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The Stitt and Jacquet won't happen, I guess ... too much stuff available on various cheapo PD outfits. Not sure about Rogers ... was actually hoping for a second JSP box to arrive. As for Waller, JSP covers it all, I think? Sure, these aren't coffee table sets or anything, but they're more than I really need (I got them all, but have never so far made my way through the huge amount of music). I'd be in for budget boxes à la Legacy/Popmarket, for these, but not for lavish deluxe stuff ... then rather make it single album reissues. I'd very much love the live Brubeck set indeed - let's hope the studio sold good enough that the live set will indeed follow (it was mentioned around here a few times, not sure if it's actually planned or considered an option of if that was just others wishing for it). They ought to add the Mulligan albums folowing Desmond's departure with the live set, though, please please please! I've got those ... bought the Ella/Duke a while ago - still unplayed, it's around, but not cheaply ... the Kirk would indeed be welcome, seems lots of potential buyers don't have it. If the Brownie set is any indication, it should be a possibility.

"Song of Singing" was on regular CD, I think ... can't check my copy right now, but here's an entry for US, 1987:http://www.discogs.com/Chick-Corea-The-Song-Of-Singing/release/1832759 There you see it adds "Blues Connotation" (track B4 from "Circling In", A1-5 and B1-3 are the bonus tracks on "Now He Sings"), and then there's indeed "Drone" (side A of "Circulus"). I've been totally unaware of the CD "Early Circle" - will need to get it, as I don't have "Circling In" on vinyl ... the remains of that twofer are indeed all to be found on "Early Circle"! It adds "Percussion Piece" (D2 from "Circulus", the only short track on that twofer) at the end. So the missing bits are "Quartet Piece" nos. 1-3 (sides B, C and track D1 of "Circulus"). I'm covered there, as "Circulus" is the one I've actually got on vinyl (punchholed, but in good shape). I'm also covered on the Ornette (again both punchholed or saw-cutted), "Crisis" indeed easily ranks among his ten best albums! And I gather there'd be more material around from that concert - too bad, really! Oh, and thanks Head Man, I do have that Shihab/Gilson disc!

No idea about price of the Lacy, there are hardly any offers though, so I guess after all it IS rare ... there's one on ebay now for around 120 $ ... now if I could walk into a store, inspect it before Ibuy it, I might pay that much, but still ...

re: Corea, I once proposed that stuff as a Select to Mosaic ... and got a reply (from MC) that this was a good idea ... however, we all know the fate of the Selects. and yeah, I'd love to get the Lacy set, too!

Bill Barron is in work at Freshsound's, I guess (not that I like it, and it will be a few years, too) ... but I'd love to get that Poppa Sammich phone record - anyone ever contacted the NSA about it?

Thanks Head Man! Guess I'll go for it too, then! As for Saba ... "Noon in Tunisia" ought to be properly reissued!

still waiting for mine ... ordered it together with the Pearson, shipping from the US, I guess it will take a while ... can hardly wait!

I stumbled over that Gilson disc whils browsing amazon a few days ago ... what does it contain? The link says "reissue", is it a compilation of previously released cuts or is it an archival release of newly dug up material, as the title suggests? Re: Ellington - I was thinking of those 1956-62 LP sets ... was that stuff all added to matching albums when the Legacy reissues of the late 90s and early 00s came out?

Yes to Ellington! I think there's be more from later in the fifties that never made it to regular albums?

Palm ... yeah, a nice set of Jef Gilson music, too!

Happy Birthday, Jim!

True - quoted wiki which has the wrong label in the listing (but the right one once you open the pages on the respective album) - weird.

Yes, in this case it's not PD labels fault, of course! And there, even though the "they stole it and so will I game" is surely going on, it STILL seems feasible ... Fresh Sound for one is going strong, and all the satellites keep popping up and going "boof" as they have for a decade or so now. Not sure what that tells us though. As for streaming being crap ... I tend to generally agree, but when it comes down to music consumption nowadays, with smartphones, mp3 players, computers with crappy soundcards and cheapo built-in speakers ... I'm not sure it matters that much. Sometimes I just hook up my notebook to the amplifier when playing concerts found on youtube, or when listening to an org BFT or something like that ... and it doesn't bother me too much. I guess this "streaming being crap"-thing is one that really applies to those with stereos they invested thousands of any hard currency in - and those are a very small minority.

Well, I paid around 60 or 70 € for an in-shop copy of the Waldron/Lacy 4CD set ... that was the regular price around here back then. And sure I've been doing some complaining about crazy prices here, but then in the end it's all good. If all those who "have" "Hum Dono" and "Zodiac" would actually step up and buy real copies, we might indeed have seen real reissues of those long ago (guess what? this also works the other way 'round ... when a label does a reissue and no one buys it, they won't do the next one they had been planning ...) So yeah, I'm pleading guilty of grabbing OOP stuff when I can ... but whenever I get a chance to right the wrong (the wrong being - in most cases - not the label not putting it out, the wrong being me "having" it even though I shouldn't), I am very happy to do so. If there were thousands in that boat, we might still get more jazz reissues ... but it seems it's a pretty small and un-crowded boat, alas. (And no, I'm no better than others ... I've got other shortcomings, I'm sure!)

That's what I meant, actually ... no need for the Riversides (and the Riverside/Capitol/Landmarks), those were all covered, I think? A 1964.-1970 set would be it ... even better if they could throw in the final ones on Milestone (which I've still not heard, shame on me).

Never hera dof that Lacy, nor of Alan Davie ... but I'd be in for the d'Silva, Wilen and Taylors, for sure! And I throw in the Oxleys and Rileys that were on CD but have vanished, too. I guess I'd get each and any of those in your list! But "in the real world", there won't be no Marte Röling Fontanas, I assume? The Konitz Verve would have been a charming Mosaic, also the Giuffre Verve, but the crappitycrapirates have pretty much outruled those, I'm afraid ... alas! on the McCoy! Add Freddie Roach Blue Notes to that. As for Cannonball, I'd love a huge sucker, like the Columbia/Sony Herbie Hancock box! Warts and all... :tup so, why have all the quote headers disappeared? they were there before i hit "post" ... ah, well ...

the James Brown x-mas stuff (singles) can be found spread over a few of those great 2CD sets ... some of it is pretty fun, actually ... (I think there's also a one disc set pulling it all together, but that would be too much of a good thing for me).

Happy Birthday! When pounding them keys, always remember that pp means "pound plenty"!

I went for the EMI Wagner box ... seems Domingo is intelligible on his two operas ... and generally the most appealing thing about the DG box to me was the inclusion of librettos, but just for the sake of that I really didn't feel like buying it Had doubts about the EMI, too ... haven't started exploring any of it yet ... but got another big sucker, the Solti box, which seems to contain one of the best ever "Rings" (I've also got the Furtwängler around, the 1953 one (Radio Italiana) ... and then one more, the "Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival" (Decca, but recorded for Philips) which is mostly Sawallisch, but also has the Levine "Parsifal", which seems to be one of the not-to-miss Wagner recordings. In addition, there's also a "Great Operas" or "Great Recordings" box from Sony, in the style of their Verdi box (which I got), but that one didn't appeal to me as much either (neither did, btw, the Verdi box released by EMI - there I went for the Sony, the Sony/Met, the Great Operas from La Scala by DG ... and although that one has three of the six Abbados, I guess I'll also get the Abbado box ... as well as the very recent Domingo Verdi box ... and hey, I've actually listened to plenty of the Verdi already, and am enjoying it a lot). Not sure when the day for Wagner will come ... not too soon, I think.

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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!