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Are the currently circulating Vee Jay CD's from a legitimate source? In the US, Koch legitimately released many of them around 2000 but ones (non Japanese)listed from the mid 2000's (esp UK & Europe)appear to have the Vee Jay label. When you go to the Fresh Sound site (Absolute Distribution)they actually have the Vee Jay label as a separate category. Are these the same thing & is the Fresh sound site selling these as genuine/non bootlegged releases (as they have been advertising Mosaic sets etc)or are they up to their usual tricks. I have a Wayne Shorter Vee Jay CD but in the finer print, Blue Moon is mentioned confirming a Spanish con job. Bit confused here?? Can anyone shed some light on this. Of particular interest is the Lee Morgan double "Here's Lee Morgan".

scored the gambrell/Hamilton trio TOCJ CD - has been on my wants list thanks Received the CD today Lovely condition all over (disc, case & slick) Thanks

pm sent on 6 Pharoah Sanders Tauhid (Impulse)

Thanks & good detective work!!

Wonder what 5 titles will be included? Don't suppose "Cosmic Music" or "Expression" will make it There is no mention on the Hip O Select site yet

Head up that "I cant' believe it's still here" with the Gato Barbieri Third World and Phenix albums. Those are great! totally agree!! - Flying Dutchman material Would have snapped them up but already have em - only looking for El Pampero (live Montreux '71)

scored the gambrell/Hamilton trio TOCJ CD - has been on my wants list thanks

Wolfgang's Vault have just released The Booker Ervin Quartet (Chick Corea / Reggie Johnson / Lenny(ie) McBrowne) live at Newport 1967 as a download (MP3's or FLAC's) Great sound quality - VOA recording? Don't think that this has ever been released (LP or CD) - maybe been circulating amongst BE aficionados on tape? I wasn't aware that Booker had ever played with Chick

pm on 4 Duke Ellington and Ray Brown This One's for Blanton (OJC) 5 Side By Side by Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges (Verve) 7 Joe Henderson and Wynton Kelly Trio Four (Verve)

Thanks I thought as much I find errors in the Lord discography almost on a daily basis! but I still wholeheartedly support it (purchase a new update every few years)

I'm wondering if this various artists LP (Deb 198/OJC 115) has ever been commercially/legitimately digitalised. Of particular interest is the Roach/Mobley session of April 10, 1953. An alternate take of "Orientation" was released on this anthology LP. The Lord Discography states that there was a CD release of this (OJC CD 115-2) I have a 1996 Fantasy catalogue that only lists the LP version (OJC 115). I've done a search on amazon & ebay with no success (only LP's show up - Debut & OJC versions) The Debut Story 4CD set contains "Orientation" - again the Lord discography lists the non alternate take here - can anyone confirm that? The standard version on the Roach CD is 2:50 in length BTW is it worth getting the Debut Story if you already have the Mingus Debut box? Is there much material in the 4 CD set not in the big box.

pm sent on the following - if they are still available 2 The Jazz Life! by Various Artists 10 Shirley Scott Soul Sister 3 Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (Verve) 1999 remaster in digipack 5 Nat Adderley Naturally! (OJC-Jazzland) 6 Chet Baker Big Band (Pacific Jazz) 4 Chet Baker and Strings Columbia remastered 1998 edition 10 Lee Morgan Expoobident (Koch 2000) hole in UPC 7 Dupree Bolton Fireball Uptown 4 Nat Adderley Branching Out (OJC) 2 David Murray Big Band Conducted By Butch Morris

pm sent on "Dennis Gonzalez”s Inspiration Band"

Amazon UK is currently selling the Lacy & Konitz Soul Note box sets for £15.99 for those overseas once VAT is removed that takes it down to just under £13 Great bargain for those in Australia/NZ as shipping is free so these sets are currently costing just under 20 Australian $'s I used to pay way over that (Aus$22-30) for a single SN/BS CD How times have changed

you're in for a pleasant surprise - it's a 10 CD set by Transparency (the final disc is a 1968 Pacifica radio interview)

What a bargain!!! snap it up - the cream of Keynote IMHO (with respect to Lester Young & Lennie Tristano)

Cheers!!

I've just obtained this 21LP set (including the 2 booklets & 7" single) Unfortunately the larger discography booklet is missing the last page (#39) - was there any more info here Page 38 ends with a list of the Keynote albums (up to K-149) - anything beyond this?

unfortunately no - it's been OOP for a few years now - there are second hand copies on Amazon UK I emailed them the other day & the reply was that they have no plans to repress the CD

I've been using grooves-inc for the past 3 years & am very happy with them (also bought the Black Saint/Soul Note boxes from here) Free shipping for orders over 20 euros - makes a big difference for us here in Australia If you're interested in Dragon CD's IMHO the best place to get these from is Border Music http://www.border.se Have been slowly accumulating all of the great Lars Gullin's music for the label (plus Arne Domnerus, Bengt Hallberg, Rolf Ericson) This Swedish website ships overseas - have made a few orders with them over the past year - the website can be a bit dodgy & I've had to personally deal with staff (ironing out international shipping bugs). I'm landing Dragon Cd's for Aus$13 to $15 each - excellent price!! Will need to check out Eje Thelin (havn't heard his music before)

Nice!! - some of Howard McGhee's last sessions Also noticed on the Storyville website that the OOP Monk in Copenhagen CD (1961) is being reissued (the advertising blurb states that this is previously unreleased!!)

The original stereo master for Mingus Presents Mingus was lost at some point. Mosaic used the mono masters since the remaining stereo copies were not good. I've just had a listen to parts of the Mosaic mono Mingus Presents & The Candid Stereo version The mono version is superior as the stereo version has a marked amount of audible tape hiss but doesn't sound muffled (maybe the filtering as described above has been removed) Interestingly though the first 10 seconds of Mingus speak preceding "Original Faubus Fables" has been omitted from the Candid set BTW I bought my Candid stereo version in 2000 (24bit digitally remastered) - this is definitely stereo (looked at the sound file via Audacity) As far as I am aware there were only two Candid releases remastered in this way (in 2000) - look at the bottom of the rear slick & you will find "Digitally remastered at Grace Note by Mark Tomase using IDR & DINR on July 7, 2000" The other was Booker Little's "Out Front" (similarly but done on April 10, 2000) I've never seen another Candid CD with this remastering info (but I may be wrong here - was hoping that this would happen to the whole catalogue so I followed Candid releases closely for the next few years but alas there were no more)

Is that alternate take of T'aint Nobody's.... on the "Candid Dolphy" CD (yet another Candid compilation,this time of Dolphy involvement material) I remember writing to Michael C in the 90's about the possibility of doing another Candid Mosaic - A "Booker Little/Eric Dolphy/Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln" one (that could possibly be done as a Mosaic Select now. I can't recall his response.

I have fond memories of the Mingus Candid box - that was my first Mosaic (the start of my addiction) I think (not at home right now) Michael Cuscuna used the mono tapes for this box, so as far as I am aware it differs from all other CD releases but I could be wrong here

found that site a few weeks ago - quite impressive had never heard of the 1987 Octet Live CD (Japanese Americana - AMC 3002) - is this long OOP? - it's never come up on searches (ebay, amazon, dusty groove, cadence, jazz loft etc) wonder if the single title (Sketches of Drunken Mary) from the compilation CD "Modern Jazz Piano Forum, Interplay Special , Vol. 1" is the same recording as on the recently released Faith CD.