Joe Bip

For that price, I'd say grab it. Someone will! I noticed a chancer on eBay who's asking that price just for the last disc of the set. I've been making my way through the set starting with pianists I'm the most familiar with. The Earl Hines trio was predictably great. This purchase also led me to revisit pianists I hadn't listened to in years, like Ralph Sutton, Jess Stacy, and Joe Bushkin. When I went for this set, I already owned the latter's Piano Moods album on a CD that also included his follow-up After Hours, which adds in some fine playing by Buck Clayton.

Columbia Jazz Piano Moods set the mood for roughhousing with my four-year-old, a recent purchase (the Mosaic set, that is), specifically the Tatum concert, which sounds much clearer to me than my 1970s Columbia vinyl release of the same date.

(Emerges after ten years of reading and not posting to ask:) How many sales are they losing by having the preorder be "out of stock" during a sale promotion with a specified end time? I was ready to order this but thought I had all of Saturday at least.

Ah, thanks. I was trying to order a couple of Selects in addition to a big box or two and didn't see the red text for the latter.

Am I missing something? How do I get the discount to show up?

How long did yours take to arrive. Still waiting for a shipping notice a week later. I ordered on Feb 22, received confirmation right away, and it came March 6, so 12 days total. I don't know what the stock/fulfillment time situation may be since then, but the price is so good it's probably worth waiting it out, especially since we know they've actually been fulfilling orders on something that I thought at first to be a price mistake.

Miles Bootleg Vol. 2 is available from WOW HD for $15.99 with free shipping. http://www.wowhd.us/CD/miles-davis-miles-davis-quintet-live-in-europe-1969-3cd-dvd/dp/32012157#bc=9de5 I received mine today. It's a reputable site (used to be called CD-Wow).

Earlier in the year, I enjoyed this feature on the Tzadik site. They had over 50 artists choose a favorite disc from the back catalog and write up a short review/recommendation of it.

The Miles set can be purchased for $27 and change from Barnes & Noble using the code N7C7K8T, which expires 9:00 EST tomorrow morning.

The Keepnews Collection reissue of Clark Terry's Serenade to a Bus Seat lists Wynton Kelly as a drummer on the back cover. Terry playing with two drummers and no piano -- that would be a record to hear! Even funnier, I just noticed that Steeplechase's CD of Very Early by Joe Locke credits the song "Nature Boy" (written by Eden Ahbez) to Abba! That's on the disc itself and the back cover. If anyone reading this happens to be from a label that might need a copy editor or proofreader, I do know of a freelancer who is good, has reasonable rates, and knows jazz.

Amazon, etc., links, anyone? Black Saint/Soul Note boxes I guess they don't sell the Bill Dixon one.

I love Bernard Herrmann. Tomorrow night in Portland there's going to be a screening of Psycho with live orchestral accompaniment, but I'm balking. Ticket prices go all the way up to around $80, and if I'm going to go I'd want to be seated where I'd have a good view of the screen.

I spent quite a few years in his hometown and having read his semi-regular newspaper column, Love Notes, I can understand Paul's reaction to some of the same stuff I presume is in the book. He became rather bitter. An interesting psychology emerged when reading many of the columns, I found. I once saw him performing in the middle of the day in the law school cafeteria at Creighton University with practically no one listening. But it's a sad anecdote, and I don't want to come across as saying anything unflattering here about someone people here respect. I can certainly empathize with some of his feelings based on what I know of the business.

I really liked Muñoz and Sampayo's short graphic-novel biography of Billie Holiday. I believe it's out of print but can still be found cheaply. Very distinctively written and drawn -- not a straightforward cookie-cutter biography. R. Crumb did a great story, Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse, based on biographical material on Morton by Alan Lomax. There's also a book titled Cat on a Hot Thin Groove, which features classic illustrations and single-panel cartoons by Gene Deitch from Record Changer magazine, most of them about obsessive fandom rather than the music itself.

Sonny Stitt makes an appearance in that barometer of mass culture, Hi and Lois. How many people Chip's age know of Sonny? Pretty impressive for a character in a daily strip!

Yes, and Dolphy's absence surely counts even more heavily against it to many who would otherwise buy it. Fortunately it has sold well enough to keep it from getting deleted, so far, as many other OJCs have been.

I probably couldnt name three favorites, and if I did they'd probably not be surprising: Black Saint, Ah Um, and I'd have to think about the third one. I'd be happy to name what I think is one of the most underrated Mingus records, though: Right Now. Such lively, inspired performances of "Fables" and "Meditation for a Pair of Wire Cutters." Apart from a few typically raving Amazon reviews, I've never gotten the feeling that this record is really appreciated, and I can't really figure out why. I also think Epitaph is an important Mingus record, which probably doesn't get its due because Mingus doesn't perform on it and it was recorded after his death. If one takes him seriously as a composer, those shouldn't be deterrents. It's an important album.

I quit last month. I watched their selection gradually dwindle over a long period of time, and when they had a bunch of promotions in Nov. and Dec. I bought up almost everything left in my queue. What sealed the deal for me was when they started taking 3 weeks or more to ship items that had been at a steady spot in my queue for a while (and a replacement of a damaged item they said they had shipped 2-3 weeks before it actually did), and taking 2 weeks to reply to questions/complaints I sent Customer Service via their website. I'm glad I was a member, as I got a lot of good things -- mostly ECM and Blue Note discs -- for good prices. But I resisted the urge to stick around and keep buying discs I didn't feel any real urge to own.

I have the "Chronicle: Complete Prestige Recordings" and I'm pretty sure that contains everything (including the Coltrane sessions) all in one box. No reason to buy the seperate 4 CD Prestige Miles/Trane set or this new one as far as I can tell. None of the tracks on disc 4 of the Miles Legendary Quintet Sessions box were included on Chronicle. Also, the 4 CD set was newly remastered, but I haven't compared it with the old 1993 set. I got rid of the Chronicle set a long time ago and still have this stuff about two or three different ways.

I bought both box sets. I got the first one back in 1992 when I was first getting into jazz. I had even less money back then than I do now, and I considered the set an expensive lesson learned. Really frustrating to have to spend that much time skipping around to the finished tracks from the studio sessions. The packaging was attractive, and my only real complaint was that it was too hard to hold the book open to read it for any length of time because of the way it was bound. I've also never been a fan of storing CDs in hard-cardboard sleeves. If they fit tightly, you have to pinch the edges of the discs with your fingers to pull them out; and if they fit loosely they can just fall out (I think it was the former with this set). I bought the six-disc set to get all the studio masters in one place and hear how the remastering sounds. I've gotten much more enjoyment out of this metal box than the older set. Agree about the unsightly packaging, though. The disc art is funny: more appropriate to '90s techno than Lady Day. I made my own 2-CD set of the live recordings from the original box.

I don't know whether the existing footage still exists, but another question is who currently owns the DVD rights. The existing DVD was from New Yorker Films, which went out of business a year ago. However just a few days ago there was a press release saying they've been acquired by Aladdin Distribution and are going to be back in business as of next month. They seem to have retained the rights to the New Yorker back catalog, and if this still includes Jazz on a Summer's Day, then the question is whether they're going to be interested in going back and releasing improved special editions of things already released on DVD. The old New Yorker never really showed any interest in that kind of thing, and their DVD releases were in fact a slow trickle of things generally disappointing in picture quality etc. (Jazz on a Summer's Day was one of their better-looking releases, I thought.) Of course the newly formed enterprise could mean a break with the past, but I think we'll have to wait and see. If they no longer have the rights, this may bode well for some other company releasing a special edition. There's also the possibility that a company that releases jazz concerts on DVD could license just the extra footage, if it exists. Earlier thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=11306

No longer available. Thanks for looking

It looks like Jazz Loft is still taking preorders for it.

However, it looks like this set has four alternate takes missing on the Complete set (which I just recently bought for better or worse but haven't yet received): You Are My Lucky Star, I Could Write a Book, There Will Never Be Another You, and Yesterdays.All 4 of these are included in the RCA box (assuming the Yesterdays is the version with Coleman Hawkins). The box also has Don't Stop The Carnival and Jungoso. According to JSngry, Don't Stop the Carnival is on both. I know Jungoso is listed on the track listings for both. As for the "bonus tracks" (which I supposed were alternates) of "You Are my Lucky Star," "I Could Write a Book," and "There Will Never Be Another You" on Disc 2 of Original album classics. According to the track runtimes listed at Barnes and Noble they are all almost exactly the same length as the tracks on Disc 4, so I guess this confirms what JSngry said: they're not alternates and they just repeated the same takes. It seems like a pretty sloppy release but undeniably a good value.

However, it looks like this set has four alternate takes missing on the Complete set (which I just recently bought for better or worse but haven't yet received): You Are My Lucky Star, I Could Write a Book, There Will Never Be Another You, and Yesterdays. I also wonder if they remastered these again since 1997, but even if they did they're probably not too different. I have good vinyl pressings of a couple of these, as well.