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  1. Adding some different titles from artists listed in the OP: Jack Teagarden - Think Well Of Me (Verve, 1962) - an all-time favorite album of mine, period Henry 'Red' Allen - Feelin' Good (Columbia, 1966) - so fresh, though there is a lot of singing and your mileage may vary there Pee Wee Russell - New Groove (Columbia, 1963) - a great companion piece to Ask Me Now! Louis Armstrong And The All Stars – Satchmo At Pasadena (Decca, 1951) - a great concentrated blast of the All-Stars band Some of these may lean more 'swing' than 'dixieland' but it's in a similar spirit for me: Gus Hoo And His Dixie Stompers – New York Land Dixie (RCA Victor, 1956) - "Gus Hoo" is Billy Butterfield, the Fresh Sound CD is under his name Tyree Glenn - At The Embers (Roulette, 1957) - are there any bad LPs from The Embers? I haven't found one yet Various - Session At Riverside (Capitol, 1957) - Coleman Hawkins, Milt Hinton, Peanuts Hucko, Charlie Shavers, Lou McGarity, et al. (the previous companion volume, Session At Midnight, is also excellent but much more in a swing/East Coast vein) Bobby Hackett - Creole Cookin' (Verve, 1967) - a midsize group with a handful of modernists on board, excellently recorded & deeply swinging George Wein & The Newport All-Stars (Impulse!, 1963) - everybody should hear this one International Jazz Group (Columbia, 1956) - Arvell Shaw, Taft Jordan, Vic Dickinson, Budd Johnson, a.o. Charlie Shavers - Charlie Digs Dixie (MGM, 1959) Ruby Braff & His Men - Easy Now (RCA Victor, 1959) - Ruby Braff deserves his own thread really, all of his LPs from the 50s are wonderful (and of course the ones from after are too, especially the underheard 70s group with George Barnes-- I don't think more than one of these made it to CD) I don't know how heartily I can recommend them, but any of the Red Nichols Capitol LPs from the 50s are a good listen, maybe in smaller doses Keeping in mind your box set allergy, Mosaic put out a lot of fine examples and none of them will put you out more than a few bucks or less in LP form: see the Condon Mob Sessions, Teagarden Roulette & Capitol, Hackett Capitol, and from the Singles series: Ruby Braff - Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny Jonah Jones - At The Embers George Wein & His All-Stars - George Wein Is Alive and Well In Mexico Bud Freeman - Chicago/Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi and again, the Columbia Small Group Swing, Capitol Classic Jazz, and Buck Clayton editions will give you something close to this style. Anyways, this is a fun rabbit hole to go down, and as a vinyl buyer in 2024 it's just amazing how far your dollar can go with these kinds of titles. Very refreshing.
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    Ran Blake

    Love Ran. Dave Fabris confirmed on Facebook the other day that ezz-thetics will be releasing a 2006 duo performance at BIMhuis in the near future. I have every record he's made, but I can understand that's it's not necessarily for everyone. I'll also submit both volumes of Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake for curious listeners; all in all maybe his finest recorded work. These used to be very hard to turn up, and I paid a lot for the CDs many years ago, but they are now very cheap secondhand, as well as available on streaming. I also love his recordings with Sara Serpa, especially Camera Obscura. I will take this space to renew my search for The Complete All That Is Tied Sessions that was released exclusively on emusic.com in 2007. I have asked after this high & low over the years, including with the label and with some of Ran's people-- no one has been able to turn it up. It would be great if the label would re-issue the album with the extra tracks, but that clearly is not in the books. I have almost come to doubt it was ever actually released, however there are a few contemporaneous reviews online.
  3. How about an ABC-Paramount small group jazz set? To narrow it down I would focus on small groups (so no Quincy Jones or Oscar Pettiford Orchestra), studio dates (no live Billy Taylor or Don Elliott live sessions), groups (no Dave McKenna solo piano album), no vocals, from the 1955-57 period when they were doing the most in the modern & swing idioms. That would leave something like this, which would fit on 10-12 discs: ABC 101 - Blues and Other Shades of Green - Urbie Green [1955] ABC 106 - Musical Offering by Don Elliot - Don Elliot [1956] ABC 109 - The Four Most Guitars - Jimmy Rainey [1956] ABC 110 - Swingin' the Vibories - Leonard Feather's West Coast Jazzmen [1956] ABC 111 - Lucky Thompson - Lucky Thompson [1956] ABC 112 - Evergreens - Billy Taylor Trio [1956] ABC 114 - Wailing - Buddy Arnold [1956] ABC 115 - Know Your Jazz - Various Artists [1956] ABC 117 - Tom Stewart Sextette/Quintette - Tom Stewart [1956] ABC 122 - Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets - Kenny Dorham [1956] ABC 125 - Candido - Candido & Al Cohn [1956] ABC 126 - Whitey Mitchell Sextette - Whitey Mitchell Sextette [1956] ABC 129 - Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer - Jimmy Raney/Bob Brookmeyer [1956] ABC 139 - Vinnie Burke All-Stars - Vinnie Burke All-Stars [1956] ABC 141 - Ruby Braff Featuring Dave McKenna - Ruby Braff with Dave McKenna [1956] ABC 155 - Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone Sax - Zoot Sims [1957] ABC 162 - Ira Sullivan with Billy Taylor Trio - Ira Sullivan with Billy Taylor Trio [1957] ABC 167 - In Three Attitudes - Jimmy Raney [1956] ABC 170 - Vinnie Burke String Jazz Quartet - Vinnie Burke [1957] ABC 171 - Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford - Lucky Thompson & Oscar Pettiford [1957] ABC 179 - Calm, Cool and Collette - Buddy Collette [1957] ABC 198 - Zoot Sims Plays Four Altos - Zoot Sims [1957]
  4. You can add Roy Haynes, James Spaulding, George Coleman, Louis Hayes, & Charles Tolliver to the sideman list. In the low-credit arena you could also name Hal Galper, Scotty Holt, Alan Silva, and Andrew Cyrille. I'm sure there are others here & there. re: Haynes & Tolliver, a fun fact is that everyone from the It's Time!!!! session except Jackie are still with us. I think that's the highest percentage of any BN album.
  5. I reached out to Werner and he confirmed that a CD is forthcoming next month, and there will be additional releases in the future.
  6. Curious new release from what looks like another new outpost of WXU's enterprise. I wonder if he plans to press these on CD or if this would be a digital-only thing. Some very intriguing potential here. https://first-archive-visit.bandcamp.com/album/cecil-taylor-unit-live-at-fat-tuesdays-february-9-1980-first-visit
  7. Precisely. I know his post-60s work with WR and solo has a lot of admirers, but that is not a nut I have ever been able to crack. Without A Net is an exception, so I would enjoy hearing more from that band but it's certainly not something that would excite me too much. Salut if this is of interest to you but it's hard to imagine there's anything held by BN that could really move the needle for me at this point.
  8. Yes the booklet is fine and the music is unimpeachable, but if I recall it's NoNoise'd halfway to death.
  9. Specifically, no. But the Mal Waldron Super Quartet - Live At Sweet Basil album from 1987 is close-- Eddie Moore in the drum chair rather than Cyrille.
  10. can't think of a more perfect argument in favor of CDs
  11. Those are both legit I imagine. But there is also a 3-disc set with the complete available tour recordings that has been released in identical form as Live In Europe 1959 (Complete Recordings) on Solar, American Jazz Classics, and Essential Jazz Classics. Those are definitely not legit.
  12. Resonance will be releasing a 4xLP and 3xCD set of the '59 tour. This appears to be essentially a track for track redux of the existing grey market 3-disc set that has been on the around for the last several years on different "labels". But I'll certainly pick it up to check out the sound and read the notes; the package for the '67 set was very well done. Tracklist can be found here for now: https://www.zdigital.com.au/artist/sonny-rollins-(2)/release/freedom-weaver-the-1959-european-tour-recordings-live-37098170
  13. Can't speak to downloads, but no CDs. They still do new releases and first-release archival items (i.e. Blakey, Elvin Jones) on CD but catalog reissues are vinyl only.
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