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There was a single disc compilation out there for a while on Music Club records titled "Swing Jazz" that was a distilation of the JSP box. It said "Remastered by JRT Davies" on the back. I did not pick it up at the time and I have been looking in vain ever since.

I remember a while back that they had entire sets available for $2500. Wooo! Damn, that is a lot of bread.

I would agree. I bought the 2fer and sold the single disc. The Yusef Lateef album that makes up the other half is not too shabby either! I picked up "Blues Bag" because I am a nut for the bass clarinet. I was even more pleased to find the tunes list included Coltrane and Ornette. Nice!

Is this even legal?

Is this thing official?

Sent you a PM.

I picked this up just last weekend. Very nice indeed.

This weekend I saw my first used BN Rare Grooves CD that was NOT a promo. They must have sent a ton of those out.

Tim Berne plays some mean bari. The cut "Worms" on the Spring Heel Jack "Masses" disc is some incendiary playing.

There is a reel of outtakes out there somewhere from this session. I think Impulse! needs to get on that and put out one of those double-disc "Deluxe Editions" of this session. The album itself has become one of my favorite Coltrane albums. I always thought that mic on the cover was a goofy hat or something. oops!

I have always loved Charles Davis on the Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet album "Illumination." That sho some agile bari playing. Another John Gilmore fan here - he tears it up on Pete LaRoca Sims' Women at a Turkish Bath album. I like that date for the whole ensemble. [Certainly not for the fidelity.] Chick Corea is on it as well. They play in ways not usually found on records of the same era, with these wonderful ostinatos and free-ish passages. I have enjoyed Booker Little's "Out Front" more than once. Julian Preister is on that.

ah, Thom Jurek: It is an underrated masterpiece and among the most rewarding and adventurous listening experiences in the history of jazz.

This is a great idea. We could also get in on the Ayler tree material as well. Where does one start?

It is interesting that both of the last two posts talk about this period of Miles as sounding like nothing before of after. This begs the question--Why not? We can't be the only ones into that sound. Why has no other group tried this in a similar way/sound? Maybe someone has and I just haven't heard it... I know some of the groove and "kosmigroove" acts out there sound like they might have listened to some of this stuff, but we don't have bands coppin' it wholesale like we do the second quintet.

Summer in the City - Quincy Jones

The website still shows "unlimited" downloads.

I'm guessing that 65 downloads means 65 tracks, not albums, yes?

My most-played disc of stride comes from Lucky Roberts and Willie 'the Lion' Smith. Killer stuff!

I have enjoyed Derek Bailey's Ballads album a number of times on Tzadik. Also Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble recording "Soujourn" is great. Mark Helias on bass, Erik Freidlander on 'cello, Marc Ribot guesting on guitar for a couple of cuts, and the distinctive clarinet and soprano sax of Ehrlich. A fine record.

I dig the new cover design but I will miss the old ones. They were neat!

For avant garde on the banjo, you can't forget Eugene Chadborne.

As one who whittled a collection down, I would just urge you to proceed with caution. There are a number of titles I had listened to not all that much and traded or sold, to my later regret. That regret is even larger as I am on a buying hiatus until I make a downpayment on a home in Dec., because I think of all of the things I could be listening to right now. Whenever I get the urge to purge the collection, I now walk away. Granted, I can do it more easily as I have gotten rid of many things that did not blow me away. I would say that my interest sometimes wanes, but more often than not the waning interest is in a particular kind of music rather than music altogether. At one time I got rid of almost all of my classical CDs. I regret that now. I have learned that my interests vary by mood, and often by season. [Ex: most ECM titles work best for me in fall and winter.] Steadfastly I will say that I am a fan, not a collector. Unlike several of my music-lovin' friends, I no longer have the completist urge. This was a dangerous thing for me, as the conquest proved to be all-consuming.

That is a killer Andrew Hill cover, AB! What fonts do you have going there?

Have these: Billy Bauer - PLECTRIST Tal Farlow - THIS IS TAL FARLOW With my man Eddie Costa! Buddy DeFranco/Oscar Peterson - THE GEORGE GERSHWIN SONGBOOK Pretty straight versions, but beautiful. Had these at one time or another: Dizzy Gillespie - PERCEPTIONS Sounded rather third stream in a bad way for me. Hank Jones - URBANITY Alan Shorter - ORGASM Never quite gelled for me, and I love all of those players, esp. Gato. Ray Brown - BASS HIT! George Russell Sextet - AT THE FIVE SPOT

I thought that exact thing when I saw your Dolphy cover. They could get it done at an art college, for pete's sake. Free, I'm almost sure. There are some of those albums out there that I refuse to buy util there are some better covers on them. {mostly grey market stuff.]