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Have you already heard it? If that's indeed so, the news is all the better! He's heard for too short a time on most studio cuts, but time restrictments wouldn't apply live, so yeah ... sounds great!

it's the same recording as on the Owl one ("African Nite"), but Owl sounds much better. Thanks for confirming ... I'd often wondered how that might have ended up on both these labels, anyone knows the story behind it?

The Komeda was the first that I put on ... some warble, some digital treatment issues (like weird circling cymbals), but to my ears very listenable - and I guess for stuff of that vintage and that origin, it's really pretty good! Also played Vol. 3 after that, the Milian track is gorgeous (Gerswhin's "Soon"), too bad there's just one! And the two Brüel/Tchicai tracks are great, both Monk tunes (Blue Monk, Well You Needn't) and both 10-11 minutes, with Brüel playing soprano on the second (bari on the first) and Tchicai on alto (well, I assume it's him on alto on both).

This is very cool news! Not sure though why Parker gets co-billing when this is the regular Illinois Jacquet working band of that time.

Yes, got Vols. 3-8 - plan to get Vols. 1 and 2 as well, eventually, not sure about Vol. 9, though Nicholas and Mangelsdorff might be worth and these discs are so cheap ...

links, just in case: http://sklep.polskieradio.pl/Category/76-jazz.aspx?PageIndex=2 http://sklep.polskieradio.pl/Category/76-jazz.aspx?PageIndex=3 http://merlin.pl/muzyka/jazz-polski-jazz/browse/category/4,11426.html (do some searching ... they don't seem to have Vol. 9 which is why I was unaware of its existence until right now) Oh, and Max Brüel is smokin' "Blue Monk"! Waitin' for Tchicai now ...

Seems this is a new series .... stumbled over it when looking in the internets for some Komeda a few weeks back ... sent in an order (for Vols. 3-8) then with a vendor called merlin.pl (using google translate) - and just picked up my package at the post office and popped in some of the music (first the Komeda disc, now Vol. 3, the first of two with music from the 1962 Jazz Jamboree). Very nice! Vol. 1 - Stan Getz with the Andrzej Trzaskowski Trio, rec. 1960 it seems Stan Getz – saksofon tenorowy, Andrzej Trzaskowski – fortepian, Roman Dyląg – kontrabas, Andrzej Dąbrowski – perkusja. Vol. 2 - Don Ellis with the Wojciech Karolak Trio, rec. at the 1962 Jazz Jamboree Don Ellis – trumpet Wojciech Karolak – piano Roman Dyląg - bass Andrzej Dąbrowski - drums Vol. 3 - Jazz Jamboree '62 Eje Thelin Quintet ( Eje Thelin-trombone, Ulf Andersson –sax, Goran Lindberg – piano, Bjorn Alke –bass, Rune Carlsson –drums) Don Ellis / Wojciech Karolak Trio (Wojciech Karolak – piano, Roman „Gucio” Dyląg –bass, Andrzej Dąbrowski – drums)* Jazz Fraktionen (John Tchicai –sax alt, Max Bruel –sax baritone, Niels Bronsted –piano, Bjorn Alke-bass, Rune Carlsson- drums,) Jerzy Milian Ensamble (Jerzy Milian – vibraphone, Wojciech Lechowski –guitar, Krzysztof Komeda-Trzciński-piano, Tadeusz Wójcik – bass, Leszek Dudziak-drums,) Louis Hjulmand / Wojciech Karolak Trio (Louis Hjulmand –vibraphone, Wojciech Karolak-piano, Roman “Gucio” Dyląg-bass, Andrzej Dąbrowski –drums) *) the one Ellis/Karolak track here seems to be an alternate version of one title also on Vol. 2 (which I don't have yet) Vol. 4 - Komeda Recordings from 1957 (with a sextet plus third streamish arrangements adding english and french horn), a quartet cut (with perc added) from 1959, Bernt Rosengren with Komeda's trio in 1961 doing two short cuts from "Knife in te Water" at the 1961 Jazz Jamboree and "Ballad for Bernt" at the radio studio, and finally half an hour in trio from the 1962 Jazz Jamboree (with Roman Dylag and Rune Carlson) Vol. 5 - Andrzej Trzaskowski This contains two 1962 dates, both in quintet with Zbigniew Namyslowski (as), Michal Urbaniak (ts) as well as trio cuts with various bassists and drummers ... the first half is from the 1962 Jazz Jamboree again, the second was recorded in the radio studio and features a variety of "covers" such as "Saint Vitus Dance", "Sack o' Woe", "Hi-Fly", "Minority" ... Vol. 6 - Jazz Jamboree '62, Volume 02 Kwintetu Andrzeja Kurylewicza, tria węgierskiego pianisty Atilli Garaya z czeskim basistą Janem Arnetem i Andrzejem Zielińskim na perkusji, dwa wokalne standardy zaśpiewane przez Wandę Warską z towarzyszeniem Tria Wojciecha Karolaka, gdańskiego BigBandu Jana Tomaszewskiego, Swingtetu Jerzego Matuszkiewicza, jak również wulkanu energiiNew Orleans Stompers i radzieckiego Vadim Sakun Sekstet . Not too many well-known names here ... but Jan Wróblewski is featured on the 13 minute track by Kurylewicz' Quintet (the leader on trumpet here), Wanda Warska does two songs ("Ill Wind" and "Time After Time") ... for that alone, I guess, the disc should be worth getting (I'll soon know). Vol. 7 - Arrival in Poland As the title says, this is a compilation with performances from various visitors ... for starters, there's four titles by Bernt Rosengren with the perennial favourite Ianci/Jancy/Iansci Körössy (the man with many names), followed by three Körössy trio titles, all from 1961. From the same year, there's one short track by the Lasse Lystedt Quintet (no personel given there, I don't even know the leader), then there are three by the Lars/Lasse Werner Trio, and finally one by a singer called Nora Brocksted doing "Love for Sale" with the Polish radio Orchestra (that last one's from 1962). Vol. 8 - Standards Another compilation here ... Trzaskowskis Quintet (with Namyslowski and Urbaniak) doing "Vierd Blues" by Miles, then The Jazz Rockers (Namyslowsky and Urbaniak with another rhythm section) doing more jazz originals like "Moment's Notice", "Horace-Scope", "Split Kick", "Sack o' Woe", as well as "Lover Man", "Yestedays" and more. Then there's Jerzy Milian doing a short "Solitude", and finally Andrzej Kuryelwicz (again on trumpet) with his group featuring Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski on tenor, doing three standards. These recordings again stem from 1961/62 and were recorded by Polish Radio in Warsaw, Poznan and Krakow. Vol. 9 - Swing, Dixi & Rag This one I hadn't even seen before just now ... it features Albert Nicholas, Emil Mangelsdorff's Swingtet, Dudus Matusziewitz and others ... mostly unfamiliar stuff, but I might go for it eventually, too. Seems the entire series is brand new, all discs give the (P) and © year as 2013. They don't (yet?) turn up on any yurpeen amazon sites or any such, but the cost per disc being 5-6 € when ordering from Poland (from merlin.pl or also from the shop of Polish Radio, though I did the former, as I said), the prices aren't getting steep even with shipping, at least inside ol' yurp.

No, according to the latest CAM mail (sometime this week, I've already deleted it), they're already out. They're also listed on their site now: http://www.camjazz.com/boxsets.html/ And amazon.fr is selling them now.

bump - four days to go!

I've locked my clouds away Seriously: reliabilty and safety (or: privacy) are two *very* different things!

European Amazons says "Sunnyside commu" (nist?), but since I found out about it in the newsletter of German Universal, I guess it's Universal.

The cloud actually violates itself ... it's pretty perverted really, should be forbidden on moral grounds. What does that mean? MG Probably nothing much ... Just that I think any thought of any cloud being safe is moronic, ultimately. (But maybe, so am I.)

It's already on order! And just for the case I ever want to listen to the two later albums, I can even justify keeping the Original Album Classics set, too

Details can be found here: http://www.deccaclassics.com/en/cat/4784271 Szeryng recorded K 364 with Gibson and the New Philharmonia Orchestra as well, with Bruno Giuranna on viola. Anyway, with free shipping and VAT deducted, this is an offer I can't let go.

The cloud actually violates itself ... it's pretty perverted really, should be forbidden on moral grounds.

prolly but a glitch, so act fast: 8.23 € on amazon.de I've got the Szeryng on vinyl and it's great! Too bad the Sinfonia concertante in the above box seems not to be his ...

Oh, thanks! That does sound good! Guess I got to re-buy ... third time for "Bird" and "Flame", second time for the rest ...

Oh, wow, wasn't aware of the Mahavishnu ... I got the Original Album Classics box just before the very much nicer one from Popmarket/Legacy came out though ... ah man, stuff like that does suck! Got to find out what that Mahavishnu material is ... And yes, as I've said before, I'd get a new remaster of Big Band & Quartet, too! But I'm less sure about any box ... didn't go for the Monk box with the quartet albums as I've got all the Legacy reissues of those studio albums.

Yes indeed, very!

New duo album coming out, by Randy Weston & Billy Harper: http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Blues-Randy-Weston-Harper/dp/B00FCAK1WU/ Mostly Weston originals and a few standards, it seems - a dozen duets and two solos (I'd guess one each, but what do I know ... all I've read is a german-language promo-blurb)

Here's the allmusic biography, seems indeed basically the same: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/louis-smith-mn0000420728/biography

Is the Mosaic more complete than the Legacy 2CD set? Not sure I'm in the market for any Monk box unless it contains substantial new stuff (which I doubt to exist ... that is unless they unearth some treasures ... but all those albums boxes usually are on the rather cheap side, so why would they go stretches, probably the would even bother to remaster "Big Band and Quartet in Concert").

Okay, thanks! This is the AMG biography, I assume? (Mentioning the UA Little disc is a bit of a stretch there!) So that would suggest the movement was Transition to BN, but BN had little interest (besides the one not previously released Louis Smith LP) and the stuff lay there for all those years, until the brown bags and some others started using it?

Lester Young - Complete Verve box (does the Holiday include an actual interview or just that rehearsal disc? I usually just get out some of the music - the dates with Webster, Edison, Rowles, or the ones with Shavers etc.)