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It's crazy, huh, I'm really the very last ... I'll definitely complain about that, I have a hunch it has to do with some custom fees amazon made me pre-pay (!!! - never had such a thing happen before!) but that will cover a third maximum of the actual fees (about which amazon's faq say they will pay that ... ha, let's waaaaaaaaaaaaait - I'm doing so folks, just move ahead slowly! - and see).

Okay, so I'll post a list of favourites, too ... (from last night, auto save only caught half of it when I lost my network connection last night, but I made a quick copy job) 1) not sure how to deal with the "African Recordings" (KAZ/Camden) - As-Shams/The Sun or Gallo material, I think - love all those dates with horns dearly! The CDs to look for are titled African Sun (fabulous Kippie, one of the beautifullest "Memories of You" ever! and then there's "Bra Jo from Kilimanjaro" "Rolling" in under the "African Sun" ... a disc very, very dear to me), Blue for a Hip King (more great Kippie and some of that session with Blue Mitchell, Buster Cooper, Harold Land and Doug Sides, plus Ibrahim, Basil "Mannenberg" Coetzee and Lionel Beukes), Tintinyana (the remainder of the Land et al. session, mostly trio) and last but definitely not least Voice of Africa (including the fabulous version of "Mannenberg"). Besides some early stuff with Kippie (there's of course also the "Jazz Epistles" album, but that one's more derivative to my ears) you get to hear some magnificient playing by Coetzee, Duku Makasi (he's the one that soaked up Coltrane) and on some cuts Barney Rachabane (he's the one who made an album with Groove Holmes, I'm sure the Beasties would have sampled that if they had been able to lay hands on it ...) ... and then there are two "Jazz in Africa" volumes, the second of which has a pair of looooong Ibrahim tracks, and also the great "Tshona" album by Kippie Moeketsi and Pat Matshikiza. Very much worth looking for! The first has most of the "Jazz Epistles" album paired with most of the John Mehegan album from South Africa (Doug Payne has some info - a pretty botched disc, but I've not found the Mehegan material elsewhere so far). 2) next top favourite: African Marketplace - I virtually grew up with this on the turntable, one of the most often played albums at my parents' when I was a kid ... Carlos Ward is wonderful, so is Craig Harris ... and you get Lawrence Lucie on the banjo, too! 3) the Enjas ... what a wonderful bunch! I love the sparse Africa - Tears and Laughter (with an alto guy called Talib Qadr, I think it was established in one of the earlier threads that he wasn't Talib Kibwe or anyone else), but then there's the bunch of albums with Carlos Ward, of which South Africa is the one I'm most familiar with ... but Zimbabwe is wonderful, too. The one you often see mentioned, Dollar Brand at Montreux, which adds Craig Harris, does a bit less for me. 4) more Enjas, different bands: Water from an Ancient Well, Mindif, No Fear No Die (a sentimental favourite, though not the best of the bunch), African River (John Stubblefield - dig? Howard Johnson! Dig?), the LP mentioned above belongs in here ... and there was also a Sun revival in 1991, which fails to build the same exitement as the seventies dates do, but still is worth a listen, Mantra Mode with Robbie Jansen, Mannenberg and others. 5) another Enja masterpiece, one of my prob. top 20 or 25 piano trio albums: Yarona, a wonderfully captured live recording (Marcus McLaurine on bass, George Johnson on drums) 6) solo stuff ... plenty of ... favourites: Matsidiso and South African Sunshine (both on Pläne, rec. 1980) - Enja released much of both on a disc, I think titled "Portrait", but I don't regall, it's been years that I had that one borrowed from a friend, my dad has SAS on LP, I've since found both LPs myself. 7) early stuff ... I've never been too partial to the Montmarte recordings released on Black Lion (I love the Webster stuff though), don't ask me why ... I enjoy the Ellington Presents LP though. Then there's another fabulous solo album, African Piano (JAPO, rec. 1969) - a masterpiece, in my opinion. 8) avant flirtations ... just before he made his best "african recordings" (c. 1974/75), he made African Space Program for Enja, with quite a band: Cecil Bridgewater, Enrico Rava, Charles Sullivan, Kiane Zawadi, Sonny Fortune, Carlos Ward, Roland Alexander, John Stubblefield, Hamiet Bluiett, Cecil McBee, Roy Brooks (rec. 1973) - fine one, too! There's another one from 1977 which sounds a bit messy to my ears, but again is very much worth listening to: The Journey, on which you get to hear: Don Cherry, Carlos Ward, Talib Rhynie, Hamiet Bluiett, Johnny Dyani, Claude Jones, John Betsch, Roy Brooks. 9) duos ... the most glorious of them all is of course Good News from Africa with Johnny Dyani (Enja, rec. 1973) ... they did a follow up that pales a bit by comparison ... but there are fine duos with Archie Shepp, Buddy Tate (I'm not that familiar yet with that one though), Max Roach ... I kinda lost interest in the studio output of the past fifteen or so years though ... my dad kept buying some discs after "Yarona" and none of them comes close, I think. I also never really felt like getting the ones he made with those German radio big bands ... saw one of their festival gigs on TV and enjoyed it, but it's just not the same, really ... and I guess the same can be said about recent versions of his four horn band "Ekaya" ... I enjoyed the concert I heard a few years back, but in the end it's as if he doesn't have the right people around him ... they're all very competent, they all provide some very good playing and soloing, but the magic of the bands of the eighties (I'm too young to have heard any of them live, alas) is gone.

Okay, I was confused (thinking the book held the discs, too ... and that there were paperback and hardcover editions or some such). Guess I might go for both then ...

who/what is that "Sireena" label anyway?

't would surely help if they'd share the track list instead of akk those verbacious blurbs ... www.sireena.de/cat-s.html#SIR2122

Uhm, just to be clear: there's a book and a CD box and no overlap between them (i.e. the book holds no CDs, the CD box has only some booklet but does not contain the entire book)?

That's the one (to own). Got it yesterday! Seems it's not really a different remaster, just a new transfer - it does sound somewhat better though, for sure!

Uhm yes, now that you mention it ... in my list, there's a note that the Schoof session (on "Avantgarde") makes up two thirds of the FMP album "The Early Quintet" and that instead of the the two cuts from that LP on which Sven Ake Johansson was heard in Liebezeit's place, it adds two more titles with the other line-up ... not sure if those two were new to the world or previously released on some other LP ... I'm no Schoof specialist at all). However, it IS a quintet, the line-up being: Schoof, Dudek, Schlipp, Niebergall and Liebezeit. Here's the discogs entry: www.discogs.com/Manfred-Schoof-Quintet-Rolf-Joachim-Kühn-Quartet-Avantgarde/release/593521 Of those six Schoof titles, four were on the FMP (which added two others w/Johansson instead of Liebezeit), two more are of undetermined origin (undetermined at least as far as I know). (edited seventeen times until finding a way to post the link which kept disappearing ... what's going on, I remember at least one other poster mentioning that same issue, I've had it a couple of times now)

Here's a lenghty old thread: Big fan of his, got plenty more of his music compared to when that older thread started ... the one that has turned into a real favorite is this here: Vinyl only, I think - I took chances there, ordering online from some unknown to me seller not using regular grading lingo, but it turned out to be very much okay ... and most important a great rekkid!

So it's all on this one?

Okay, that does console me a bit

Oh well, pessimist that I am these days, what makes you think mine's packed the same thorough way? ... dammit, I want the sucker now!

Dang! The DHL order was something else ... so I'm *still* waiting for the Herbie, I am getting very impatient, after all it's been close to eight week since my (pre-)order and I thought the idea of pre-orders was they should send it so you have in on street day ... not that that really matters, but come on, it's been ten days en route now and was shipped only after erwbol had already received his, how effin' lame is that? Anyway, I picked up the new November edition of Wire and there's a three page review (by Greg Tate, don't know him, I think) of the box. Started reading it on my way home, makes me all the more impatient!

Can you please hold the Johnny Richards and Zorn "Circle Maker" for me? (You were right, after all!) Will need a week or so though, and will need to have another good look at all your offerings!

(Can this thread be moved to the recommendations forum? it sinks so quickly in all the album cover threads here! Please!)

Yes! And yes again ... and dammit, yes, such is life ... and indeed it's that way around here

True, it's a tricky economy, which is why what he's doing really makes even less sense. Okay, I am beating a dead horse. Nooo - the horse is alive! There's always hope! Well, the horse is alive in that Mr. Uehlinger prefers to release some new music rather than reissue what has been out (and can be found, I guess, if you really need it ... although it might be very pricy, but if there's real need ...). Can't blame him for that. But regardless I'd sure wish for some reissues, there's lots of stuff I never had a chance to hear that I'd love to hear (as opposed to I "need" to hear it ... there's no need, just as there's no entitlement). The money I talked of above was meant as: talk him into doing those reissues on the base of donating him a few thousand bucks ...

I'd definitely not hold my breath on any Adderley box ... I don't think Concord/Fantasy and Universal proper recordings were ever mixed on any of those albums box sets. felser, I assume the ones you meant were the French complete masters, of which five were released: Bechet, Armstrong, Parker, Holiday, Fitzgerald ... the ones I had in mind were the Italian ones, which mostly stem from Fantasy holdings, like the Complete Prestige Albums by Coltrane, Rollins, Dolphy, Miles, the Complete Riverside Albums by Monk, Evans etc. (those are not reissues of the previous US box-sets, but instead the just contain the actual leader albums, so the 8CD Rollins set misses quite a few things compared to the previous 7CD Rollins Complete Prestige Recordings set) ... but they also re-did the "Early Ellington" 3CD set, the Brownie EmArcy box, the Bird and JATP Verve boxes and some more.

Universal is doing some similar sets, but it seems they all come out of Italy (and they include Concord/Fantasy material, as Universal is their distributor in Euorope). Seems like those have all been EU public domain type of material, haven't they? I have the Parker, am aware of the Fitzgerald and a couple of others. Yes, I guess so. There are sets by Billie Holiday, Clifford Brown and others ... in classical they do some non-PD stuff, too.

Universal is doing some similar sets, but it seems they all come out of Italy (and they include Concord/Fantasy material, as Universal is their distributor in Euorope).

uhm, looks like "no linking of pics allowed"

Oh, I'd LOVE that Capitol box! Can't keep up the pace with the japanese reissues of those, but at least go some .... but a few seem to be real rare and out only in blogosphere, if at all ... who owns the EMI jazz catalogue now, Universal? Does that include all the other "holdings" (Capitol, Blue Note, United Artists, Roulette, Roost, Colpix, FM, etc)? Guess with Universal there's less of a chance than there'd have been with Sony, but still ... nice idea for sure! And yeah, I'm really looking forward to exploring the Hancock box. I know a mere six albums so far. Hope I can indeed pick it up tomorrow afternoon!

each time I see this thread title pop up I have notions of some sect finding the state of Universal Pure Audio, whatever that is (probably has to do with light, too)

Yes, it's there (disc 20). Full info here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=45750#.UojwAFywWu0 Albums in the box: 1. Sextant (1973) 2. Head Hunters (1973) 3. Dedication (1974)* 4. Thrust (1974) 5. Death Wish /OST (1974) 6. Flood (1975)* 7. Man-Child (1975) 8. Secrets (1976) 9. V.S.O.P. (1976 – 2CDs ) 10. Herbie Hancock Trio (1977)* 11. V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977) 12. V.S.O.P.: Tempest In The Colosseum (1977)* 13. An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea (1978 – 2 CDs) 14. Sunlight (1978) 15. Feets Don’t Fail Me Now (1978) 16. Direct Step (1978)* 17. The Piano (1978) 18. V.S.O.P.: Live Under The Sky (1979 – 2 CDs) 19. V.S.O.P.: Five Stars (1979)* 20. Butterfly w/ Kimiko Kasai (1979)* 21. Monster (1980) 22. Mr. Hands (1980) 23. Magic Windows (1981) 24. Herbie Hancock Trio w/ Ron Carter + Tony Williams (1981)* 25. Herbie Hancock Quartet (1981) 26. Lite Me Up (1982) 27. Future Shock (1983) 28. Sound-System (1984) 29. Village Life (1984) 30. Round Midnight / OST (1985) 31. Perfect Machine (1988) * First time on CD outside of Japan. taken from here: http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/herbie-hancock-the-complete-columbia-album-collection-1972-88/

Listening to the Harnoncourt "Creation" right now ... starts out wonderfully! Guess, I too am more partial to this piece than to "The Seasons", after all. Here are a pair of reviews: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Mar04/Haydn_creation.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/hpvr (For a negative one, go to allmusic - but not, frankly, one I'd pay much attention to, as it doesn't bother to go into much detail beyond the harsh putting down.)