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This sale is only available at Zweitausendeins. I have never seen these no-frills box sets in other stores.
ZYX also made "deluxe" boxes in LP format with a complete booklet (like the US boxes). I have the Dolphy Prestige and Rollins Freelance Years sets - made by ZYX - and I've seen fullsize Bill Evans Riverside and Art Pepper boxes which had a ZYX sticker on the box. Maybe Zweitausendeins only wants to get rid of their stock. These boxes have been offered for the past 5 years at least (at very competitive but not insane prices).
The Fantasy material has been licensed to ZYX (formerly Bernard Mikulski) since the 80's or even earlier, so I don't think it has something to do with the licensing contract. But I would really want to see a different company release this material in Europe. ZYX's recent remasterings are horrible, the packaging isn't great either.
They were available at other stores, principally, but Mikulski must have made some special deal with Zeitausendeins, as they sold them at about the price other dealers would have to pay! This deal seems to have expired now, or sales figures reached a level too low to tolerate.
I had the impression the LP sized box sets were imported from the US and filled with CDs manufactured in Germany.
I agree on the poor packaging of the small box sets and on the horrible sound of ZYX' own remasterings.
They never promote the Fantasy releases in German jazz magazines.
But who else should handle them? Their catalogue is voluminous and another distributor probably would not carry the complete catalogue.
At least from ZYX' own website and their mail order shop MUsic Garden, everything seems to be available. Other mail order shops mave deleted some rare items from their catalogue.
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Just got around to opening my mail so I haven't heard how these sound yet. I believe they are coming out in Mid to late August.
Criss-Cross
Hackensack - 4:14
Tea for Two - 3:48
Criss Cross - 4:43
Eronel - 4:32
Rhythm-A-Ning - 3:54
Don't Blame Me - 7:06
Think of One - 6:07
Crespuscule With Nellie - 2:48
Pannonica - 6:47
Bonus Tracks
Coming on the Hudson - 7:33
Tea for Two - 5:14
Eronel - 5:59
Underground
Thelonious - 3:17
Ugly Beauty - 10:47
Raise Four - 7:01
Boo Boo's Birthday - 5:57
Easy Street - 7:52
Green Chimneys - 13:11
In Walked Bud - 6:49
Bonus Tracks
Ugly Beauty - 7:39
Boo Boo's Birthday - 5:35
Thelonious - 3:10
If one compares timings, Think of One must have been edited on the old Criss Cross LP and previous CD reissue (was 5:18 there).
Same goes for 5 (!) tracks of the Underground LP and previous CD reissue:
Ugly Beauty - 10:47 was 3:17
Raise Four - 7:01 was 5:47
Easy Street - 7:52 was 5:53 (complete take was on the Always Know twofer - a nice bowed bass solo by Larry gales restored)
Green Chimneys - 13:11 was 9:00
In Walked Bud - 6:49 was 4:17
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Solo Monk-I don't think there is anything different from the 2CD Complete Solo in terms of alt or unreleased tracks. Outside of not being the Complete set it is remastered in 24 bit.
Dinah [Take 2] - 2:30
I Surrender, Dear - 3:47
Sweet and Lovely [Take 2] - 3:03
North of the Sunset - 1:55
Ruby, My Dear [Take 3] - 5:42
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - 2:39
I Hadn't Told Anyone Till You - 3:21
Everything Happens to Me [Take 3] - 3:31
Monk's Point - 2:20
I Should Care - 2:00
Ask Me Now [Take 2] - 4:40
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) - 3:36
Bonus Tracks
Introspection- 2:14
Darn That Dream - 3:41
Dinah - 2:25
Sweet and Lovely [Take 1] 3:18
Ruby, My Dear - 4:48
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - 2:44
I Hadn't Told Anyone Till You - 3:21
Everything Happens to Me - 5:20
Ask Me How - 3:43
This looks like a straight single CD reissue of the original Solo Monk LP with some bonus material added.
I can't understand why Body And Soul is not included, which struck me as one of Monk's greatest solos when I first heard it on the Monk Alone twofer.
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At the deceased BNBB I suggested they break it up into 4 (!) sets, like the Miles stuff:
Studio, 1963-63 (quartet with Frankie Dunlop)
Live, 1963-64 (quartet and big band with Dunlop)
Studio, 1965-68 (quartet and big band with ben Riley)
Live, 1965-68 (dtto.)
- the solos slipped in chronologically or kept seperate as in the excellent 2 CD set available.
This would give them a chance to include the obscurer live material, some of which appeared on the Misterioso LP (Brandeis University, Mexico), or even some bootleg live recordings - there are not that many with Dunlop.
I too don't think it will ever happen, but I wonder if the Brandeis and Mexico live recordings will come out in a series based on the original LPs, as the Misterioso LP will become obsolete.
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Thanks, P.D.!
Rudy Stevenson I know only from a Cedar Walton Prestige session. But Gale ..... he's doing some real hardcore blues guitar here. I could have sworn it was some Chicago veteran!
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If you are into early Mingus - as documented by the excellent Uptown CD - this is the perfect companion. It is of course more about Mingus the producer and sideman, but everything bears his stamp. He was just as great a bass player as he was as composer and bandleader. And there's a lot of his working band of the mid-1950's in this set. I find it as indispensable as the Uptown CD and the Atlantic and Columbia dates. He recorded a lot - and arguably the more important dates - for other labels during the existence of Debut, maybe also to support his label. The very good booklet tells a lot about this. You will want to have it, sooner or later .....
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Coles, Spaulding and Coleman are the main soloists besides Pearson. Mickey Roker's in fine form on it, too. (Peter Jophnson forgot to mention him.)
The sound is one of the examples of extreme left/right stereo in Atlantic's catalogue .....
jazzbo is right, if you like Pearson (and Coles, in particular) you will dig this. But this was no blowing session, just as much writing as on Duke's Blue Note's - the more polished Van Gelder sound just makes this more obvious. I waited for decades for it to be reissued. Had a Duke Pearson day recently, played all of his Blue Note CDs, no surprise it was a nice day ....
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Your comments encourage me to check out the Philips box.
"Sings The Blues" is my favourite Nina Simone album, just put on the LP today... The first track sends chills down my spine every time! Is this really complete on that Novus CD?
BTW, does anyone know who the guitar player is on that LP? The Bruyninckx disco gives Simone piano & vocals, Buddy Lucas harmonica, Bob Bushnell fender bass, Bernard Purdie drums, Ernie Hayes organ but no guitarist.
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It turns out they reserve the "smaller" projects for the Mosaic Select series. I guess the Herbie Nichols Blue Note or Stan Getz Roost boxes would appear as MS these days.
Maybe we should post our ideas for more MS sets:
The Clare Fischer Pacific Jazz Sessions - a mixed bag with trios, orchestra, latin jazz, but all worth hearing
The Jeremy Steig Solid State/Blue Note/Capitol sessions
Anything else?
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I'm exited that Brookmeyer's albums "Traditionalism Revisited" and "Kansas City Revisited" will be back in print - missed them the first time around. As far as I remember, Paul Quinichette is on one of them, one of my top five tenor favourites.
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IRA SULLIVAN TURNED THE GIG DOWN (ON TENOR)
Well, that's not accurate enough. He was hired as a trumpet player, but regretted that decision, he found out he wanted to play tenor sax rather than trumpet as he had a stronger personal identity on that instrument. See Mike's Messengers chronology for details.
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The Bruyninckx Disco list only one William Fielder recording: a 1984 session, "Love Progression" obviously self-produced for a label called Prescription, un-numbered, with Kenny Garrett, Mulgrew Miller, David Eubanks and Ralph Peterson.
Must be a heavyweight. Seems to be teaching in Chicago. The interview on the Jazz Insttitute of Chicago website gives some info.
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The first CD issue of this fine session was another Japanese Blue Note CD, CJ28-5127, released in 1990, combining it with the 10" LPs of Tal Farlow and Sal Salvador. These two have been reissued in compilation with other 10" material by Howard McGhee and Sal Salvador's Capitol material in the Connoisseur 10" series, which regrettably left out the Lou Mecca (as well as the Urbie Green and the two Best from the West LPs).
I guess you have the Gil Mellé with Mecca?
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How's the previously unissued session with Cecil Payne?
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I'm a big time fan of the two big band albums on Blue Note - Also the cream of the NY session players at the time, many of who also participated in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.
Actually Duke was the pianist in the Quintet Thad Jones and Mel Lewis led just before they started the big band; maybe Pearson was its first pianist?
I consider Duke Pearson to be one of the exponents of the lyrical piano school in jazz, in the line of Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones and John Lewis, he had a beautiful touch. I also dig his Fender Rhodes playing, and he had a great affinity for excellent bossa nova playing. I will order that Mosaic select for sure and hope they will at last arrange all that stuff in session order ....
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Dizzy was on the same artistic level as Bird, that's why he got my vote. All the others were great, and I dig Dorham or McGhee even a little more than Diz, but this pairing was beyong comparison.
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My favourite "Softly" is by Joe Newman, with Hank Jones, George Duvivier and Alan Dawson, from a Black & Blue LP recorded somewhere in the 1970's (anyone in for a recording date?). They smoke the hell out of that one!
The Illinois Concert is a real gem, BTW!
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I agree the new front page does not fit the style of the remaining (unchanged) pages. As a page # 2 it would be okay. Just about as hastily done as the Blue Note Board changes - hope this doesn't mean the Mosaic site will be temporarily closed
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But I don't know of too many vocalese singers who could actually improvise in the manner they sung other people's solos. Jon Hendicks is definitely one who can/could, although most of his recorded work is in either the traditional melodic mode or the vocalese bag (yet another indicator that, important, invaluable even, as they are, records are an incomplete documentation of the totality of this music) - I think he began as a tenor saxophonist, and it shows.
Jim, check out Carla White, especially her first album with manny Duran, where she is a second horn rather than a voice in the conventional sense. Full-fledged bebop.
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Regarding Baby Face Willette, that's all I could find (except for a few single sessions before the Blue Note dates):
Blue Note BN 4064 Grant Green - Grant's First Stand
Blue Note BN 4066 Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis
Blue Note BN 4068 'Baby Face' Willette - Face To Face
Blue Note BN 4084 'Baby Face' Willette - Stop And Listen
Now if they would add the two Argo LPs:
Argo LP 739 'Baby Face' Willette - Mo-Roc
Argo LP 749 'Baby Face' Willette - Behind The 8-Ball
plus an unissued session, if the tapes still exist ...
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I saved jazzhound’s entire Blackhawk BNBB thread. Think I’ll go give it another read for old times sake.
Please !!! give us a link here !!!
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I'll definitely go for the Pearson set, if they do it in session order - the LPs were a scattered affair - it'll be a treat.
When I heard the few tracks with Vinnie Burke as bonus tracks to the Mulligan Songbook CD issue, it made me wish there was more .....
I have all of the Bennie Green stuff on LP, this is great stuff, Green was one of the most entertaining serious jazz soloists ever. I'll get that one too ...
pity my purse
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So far these two are my favourites, especially with the bonus material on the Pacific Jazz CDs. I have yet to check out his Prestige albums; Groove with Chambers and Higgins, sounds real interesting.
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I had to vote for Herbie. Since he could really do it all, both 'inside' as well as 'outside'-leaning dates - he seemed like the one pianist who really best represented all of what Blue Note was all about during it's prime years.
That says what I think about it - I voted for Herbie for these reasons, too.
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I agree, the Mahler set is great and was hailed as one of the best recordings available.
Same goes for Inbal's Bruckner cycle, which is scheduled for reissue in the near future and includes the rare no. "0" symphony.
If anyone of you cares for harpsichord, the complete Bach harpsichord works in two boxes is as good as it can be at that price, with very good performances by mostly younger performers that hold their own when compared to other recordings, and the Domenico Scarlatti series is fine (3 boxes with 3 CDs each so far), considered better than Scott Ross' unaffordable big box on Erato by many.