mikeweil

I'd say wait for an opportunity to snap up the Mingus box - most of the other Debut sessions was reissued as single or twofer CDs - inluding the LaPorta, BTW, which I ordered from Zweitausendeins last week - and you will want to get the remaining sessions, anyway - it's not that much, and the duplications with the Mingus box are a little too many, IMO. When I ordered last week only one of the Ellington Carmegie Hall boxes was still listed, but their stock seems to be changing every day. I bought a few in their Frankfurt shop that I never saw on their website!

Yes it does, seven LPs and one track released only on a 45 rpm single. The music is inluded in LP issue order - tracks from each session were spread over several LPs.

Hi Oliver, I received the box this morning, and do not regret it, just my bank account will do so ..... There were several completed reissues of the Bethlehem, I just researched, on Bethlehem, Varese Sarabande, Snapper (just distributing?), and Gambit - wonder how the latter sounds.

I do, but in my own very unorthodox style, inspired by watching and playing for quite a number of modern dance professionals. About twice a year - last time was on my wife's 50th birthday celebration last Saturday. She tricked me when she asked me to put on Doris Day singing Que Sera, and announced it was her choice - I was the first victim, and I don't know how to do a waltz, or any other traditional steps! She tried every man in the room, and only the last, a guy over 70, really could do it! My revenge came later that night when I had my percussion students play some conga de comparsa and had everybody in the room join in - that's a step I know, but I was busy playing timbales and conducting the band. I cued them into a break and had an alto sax and a trombone play Happy Birthday on top, in 4/4 - the craziest birthday hymn you ever heard! I'd love to dance more often, but the music that inspires me is too sophisticated, rhythmically, for most of the girls ......

Up - was there a completed reissue of the Bethlehem? On one of them darned Iberian labels? I remember I saw something like this somewhere recently. If so, how's the sound?

Well, not quite - Philips used 7 live tracks for the first LP and spread 7 more over the subsequent albums. I'm not sure if I would have preferred them all on one disc, although that would have split up the original albums. A look into the discography (Bruyninkckx) shows that except for the first and last LPs they always combined mterial from various sessions. That leads to my only complaint about the booklet - what is missing is a discography in session order.

Up - same question here! How's the sound of the new "Sings the Blues" CD, in particular?

The British branch of EMI holds the rights to Roulette and its sub-labels - they have their own release policy. They initiated the first batch of Roulette CD reissues in the 1980's. Nina Simone has a large following in GB - she was very influential there, as described in detail by Ashley Kahn in his notes to the Philips box. The above were all Colpix LPs - I have a cassette of the Ellington somewhere and remember it was quite nice. Sound might be better than Collectables as the Brits have the original tapes.

Will do!

My wife agreed to go see them on Thursday - I will report here - or in the "What live music will you see tonight" thread.

You can post that list when we fail to identify any of those baritonists .....

Seems it was this band you saw: They're performing in Darmstadt on Thursday, maybe I will go see them.

Sounds like it's worth attending. I saw the Afro-Cuban All Stars of Juan Marcos Gonzalez live several years ago at the height of their popularity after the movie, and was somewhat disappointed. Do you have a personnel listing somewhere?

Toss a coin or simply start with the first one, Pure Emotion, there all equally good.

Did anyone post a list here somewhere or a link to a possible source of purchase? If not, please do so!

Don't make me confess ........ I buy way too much, due to recommendations posted here, and links to bargain offers. My tastes haven't changed, but refined more, and I am made aware of a lot of discs that fit my tastes very well. I love and curse y'all for this ...

Mine was here the day Jim almost fucked up the board ....... I didn't know there were so many different jazz baritone saxophonists .................. .....................

Yes the music is great. This morning I compared them to Mario Bauza's last three CDs for Messidor, another unintended trilogy before the passing of a giant in Latin music, with Chico's Tanga Suite incidentally on the first and one each on the next, but Bauza's basically was a Latin dance band, with jazz inflections in the horn section writing and jazz solos, whereas O'Farrill was a little more on the jazz side, having written for Goodman, Basie, Kenton, and the like - and thus should be more engaging for the jazz listener. With O'Farrill the jazz is in the writing, on a deep level.

The latest British made reissue of the Candid Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus sounds as if treated with a Dolby overdose ......

"The Unintended Trilogy" - Pure Emotion - The Heart of a Legend - Carambola The first of these three albums was released on Milestone in 1995 and was the first release in twenty years of one of the greatest arrangers in Afro-Cuban music as well as jazz, Chico O'Farrill. It was deservedly nominated for a Grammy. 1999 and 2000 saw the releases of the other two, which turned out to be the last of his albums before his death on June 27, 2001 in New York, making this an "unintended trilogy", as it was called in the liner notes to Carambola. O'Farrill was born Arturo O'Farrill on October 28, 1921 in Havana, Cuba, into an emigrated Irish family - that he became one of the best writers of Cuban music is a minor miracle in itself. When I got the two of these still missing in the current Zweitausendeins Fantasy sales, and noticed that no Latin Jazz had been nominated for Album of the Week before, my choice was clear. Feel free to discuss all or any of these three albums which give a great picture of a great arranger. I will post more details and comments next week. His AMG biography says:

I just ordered the Simone box - at € 25.00 incl. shipping & VAT at the current exchange rate it's a steal. Now all I have to do is stay off the Zweitausendeins website for all the other ZYX clearance bargains ......

indeed ..... There is one sentence that really underlines how messed up the jazz business is:

good approach, I can only recommend to follow .. but having to many of the individual Coltrane Impulse recordings that would have been an overkill so I skipped them. my Ella's and the Simone have been shipped already. Cheers, Tjobbe I had the individual reissues and still bought the set for the unissued material - and then had to watch updated reissues coming out with even more unissued material. Under that perspective, I probably would go for the individual CDs, but having all of this in recording order is great. Well, it no longer is that great ... I found the individual CDs sound a trifle better. And remember you still have to get the dates with Roy Haynes (which are excellent) and Africa/Brass ..... Tjobbe: How much did you pay then for the Simone box, shipping included? I noticed on Monday that Zweitausendeins in Frankfurt still has this in stock for € 39.99 ....... and please tell how you like the music.

No, you're not. I'd have bought Live-Evil with all the trumpet edited out.

May 1 is a national holiday in Germany, so ....... Wonder why there are so few signups this time