couw Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 I'll point it out again: for fans of mini-LP sleeves, the latest batches issued in digipac came in mini-LP sleeves here in Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkertown Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 Tony, That Universal Consciousness cd will make your whole listening room vibrate with Ms. Coltrane's sprituality!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 Scott, I don't intend to diss the music, and I found the disc surprisingly good, BUT: do you really think this is spirituality? To me, it sounded just very much of its time, and I really would not know if I could describe this music as spriritual. ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 I think of it as spirituality. Spirituality of its time, and timeless. . . . I think it is sincerely meant and about spiritual and metaphysical matters and ideas, and that makes it spiritual to me. Amazing orchestrations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 I think of it as spirituality. Spirituality of its time, and timeless. . . . I think it is sincerely meant and about spiritual and metaphysical matters and ideas, and that makes it spiritual to me. Amazing orchestrations! Maybe you are right, Lon. Maybe one should see the whole trend to spirituality in those years as of its time, and yet meant true. I remember now having read a chapter in a book of J.E. Behrendt on this topic. I shall look at that again, having in memory it was interesting. About the orchestrations, you're certainly right! Amazing music, very textural, beautiful music! ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphie_boy Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 I picked up the Sergio Mendes recently through BMG when they were running a $6.99 sale with no shipping. It's short, but sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrdlu Posted December 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 Heartily agreed! All the 60s and early 70s Mendes albums are terrific. I couldn't resist getting the recent Japanese CDs of them all. Great stuff, and it makes a change from straight jazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 Remember that Zweitausendeins has them only for two or three months, until they run out of stock. I pick up several, musically most are very good, e.g. the Billy Mitchell, Al Grey, Jimmy Giuffre, John Klemmer etc. Only a few I still have to pick up: Alice Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Sam Rivers - although I dislike those mini-Lps as they do not fit into my CD rack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 Already going out of print eh? It's a sign of my age that this stuff is vanishing before I even got around to studying the list... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkertown Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 (edited) Scott, I don't intend to diss the music, and I found the disc surprisingly good, BUT: do you really think this is spirituality? To me, it sounded just very much of its time, and I really would not know if I could describe this music as spriritual. ubu What jazzbo (lonson) said. I listened to it this morning after reading your inquiry, ubu. Maybe not side 1(first two tracks are weird, to me), but side 2 is definitely a spiritual offering, Alice Coltrane style. I loved it again! Especially with the subwoofer on! I can feel COSMIC vibrations! Edited December 16, 2003 by Parkertown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 Scott, I don't intend to diss the music, and I found the disc surprisingly good, BUT: do you really think this is spirituality? To me, it sounded just very much of its time, and I really would not know if I could describe this music as spriritual. ubu What jazzbo (lonson) said. I listened to it this morning after reading your inquiry, ubu. Maybe not side 1(first two tracks are weird, to me), but side 2 is definitely a spiritual offering, Alice Coltrane style. I loved it again! Especially with the subwoofer on! I can feel COSMIC vibrations! Yeah, COSMIC MUSIC!... I got to listen to it sometimes around x-mas again... ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrdlu Posted December 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 David, they are not certainly going to disappear soon, it's just that I suspect this, based partly on what Universal's Ken Druker said about them pressing only one batch of each - enough, supposedly, to last until the expiry date printed on the wrappers. Plus, the expiry date on the first ones is getting closer. On the subject of the sound on these, I was disappointed with the Steve Kuhn CD, after hearing several yummy Japanese CDs recently. It does not have much presence, but this may be the original engineering - who knows. I sure like the replica of the Impulse gatefold cover, though. The only ones where I can compare the remastering with that on other versions are "Equinox" (Japanese much better, what else is new) and the Mulligan at the Vanguard (Malcolm Addey's work, in the Mosaic set, is superior, though the mini LP one sounds quite good). In the case of the Mulligan, once again I like the gatefold cover, and I keep it in the Mosaic box. (That solves the storage problem, Mike. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 In the case of the Mulligan, once again I like the gatefold cover, and I keep it in the Mosaic box. (That solves the storage problem, Mike. ) Now if only there were Mosaics for all the rare stuff the Verve group has in the vaults .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street singer Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Here is a list of the Verve Mini-LP discs currently available from BMG: Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, 1975: The Duets (A&M) Oscar Peterson, Soul Espanol (Verve) Stan Getz & The Cool Sounds (Verve) Willie Bobo, A New Dimension (Verve) Astrud Gilberto, The Shadow Of Your Smile (Verve) Wes Montgomery, Willow Weep For Me (Verve) Dizzy Gillespie, Afro (Verve) Gerry Mulligan & CJB, At the Village Vanguard (Verve) Count Basie, King of Swing (Clef) Stan Kenton, The Formative Years (Decca) Woody Herman, Woody 1963 (Philipps) Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66, Equinox (A&M) Anita O’Day, Incomparable (Verve) Mel Tormé Goes South of The Border with Billy May (Verve) Alice Coltrane, Universal Consciousness (Impulse!) Archie Shepp, Attica Blues (Impulse!) Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve) Phil Woods & His European Rhythm Machine At The Montreux Jazz Festival (MGM) Stan Getz, Reflections (Verve) Jimmy Giuffre, The Easy Way (Verve) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Two new batches are now listed at Verve's site: 3/9/04 Mel Brown - Chicken Fat (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Gloria Coleman - Soul Sisters (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Archie Shepp - The Cry Of My People (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records 3/23/04 John Frigo - I Love John Frigo...He Swings (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records Roger Kellaway - Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet (LPR) - Reissue - A&M Jazz Lyle Ritz - How About Uke (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records Tony Scott - Tony Scott (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records Stuff Smith - Cat On A Hot Fiddle (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records I wonder whether the Stuff Smith release somehow is linked to the Mosaic problem. Verve cancelled a planned Stuff Smith LPR last year, but that was of another title ("Sweet Swingin' Stuff"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Thanks Swinging Swede, some nice stuff (not only Smith) there. Where on the Verve website did you get this list? I'm trying to get some info on the Tony Scott disc but can't find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Click on ”Buzz” and then on ”Release schedule”. I don’t know what the Tony Scott is either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 I'm happy to see the Shepp, that's a cool one! Odd, two Shepps in less than a year's time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 I'll get me these three, for sure: Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Gloria Coleman - Soul Sisters (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse! Records Been waiting for the Lateefs for years! How's the Mel Brown? And the Johnny Frigo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Very glad to see Soul Sisters appearing. Lots of Grant Green on this. My vinyl is seriously worn. I'm also psyched about the Johnny Frigo and Tony Scott (though I don't know what Scott & Frigo albums these are) and curious about Kellaway's cello album which I've heard about. Mel Brown is a guitarist, I believe--any word on Chicken Fat (Must be Greasy)? Or The Golden Flute? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 Wouldn't the Tony Scott album be 'Music for Zen Meditation'? This has been one of Verve's constant bestseller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 "Music for Zen Meditiation" (Verve Master Edition) and "Music for Yoga and other joys" (Verve By Request) are both already in the current Verve catalogue. BTW, on the Tony Scott homepage there is a detailed bio of his activities in the 50's: http://www.tonyscott.it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 (edited) Thanks for the link, Claude. I guess I'm hoping that the Tony Scott reissue will be his 1958 Coral album, 52nd Street Scene. Wouldn't his Victor work make an excellent Mosaic project? Edited January 16, 2004 by Hank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 Thanks for the link, Claude. I guess I'm hoping that the Tony Scott reissue will be his 1958 Coral album, 52nd Street Scene. Wouldn't his Victor work make an excellent Mosaic project? That '52nd Street Scene' Coral album is a marvel. Tony Scott picked great musicians for the various sessions: Joe Thomas, Higginbotham, Pee Wee Russell, Pettiford, Denzil Best for the early scene tracks, Red Rodney, Jimmy Knepper, Al Cohn, George Wallington, Pettiford, Roy Haynes for the bebop scene. Plus others. And I'll second the Mosaic Tony Scott RCA box. There were also a lot of superb music there. Wish I could get excited about his Verve albums but I can't! I'm not zen enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 17, 2004 Report Share Posted January 17, 2004 Another vote for a Tony Scott RCA Mosaic! There was so much interesting music made between 1945 and 1955! The Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet was on A&M - have the LP. Its is pretty "classicistical", no drums, and Emil Richards' percussion has a very subdued part to play. The cellist plays arco most of the time in a pretty classical attitude with a wide vibrato. I keep the disc, but it's an acquired taste. I suggest you have a listen if you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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