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No idea, but I'm sure they're all covered in nicer PD boxes anyway ... I really hate those cheapo "classic" albums sets, forgive my grumpiness.

seems so, look here: http://ayler.co.uk/html/ghosts.html very good album, but I prefer Hilversum - which I've known longer, that one just has a very special feeling to my ears ...

Wow, that's amazing! 7500 Art Hodes boxes, that's a pretty big edition, wouldn't have expected more than 3500 or 5000 for that one! But then I guess traditional jazz still has a rather broad fanbase ... 60$, damn! I'd pay that for each of the four CDs and still consider that a pretty good price!

Not hip to the new Bradford/Carter, but looking forward a lot. But just a quick shout out to Jonathan regarding the Clare Fischer, which I finally got: excellent! I didn't quite know what to expect (although I have "Thesaurus" and the early trios on the Mosaic Select) and I was *very* surprised in a decidedly good way!

I'm not sure about that - the fact that the booklets only reflect the LP configuration and that there was an additional loose page of paper inserted for the CD versions made me think it may have been like that.

The Monk is much cheaper over here: www.amazon.it/gp/aw/d/B003V1ARGC/

That one wasn't re-done on CD at all, I think. Probably they didn't expect it to sell... Btw, how did that work with those sets that were (later?) re-done on CD (with those insert pages with adapted tracklists)? Were they planned from day one and part of the total edition or did the expand the editions in those cases?

Yep - it used to be much more expensive, it seems. The live one can be had on ebay for 300$ or even less nowadays - but I was glad not to have paid the usurious US shipping costs and not to have any transatlantic delivery involved. It got here in less than a week ... and I'm really happy now! I struck lucky with at least one more Mosaic box from Birka, can't find any mails about it, but it was one of the old-timey BNs ... I'm quite well-equipped with those in the meantime, having found vinyl of the Ammons/Lewis and CD of the Bechet, the George Lewis and the Hall/Johnson etc. I would *almost* kill for the Art Hodes though!

I snatched up a copy for sale on birka jazz, stumbled over it by chance and just had to go for it! Guess around 400 $ is an okay price, too ... but cheap it ain't. Anyway, I really did want this badly and I'm most happy about it!

Yowzah! Got my Basie Roulette Studio box today! Playing discs one and two now and enjoying the sh*t out of finally owning this great box for real!

Happy Birthday!

Yup. And that spanish label is of course just one (or various) shady PD reissues. It was on United Artists originally and EMI Japan did a nice reissue in 2011 or 2012 (which is PD as well, but I guess about as close to the original master tapes and stuff that you'll get).

I had a good laugh when I got to that point in the scam letter!

Yes indeed, she seems to have been an important teacher to many. Here's part of a blog entry by Dave Douglas:

Very sad! Saw her live once with Maria Schneider's big band and enjoyed her contributions on Schneider's albums, too.

Sheesh, you didn't take any photos, did you?

And the bands, while being dubbed with the same name, were completely different, too ... both have nice moments but are pretty inessential, I think.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Agustín!

Gee, you're even grumpier than me!

Nah, just having some fun Seriously: it disturbs me more in museums than in concerts, though professional photographers in concerts can be a very obnoxious bunch (and having the entire thing filmed by various cameras - and even better if they drench the whole darned stage into blue light for later TV presentation - is a major nuisance and should be announced beforehand, since I would very likely not attend any such concert). I guess we're in the age where it does not count what you know and what you actually have done and seen in your life - rather it's all about "I know where I can find any information (not knowledge, mind me!) at any given time at any given place in orbit" and about "look world, I've been there, ain't I cool?" - the photo-mania to me is but an expression of that mentality, which is very alien to me. Call me a renaissance man

whose ashes? well, r.i.p.

Oh, I've had Mobley's "Slice" here for a few years ... but it's the last one I don't know. Can't yet bring myself to listen to it. No more new Mobley to discover after it - that will be a very sad day.

Alex Jarrett? Too many assholes with cameras wherever at cultural events - they turned viral long ago. When have you been to a museum last where people actually were looking at the pictures or sculptures or artificialised crapola, instead of just taking pictures? I don't understand that mindset at all - you miss the entire magic of the moment ... by preserving it for eternity (or rather until the memory card breaks or the hard drive goes amiss) ... and you'll never, ever, revisit those thousands and thousands of photos anyway ... and yeah, you're annoying those that don't want you to take all those pictures, so bugger off and eat your cameras or stick them someplace else, please.

Wow, I guess I'll jump in on this!