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Mine was scheduled to be delivered today, and just when I returned from work the mailman arrived with a pile including some conspicuous objects. It wouldn't have passed the mailbox slit, and amazon.co.uk's thin cardboard envelopes make my neck hair rise. Will give it a listen tomorrow.

Same here!

Duh - missed that one. Went straight to the top of my must buy list.

One of my all time favourite jazz books: R.I.P., and thanks for the excellent work.

The technical of oboe and basson playing in Dresden in the 18th century was breathtaking, almost literally ...

Yep

IIRC a Mosaic with those four LPs with Kelly was considered (still in the LP era of Mosaic) but dropped in favor of individual album reissues on Blue Note. None of all those alternates is listed in the Blue Note Discography, btw - they all must have been found on the occasion of later tape examinations.

Thanks all - no wine so far this year as I'm sufferin' from some flu-type infection. My lovely wife did her best to cheer me up, and presented me some nice things, but no books or music this year. What would I do without her? I got this book as a gift for myself, which is beautiful;

That's how it should be titled!

Happy Birthday, Hans!

Why do they call it The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-71 when the last session is from 1970? Just a typo?

Same here ...... and the four LPs with Wynton Kelly - Soul Station, Roll Call, and the two Workouts. - are lost in the gap between this and the 1950's box set. Of tkese two takes, one was only on a Japamese issue: Tk 14 Don’t Cry, Just Sigh (alt tk) (omit Spaulding & Greenwich) CD TOCJ 50296 Tk 15 Don’t Cry, Just Sigh (omit Spaulding & Greenwich) LT 1081 but I don't see me buying this set just for two alternates .....

Now he is up there, too ...... one of the greatest.

So they noticed they goofed. Glad they'll have to sell it to me at the old price.

Finally I got me a copy of this Japanese reissue. But on first listen I think my Pacific Jazz LP sounds better. Will have to compare....

That was one of my first Mann LPs, pulled from a huge cutout bin in my late teens - loved it from the start. The live companion is The Wailing Dervishes Here is a festival video with oud player Chick Ganimian, among others:

This drummer/composer/educator may be not that familiar to US jazz fans, as he moved to Europe long ago - here is a nice documenary on his work: http://www.doughammond.org

Just fantasizing an album that never happened: Paper Mann - Herbie Mann plays Charles Tolliver feat. Roy Ayers

"Media" companies?

That's a very underrated album. Pat Rebillot's tune "Mauve Over Blues" is a timeless beauty.

Jim, you're mistaken - it's not "Paper Man" (that Mann recorded for the "Windows Opened" LP) - the tune is Tolliver's "The Ringer" which was on Ayers' first Atlantic LP "Virgo Vibes". Yes, they owe him some money, and they could have checked that out.

It rocks!

Wounded Bird CD reissue from 2000 - just noticed this sounds slightly different compared to the 1970 Embryo LP!

Well, I knew ... ,,, once saw a video of some Herbie Mann live performance where he played some mean cowbell. Can't remember the tune and can't find it on youtube, but found a 1967 video of Mann's band at Newport with Ayers, Reggie Workman, Bruno Carr, and guests Chick Ganimian on oud and master drummer Michael Olatunji - even Workman picks up a tambourine, Ayers some wooden agogo. Second half has Joao Gilberto's band. Herbie invented world music.