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Just ordered mine via Udiscover too. Can't understand (*) why Amazon (UK) decided to up their original price by over 25% thus doing themselves out of several customers including me? (*)that was a rhetorical question as I think I can guess the answer

Just picked up a new vinyl reissue of Sonny Sharrock's classic final album, Ask The Ages. It's very impressive although weirdly it has been released as a double vinyl because the playing speed is 45 RPM - presumably for audiophile purposes. However, Sharrock's guitar at times sound positively organ like. Anyone know what effect(s) he was using to produce such a very full chordal sound? The album has been uploaded onto YouTube by someone (not me!) in full here: Ask The Ages

The CD box set is now on the UM website and looks very, very, tasty indeed... The Complete Tubby Hayes Fontana Albums So great to see The Orchestra reissued on CD at last and it wasn't nearly as bad as critics said. I like it.

Apart from Cream, which was on another level (*), Ginger Baker's Air Force (Polydor, 1970) Going Back Home (Atlantic, 1994) with Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell and Coward of the County (Atlantic, 1999) with the DJQ2O with guest James Carter are, for me, three exceptional examples of Ginger's work in the jazz field. He will be greatly missed and was undoubtedly a true legend. RIP Ginger. (*) Jack Bruce claimed that Cream were a jazz group with Eric playing the Ornette Coleman role, they just didn't tell Eric.

Ted, Tubbs in N.Y. was originally released on Fontana but "illegally" reissued on CBS 466363 in stereo as Tubby Hayes with Clark Terry "The New York Sessions". I'm currently listening to said stereo version reissued on CD as CBS 466363 2. So why the stereo tapes are missing is a mystery. Shame because the album is superb. However and notwithstanding the mono NY session, I'm still greatly looking forward to the complete Fontana Tubbs box set, especially the much maligned "The Orchestra", never previously reissued.

The "Deluxe" two CD version is very good, but crucially it contains three takes featuring guitarist Louis Stewart on CD 1 and 40 pages of sleeve note by Simon Spillett. It also includes out takes and engineer / Hayes pre-take words (not much, there isn't any conversation per se).

I was a big fan of the Floyd up until and including Atom Heart Mother. I saw them live around 1970 (the set was similar to the live side of Ummagumma) and they were absolutely amazing. Much "jazzier" (ie improvising) than in their later stages. Not too surprising considering Nick Mason's proclivities to jazz (cf Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports with Carla Bley et al). I went off them after that. However, like Scott, after all the hype had died down a bit and I actually heard DSOTM (having resisted even hearing it) I was knocked out. This was most definitely their masterwork and will probably endure far longer than anything else they did.

indeed I do!

IMO Solar Plexus was his masterwork although Ian actually rated Old Heartland as his best. What is tremendous about Solar Plexus is that two other leading trumpeters were also featured (Kenny Wheeler and Harry Beckett) with proper, memorable solos. But the compositions, all Ian's for the first time on one record, were fantastic. For me "Torso" is a killer track, but it's all brilliant.

The 9 Nucleus albums originally released on Vertigo are getting a box set treatment from Esoteric next month: Torrid Zone - Nucleus and Ian Carr

This should arguably be in the Vinyl Frontier section, but Jazzman Records are reissuing for the first time(*) a five record box set of all five EMI Columbia Lansdowne Series Rendell Carr Quintet albums on vinyl. This box will be released in mid-November and includes an accompanying booklet. More info here: Jazzman Records (*) first time for a legit, licensed vinyl reissue of these albums, although BGO released them as CDs under license several years ago.

yep this price is too rich for my blood at the moment - even with a comic book - pity cos I'd definitely like to hear it. But three CDs and a book £70? Really?

All of above and All Smiles is a great one too. The Trunk one is probably mono, so do start with the MPS/Polydor ones first.

Thanks for the comments. I haven’t heard any of his previous stuff so will definitely look out for this (and the mystery disc!).

Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth - anyone heard this yet? Any views?

Bonkers or not it's one of my top ten favourite albums - something for everyone

Scott, dunno about remastered but definitely remilked

I think I probably know the answer to this question already but does anyone have any idea why Columbia / Sony released a digipak edition of BB last year (for the millionth time)? I saw it in a store on Saturday and it looked tempting despite the fact I already own two copies of BB. I can see there are 6 bonus tracks not on the original but can find no information or discussion anywhere about this reissue (other than eBay), even on Sony's website. I might buy it, but purely as an attractive artifact and "spare", handy for the car CD player. There I've been mugged again! MILES DAVIS BITCHES BREW 2 CD DIGIPAK Disc 1 1. Pharaoh's Dance 2. Bitches Brew 3. Spanish Key 4. John McLaughlin Disc 2 1. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down 2. Sanctuary 3. Spanish Key [alternate take] 4. John McLaughlin [alternate take] 5. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down[45-rpm single edit] 6. Spanish Key [single] 7. Great Expectations [single] 8. Little Blue Frog [single]

From the ECM website:- 23.08.2017 John Abercrombie (1944-2017) John Abercrombie, one of the great improvisers, died on August 22, after a long illness. He will be much missed, for his sensitive musicality, his good companionship, and his dry humour which enhanced many a session. He leaves behind an extensive discography which will be studied as long as people continue to play jazz guitar. John made his first recording for ECM, the appropriately-titled “Timeless”, in the summer of 1974, with his lifelong friend Jack DeJohnette on the drums, and Jan Hammer on organ. Over the next four decades, he was active as leader, co-leader and sideman on dozens of ECM projects. A creative writer of jazz tunes, John also loved to play freely as much as he loved to play standards. Many of his albums combine all of these resources, unified by his fluid, silvery tone and improvisational eloquence. In conversation he would speak of his enduring fondness for Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery, primary influences, and also of the liberating examples of Ornette Coleman and Jimi Hendrix; Bill Evans’s sense of lyricism was also of crucial importance to him. John Abercrombie led a number of very fine bands, and he was particularly proud of his last quartet with Marc Copland on piano, Drew Gress on double bass, and Joey Baron on drums. This quartet released two albums, “39 Steps” and “Up and Coming”, the latter released in January 2017. Highlights in his recording career were many and include the Gateway trio albums with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, the duo albums with Ralph Towner, the Special Editions albums (with DeJohnette, Lester Bowie and Eddie Gomez), Jan Garbarek’s “Eventyr”, Charles Lloyd’s “The Water Is Wide”, Collin Walcott’s “Grazing Dreams” (where John and Don Cherry play together), Enrico Rava’s “The Pilgrim and the Stars”, Kenny Wheeler’s “Deer Wan” … the list goes on.

I didn't even know he'd been ill. A true guitar master and a master of understatement as evidenced by his last album Up And Coming. RIP.

It's showing this week at the Curzon Bloomsbury BerthaDoc screen

Many thanks for this heads up bluesoul. Just bought the Jarrett and Brookmeyer and going to order the Getz.

Apparently this is released today [27.2.17] according to John Warren's Facebook post. It features John Surman, Chris Laurence and John Marshall, plus Guy Barker and others

Talk about a bolt out of the blue. I'd only started a thread on reissues on 11 February about his first time on CD release second eponymously titled album. RIP Larry, one of the true guitar greats.

I assume readers of this thread will now be aware of the sad news that Larry Coryell passed away on Sunday 19 February at the age of 73. RIP Larry. https://jazztimes.com/news/larry-coryell-dies-73/