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I'd like to hear the new Miroslav Vitous ECM without Corea, McLaughlin and the three brass players, who were all overdubbed.
I'd like to hear the whole Al Kooper / Mike Bloomfield Super Session without the brass, which Kooper did with one track on the last CD reissue - I like the results.
Blasphemic as it sounds, I'd like to hear most of the electric Miles stuff, especially the live ones, without Miles - that Cellar Door band e.g. was far more exciting without him ...
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Shit happens ....
I can't play one of my best paid gigs next year on carnival saturday because it's my 50th birthday and sure I'm having a party that night ... I was dissatisfied with them anyway, let out a little rant and now they all say they need me in the band !
Percussionists are seen as an exotic spice you can always leave off and do traditional cooking. But experience over the years has taught me that for every gig cancelled there is a new one coming up unexpectedly, at least I was lucky in that respect. The Kurdish band I play in, some very nice folk jazz kinda stuff, was supposed to play a gig at a conservatory in a town close by where the leader takes his studies, but he had to cancel since the flutist couldn't make it. He then got a gig that meant driving 400 miles to Berlin to play 45 minutes for 100 EUR each, I cut out because I wouldn't take that strain for so short a gig for this money, two days lost as we would have stayed overnight, but yesterday he told us it was cancelled too and he had a new gig in Frankfurt, 15 miles away for the same money. So it goes. Now imagine what my appointment book looks like ....
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I recently ordered two DVDs with Monk documentaries and a Rollins CD not available in Europe from Amazon.com, and after paying EUR 10 for VAT and tax it was still considerably cheaper than buying the DVDs at a European shop. You always should compare prices and shipping and costs and then decide where to order. I even would have paid more when buying these DVDs at ebay Germany!
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Mosaic Box Sets are insanely expensive at some on-line retailers which usually sell at reasonable prices.
This is not a taxes matter. We´re talkig about huge margins with this stuff!!!
As I understand it every retailer has to buy Mosaic sets at the same prices as you and I will get them, no reseller prices, which is only fair and consequent. So the high prices (like with the Cole set I just mentioned) are Mosaic's price plus VAT, taxes, postage, and a little margin. It was always cheaper if I ordered them directly from Mosaic, even before I had a credit card. Had to get a check drawn on a US bank, which wasn't cheap, but not as much as these retailers wanted.
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I think this one is the first that might be seen in stores this side of the water. The Ellington and the others you mentioned have not been sold here.
The only Mosaic I ever saw in a German retail store was a copy of the Nat King Cole set in a Wiesbaden shop. It sat there for two years, even after it was sold out at Mosaic, 'cause he charged the Mosaic price plus taxes etc. plus a little profit. But when they had a clearance sale due to lack of storage space, offering it at 30% less, it went fast ...
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She can be seen watching the Basie Band on the 1957 Sound Of Jazz TV film.
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Whatever "knowledge" I have (and it's debatable if I truly have ANY)
So you finally outed yourself as a latter day incarnation of Socrates, who is quoted to have stated "I know I know nothing".
Someday we will discover a series of multiple threads running through all blindfold tests, like # 3 had Dexter Gordon on soprano, # 4 had George Coleman on alto, # 5 had Ronnie Cuber on alto, # 6 had Illinois Jacquet on alto, # 7 had Lester Young on clarinet, # 8 had Jane Ira Bloom on alto, # 9 had Zoot Sims on baritone, # 10 had Buddy de Franco on bass clarinet ...... or consider the clone thread - I'd rather not elaborate
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Okay, I did some further research on Blue Note 10" LP 5004, it had the following (all master) takes, the same takes that had been issued on 10" 78 rpm shellac records before (in brackets):
1. BN 304-2 The Chase (BN 541)
2. BN 305-1 The Squirrel (BN 540)
3. BN 306-5 Our Delight (BN 540)
4. BN 307-2 Dameronia (BN 541)
These are the complete master takes of the September 26, 1947 session.
5. BN 333-0 Lady Bird (BN 559)
This is one of four titles recorded at the September 13, 1948 session.
6. BN 338-B Double Talk (BN 557 in two parts)
This is from the October 11, 1948 Howard McGhee session.
7. BN 363-1 52nd Street Theme (BN 1568)
This is from the August 8, 1949 Bud Powell session, where Navarro played on 4 of the 6 titles recorded.
The issue history of any of these sessions from the 78 rpm era is a rather complictaed affair - and this is why I do not believe in any of these "original issue" philosophies: with every new format, the music was rearranged, so doing this following entirely different criteria for CD or never formats is legitimate. If the order of the first or whatever LP issue is your favourite, it is alright with me, it's a matter of taste, but please don't call it "original". B)
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Here's the track listing for Blue Note 10" LP 5004, Fats Navarro Memorial Album:
1. The Chase
2. The Squirrel (Dameron)
3. Our Delight (Dameron)
4. Dameronia (Dameron)
5. Lady Bird (Dameron)
6. Double Talk (Navarro)
7. 52nd Street Theme (Monk)
which is an incomplete selection from several sessions, I don't know if these were master or alternate takes, but I guess it was master takes, as this was the first and only 10" LP release of this material on Blue Note. The next issues with additional material were Blue Note LPs 1531 and 1532.
This is a very good example to explain the contradictions in the hunt for the "original issue track order" of such material. The first issues were 10" 78" rpm records, so these in A/B order should give the first issue order. All others, 10" LPs, 12" LPs, CDs and whatever is to come, are reissues, so if one looks only for the 12" LP track order it is arbitrary and nostalgic - because most of first heard this music in 12" LP format. In the case of the Miles Davis Blue Note material the 10" LPs were the first issues, with complete sessions (!), whereas the 12" LP reissues had to tear sessions apart and change track order to make it fit to the new format. This is what most collectors seem to forget. 12" LPs of older material always were reissues with often questionable choice of material and track order, sometimes exchanging originally issued takes etc. etc.
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ubu, expect a letter next week with a Bruyninckx disco printout.
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The beer's in the fridge. When will you guys arrive?
That sure looks tasty .... do they make non-alcoholic beer as well?
p.s. I just imagined two dozen board members collectively flooding New York's biggest record store at one of the annual organissimo conventions ...
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Each member his own couwatar!!! A serious case of animatitis, of epidemic dimensions.
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And the copy control won't actually work. It will just make the CDs sound worse.
By that time we've all switched to SACD's I guess - sound of CDs won't matter any longer - but the burners and copy control game reaches round 2!
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Their Concord distribution deal ended several years ago, AFAIK they're out of the jazz business completely now. The CDs rarely turn up on ebay Germany, collectors here keep them!
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Sure would make a nice Legacy CD I would buy without hesitation!
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I'll have my tape recorder running, thankx a lot, ubu!!!
Didn't work out, damn, somehow my tuner had deleted all pre-programmed radio frequencies.
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Oh jeez ... where is this going to end ???
I really know how hard it is picking material for only one disc, I could easily fill three of them - considering we all are at it about once in two or three years, it is reasonable - so I'd say go ahead Jim!!!
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Oh yeah, Eddie was open on all sides. Cool, hard bop, funky, he had it all down, and he was one of the most humorous musicians I ever saw. I miss him. One of the few who really got kicks from making fun of himself and everybody around - and that for sure wasn't commercial.
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Keep the soul stream running! We have to, who else can?
I feel downhearted myself, after two weeks of straining rehearsals for a (successful) gig and an even more straining three days demo recording session afterwards. Right now I feel like I need a break from that band, from any band, but you got to make a living ...
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The UA session was produced by Alan Douglas and arranged by Teacho Wiltshire, recorded by Bill Schwartau at Sound Mixers in New York in September, 1962.
The Aladdin session was recorded at Capitol Studios, L.A. in October, 1956, no engineer or producer credited.
I'm pretty sure Michael Cuscuna would have found out if possible when preparing the Blue Note King Pleasure CD.
The Golden Days session (originally on HiFiJazz, now owned by Fantasy) I have only on the old Prestige twofer LP, which says it was produced by David Axelrod, but gives neither engineer nor studio. Are these credited on the OJC reissue?
Thus we have three versions of Moody's Mood For Love with Ann Onimous; only Blossom Dearie was credited on the first Prestige recording. The Ann Onimous singers do not sound like prolific jazz singers. If they had some importance, they would have insisted, like Jon Hendricks on the UA LP version of Don't Get Scared.
BTW, by purchasing three CDs one has King Pleasure's entire recorded output:
I'd say get the Blue Note before it's OOP, it has his rarest recordings.
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My copy was issued by the British Boplicity label,
I think that was the issue I listened to, in a shop in Munich. What do you think about that date?
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When is Warner France, Japan or US going to put out:
CHICO HAMILTON - WITH STRINGS, 3 FACES OF
I have these on a Warner UK twofer CD # 9362478742.
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Some tunes from The Grand Wazoo or Waka/Jawaka albums would make nice blowing tunes, I guess.
There have been Zappa arrangements by European classical ensembles in recent years, for woodwind quintet, large woodwind + percussion band, and for baroque ensemble - the latter is intriguing:
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When are you going to rinse off the cream off that lady's body? And then mutate in to the wildcat?