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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.

But dirt cheap as such. Under $5 new on Amazon marketplace.

Great record "The Little House I Used To Live In" from that one is great indeed.

For those who care about such things, the Led Zeppelin BBC stuff is very very good, and that's a great price. And I love that Booker Ervin. Worth the $ if you are into his music, one 27 minute live extended blues piece focusing on Ervin's solo, and a spoken and solo piano tribute by Horace Parlan. Incredibly moving stuff.

Related question - has anyone heard the Coltrane 1961 Newport CD? How is sound/performance on that?

My FZ "A" List: Freak Out, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Hot Rats, Uncle Meat, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo My FZ "B" List Lumpy Gravy, Ruben & The Jets, Burnt Weeny Sandwich , Chunga's Revenge, Weasils Ripped My Flesh, Apostrophe, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury Not rebuying them again. Already rebought some of the early ones once to get away from the remixes/edits. I forget the details since it's been so many years now.

Re: Brecker Brothers - I "gave them a try again" about a year ago, and it was even worse for me now than it was then. YMMV, but I doubt it.

Complete 1971-1975 Weather Report

And I ordered the Weather Report!

PM sent on the Mingus set.

Thanks, fesler. However, I'm pretty sure that half.com only ship to the US. If you need me to receive and reship it, I can do that for you. Just let me know. There are probably also other US based board members willing to do the same for you.

$49.90 new by some seller on half.com (not me or anyone I know). http://product.half.ebay.com/Funk-Dumpling-by-Perry-Robinson-CD-Oct-2005-Savoy-Jazz-USA/3178404&cpid=1797614 It's a great album, really glad I have mine.

PM sent on Enrico Rava - The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (Cam Jazz) five discs, $18 David Murray - The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note - Octets (Cam Jazz) five discs, $18 (this is the set they sent with the corrected audio/mix)

Mine too. Named my first male cat "Mingus".

Start here:

No longer available, thanks for looking.

I recently acquired nice sets of the Carmell Jones and Johnny Richards Mosaic Selects from another board member, and would be interested in trading them for other Selects that I do not own, or other higher-end titles, or would be open to selling them. PM me if there is any interest.

PM sent on Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - The Complete Studio Recorded Duets (Avid) two discs $5

Granted I'm not a musician so don't have a good grasp of all the technical/theoretical nuances, but where does, say, Jimmy Smith's "J.O.S." fit into the whole "Larry Young single-handedly delivered the instrument into the post-bop scene" line? "JOS" doesn't sound like bop changes on "How High The Moon" or anything like that to me, and I wouldn't describe it as "greasy". And it's from what, 1957 or 1958? And Smith had other instances like that also well before 'Unity' (which, indeed, is a spectacular album).

PM sent on 14 Wynton Kelly w/ Joe Henderson Complete Recordings (Lonehill) 2 CDs 10 Hank Mobley Monday Night at Birdland (w/Curtis Fuller and Lee Morgan) (Roulette TOCJ-50090) (may be able to find the obi-strip) 10 Hank Mobley Another Monday Night at Birdland (w/Curtis Fuller and Lee Morgan) (Roulette TOCJ-50091) w/ obi-strip 4 Sam Rivers Mosaic Disc II light marks not affecting play 4 Sam Rivers Mosaic Disc III long but light scratch not affecting play 7 Pharoah Sanders w/ Hamid Drake Spirits (Meta) 4 Mal Waldron George Haslam Waldron Haslam (Slam) light marks to CD not affecting play 16 Lee Wiley Manhattan Nights (Definitive) 4 CD set 12 Freddie Roach Soul Book/Mocha Motion (Prestige) 8 Sal Salvador Music to Stop Smoking By (EMI TOCJ-50196), obi included 10 Eddie Costa Memorial Concert (EMI/Colpix) TOCJ-50114 w/ obi

PM sent on Here's Lee Morgan ~ Lee Morgan 2 disc set Mint (blue Moon) $7 The Joe Thomas Group - Comin' Home MINT $4 Cooler Shakers 30 Northern Soul Floorstompers MINT (label Music Club 30 tracks) $4

PM sent on 16 From Johnny Griffin with Love by Johnny Griffin (Storyville) 3 CDs, 1 DVD 12 Art Pepper Unreleased Art vol. 1 Complete Abashiri Concert (Widow`s Taste) 2 CDs

PM sent on 5 Eric Alexander Revival of the Fittest (High Note) 7 Ray Charles-Milt Jackson Soul Brothers/Soul Meeting (Atlantic) 2 CDs 4 Tal Farlow A Sign of the Times (Concord) 2 CDs 10 John Handy In the Vernacular/No Coast Jazz (Fresh Sounds) 9 Ahmad Jamal Naked City Theme/Extensions (Jazz Beat) 5 Randy Weston Blue Moses (CTI) 2011 reissue (digipack) 4 Les Spann w/ Julius Watkins Gemini (OJC/Jazzland) 20 Archie Shepp Attica Blues Big Band Live (Blue Marge) 2 CDs, 8 Sonny Stitt Don't Call Me Bird Fresh Sounds 6 Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements American Jazz Classics minor marks on CD not affecting play 8 Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (+ The Hard Swing) Fresh Sounds