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Just checked mine (Verve Originals, 2008, seems to be a US copy as it has all the FBI crap printed all over) - the noise instability goes on for quite a bit longer, 20 or so seconds. No need to get a new copy, Guy! But too bad they couldn't fix it. However, as Big Beat Steve says, it's really hard to tell if it's a reed (too much saliva) issue or an audio issue - but brownie's post and my ears suggest it's indeed the later!

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... but, he asks, stepping awkwardly onto foreign grounds, where's "Natural Essence"? and then he's gone again ...

Hm, to be honest I find "On Broadway" one of the weakest of the many Prestige releases from those years ... as I have it and "Today and Now", I will certainly not downgrade by going Fresh Sound anyway.

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previous thread (discussing not necessarily the Mosaic LP version):

Happy Birthday, Claude!

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I've not ordered it yet, but plan to do so soon!

Oh, I love the spaghetti harvest one! Those were the days when lots of Italian "workers" came to Switzerland as so-called "saisonniers", meaning they were allowed in for eight or nine months per year (and not allowed to bring family with them). Once the Swiss realized that most of these Italians were even squarer in many respects than they themselves, that started - very slowly - to change ... when I was a kid, Italians were still called "tschingge" (derived from cinque which seems to be some exclamation made in some game?) ... but then the mess in Yugoslavia started, Tamilian fugitives came here in big numbers and most Italians had actually long since became part of society anyway, so ... but yeah, the spaghetti ... I grew up on pasta (not potatoes, which would be - or would have been - more regular) and always loved Italian food. You can get good Italian food all over Zurich (and I guess in most other places in Switzerland, too, even though by now the folks in the kitchen might be Turks or Tamilians or Vietnamese).

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Speaking of taxes ... got to download the form and fill it in tomorrow, I'm afraid. Damn! Not looking forward to the day when they'll send me the bill!

Oh, sorry, I'm mixing it up ... with the Fats/Hawk date on Pablo (which came out later). Not sure I have the 1951 one - I'd have loved a second Verve box since all these recordings are such a messy affair. I'm really pretty clueless about what's around from the fifties, and somewhat weary of all the boots popping up in addition to the material previously out on Verve.

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No - the Verve was out way before that Pablo, I think - and the Verve cuts off in 1949 (adding some 1952 or 1953 bonus - I don't have it at hand, sorry). That 1951 disc is of course essential!

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That's some nice music, of course ... but I'd really rather be in to hear some trainwrecks (or to get a CD or LP reissue of Tyrone Washington's real one!) than to buy this stuff again. As for the cover: the type used is definitely wrong for the period. To me it looks like a re-creation of the (good!) Roques sleeves of roughly ten years back. Re-creation of re-creation ... true post-modernism, only a couple o'decades late

I've got the four disc Membran here (and have an inlay with info handy if anyone needs it): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-The-Philharmonic-Various-Artists/dp/B002PDB9QO/ Crappy design as usual, and it's missing plenty of tracks, too ... but still nice to have. As for the 10CD set: the Verve one had lots of previously unissued tracks that are hence PD only fifty (or seventy or Disney-Cliff-Maccartny) years after the release of the Verve box ... not sure if Membran is bothered by that, but that may explain some differences?

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Yes, that's what Universal (who is distributing Fantasy/Concord over here) is doing ... there's loads of OJCs and Pablo discs in circulation again (or there was, maybe it was just one flood that is by now slowly ebbing off again?). Amazon.it has tons of them in the 4-6€ range, worth looking if you missed them. They look like regular OJCCDs but have the catalogue numbers changed (quite cheaply done on a computer, it seems) ... but they're the real deal and not Spanish vinyl or whatever rips. These boxes fall into the same category, obviously. And there's no reason they shouldn't be doing this, as in fact this should always be first choice before looking to Fresh Sound or Lone Hill or any of those. The bad thing is there seems to be no really good website where you can look for what should be around. jazzecho.de had some of the single discs listed, you can also try your luck here: http://www.universalmusic.it/jazz/artisti/ And using that Universal Italy site, I find some other new re-issues of box-sets: Miles Davis - Steamin' workin' relaxin' cookin'. Remastered 2012 Concord Music Group Bill Evans - The Village Vanguard recordings '61 2012 Concord Music Group Also one by Booker T. & The MG's that's of course not jazz, but darn great: Booker T. & The MG's - Time is tight 2012 Concord Music Group