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  1. First spin last night (it arrived from Intakt yesterday ... took them a bit long to cater to a subscriber in their own town I think).

    My first impression is that it is indeed pretty different from your first solo album (which I enjoyed a lot), but in a good way: it's more thoughtful, and the web of references you open up with your comments in the liner notes (from Mal Waldron to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Maurizio Pollini) indeed makes for an interesting frame.

    I'm looking forward a lot to a first through listen, hopefully towards the end of this week :tup 

  2. 12 hours ago, David Ayers said:

    I don’t know. Mine is in the loft. It is the long Schuller piece which appears to be missing. Trying to remember if I ever heard it...

    Yep. And by now I'm pretty sure there was only an Enja edition of the old version (CD and LP in the US), which did not include that piece. So there's only the second GM edition (depicted above) that has the full contents.

  3. 8 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

    a few years back i told members to buy anything they wanted from Fantasy.

    I did my best, but there was too much ... still have some gaps I'd like to close, but with them selling undisclosed CD-Rs via effin' A, I'm unwilling to buy anything unless I can lay hands on it and actually check.

  4. On ‎08‎.‎02‎.‎2019 at 2:23 PM, bluesoul said:

    Looks like the 50 titles will be released in two batches.  This site lists the other 25 which they say will be available in May.  

    Thanks!

    That site is one of Universal's outlets for Germany, so it should be reliable ...

  5. On 25.7.2018 at 9:01 PM, mikeweil said:

    There are numerous CDs covering that part of her recording career, but dont ask me which one is the most "complete", by whatever standard. It's hard to find tracklists for all - like the one on Le Chant du Monde:

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    That one has the final Musicraft sides (all others are on the first volume, 1944-1947, and those included two outtakes, so we get 41, not 39 tracks on a Complete Musicraft set coming from Japan) and the first 24 Columbia sides, up to the 18 May 1950 session (that and the May 19 session are covered extensively - an alternate to each but one of the 8 master takes - on the reissue of "Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi", of the earlier 20 sides though you'll only find one there, again with an alternate take added, "The Nearness of You" from 21 December 1949).

    That "Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi" reissue is weird btw, it omits details for a few early 50s tracks, of which it offers 4 - but gives details only for "It's All in the Mind" (30 Dec 1952 w/unknown studio orchestra and probable line-up). "Pinky" (19 September 1951 with Percy Faith Orchestra), "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" and "Ooh, What'cha Doin' to Me" (both 5 January 1953) went forgotten when the CD was produced, although all of those, together with "Mind" and the eight masters from May 1949 were part of the original LP release

    I guess I've got enough Vaughan, but yeah, there's that gap from the early fifties and it would certainly be nice to get a complete edition covering that period. Would have been nice to see more of those Chant du Monde sets, as they're really well-done, booklets with plenty of photos, labels, ads, magazine covers, and all the info you need on the music included. I have several more of those sets (one each by Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson, Betty Roché, Ernestine Anderson, Etta Jones, Carmen McRae, and Dakota Staton)

  6. On ‎02‎.‎02‎.‎2019 at 2:13 AM, bluesoul said:

    What's with the 50 for 50? 50 in total with the new ones (of which I've just received half a dozen), or 50 new ones with more to come? Sloppy news editing there ... anyway, some albums in the new batch that I either have on LP (means they don't get much play) or not at all: George Adams, Mike Nock, David Torn, Louis Sclavis, Barre Phillips and Kenny Wheeler are the ones I bought (several others I have in previous editions).

  7. On ‎01‎.‎02‎.‎2019 at 6:30 PM, blake said:

    Yes! W. Eugene Smith was an interesting guy... there's a film coming soon, I believe. 

    There is a film already, "The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith", by Sara Fishko ... I saw it at Jazzfest Berlin in Nov. 2016, and it's one of the many films that offer plenty of fascinating glimpses, does kinda succeed in telling the story, presenting a picture, re-creating a mood, portraying Smith with all his obsessions ... but for the avid music fan, seeing fotos and hearing 20 seconds of Monk rehearsing his big band is really frustrating of course.
    https://www.wnyc.org/jazzloftthemovie/

    The set above, "David X. Young's Jazz Loft", is easily recommended. It comes with a large booklet (that may break apart alas if you want to open it and take a good look) containing photos, paintings (by Young - there's also a poster coming with it).

    Guess I should buy the book as long as it's still around:
    http://www.jazzloftproject.org/index.php?s=book

    edit: aargh, too late already for the book ...

  8. Well, in this case the Fresh Sound CD is not legal indeed, as it does not conform with the 50 year/pre 1962 (or is it 1963?) rule. But supposing the album would be from 1962, doing a needle drop would be legal (using the non-existing 1998 Atlantic CD reissue would not). Selling the Fresh Sound CD in the US would not be legal I think (because you have Disney's 70 or howevermanyyears rule, not the 50 year rule of yurp that you managed to stop, too). But then Amazon is what exactly ... a Luxemburg company paying no taxes in Ireland and catering bootlegs to merikins?

    Anyway, my understanding is that the "Ramblin'" CD sounds horrible, if not I'd hunt for it, just to hear that. And oviously the merikin pirates/bootleggers from Essential Media Group do an even worse job, so there you go ...

    If Warner really owns the rights to the Vault catalogue, there's still an oh so faint hope that the Japanese might eventually do some proper reissues, but I'm not holding my breath.

  9. 7 hours ago, mjzee said:

    Just noticed this series on eMusic.  While CDs are expensive on Amazon, d/l's are pretty cheap on eMusic.  Here's a list: https://www.emusic.com/search/polish radio jazz archives/albums

    Some titles are intriguing (I haven't heard any).  Johnny Griffin/Kenny Drew Quartet doing a 20-minute version of Now's The Time?

    There are three discs of Griffin, more or less (one of the Jamboree ones, has more, and there's a 2 CD Griffin set ... excellent music.

    And ordering CDs directly is a bit of a drag (I still need google translate to make sure I'm going through the correct moves, but it has worked out four or five times in the past three years), shipping costs are out of proportion (around 50%), but still the price is quite alright (and I think they do trackable shipping only, which explains the cost). Not sure how it would be to the US, but it might be worth a try.

    On the other hand, the documentation of the discs is rather mininmal: digipacks with one flap/cover, tracklist and line-ups and dates given, and that's about it. In the case of Komeda, some of the recordings seem to have been available previously, but that's another messy discography there that I never even tried to figure out.

  10. 2 hours ago, JSngry said:

    Lonehill bugs me because their packaging builds expectations for a better product than is actually delivered. Still just a bunch of needle-drops.

    I know. But that, after all, is mostly the only way to go when PD labels do it legally right. Ripping others' transfers from earlier CDs is not the idea. And Pujol's allegedly (so sayeth he) legally acquired tape collection still has me full of doubts (plus again it's a mid or in some deterioration cases low quality source).

  11. On ‎30‎.‎01‎.‎2019 at 9:09 PM, mjzee said:

    The other interesting note is that Wilson's second BN album, Easterly Winds, is solid classic BN, from the band, to the recording at Rudy's, to the cover by Reid Miles and Francis Wolff.  Produced by Duke Pearson (after Lion's retirement).

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    That's the Reid Miles cover that looks like a Patrick Roques cover.

  12. 1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    Point just being - you can tell who's doing it out of love and respect and who's just putting shit out because they can.

    Hm ... but then Lonehill falls in both camps, as some of their series (i.e. John Graas, Hodges/Wild Bill*, Illinois Jacquet, Jazz Lab, Shank/Cooper live in yurp ...) do fall into the good camp.

    *) I know that may have nixed a third Mosaic, but I'm having a hard time believing that Cuscuna would have actually done that one!

     

  13. 1 minute ago, Rooster_Ties said:

    That expanded "Virgo Vibes" release is really a nice document of a few things:  The only(?) known intersection of Joe Henderson and Charles Tolliver (that I'm aware of, anyway).  And a nifty smaller-combo version of Gerald Wilson's "In The Limelight" (which Ayer's had played on Wilson's own Pacific Jazz album "On Stage" recorded in 1965).  WELL worth seeking out...

    Yep, nice disc for sure!

    I noticed that jazzdisco.org (which I don't take as a reliable source) gives Wilson for one track only (and doesn't list the bonus tracks at atll):

    https://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1400-series/#lp-1488

    But then they explain to me who "Ronnie Clark" is, okay ... didn't realize that yesterday :lol:

  14. Hm, I kinda learned to like Chronogicals (at around the time it was becoming too late, of course) ... they were ugly, they were expensive (high-prized, in that time in the range of 30-40, depending if DM, US$ or CHF), they often had less than ideal transfers (compared to Masters of Jazz, Mosaic ...), and they omitted too many (alternate) takes to my liking. But this was easy, as I wasn't all that much into early jazz or swing at that time. (I know about Neatwork and have bought one or two, but I guess they became hard to find already towards the end of Classics run.)

    Masters of Jazz, on the other hand, I really love. I have about two dozen, including the full Lunceford run (with the missing portions supplied by Chronos, and then there's the Mosaic, too ...) - inclusion of air-checks and other live recordings (which, having grown up in the CD era and far away from UK or IT bootleg labels, were totally unavailable to me at that time), inclusion of alternate takes of course, and good sound on top of that.

    Fremeaux is a label I've really grown to appreciate, too - again not exactly nice design (oh those clumsy fonts!), but solid work and excellent documentation. I am collecting their Armstrong series, got the Django, am thinking if I should not get the Bird, too (overlap, overlap, mess ... I'd give the kingdom I don't own in order for a thorough Bird discography, even just for a complete sessionongraphy without all the release info). Some of the Fremeaux "Essentials" and other compilations are excellent value, too. And I have also ended up buying a dozen or so of their Biguine and other compilations (also those two vols. of "Gainsbourg et ses interprètes")

    2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    I always appreciate the respect shown by giving me the ability to do my own culling, rather than the presumption of somebody doing it for me. Like there was a Coleman Hawkins disc of there's that had some wierdass R&B cut where Hawk lest held this low note, and I mean held it. Not loud either. It was kind of spooky, to be honest. I don't have that disc, somebody played it for me, and I'll be damned if I've found it anywhere else. But Crqnokoligal Classics, they put it out, because that was what they did, hey, it's Coleman Hawkins, it's in the period of this disc, it goes on there, no matter how obscure it is, no matter how deeply we have to dig, because THIS is what we do,.

    Yeah, okay ... but omitting all those wonderful takes he did for Keynote ... I know, including them would have been a violation of PD rules, I assume -- but still, in an ideal world (which I have no reason to expect, I know, right ...)

  15. 8 minutes ago, monkboughtlunch said:

    Greg Lewerke, the original Vault owner's son, said the Vault masters belong to Warner Brothers / Rhino.

    Okay, thanks - so as I wanted to post initially (but then didn't since wiki and that linked site don't have that info): all the more it's a pity that the large Warner/Atlantic reissue programme in Japana, a few years back, seemed to have skipped these, too!

    Prompted by the Wilson discussions here, I played his first two Atlantics (and threw in "Virgo Vibes" by Roy Ayers, with Wilson on piano on the second half as well as two bonus tracks) over the weekend. Very nice for sure!

  16. Can we work out a list of all the aliases the LonehillGambitPhonoAmericanJazzClassicsEssentialJazzClassicsSolar crew has used so far?

    Does Lonehill still exist? I recently bought that double disc set with four big band albums  of Urbie Green's (you're to blame for giving one of 'em thumbs up when he died) and it's under the Phono moniker now, no longer Lonehill, although the design looks totally like Lonehill.

    And I still wonder if Freshsound really has nothing to do with it, although I tend to agree that they're different in what they release and the (relative) amount of care they put into their product. They still offer extremely lousy transfers/sources every once in a while (tape flutter, generally dull sound, records that sound worse and worse the longer they go on ...)

    --

    JazzBeat was another one ... and Groove Hut

    and earlier the Definitive family (they had two more names for sub-series/labels)

  17. 10 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

    NoBusiness have a program going that will see a lot more nice stuff issued over the next few years. Hope people continue to buy it.

    There's a sweet Frank Lowe 2LP on Triple Point that is well worth hearing, although it is expensive.

    Alan Braufman's "Valley of Search" was recently reissued and is a fabulous listen. 

    All of the above are legit reissues/first issues, too, which helps.

    I'll certainly keep buying NoBusiness' releases of older stuff (and I'm throwing in some of their new recordings as well, usually).

    The Braufman I still need to get ... but I just see that with shipping it's over 40$ -- a bit on the rich side :o

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