mikeweil

Sad news - always liked his writing! Another giant gone ... R.I.P.

How's the Watkins? This is on my wish list for quite some time, but I have no idea what type of music this really is ...

So that's what Ray Conniff looked like ... . Soemone should have shown the girl behind the drums how to hold the sticks!

He said in his autobiography that he liked the life in Europe, but wasn't always satisfied with the sidemen. I saw him live with a local backup trio, and he was right ... his whole life was a combination of bad luck and circumstances, and, I think, lack of recognition for mainstream players during the turmoil of the 1960's and 70's.

That was one among the first five LPs that I ever bought! That girl haunted me even more than the music ...

I'd buy that LP in a second for $ 1.94!

My first thought was that they might have listened to some "minimal music" - and what's on the record? An adaptation of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians ...

If you like multiple keyboards, and Hays, you should check out Bill Stewart's two CDs in a trio setting with Hays and Larry Goldings. The writing on that YouTube track reminds me of Geoffrey Keezer's writing - check out the CDs of the Contemporary Piano Ensemble. I saw Hays with Al Foster's Quartet - thought he was a bit abstract when I heard him on disc, but he was great to hear live.

Great - thanks a lot for posting this.

Most likely candidate would be his teacher Stefan Wolpe, a Jewish immigrant from Berlin.

The two albums he cut for Prestige are nice, too. There was a 2 LP on 1 CD reissue un the British BGP label: But Pony's Express may be his masterpiece - one of the most astonishing all star saxists meetings ever recorded!

Don't want to be the prophet of doom but: Don Byas set. I'm afraid the Byas material is on too many labels to make this happen. It would make a great set. Yes it would, but ... if you look at the labels (official/studio material only), starting in 1944, until 1950: Savoy, Commodore, Jamboree, Caracol, Hub, Super Disc, Gotham, Swing, Blue Star, Spanish Columbia, Vogue, ... I don not know if some of these are labels with later issues. It fills seven pages of my old printed Bruyninckx disco ... The Vogue material alone would fill a Select or more, the Savoys were on a double LP.

Here's a link to the live video stream from the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt this weekend. Videos will be available from the site after the festival is over, too. Audio live stream, too - whatever you can handle. This year's theme is the Impulse label - Archie Shepp will be re-creating a Coltrane bigf band date with the hr big band, the Kühn brothers will encounter Pattitucci and Blade etc. Tune in ...

That's the one you mention - used copies go for about € 20 ... the arrangements are okay, IMO, but would have needed more rehearsal.

This edition includes four bonus tracks with Miles on other performances of the 1949 Paris Jazz Festival:

Still curious about the sound of this remastering - the sound samples I listened to at my local retailer were amazing! Even the Half Note stuff sounded better!

Hmmm .... ordering from amazon.it would be € 6 cheaper than my local retailer ...

The Mosaic contains all of the late 1940's RCA sessions in their entirety - something I always wanted. I will get this, early next year.

Okay, I will sell my proper Box ... ... or give to somebody else, that's better.

FWIW, I got the Proper Box but I'm not really happy with it - the sound is slightly better on the Denon discs, a bit more detail in the treble range, and there is so much duplication with other CDs I have ... I still wish there would be better and more complete reissues of the 1950s Savoy material.

If anyone here buys it, please report about the sound!

I ordered a copy from amazon.com only last weekend, and received shipping confirmation yesterday - so there are still some copies available. I'm very curious about this, and the sound - I admit I have a download somewhere of a disc transfer of the Arista LP, but this never quite grabbed my attention. But even if it turns out I don't like it, there's no need to worry ...

There once was a memoir of a thirty-year old writer here in Germany - acutally, a good read, reflecting many aspects of life in his time, of his generation - so why not, if it is substantial? (Of course I habe no idea who this Michael Bublé is ...)

C'mon folks - I'd buy a legit US release of some rare material I have been looking for over the last twenty years any minute - if it were available. I'd never buy any rip-off of the fantastic Charles Mingus Uptown set, and I have asked potential buyers of the Proper Mingus set on German Jazz Forums to buy the Uptown, even if it is more expensive. But I am afraid we are some kind of avant-garde, discographically ... most jazz fans, not matter what age, do not have too deep knowledge about the recording details etc. - that's what I always encounter when I talk to jazz fans over here in shops. Real collectors are rare. The others are easily taken advantage of, and so they are good bait for the European labels. I see your point - of course I do. But ownership is always responsibilty, and for a label this means to keep the stuff available. It would be easy in the age of downloads, but most labels do not care in the US, don't even know about the treasures in their vaults. Fresh Sound is not as bad a many think - they reissued rare West Coast stuff when nobody in the US would even think about it! Without them I never would have had an opportunity to listen to hours and hours of fine music. Right now they compile a lot of material the way I would have wished Concord would have done, like the Tiny Grimes Prestige sessions with bonus tracks and all - I bought a lot of OJCs when most members of this forums still underestimated them, but sometimes I wished they would have been more thorough on the research side. There are many aspect to this debate - the internet age deserves new copyright laws, new attitudes, new morality ... I don't like the Proper boxes - many sessions are not complete etc. I don't like downloads - no liner notes, no credits - that's sleazy, too, IMHO. And I hate the way MP3s sound. The final question for me is: Is there a release from the original label owner. If it is done right, I will go for it. But if I want to listen to something only available on a Fresh Sound disc, I will go for this just as well. I'd never buy the Hank Mobley set from this Real Gone label, I prefer the Mosaic. I could state many more examples. Take the Felsted albums - we waited for a Mosaic, but there will be none. So now suddenly we have two alternatives to get these, even the one LP that was never out on CD ... who's to blame? There is no right life in a wrong world ... I'm convinced we all do our best to support those who deserve it, no matter if we buy a Fresh Sound reissue or not. (Edited for typos)

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