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Looks promising!

Not a bad list, but it would be hard to defend the position that Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert shook the world more than Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens.

I thought that we had agreed not to disclose information about "A Day with Satchmo" on this forum! I hope that some moderator has the sense to hide this thread.

Be careful here. I bought the London set from this series as MP3s from Amazon. Half of the concert was extremely defective with loud clicking sounds through it. I brought it to Amazon's attention. They offered me a re-download, which obviously didn't help. I complained. They ignored me and didn't even take the music down from sale.

I prefer late period Coltrane on my fridge.

Thanks for reminding me about those two tracks, although they are sort of a footnote to the collection.

I have it on this CD that was issued a while back on Portrait. I also have it on the 2-disc JSP set: Louis Armstrong: The Big Band recordings 1930-1932. That was back in the day when JSP was (I believe) a legit label that did its own remastering.

Interesting. Thanks, Chuck.

It is an interesting question as to why Blue Note decided to change the name of that album (Sweet Slumber) to Lush Life. Sonny Criss - Mr. Blues Pour Flirter. The song "Blues Pour Flirter" was released separate from the album.

But the Capitol/B&W sides can be got, and so can the Imperials. Though I agree 100%. I haven't got the Mosaic. Am I missing anything? MG No. The Mosaic is exactly the complete Capital/B&W and the Imperials. A lot of that was not available at the time that the Mosaic set was released. That is the case for quite a lot of classic Mosaic sets - they made available great music that only later became readily available elsewhere. I had never even heard of Tina Brooks when the Mosaic came along and blew my mind. Now, many people who have all the Blue Note CDs are not even aware that there was a Tina Brooks set.

I would give the T-Bone Walker some thought. I couldn't live without that music in some form or another.

DEFINITELY the former. I wan't to hear some real exploration and risk taking, no Coltrane influence necessary. For me the only cut-off point that I've found so far is anything that sounds like Coltrane's post "A Love Supreme" stuff. I can't get with "Meditations", "Ascension", or anything that. But I would much rather listen records like Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch" or Elvin Jones' "Puttin it Together" than a straight bop record on which the musicians are just safely showing off their chops. Have you listened to "John Coltrane Plays?" That is one of my favorites, the first record made after Love Supreme, and closer to Love Supreme than to Ascension or Meditations.

They never did. They never even admitted that errors were made. None of the errors concern the material on Afro-Blue Impressions, however, at least in its previous incarnations.

All of Afro-Blue Impressions is contained on the Pablo Live Trane box.

Thanks, MG! I am dowloading the Ganda Fadiga. Please keep the recs coming!

The kind of good life where you shave every morning with spurs.

Yes, it is sandwiched between quotes.

Wow!

I wonder when they are going to start releasing the "mono enhanced to simulate stereo" box sets?

Oh, he's Cecil through and through on those records. He hadn't met Sunny Murray yet and the rhythmic conception wasn't where it would be, but the improvisational arcs and purity of conception are 100% CT. . It doesn't seem to me to be as much a rhythmic change as one concerning harmony and melody. Pre-Sunny Murray, Cecil was still working largely around the jazz tradition in that regard, although in a very expansive way. The break was quite radical.

For me, it is just the opposite. I enjoy Conquistador very much, and find it to be a much easier listen than Unit Structures. After all these years, I have still yet to warm to Unit Structures.

Chubby Checker should just be thankful that Hank Ballard didn't sue him for The Twist.

My ITunes library is 1.2 TB.