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Have the Bilson on the way ... shoukd arrive tomorrow or day after! And having the one Müllejahns/Bezuidenhout violin sonatas disc, I'm more than tempted to check out some of his Mozart piano sonatas. Not sure what it is, but I don't hook up with Staier's Mozart at all so far.

So it was? Saw it and wondered if that was some diner sharing the same name or the real one ... that's cool!

So are the violin sonatas by Ferras/Barbizet!

That would be the regular/shorter ones, right? I'm confused by all this talk about different editions here (the "box" referred to above is always the complete album collection, there never was a Japan 1975 box, right?). Anyway, I'll just wait and see - hope I don't regret this order ...

currently € 35.99 on amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0002K6ZL6/

not having access to spotters, there's other ways to find many versions: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?name_id1=7537&name_role1=1&comp_id=14812&bcorder=15 http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/59578/Gustav-Mahler-Das-Lied-von-der-Erde Plenty of more recent recordings around indeed! Btw, I ordered the Horenstein, promped by this thread ... no shipping confirmation just yet, but crossing my fingers!

Played the entire Satchmo box indeed yesterday - some great stuff, and very few real clunkers (just a couple of overly silly novelty tunes really) ... now back with Basie. Probably will make it through disc five, maybe six.

So with the recs I got here for the Blu-Specs (just got a shipping confirmation), no one here knows what version in on them? Not that it matters that much to me, but I ordered them because of endorsement of other folks here, so I'd assume some would know? Or did I just miss it in the above discussion?

disc 5 again - the quartet date with Raymond Fol - beautiful stuff, too bad the final tape reel (on it two more complete takes of "Everything Happens to Me" as well as the lost "What Is There to Say" in one complete take) is missing!

Never been too big on him, but yeah, he was great in that film (which though seemed a tad unfinished to me - but still pretty good). Sorry way to go.

Let Asia assemble your phone? Sure, no matter if they die on the way there ... they're not merikan, right? As for "face value" ... where would that face be, behind the mask?

discs 4-5 of the Chet box

You have a point there ... still it seems to me there's a somewhat general shift to sonic issues over music, and I wanted to merely point that out, since I regret it .... but in the end it's of course one's own decision whether to keep searching or to restrain oneself to the umpteenth Blue Note reissue. In that spirit, my negative comment is also a good-natured nudge - but then again, as they say (I hate this saying, it has nazi implications) "to each his own".

The Complete Decca Studio Recordings of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars let's see how far I get - maybe the whole thing ... feels like a Satchmo day

me too!

just in case, as was my assumption, the big Decca suckers will or seem to be back very soon: best price for the Richter (Feb. 4) is here: http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00GYHSYW4/ best for the Ansermet (no date, but amazon.it says "9-13 days", which sounds close enough, the others state "currently not in stock"): http://www.amazon.de/French-Music-Ansermet/dp/B00DT2322E/

Similar here. Also remember, ten or fifteen years ago, you'd take what you could get. Very often you could either get a McMaster (still in print) OR Conn OR an RVG. It was only after all regular reissues were halted that RVGs of more albums (including some previously in the Conn series) would turn up. There's such an incredible amout of music around, I do replace things very rarely and only when something really grates me AND is near and dear to me (I've never bothered to find a bitter-sounding edition of "Capuchin Swing", life's too short ... but I did get the RVG ov "Demon's Dance" since the old version sounded awful ... I kept the Addey "Money Jungle" even though the later McMaster added more music - I prefer the warmer, fuller sound of the Addey version). Anyway, which editions do you buy of your Bunk Johnson and Luis Russell and Barney Wilen and Thomas Chapin?

Thanks for the reminder ... just checked, indeed should have that somewhere!

No idea, but I still prefer some as I don't have any SHMs quite yet ... seems to me with reissues drying up, there's an almost ridiculous amount of discussions ®evolving about sound ... and less and less on the music itself. But then that might be org growing into its teens, too ... what do I know.

Losin has a listing for the Bird box: http://plosin.com/milesAhead/BirdDisco.aspx?id=ParkerBirdbox

Thanks! The Definitive adding the Kenton looks quite enticing ...

Is there any way to get this nowadays, on some at least semi-decent CD issue?

Can't say I'm very familiar yet, but Kathleen Ferrier does it for me, at this point. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/editorial/mahlers-das-lied-von-der-erde

Thanks Jim - makes sense to me! Btw, thinking of Miles I finally tried to order the Blu-Spec reissues of "Agartha" and "Pangaea" ... hope CD Japan still gets them (says 3-5 days, so I'm crossing my fingers).

Yeah ... but somehow all notions of a winds frontline with rhythm accompaniment were way past at that time, weren't they? The thought of Coltrane though is one that's interesting ... are there any specific quotes of Miles known in that respect (like him endorsing the soprano, or having Shorter play soprano because of Coltrane or anything)?