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My first musical nightmare since Greece's banking collapse starts. The Greek credit cards are blocked by our banking system for purchases abroad. However some cards may escape. So I tried to place my Mosaic order for the Sam Rivers Select. Cross your fingers...

Wish to you and your people all the best to overcome this problematic situation ...... Wow. My best wishes. Just got my set too. I know this release is not ideal given that no proceeds are going to SR himself. But if the first CD is any indication, this is a glorious set. For me, it has a chance of getting up there with "Plugged Nickel" and Shelley Manne's "Black Hawk" recordings. I too would like to hear whether there are any European dates that have good sound quality like this release. Thanks guys!

This is a marvelous set. The SQ also. I am enjoying it a lot, all the more since it is one of the last purchases I managed to do before the banks collapse in Greece, the capital controls and especially the limitation of use of all credit/debit cards only within Greece... Let's see.

Has "Basra" ever been released as RVG remaster? Thanks.

Father's Day at Mosaic reflected at the shipping charges.

I got the Dial box and Tolliver Big Band Select.

http://jazztimes.com/articles/163113-sony-legacy-to-release-erroll-garner-s-concert-by-the-sea-as-3-cd-box Nice! 06/15/15 Sony Legacy to Release Erroll Garner’s “Concert By the Sea” as 3-CD Box Bonus material includes unreleased tracks and interviews By JazzTimes Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing Corporation will release Erroll Garner’s The Complete Concert By the Sea as a three-CD box set on September 18, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the original concert. The complete live concert recording, which Legacy said in a press release was newly uncovered by the Erroll Garner Jazz Project, is being digitally remastered. The project is produced by pianist Geri Allen (who is also the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh) and producer Steve Rosenthal. The box set contains the complete live Concert By the Sea, including 11 previously unreleased tracks, the original edited Columbia release from 1956 and bonus material, including interviews with the Erroll Garner trio: Denzil DaCosta Best, Eddie Calhoun and Garner himself, recorded directly after the concert. Liner note writers include Allen, UCLA American Studies Professor Robin D.G. Kelley and jazz writer Dan Morgenstern. TRACK LISTING FOR COMPLETE CONCERT DISC ONE 1) Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased) 2) Night And Day (Previously unreleased) 3) Spring Is Here (Previously unreleased) 4) I'll Remember April 5) The Nearness Of You (Previously unreleased) 6) Where Or When 7) Sweet And Lovely (Previously unreleased) 8) Lullaby Of Birdland (Previously unreleased) 9) Mambo Carmel 10) Teach Me Tonight 11) Will You Still Be Mine(Previously unreleased) 12) I Cover The Waterfront (Previously unreleased) 13) Bernie's Tune (Previously unreleased) 14) How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me? 15) It's All Right DISC TWO 16) Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased) 17) They Can't Take That Away From Me 18) Autumn Leaves 19) S'Wonderful (Previously unreleased) 20) Laura(Previously unreleased) 21) Red Top 22) April In Paris 23) Caravan (Previously unreleased) 24) Erroll's Theme / Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased) TRACK LISTING FOR ORIGINAL EDITED CONCERT DISC THREE 1) I’ll Remember April 2) Teach Me Tonight 3) Mambo Carmel 4) Autumn Leaves 5) It’s All Right With Me 6) Red Top 7) April in Paris 8) They Can’t Take That Away From Me? 9) How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me 10) Where or When 11) Erroll’s Theme 12) Post Concert Interview: Will Thornbury with Erroll Garner, Eddie Calhoun, Denzil DaCosta Best: September 19, 1955 (Previously unreleased)

I had no idea they now offer cheaper options for Int'l shipping. Very good news.

This one was not available for quite some time: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-99182

If it was not mentioned before, the US/EU Blu-ray audio by Herbie Hancock is remastered by Grundman (Isles), Vosgien (Isles bonus tracks) and Yoshida (Maiden Voyage). Are these the HD-tracks and/or the 75th anniv. LP series remasters? EDIT: while the sticker says 24/96, the rear sleeve mentions "MINIMUM 24/192 audio matererial". Any idea what files are actually included? Same as with the japanese blu-ray audios? Both are listed as PCM. Alex

Hey There is surely the best for the money because you also get 10 of 11 tracks issued as Babe's Blues, and holy bleeep, the unissued track from that day's session, "Billy Boy," is a burner. And as a very nice added bonus, there is a quite extended series of fours between Gene and the under-appreciated Bill Dowdy. Superb! I agree. A wonderful disc this SHM-CD. Cuscuna mentions in his note, that this unissued Billy Boy rec is from the same 8/13/61 session that produces all other tracks from this CD, while the issued version was from a later session (as you may know of course). By the way, Donald Byrd's New Perspective finally found a great easy to the ear remastering in this latest batch of SHM-CDs. The RVG is really hard to the ear. Highly recommended this SHM as well.

Mine as well. The french BMG CD from 1995. This is its rear card:

Me too. Thanks Larry. And I remember how much I enjoy this one as well:

.... That Gil/Kikuchi thing is a monster, highly recommended. It's more like the CD version of There Comes A Time than the LP version, if you know what I mean. Please elaborate...! Thanks. cdjapan.co.jp is my favorite way.

I went for Basie/Beatles and Standing Ovation, Gil Evans/Priestess and Kikuchi, Bley/77, and Buddy Rich/Mercy mercy (hoping for a better remastering than in the current release). This is the listing auto-translated: ◇ Count Basie / Basie picks The Winners (UCCU-90118) ◇ Count Basie / Basie At Newport 57 (UCCU-90119) ◇ Count Basie / standing ovation (UCCU-90120) ◇ Count Basie / Ella and Basie (UCCU-90121) ◇ Count Basie / Beishizu Beetle bag (UCCU-90122) ◇ Thad Jones = Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra / New Life (UCCU-90123) ◇ Thad Jones = Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra / Central Park North (UCCU-90124) ◇ Thad Jones = Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra / Live At The Village Vanguard (UCCU-90125) ◇ Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis & Friends (UCCU-90126) ◇ Gil Evans / Kikuchi Masaaki WITH Gil Evans (UCCU-90127) ◇ Gil Evans / out-of-cool (UCCU-90128) ◇ Gil Evans / Into The hot (UCCU-90129) ◇ Gil Evans / individuality and development (UCCU-90130) ◇ Gil Evans / Purisutisu (UCCU-90131) ◇ Quincy Jones / I think of jazz (UCCU-90132) ◇ Quincy Jones / Walking-in-a-space (UCCU-90133) ◇ Quincy Jones / The Quintessence (UCCU-90134) ◇ Quincy Jones / Quincy Jones At Newport '61 (UCCU-90135) ◇ Quincy Jones / Great Wide World of Quincy Jones (UCCU-90136) ◇ Buddy Rich / THIS ONES FOR Basie (UCCU-90137) ◇ Buddy Rich / Mercy, Mercy - Live At Shizasu Palace 1968 (UCCU-90138) ◇ Oliver Nelson / Live From Los Angeles (UCCU-90139) ◇ Carla Bley / Live (UCCU-90140) ◇ Carla Bley / European Tour 1977 (UCCU-90141) ◇ Benny Carter / Father di Fini Schons (UCCU-90142) ◇ Benny Carter / Addition-to-Father Definishonzu (UCCU-90143) ◇ Dizzy Gillespie / At Newport (UCCU-90144) ◇ Duke Ellington / Soul Call (UCCU-90145) ◇ Count Basie / Montreux '77 (UCCO-90391) ◇ Woody Herman / Giant Steps (UCCO-90392) http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/big-band?productPage=1 Enjoy Alex

Permit me to note that this writing by Dutton is not clear enough. It would have indeed been if they had wrote that the LP was "cut from the original analogue master stereo tape". Unless Dutton has INDEED access to the original tape (I refer to Sidewinder's message earlier in this thread - thanks!) but they do not want to get in trouble with the original/legitimate owner (Universal?) of the original master tape by mentioning it.

I had to go back and listen to this track. Do you perhaps mean Ray Brown's cello solo? Buster Williams does have a 32-bar walking break around 3:50, which starts out with a cool arpeggiated riff, but it doesn't shout "solo," at least when I hear it. Regardless, fine playing all around. You are right, of course. It is the cello solo by Ray Brown.

I think this was not mentioned for the CD version: "Cut direct from analogue stereo tapes by renowned mastering engineer Noel Summerville and pressed on 180g virgin vinyl, “Hum Dono” has never sounded better. " Of course the key word "original" is missing... So, since most probably the original master tapes are still missing, perhaps they refer to a fully analogue transfer from a pristine original LP to an "analogue stereo tape" and then cut to vinyl (without converting it first to a hi-rez digital file), perhaps?

Nothing is written in english for this matter and I do not have the remix. However, I can say that I am very impressed by the interplay in the session. And Charles Williams' bass solos at Coleman's "The Sphinx" are a wonder (I was not prepared to listen to such sound in a BN record). If this CD had not been mentioned earlier in this thread, I would not have purchased it. Thanks! Alex

Sonny Clark's Leapin' and Lopin' sounds wonderful - I am embarassed to say I never had it in any other format. It sounds wonderful - very natural - great transfer. But beyond all, the session is a treasure - but you know that..

Many thanks for your time checking it. Alex

Speaking of concerti, she is unique with Prokofiev's 1st and 3rd piano concerti (the former with ex-husband Dutoit, the latter with Abbado or Dutoit), Ravel's one in G (her peak with Abbado), her own favorite Schumann Piano concerto with Chailly in Leipzig (DVD or Blu-ray) and Rachmaninov's 3rd again with Chailly. Also the Tchaikovsky one with Kondrashin (Philips) is perhaps the best ever captured. Her Beethoven with Abbado are strangely heavy-handed and finally not interesting. However, the live experience of an Argerich concert is a formidable event to treasure. Unpredictable encores and finally a genuine feeling of real music-making. She once proposed to perform Rachmaninov's 3rd at the ancient Roman Theatre below Acropolis and the Parthenon, but her fee could not be met by the promoters. A shame. In her latest 3-day residency in Athens as Argerich and Friends, she offered her fees to the upaid - due to Greece's financial collapse - musicians of the Athens Camerata orchestra (renamed as Armonia Atenea when they play with period instruments - they have recorded various praised CDs under George Petrou for Decca lately). What a personality!

I did the same!

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP. Is it the same with any of yours? BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up. Alex

Friday 3/27: DAVID MURRAY TRIO in Athens!