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PM sent on this one: Davis/Newton Quartet - Hidden Voices / India Navigation 1041

I actually have a lot of extras of 10 or so Xanadu titles that I've been meaning to post for sale on the board. I'll try to post that tonight.

Those were wonderful CD's at excellent prices - no surprise they're gone. The box set is spectacular.

Great news, I'll buy this one immediately - and how often anymore do we get to say "major kudos to Verve"? This is an event.

Vista is available on a Japanese CD. I have it and love it. It is very different than Brown's work that came before it, but very beautiful. Stanley Cowell's influence is strong on it. Sweet Earth Flying and Geechee Recollections have not been out on CD.

And the people responsible for those packages have been terminated. I know there was a bunch of stuff in the pipeline before the closing of the Fantasy facility so it will take (maybe) a year for the "Concord produced" items to reach the public. Chuck, if I'm interpreting your post correctly, the boxes were produced by Fantasy prior to the Concord buyout, and were going to come out on Fantasy. Is that true? And the people were let go? What does Concord have in mind? Are the Coltrane boxes and Miles box we are expecting still going to come out? Were those also Fantasy produced prior to the buyout? Any additional light you can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

Huge improvement. All of the boxes Concord has produced of the Fantasy-owned material have been exemplary in terms of concept, remastering, packaging, and price.

PM sent. I have one available that's new and still sealed.

They got to hold something back in the vaults so that they can later reissue the material in a new, indespensible format... Verve has really mastered the art of crass marketing. Next up: Coltrane at Newport for After Dinner on a Second Date. Maybe Ravi deserves some credit for the full version coming out now.

Impulse! snuck this one out today - I hadn't heard anything about it. Previously unreleased 23:30 of "Impressions" from the '63 Newport festival? Yeah, that's of interest to me (and one or two others, I bet ) John Coltrane - My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport Release Date Jul 3, 2007 Recording Date Jul 7, 1963-Jul 2, 1965 Label Impulse Review by Steve Leggett John Coltrane appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival on five different occasions, the first in 1958 as a member of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue-era sextet. As a bandleader, Coltrane performed at the festival in 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1966, and it is the middle two sets that are combined here on this intriguing release. The 1963 band was a variation on Coltrane's classic quartet (Coltrane on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass) with veteran drummer Roy Haynes sitting in for Jones, who was unable to be in attendance. Jones was back in the drum chair for the 1965 appearance, while Coltrane's final Newport showing in 1966 found him working with an entirely different band that included his wife Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. Since Coltrane did lengthy versions of his signature arrangement of "My Favorite Things" in both 1963 and 1965 (he did it in 1966, as well), it's impossible not to compare the approach of the two different drummers. Haynes has a lighter, skittering touch that gives the piece a kind of airiness while Jones is all power and propulsion which makes for a more ambiguous and ominous feel. Both versions are striking, but the real treat here is the 23 minute and change take on "Impressions" from 1963, which has never before been released in its entirety (an edited version was released in 1978). Here Coltrane and Haynes trade phrases and percussive glides after Tyner and Garrison lay out what is a truly wonderful dialogue between two veteran jazz musicians. There's little doubt that the quartet hits with more raw power with Jones driving it, but here Haynes' contribution is perfect for the moment. Taken together, the 1963 and 1965 sets make a nice whole, and having two great drummers with slightly different approaches only underscores how complete Coltrane's vision was at this point in his career. Tracks Title Composer Time 1 I Want to Talk About You Eckstine 9:41 2 My Favorite Things Hammerstein, Rodgers 17:20 3 Impressions [#] Coltrane 23:30 4 Introduction by Father Norman O'Connor 1:08 5 One Down, One Up Coltrane 12:43 6 My Favorite Things Hammerstein, Rodgers 15:13 2007 CD Impulse 9076

What else are they coming out with boxwise? Where is this info available? There was supposed to be a Miles early 50's box, according to talk on this board a while ago, any news on that? I can't find anything about upcoming box sets on concordmusicgroup.com. Am I missing something there?

Bet it wouldn't be any worse than Joey DeFrancesco's trumpet playing...

I agree with both of those and also like 'Live at Montreux' with the European group. Woods has always been an ultra-talented bop altoist. His music/playing headed "inside/outside" in the late 60's-early 70's (when all three of these titles were recorded), then back inside, where it has remained.

Email sent on following: New and sealed ($5): Vibes: (Vibes) (Knitting Factory) Dave Pietro: Now becoming then (A-Records) Chuck Marohnic: Many Mansions (A-Records) John Stein: Green Street (A-Records) Charles Pillow: Currents (A-Records) Jarmo Savolainen: John’s Sons (A-Records) Martin Wind: Family (A-Records) Bill Kirchner Nonet: Trance Dance (A-Records) 2 CD Set Alan Pasqua: Milagro (Postcards) Regular CD’s (all in mint condition) ($4): Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns (Postcards) Lucy Ann Polk: Lucky Lucy Ann (MODE/VSOP) Joy Bryan Sings (MODE/VSOP) Joe Zawinul: Zawinul (Atlantic/EU) Jan Garbarek: Photo with... (ECM) Joey Calderazzo: In the Door (Blue Note/saw cut in spine) Shorty Rogers: The Swinging Mr.Rogers (Atlantic/Collectables) Shorty Rogers: Martians come Back/Way up There (Atlantic/Collectables 2-fer)

I've never really thought of my posts as timeless - just part of a conversation, and I don't expect them to be preserved for posterity, though I do try to consider my words. Anyways, there are a few of my past posts that I HOPE got lost! Jim, thanks for all your work setting up this site and keeping it going. I work in the IS biz and know the ordeal it can be, despite efforts and precautions being taken.

EM sent on following titles: $7 shipped to USA address. Gerald Wilson Big Band Modern Sonny Criss Mr Blues pour flirter $5 Sahib Shihab Jazz Sahib Maynard Ferguson Live From London $4 Jesse Davis From Within Buddy Rich Very Live At Buddy's Place

I love all of the Columbia live quartet releases, and this one is as good as or better than any of the others.

Yes, it is - Harold Vick is always an enjoyable player. MG There was also a good Mike Longo date on the label. I relistened to the Larry Willis recently, and don't think it has aged very well (except the title track, which is marvelous). The guitar player didn't do much for me. To me, the Lucky Thompson's are the best thing on the label, and I like the Ramon Morris, but it wasn't a major jazz label by any means.

Here's a great Mosaic Select (IMO): The two Roulette mid-70's Blakey/Jazz Messengers albums ('Backgammon', 'Gypsy Folk Tales') combined with the two 70's Watson albums on Roulette ('ETA','All Because of You'), "The Complete 70's Roulette Recordings of Art Blakey and Robert Watson".

Glad you're back and will be better than ever!

Totally agree. It's like his music suddenly lost the ghost in 1977 and never recovered except for an occasional little flicker of what had been and could be. I find it really sad to listen to the recordings later than that, knowing what's been left behind.

My money would be on Ronnie Spector, who was still in her early 30's at that point.

Adam, I never ignore your comments! And there is vailidity in your question since it took over 36 hours for anyone to even respond to the post, and so far only one other person has reported that they have even ever heard the album (which is a jazz tragedy).

Adam, I understand your point on one level, but on a different level 1 - The vinyl is not particularly rare 2 - This thing SHOULD be on CD, and Blue Note owns the masters, so Cuscuna and company at Mosaic could easily get it back in print. 3 - I think that an AOTW which is one of the all-time great Jazz Messenger albums and it turns out people didn't even know it existed is a much more useful exercise than running another classic Blue Note title out there for people to either A: say "Yeah I love that one too" or B: debate if it is more/less classic than some other classic Blue Note title(s). If someone would alert me to a great album by a great edition of the greatest hard bop group ever, and I previously didn't even know it existed, I'd be real glad. And, you'll have no complaints about the drummer on this one

'Black Gipsy' was the better of the Shepp albums in this vein. It is available on CD.