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Doesn't do anything for me, sorry to say ... had some vague expectations, but thought it was way too ... calculated. Seemed like a sound business plan that outdid the expectations.

Took me quite a while to get hip to this label ... had a few (Bunk Johnson, George Lewis) discs, then got more and more, as the 20s recommendations thread here grew bigger. Great discs that are intriguing documents, too ... quite an achievement indeed! r.i.p. George Buck, and thanks for everything.

Seems I'm about the last one here willing to cut Mr. Uehlinger some slack ... honestly, even if he did stop releasing new stuff and kept bringing on those in-demand reissues ... do you really think he could make a good living from that? I think it's the music business that's a joke, the music stores are worse than a joke around here (and have been for close to ten years by now), and the attitude of quite some consumers (I can get a PD Blue Note reissue for 4€, why should a Hat disc cost 15? It's worth only 4€, since that's what the other disc goes for! Oh, and I can get it for free in the internets anyways ...) is a joke, too - and a bad one, at that. So, bottom line: if it's not feasible to even do those small batches of 3000 reissues because there's just not enough interest, what do you expect? (And yeah, I think even the Braxton would last for a few years ...)

I've been eyeing that ... checking options, ebay (from multikulti) makes most sense. Thought it was OOP already! Anyway, I'm not much of a fan of such absolutist statements, with all due respect. The same could be said about any list that doesn't include the Brötzmann/Wels 5CD set released early in the year on Trost. Would be just as true - and just as silly.

Yay, could need three more rare ones for sure!

Got a rather long list this year ... lots of good stuff. Still waiting for some (the Jacquet/Parker and Pearson Uptowns, the Bud Powell Birdland 1957, the Kidd Jordan from NoBusiness) and some have just arrived (Parker/Guy/Lytton and Melodic Art-tet on NoBusiness, the Nicole Mitchell on Delmark). Will try and post a list by the very end of the year.

hum ho ... still a bit too expensive if it's just about a handful of albums ... here's a link: http://www.amazon.de/Impulse-50/dp/B005ORVN1O/

And Helen Merrill, too (thanks Jim!) - those Milestone albums are among my very favourites!

I don't see the rationale behind 664 and 676 ... the four disc set already omitted a track (with Rava added, I think?) that I'm probably never going to hear ... But it's good to see "Garden" and "Willisau (1991)" still on the list! (701 and 702 are both friggin' great, but I have the previous editions, so ...)

And the great 1959, 1961 and 1963-1965 recordings with Paul Desmond on Warner Bros. and RCA, and his Pacific Jazz dates, Jazz Guitar and Good Friday Blues - The Modest Jazz Trio. Forgot Desmond. Have edited post. He not only recorded with Desmond in the period you mentioned, but also after 1962. I know. I've got the discs! And you all forgot Jimmy Giuffre ... some fabulous music there - including "Traditionalism Revisited" by Bob Brookmeyer!

Looking forward a lot, Allen!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_50th_Anniversary_Collection

Weird with this new one ... seems there are fairly many copies around in Germany - and many seem to think this was it - but what's with that Dec. 10 release date that all of a sudden turned up? This whole practice of Sony's is pretty silly ... the new set (all info on wiki) omits tracks from the sessions/concerts covered that already saw official release (i.e. on Bootleg Series 1-3) so you pay premium money and don't even get complete sessions ... you get some moronic music business attempt to save, well, what exactly? The stuff is already floating around, much or most of the 1963 seems to have been bootlegged long time ago ... why not release it officially, design a cheapo sub-series of the Bootleg Series that is probably selling pretty well anyways?

Very, very sad news. A favourite ... if he'd died fifty years ago he'd already have been a giant. Amazing what albums he helped create in the fifties only ... and there was lots to follow after! Thank you for all the fine music.

Just finished a first listen to this one ... a mixed bag ... some of it is very good ("Chaos", "Mindset", "Tango Palace"), some good ("Notes", the Giuffre, and rather unexpectedly the two guitar albums, the duo with Maslak, too), some is beyond odd ("Sonor") and the one I had the highest hopes for, "Memoirs", I found pretty weak - not bad, but I was hoping for this to be one of Bley's finest, going from the line-up - but that, it is not. At least that's my first impression.

has this one been mentioned? from what little I've heard by these dudes and dudettes, I'm pretty interested! 27 € at amazon.fr currently: http://www.amazon.fr/Magnificat-Rinaldo-Alessandrini/dp/B00EO7XPXO/

Happy Birthday, David!

Oh, usually it's not pornography, it's just the telenovela of another era

Sure they could, if they bother to spend money ... not sure they do. Also, no matter if the engineer is capable ... he goes from the sources they hand him, doesn't he? But I certainly am crossing my fingers for this to be a good box!

Now I'd be really interested to know if they found a better source other than the low-bitrate version that was around in the interwebs some years ago for those titles!

They do that here, too (not live usually though, but occasionally that, too ... once they had one broadcast into the large hall of main station ... I think they even staged one there once ... the silly event culture crap) ... never considered that. I could do DVD if I wanted (got a few in the mean time, also occasionally record something onto our lousy tv box), but I rarely feel like watching any music video recordings (I'm amassing lot of jazz though and often enjoy those bigtime when I finally am in the mood to watch any).

Dahlhaus is way over 100 € in German (128 from the publisher's, even more elsewhere, no used copies around at all, it seems) ... seems silly to read a translation. Can get it from the library though. Grout is around ... no time to read these now, but I'll take a note. Had a long post typed up some months ago here, but it got lost and I never felt like trying to re-create it ... anyway, early on, when I listened to hardly any classical music, I used to go to see opera live several times a year (could get cheap cards for five nights per season whilst in high school) and I mostly enjoyed it a lot ... but I'd never have listened to any of it at home. Nowadays, it's the other way 'round. Tickets are so incredibly expensive and the few okay seats at acceptable prices are gone fast ... I've not set foot into the opera house for a dozen years and am not sure that will change too soon, though they have "Jenufa" on ... already saw that one here once (probably the last time I was at the opera) and loved it, so ... The whole elitist aspect of it, the fact that a huge part of public cultural expenses (and lots of corporate sponsoring on top) goes into opera (and of course hardly any into jazz, and what goes into jazz mostly to more high-brow stuff that I prefer, too) does annoy me very much. But for once, there the issue isn't dead maestros but living divas ... guess that opera actually just isn't feasible anymore the way our eventizized moronic society wants sthings to happen. I'd love to be able and experience the music live, even if was just "concertante" productions ... but with the silly star cult (which grew excessive in Zurich in the long years of Pereira heading the opera, though I guess in the end he did a fine job under the circumstances ... but possibly he's the kind of person who strenghtens exactly those circumstances, too, turning it all into events and crap for local wannabee-celebrities yadda yadda yadda) in play, it won't work out. Politically, I'd be all for shutting down those money-eating opera houses, right now - and spreading the money that is around to support cultural activities in a much broader way. But then I guess if we go on like we do (heading, I'm afraid, into decades of social unrest, if things won't start to change pretty soon), opera houses will be shut - or will morph into closed high society places ... they're almost there - anyway.

Okay, thanks! It's the only of that series that I happen to have ... got the Minguses and Coltranes in the respective boxes and have alyways been very happy with those (had some of the old "domestic" Atlantic CDs by Mingus before, but back then - I was a teenager - I wouldn't even bother to compare anything, rather just gave away duplicates).

Uhm, why do you picture that edition of the Blakey/Monk? Happens to be the one I've got ...