B. Clugston

Dave Brubeck and Bill Smith -- The Riddle

I like that version--it's a fun one.

"I hear the splice. Or maybe my guilty feeling..." Great stuff!

Saskatchewan 45.

So sorry about your loss.

It's a poor sounding audience recording. Great music though. I'm sure the CD sounds like a bootlegged download.

One of the collectors had 400 CDs and 35 LPs. I guess to some kid who just uses an iPod and has no CDs that would seem a lot. 400 CDs would almost fit in two IKEA CD towers--that's not going to take up a lot of room.

Included in the review of the Delmark quartet disc with Kevin Uehlinger on piano is another CD allegedly featuring the same quartet (Four Compositions (GTM) 2000). Penguin reviews it as if they had actually listened to it when in fact there is no such album. The CD has the same catalogue number as the "comedy" duet album on CIMP. AMG mistakenly lists the same line-up on that CD, so the inference is one of the guides is borrowing from the other. The Braxton Quartet Plays... is CD-835, which is called Anthony Braxton Quartet Twelve Compositions on the cover, Oakland July 1993 on the spine and Braxton Quartet Plays 12 Braxton Compositions in the Music & Arts catalogue. It does exist and it's a nice one with Crispell, Dresser and Hemingway despite the muffled sound.

It's a nice date, maybe not essential, but Rudd's inside-outside playing is always interesting. Don't recall how the saxophonists fare, but Kenyatta is always worth a listen. It was reissued on CD as Mixed along with the Cecil Taylor side of the Into the Hot album.

Nope--love it from beginning to end.

The earlier Penguin guides were great and were particularly knowledgeable about European jazz. Later editions have been sloppily edited, full of reviews that are either misleading or just rehashes of the liner notes, included a review of a fictitious Anthony Braxton recording and had some irrational swipes at Woody Shaw and Bobby Timmons, among others.

That was hilarious! Classic Tommy.

I have Eletter (Living Space) by the Unit, which, as I recall, leans towards P.L.M.`s description of the Unit, though Akosh S. himself has some nice moments. I`ve never investigated his work further.

Happy Birthday! :party:

It's a good one.

Don't have the original LPs or CDs to compare with, but the latest release sounds muffled. The rest of the CDs in the box do sound great.

I would think most people interested in such a set would already have this music. Plus some of these "Complete" boxes were not so complete after all (Bitches Brew, On the Corner).

I would think that the only one of the Dixons that would need remastering would be Thoughts. Cranked to 2 o'clock on my amp it sounds great, but it's recorded at what seems like a pretty low dynamic level considering what I know to be the dynamics of the music. If memory serves, Bill wasn't too happy with how it came out, but he liked to have his stereo at full volume anyway :-) Also, the liner notes to these releases should be made available somewhere, as they are certainly part of the package (not to mention the beautiful covers). Unfortunately, only Son of Sisyphus has liner notes--in tiny type. Also, only four of the CDs have replica back covers, so some of Dixon's artwork is not included. The other five have track titles and credits overset on faint images of the covers. Alan Silva and Mario Pavone are credited with "counterbasses" on November 1961.

Happy Birthday!

Has anyone bought the super deluxe box yet (ie. the one with the rekkid and Tanglewood)? I was wondering how the LP sounded. I tried following the thread on Hoffman about it but the comments quickly devolved into some form of binary code.

And then they dropped most of the bonus tracks when The Sermon and House Party were RVGed.

Kenny Dorham. Scott LaFaro. Maybe Lee Morgan.

But doesn't the cheque have to be in Euros or US dollars? For the rest of the world, that means standing in a bank lineup. However, there is a UK site where you can pay for Stockhausen CDs by credit card.

A lot of Hat Arts have missing tracks on CD reissues: Steve Lacy's Prospectus and Capers, Sun Ra's Sunrise in Different Dimensions, Vienna Art Orchestra's Suite for the Green Eighties, etc. On some of the Fantasy reissues of 2 LPs on 1 CD, they would sometimes trim tracks rather than cut them entirely. Woody Shaw's first album and Dizzy Gillespie's Bahianna are a couple of examples.

It's kind of like ordering Stockhausen CDs--too much trouble. I would imagine the set will see some limited distribution once it is released. Box looks nice, but I'd likely pick up the first CD separately.