mikeweil

Same here. My only exception is Fresh Sound as they more often than not reissue music no other label cares for, or in expanded editions the original labels do not care to compile. I'd rather buy a Pacific Jazz CD that Cuscuna did, but when Blue Note says they can't break eveb with them ... Still I think it's the less informed average jazz buyer that goes for such issues, as they're cheaper and he has no idea.

Exactly! They make one feel like the CD is worh less without the OBI - rather superficial. I just keep them inside tmhe booklet in case I re-sell some day ...

After seeing the photo, I feel an urge to hear the music, too ....

According to the German JazzEcho pages, Faces is still in print .... otoh JPC lists it with a delivers time of 3-4 weeks, which is not a good sign. Rearward releases a trio session from February 19, 1967:

No, I forgot about that one!

One of the most original drummers I ever heard - to me he belongs to the top drummers. Very light touch, unorthodox ideas - I would have liked to meet and ask him how he did some things ..... R.I.P., and many thanks for the inspiration. I highly recommend this to get a glimpse of his unique ideas:

Herb Wong wrote the liner notes, quite nice. Some photos, detailed credits. PM me your e-mail adress and I can send you a scan. There is only one M'Boom album on Soul Note. The other three were on Strata East, Bay State (Japan), and Columbia. The Strata East is very rare, found only some download many years ago.

Looks like one to get!

You name it.

The problem with a complete edition will probably be that the rights for the music and the film in different countries will be in different hands, I'm afraid. IIRC all the tracks on the soundtrack album are heard somewhere in the film. The Yardbirds simply are an important part in the film itself, so they belong there.

I found out more or less by accident when fooling around with the different audio options. But there is a note in a green field on the back listing special features, that says "Music-Only Audio track" - had no idea it was an entirely different recording. M copy is by Warner Bros., released in 2004, and has # 65135 on the spine. ISBN is 0-7907-4546-1.

I found a 45 of some Armstrong All Stars live track in my brother's colelction, but it didn't shake my world back then. I must admit that I started exploring jazz' history backwards, it was Rahsaan Roland Kirk that alerted me of Duke Ellington through his LP with Al Hibbler, before that it just didn't stir my interest. And it was the New York Jazz Repertory Company playing Satchmo's transcribed solos with three trumpets in unison that made me realize what a great improviser he was. So that album shook my world more than listening to the Hot Five themselves. In some sense, Ellington, Armstrong (to a lesser degree), Billie Holiday, Lester Young, and Thelonious Monk shook my world, but through their entire recorded legacy, not single albums.

FWIW, the Lord Disco has April 3, 1970 for Moto Grosso Feio and August 26, 1970 for Odyssey Of Iska.

That's a beautiful record ... but if I listed albums beyond jazz ....

Inspired by this thread, Chuck Nessa showed interested in those that shook my world - I feel flattered and oblige. I have no idea if it's going to be 100, I will add more as soon as they come to mind. Feel free to add your own lists, from ten to one hundred albums. Just off the top off my head, with no particular rating, but they all shook my world (in some way or another, in a positive sense): Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi Herbie Hancock - Crossings Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite John Coltrane - Transition Chick Corea - Is Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Miles Davis - Live-Evil Tadd Dameron - Mating Call Don Ellis - Shock Treatment Don Ellis - Autumn Elmo Hope - Trio/Quintet Clare Fischer - Extension Clare Fischer - Thesaurus Count Basie + Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Sing Along With Basie Gil Evans - Svengali Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple Eddie Harris - Silver Cycles Andy Bey - Chliin' With Andy Bey Geoff Keezer - Other Spheres Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections George Duke - Faces In Reflection Jan Huydts - Trio Baby Dodds - Talking & Drum Solos Max Roach - Drums Unlimited John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues Ahmad Jamal - Chamber Music of the New Jazz Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland - The Golden Eight Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Daoud Stanley Cowell - Musa / Ancestral Streams Webster Lewis - Live In Norway Stanley Cowell - Illusion Suite Paul Bley - Scorpio Thelonious Monk - Big Band & Quartet In Concert Modern Jazz Quartet - European Concert Modern Jazz Quartet - The Comedy Julius Watkins - Sextet Kenny Burrell - Introducing Chris Connor - A Jazz Date With Chris Connor Keith Jarrett - Fort Yawuh New York Repertory Jazz Company Plays The Music of Louis Armstrong Jimmy Rowles - In Paris Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Al Hibbler - A Meeting Of The Times Wes Montgomery - Live At Jorgies Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus Ralph Towner - Trios/Solos Ray Crawford - Smooth Groove Randy Weston - High Life A.K. Salim - Afro-Soul Drum Orgy Stone Alliance Con Amigos Stome Alliance / Marcio Montarroyos Some non-jazz albums: Buffalo Springfield Again Gentle Giant - In A Glass House Foday Musa Suso - The Dreamtime ... more to come ...

I've been around a long time and heard a lot of albums. (H*ll, I own 12,000 plus) I don't think you'd find my list interesting. I would be interested in your "final" 100. Much of my list would be Ellington. Very happy to oblige -

I'd find it more interesting to learn about the 20 or 30 albums that shook the forum members respective worlds when they first listetend to them.

They did have four copies ... a rather nice book with lots of photos, many of which were unknown to me. It covers the story of Norman Granz and the label and its importance for the documentation of jazz. I thumbed through it and since US and British publishers are allowed to sell their books at the end of the fair to spare them the freight costs back home, my wife an I meditated about getting a copy on our way back at the end of our visit. When we returned four hours later, only one copy was left! They usually keep that as a reference copy til the very end on Sunday, but were so nice to sell it to us at half price .... so you can imagine what's my bedside reading right now ...

IIRC Hancock was dissatisfied with the soundtrack and decided to re-record it in New York. The DVD I have has a second audio track that sounds much like it could be the original one.

Very interesting observation, especially if one remembers that one of Monk's reactions during playback of one of the Columbia solo tracks was "I sound just like James P. Johnson!" .... At heart, Monk was not a real modernist like Bird, Bud & Diz - that's why he went along so well with Pee Wee Russell when the latter sat in at Newport. His jazz was about the sound and the rhythm, not the changes.

When you say "previously unreleased" you are talking about CD issues, right? There are some ttracks on the fifth CD that never were on CD, AFAIK, e.g. the melba Moorman and Chico O'Farrill's Manteca.

Announced for November 1 release on amazon.de - will stop by the Thames & Hudson booth on the Frankfurt Book Fair tomorrow and see I they already have a copy of the book. From what I remember from the Verve discography, many were edited versions of LP takes. There may be a handful that never was on LP, but I don't have the book on hand to check. FWIW, the amazon.de site has a track list: click here Judging from this list, it is not a complete set of all singles - e.g. Tjader had a few more, but the included only "Soul Sauce", of course.

Read this thread only now ... the whole thing is very moving, I can feel a bit what Allen Lowe felt as I rather often did not know what to do when people I idolized in some way or another turned out to be very human in some respects. I find it hard to accept that beauty and creativity of the highest order often go along with less pleasant personality traits. Is that the human condition? Would there be jazz or any other true art without all the hardships? I dunno .... but I wish there was.

The older I get the more I feel about the music like he does. I can pretty much go along with much of what he said about the recordings played to him.