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  1. Thanks! That looks like a most helpful site! I guess I'm with Chuck though (but I assume he's got subsantially more Szell than I do). I see there was once an Original Jackets 10 CD box of Szell's Mozart ... now that would have possibly been of interest - but this big sucker would be too much for me, I'm quite sure, even at half the price it's going.
  2. I got the three I ordered yesterday - they're straight repackings of the previous releases ... i.e. the Piau is two jewel cases in cardboard, the Otter is a 2CD digipack plus a jewel case plus a separate booklet the size of a jewel case, the Say is a CD+DVD digipack and a jewel case ... great value for money indeed, if you don't have them yet.
  3. Would this include concertos (i.e. all the Fleisher/Szell)? Or only orchestral/symphonic? Best current offer seems to be amazon.it (177 €): http://www.amazon.it/Edition-George-Szell/dp/B00BMKDQHQ/
  4. all the best, y'all!
  5. Me third! Heard the title track on a compilation someone here recommended to me many years ago ... had to absolutely hunt down that CD (best: it's a twofer including a fine Chris Schilder album with more Mankunku)!
  6. off the top of my head - jazz and beyond: Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster Céu - Céu Céu - Vagarosa Dr. John - The Sun Moon and Herbs John Coltrane - A Love Supreme John Coltrane - Crescent The Band - The Band Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind Big John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin' On Thelonious Monk - Misterioso Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady some Lester Young, like the 1944 Savoy session or the Jones-Smith Inc. date Hank Mobley - Soul Station Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (actually I need just the title tune there ... or even just the tenor solo ... could go endless there!) Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
  7. Sure, but with all the overlap so far, that's not a sufficient explanation to me.
  8. Can't talk about remasterings but I've played almost all of it by now (three more to go ... the final ones except for the movie soundtrack that I've known for a while) and I've enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Not many real clunkers in there ("Monster" may actually be the only one?) and lots of surprisingly wonderful music! Favourites, besides the obvious ones, are "Flood", V.S.O.P.'s "Live Under the Sky", "Mr. Hands", and the album with Kimiko Kasai. Obviously, this will need time to sink in ... of the vocal albums, I've not really, really enjoyed one in its entirety, I think, but most of them have some very good stuff to offer. And some of the later funk albums ("Directstep" for one) are pretty good! I also enjoyed the solo piano album (the purely acoustic one that is) and the quartet with the evil guy on trumpet, too ... the second of the trio discs is pretty good, too (the first as good/bad as "Third Plane", same sessions, same rather uninspired performance, it sounded to me). Oh, and the one beyond the obvious ones (those are: "Sextant", "Head Hunters" and "Thrust", obviously) that I've known before, "V.S.O.P.", remains a favourite! I've had some digpack edition (french?) of this and always enjoyed it a lot!
  9. final days ... got the second (of two) packages today ...
  10. Maybe the aimed for "Tuesday Night at Birdland" or some such ... continuing the series from Roost?
  11. * * * * * Mike Reed's Living By Lanterns - Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Feb 23 * * * *1/2 Trixie Whitley - Blueballs, Luzern, Jul 24 Convergence Quartet - Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Oct 6 Zentralquartett - Unerhört, Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Nov 30 Häns'che Weiss Quartett - Moods, Zürich, Apr 8 Anthony Braxton/Taylor Ho Bynum/Gerry Hemingway - Jazzfestival Willisau, Sep 1 Vijay Iyer Trio - Moods, Zürich, Feb 21 * * * * Alela Diane (w/Heather Woods Broderick) - Bogen F/Viadukt, Zürich, Jul 15 * * *1/2 bis * * * * Mark Helias' Open Loose - Moods, Zürich, Apr 9 * * *1/2 Curtis Fuller Sextet - Moods, Zürich, Feb 12 Stephan Crump & Mary Halvorson - Unerhört, Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Nov 30 * * * Isabeau et les Chercheurs d'Or - Bogen F/Viadukt, Zürich, Jul 15 (opeing for Alela Diane) Squakk - Jazzfestival Willisau, Sep 1 * *1/2 Tobias Meier & "Things to Sounds" - Unerhört, Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Nov 30 I also saw Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Brahms' violin concerto (the concert opened with Mozart's Jupiter symphony). Wouldn't know how to fit that in above, Mozart was okay, routinely performed, Zimmermann was phantastic.
  12. The Bley is a mish-mash ... some of it is good, some not so ... the two guitar quartets work fairly well, the duo with Motian grows on me more and more, the Giuffre/Bley/Swallow trio is good, too ... so is the solo album. The duo with that unable drummer is weird (not in too good a way), the duo with Maslak is okay (their duo on Leo is decidedly better, I think), the duo with Peacock is very good ... but I found the trio with Haden/Motian (the one I had the highest expectations for) pretty boring. The Lake turned out to be pretty darn good, though! And the Cyrille even better! (Though with the later I still don't get the omission of the other Lyons/Cyrille duo album.) The Farmer is good, too - the three quirtet albums are mighty good, the two with Clifford Jordan in particular (but dig his version of the title tune on "Manhattan", the one with Shihab!). The duo with Pauer is pretty nice, the album with Pieranunzi to me is the weakest of the bunch.
  13. Well, I assume if there were new tapes, they'd have come to the bootleggers via dime, so we'd have them, too ... there are many more radio material from the European tours that weren't in the Pablo, which could need a fixed update anyway (correcting all the freaked up info).
  14. How would it differ much? They'll be using the same sources that we use to fill up our external harddisks ... also whom did they steal the photographs from? I'm sure those aren't PD yet ...
  15. Years before? Coltrane's "real" career was about a dozen years long ... in late 1955 he joined Miles with whom he played the following year, 1957 was a major watershed year (with the Monk gig probably the decisive moment), 1958 was the return to Miles ("Milestones", and that great date with "Love for Sale") ... Coltrane's music and his playing evolved amazingly fast and quick, took new turns ... might well be that "Giant Steps" is kind of a summary of that period ... but it's the Prestige stuff where you can hear it evolve, where you can hear how Trane gets more and more focused (after all he does sound focused already on plenty of the 1956 dates ... the album with Dameron is the prime example there, dig that wonderful sound!) and strides in big steps towards the fine things that would follow ... kind of, if you want, from his own sax style to his own music. Much of it is about getting there, being there is just a quick stop for anyone with a curious mind, after that it's on to the next mark or level or whatever ... pursuance, resolution, serenity ... and to bring things into perspective, after all, it took Coltrane a while to get it down with Impulse ... not to put down "Ballads" or the albums with Hartman and Ellington, they're wonderful, but there are only a few glimpses of that constantly moving spirit that shines up very much so on the live recordings from the Village Vanguard ... sure, there's the wonderful and mellow "Coltrane", some grand studio material on "Live at Birdland" (Alabama!), but it's only with "Crescent" that he made a studio album that's of one as are the best on Prestige ("Soultrane"!) and Atlantic. Also to get the full story you'll need the live material, too ... the Carnegie Hall concert w/Monk (also from 1957 of course), the 1960 tour with Miles that's been mentioned several times, the NYC airchecks with Dolphy, the European tours of the early sixties and more ... it kinda all falls together, it was such a short and intense period of work, to split it up too much into different periods makes little sense in the end, though of course we all do that constantly, to make our lives easier ... but with Coltrane, I really wouldn't want to do anything other than try and wrap around my mind about all of it, the entirety of his legacy (and yes, of course my mind is threatening to burst, throbbing constantly ...)
  16. OK, now I see that the Vee Jay was issued with a Buddy DeFranco LP, and then again with a whole set of alternates. So I actually have what was issued in the 70s under Yusef's name as Contemplation - which was also reissued as standalone CD, but no alternates. Wondering if those alternates are worth re-purchasing. It's been a while, need to listen again ... There's a third with Ricky Ford. But somehow I never really liked those all that much, not even 'teefski and Vonski. There seems to be a good quartet disc from the same period that I've meant to check out for some time ... anyone knows it? As for prime late Lateef, I very much love the 2005 2CD set with the Belmondo Brothers! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000A0HG52/1388061844
  17. Lambert gives the names for one of the tunes ... there's a Gildo Mahones trio track and then one or two with LH&B joining them. And in the end, there's Lambert fooling around with an electric keyboard live in the studio. Great stuff! I think it's only one or two tunes early on where the singers are unknown/unnamed.
  18. Great stuff, Chris - many thanks for sharing! :tup
  19. I'm still eyeing it ... I think I want it too, eventually!
  20. Savoy, Prestige, Riverside, Argo, Verve ... can't go wrong! Add the Adderley sextet, the Vee Jay (led by Louis Hayes, there's an one-fer with bonus tracks), abd the Impulse albums, too ... he rarely went "out" for good, you'll get plenty of unusual sounds though, such as gongs, finger cymbals, the argol, the rebab, and of course some glorious oboe (favourite: "Trouble in Mind" on "Cannonball in Europe!" - just 'teef & rhythm). Had I to pick one, it might be "Live at Pep's", great Lateef, poised Richard Williams (now there's an unsung musician) and a great rhythm section led by Mike Nock.
  21. merry krismas indeed ... just returned from the first of two consecutive nights of eating, drinking, tearing open gifts, tearing open old wounds, discuss stuff that's usually snuck tightly beneath the surface ... family stuff, as usual ... actually it went along more relaxed than ever before, so I'm cool (and having some drinks to cool and some Dylan to cap things off ... finally got the Self Portrait box, dang!) ... tomorrow should be more relaxed anyway (my folks, tonight was mère ubu's folks, they sure iz krazy!)
  22. There's a documentary film about him by a couple of Swiss guys, "Brother Yusef", that i found very good: http://www.swissfilms.ch/en/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/2146532280 I really hate myself for not having been aware of his concert at Cully Jazz Festival in 2006 (with the Belmondo bros) - that was a helluva concert and I wasn't there. The one time I saw him - with Archie Shepp in Nov. 2012 - he didn't seem to bother too much (and Shepp, well, he was being Shepp ... they had a *great* rhythm section backing them though, with the late Mulgrew Miller, Reggie Workman and reggae drummer supreme Hamid Drake).
  23. I got one coming from England ... not matter how long it takes, it's worth the wait!
  24. You need a new cup I'm afraid that won't do the trick I've tried since the 1960s and it never really worked for me. Hard for me to wrap around my mind about that ... his playing is very touching and direct to me. Straight to the heart of it (and of me, too). But vive la différence and all that ...
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