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Those are really good albums, especially MF1. Not the commercialism of his later Columbia sides.

sign me up pls!

Also my understanding that they fought all the time, yet they moved together to Cream. I was astonished at how artistically successful the Cream reunion concert DVD was, and I play it a good bit.

Actually that is very helpful for me, as I seem to "get" Tristano. Thx.

I picked up the Jeremy Steig, it's great, and I had never heard it, thanks so much! I also have the Julius Hemphill, which is also wonderful. Look forward to the other releases, which I hope to come by over time. The Tapscott is a seminal session. I own the West Coast Hot CD which contains that album plus Bradford-Carter tracks, but would really like to upgrade, and your release represents a major quiality upgrade. And I think I certainly need to check out the Bill Dixon, which I have also never heard. And the Carter-Bradford. Can anyone give me a reference point on the Clare Fischer, so I would have an idea what it would be like? It must be really good, but I'm not sure what to expect.

Here is my take: In general, CTI went down the tubes artistically as the 70's went on, due in large part to the dropoff from Don Sebesky to Bob James to Dave Matthews. So I'd tend to pass and stick with the CTI.

Per the Dex discussion, thanks Chuck for the insght. The latest convincing recording I'm aware of is 'Gotham City' from 1981. 'American Classic' from 1982 has always been a disappointment to my ears. Was 1981 the last really strong year for him, or did he play Dex-level well later than that?

David, I like the Howard McGhee tracks quite a bit. I own them on this, but they are available on several CD's.

PM sent.

Yeah, quite a band, but check out the band on the Round Midnight CD's, and those are so bland as to be virtually unlistenable to me. Though the length on these tracks seems promising. Don't know if Dex could still bring it in 1987 or not, as I have no recorded proof that he could - any thoughts on his 1987 playing?

Couple more that come to mind. Loved Miroslav Vitous working with Eric Gravatt on the early Weather Report stuff, and Gary Peacock on the album he did with Mal Waldron, 'First Encounter'. Wish someone would put out a CD of that one!

Thanks so much. I've wanted this box, so just ordered it at that great price.

Off the top of my head Reggie Workman on "Prayer for Peace" from Charles Tolliver - Live at Loosdrecht Alex Blake from the title track of Charles Sullivan - Genesis Charles Mingus - on "Hora Decibutus": from Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, "Haitian Fight Song" from The Clown

If it weren't just Monk. I think the days of Blue Note rereleasing music by John Hardee et al are long behind us. Guess I should have opened the link instead of just reading the label. No interest in either of these. They are just Concording the BN vaults, same old same old with a tiny little twist. I'd rather have a John Hardee 2CD set!

Ah, but do you think it should have stayed in the can?? Yes. The ongoing lowering of standards is unfortunate. But aren't "nice try, but no cigar" sessions often more interesting to hear than a lot of competent "same old, same old"?

That 47-52 set might be really interesting, if there are cuts that did not make it onto LP/CD previously. May also have quite a stylistic range, Sidney Bechet to John Hardee to Babs Gonzalez to Monk?

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. You can get the bulk of the Dial and MJQ materal from elsewhere, and the Threadgill to me is very hot (Novus) and cold (Columbia).

I picked this up recently at a great price. Cardboard box, cardboard sleeves, and a booklet with discographical information. Get it, and donate your iron box to the center for tetanus research. Yep, I did pick that one up and have been trying to move along my iron one ever since. I guess it will end up in ebay wilderness, though I've gotten to the point where I really don't like ebay, and have note sold anything out there in five years or so.

A great box set should be a great overarching purpose well-executed. Different purposes will have different specific criterea. The Rhino "Nuggets" box set is great, and the Coltrane "Complete Village Vanguard" box set is great. They have very different purposes, but they each fulfilled their purpose beautifully. The RhinoHandmade Beau Brummels set has great music, but is not a great box set, because it couldn't decide what it wanted to be and didn't fulfill any purpose. Too many familiar cuts present and worthy rarities missing to be a rarities set, some very key cuts missing to be a key cuts plus rarities overview. I find I avoid playing some otherwise great sets like the Coltrane Impulse Quartet set because the packaging is so difficult to deal with (and don't even start on the Bill Evans Verve iron monstrosity set, wish someone would buy or trade for mine). The Rhino/Atlantic sets on Trane, Ornette, and Mingus are basically perfect to me. Strangely, I'm not a huge Mosaic fan if I can get the same music elsewhere. I don't like the LP-sized boxes and booklets, and I miss the original album artwork. I like alternate cuts to be at the end of a set, and like sets to present albums in their original running order, followed by outtakes and then by alternate takes.

Great music. Clunky, it's all available elsewhere, but of course a Mosaic box is a special experience.

Beat you by two minutes :-)

And you can get the set for under $12 shipped on Amazon Marketplace. I have it and love it. When I worked for General Accident Insurance Company in downtown Philly in 1980-1981, I went out to Independence Mall during my luch break one sunny day and saw Harley putting on a free solo concert. Fun stuff. The Atlantic recordings are really good. I don't know anything about Abner post this time. Glenn, I think, replaced Stanley Clarke in the Visitors. Glenn, who went by James Hicks Glenn, continued to play for a long time in the Philly area, often with Sid Simmons and Mickey Roker at Ortlieb's, and with Simmons and Bootsie Barnes and Byron Landham/Craig MacIver (if I remember correctly) as the house band at the Mill Creek Jazz Society up on Lancaster Avenue. The Visitors, of course, were the band with Carl and Earl Grubbs, Coltrane's nephews. Saw them at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr in the mid-70's and they were really good.

PM sent on Ray Brown -- Jazz Cello (Verve) $5 Ornette Coleman -- The Paris Concerts 1965-1966 (Gambit) $5 Ornette Coleman -- Complete Live at the Hillcrest Club (Gambit) $5 Steve Lacy -- Five Facings (Jazzwerkstatt) $5 Steve Lacy -- The Sun (Emanem) $5 Steve Lacy -- Revenue (Soul Note) $5 Blue Mitchell -- African Violet/Summer Soft (Impulse) $6 Sonny Stitt -- Now!/Salt and Pepper (Impulse) $5 Lucky Thompson -- New York City, 1964-65 (Uptown) $7

I think I need it. Getting to the point where many ideal reissues are not going to happen in my lifetime.

Ticks me off that the Ponty "Sunday Walk" is only being offered in download. I've been waiting for decades for a CD release of that one. The only CD title I could see myself likely going for is the Elvin Jones. Why is Art Van Damme/Singers Unlimited entitled to a CD release, and Ponty only gets the chintzy download approach