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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.)

same thing here ... but hey, the cover looks classy!

So how did the Louis Smith end up in BN's 1500 series, then? Different story alltogether from the UA acquisition of Transition?

But, but, Mayburn would be a most correct spelling ... there's so many spellings in english that don't make no sense anyway.

Don't give up on the Stuff Smith - it's essential listening! Truly a giant of our beloved music!

The album with Victor Feldman? I always found that a bit on the weak side, after all the fine groups before (Jaspar, Little ... then Flaganan Chambers Roach, the the two-brass band with Nat, the band with Clifford Jordan, Arthur Harper etc).

That window was closed a few hours after the above post. Not that I'd have been in, but I clicked the link and prices were up to the range you're mentioning already.

Does Kim Jong Something hide it?

Actually, it was described as "hidden". This thread has obviously run its course. Moderator, please close immediately! Hidee hi, hidee ho

No truer words could ever never be spoken. Truebladeeee, truebladaaaa, life goes oooon, ya!

Thanks for that, didn't know about the Colbeck - really too bad! As for the Threadgill ... not so sure it's such a great idea, I only got a copy of that disc last year (or the year before that) and it didn't seem too elusive. It's a fine album though, that's for sure!

Not sure ... hardly a musician can live from releasing CDs anyway, so why should that be an issue? People wouldn't spend 25 times more if they had more ways to find out, it would still only be the tiny top selling bunch that would actually earn much that way. Also, the information you're looking for is so hard to gather as there are hundreds and hundreds of labels ... and thousands of musicians who need a new disc every other year to get gigs and stuff (not that they earn money, often they actually pay for the disc - or get stacks of it as payment) but it's kind of a business card still, it seems (well, I can relate to that ... I preferrably buy physical product only, too ...)

The Pres was widely and in detail discussed in the Lester Young thread, beginning here: Not sure why that discussion has the disc qualify as "not mentioned"

Let us know what they ask for shipping if you do put in an order! And of course let us know if you find a better way to get it!

No they don't - I wanted to post that link first, but it says they only ship within Sweden.

this one might work: http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789173375603/jan-allan-minns-sitt-femtiotal/ english faq: http://www.bokus.com/cgi-bin/P_campaign_show.cgi?location=help_in-english

Just bought both Soul Notes (plus "Faces of Hope", too) from amazon.it - the real thing, and rather cheap. Not sure about shipping to the US. Also just bought "Les Trinitaires", went with some vendor, cost me a bit, but I think it's well worth it. Link to the Soul Notes on amazon.it (hope it works, straight one wouldn't even be displayed, for whatever reason): http://tinyurl.com/n5yfjur

The German label that nicely reissued "Alabama feeling" by arthur Doyle on lp a few years back had planned on reissuing the Black Unity lp but nothing ever materialized apparently due to objections from Abdul Wadud? I'm aware of their (past?) intentions yes, not sure how far they got and if there was an ultimate "no" though.