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Yep, mostly poor for sure, the dreadful, commercial United Artists era, but I wholeheartedly recommend the Hutcherson Montreux CD and the Elvin Jones Lighthouse set. Also, the Silver 27th Man and the Tyner Extensions are excellent, but they've been easily obtainable in other Blue Note series. People will also be glad to see that Wayne Shorter CD, though its musical total is less that the sum of its parts, which probably explains why it sat in the can for a few years and was never reissued on CD by Blue Note (they licensed it out to One Way).

What was wrong with the Black Jazz CD's coming out? I thought that wss nothing short of miraculous, was very thankful to be able to grab those Doug & Jean Carn CD's while I could, and also have picked up several other of the titles through the years (Rudolph Johnson, etc.).

Strata Records is near and dear to my heart for one amazing cut, "Scorpio's Child" from the Bert Myrick 'Live n Well' album, recorded in 1965. It's a great Kenny Cox composition, Cox on piano, George Bohannon on trombone, Myrick on drums, Ronnie Fields on tenor sax, Will Austin on bass. I'm totally unfamiliar with Myrick, Fields, and Austin except for this album. Really hope this album makes it to CD.

None of their Atlantic jazz reissues have been needledrops as far as I know. I've been fine with all of them. Some of their early CD's were truly dreadful, but they seemed to really clean up their act 15 years ago.

Lowe, you don't have any manners! But then again, some other jazz board described this neighborhood as "wild and wooly" or something.

Me too, I think I'll learn a lot in this one.

Stop trying to tempt me, I don't want to spend the $30!

But Lon, you own most of everything by most everybody in one form or another

Well, I'm interested in Volume 3, so if we can find a board member who wants Vol. 1 (the best of the bunch), Stefan can sell them as a group, and we can each get the one we want!

Wow. Well worth reading the link. Yeah, who does that Wilson guy think he is anyways, still riding on the coattails of musical genius Mike Love 50 years later.

or Sam ("Song of Wounded Knee").

BTW, Empty Foxhole was on Blue Note, later vintage, with his son on drums.

somebody needs to jump on that Ornette Atlantic set. Incredible in every regard.

I would pay that for that very reason.

This has got to be the solo stuff. The Brown/Roach stuff was on the 4 cd first volume. In true intelligent record company fashion, this is nowhere to be found on the Hip-o website! Vol.2 contains the master takes of the recordings with Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and Helen Merrill: AMG. You're right. It even states this in the Hip-o site's description of the 1st volume. I guess this means there will be a third volume containing the jam sessions and string date? The master takes of the jam sessions (4 tracks) can be found on disc 2 of Vol.1 and the master takes of the string dates with Neal Hefti's Orchestra (12 tracks) on disc 3. I picked up a copy of Vol.1 earlier this week and am listening to disc 1. Though I'm not really a fan of mastering engineer Kevin Reeves' work, I like the sound on this set. Recommended! I also own the set and am very happy with it.

I have acquired this 3CD Steve Lacy set, which is apparently pretty rare. Got it in a gigantic trade (45 discs in each direction). It contains five complete albums: 'Lapis', 'Scraps', 'Dreams', 'Roba' and 'The Owl'. I like it OK, but not blown away by it, so I'd like to find a good home for this set if some Lacy fan would really like to have it. Not sure how to price/value it, as I don't see it available for sale anywhere except for one listing on ebay asking $125 for it (no bids yet on that listing). If you are interested, make me some sort of fair offer in cash or trade, or if you have any input on how to correctly value this, let me know. I'm not concerned about getting maximum return as much as just working out something fair to all parties involved and getting this to someone who would really treasure it. Thanks.

Front album cover photos in the booklet, but not on the sleeves for the CD's, which are plain white cardboard with album title printed. Missed opportunity there.

I have the Eberhard Weber 'Colours' set. Nothing on it indicates remastering, but it sounds great to me. Nicely done set if you don't mind the cardboard sleeves for the CD's, and the price is right.

Yes,you are in our thoughts and prayers.

Not on Cherry Red family of labels,no. They're first class.

PM sent on Albert Mangelsdorff, Three Originals • The Wide Point • Trilogue • Albert Live In Montreux, (2 CDs) $14 Steve Lacy, Cliches, (Hatology) $8

If my memory is correct, I have a Xanadu CD of Jimmy Heath "Picture of Heath".

These Max Roach titles: 1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live in Tokyo (Denon) 1977 : The Lodestar (Horo) 1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live In Amsterdam - It's Time (Baystate)

The Membran Quadromanias leave me with that same cheap, slimy feeling the Real Gone "3/6/8 Classic Albums" sets do, but even worse, as the programming and selection feel quite random, with no original release info included. The sound quality hasn't really bothered me on them, but everything else about them does.

Correct. The curse of Matthew Katz continues across the decades. Sundazed put those Moby Grape albums out in deluxe editions when they thought they finally had the rights cleared, then got sued by Katz and chose to pull the CD's rather than defend the suit, according to my understanding. Sony got out a really good set on them during one of the "windows of opportunity" : it has the entire first album (by far their best) and 30+ additional tracks: http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Very-Best-Moby-Grape/dp/B000026G8K/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_7 The entire It's A Beautiful Day catalog has also been in the same Katz-purgatory for decades. And their first album was my favorite album of 1969. It and 'Marrying Maiden" and "Live at Carnegie Hall" can be found at reasonable prices, and they're the only titles that really matter, but their catalog has never really been done right. Columbia was going to do a 2CD set on them similar to the Moby Grape set, but the window for doing it closed before it could get released.