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Coincidentally, I had a discussion with a musician selling his CDs after a gig -- "hm, do I have this already?" ... he mentioned he's been starting to manage his collection via discogs, so over the weekend I started checking it out ... I find it somewhat annoying, with many superfluous (sometimes duplicate) entries and stuff - not that it really matter to myself if I have the version or without barcode (I will not go and check, my CDs are in no easily accessible order, so if I go through a label or musician entry and mark the ones I own, I will not have them at hand). Oftentimes, promo copies are listed separately, which I find silly -- but I guess for all those that are receiving them and then illegally selling them on, those entries do make sense (and as a customer I'd not want a simple cardboard case promo copy if the regular edition has a proper booklet). With vinyl, I'm often at a loss to even determine which edition I have, with labels such as Prestige or Verve that kept repressing their albums. I have my excel list and copy it onto my smartphone every now and then, but accessing and reading a mutli-tab excel list on a smartphone isn't exactly handy.

Thanks - ordered two (one for a friend who I hope will not catch this himself)

Just in case: Irv Rochlin was from Chicago. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-Press-Photo-Entertainers-Lila-Leeds-Irv-Rochlin-in-Chicago-Nightclub-/401679473088?oid=372253205089#vi__app-cvip-panel Lila who? http://donstradley.blogspot.com/2014/08/lila-leeds-how-bad-can-good-girl-get.html?m=1

opinions on the two already out? and:

That is one crazy-ass letter there ... you don't happen to have ghosted it for MLW @JSngry Alas, I didn't see many of the musicians present that day - and each of them just once: - Johnny Griffin (in trio with Martial Solal and NHOP) - Benny Golson (doing his Coltrane tribute programme, with Buster Williams, Al Foster, Randy Brecker a.o.) - Sonny Rollins (in fine shape with his no more than okay band) - Hank Jones (in a pretty weird all-star gig that also included Ray Brown [now where is he on that photo?], Kenny Burrell, Mickey Roker and Bobby Hutcherson (though he seemed as if he preferred not being there and played like that, too, total lack of interest) Caught a few more that didn't make that photo shooting (Max Roach) or were probably not quite prominent enough to have been invited (Sheila Jordan, Curtis Fuller, Benny Bailey, Shirley Horn)

I just ordered the new Wadada from Barcelona ... Was wondering: has anyone started exploring the most recent Barry Guy box of goodies? https://www.nottwo.com/mw980

Hm, I enjoy all of Stitt's Cobblestone and Muse albums ... but the one with Newman has so far never been among the top favourites. I have the edition above ... luvly 32Jazz design There's one with Ricky Ford and one with Jimmy Heath - that later I really like: Got it as part of an ugly Camden 4-on-2-disc set (compiling two in quartet w/Barry Harris, the one with Ford and the one with Heath): https://www.discogs.com/de/Sonny-Stitt-Constellation/release/9871475 I love that double disc set - it was my first encounter with Sonny Stitt, and the first time I heard "Red Top" (included on "My Buddy", his Gene Ammons tribute)

That was my assumption as well, but I guess we'll never really know ... Thanks @EKE BBB for the background info on FSR etc.

Oh, that's too bad then (and typical album fetish silliness) - thanks for the warning!

One of my favourite operas ... too bad the Karajan doesn't work, as that was probably the best Mozart opera ensemble ever (but give me Lisa Della Casa instead of Schwarzkopf please!) ... to me the Karajan sounds rushed, almost as if it were part of a race, a contest. Some I enjoy a lot (Böhm, I know, but ...) - of the first Böhm, there are other editions, it's the 1955 recording, superior to the later one I find ... the 1974 live one is possibly the finest though. My favorite, possibly, is the Gardiner, Roocrof/Mannion are splendid, and somehow I like Gardiner's Mozart better than Jacobs': it also exists as DVD but I've not watched it yet (not sure it's identitacal):

Have had the Wynton Kelly on pre-order for a while ... but I think it's the only one I'll be buying.

I've bought my first Zefiro disc last year and enjoyed it a lot, so I might go for their recording ... Will hear the concertos live on Thursday, with La Scintilla (Zurich opera's HIP ensemble) led by Riccardo Minasi (the first of a series of concerts, I think he'll stick around for a while as a guest conductor/leader, this season four concerts are scheduled and I plan to go to the third and fourth, too, skipping Vivaldi's four seasons).

Got mine (and one more for a friend) today ... going to the opera but will start listening tomorrow!

Finally got a shipping noitice ... looking foward a lot to exploring the set!

Very sorry to hear this. Me too, I learned an awful lot from him ... and both the "Swing to Bop" and this bosk are favourites:

It's outstanding I think! Some really good Charlie Rouse ... one of the finest late Monk (Columbia period) live recordings.

... they succeeded none less than Tal Farlow in his band, I think. I'm not playing Mellé's sides very often, but I enjoy them whenever I do. I know his Blue Note material better than the two Prestige albums (plus CD bonus material with disputed personnel - link to previous discussion below) so far. --

NY Times review of the concert: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/arts/review-jazz-nonstop-improvisation-with-a-big-band-backup.html

A shock yes, but not sure a good one ... will this sell? Will other such sets (Morgan, McLean) sell? We've entered the world of amafeghbukspotiapplestreaming-cheapsakity, so who is going to shelve out substantial money for this? I actually may, but more to have it all in one place and hopefully have some large photos and a good new text, but the actual value is pretty low (so would I be more sane in my own consumerist behaviour, I'd definitely skip). Also: what about the 1960 sessions, why exclude them? Because they'd push this over the threshold for good (11 CD Hank Mobley set, no one would be buying it?) I bet it would sell as a vinyl set, but then again for that might even be too large as it's planned now ...

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

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.

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.

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

I don't even get notices ... but reading Lon's post above I'm by now positive that the set does exist in the first place

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)