David Ayers

Thanks Simon! Needle drops they self-evidently were, those Japanese and subsequent issues. Filled a gap, though - but not as much as this fine-looking box. Congratulations!

Thank you for looking that up! I didn’t know how to do that. Yes, I believe it was 1999, as Ashby left the Padres that year. The fact I misremembered proves my point about not fully appreciating what you see as a novice spectator. Thanks again for checking that for me. Very pleased to have my memory corrected!

First game I ever saw was probably the best - Andy Ashby shut out the Dodger$ for a 1-0 Padres win - no longer remember who he was up against. That was as tight a game as you will ever see, but I wasn’t familiar enough with baseball to really appreciate it. Got the hang of it more since then - Go Padres! - but the find points escape me, as they still do with cricket...

On the last leg. So good. Next up, Tristano /Konitz. Meanwhile in the car, Fifties Hank, all the way through. Oh yes.

Couple of new tunes, mostly alternates. Im tempted by this at the price but I’m put off by the shipping, duty and post office fees. Hm.

“Finally, I get to be famous!”

Looking forward to the new incarnation of Trance Map on Intakt http://www.intaktrec.ch/329-a.htm

27 tracks from the 49 in the new set are in the Galaxy. Or maybe 50. The track lists at Goldmine and at Omnivore differ.

Working through the Giuffre from start to finish. Although the box booklet and inserts turned to dust in the sunlight. Disks play fine.

My link above is to my copy of that booklet, for people who want to check.

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AheoswUXGQrlynrY_zYs2tuSjBYd

Ha ha. No. A European supplier was selling off quite a few of these sets at a Euro per disc. Some people did get booklets and boxes but I was at the tail end. It was the period where manufacturers generally were dumping CDs as their stock models were ceasing to work. The SQ of the Pepper is of its time, shall we say, so maybe the new issue will make the most of the Artists House tapes. That label was audiophile in intent, and in fact the Pepper Galaxies are also very nicely recorded. Not sure that you guys are interpreting the contents correctly though. I think a lot is not in the Galaxy box.

My copy of the Galaxy box cost me 16 euros, no box or booklet. Such a tightwad.

The Armstrong Columbia and Victor Live set is also out there - it appeared last year in fact. Missing from your capitol list is Kenton Presents..., Buddy Rich (6 out of 7 discs!), maybe one or two others...

It’s likely that others will follow, like the batch of Capitol/Blue Notes. Very welcome!

There’s not a Mosaic set you couldn’t get through in a day - some of them before brunch - so not quite as much work as an encyclopaedia. These days I play mine in the car. I know, right?

Couldn’t see that on my phone. I was going by the date on the left.

It’s probably just the 2018 reissue mistakenly listed as new!

AND, not on the Hat website yet, Mengelberg’s Two Days in Chicago is being reissued. https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8651481--two-days-in-chicago

FWIW, Presto have a sale on Hat titles (not these new issues).

By the way, Presto are the uk distributor for Hat, which is why they have this pre-info. UK-ites may already know that they have a substantial jazz department alongside their main classical department.

Thanks for working that out. I have those (important!) LPs but don't recall what their CD history has been. Maybe this one at least is no bad thing even if the Brown, uh, could be different...

So the curiously titled releases from these two artists look like being compilations...? You tell me... https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8650240--marion-brown-1965-1966-with-alan-shorter-capricorn-moon-to-juba-lee Here, then, is the early work of two men who in most important regards overturned the conventional image of the jazz musician as hard-drinking, drug-using, spontaneous rather than measured, inclined to elevate ideas over feeling, hedonistic rather than altruistic, wreckers of civilisation (whatever exactly that is) rather than natural builders. We’re deeply guilty, all of us, of perpetuating this myth, which is why Marion Brown and Alan Shorter are such precious as well as tutelary figures in our music. They speak to and from a sensibility that is able to absorb ideas without becoming fixated on them, that studies and uses classical technique without becoming imprisoned by it or making a fetish of it. Brian Morton Contents Capricorn Moon Mephistopheles Juba Lee Iditus https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8650238--albert-ayler-quartets-1964-spirits-to-saints The mystery of Albert Ayler’s musical legacy – as much as that of his still-unexplained death in 1970 – remains today, more than 54 years after these explosive, enigmatic studio recordings were made in early and late 1964, a source of conjecture and controversy. Primarily because his stunningly powerful projection, unorthodox technique, and unique vision resisted the typical methods of description and analysis, critics and scholars have sought to illuminate or, on the other hand, discredit Ayler’s extraordinarily original creations largely through speculation and metaphor. Art Lange Contents Spirits Prophecy (misstitled Saints) Holy, Holy Witches And Devils Ghosts Mothers Vibrations Holy Spirit Ghosts (short version) Children

Somebody identify the unknown LP soon please. I don’t know why I care but I do.