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If that means they're going to be somewhat cheaper, it's alright with me ...

It went OOP more than two years ago! I wanted to order it back then - thought it was too expensive when it came out, would have preferred four smaller box sets - but it was gone! But I scored one on ebay for 70 EUROS last year!

That's the only Shorter record after the Blue Notes that I really dig!

Well, I'm afraid I'm too biased to objectively tell about the Dave Pike Set - I never liked Kriegel, although he was an important pioneer figure for jazz and jazzrock on the German scene for many years, but he had his limits, was self taught and used only three fingers of his left hand, resulting in his peculiar style - maybe he got that from watching Django Reinhardt, who used only two fingers after his hand was injured by a fire. As I have stated in my posts about the Mangelsdorff groups in the discussion of BT # 5, I always compared the rhythm sections to those with US musicians, and most of them sounded too stiff to me. But if you listen with ears less prejudiced than mine, there is a lot to get from this music. Pike was great in this band. But the others - and especially the last band Kriegel played in before his death about two years ago, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble - sounded as German as their names. Kriegel was a very successful cartoonist and author of children's books, and retired more or less from music due to health problems - he had tongue cancer - in the mid-1990's.

Dave Pike !!! I kick my ... every day that I omitted him. This record : (AKG wrongly says it was not yet on CD - Amazon Germany sells it at 5 EUROs at the time - ) is one of the greatest of its kind. Kind of Miles Davis early 1960's going vibes, Bill Evans is on it, and in excellent form. One of Evans' first sessions after Scott LaFaro's tragic accident. Pike had great rhythmic drive, perhaps due to the fact that he started as a drummer and is self-taught on vibes. I first heard him in Herbie Mann's band (1961-64), where he played nice snappy things on marimba and African xylophones. BTW, the guy he replaced in Mann's group, Johnny Rae, is another excellent doorbellist, he left for Tjader group, where he played drums and timbales - with Mann it was vibes and timbales.

Lytle was an underground hero in the British acid jazz movement, he gigged there, and was surprised that they knew these two extreme rare LPs from the TUBA label (Orrin Keepnews' first venture after Riverside's crash), told them where the tapes were and so the reissue on the British BGP label came about. Nice, but I find his Riversides a little better. I'd like to hear the Muse stuff, but the 32Jazz comp is OOP and nowhere to be found ... it's nice how he used the mallet reversed for a different sound and stuff, a real entertainer, on a very solid musical level.

They want 45 EUROS for that LP on a German used LP site! Sorry, couldn't find a larger pic of that meager meal.

That was the first that came to my mind!

BST 84378 The Three Sounds / Gene Harris Monk Higgins (org, arr) Gene Harris (p) Fred Robinson, Al Vescovo (g) Luther Hughes (el-B) Carl Burnett (d) Bobbye Porter Hall (cga) Paul Humphrey (per) Los Angeles, CA, July 26, 1971 Did You Think What's the Answer same personnel Los Angeles, CA, July 27, 1971 Eleanor Rigby same personnel Los Angeles, CA, August 2, 1971 Your Love Is Just Too Much Hey Girl same personnel Los Angeles, CA, August 3, 1971 Put on Train You Got to Play the Game I'm Leaving

I sell vinyl if there's a CD out that sounds as good and includes bonus material. Some vinyl I keep if there are some very special memories associated with them, or if the cover sucks in the smaller format. If an LP sounds much better, I will keep it. I try to avoid duplications as space is limited and I use sales to finance new purchases. So far there haven been only a handful of LPs whose sale I regretted. I am not that picky about sound, and think a lot of the talk about LPs sounding better is either plain nostalgia and listening habits, or due to the fact that these people have far better playback equipment for vinyl than for CD, and of course due to the fact that CD technology has some years to catch up to as far as optimum playback techniques are concerned.

Considering their rather good relationship to Universal - maybe there's some insight that they can make a little money, as the deal with European distribution of the Verve Mosaics shows. The prospect of dozens of possible reissue projects from the Argo vaults almost makes me faint. Mosaic has to look for new claims after Blue Note has been exhaustingly reissued.

The Granz Jam Sessions will have lots of cool stuff for anybody who likes JATP, I guess. One of those sessions, or rather, a half session, was included in the Parker 10CD Verve box. If this stuff is as good as the session with Parker, this is one to get. Hell, I haven't even got the JATP set!

Adam's Apple - it has something of many different styles, is an excellent showcase for his composing and there is no other horn disctracting the listener from his great playing.

I was not surprised how many recognized Gil's writing, but I wonder why this record is not as well known as his collaborations with Miles - I think it is every bit as good, as is the first Impulse album. Is this really OOP in the US? In Germany, Zweitausendeins still has it.

You just don't get it, do you? I say "young"and I am. I simply don't need to waste any precious time worrying. Leaves me plenty of time to worry about other things, like jazz fans on jazz forums. I may not get this, but I got you never heard the jazz standard I was referring too, so you're not jazz God, that's for sure

Now if there's one to get from that series, it is this: This is the ONLY recording of the Eckstine band giving an idea of the sound and the impact that band really had, believe me, indispensable stuff if you don't have it! Much better than the studio recordings!

If J.A.W. has correct listings that site Brownie linked omitts the alternate takes in the listings. I just wanted to start bragging about these incomplete CDs, but it looks like they added related sessions. These three pieces, e.g. are not on the Marmarosa LP: 2. Bird lore 3. Midnight at Mintons 4. High wind in Hollywood The Gillespie includes a second take of 'Round Midnight not on the LP! Oh Geez - more for the ever growing want list

Just had a look at the site Brownie linked: if their listings are correct, the Gillespie/Berman/Navarro incudes only the master takes of the former two and adds the five master takes from the Don Lanphere session with Fats Navarro. Great music, but far from a complete issue!

The Gillespie LP has the session of February 6, 1946 that Parker missed, with Lucky Thompson, Milt jackson, Ray Brown, Al Haig and Stan Levey (8 takes), and 8 takes from the Harmanites session of September 21, 1946 with Bill Harris, Serge Chaloff, Sonny Berman, and Ralph Burns.

The Garner LP does NOT include the tracks with Parker but the trio tracks recorded at the same session (3 takes), and 10 piano solos recorded for Dial on June 10, 1947, all very nice.

The Marmarosa LP has the complete session with Babasin on cello (!) and Jackie Mills on drums of December 3, 1947, 11 takes in all, two test takes of "Tone Painting" and two AFRS Jubilee performances.

I have almost all of the Dial LPs - the Norvo LP has Hallelujah 3 takes get happy 2 takes Slam Slam Blues 2 takes Congo Blues 5 takes No idea wether the CD has more.

If you consider some pretty outspoken lyrics on records of R&B artists, Wynonie Harris in particular, these censors must have been either stone dumb or laughing their asses off!

I forgot to mention one pretty waltz: Lady Heavy Bottom's House

Randy, one other thing while you're at it- the Johnny Griffin tune is actually called "Soft" and Furry. B) Now what sort of allusion is this supposed to be? Something close to "Warm Valley", I suppose? ubu edited for crappy spelling Ubu, you're on the right track with your fantasies .... Johnny Griffin is one of the greatest jazz composers of ballads and semi-ballads about the broad spectrum between sensuality and love - and I think he never got his due credit for it: Soft and Furry Lonely One Oh, now I see! When we were one Slow Burn Woe is me To Love The way it is Dawn Damn, there's a whole album on Galaxy: To The Ladies.