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Great track, but it's 13:19. How about "Marchin' Along" (17:40) from Tiny Grimes and Hawkins' "Blues Groove"? Never let it be said that Bean couldn't play the blues -- at least eventually. In case Grimes is not to your taste, Hawkins' epic solo begins at the 8:26 mark and lasts roughly 5:40. Oh yes, great track!

cheers! Now back on topic ... don't think Art Pepper has been mentioned? Plenty of long tunes I love in his late recordings, but I can't nominate any favourites, would have to return to the music first ... but I do remember some particularly good stuff on the Ronnie Scott's sessions that Laurie put out (the "Blues for the Fisherman" tapes). And another bit of hard-to-believe wonder: the twenty or so minutes track featuring Albert Ayler with the 1962 Cecil Taylor trio (Lyons/Murray) from the "Holy Ghost" box!

So you found it, the quadrature of the circle!

I guess I'll go for the Perlman, Stern and Zukerman ... will have to investigate Kapell ... and if I ever want to dig into more Schönberg, give some thought. I assume the Boulez/Schönberg is a repacking of these two (of which Vol. I is OOP and expansive): http://www.amazon.de/Pierre-Boulez-Edition-Schönberg-I/dp/B002N2NDY8/ http://www.amazon.de/Pierre-Boulez-Edition-Schönberg-II/dp/B002N2NDYS/ Readable back-covers: Would those have contained texts?

more upcoming Sony/BMG sets: http://www.amazon.de/Colin-Davis-Conducts-Sibelius/dp/B00AK3X33I/ http://www.amazon.de/Yo-Yo-Plays-Concertos-Sonatas-Suites/dp/B00AK3X306/ http://www.amazon.de/Evgeny-Kissin-Plays-Chopin/dp/B00AK3X3LK/ http://www.amazon.de/Isaac-Stern-Plays-Mozart/dp/B00AL6SN5W/ http://www.amazon.de/Pinchas-Zukerman-Beethoven-Violin-Sonatas/dp/B00AL6SMX0/

I guess just about everything that came to mind has been mentioned ... took me a while to dig "Tanya" btw! One more that I love (the CD version, which I think is a bit longer?): Miles Davis - Circle in the Round Also some of Miles' 1960 tour tracks run for a while ... "All Blues" from Zurich (the recent TCB disc is terrific, as I already mentioned twice or thrice) is a favourite track of mine. About Prestige ... there's some great funky stuff on those two dates Red Garland led with Trane and Byrd - I love it! Same goes for much of Ammons' jam material. Same goes, btw, for plenty of JATP material, which some may find bullshit (which others, including me, will then call bullshit in return).

I got an email from DMG about a few copies of a Paul Dunmall/FMR 49 CD + 1 DVD set!!! Well, let's hope the per-disc-price is somewhat below the NYAQ set ...

Thanks a lot indeed for sharing these memories!

Yes -- alternate takes. Thanks, guess I will buy again then!

Do you know if it will contain anything not on the LP?

(just got a mail from Mosaic ... seems I finally made it back onto their email list, yowzah!)

Thought pre-orders were taken until end of January only? Anyway, can't wait for this!

Well, I paid 36€ for it, all included - which is fine for a hardcover book of such size! But it seems the prices have gone up (I got mine from amazon.fr, which lists it at 51€ now) and/or the book went out of stock too. Best price seems to be 43€ at amazon.de but it's out of stock there, so ... anyway, glad to have a hardcopy of it, even more so since the kindle edition costs a whopping 32€ as well! (Now that IS crazy in my book!)

Yep, the Merrill is amazing in my book. Just so is the Sassy. The Dinah material is a bit wandering in my book, jam sessions, so that doesn't come unexpected. Still good. Good to see these sessions back in an official way, the shelves were flooded recently with crappy boots of this material over here, it seems!

It's on a different label, but "Octet Plays Trane" is also really good, if more straightahead than the 80s albums. That one bothers me, I can't really express it, just mentioned it a week or so ago in the "what am I listening to right now" thread: Can't put it much better, I'm afraid ... I just don't fully connect with it, even though parts or it are wonderful.

Price shouldn't be high, I guess ... but as brownie said: yes!

Yep, I know they're "real" musicians of course! But I think at least of them had a job as a technician at Swiss Radio - that's what I remember from some summer series when in half-hour broadcasts Swiss jazz classics were presented sometime in the mid nineties ... they broadcast an hour or so of Jazz Live Trio tracks with plenty of guests (Tony Scott was among them, singing "Lush Life" - now on Vol. 21 of the series!). They mentioned that back then, so forgive me if my memory has played some tricks with me since that's been a while! I should have chosen my words with a bit more caution though, making clear that these chaps were musicians with day jobs, not the other way 'round!

Congratulations and all the best, Colin!

I don't have a low opinion of Sanders there ... it's just that Trane is so darn amazing. His range, his control, the emotions - Sanders screams like sh*t and gets nowhere near as close to the emotion that Trane is able to convey. It's not fair game, of course, I guess nearly all of the young avantgarde players back then would have sounded pretty much alike next to Trane. Btw, that should have read "a bit less" in the post above on the Mosaic box - and was related to the 100$ price for their various 4LP boxes. But I see they're having a 3LP set on offer and are charging nearly the same amout (90$) for that.

the Antibes shows for now

:tup He makes Sanders look like a schoolboy in short trousers, he's so much better, truly worlds apart! VV Again is one of those Trane albums I took a longtime first to buy (I've had the LP borrowed from a highschool teacher once and gave it some spins, made me a K7 copy of it, but didn't return to it often) and then took a while to appreciate. I enjoy Garrison in general, less so Sanders, but the whole album is still very, very good in my book - and Trane is great on it!

The Barbirolli is much cheaper on amazon.fr and even cheaper on amazon.es http://www.amazon.es/Great-Emi-Recordings-John-Barbirolli/dp/B0031IHBCS Don't have it myself ... been considering it though.

catching up on some "Swiss Radio Days Series" releases from the past two or so years ... this one is in the player and I'm just repeating for the second time the final "All Blues": Sounds is very good here, clearly better than any other version I've heard ... I've got the Jazz Unlimited disc somewhere, might do a straight comparison, but from memory it sounds much duller and less clean, you can really hear the whole band, including bass and all of Jimmy Cobb's drum parts. In this clear new sound, I love it even more! MIght be mellower than Paris, and it's shorter than both Stockholm and Paris ... the audience seems to enjoy it (or at least stay quiet if they don't), there's none of that near-riotous, extremely tense atmosphere of the Paris concert, that might have inspired Trane even more, but restrained Miles, I think - his solo in "All Blues" here is just terrific, he takes tons of times, solos in a way that might just as well suite lush Gil Evans backings, but here it's just the bare-bones of his very, very fine rhythm section. Cobb is very busy, kicking, dropping bombs, but still very fluid, doing that light cymbal thing that seems to foreshadow some of Tony Williams' later playing with Miles ... and Coltrane is in great form throughout, starting with a terrific solo in the opening "If I Were a Bell" ... but I guess you all know the music well. Still, this most recent edition is most welcome. Sound quality makes me readily believe what it says on the cover (I've always had doubts about Jazz Unlimited, no matter it being a sublabel of Storyville).

Thanks for the report. My book arrived a few days back but went straight to the shelf as I have no time (and half a dozen other jazz books I feel like reading first, waiting in the shelf, too). Sounds good enough to me, don't think the academic part will bother me too much. Got to get the CD now, as well!

3LP Set, so a big less pricey, I guess ... might indeed be very tempting to get this! I was posting from my smartphone before, don't quite know how to copy/paste there, so here's the quote from David Wild's mail: