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I have the limited edition of Lester Young Vol 1, the number is somewhere in the 1200s iirc... good to know it also exists in an unlimited version in case I lose it

This is my only 'limited' Lester Young ... 😂

I'm listening to a disc from the SACD set now. It's true that the soloists are mic'd more directly and "louder," but the bass and drums don't seem "deeply buried in the mix" to me. . . it sounds like many a real club performance I've heard where the horns are mic'd more than the rest of the band. Certainly studio recordings of this Quintet have bass and drums more prominent.

Love this one. A warm and drizzly morning! Going to be a rainy day. I’ll dream away when I can. Starting off with a re-listen to this disc from yesterday as it sounds SO good and the system is warming up with it nicely. “The End and Everything After” Jangeun Bae Trio 170×152 16.8 KB On to MIles Davis "Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel" Tower Records/Sony SACD set disc 5

I also have this CD, as 'LIMITED EDITION NO. 1642 OF 2000" 😂

Agreed, that's why I scanned the back insert. All the other five front covers are just as irrelevant ...

I would have just about (just barely) understood THAT cover "artwork" for a reissue of some down-home country blues. But this??? Booker Little?

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I remember when the entire series was on display at the big Saturn store in Cologne, as a group they actually looked kind of nice... that label made some pretty weird choices for cover art... here's more (often you need to click on the record to find the cover in this design) https://www.discogs.com/label/59478-Jazz-View

I guess I must admire you for looking beyond that off-putting front "artwork" that is so out of tune (literally) with the music and is not far from detracting from the contents. Not a highlight in cover artwork creativity ... (What were they thinking ?)

Who's picking a fight with you? I am just not convinced your "memory" of this is at all accurate. You are a champion of accuracy, so am I. I may be wrong that there was not a complete run defective disc, but I see no evidence that there was. That cdjapan description is for the SACD set that Tower Records released and repressed. One can ASSUME that Sony themselves reused the same Redbook master that was used for that set for the new cd set, and that they also used the same Mosaic Records tapes for the LP set, but. . . that's not necessarily the case, and record labels don't always do logical things. I think further information may be needed to have concrete results.

I have all six volumes of these "Historical Masters" with broadcasts with "Lester Young, The President" ...

yes it is with a slight order modification

That CD is an exact copy of Ambrosia 010 I believe... One big plus of those Ambrosia LPs is that on the back cover there is a nice overview of the contents of about 20 different bootleg LPs of this type (Ambrosia, Session Disc, CP records, ESP Disk, Session Disc, Queen Disc etc etc). Unfortunately, that list does not come with lineups... So those must have been added later and with possible mistakes

Don't have that one, but it seems like that (P.D.) CD reissue wasn't quite up to snuff in its personnel listings for Tracks 8,9,10? No John Lewis. But OTOH - so there was no trumpet (Jesse Drakes) on tracks 11 to 14 after all? Evensmo says so too in his solography. If so, time to correct the "Lestorian Notes" discography there.

That was one of my very first CDs as a kid 30 years ago, back then I didn't get it... But following our recent discussion, I bought a handful of those Boris Rose LPs and it didn't set me back by much (except shelf space)

I'm listening now ...

The four titles from the May 19, 1951 Birdland date were released on the double Storyville CD "100 Years - Forever Young" not that long ago (2010) https://www.discogs.com/release/14877906-Lester-Young-100-Years-Forever-Young?srsltid=AfmBOorOKWj8YAP1b4YX6cWQE7RLvfcg7ipRPmiq2OpnxHDPgkgmAk7u

Thanks John! "Lestorian Notes" lists the above session with most of the LP and Cd releases indicated by Lord but says the pianist is "unknown". So I take it that the Lord disco has the most up-to-date info. So in the end there is nothing that's "never before released". What puzzles me is whether Lester Young live dates really are considered such hot items today that the (incorrect) "unreleased" claim needs to be made to lure unsuspecting buyers into shelling out. Not that I'd imagine the Session Disc 104 or Ambrosia AMB-10, 20 and 30 LPs are that common among collectors. But they are out there, and at least from what I've observed over here, if this sort of "Boris Rose" vinyls come up they sell for almost next to nothing.

October 7 Aaron Parks - 1983