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It would not be much better than downloading the whole available catalogue from iTunes or such. All the same, the feeling of album as an artefact is lost.

Many xanadu releases were issued on Cd in Japan, luxurious miniaturized lp sleeves and good sound. Picked up quite a few over the years, Sam Noto, Jimmy Raney, Ted Dunbar, Bob Berg. Nice music, if nothing earth-shattering.

There were 3 proper LPs but the whole sets were stretched out over 5 LPs. I think the 2 that got the rest were called Flutes! and Una Muy Bonita. But they would fit on 2 CDs indeed, as the whole thing lasts for 2 hours and 12+ minutes. Streams was released several times on CD, nicest by far was a Japanese high quality mini LP sleeve version, which pops up time to time on eBay for reasonable(?) prices. BUT, some Impulse! things that would REALLY need to be reissued is the rest of this album that was reissued as otherwise awesome "Trio Live," I know some stuff was omitted from there because of 1 CD time restraints. Also, the utterly fascinating "Sizzle" has seen no reissue at all. Now, that is as close as Sam Rivers ever got to releasing a funk album.

I don't know anymore what to wish they'd reissue. Hum Dono filled the huge gap. Maybe Guy Warren Afro Jazz album.

Hum Dono finally to be reissued as vinyl in December. Dustygroove among others seems to be carrying it. Here is a online store in Germany that says release date is December 5th. The sleeve art is not original, though, maybe the rights owners only had rights for the music? http://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/harriott-amancio-d-silva-quartet-hum-dono-392875 Amazon.co.uk lists a CD reissue by vocalion but it's currently 'unavailable.' A future release?

There is excellent used cd store in Shibuya, with large selections in all genres, called Recofan. It's in the Beam building, where also the Mandarake comics store is located. Mandarake is in basement level, Recofan is in 4th or so.

Judson Hall show sounds very fine. Up there with best sounding live recordings from this era. All but one (Dream Weaver I think) of the classic Lloyd Quartet with Jarrett recs are live and only Forest Flower compares. Slug's is not as good but still nice to my ears. There's tons of much worse sounding recordings which people still go apeshit over. Not to say anything about musicianship but sure, Charles Lloyd is no Coltrane by any means.

Isn't that practically the only organ date Joe Henderson ever recorded on? The only soul-jazz organ date, in any case (iirc). 2 others I can think of right now, Larry Young's Unity for Blue Note and Joe Henderson meets Kankawa for some Japanese label.

I remember reading somewhere this was the concert where Michael Brecker finally got to see Coltrane, being famously turned away from some club gig earlier.

Yay, that's great. Picked up the new Somethin' Else completely oblivious to the bonus track (felt the need to upgrade my older CD version) and it was a fine surprise. Now I need at least Blue Train and Speak No Evil as well.

I don't know if it has been mentioned or not (don't have the energy to read messages past right now) but Cannonball Adderley's Something Else TYCJ-81002 from October 2013 has one bonus track other than the usual "Bangoon" : alternate version of "Autumn Leaves" (9:33). Peter Losin's sessionography mentions this version but does not list any releases.

I have the Agharta SCRS 9720/1 version and this is the actual lenght as reported by WinAmp: 1. Miles Davis - Agharta - Prelude - 1975 (32:31) 2. Miles Davis - Agharta - Maiysha - 1975 (13:09) 3. Miles Davis - Agharta - Interlude/Theme From Jack Johnson - 1975 (60:56) Can you - or anybody - confirm this by experience/ownership? This one I can find with no (apparent) uncertainty, but I do want to make sure that the Losin site is getting it right, that this issue does in fact have the extra music at the end.

My opinion on the sound of July 25 Antibes disc is here: the two versions are too different to say which one is "better." I listened both through Beyerdynamic T1 headphones and preferred the new version, as it sounded cleaner and more immediate to these ears and it had none of the reverb nonsense that marred the Miles1969 version. Then I listened to both through Genelec 8030a near-field monitors and was surprised how much better the Miles1969 CD sounded. It had way deeper and clearer bass and stereo field was enjoyable (even if it was "fake stereo") as the new version had none. Both versions have their use, you see. I bet the guys who did the mixing had good reasons to do anything they did. The master tape must sound pretty weak.

This one has been released on CD along with most other Elvin Jones and Oregon Vanguard albums (Comet Records, Italy). Good one, very much recommended. There's a nice Ralph Towner interview somewhere (allaboutjazz?) where he discusses this session. If I remember correctly they were planning a photo shoot for LP cover but Elvin failed to show up so they glued his face up there and added some "drum sticks."

The worst book about jazz I've encountered must be John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression by J.Brackett. He totally avoids touching the music itself and sticks to semiotic mumbo jumbo that's can be really tiresome. For example when talking about the album "Gift" he makes big deal about the fact that gift means poison in some Germanic languages but does not reference the actual music. I could not force myself to read all of it though, maybe if gets good? Nah. The British writer who did the Jan Garbarek & ECM book (could not find it at amazon right now so can't name names) uses similar meta approach but since he has something to say his book is a win. (This one's a good one, folks, recommended.)

So it seem to contain. I made some unfortunate assumptions few posts earlier. Interesting to compare the Amancio d'Silva "Joyce Country" here to the one released on Integration LP: this version is much shorter (does not have the long guitar solo interlude), has Don Rendell on sax and promiment harpsichord (both missing on LP version). LP does not say when recorded, but Alyn Shipton's Ian Carr book takes a guess: London 1968. This version is recorded January 1st, 1969. Where does it come from? Is there more where this came from?

Some of it is but some things seem also to be from existing releases. I guess they released this to be a companion piece to a book of the same title (which I have not seen) that discusses British jazz scene.

It does say recording engineer Jan-Erik Kongshaug and it is one of the two concerts Personal Mountains was compiled of. Ian Carr's Jarrett bio says if I remember correctly Kongshaug and Eicher recorded the whole Japan tour, so the idea of those tapes laying in ECM vaults does not appear terribly outlandish.

I've always tried to track down original German pressings, even if they'd be considerably pricier. Had Robin Kenyatta's "Girl From Martinique" as ECM/Polydor which looked minty but sounded like shit, cheap cover which probably had ring wear when it was new. More than happy to get rid of it and buy solid German pressing: pristine sound + laminated cover with still looks gorgeous 40 years later. Deutschland, large portion yes!

Sam Rivers played on Evans' Living Time album and toured with Cecil Taylor.

It was reissued on LP quite recently by a Catalonian label called Wah Wah - legally, by the way. Norma Winstone herself provided some new liner notes. She states she was not too interested in seeing it reissued but changed her mind, something like "let them have it if they want it so bad" (my interpretation of her words.) Which brings me to another topic: why do people pay insidious sums of money for records that are reissued (sometimes repeatedly). I can understand someone paying a lot for Hum Dono or Afro Jazz, since those have never been available since they were released a long time ago. But to cough up thousands for original Blue Train or Kind Of Blue, I do not understand. It's not really about the music anymore, is it?

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There's also another mistake here, Jumma Santos (Jim Riley) who played on Bitches Brew, Olatunji Concert, etc. is not the same person as Juma Sultan, who played with Hendrix. It's a wide spread misconception, though. Would be neat if it be true, but it's not.

Twins was 1982 Big Band recording, this new one is 1983 World of Mouth (small band) recording. I have been listening to it for couple of weeks. Pros: essential for Jaco fans. Scorching version of Havona. Cons: sound is not as good as on Twins (c-cassette recordings.) Most tracks fade out arbitrarily for some reason. My guess is it is aimed at Japanese market who would like to hear Kazumi Watanabe with Pastorius Word of Mouth band.

Nice album. I still prefer Nude Ants which got much rawer feel to it, being a club recording and all. One really nice and unexpected surprise on Sleeper is the version of So Tender. 1st Quartet version of this lovely composition. The other two versions are of course from Standards vol.2 and Airto's Free album. Personal Mountains album is a composite of Sleeper concert and the one(s) next day. From song lenghts I recon only one tune overlaps, unless they did some editing.