the copy-protected sound quality is poor, I just won't (in nearly all cases) buy it. Period. I do make copies of CDs; I don't make copies for others, but I put the music from across several CDs by an artist in chronological sequence, because that's how I enjoy listening to it (especially 50s Prestige CDs, which seem to often jump all over the place). And, more importantly, when I buy a box set, I immediately copy all the CDs and listen to the copies -- replacing a worn out or messed up Kind of Blue for $10 is different from having disc #9 in the Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia crap out. If I cannot do these things anymore, it will severely curtail my CD purchasing.

Stateside, on 9/23 JSP is releasing a five CD box of what looks like a pretty complete set of Charlie Parker recordings (master takes) through the end of 1948, including sideman appearances. I suspect this was relased earlier in the UK. I don't need a bajillionth recording of the 11/26/45 "Ko Ko", but (1) it's cheap (under $20 at cduniverse); (2) it has the odds and ends one doesn't often come across (the four cuts w/ Sir Charles Thompson; the three tunes cut with Sarah Vaughan; the nine tunes w/ Trummy Young and Rubberlegs Williams); and (3) Man, the other JSP stuff I own sounds *great*. Has anyone heard it? How does it sound? Who remastered it? DISC 1: 1940-41: 1. I Found A New Baby 2. Body And Soul 3. Honeysuckle Rose 4. Lady Be Good 5. Coquette 6. Moten Swing 7. Blues 8. Swingmatism 9. Hootie Blues 10. Dexter Blues 11. Lonely Boy Blues 12. Get Me On Your Mind 13. Jumpin' Blues, The 14. Sepian Bounce 15. Cherokee 16. My Heart Tells Me 17. I've Found A New Baby 18. Body And Soul 19. Tiny's Tempo 20. I'll Always Love You Just The Same 21. Romance Without Finance 22. Red Cross 23. What's The Matter Now? 24. I Want Every Bit Of It 25. That's The Blues DISC 2: 1941-45: 1. 4-F Blues 2. G I Blues 3. Dream Of You 4. Seventh Avenue 5. Sorta Kinda 6. Ooh Ooh, My My, Ooh Ooh 7. Groovin' High 8. All The Things You Are 9. Dizzy Atmosphere 10. Salt Peanuts 11. Shaw Nuff 12. Lover Man 13. Hot House 14. What More Can A Woman Do? 15. I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A Dream 16. Mean To Me 17. Hallelujah 18. Get Happy 19. Slam Slam Blues 20. Congo Blues 21. Takin' Off 22. If I Had You 23. 20th Century Blues 24. Street Beat, The DISC 3: 1945-47: 1. Warming Up A Riff 2. Billie's Bounce 3. Now's The Time 4. Thriving On A Riff 5. Meandering 6. Ko Ko 7. Dizzy Boogie 8. Flat Foot Floogie 9. Poppity Pop 10. Slim's Jam 11. Diggin' Diz 12. Moose The Mooche 13. Yardbird Suite 14. Ornithology 15. Famous Alto Break, The 16. Night In Tunisia 17. Max Is Making Wax 18. Lover Man 19. Gypsy, The 20. Bebop 21. Blues 1 & 2 22. Yardbird Suite 23. Lullaby In Rhythm 1 & 2 24. Home Cooking 1 25. Home Cooking 2 26. Home Cooking 3 DISC 4: 1947: 1. This Is Always 2. Dark Shadows 3. Bird's Nest 4. Cool Blues 5. Relaxin' At Camarillo 6. Cheers 7. Carvin' The Bird 8. Stupendous 9. Donna Lee 10. Chasin' The Bird 11. Cheryl 12. Buzzy 13. Milestone 14. Little Willie Leaps 15. Half Nelson 16. Sippin' At Bells 17. Dexterity 18. Bongo Bop 19. Dewey Square 20. Hymn, The 21. Bird Of Paradise 22. Embraceable You 23. Bird Feathers 24. Klactoveedsedstene 25. Scrapple From The Apple 26. My Old Flame DISC 5: 1947-48: 1. Out Of Nowhere 2. Don't Blame Me 3. Drifting On A Reed 4. Quasimodo 5. Charlie's Wig 6. Bongo Beep 7. Crazeology 8. How Deep Is The Ocean 9. Bird, The 10. Repetition 11. Another Hair-do 12. Bluebird 13. Klaunstance 14. Bird Gets The Worm 15. Barbados 16. Ah-Leu-Cha 17. Constellation 18. Parker's Mood 19. Perhaps 20. Marmaduke 21. Steeplechase 22. Merry-Go-Round 23. No Noise 1 & 2 24. Mango Mangue

RUSH (through their late 1980s material) and KISS (through early 80s) and Chris de Burgh. I think I feel better getting that off my chest, but I am not sure.

It sounds to me like studio noise -- like the creaking of the goose neck of a microphone stand -- not a tape or remastering flaw.

Have I just had bad luck, or are the remastered volumes 1 and 3 of Monk's London sessions from 1971 in print, but not Volume 2? Similarly, it's not hard to find the remastered volumes 1 and 2 of Clifford Brown's Paris sessions, but I never come across volume 3. Why release two of three volumes and leave one out of print? Grrrrrr.

I really dig Jon Hendrick's vocalese version of Freddie Freeloader, were he sings Coltrane's part, Bobby McFerrin sings Wynton Kelly's part, Al Jarreau sings Miles Davis' part, and George Benson sings Cannonball Adderley's part. Very cool.

With this week's reissues of four of Monk's Columbia studio albums, each with a host of alternate takes, it got me wondering -- are there any online Monk sessionographies like Peter Losin's "Miles Ahead"? I've come across a couple discographies, but nothing with a list of the studio sessions with tracks in the order of recording, and so on.