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Haven't read the Carr, but I do like Jack Chambers' bio quite a bit. It does however have a bit of the opposite problem wherein Chambers is unrelentingly critical of the music, not unlike Gunther Schuller in his early jazz and swing books. You'll learn just about everything you need to know about Miles' day to day but come away with the conclusion he only recorded a small handful of truly successful pieces. That said, an interesting perspective that's worth hearing out.

Will definitely pick this up. Hopefully we can get a reissue of Opus Krampus soon!

Ordered mine the other day, really looking forward to this one

Time will tell I suppose, but the label seems to be headed in a fairly wan direction now. I'll certainly keep my eye out, but it's been quite awhile since they've released much of interest to me at least.

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Some other favorites not mentioned in this thread so far by relationship: Drums/Piano: Art Blakey with Herbie Nichols Roy Haynes with Monk Kenny Clarke with Monk Reggie Nicholson with Myra Melford Jo Jones with Teddy Wilson Vernell Fournier with Ahmad Jamal (too easy!) Drums/Saxophone: Randy Peterson with Joe Maneri Nasheet Waits with Tony Malaby Rashied Ali with Coltrane (also perhaps too easy) Dernardo Coleman with Ornette Coleman Jack DeJohnette with Jackie McLean Jo Jones with Lester Young Han Bennink with Peter Brotzmann Drums/Bass: Gerry Hemingway with Mark Dresser Tony Williams with Richard Davis Roy Haynes with Ahmed Abdul-Malik Antonin Gerbal with Joel Grip Susie Ibarra with William Parker Scott Colley with Bill Stewart Kenny Washington with Peter Washington Drums/Trumpet: Kenny Clarke with Miles Davis Ed Blackwell with Don Cherry Phillip Wilson with Olu Dara

Fantastic out of print 4xCD collection on JSP with King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson and many, many others. In very good shape. $30 shipped

Dinah Washington ‎– The Fabulous Miss D! (The Keynote, Decca & Mercury Singles 1943–1953) excellent 4xCD collection. unfortunately it is missing the slipcase outer sleeve, so it is just the book-style package, which is very nice inside $20 shipped

1) Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 This is a promo edition that contains 10 goldback CDRs in slim cases as opposed to the actual discs. It does include the box and booklet in excellent shape $75 shipped 2) Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie And Lester Young Studio Sessions Contains all discs and box, but no booklet (which can be purchased from Mosaic if you wish). In excellent shape $100 shipped

Well then I guess I won't be picking this up. Hopefully they'll consider a repress.

Will definitely be picking this up

The big name stuff is important work, but there's also so many more obscure titles worth investigating that really provide a snapshot of free improvisation at a point in time. And he was generous enough to discount these titles to very low prices to where you could investigate a lot of stuff you may not have had the mettle for at full price. A whole other can of worms there, but it's something I've often wished other prolific labels in this space might do with their back catalogs as well.

Nothing that I've heard. I'd really like to know what the status of the inventory is, or if anyone has even inquired about taking it over. Seems most likely that if someone did it would be nearby in Europe. I sure do miss the days of being able to order discounted discs from him and have them arrive quickly and cheaply.

Right up my alley, that ~62-65 era Kirk stuff is my favorite of his. also very fascinated to hear some more Jane Getz from this period

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At this point we're very lucky to even have them at all. My assumption is that the vinyl editions subsidize them, otherwise I doubt they would even make the investment back. Not great, but still better than what you see with Elemental or Blue Note where the vinyl pricing outpaces the CD by 300% or more

Glad it's back in print, but the new CD packaging looks a bit cruddier. Glad to have the one they put real time, money, and labor into.

FE is great, they've been in the business for decades and do excellent work. They also have pretty frequent 10-15% off sales.

Dusty Groove has this up for preorder, late November ETA

Souffle Continu announced an LP and CD reissue of this title finally! https://www.soundohm.com/product/give-the-vibes-jamal

Thanks! I would've done it were I able to.

Any idea what's on deck?

Awesome news, long overdue. Some extra music would be nice, but I’d be more than happy to just finally have the original recordings on CD. Now if we could just get someone to do a wide physical release of the ‘73 Town Hall concert, I’ll never not be annoyed by how that was handled.

+1, they are continuing to do excellent, surprising work.

This is a phenomenal album. This is on streaming services only, not physical releases. The reasoning behind it I'm not so clear on.