colinmce

I think my largely jazz-averse wife would love ICP. In fact, her old office mate was none other than Sean Bergin's daughter!

You can get all of it on OJC + a couple on Fresh Sound, but most are OOP so pulling all dozen or so together would be quite pricey.

I like the earlier stuff better, too. My personal favorite albums are Please Please Me & A Hard Day's Night. But I might argue on an objective level that the White Album is their greatest work, warts and all.

A bit. With the Beatles was released as Beatlemania! With The Beatles; Please Please Me was released in jumbled order + "She Loves You" as Twist and Shout; and there was one called Long Tall Sally with a cover resembling the US Second Album but with a totally unique tracklist. Expect the box set for Christmas 2025.

Have Reed & Deeds or Gifts & Messages been released in Japan lately?

What I don't get most about this is that these albums (up to Rubber Soul) were released in two box sets in 2005-6, sounding authentic and very nice indeed (even praised on Hoffman!). But yeah, they need to keep product coming every year or two, so this is what you get. Hopefully next they'll put out some more unreleased stuff that didn't make the Anthology sets next time around.

Did you hear the first recording from this Davis-Hebert-Rainey trio on Fresh Sound? Absolutely great, punchy stuff. I get the (mild) criticisms put forth here, but I would still posit Clean Feed as the best jazz label operating today, really the descendant of 60s Blue Note, 70s-80s Black Saint/Soul Note, 80s-90s Hat Hut, etc. Very well packaged, affordable*, very high-quality music (esp. of late). I'm glad they're able to crank it out like they do. *Leeway, did you know you can get the CDs for $14.90 shipped from the label?

I don't get this one. Two OK albums, two great, though widely available, albums. Why not the Mercurys instead? More consistent and largely OOP. Seems like they got it backwards.

Earlier: Henry Threadgill Sextett - Rag, Bush & All (Novus) Warne Marsh - The Art of Improvising (Revelation) Tyrone Washington - Natural Essence (BN Liberty) Still not totally sold on the last one. A bit stiff to my ears. I suppose I'm in the minority there...

True. I don't have any of the reissues but they look very nice.

Says it all. Clueless people working off a model irrelevant to this context, certain that their holding featuring the Great John Coltrane is a moneymaker. Reminds me of the antique shop owner trying to peddle beat-up 70s US Beatles LPs for $50.

Clearly bullshit to sell that bizarre scheme up there.

Half true? But it's not to be missed. It's Herbie Nichols!

Absolutely. I love Mel Torme, his Bethlehem stuff in particular. And, ftr, just as you said you're tough on piano trios, I really don't like male jazz singers.

PM on Andrew Hill-Change

, Ingrid tore the house down last night. More aggressive and forceful with less meandering with softer tones which to my ears is not often successful for her. When she cranks it up, she is a force of nature with an ability to play intricate lines as well as bringing energy to sections of improvisation that could be limited did the internal structures of the written music. Interesting you should say this. I actually very much enjoy her in soft tones, maybe more than anything. Here are two sets where she does great things in this mode:

Price down to $10

I'm offering this for sale to the tune of $12 shipped in the US. For comparison, a copy straight from Mosaic would run you $21 after shipping and Amazon has it for $20.98. It's a really nice record Willie Smith, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Charles Bell, Billy Taylor & Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1965 and originally issued on RCA. Just not something I'll listen to much of ever, so I thought I'd pass it on. Here's the Mosaic page with all the info: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=1012

The CD is a tough nut, so I stuck with the LP. It's incredibly good.

I have to print your post and include it in the Braxton box. Interesting! I need to give the new and old sequences a test run. BTW, isn't this in the Mosaic Braxton box? I assume the correct order was used there? (I don't have it handy). Haven't seen it myself but heard the original "manufactured" order was repeated. Almost certainly. iirc there was no note about this in the booklet, which there would have been had it been corrected.

That Braxton is such a killer. He hooked (back) up with Crispell very soon after so it shakes out alright, but I do wish he did more with Davis; he takes to Braxton's music really well.

Ha! He stode out past that group with a coldness!

That's good for a lifetime in my book.

Right re: Fearless Leader and Interplay, but the Best Buy price above for Side Steps was upon release. Definitely an error that (luckily for me!) they followed through on.

My sole slab of FMP vinyl. Great one.