Bluesnik

Yes, that's true: they're changing their policy of being as obscure as possible about sources, to giving more detailed information and even repros of the original covers (see the Lucky Thompson set of parisian Small Group Sessions, which won a French reissue project prize) as of lately.

A very good box. One need only have a look at those involved.

I once read about them but they were a fan released rarity that was unavailable at the time. I didn't know anybody had rereleased them. Thanks for reminding me.

And Jim, I'll follow your advice.

I was listening to this exact trio the other night on the Basie/Young Mosaic. Very, very good. https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-The-Complete-Bitches-Brew-Sessions/master/51315 Or this longbox version, or the 40th anniversary edition. https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-Bitches-Brew/release/7080006 Thanks, Mike. Now I know what to look for. I think it will be the longbox, rather than the 40th anniversary edition.

Among these there is a very fine Jim Hall live recording from 75 (I think), which I have as one of those mini-LPs Universal or Verve released domestically at the beginnings of the 2000s.

I'm on a Miles binge lately, pulling out pieces here and there. Maybe because I'm rereading his autobiography. But this is great. I'm looking out for Bitches Brew, which I don't have. Is it in one of the volumes Sony/Legacy put out in the nineties, one of which was devoted to the second quintet and others to his work with Gil Evans?

That album is also one of my favorite Baker albums. With top shelf European musicians (Rene Thomas and Bobby Jaspar among them) and recorded in Rome in the normally weak Baker 60s it is very good.

I love that Barclay album, which must be contained in the Barclay sessions mentioned above. It's with Dick Twardzik, one of the best pianists he ever played with. But I also love the Mulligan/Baker quartet, mentioned before. Being a big Baker fan I think what I like most (as in most artists cases) are his early works.

I have a Taschen edition from some years ago. Though I remember browsing through that Rock Lexikon (a combination of the drawings from Rock Dreams and a kind of rock encyclopedia) back in my school days, that went from hand to hand. It was so used that all the leaves would come apart.

Thanks.

Yes, that's true. I also thought it.

and Guy Peellaert & Nik Cohn's Rock Dreams...

I recently got this through a third party seller frem amazon, and I really like it, specially the first session with Charlie Christian (playing unamplified here) and Meade Lux Lewis on celeste. It's a drumless session.

Before (haven't been able to post recently): With Jim Hall playing alongside Jimmy Raney on Street Swingers. And Hall further on. And now: Which also features Brookmeyer heavily. In fact only Mulligan and Brookmeyer solo mainly.

Yes, I also missed the board very much. I visit daily.

Me too too.

I'd love to see BN reissue more material from that era or before. Plus a really nice cover picture, with Tiny Grimes' Gibson amp sitting on a stool.

I saw it last october in a music documentary festival in Barcelona.

Same thoughts here. Count me in.

I'm on a Bebop kick these last days.

The Goodman trios with Teddy Wilson, Jimmy Rowles and Mel Powell on piano and drums.

I know Manfredo Fest from the sixties, but not from such a late vintage.

Just a two-CD set but it's like a small boxset with a fat booklet with lots of good photographs.

Though what I most like by him is his trio with Barney Kessel and also Ray Brown, best found on his Mosaic.