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I'll tell you this, he's not a good SS (though a really good 3B), so the insistence on playing SS does scream ME. Dude sure can hit, though.

Saw a very angry Peter Townshend in concert in the early 90's, moaning about Clapton going 10x platinum with Unplugged and his "bossa nova version of Layla" (have never forgotten that line). I'm glad Clapton cleaned up and lived (and visually, he has aged really well), but I sure don't listen to anything he's done the past 45 years.

Still $76 + $6 shipping from Importcds directly. See GP's post where he pointed that out and gave the link.

Yes, according to a 2009 Newsweek article that says it has sold 4x platinum. Link and excerpt from the article below. And I will say, it's the jazz album I recommend as a starter to people who "don't know that they like jazz". That being said, I'm more likely to pull out and listen to one of the Miles albums with HancockCarter//Williams, like "Four and More" (Coleman) or "ESP" (Shorter): https://www.newsweek.com/how-kind-blue-became-best-selling-jazz-album-ever-77791 Meanwhile, the record kept selling, and selling and selling. Today, 50 years after it was released, "Kind of Blue" remains the bestselling jazz album of all time. More than 4 million copies have been sold, and the album still sells an average of 5,000 copies a week. If you have a jazz album on your shelf, odds are it's "Kind of Blue."

I don't love some of their layouts either, but the sound quality is fantastic (clearly better than Mosaic to my ears, though YMMV on the "loudness" wars), the sets are legit and the price is about $6-7 per CD for me (I often get 3-4 albums on a 2CD set for about $13) compared to the $18 or so per disc that new Mosaics have been (and OOP's can be more).

Just pulled out my handy Joel Whitburn "Billboard Top Pop Albums 1955-1996" book. The Jamal album charted 107 weeks and topped out at #3. The Brubeck charted 164 weeks and topped out at #2. Getz/Gilberto 96 weeks and topped out at #2 (special recognition that it did that in 1964, at the height of Beatlemania). The Getz Jazz Samba album went to #1, and charted 70 weeks. The two Coltrane albums that charted? Why, of course "Expression" and "Sun Ship", each 3 weeks, neither above 186. The top Miles Davis album was 'Bitches Brew', reaching #35 and charting 29 weeks. 'Kind of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme' never charted.

Sorry for any confusion. My point was that offering "bonus tracks" on preferred formats dates back to the 80's (at least). That being said, I'm pretty sure I can find a CD release from that era where they added a bonus EP that is half the # of tracks of the original album. Here is one that the CD adds 5 tracks onto a 15 track vinyl album, so that's getting close:

Actually, we have been in the post-apocalypse era for a few years, and apocalyptic history suggests the next step would seem to be Sinatra covers.

Steve Perry was the singer on all of the monster Journey hits. Interesting history of that group, which began as a progressive offshoot from Santana with Gregg Rollie and Neal Schon, also Aynsley Dunbar and a very talented Bay Area guitarist named George Tickner. They then transformed into the hitmaking bohemoth they were (and I do love "Who's Crying Now" and "Separate Ways" myself).

Happened a good bit 30-35 years ago when the industry wanted us to buy cassettes or CD's instead of vinyl. "CD only bonus tracks" or "cassette only bonus tracks".

BGO is a UK company. It got delayed a month (common occurrence with BGO), but did finally come out (they always do from BGO). Haven't ordered mine yet, but expect to do so soon. Available from several reputable sellers.

Just got released on a nice BGO twofer. Love that company!

Off by one letter, sorry. The Real Gone Jazz replacement is Reel to Reel. See example of the old and new below (there are dozens of others)

Reel to Real is just a rebranding of the EU Real Gone Jazz label, from what I can tell.

From theseconddisc.com https://theseconddisc.com/2018/10/and-on-the-third-day-jack-bruce-joins-gary-burton-michael-gibbs-on-live-festival-69-concerts/ And On The Third Day: Jack Bruce Joins Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs On Live “Festival ’69” Concerts OCTOBER 9, 2018 BY JOE MARCHESE LEAVE A COMMENT BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Later this month, Cherry Red’s Turtle Records is turning back the clock almost 50 years for the first official release of two 1969 concerts from longtime friends and collaborators Michael Gibbs and Gary Burton. Festival ’69, due September 28, is a 3-CD set of performances from Gibbs at Lancaster University (February 1969) and Burton with Gibbs at Whitla Hall in Belfast (November 20, 1969) primarily featuring Gibbs’ own compositions. Students of Herb Pomeroy, trombonist Gibbs and vibraphonist Burton met while attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Burton’s early fusion records on RCA such as Lofty Fake Anagramand Duster (both 1967) featured Gibbs’ compositions and a heady blend of jazz and rock that translated to the stage as heard on Festival ’69. The first two discs present the Belfast concert which was split between straight Quartet performances (by Burton, guitarist Dave Pritchard, bassist Steve Swallow, and drummer Bill Goodwin), and songs with an all-star British big band consisting of Gibbs and Chris Pyne on trombone, Kenny Wheeler and Trevor Barber on trumpet, Alan Skidmore, Ray Warleigh, and Tony Roberts on saxophone, and Chris Spedding on guitar. Almost all of the material performed was written by Gibbs, Swallow, or Burton, and many of the songs were familiar from Burton’s recordings on Duster, Tennessee Firebird (1967), Throb (1969, Atlantic), and Country Roads and Other Places (RCA, 1969). One lone cover, a vibes solo by Burton of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Chega de Saudade,” had first been surveyed by Burton on his 1966 LP The Time Machine. The third disc of the collection features Gibbs’ Lancaster University big band performance sans Burton, but with a very special guest in the form of Cream’s Jack Bruce on bass. Gibbs and Bruce had previously played alongside each other in the New Jazz Orchestra, but Bruce brought all of the rock energy he’d invested in Cream to this performance, dynamically soloing on the closing “Some Echoes, Some Shadows.” For this 55-minute set, Gibbs and Bruce were joined by a strong line-up of British jazz’s best players including John Marshall on drums and John Surman on both baritone and soprano saxophones. All seven songs played were penned by Gibbs, who went on to record many of them on his own albums for the U.K. Deram label. The three CDs are housed in individual sleeves within a slipcase, and a 24-page book features copious liner notes by Colin Harper. Simon Murphy has remastered from best available non-compressed files which have been restored for the first time, under Mike Gibbs’ supervision, to the correct speed and original pitch (improving upon previous unofficial digital issues). Note that sound is generally good on the Lancaster show and less so, though still listenable, on the Belfast discs. This release is historically significant both for documenting an early onstage collaboration of Gibbs and Burton (who would go on to release the joint album In the Public Interest for Polydor in 1974) and for capturing Jack Bruce’s appearance at a Gibbs set. This historical value should outweigh the sonic deficiencies for most. Festival ’69 is due from Cherry Red’s Turtle Records imprint on September 28. It can be pre-ordered at the links below! Michael Gibbs with The Gary Burton Quartet, Festival ’69 (Turtle Records TURBXM 503, 2018) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) CD 1: Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, November 20, 1969 General Mojo’s Well Laid Plan Announcement Arise, Her Eyes Announcement Ballet Announcement And On the Third Day Chega de Saudade (Vibes Solo) Announcement Portsmouth Configurations (Portsmouth Figurations) Announcement CD 2: Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, November 20, 1969 Announcement Tanglewood ’63 Sojourn/June the 15th, 1967 Walter L Nowhere Announcement Doin’ the Pig CD 3: Lancaster University, 2/69 Sweet Rain Family Joy, Oh Boy! Nowhere Fly Time Fly (Sigh) Feelings and Things/June the 15th, 1967 And on the Third Day Some Echoes, Some Shadows

To my ears it is much better. But of course the previous releases were all over the place, and may have varied widely in sound quality.

Great to hear, I'm certainly in! I went back and read your previous posts in this thread. We'll hope they don't add gratuitous reverb (in case that's what they did with Tokyo).

Thx for info. Will hope for the best, but this sentence from the description may be a caveat emptor as far as sound quality, especially considering the reports on the Tokyo sound quality on the release from the same company (and they put that one out first): " The band lasted only until July 1983, so every newly discovered recorded performance by them is a gem to be savored."

PM sent on the Art Pepper Mosaic Select.

The DeJohnette New Directions CD's seal the deal for me.

I went ahead and pre-ordered it. I can cancel if I change my mind, and really, how far wrong can I go on it?

Tempting, but I have most if not all of the actual AEC CD's on ECM, and believe the "associated" titles would probably have diminishing returns for me, and need to draw the line somewhere. But very tempting at that price, and a further price drop could certainly do me in...

I have a Michel Ruppli Savoy discography coming, and will dive into that when I receive it.

Thanks, I do have those three "Chicago, The Blues Today" sets, haven't played them in years, need to pull them out. All, will look at getting around to some of those other titles, thanks.

Yeah, I like it quite a bit, thanks again! I'm a huge fan of that era, modal stuff with fender rhodes, and Joe Henderson-influenced tenor. Highly recommended to like-minded listeners, though not essential to the less-inclined. Me, I can't get enough of it, and this is a well-written, well-played CD of it.