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Me too.

One item 32Jazz got totally right. All four Muse albums on 2 CD's:

I at one time did ship CD's to Europe, but had some nightmare experiences with some of the non-USA post offices (Italy was especially memorable), and decided it just wasn't worth the stress and trauma. Plus, as you point out, rates have skyrocketed.

That would be very welcome news!

And that's where most of the good reissues come from these days.

Does the end of the de minimus tariff exemption mean that CDJapan and other foreign outlet shipping costs, with the extra duty imposed, will now make it unfeasible for USA customers to order from them? I'm no tariff lawyer, but what I'm reading doesn't sound good.

I'm also sparse on Lacy. Irene Aebi's vocals are an absolute deal breaker for me, and I don't need multiple CD's of him doing Monk, so that leaves me quartets with Waldron and groups with Steve Potts but without Aebi as my sweet spots.

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They could make downloads of those two tracks available with proof of purchase, but I assume they wouldn't consider that.

If this CD set does not include the two missing tracks, I'm good with just keeping the 2005 2-CD set, which otherwise IMO is a perfect reissue.

I fully agree with both of your points, thanks!

Denon is sitting on a lot of music which should be reissued, including some great 70's live Max Roach with Billy Harper.

@mikeweil. Good call, that's the session that got Alice's overdubs for the Infinity album.

Agreed it is the best work they ever did by a longshot, the only label that truly captured their magic. Columbia did not know what to do with them, and Stax just tried to fit them into the Stax mold.

Yes, on Blue Moon's Vee Jay series.

Primo Woody Shaw, great album.

I like Sloane also, and agree with your assessment, thanks.

What do you think of it? Bavan has never sounded "right" to me as a replacement for Annie Ross, but I've had limited exposure to the work with Bavan, and it may just be that my expectations were caught short by the differences in their styles.

That whole BN Montreux series has been a mystery for five decades. I know I only ever saw them as cutouts at Third Street Jazz in Philly (Jerry Gordon's store years before he founded Evidence Records), and there is question if those albums were actually released at the time. The CD issues later on were good to have. If course, the Marlena Shaw sample was the retrospectively famous moment, and I assume that and the Norah Jones windfall made their release more viable.

The Blakey and the Byrd were not released during their lifetimes. I am a huge Blakey fan, but have never had access to any back channels, so never heard it before the BN reissue. That being said, the Blakey was pretty underwhelming based on what was already out there in the marketplace. To me, the Byrd is amazingly/surprisingly good and unique, and I'm very glad it was finally released. I have mixed feelings about "the artist's wishes" on that stuff. BN took on the effort and expense to record that concert, and it was quite worthwhile, why should they have to just eat the costs if it is worthy of release? To me, that concert puts Byrd's contemporaneous studio output to shame, is way above anything he recorded from 'Black Byrd' on, including the commercial BN's, Elektra stuff and the "comeback" albums on Landmark.

What was this? Doesn't take keen deductive skills to realize that there's a market for an unissued session from the heydey of BN. And I agree, it's not an album that adds much of anything other than bulk. Much less heralded but much more rewarding is the Donald Byrd 1970's Montreux historical issue, which tells a whole musical story we did not really know (Nathan Davis, Henry Franklin and the Mizell Brothers all on the same recording).

Same here. One of the first jazz albums I ever bought, thanks to the in-store tutelage of a kind and knowledgeable Franklin Music employee.