mikeweil

Great deal! My favourite acquisitions were all the Mosaic sets I got through the year: both Ellingtons, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Oliver Nelson, Bob Brookmeyer Select; and a box set from JSP with early New Orleans stuff after a recommendation from Chuck Nessa of one of the sessions included. Since my wife prefers swing and earlier jazz, we have plenty to listen to, and she requested that I play authentic swing all day long during her upcoming sixtieth birthday in April - very happy to oblige!

Luckily I had talked my wife in getting me the Georgie Fame five CD box set - it is sold out already, only the 4 LP version (with MP3 download option of the bonus material) is still available. It is a lovingly made set, with a nice essay in the booklet, a set of postcards and a poster with Fame and a young Mick Jagger, and plenty of bonus material on each CD besides all the outtakes, singles, EPs and B-sides on the 5th CD - excellent remastering. Now what music did y'all find below the Christmas tree?

Seems that all links lead back here since the update - I will update the list, some day, maybe piece by piece .....

There may be the complete tapes of the Stanford performance that was part of Autumn, but no more studio material.

Hank Mobley wrote a whole bunch: Old World, New Imports East of the Village Funk In A Deep Freeze My Groove, Your Move No Room For Squares Hi Groove, Low Feedback Don't Get Too Hip

Geez - I have that RCA reissue ... thanks for pointing it out; that may have been the reason I never ordered the Mosaic CD. My sound card was okay - after some giant Windows update last night everything was working like before .... no idea what was going on.

Seems to me the Lee Wiley Single CD is new to the Last Chance list - can anybody comment on this disc? Have trouble playing the samples - my notebook's sound card seems to be defective ...

Perfectly stated! impossible to top, so I just second it!

Cal Tjader should have made a Christmas album ...

Just used it - perfect and easy - great idea!

Nice that you play Wes' tune, great playing by all, but I kinda like the groove of Wes' recording a bit more ...

Those Jon Hendricks liner notes to the Prestige twofer are a piece of jazz poetry, or whtever you may call it. I will keep the LP just for them, eventually. "Measure for measure. To invite you to listen to King sing is my very great pleasure." Who else could have thought that up, besides Hendricks?

I get back to this fine offering every Christmas season. One of the nicest jazz Xmas albums I have.

Don't know very much about Mr. Beeks' biography (who knows?), but what was he doing in California? How did he get there?

Listen Here could be from the Eddie Harris Quartet set - Ubu, do you remember?

Then why, for goodsakes, didn't they add Listen Here as second bonus track to the anniversary CD?

I think in Germany Naxos has been outdone by Brilliant Classics, who are offering more bargain box sets on a much broader scale. But their new releases of original productions are on the same price level as Naxos' - who do not license recordings from other labels, whch is an important part of Brilliant Classics' approach at their box sets.

Sad news - he was consultant to Christopher Hogwood's Mozart and Haydn recordings. I always learned something new from his notes.

Yes - in his notes to the Montreux Festival anniversary CD reissue Joel Dorn admitted they had to dub the bonus track, Kaftan, from the videotape.

Does anyone know the order in which the tracks on the legendary concert by Les McCann & Eddie Harris at the Montreux Jazz Festival were actually played? The Master numbers are in LP track sequence, which is different. I know that "Cold Duck Time" was the encore. The video of the concert should have the correct sequence, does anyone have that? Thanks, as always.

Thanks - as I have the soundtrack and the DVD, too, besides all previous CD reissues, downloading single tracks from Qobuz seems to be the option for me. Still it's too bad they didn't go for completing those concert recordings - or did they? Anything previously unissued?

Only Not quite - see my post above. Only the second version of "Don't Blame Me" was in the soundtrack.

The track "Blues" (often mistitled C-Jam Blues) with Brubeck from a Mexican tour was in Brubeck's Summit Sessions album; Thelonious Monk Quartet And Dave Brubeck : Charlie Rouse (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Dave Brubeck (p-1) added, Larry Gales (b) Ben Riley (d) Live "Auditoria de la Reforma", Puebla, Mexico, May 12, 1967 Green chimneys (unissued) Don't blame me (tm p-solo) Columbia Legacy C3K64887 [CD] Evidence (unissued) Blues (cr out,1) Columbia C30522, CBS (Eu)S64377, Columbia Legacy 88697-99580-2 [CD] Note: Columbia C30522, CBS (Eu)S64377, both titled "Dave Brubeck : Summit sessions". "Blues" mistitled as "C-jam blues" on most issues. Monk's solo on "Don't Blame Me" from the same concert was first issued on the 3-CD box Orrin Keepnews had compiled for Columbia, "The Columbia Years '62-'6". But there's another version of that tune: Thelonious Monk (p) Live, "Atlanta Stadium", Atlanta, GA, June 16, 1967 Don't blame me CBS 45358, (Eu)466103-1, Col CK45358 [CD], CBS (Eu)466103-2 [CD], Columbia Legacy 88697-99580-2 [CD]