colinmce

I'm sure everyone will have their chance!

I saw one or two Ventura/Phillips sets on Ebay the other day. Is that not an option?

FYI, True Blue is selling single discs from their Illinois Jacquet (MD4-145) and Bunny Berrigan (MD7-219) sets for $8.98 apiece. The discs represent the Complete RCA Recordings and Complete Parlophone Recordings respectively. I picked them up, 'cause why not.

Quit telling us about these deals, dammit!! I'm still waiting for the Mingus Debut box to hit liquidation, though.

Hm, I love Ornette (trumpet & violin playing included) and ultimately dislike the session w/ Jackie.

The availability of 'Where Is Brooklyn' as a Conn has probably dented the value of that set (on CD - I'm sure the vinyl is still strongly in demand). Great set to have, nevertheless ! Indeed, and I even had all three albums in their Conn/RVG editions, but why pass up a chance to throw another black box in the row? Though I did just see one go for just over $100 on ebay the other day.

Anyone like Freddie Redd enough to pay $125 per CD? http://cgi.ebay.com/Mosaic-FREDDIE-REDD-Co...mQQptZMusic_CDs?

Just skimmed this at the bookstore yesterday. Really fantastic and evocative stuff.

As a person who more or less dislikes funk/soul jazz and especially dislikes organ jazz (with the stereotypical exceptions-- Larry Young, some John Patton, Baby Face Willette's Blue Notes), would I enjoy this set? I see that there is organ on every session, but it also seems like Braith takes the music a bit more outside, and the inclusion of Grant Green interests me further as I especially enjoy his collaborations with Larry Young. Granted, I'll probably get it anyways, but I would still like to get some opinions.

Also, maybe they would have less problems if they didn't list their regular CDs at $19.99. Just a suggestion. Reminds me of Blockbuster Music back in the '90s. Insane prices. I remember seeing the Beatles Red and Blue albums and the Rolling Stones Hot Rocks set selling for forty dollars.

Went to mine, which is closing also; same junk they had last time I went (6 months ago). The only decent stuff they had were a few box sets (Parker Dial/Savoy, Evans Secret Sessions, Pepper Hollywood Sessions, Miles 65-68, Ornette Atlantic), but not at a price that made them at all worth my while.

No idea about remastering, but I can say that I listened to Our Man In Jazz and it sounded weirdly good-- Bob Cranshaw was right there.

With a brand new Columbia edition of the complete Stockholm 1960 set?

No Now's The Time. http://www.sonnyrollins.com/cd_view.php?cd_id=38 That's definitely a great deal for waht you get, but somewhere, somehow you gotta have Now's The Time too, I think. Ah, thanks. Hard to keep them all straight as their availability is so sporadic.

Not much in the booklet about his debt but he has spoken about this before, namely in Lock's Forces In Motion.

I should say all of his RCA albums-- the extra material found on the 6xCD Complete RCA-Victor recordings set is obviously lacking.

This has likely been posted before, but if anyone's interested, the Original Album Classics set containing all of Sonny's RCA output is available for 10 bucks new on Amazon. I actually didn't know this existed and just picked one up at the record store-- I thought I was getting a deal at $35, but oh well. link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...p;condition=new There are also Monk and Miles versions, but those are far more haphazard.

Yeah, I was fairly sure this was the case (Indeed!, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, City Lights, The Cooker, Candy), but wasn't certain if anything else was included, like perhaps the session with Cliff Jordan or something.

He says in the introduction that she cooperated, but withdrew her support after reading it, though not her contributions. She decided that it was "mean" to John. I'm torn on this; it's no secret that John was a complicated guy who could definitely be cruel and made dubious decisions regarding his treatment of the women in his life, but like I said above, I think Norman is more tawdry than he needs to be with regards to the latter and is liberal in his psychoanalysis of the former.

Thanks, that's invaluable!

Could anyone post the discography for the Mosaic Lee Morgan Fifties Sessions set? I'd like to construct it as best I can with individual issues.

I liked the Norman alright, but he's a tad opinionated and a bit tawdry.

I'm astonished no one mentioned this:

Spring and Green Street were both in print up to the time of the reissues. I bought McMaster editions for 11.99 apiece a couple months before the announcement for the RVG editions.

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