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Wagner - The Great Operas of all the jubilee boxes, this one looks most interesting to me (though the DG includes all librettos - German versions only, as far as I understand) ... and amazon.it is offering it for a mere 32 euros right now: http://www.amazon.it/Great-Operas-Various-Artists/dp/B008YKRRJU/

Happy Birthday!

I never understood why they're asking for bread when they can have cake ...

I'd absolutely love that! But as it is now, I'm glad to see Rearward/Ishtar/whatevertheirname doing at least something (not too little, actually, but not nearly enough for the fan that is me!)

Is rischka a wrong spelling of riks(s)ha or what's that word supposed to mean?

well, there's plenty of banksters ...

Oh, good! I thought I had made that up and was getting unhinged

And if you find two of each, please think of me!

That was just about what I posted last night - but my post is nowhere to be seen .... weird. Fine band that left better documents than that album.

I always found that one a wee bit underwhelming ... the band was good, there's better material in circulation (no suave Slide though). To me, the album doesn't quite live up. But I agree it ought to have been in the Mosaic.

I've enjoyed his playing wherever I could get hold of him ... not too many discs around, but some listening versions and stuff (including "Notes from the Underground", time to resurrect the bytes). I think I first heard him on Stanko's "Litania", the great Komeda tribute on ECM. Next was probably his playing in Polanski's "Knife in the Water". Magic stuff! One I really enjoy, although it's got a rather bad rep (it IS noisy and dirty, but life is, too, so ...) is "Free Jam", the Ayler release of two discs worth of jams by Mongezi Feza and Rosengren's avantgarde jazz band of those days (early seventies):

Hadn't noticed he was sir-ed, too ... guess they're running out of classical conductors

Same here!

Sheesh, and I thought this was about a new Gerry Wiggins reissue ... or some such

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Can you put it on hold for me? I'll try and get in touch with that friend! Don't know the Prestige, but agree on the Debut, that's a great one! Good booklet, too! I got the Contemporary set around, but that one's not coming close (I even ordered that one twice by mistake, for 3€ or some similarly crazy price ten years ago, when that ZYX distribution deal over here ended and zweitausendeins.de - how useless they got! - had that unbelievable Fantasy sale going on).

I might know of someone interested in the Ayler box! Can you check about shipping costs to Europe? I guess it would end up around 100$, roughly?

I can givez you some Ambrosia if you givez me yourz credit card number

I've only got one - alas just the disc, not the booklet it was sold with: more details and full scans (7" scans by yours truly at the bottom) here: http://www.ayler.co.uk/html/iljazz.html

Oh, no, I never would! It's just that the packages were so outright ugly ... but I cherish the probably three dozen 32Jazz reissues I've amassed (most important being all the Sonny Stitts and the Shaws ... Camden jumped in to close the Stitt gap, luckily). Did anyone get in touch and ask Mosaic about the chances for other Muse sets? If I may dream for a second: a Complete Clifford Jordan/Cedar Walton would be da shit!

Cool beans! Congratulations!

I agree with many of the points the merikins made during the night ... the Berlin live set is fantastic indeed! Actually that 2CD-set (w/Iron Men on the other disc) was the frist I'd heard of Shaw's, back when I was familiar only with a few sideman recorings (the Larry Young one!), and probably just around the time I got the Mosaic (which took me a while to "get" - I've never been too much of a fan of album where line-ups are constantly jumbled around, though I've long since realized that's kind of silly, but each of us has his faults, dig?). And indeed, it's the pre-Columbia Muse albums that are the real deal! It's been quite a while, but I think I really enjoy the standards album with Walton from later on though. But in that category, it's really hard to beat "The Moontrane", "Love Dance", "Little Red's Fantasy", "Live at the Berliner Jazztage" ... and yeah, "Iron Man", too, though that's a different animal. Anyway, the Berlin album is terrific and an additional track from there, plus Fred rulz, plus the Mosaic quality package (as opposed to the Dorn crappity crap) might in the end just push me over, eventually. Hell, I have the Mosaic plus the recent albums collection from the Columbias (plus the CD and LP versions of "Setting Stones"), so why not duplicate the Muse material? (edit for typo)

Hm, I'm not that familiar with Muse, but I don't think I've ever seen additional/unissued material on any reissue. If there is some of that, I might be in for the Mosaic (if there's none, I might still be in ... depends, I guess, in various factors to be in action in the years to come ).