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I picked up three albums from this series from Amazon UK: Monty Alexander's Rass, Ira Kris's Jazzanova and Michael Naura's Call. Really good sound. The CD's come with a slip cover over the jewel case but the booklet cover contains the original album artwork. Well done reissues IMO.

Is this a first time on CD for the Alexander and Naura albums?

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Looks like a pretty uninteresting bunch to me, I'm afraid ... the Sun Ra was out previously as a double CD set, the Joe Henderson was in print for a loooong time (same mid/late 90s MPS series done by Motor Music), some of these are beyond light music (Kovac goes to the moon), though the Jim Hall I will have to get (only have a cheapo vinyl of it, not with the gorgeous foldout cover, alas, but some later pressing), maybe the Hank Jones, Golowin/Gulda, and also the Iturralde.

Let's hope they'll do more and also go places the recent series by Most Perfect Sound Edition (who are no longer allowed to do any MPS reissues alas, by new owner Edel Music) went. I have a Japanese edition of the Shepp and Donaueschingen and Cherry's "Eternal Rhythm", but these do deserve to be widely heard! Most Perfect Sound did the Taylor solo one (but where's "Black Forest", please? Not sure Edel cares though, they might offer digital, but there I guess I don't care), the Tchicai, the Wilens and a few other fine albums. Not sure Edel will bother with that or if they stick to mainstream jazz and crappy club sounds (or rather stuff that appeals to that kinda crowd).

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Looks like a pretty uninteresting bunch to me, I'm afraid ... the Sun Ra was out previously as a double CD set, the Joe Henderson was in print for a loooong time (same mid/late 90s MPS series done by Motor Music), some of these are beyond light music (Kovac goes to the moon), though the Jim Hall I will have to get (only have a cheapo vinyl of it, not with the gorgeous foldout cover, alas, but some later pressing), maybe the Hank Jones, Golowin/Gulda, and also the Iturralde.

Let's hope they'll do more and also go places the recent series by Most Perfect Sound Edition (who are no longer allowed to do any MPS reissues alas, by new owner Edel Music) went. I have a Japanese edition of the Shepp and Donaueschingen and Cherry's "Eternal Rhythm", but these do deserve to be widely heard! Most Perfect Sound did the Taylor solo one (but where's "Black Forest", please? Not sure Edel cares though, they might offer digital, but there I guess I don't care), the Tchicai, the Wilens and a few other fine albums. Not sure Edel will bother with that or if they stick to mainstream jazz and crappy club sounds (or rather stuff that appeals to that kinda crowd).

agreed - although sonically not as good as most of the Universal Germany/Austria and japanese MPS titles reissued in the late 90`s me believe "Most Perfect Sound" did a decent job, whereas the new releases licensed by Edel are at least presentationwise another downgrade....and as rightly mentioned, there is number of MPS releases (for example SOLAL !!!!!!!!!) which haven`t seen reissue in ANY of the former series but Edel starts again with stuff having been available before.......somehow sad (at least for the dedicated collector......probably not presenting a target group being of interest ...)

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Yeah, Solal, too! I've bought two or three of his MPS albums on vinyl by now (and have the one that was issued on CD - at least the one that was around everywhere, that is), so I forgot mentioning him. There's also "ZoKoSo" which took me a while to find - part of Universal's own MPS series which after all was more daring than this new Edel series - they got at least Mangelsdorff and - almost - Hans Koller right there - still would love to get the missing Koller ones as well ... and "Ellerine Harding", please!.

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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 :rmad:

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Looks like a pretty uninteresting bunch to me, I'm afraid ... the Sun Ra was out previously as a double CD set, the Joe Henderson was in print for a loooong time (same mid/late 90s MPS series done by Motor Music), some of these are beyond light music (Kovac goes to the moon), though the Jim Hall I will have to get (only have a cheapo vinyl of it, not with the gorgeous foldout cover, alas, but some later pressing), maybe the Hank Jones, Golowin/Gulda, and also the Iturralde.

I recently bought the Jim Hall in a reasonably-priced edition from Japan:

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-6113

Back in the day, I had the Sun Ra and the Archie Shepp. I think it's the only Shepp album I've liked; very intense, though.

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Any idea when the Basie and the Joe Henderson were recorded?

The Henderson's from 1980 and is real good indeed.

Mine looks like this:

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http://www.allmusic.com/album/mirror-mirror-mw0000102031

The Basie was recorded in Chicago in 1969 - not his best time I'd say. Line-up has Lockjaw though ...

Gene Goe, Oscar Brashear, Sonny Cohn (tp), Waymon Reed (tp,flh), Frank Hooks, Melvin Wanzo, Grover Mitchell (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Marshal Royal (as,cl), Bobby Plater (as,fl), Eric Dixon (ts,fl), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bari), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Norman Keenan (b,el-b), Harold Jones (ds)

Seems it was also on Groove Merchant back in the day, and on a Verve CD later on.

Looks like a pretty uninteresting bunch to me, I'm afraid ... the Sun Ra was out previously as a double CD set, the Joe Henderson was in print for a loooong time (same mid/late 90s MPS series done by Motor Music), some of these are beyond light music (Kovac goes to the moon), though the Jim Hall I will have to get (only have a cheapo vinyl of it, not with the gorgeous foldout cover, alas, but some later pressing), maybe the Hank Jones, Golowin/Gulda, and also the Iturralde.

I recently bought the Jim Hall in a reasonably-priced edition from Japan:

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-6113

Back in the day, I had the Sun Ra and the Archie Shepp. I think it's the only Shepp album I've liked; very intense, though.

The Shepp falls in his very best period I think.

Thanks for the link to the Hall - guess I might go for the new one though, if only to check out the series.

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Well no, why, it's all been out :crazy:

Sorry, couldn't resist ... but I guess this indeed does make sensse as the audience is probably pretty small. It is a pity though that Universal didn't keep their Mangelsdorff reissues in print longer, prices have indeed gone through the roof quite a while ago (except for the two double disc sets, "Solo" and "Live", which can still be had for fairly acceptable prices in used condition, it seems).

The Mangelsdorff and Koller reissues were the best part of Universal's short-lived MPS reissue programme, I shall think. Though they also gave us some off-kilter things such as little box-sets by Art van Damme and Eugen Cicero and a few single reissues that absolutely deserve mention (Annie Ross/Pony Poindexter, Art Farmer in Vienna, Don Menza ...). I guess the fact the series didn't live all that long means there was pretty limited interested, so actually, all things considered, I'm rather surprised anyone thinks they can exploit it in a profitable way again (and I guess that goal, to make profit, explains all the odd club jazz crappy choices Edel made ... or maybe theire producer in charge just loves that kinda light music?)

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No the ones I mean were later and added up to the complete Mangelsdorff on MPS. Universal's earlier series (that was intially all digipacks) included one:

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And then, they added the whole sheband - two double discs (live and solo) and two five disc sets (regular jewel cases with cardboard around them) with all the remaining studio albums - not duplicating "And His Friends"):

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The earlier ones you had in mind were these (Motor Music, same series as the Henderson I depicted, and the 2CD edition of the Sun Ra I mentioned):

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Was personally never too fond of Mangelsdorff`s playing, nevertheless step by step evolved a sort of soft spot for his 1979 live recording with Arild Andersen (bass) ans Pierre Favre (drums) titled "Triplicity" and released on the Skip label.....

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I might go for the Lionel Hampton album with Milt Buckner. Nothing else is of interest to me. I always thought that the MPS label was a bit too much like jazz.

MG

Well, they had a Buddy Tate rekkid, specially for you:

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Oh, I didn't notice that one. Yes, indeed! Thanks for pointing it out. Is it the material from '54, previously available on Black & Blue?

MG

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Was personally never too fond of Mangelsdorff`s playing, nevertheless step by step evolved a sort of soft spot for his 1979 live recording with Arild Andersen (bass) ans Pierre Favre (drums) titled "Triplicity" and released on the Skip label.....

Oh yes, that one's very good indeed!

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