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That Cuscuna sure had a nice head of hair!

Almost all of these have been released on CD (at least in Japan) and are available for digital download. It seems a few previously unreleased bonus tracks have been added, but I wonder how much the sound quality has actually improved? Personally, these are my favorite Oscar Peterson albums. I think We Get Requests, Night Train, and West Side Story are well-known, but The Oscar Peterson Trio Plays in particular is a hidden gem—it’s wonderful. The groove on Shiny Stockings is especially great! The Sinatra songs and Jazz Soul are a bit understated for Peterson, but that’s what makes them so good—he doesn’t overplay them. Con Alma from the latter album is a personal favorite. Canadian Suite, which showcases his compositional skills, is also excellent. While I feel the MPS recordings have become a bit flashy and clichéd in their performance style, they do a great job of capturing the beauty of Peterson’s piano sound.

Great idea. Send these to Scott!

A 1975 Bremen Recording of Miles. That would be cool. I like the period how he played in 1973-75 most !

I see him listed on Savoy as “Jazz Eyes,” not Star Eyes, unless that is something else.

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Black Lion has some treasures. I have some of them. Essen Jazz Festival Allstars, Don Byas at Montmatre, Bud Powell Blues for Bouffemont, HotHouse, Strictly Confidential. And this one is the one I love most NOW, since I listen more to the religious forms of jazz, Pharoah Sanders, late Trane and Albert Ayler....

Thanks, I've now read the discography. FWIW, Fiorello got a stand-alone Japanese CD release, https://www.discogs.com/release/14206878-The-Oscar-Peterson-Trio-Fiorello

Live at Montreux 1973

"First official release from the Monk estate"? What about: Released by the Monk estate in 2002? https://www.discogs.com/release/7786257-Thelonious-Live-In-Paris-Vol-3

Oh they were in Viena also. But I missed it. Seems to be similar to the 3-Vinyl set "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" that I bought as a teenager. It was my first Mingus record and anyway my second jazz record. Made me decide to become a musician. A step I never regretted. This group was great. I have another record, from later, but it has only Cliff Jordan, Danny Richmond. Dolphy left, Byard left and one Jane Getz is on piano. So it´s only quartet but they really cook, same tunes "Fables" and "Meditations""!

Well I can´t trace it, I bought that CBS double album when I was 18 and was thrilled by the liner notes. But that´s not my point. I am strictly music, and must say, I learned a lot from that record, how to play fast tempos. How to get near to Bud Powells solos on Little Willie Leaps and Dizzy Atmoshpere, to learn how to phrase, to have control over the keyboard. Well now I don´t play that kind of music for money, I have to look on what sounds is now, but just for fun, once in a while a straight bop session is nice if you do it in a hip manner for the younger audience. The only thing I can say, who ever it was, if it was one Chubby Newsome or Jimmy Scott it sounds horrible, and I like only the instrumental solos. Anyway I think even the critic said, that Bird and Fats "rescued" the tune. yeah, it sounds ugly

And here is the link: https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/classic-oscar-peterson-studio-sessions-8cds/ Actually the "My Fair Lady and Fiorello" cd release was West German (and a US release?)

I also have that same CD referred to above by Ken.

I have been listening to "Falling In Love Is Wonderful" by Jimmy Scott. I find his singing really terrific. And the song selection is first rate. My one caveat is the orchestral background. It is ok, but to my taste, a jazz group providing support with a few tasty jazz solos would have raised the session up a notch or two. If I recall correctly, Jimmy Scott's earlier album - "All The Way" had some nice solos by David "Fathead" Newman, which added just that special jazz flavor that was a big plus.

I was sent the LP version of this release. I've owned this CD for decades: "Epistrophy" may have been edited prior to its original broadcast.

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Any new chatter or hearsay reported elsewhere yet as to how many CDs this is going to be?

We just received a promo of this, the first official release from the Monk estate. Be forewarned that (1) there are no notes outside of a brief Q and A with T.S. Monk on the inner sleeve (2) "Epistrophy," a 9:45 performance, is badly truncated and runs about a minute and a half (3) it's a CD-R. Hopefully volume 2 comes out better. I'm sure some board members have previous unofficial versions of this concert.. might wanna keep 'em for the time being.

Charles Mingus: Mingus In Europe. Enja Records ENJA CD 3077 [Germany 1988] Personnel: Clifford Jordan (ts), Eric Dolphy (as, fl, b-cl), Jaki Byard (p), Charles Mingus (b), Dannie Richmond (dr)

There is a Discography button on that page, it's just to the right of "Description & Audio Clips" But, here it is in copy/paste form:

On board for this!