Favorite historic jazz releases of 2015

[ghost of miles]

A quick and cursory list that I posted on the Night Lights site... would be curious to see other's lists and choices as well:

Best Historical Releases 2015: The Year The Seventies Broke

 

[HutchFan]

Nice list, David!  

[soulpope]

Independently of the discussion regarding its origins, me believe a 2015 reissue list is supposed to include Sonny Rollins " Complete Live At The Village Vanguard 1962" ....

[king ubu]

split into archival and (expanded or otherwise notable) reissues:

 

Sonny Rollins - Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 * * * * *
Bobby Bradford & John Carter Quintet - NoUTurn: Live in Pasadena, 1975 * * * *1/2
Joe Albany - An Evening with Joe Albany (1973) * * * *1/2
Joe Albany - An Evening with Joe Albany 2 (1973) * * * *1/2
Sal Mosca - The Talk of the Town: Live at the Bimhuis (1992) * * * *1/2
Tubby Hayes - Rumpus (Tubby Hayes Archive - Volume 03) (1969) * * * *1/2
Miles Davis - Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Newport (1955-1975) * * * *
Carmell Jones - Previously Unreleased Los Angeles Session (1960) * * * *
Creative Music Studio - Archive Selections Volume 2 (1976-1981) * * * *
Weather Report - The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978-1981 * * * *
Art Pepper - Live at Fat Tuesday's (1981) * * * *
Billie Holiday - Banned from New York City: Live 1948-1957 * * * *
Oscar Peterson Trio - Live in Cologne 1963 * * * *
Lucky Thompson/Barney Wilen/Bent Jaedig/Helmut Brandt - Four Brothers (1960) * * * *
Wes Montgomery - In the Beginning (1949-1958) * * *1/2
Cannonball Adderley Quintet/Benny Carter Sextet - Live in Cologne 1961 * * *1/2



John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (2 CD) * * * * *
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker with Strings, Deluxe Edition (2 CD) * * * * *
John Carter/Bobby Bradford - Self Determination Music * * * *1/2
The Soul Jazzmen - Inhlupeko (Distress) * * * *1/2
Ran Blake - Film Noir * * * *1/2
Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert By the Sea (3 CD) * * * *1/2
Ran Blake - Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (7 CD) * * * *
John Carter - Echoes from Rudolph's (expanded) * * * *
Ndliko Xhaba and the Natives * * * *
Roscoe Mitchell - Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (9 CD) * * * *
J.R. Monterose - Live in Albany 1979 (expanded) * * *1/2

 

haven't come around to playing the Condon/Freeman Mosaic, the Castro is on its way by now ... guess I was somewhat underwhelmed by the Wes and JR, the later surely a case of exalted expectations, but it's just not as great as I'd hoped, I feel ... but then I've not revisited it often after the first less than great impression ...

[gmonahan]

Seemed like I saw a fairly sour review somewhere of the Holiday "Banned from New York" disc.  I haven't gotten it yet.  How's the sound?

 

gregmo

[king ubu]

Pretty decent, all in all.

Have some posts been deleted here?

[jlhoots]

On January 6, 2016 at 11:05 AM, gmonahan said:

Seemed like I saw a fairly sour review somewhere of the Holiday "Banned from New York" disc.  I haven't gotten it yet.  How's the sound?

 

gregmo

Down Beat - it's better than the review.

[Stonewall15]

Finally!!!! Columbia/Sony Dave Brubeck "Jackpot" and "In Amsterdam" made it to CD. Both listed on Amazon. Now the wait continues for "Compadres" and "Last Time We Saw Paris".

[jazzbo]

I've had both for several months now (via CDJapan). Nice!

[king ubu]

My copies of the two Brubeck albums recently arrived, haven't played 'em yet.

 

Also catching up on the "We Remember Poo" series and a few more Kikuchi items (a least one from the King series and I think one from the East Wind series) - these seem to be OOP (released in October, OOP when I wanted to order them from cdjapan after x-mas ... cost me some more going via various marketplace vendors) - anyway, here's a link:

http://www.discogs.com/label/909924-We-Remember-Poo

[danasgoodstuff]

11 hours ago, king ubu said:

My copies of the two Brubeck albums recently arrived, haven't played 'em yet.

 

Also catching up on the "We Remember Poo" series and a few more Kikuchi items (a least one from the King series and I think one from the East Wind series) - these seem to be OOP (released in October, OOP when I wanted to order them from cdjapan after x-mas ... cost me some more going via various marketplace vendors) - anyway, here's a link:

http://www.discogs.com/label/909924-We-Remember-Poo

Most unfortunate series name, whoever dreamt this up is thinking along the same lines as those who think the appropriate response to domestic terrorism is to mail them dildos...

[clifford_thornton]

"Poo" was Kikuchi's nickname. He had a wonderful LP titled "Poo-Sun" on Philips.