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While the quartets would fit nicely on a Select, there's a lot more great music that isn't in quartet format: the duos with Muhal Richard Abrams, Braxton and George Lewis with a chamber orchestra, the Creative Music Orchestra date, For Trio with Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman on one side and Henry Threadgill and Douglas Ewart on the other, the solo album, For Two Pianos with Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens, a sax quartet, etc. etc. But don't hold your breath on seeing this any time soon. BMG is run by goofballs. Best case scenario we will get "Braxton for Lovers."

This just as easily go in the political forum...but if you do not like the current regime in the U.S., you got to watch the Joe Dantes-directed "Homecoming" in the Masters of Horror anthology series. It's freaking hilarious! It's basically about soldiers from the current conflict who return from the dead with a message for the president. Lots of commentary about Iraq, counting ballots in Ohio and Florida and right-wing pundits. If you dislike the Bush crew and love B-grade horror, this is a riot.

The RVG of The Sermon was my first Jimmy Smith purchase. Liked it so much, I got House Party. I was sure pissed to find out about those dropped tracks.

It's all very strange indeed. Some of the recordings with Corea, et al. were briefly issued on a CD called Early Circle. Of the nine or so Arista recordings, only Creative Music Orchestra and 3/4s of the Berlin/Montreux concerts were ever issued on CD. Meanwhile, quartet albums with Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland have never been reissued. These include some of Braxton's best. The reason is that BMG is run by dorks. There has been some lobbying to get at least some of this material out on a Mosaic (particularly considering the Cuscuna connection), it appears no one crack the BMG vaults. The Braxton Yahoo group finally got so frustrated some kind fans got together and put the whole shebang on CD-R. There's also some material on Moers and Ring from this era that haven't made it to CD, including a great solo concert and a double live album with the quartet that included Wheeler.

Loved this show. Haven't seen it in years. The episode that comes to mind first is "The Hunt." "An old man and a hound dog named Rip, off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won't be coming home from the hill. They're headed for the backwoods of the Twilight Zone."

It would be nice to see these. I have one of the Sam Rivers Trio records and it's fantastic. But I thought I once read somewhere 'don't hold your breath.' Discography is here: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/discog/horo.htm Past discussion here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7671

I saw Warleigh perform with the Dedication Orchestra last year. I've never heard that last Soft Machine album, but it's been regarded as the group "in name only."

So I e-mail this guy and ask him why is this going for $75-$100 when I can get it brand new on Amazon for $32. This is the reply: "The Cd is in its original mint condition state. This quality is for collectors who never open the CD for use. It is not a remaster. Thank You for your interest! michaelg1053 at Bargainland-on-e-bay" Whatever.

no one has gotten the right answer yet! Tenor saxophonist?

I went on a small Soviet-era binge: Ganelin/Tarasov/Chekasin Poi Seque Ganelin/Tarasov Opus A Duo Sergei Kuryokhin Spectre of Communism

Just 1 for me (Giuffre). This seems to be one of those you either own a little or a lot things.

Isn't there something missing from that cover? Don't think so - Hank's got his book of matches in his left hand. MG I was referring to "Retouched Cover to Come."

Scroll down on that link and you'll find even more rip-offs. Herbie Hancock's Flood for $200?!?

You are not the only one. I hope this case gets solved, but the way this guy is acting, it's like he's looking for attention.

Isn't there something missing from that cover?

Isn't that material that's been bootlegged repeatedly all over Andorra? And Europe, for that matter?

...and Miles Davis' Cellar Door Sessions. (More than 4 CDs worth of extra live tracks.) Lee Morgan Live at the Lighthouse (pretty much two discs worth of unreleased material). If you want to expand the topic to include 2-CD sets, there's a lot of Monk with extended/expanded live material (Big Band and Quartet In Concert plus others on Columbia) and Sun Ra's Black Myth/Out in Space (9 unreleased tracks).

Miles Davis' Plugged Nickel is a good example. Contains both unreleased tracks and extended versions of others that were edited.

I'll guess Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff were correct. Substitute Al Cohn for Steward for the incorrect. p.s. I thought it had been established that Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was Garbarek's favourite.

I found another way..... Buy old vinyl.

You've picked a beautiful part of the world to visit. I can't comment on the northwest Highlands, but I have been as far north along the eastern side as Inverness and then headed southwest along Loch Ness to Fort William and Glencoe. No problems with the roads on those routes. The roads are much slower going than North America in speed limit, capacity and the fact the routes aren't always that direct. But we are talking about a country that's half the size of California, so it's not a big deal. Never been to Ullapool. Can't help you on the scotch, either, though there seem to be distilleries everywhere to the west. Inverness to Dunnottar Castle would be a short day trip. I really like Inverness. Aberdeen is a fair-sized city on the way to Dunnottar. The whole north of Scotland is beautiful. Have a great trip.

Is Pluto big enough for a Mosaic Select? Or just a Mosaic Single?

I'd put on some Al Haig or Bill Evans. If that didn't fit the bill, I'd bring out Black Vomit.

Excellent points. I remember the largely negative reaction to Joni Mitchell's creative turn (not so much Hejira, but definitely the rest). There was also the live set Shadows and Light. She took a lot of chances and it didn't always work out, but the best of it was far better than the uncomprehending critics would lead us to believe. I've always respected Mitchell. She's never rested on past laurels like too many rock acts do.

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