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The red box has all quintet tracks but those early ones on which Shearing played accordion, and omits the solo tracks. Verve only did compilaions. There is a good sounding CD on HEP of the tracks with Hyams. There are some mistakes in the red box booklet track listings.

Such sad news. Never bought from him but could not afford until after he had closed his shop. A legend.

He sounds beautiful on these sides!

I remember it being discussed that the piano on OM was not the best.

Sorry, not Mahall.

You will be very close to solving all riddles when following the link king ubu posted. All players would take your guesses as a compliment.

Today: next was which is a reissue of this: Not outstanding, but of course a good one, recorded in typical 1980 sound .....

This disc arrived here only today! For unknown reasons it was returned to the seller, so I ordered some more, and he included it in that package. Really a nice album, but Rudy Van Gelder was a bit too generous with his reverb, for my taste.

Very nice story, ubu! That encourages me to write to Florian Arbenz for some other oop items. The fact that it is a limited 500 copies edition took me some time to find one, and it made this an ideal BFT item.

Sorry, no. So far you all have identified Gary Osby on track 3. The theme has been correctly narrowed down to a European label. All players are European except Osby, the trombonist on 6, and the tenor and pianist on 5 and 9. The tenor saxist was often mentioned on this forum in connection with a major reissue in 2021. Now, c'mon!

That stuff cheers me up!

Maybe Hutch suggested the piece, and they made it up in the studio?

Sorry for my slightly harsh tone - misunderstanding on my side. I listened to the version on the Oblique CD again - Hancock hits a wrong chord at the end of the theme, and immediately notices and plays the right one. He sounds as he has the changes to Maiden Voyage on his mind. Such pieces work only if one (the pianist or vibes, in this case) plays the vamp all trough the piece - but this might get boring. The whole thing sounds to me like a quickly made extension of the movie theme (which is shorter, before Hubbard play a bit) for this purpsoe but was not really well done. There is a live version of the Hutcherson Land quintet from 1969 where they improvise only on the first part, which works but lacks a bit of substance to inspire real great improvisation - at 14:20 minutes it is a bit long.

Today: from the Mosaic Box Set:

Who are we to judge like this? Write some comparable pieces first. IIRC Herbie recorded the soundtrack in London with British musicians but for some reason decided to re-do much of it with his New York buddies. Maybe they were in a hurry.

That's always the problem when a tune does not follow the "standard" formulas. But creative minds follow their ideas, not the formulas. Many examples, from classical music as well.

Use the melody as your guide, not the changes.

Yesterday and today:

The next evening bottle: MADIRAN Paradox 2010 Madiran Appellation d’Origine Protégée

Well, they became the core of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. No time for a band within the band? It's a great little album. I sold my slightly warped LP many years ago and still have the CD on my wantlist.