Rooster_Ties

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Jeez, with 25% ($19.24) off, and free shipping -- that takes it down to $61.20 (including $3.46 in taxes) -- or $7.65 per CD. I was really trying to look for excuses NOT to get this set, but that's proving to be hard to resist. Who here's dealt with udiscovermusic.com before?? Someone please tell me they're a scam or some fly-by-night operation, so I have some excuse -- any excuse -- not to get this.

What I’m waiting to hear is the price point of the CD edition.

Well, maybe because vinyl costs 2x-3x more than CD’s do, sometimes even 3.5x more. Let’s talk units-sold, please, not just “revenue”. I’d argue that “content-providers via physical media” are servicing HALF the number of end customers, even if vinyl is a lot more profitable (or at least generates a lot more revenue, but I can’t speak to the relative cost of producing albums vs. CD’s). Hell, I don’t even mind barebones CD packaging (if that’s what it takes), which would keep the production costs down at least somewhat. Make LP’s the boutique format, and CD’s perhaps more akin to the status cassettes held in days past — but I do not like downloads because I don’t trust I’ll have ready access to the data 20-30 years from now. And I’m not about to pay $25-$35 per LP for what I consider to be a lesser format. It holds less data (45 or maybe 50 min vs. 79 min), and is much more prone to scratches, and then there’s the hassle of side breaks. There’s no way I’m paying triple $$ for an inferior format, and one that’s inferior in nearly every way (from my perspective). CD’s aren’t perfect, but they’re vastly superior to all the other widely available and accepted physical media formats we’ve had in the last 50 years.

More accurately(?), wasn’t the Mosaic Single of this actually an entirely unreleased live date? — my memory is that the original album (which I’ve never heard) was actually a studio simulation of a live album, or something like that. Iirc, wasn’t there zero overlap between the original album, and the Mosaic Single release of what the original album purported to be? (I’ll have to dig out my copy of the Mosaic version, and see what the liners say — I recall it all being explained there.)

Me too. If Carmell were on the entire date, this’d be a higher priority purchase for me — though I’m sure if the reviews here are as solid as I’m expecting, I’ll surely end up getting it regardless.

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Magus-Jekyll-Miles-Davis/dp/0879308753 https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Life-Music-Miss-Peggy/dp/1422359271 https://www.amazon.com/Stan-Getz-Nobody-Else-But/dp/0879307293 https://www.amazon.com/Running-Voodoo-Down-Electric-Music/dp/0879308281

I’d have gladly paid $20 for this on CD, probably even $25. Their loss.

Oh jeez, I can't fathom how they'd be CDR's -- but I suppose in this day and age, anything's possible.

Honestly, that’s kinda how I felt listing to it for the very first time too. Mode For Joe was one of my very first 4 jazz albums (ever!) over 30 years ago (and my first ever Blue Note) — so even if I haven’t spun it in a few years, I quickly remember I still know it backwards and forwards. I don’t want to overstate this to the point of hyperbole, but I really did find the alternate to be a bit of a revelation — especially given how delicate it is, and its almost “through-composed” quality. Still curious what others here might think.

Awesome!! I’ve got an open order that closes in 8 days, and I was debating if I could get away with going w/ the cheapest (media mail), which I normally use 98% of the time, when the USPS isn’t in disarray. Thanks, and perfect timing!

For fans of Mode For Joe just receiving this box, what do folks here think of the ‘new’ 9:29 alternate take of the title track? At least it’ll’ve been new to most buying this box, unless you happened to already have the 2015 Japanese SHM reissue — the only other place it’s appeared.

I’d also be curious if anyone notices any non-standard cover variations, especially anything really atypically, or even just subtle variations — entirely out of idle curiosity.

Don't have the set (no plans to buy it, I have to confess) -- but I do love that cover of the Joe Henderson box. Joe, arguably "over-lit" (overexposed?) like that -- with the almost lens flare quality of the light on his tenor, and other similar "hot" lighting on him, his glasses, the collar of his shirt, etc... -- all looks pretty damn badass, IMHO.

For somebody, hell yeah! Somebody else besides me, cuz it done got snapped up in less than 10 minutes, maybe less than 10. It was there and gone before I even knew what it was.

It was a used CD copy of the 1992 release (at DG), for $16.99 iirc.

Here's the DG description of it, btw, where I saw it used this morning and promptly started this thread (and it got snapped up there in less than 10 minutes, not by me unfortunately)... 2 amazing albums from the 2nd version of the Jimmy Giuffre 3! After working with his first combo of Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall during the late 50s, Giuffre hooked up with a pair of younger modernists – Paul Bley and Steve Swallow – reintroducing the piano and bass to his trio format, instruments that had been previously missing because Giuffre wanted to explore the possibilities of melodic composition freed from rhythmic constraints. With this trio, Giuffre was still working in that mode – as you'll hear on Bley and Swallow's incredibly free playing. The group's performances are not free jazz by any means, but they're a key link in that tradition – as Giuffre and crew do an excellent job of creating unconventional compositions, most of which feel like little sculptures in sound. There's a total of 20 tracks on 2CDs – and titles include "Cry, Want", "Trudgin", "Jesus Maria", "Ictus", "Sonic", "Whirrrrr", "The Gamut", "Herb & Ictus", and "Flight". Both records originally available on Verve, now repackaged by ECM.

So I don't think I ever realized that ECM () -- of all labels -- reissued at least a couple early 60's Verve dates (from 1961, to be exact), in the early 90's (1992, to be exact). ECM reissuing Verve?? Was this the only release of this sort that ECM did? Did ECM reissue anything else from any other labels? Is there a story here? Am I the only one here who didn't know this, and thinks it perhaps odd? - or at least a little surprising? Or is there some logic to this reissue I'm just not aware of -- and did ECM ever do anything else like this again? -- or before, for that matter. https://www.discogs.com/master/view/286302 Is these two 1961 albums...

Maybe, but why always do it yourself, and miss out on all the fun of letting Free Jazz lend a hand.

What the heck is a “Mega Jacket”?

I think it’s a new option they they’ve only been offering for a couple months or so. I’m also wondering if any of what you get is possibly “drop-shipped” — since they don’t offer any way to combine shipping with regular (traditional) Dusty orders.

https://www.dustygroove.com/preorders-info

Re: Cheadle’s Miles movie, I concur! Was it wonky? Sure! - hell, by BOTH definitions of the term ‘wonky’... 1) crooked; off-center; askew. 2) an enthusiastic or excessive interest in the specialized details of a particular subject. But man, there were a lot of factual details woven into that story — guys shooting at Miles thru his car door, for one. The ‘lost’ session from 1978. I forget all the rest, but like half a dozen or more oddball details that were all shit that really happened (but maybe not in the same year the movie purported them to have happened). A lot of that movie might not have been literally true, but there was a shit-ton of ‘truth’ in that movie — and I think Cheadle got to ‘an’ essence of Miles (if not ‘the’ essence), and a lot more than most biopics ever do.

Spinning the Iron Man disc from this set currently, and probably gonna spin all the rest before the afternoon is over. I'd almost forgotten how much I adore Iron Man -- not literally, but I think it's been close to 2 years since I've heard it, and I had sorta (slightly) forgotten just how utterly fantastic it is. I should really dig out my Dolphy Prestige box next, which -- confession time -- I haven't spent enough time with over the years, and a few of the sessions I don't think I've spun more than 2-3 times since I got it. Not for lack of loving Dolphy, but I tend to reach for my favorites too often, and not the stuff I don't know as well.