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Yeah, that would open a whole new bag of possible sets if it wasn't a one-off. And as for Shaw, his Muse albums include several of his very best. Struggled to find all the 32 Jazz reissues ten or twelve years back when they were just disappearing.

(Which of the rumbling rhinos in your avatar is Billie?)

SAL to Switzerland, three discs in the cart ... try it! Must be some "non EU" crap or some such. Oops - I must have mixed up the total shipping and total order costs! Phew! Okay, consider CDJapan a *very* dangerous site now!

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Is there any better source than CDJapan to have discs sent to Europe? Nearly 40$ for shipping three discs that cost less than 30$ is bit crazy - I could only order two at a time to evade custom fees and tax. Dustygroove seems not to carry them ... or at least not the one from 2012 I just looked up. Guess using re-sellers on amazon.fr is the way to go, as so often for Japanese discs. And yes, alas they left off the medley - too bad, I'd have loved to hear it, but it shan't be then. I also have the LP of "Off the Top" and am not willing to spend any more money on that.

Fondly remember seeing Bradford in concert -- with the wild bunch that is Frode Gjerstad's "Circulasione Totale" gang no less. He remained seated, quiet, amongst the youngers standing in a semi circle spread across the stage ... whenever he played though, his tone was ringing clear, projecting, and cutting through whatever was going on around him. Wonderful!

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"Off the Top" was also in the "piano key" edition of Rhino's ("Atlantic [or whatever] Jazz Masters", in this case "Elektra", I assume), and that edition included all but the piano medley of the other JOS Elektra album. Very good reissue, in my opinion (JOS and Griffin!) Thanks a lot for putting together these lists - I slept on this series and I guess it's too late to find some of these reissues. But with plenty of them, I'm happy with whatever editions I have (Koch, Collectables, some vinyl, both generations of Atlantic digipacks - the later of those included other Warner labels, too, I think - and those Rhino reissues I just mentioned). But there are some things I never came around to find (the Owens/Barron, for instance - fine one! never owned a hard copy of it, though) and this edition would certainly be the best choice if they can be found!

(I'm doing my best not to be offended by the comparison of Masters of Jazz with Proper )

Good to hear, BeBop!

Didn't know that! Masters of Jazz, one of those abominable euro-pd labels (huh, really? all of 'em?), got about halfway there. (typo edited)

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I don't know that work too well but feel like if it had the Mosaic treatment, I'd learn it. Or whatever part of it I could learn. Believe me, that Hamilton group is worth learning. Seriously underrated. I do tend to agree ... but some of it is sketchy and smartass overproduced, I think. The best of it is darn good, though ... Bohanon, Lloyd, Szabo, Stinson - that was a great band! Actually my mom's UK (I think) edition of "Passin' Thru" was the very first Chico I ever heard (and I think amongst my very first jazz experiences as a listener). There's also the Columbia "Drumfusion" which belongs with the first of the Impulses. Another nice idea would have been a Select with all the Dolphy material. Sketchy too, and too many short tunes with no real room for blowing, but the best of it is mighty good, and most of it is at least interesting.

Yes! A third Hodges would be amazing (though I misses the first, but still...)

Which McMaster are you referring to? McMaster is not credited on the 1989 CD reissue, Malcolm Addey is. Yep, that one! Thought "McMaster" was synonymous with all 1987-1989 Blue Note reissues

Well sorry for that, blame my smartphone And some pints of Guinness, too ... And now, one more once, pop goes the weasel, read yo' Derrida, and I'm off, heading for me kingdom, which is - a bed.

Hard to fault the majors when, to take one example, you can get 8 Three Sounds albums for $11. There's no way a legit company could compete with that. Well yes, maybe - but they had plenty of time ... it's not that I endorse the cheapo labels at all - far from, actually, but it's all following capitalist logic, I'm afraid. Hard to fault the majors when, to take one example, you can get 8 Three Sounds albums for $11. There's no way a legit company could compete with that. Well yes, maybe - but they had plenty of time ... it's not that I endorse the cheapo labels at all - far from, actually, but it's all following capitalist logic, I'm afraid. Hard to fault the majors when, to take one example, you can get 8 Three Sounds albums for $11. There's no way a legit company could compete with that. Well yes, maybe - but they had plenty of time ... it's not that I endorse the cheapo labels at all - far from, actually, but it's all following capitalist logic, I'm afraid. Hard to fault the majors when, to take one example, you can get 8 Three Sounds albums for $11. There's no way a legit company could compete with that. Well yes, maybe - but they had plenty of time ... it's not that I endorse the cheapo labels at all - far from, actually, but it's all following capitalist logic, I'm afraid.

Blaming the law is one option, blaming the majors another.

I hear you, but I would definitely not throw the JSP Waller in with Lonehill et.al.

Not sure what you guys are talking of here, but "Total Eclipse" is a fine album and ought to be heard in some form. I was overjoyed to be able to pick up a copy of the McMaster a few years ago, at a decent price - and frankly with my lo-fi ears, I've never thought much about its sound.

The Jacquet has mostly been taken care of by Lonehill, four single discs, for their standards very nicely done. Too much Rogers out on Fresh Sound, I guess ... I'd very much welcome a second volume from JSP, though! Speaking of JSP, I know Mosaic's presentation is a thousand times nicer, but JSP did a great job on Fats Waller, no need (and totally unfeasible) for Mosaic to touch that. No real need for either, is there? All individual albums are or were available forever or nearly. Those would be ones I'd be hard-pressed to decide ... but I'd definitely not need them. The late BNs by Shorter though would have made a nice Select, and they're rather scarce, too (I still don't have "Odyssey of Iska" as any type of hard copy).

just that my fairly big order is aleady here ... will see if I put in another one, but that wasn't actually the plan

too late But I'm almost through with the Ted Daniel - and that one's mighty fine! Rather trippy, with thick rhodes (including wah-wah and echo-plex), beat isn't as important here as it was with Miles, the music sounds somewhat more open, but also, if that makes sense, somewhat more "flat"? I'm enjoying it immensely, for sure!

hey, ho - just in case someone's on the fence: that Nat Cole Transcriptions set is very good!

No major changes here ... other than me not listening to much jazz at all these days. I never pre-ordered any Mosaic, I was lagging behind ever since I found out about them, and it's still like that (I need among others the Mingus, the Hawkins, the Lunceford, the Hines, the Jamal, might get the MJQ, too ... and there are a few others). I love the Selects, too, and am sorry to see them go. Still need a few of them, too (the Booby, for one). As for the big ones, I endorse them doing more older jazz ... and - just thinking out loud: might that be a reason for changed perception? Since all the "cult" Blue Note material has come and gone and they're onto different things now, they don't have that magical BN aura around them any more much ...