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Hum Dono is up for bids again:
This copy seems a little less pristine than the last one but is nevertheless climbed out of my reach :-)
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I spoke to Vocalion today as their website says a new batch of jazz is upcoming this month. Unfortunately it is unlikely to be before June now...however, the impression I got from them was that this next batch will feature extremely important British jazz music(ians) - they wouldn't give me any other clues so I can only wait in eager anticipation.
Means no Hum Dono or Afro-Jazz. Amancio D'Silva and Guy Warren were never ever important.
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If you mean if it was ever released on CD format, then yes. Twice, actually. First there was an Italian bootleg which was a needle drop. And couple of years ago it was released as a nice and clean digipack by some label called Take 5. They also released the MPS New Violin Summit 1971. Very shabby distribution, though. Which means probably not legit.
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There was something about a reissue decade ago on Amancio D'silva's website (which was made by his family) but of course nothing came out of it.
I gave it a listen when I saw this eBay listing and pondered if I should participate. I came to conclusion it's very good, but probably not really worth $2500.
Funny thing about those holy grail records is that while they're hard to find and fetch top dollar on auctions, the moment they get reissued they kind of drop out of radar screen. Being so rare means everybody talks about them and they're remembered and cherished. Then one day they get reissued and poof! - talk of the town turns to whisper of the village.
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This was issued on CD at least twice. The Japanese mastersound version (1998) is to be preferred for vast increase in sound quality.
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This is a nice one. It being a box set and not separate releases is less of a problem to me since there's no titles on Jazz Icons 5 that I would not want anyway. All the previous Jazz Icons had some that I did not need, not this one. Highlights for me are Coltrane, of course, Kirk, and Freddie Hubbard. There's some un-Mosaic like confusion in info. The Johnny Griffin DVD "Live in France 1971" is actually two shows, one from 1971 and another from 1965. Kirk DVD is supposedly black and white but is actually color footage. Another one that's color is Monk, all the other ones are b/w.
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According to a post on Steve Hoffman board, including a quote from a Mahavishnu Orchestra Project page that I couldn't find myself, in this new set "Beyond Nothingness and Eternity" and the new bonus disc are remastered and remixed.
Sound is great, indeed. Compared to the old CD version of Between Nothingness and Eternity, the new one is way better. If you listen to Sister Andrea through headphones, you can actually hear Cobham's bass drum that's inaudible on the previous version. And it's more than a minute longer, too. The studio albums are presented with the same mix as previous releases, I think (booklet seems to imply this).
Now, packaging is whole another issue. The booklet I got with my copy looks like it's been chewed by a dog, missing a little part of last page, and rest of it is is wrinkled. The discs are a bit scratchy, not too bad but still, presumably because they're loose in their cardboard sleeves. Those made in USA (and Europe) albums should not be called mini LP's, they're cheapo cardboard sleeves, not real mini LP sleeves like the ones manufactured in Japan -- which have inside protective sleeves for individual discs and print quality that's usually so high it actually looks like the original LP when blown-up.
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Another bootleg that came out as vinyl as well as CD was "Two Miles Live" (Vienna 1971). Losin discography does not mention vinyl release, only CD.
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Masterpiece, all time favourite, desert island disc.
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Are these Japanese new versions of Seattle and Olatunji concerts remastered? Do they sound better than previous versions?
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Not a re-issue, but a never heard before recording from Ira Sullivan's Quintet, Miami Beach 1973; released under Jaco Pastorius' name.
JACO PASTORIUS "THE GREEN LIGHT"
KKJ012
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Our Kind of Sabi (MPS, 1970) with John Surman, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Daniel Humair.
Strongly recommended
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Just watched the DVD. Excellent. Definitely worth picking up.
Now, what I would like to see, is a 2CD + 1DVD package of Weather Report and Surman/Skidmore/Thelin in Berlin 1971. Or is this out of Cuneiform's league?
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BTW, is the Japan only (???) quintet album The Sun (recorded September 1970) still property of EMI/Toshiba? I wonder if there's any possibility for a world wide edition...
Never heard this one. Can anyone tell how's the music: free, fusion or...? Is there any resemblance to the aforementioned trio / quartet material?
http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/C/ChickCorea/index.html
One side is totally out avantgarde, second is more inside, let's say freebop with hints of what Miles was doing at that time.
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I picked up the new Horo sampler today and must say I'm really unimpressed by it. It has no discographical info on any of the tracks! No personnel, not even year. They managed to find room for praise to the compiler, Gilles Peterson, "man who has entertained millions of club goes and radio listeners," as the liner notes say. Worst of all, 2 of the tracks (Roy Haynes and Lester Bowie ones) have been ruined by something called "Scotti re-edit." I wonder when does the time come my poor ears are going to witness Miles' Kind of Blue raped by mindless "re-editing." If this is the standard the allegedly upcoming Horo reissues are going to be measured by, why bother?
As a fitting contrast, I also picked up today the new Mainstream records sampler from BGP records, A Loud Minority. That's the real deal, full discographical data, booklet filled with rare photographs, insightful liner notes, even full page original album cover art for some titles.
<EDIT> Upon further inspection: the Mainstream compilation makes a funny mistake, though. The Charles McPherson track which is allegedly "Charisma" is actually "Invitation" from the same LP. Furthermore, the liner notes for this track praise the drummer, Elvin Jones. The drummer is actually Billy Higgins (correctly identified in the personnel section.) D'oh!
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Don't hold your breath.
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I didn't realize "Feio" from Complete Bitches Brew Sessions and "Moto Grosso Feio" is the same composition. Nice! I like both, but they're really different.
It's a real shame those Shorter's late albums for Blue Note have been o.o.p. so long. Real under-appreciated gems they are. I've been listening to Odyssey of Iska and Moto Grosso Feio a lot lately. "Montezuma" must be one of Shorter's loveliest compositions.
I wonder if this session with Wayne, Miroslav, McCoy etc. from around the same time ever gets released...
Wayne Shorter Quintet
Wayne Shorter (ts) Barbara Burton (vib, bells, per) McCoy Tyner (p) Miroslav Vitous (b) Alphonse Mouzon (d, per)
A&R Studios, NYC, October 13, 1970
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Muzak is just the name of the label. If you look at their catalogue, it's really no muzak at all.
I love the idea of Albert Ayler's albums being issued on Muzak!
The Muzak page on the Ayler albums. In Japanese. If you have access to automatic translating, the google translation is worth a try!
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This is a good news indeed. If they'd get Arild Andersen's "Lifelines" re-issued as well. That's the one with Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler and Steve Dobrogosz. Meantime, I see Carla Bley's "Tropic Appetites," an absolutely splendid album for WATT / ECM, has gone out of print, and fetches obscene money on amazon shops.
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1.Original producer and designer are not mentioned
2.Photo's are credited to "Mr.X" ; Specifically the Sam Rivers photograph was lifted from wikipedia, where it is credited to Tom Marcello.
3.The Black Africa! liner notes contain this telling phrase (quoted from memory): "Exactly why Horo never reissued this remains a mystery..."
Bootlegs or not? I'd say they are,
But this does not mean I'm not glad Atomic released them. I would have been happy to buy the product directly from Horo, but truth is, they failed to release it in reasonable time, and now someone has beat them to it.
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The Montreux album is good, IMHO. More free-ish than their JAPO/ECM records. Only side A is actually recorded at Montreux, side B is studio. Sleeve back says something like "free music electric jazz," which pretty much sums it.
The collage of OM album covers is still missing one, I just realized. The Christy Doran / Fredy Studer anthology 'Half A Lifetime' has 2 tracks from their 1982 Om + guests concert at Willisau, some 30 minutes of music. Guests are Dom Um Romao, Trilok Gurtu, Manfred Schoof, Charlie Mariano and Jasper Van't Hoof. This was their last show before they reunited again couple of years ago.