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First spin last night (it arrived from Intakt yesterday ... took them a bit long to cater to a subscriber in their own town I think). My first impression is that it is indeed pretty different from your first solo album (which I enjoyed a lot), but in a good way: it's more thoughtful, and the web of references you open up with your comments in the liner notes (from Mal Waldron to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Maurizio Pollini) indeed makes for an interesting frame. I'm looking forward a lot to a first through listen, hopefully towards the end of this week

Yep. And by now I'm pretty sure there was only an Enja edition of the old version (CD and LP in the US), which did not include that piece. So there's only the second GM edition (depicted above) that has the full contents.

I did my best, but there was too much ... still have some gaps I'd like to close, but with them selling undisclosed CD-Rs via effin' A, I'm unwilling to buy anything unless I can lay hands on it and actually check.

Thanks! That site is one of Universal's outlets for Germany, so it should be reliable ...

I don't even get notices ... but reading Lon's post above I'm by now positive that the set does exist in the first place

That one has the final Musicraft sides (all others are on the first volume, 1944-1947, and those included two outtakes, so we get 41, not 39 tracks on a Complete Musicraft set coming from Japan) and the first 24 Columbia sides, up to the 18 May 1950 session (that and the May 19 session are covered extensively - an alternate to each but one of the 8 master takes - on the reissue of "Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi", of the earlier 20 sides though you'll only find one there, again with an alternate take added, "The Nearness of You" from 21 December 1949). That "Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi" reissue is weird btw, it omits details for a few early 50s tracks, of which it offers 4 - but gives details only for "It's All in the Mind" (30 Dec 1952 w/unknown studio orchestra and probable line-up). "Pinky" (19 September 1951 with Percy Faith Orchestra), "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" and "Ooh, What'cha Doin' to Me" (both 5 January 1953) went forgotten when the CD was produced, although all of those, together with "Mind" and the eight masters from May 1949 were part of the original LP release I guess I've got enough Vaughan, but yeah, there's that gap from the early fifties and it would certainly be nice to get a complete edition covering that period. Would have been nice to see more of those Chant du Monde sets, as they're really well-done, booklets with plenty of photos, labels, ads, magazine covers, and all the info you need on the music included. I have several more of those sets (one each by Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson, Betty Roché, Ernestine Anderson, Etta Jones, Carmen McRae, and Dakota Staton)

anyone?

What's with the 50 for 50? 50 in total with the new ones (of which I've just received half a dozen), or 50 new ones with more to come? Sloppy news editing there ... anyway, some albums in the new batch that I either have on LP (means they don't get much play) or not at all: George Adams, Mike Nock, David Torn, Louis Sclavis, Barre Phillips and Kenny Wheeler are the ones I bought (several others I have in previous editions).

There is a film already, "The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith", by Sara Fishko ... I saw it at Jazzfest Berlin in Nov. 2016, and it's one of the many films that offer plenty of fascinating glimpses, does kinda succeed in telling the story, presenting a picture, re-creating a mood, portraying Smith with all his obsessions ... but for the avid music fan, seeing fotos and hearing 20 seconds of Monk rehearsing his big band is really frustrating of course. https://www.wnyc.org/jazzloftthemovie/ The set above, "David X. Young's Jazz Loft", is easily recommended. It comes with a large booklet (that may break apart alas if you want to open it and take a good look) containing photos, paintings (by Young - there's also a poster coming with it). Guess I should buy the book as long as it's still around: http://www.jazzloftproject.org/index.php?s=book edit: aargh, too late already for the book ...

Enja misses the Schuller piece if Discogs is right ... can you confirm?

Well, in this case the Fresh Sound CD is not legal indeed, as it does not conform with the 50 year/pre 1962 (or is it 1963?) rule. But supposing the album would be from 1962, doing a needle drop would be legal (using the non-existing 1998 Atlantic CD reissue would not). Selling the Fresh Sound CD in the US would not be legal I think (because you have Disney's 70 or howevermanyyears rule, not the 50 year rule of yurp that you managed to stop, too). But then Amazon is what exactly ... a Luxemburg company paying no taxes in Ireland and catering bootlegs to merikins? Anyway, my understanding is that the "Ramblin'" CD sounds horrible, if not I'd hunt for it, just to hear that. And oviously the merikin pirates/bootleggers from Essential Media Group do an even worse job, so there you go ... If Warner really owns the rights to the Vault catalogue, there's still an oh so faint hope that the Japanese might eventually do some proper reissues, but I'm not holding my breath.

There are three discs of Griffin, more or less (one of the Jamboree ones, has more, and there's a 2 CD Griffin set ... excellent music. And ordering CDs directly is a bit of a drag (I still need google translate to make sure I'm going through the correct moves, but it has worked out four or five times in the past three years), shipping costs are out of proportion (around 50%), but still the price is quite alright (and I think they do trackable shipping only, which explains the cost). Not sure how it would be to the US, but it might be worth a try. On the other hand, the documentation of the discs is rather mininmal: digipacks with one flap/cover, tracklist and line-ups and dates given, and that's about it. In the case of Komeda, some of the recordings seem to have been available previously, but that's another messy discography there that I never even tried to figure out.

^ The supreme foogliness of these really says it all (and so much more, too).

I know. But that, after all, is mostly the only way to go when PD labels do it legally right. Ripping others' transfers from earlier CDs is not the idea. And Pujol's allegedly (so sayeth he) legally acquired tape collection still has me full of doubts (plus again it's a mid or in some deterioration cases low quality source).

That's the Reid Miles cover that looks like a Patrick Roques cover.

Hm ... but then Lonehill falls in both camps, as some of their series (i.e. John Graas, Hodges/Wild Bill*, Illinois Jacquet, Jazz Lab, Shank/Cooper live in yurp ...) do fall into the good camp. *) I know that may have nixed a third Mosaic, but I'm having a hard time believing that Cuscuna would have actually done that one!

Yep, nice disc for sure! I noticed that jazzdisco.org (which I don't take as a reliable source) gives Wilson for one track only (and doesn't list the bonus tracks at atll): https://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1400-series/#lp-1488 But then they explain to me who "Ronnie Clark" is, okay ... didn't realize that yesterday

Hm, I kinda learned to like Chronogicals (at around the time it was becoming too late, of course) ... they were ugly, they were expensive (high-prized, in that time in the range of 30-40, depending if DM, US$ or CHF), they often had less than ideal transfers (compared to Masters of Jazz, Mosaic ...), and they omitted too many (alternate) takes to my liking. But this was easy, as I wasn't all that much into early jazz or swing at that time. (I know about Neatwork and have bought one or two, but I guess they became hard to find already towards the end of Classics run.) Masters of Jazz, on the other hand, I really love. I have about two dozen, including the full Lunceford run (with the missing portions supplied by Chronos, and then there's the Mosaic, too ...) - inclusion of air-checks and other live recordings (which, having grown up in the CD era and far away from UK or IT bootleg labels, were totally unavailable to me at that time), inclusion of alternate takes of course, and good sound on top of that. Fremeaux is a label I've really grown to appreciate, too - again not exactly nice design (oh those clumsy fonts!), but solid work and excellent documentation. I am collecting their Armstrong series, got the Django, am thinking if I should not get the Bird, too (overlap, overlap, mess ... I'd give the kingdom I don't own in order for a thorough Bird discography, even just for a complete sessionongraphy without all the release info). Some of the Fremeaux "Essentials" and other compilations are excellent value, too. And I have also ended up buying a dozen or so of their Biguine and other compilations (also those two vols. of "Gainsbourg et ses interprètes") Yeah, okay ... but omitting all those wonderful takes he did for Keynote ... I know, including them would have been a violation of PD rules, I assume -- but still, in an ideal world (which I have no reason to expect, I know, right ...)

Rita Hayworth, dude! Rita Hayworth!!!

Btw, would love to lay my hands on the new one, but it's not quite available yet over here (or in the 30-35$ range) ... I'll keep checking!

Okay, thanks - so as I wanted to post initially (but then didn't since wiki and that linked site don't have that info): all the more it's a pity that the large Warner/Atlantic reissue programme in Japana, a few years back, seemed to have skipped these, too! Prompted by the Wilson discussions here, I played his first two Atlantics (and threw in "Virgo Vibes" by Roy Ayers, with Wilson on piano on the second half as well as two bonus tracks) over the weekend. Very nice for sure!

Can we work out a list of all the aliases the LonehillGambitPhonoAmericanJazzClassicsEssentialJazzClassicsSolar crew has used so far? Does Lonehill still exist? I recently bought that double disc set with four big band albums of Urbie Green's (you're to blame for giving one of 'em thumbs up when he died) and it's under the Phono moniker now, no longer Lonehill, although the design looks totally like Lonehill. And I still wonder if Freshsound really has nothing to do with it, although I tend to agree that they're different in what they release and the (relative) amount of care they put into their product. They still offer extremely lousy transfers/sources every once in a while (tape flutter, generally dull sound, records that sound worse and worse the longer they go on ...) -- JazzBeat was another one ... and Groove Hut and earlier the Definitive family (they had two more names for sub-series/labels)

just in case, they are not operating within European law (50 years) - they're Florida based: http://essentialmg.com/about-us/ it's too bad not even Japan seems to bother about the Vault recordings - whom do they actually belong to? Not to any of the major conglomerates? http://www.cvinyl.com/labelguides/vault.php

Ordered via .co.uk as well? It's been "1-3 months" for a while so I'll be happy if I ever get it at all ...

I'll certainly keep buying NoBusiness' releases of older stuff (and I'm throwing in some of their new recordings as well, usually). The Braufman I still need to get ... but I just see that with shipping it's over 40$ -- a bit on the rich side