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86 cds sound like a decent box set to me. 172 LP version for me than. With 100 versions of Giant Steps? 😅

Whoa. I've been (very much) out of the loop as far as the Tiberi tapes. 86 CDs?!? Holy moly. Perhaps Verve/Impulse has culled the best-sounding of the tapes into a logical package? Fun to speculate at least.

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ha! Good warm up technique.

Listened to disc 1 of this great set (I’m eager for the big one coming Friday) Yes “Tales from Topographic Oceans” Steven Wilson remixed box set 250×250 22.4 KB followed by SFJazz Collective “Works of Horace Silver Plus New Compositions” 3 disc set, disc 3

This album makes me think of @soulpope. He loved it. I do too.

I think my first box set was either Passions of a Man or the Atlantic Coltrane. First Mosaic was Sam Rivers.

I saw Louis Sclavis in a duo with Henri Texier (b) in Göttingen on November 7, 1998. Before going on stage, he did push-ups in the dressing room hallway...

10. Unexpected find. "Kool", Mary Lou Williams. w/ Kenny Dorham, Johnny Smith and Gracham Moncur. The women leaders work.

From Ben Ratliff's Coltrane: the Story of a Sound. Many of the recordings were made at Philadelphia's Showboat in the early 1960s. It's all live performances of the classic quartet, although I think some have Roy Haynes on drums instead of Elvin (presumably from the stretch of 1963 when Elvin was out of commission). I have a couple of CD-Rs that someone sent me many years ago that includes Coltrane playing "After The Rain" on piano iirc. Guessing that audio technology 25 years on is more capable of improving the sound quality than it was when digital transfers were made in 2000. Tiberi noticed a big difference in Coltrane in 1960… Not wanting to let this pass undocumented, Tiberi started bringing a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder into clubs to tape Coltrane’s sets… His tapes are important evidence of what Coltrane was up to at the beginning of his bandleading… When Verve records made a digital transfer of Tiberi’s tapes, in 2000, they amounted to eighty-six CDs. The sound quality, however, was deemed (by Tiberi as well as Verve) not to be good enough for release. And so an important part of Coltrane’s story remains locked up, for now. - Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: the Story of a Sound

Three selected concertos from this excellent box set:

My first box set was the Benny Goodman "The Golden Age of Swing' RCA LPT-6703 in 1956. Long gone after I made CDrs from the 5 LPs. My first Mosaic was their second release "The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings of the Original Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentette with Chet Baker" on CD number 102.

nice! Saw him a couple of times in New York. (Sclavis, that is... weirdly never saw Ulmer)

A photo from the event. Chris Cacavas (Green on Red original member) on the keyboards.

I believe my first Mosaic box was the Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis box. Happy music! That was a long time ago. A very long time ago.

Contemporaneous reviews were mixed, focusing on the Hitchcockian parodies. But damn, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Norman, Howie Morris, Ron Glass...virtuosos all, and all in their most top form. Kahn in particular...in a zone... Plus the best Sinatra spoof ever? https://youtu.be/heLBlQgMfo8?si=4r7RUvfMeS-tIg9d

👍👍 I was just reading Tyler King's substack on Fred...

I've never had that CD but it looks up my alley. Saw Boni once (in duo with McPhee, fantastic) but never Jaume.

The first set had recent songs. At the 2nd set they played the whole Medicine Show album.

I'd be curious to read the booklet/liner notes anyway. Have the original LP and The Hard Blues as part of Coon Bid'ness.

Now playing - probably one of the more unusual sax/guitar duet CDs - André Jaume & Raymond Boni's "Pour Django" (CELP). Boni often uses his guitar it to shade Jaume's sax rather than harmonize with it, giving it a rather "atmospheric" sound in places. I've mentioned this before, but I tried to see Jaume perform live for over 30 years, but he never came anywhere near me - at least in a way that I heard about it. During my first months of retirement a couple of years ago, I actually looked into taking a trip to France just to see him, but I couldn't even find him performing there, making me wonder if he has retired from performing entirely. He is 85, so I shouldn't be too surprised if that's the case.

Decided to listen some Milt Jackson with an ensemble, some great players having a good time! Milt Jackson “Night Mist” Pablo/OJC cd