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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).

Happy Birthday!

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!

eggs? I'm more for:

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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

These will likely be similar to the previous Pres and JATP cheapo reissues ... didn't get them as I've got the old versions (same for these two coming ones), but they had cheaper packaging ... not sure how encompassing the booklets are, but while the JATP had a massive one in its original edition (but it still lacks a session-by-session commentary, which I'd have enjoyed!), the Pres a fairly big one wasting lots of space for fancy (and nice) design, the Parker and Brownie box don't have that big booklets, so they might be included again? Maybe someone here has the JATP or Pres boxes and can chime in? Just in case, here's a link for the JATP (long gone, it seems): http://www.amazon.it/Complete-Jazz-Philharmonic-Verve-1944/dp/B000FDDYQY/ And the Pres: http://www.amazon.it/The-Complete-Studio-Sessions-One/dp/B000PMFUSU/ Addition: since they're Universal Italy produced (or so it seems), they might be identical, package-wise, to the Universal sets of previous Fantasy boxes (i.e. Chet Baker on Riverside, Sonny Rollins on Prestige, Monk on Riverside etc.). The only one of those I ever got was the Rollins, which had a minimal booklet with a double page on each album, one side displaying the original front cover, the other listing all infos in the usual Fantasy/OJCCD style. No notes whatsoever.

Oh yes! I still remember the day I first heard that session on the Conn CD! Wonderful!

Yes, lots of love!

Since the thread starter here and another obnoxious character have single-handedly stopped all discussions in the politics forum, at least one section of the board needn't be marked as read all that often anymore

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Oh shit, that's sad! Got to dig up that LP of hers.

It's odd that that list didn't include 'What is this thing called soul' (Pablo), from the 1960 tour. Or 'Cannonball No 1' (Dobre) from 1969. Oh well. MG It's all there, just click onto the Paris concert and you'll see the various releases! EDIT I: err, make that: click on any of the three concerts ... guess since the entire venture is albums based and that wasn't the smartest option, it does make sense to group that material in a different way! EDIT II: Kind of weird to see that Laserlight put "Big Pee" (the only really missing track from the Fantasy releases, besides the cut out piano solo on the other version that is included - what was the matter there!?) in with the 1969 set: http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/916.htm