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I love this date, but just have the Fresh Sounds CD. What's the gatefold like? Any good? Swings throughout. Recording quality what you would expect from a club date in 1959.

I see. That doesn't sound good.

Can I just verify that the error amounts to a poor-sounding trombone solo? I can live with that I might add that I'm still chugging along with the Murray box but I just. don't. get. it. Love Murray in other settings, love all the players, but the arrangements sound so, so off. Just like, not right. I don't know what I'm missing here. It just sounds wrong.

Really enjoy the Ellington, too. The Hampton looks nice, but like something I'd be fine buying on LP. The JJ has some good tune choices but 60s big bands are rarely my cup of tea.

http://markweber.free-jazz.net/2012/01/24/the-early-lps-of-the-free-jazz-scene-in-los-angeles/ Really interesting reminiscence of the scene in LA during the 70s. I only wish there were sound samples. I'm dying to hear that John Carter live LP.

PM on Braxton.

Great music, and a rare Mosaic that can be purchased in full on individual CDs.

Right, perhaps I should have put that under "people I wish he recorded with more". I'd love to hear him in a quintet setting. Miles did a session with Stan Getz in 1950: Miles, J.J. Johnson, Stan Getz, Tadd Dameron, Gene Ramey and Art Blakey : Conception, Max is Makin Wax, Woody´n You, Ray´s Idea, and Old Black Magic (with Stan Getz featured)

As far as people he didn't ever record with, it's hard for me to say. I think a session with Getz and Haig early 50s would be beautiful. I also think he would have done very nicely with Coleman Hawkins. A shame, too, that George Russell never arranged a group for him. As far as people I wish he recorded with a lot more: Lee Konitz, Lucky Thompson, Al Cohn, Kenny Clarke, Horace Silver, and of course Bill Evans. And lord would it have been great to hear him accompany Billie in a small group, but the timelines just don't jibe; she was too far gone by the time Miles came into his own Of course, my post mostly revolves around his Prestige period. Sorry.

Dusty Groove is listing Nine +1 Tristano Compositions (For Warne Marsh) for release in June. Hat has this listed among possible reissues, though of course the original title is 8+3. Hoping that this is an accurate listing, it would be great to have that session available again.

Great interview-- I had no clue he was recorded so widely with Quincy Jones. A tad disappointed the interview didn't move into the sixties. Such great, interesting playing on the Revelation sides. I would have liked to hear about his processes and thinking, and maybe more on the scene of that era.

There is a copy on Amazon for $110

Thanks for the info.

I should say I don't know if these are brand new, so apologies if this is old news. But usually when reissues crop up like that on DG's front page it means they are new releases.

DG has a number of CD reissues on the French Futura label for 13.99. Titles include classics like Portal/Surman - Alors!, Steve Lacy - Wordless and Dizzy Reece - From In to Out. Great deals for records that fetch a lot of money on eBay in their LP form.

Wow, never seen this one. Gonna have to keep a look out for it.

Then there is of course the footage that the BBC destroyed.

Almost certainly. Explains the loudness and kick. Another upside is that this LP series has a number of Blue Note titles out that never appeared as RVGs and have thus been OOP and hard to find on domestic CD.

Those Blue Notes are not bad, especially for cheapie reissues. They are loud and punchy, but not too much. I consider this to be a good thing, personally; too quiet vinyl bothers me.

Is there even any more footage extant than this? I realize I've never seen Ayler on film before.

Also probably not much of a working group, but there is that drool-worthy photo of Bird with Monk, Mingus and Roy Haynes.

Wow, I'm there!

As regards the Ornette-Bradford band, I once saw a photo of them in a book (with Charles Moffet?) that said it was from Atlantic studios ca 1962. I've never been able to find the photo again. Perhaps this was among the music lost in the infamous fire? My vote for this thread is any incarnation of the Giuffre 3 after Bley/Swallow. Don Pullen! Geez ... This may be more of a "what could have been" thing, but would that Braxton's trio with Holland and Philip Wilson been a working band beyond the Town Hall concert.

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Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Benny Goodman, Cecil Taylor, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Andrew Hill, Jimmy Giuffre, Lester Young, Albert Ayler, Herbie Hancock, Jackie McLean Hard to narrow it down better than that!