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  1. From this box set, these two albums: Sound is better than on previous reissues I know, and the commentary on the albums is very informative. I recommend this set.
  2. Had an opportunity to visit this excellently conceived exhibition on the influence of Charles Baudelaire's poems in "Les Fleur Du Mal" during a weekend trip to Berlin. https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/sammlung-scharf-gerstenberg/exhibitions/detail/evil-flowers/ That museum's collection is worth a visit. Best collection of surrealism related art ever. Almost ten Odilon Redon works, Piranesi's Carceri, Goya's Caprichos, Ernst, Bellmer, Max Klinger - I try to go there whenever I am in Berlin.
  3. My favourite Gato Barbieri on this! Bob James plays surprisingly authentic Cuban piano.
  4. As Wes playes totally differently solos on the alternates, I don't mind. And there are not that many on the Evans Riverside box.
  5. It's a very good set in very ggod sound. Definitely worth getting. Not to lessen its value: it does omit the four takes that Montgomery and Orrin Keepnews rejected from the next-to-last organ trio session after listening to test pressings. ABC issued the LP in that form, which bugged Keepnews considerably. There are on the OJC reissue of "Portrait of Wes".
  6. R.I.P., and thanks for many excellent reissues, rare broadcasr recordings as well as fine remasterings.
  7. Believe it or not, "The Spirit of '67" was my first LP ever.
  8. When I saw Herbie with this band in 1970, Ayers had just left the band .....
  9. R.I.P. IMO he had the most beautiful vibes of all before his moving to R&B, and still sounded much like it on his electrified gear. That, together with the rhythmic aspects of his style, makes him one of my favourites. And he always projected positive vibes. A really great career. I love this live set with a great, grooving band:
  10. I have the Todd Cochran, the two James Leary, the Munyungo Jackson, and the Iroko/Bill Summers. The latter is half batá drumming and Cuban Oru del Igbodu chanting, half like Los Hombres Calientes. Munyungo is acoustic Latin Jazz. Soundwise, they are all high end hifi with extreme dynamics in natural acoustics. Jazz-wise, the two James Leary albums are top, IMO. One with trio or quartet with Billy Childs, Ralph Penland, and Eddie Harris in top form, one with five bassists, piano, and drums - Leary's highly original treatments of the bass choir, if you are into that.
  11. My thoughts exactly.
  12. The reasons why Mosaic excluded the 10" LP Nat Pierce Bandstand session from the first box remain obscure to many of us - perhaps a limitation to 7 CDs? The personnel ist Pierce with Basie-Ites Green,Page, and Jones, a more Basie-ite rhythm section is hard to imagine, with modern West-Coast big band alumni - a combination that worked well, due the horn players admiration of the Basie band. But tto modern for the box set? it was reissued many times, but Pierce recorded for several labels, which makes him an ideal subject for European labels. There was this oop compilation: This 12" LP reissue was on a French CD, since the Mel Powell session from another 10" LP is also missing in the Mosaic box, this one might be an option, but it omits the two vocal tracks from the 10" LP. This was the original 10" LP issue: The complete album was include in this UK AVID Jazz twofer.
  13. Those VTL recordings sound really great. https://www.discogs.com/release/6627030-Todd-Cochran-Todd
  14. I love this album so much! I'm really glad I finally got a copy a month or two ago. Sound is much better than on most jazz recordings.
  15. Membran - IMO the worst of all German bootleggers .....
  16. The Urbie Green session was a 10 incher with four tracks - modern mainstream, good soloists, Braff in particular. Like the single session he recorded for Blue Note a bit earlier, this usually falls between the cracks, but it's good! I have a UK twofer on AVID, that takes advantage of European copyright regulations and collects all the stuff he recorded earlyin his career except those for RCA and its sublabel "X". Better than nothing. But the sound would be better if they had access to original sources. https://www.discogs.com/master/3756852-Urbie-Green-Five-Classic-Albums-All-About-Urbie-Green-And-His-Big-Band-Blues-And-Other-Shades-Of-Gre/image/SW1hZ2U6MTIyMzQ2NDUz
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