Looking for Freeman/Twardzick on Pacific Jazz

[bluesForBartok]

Anyone know where I can get a copy of this title. I've got a casette of the Twardzick portion and it is brilliant. Gotta have better quality and a little album art wouldn't hurt either.

Also looking for Dizzy Reeces' Blues In Trinity

[jazzbo]

I got mine from Red Trumpet, and they seem to have it still:

http://www.redtrumpet.com/software/item.ph...&sid=1151033254

[David Ayers]

Or from Early Records - it will be cheaper.

[bluesForBartok]

Thanks for the tips.

I've looked all over NYC and have had no luck finding this one at a reasonable price. It seems criminal that this music is not available domestically.

Guess I'll have to bite the bullet.

[jazzbo]

It's worth the bite, unless you're blessed by being in a great vinyl hunting area. . . even so I'm not sure all the alternates were available on vinyl (maybe; I've had this on cdr of two lps, the Twardzik and one called "Piano Galore" . . . I'm not sure these had all the Twardzik items on this cd.)

[bluesForBartok]

I agree about taking the bite. I often don't like to pay import prices but it's pretty spectacular music.

BTW, looks like Jack Chambers' book is making progress. I found a nice extended excerpt. Really looking forward to this one.

Edited November 7, 2003 by bluesForBartok

[Late]

The Japanese edition of this disc has 13 bonus tracks! Unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), these are all Freeman tracks — which is certainly not a bad thing. But it would have been great to get a few unissued Twardzik sides.

[ghost of miles]

Are there any? I thought the alternate take on the 1990 domestic CD turned out to be the same as the master. Who knows with the PJ vaults, though.

[Late]

Ghost — no additional Twardzik tracks on the latest Japanese edition. You're also right about the duplicated master/alternate take of "A Crutch for the Crab" from the original domestic cd. (So, only one version, because there is only one version, appears in this Japanese edition.)

One thing that this latest Japanese edition does offer is a reconstructed intro from a "A Crutch for the Crab" — so we have the piece in its entirety without tape stretch damage. The new edition sews on an undamaged version from a vinyl copy, then shifts into digital shortly thereafter. Actually sounds pretty darn good. Ron McMaster did this one, and it may be one of his best efforts around. All said, I think this version (TOCJ 9347) may be the most definitive version we're likely to see ... at least for some time.