mikeweil

After browsing through their new website https://www.mps-music.com/ I understand that they have reissued their whole catalogue in digital form - links to amazon etc, can be reached through the links to individual albums found on the "releases" page. It could be that only part of the catalogue will be reissued on LP and/or CD. The catalogue doesn't seem complete to me - some Clarke-Boland albums are missing, as are all the releases on the Session sub-label.

Allen Lowe's remarks on the sound make me hesitate, and the fact that I have all the Spotlite LPs, some of which contain tracks not recorded for Dial and thus not in the box set. I think I'll pass and stick with my LPs.

In August this compilation was released, the press text promises more ... let's wait and see. Here's what I found, someof them announced for November release, all on LP and CD:

I really can't recall details, but the first Monk I bought was the Blue Note twofer with that brown wrapping paper look. But the first Monk that got me hooked was the track Jackie-Ing from the Five By Monk By Five LP - it was played on local radio when that LP was reissued in Germany. That was years before the first buy.

Thanks to all your comments and KD's playing - Vertigo will become one of the very few McLean CDs in my collection.

Nice article in the Austin Chronicle: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2018-09-14/trumpet-colossus-kenny-dorham-towers-alongside-the-jazz-gods/

Indeed! I had a CDR given by a close friend but hunted them down - both volumes are good.

Perhaps this helps - scroll down for the Danish releases_ https://www.jazzdisco.org/debut-records/catalog-lp-ep-series/

My memory could fool me - I'll dig up Fournier's drum teaching method in the basement to check his biography. And I must have an interview somewhere about his New Orleans influences. That happens to a lot of people, even some who post a pic of his drum book in the next paragraph. https://de.scribd.com/document/339823978/Vernell-Fournier-Drum-Techniques That guy, btw, seems to have an early manuscript version of the book.

I found this commentary on discogs: " There was an issue with the licensing of this material and Mosaic's normal minimum 3 year access to the music was truncated and sales of the boxed set were halted. I don't know how many sets were sold,"

Yesterday: Just finished:

The LPs were all over the place over here back then. IIRC Joe Haider was involved in the label. When the label folded, many copies where sold at low prices. I'd say they gave a very good impression of a vital part of the German jazz scene with the pool of players involved. I personally like the Fritz Pauer (Billy Brooks is great on it), the Vince Benedetti (an excellent example of the McCoy Tyner Quartet's influence on the local scene), and the East Of Isar LP best - although that latter band was smokin' a lot more when heard live. There's not a bad album on the label.

Vernel Fournier was much more than a New Orleans drummer, aside from the fact that his family moved elsewhere when he was still at a very early age - cannot recall exact details right now. How many drummer were out there playing more than 90% of the time with brushes? He had more ideas about that than all the other drummers together. And then there was Israel Crosby - a veteran bassist of the Blanton-Pettiford generation with a unique melodic concept, not just playing the changes. That gave Jamal the freedom to lie back and not having to display his technical prowess all the time, although he had plenty of that. One of the most unique group concepts in jazz piano trio history.

Not at all! It's a responsible attitude towards a part of our cultural heritage.