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Much too cumbersome to try and find any general Stan Getz thread (I think there's none or it was closed - there's a multi-page-thread on "where's the Stan Getz thread", so there's that) ... either way, this came out as part of the on-going "Live in Paris" collection by Frémeaux. Great series with releases by, among others, Duke Ellington, Les McCann, JATP, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk etc. - there's also a website that includes a few additional, DL only items (Lou Bennett Trio w/Klook and guest Barney Wilen - how's that for cool?!): http://www.live-in-paris.fr Latest in the series is a generously filled disc by Stan Getz, recorded mostly (#1-9) on January 3, 1959 at the Olympia Theater in Paris, the rest (#10-12) originating from a radio studio session ("probably first week of January 1959"). The band may be the best Getz had during his extended European sojourn of that time (he got married in Sweden, among other things, releases from the period include "Stan Getz at Large", "In Sweden 1958-60", "Live in Zurich", "Stan Getz at Nalen", "Stan Getz at Nalen - Featuring Jan Johansson", and "Polish Radio Jazz Archives 01 - Stan Getz & Andrzej Trzawskowski Trio"). Stan Getz (ts), Jimmy Gourley (g), Martial Solal (p), Pierre Michelot (b), Kenny Clarke (d) Solal gets several trio features, Gourley is providing some fine solos, so does the leader ... Klook, Michelot and Solal keep things very, very lively. Sound is pretty okay, some phasing issues on the cymbals here and there, but generally it's very listenable. And on top of all that, the French stage presenter announces "Miss Stan Getz" on tenor sax at the end of the opening "Cherokee" Repertoire is fairly standard, with Bop classics (Cherokee, 'Round Midnight, The Squirrel, Yardbird Suite) standards (All the Things You Are, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Tenderly, Too Marvelous for Words, Over the Rainbow) and a few other classics (Lover Man, Topsy).

I actually scored real CDs of several of the lower numbers, too (and I haven't forgot your help with several of these @brownie ) - but about four or five I've not (yet) attempted to find real ones (via Discogs would indeed be the best chance, I guess ... but then you'd have to rely on vendors being honest and knowledgeable enough). Two of the ones I've got are really weird, they look like a mix of CD and CD-R - the colour is less bluish/greenish than with the clearly-CD-R ones, and on the inner ring, there is the usual black serial number (CD-R), but then there is also printed stuff like the catalogue number (which would indicate CD) - I wonder if CD-R printers have become so good that they can reproduce all of that stuff (label, catalogue numbers etc.) by now?

First one seems to be more the bebop classics (mostly Bird-related), second one standards ... guess that could have been programmed differently, but I don't really mind. But the two takes of "Un poco loco" have me wonder if more material (alternate takes) have survived? There would have been plenty of additional space between the two CDs. One detail/inconsistency: in his liners, Pujol mentions the recordings being made on three consecutive days (July 19-21, 1966), but the info gives them as three days with the break of one day in between (July 18, 19 & 21, 1966). Either way: a major find!

Gave Vol. 2 a first spin last night ... it's as wonderful as Vol. 1 had me hope

('xept that Rava made most of his finest albums elsewhere ... and that ECM for Stanko and Wheeler is only half the story - but yeah, all three made wonderful - Stanko and Wheeler some outstanding - albums for the label)

Congrats! Good catch! The Lang/Venuti will be delivered tomorrow, I hope (or else picked up Wednesday at the post office as possibly no one will be home)!

Totally not how @Gheorghe describes it around here ... maybe the posh places that had Griffin and Foster and Moody while I was in my teens would have hosted elegantly dressed audiences - but I could not afford paying ~50€ per set in the mid/late 90s ... and to this day when I end up in such surroundings, I have a hunch that at least half of the crowd is there for the social event and/or for distinction - to be seen by whom they desire to be their kin. Real, dedicated jazz crowds frequenting the not-so-posh places too, will dress like Tony Makaby does on stage

Mosaic left this off a box they did (one of the Columbias ... Condon Mob?) because it was readily available when they put that set together. Well, by the point I got it, the CD was OOP and it took me a few attempts to get it, but it's gorgeous indeed! I could certainly do with a few more of his albums, though I have him as a soloist/sideman on countless earlier sessions (Condon et al.), so thanks for the recommendations!

He was a great musician ... love his existentialist trumpet stylings. Played "Leosia" last night in memory. Was lucky enough to catch the polish quartet in concert twice, and then saw him perform with Globe Unity at Jazzfest Berlin in November 2016 - he looked quite frail at that time, actually, and I was worrying ... but it seems he was touring again this spring? Not sure what the one favourite album would be, need I pick one. "Litania", his Komeda album discussed above, was my point of entrance when it came out (1997 I think), later on I started exploring his early stuff, too. There is "Astigmatic" of course, then the two first ones of his own albums on Muza, and there is the glorious Calig albu, too (not on CD as far as I know). Not too fond of the electric stuff that followed, but the long run on ECM is indeed pretty awesome, right down to "December Avenue", his last release.

Yes indeed, it's very good (though the "Frère Jacques" thingie is a bit of a strain on my nerves ... but the ole sir is enjoying himself, which is fine with me). He has an upcoming gig in Vienna in September it seems ... would love to catch him live, but I can't make that one. Too bad, really!

And myself, after chatting with @Alexander Hawkins a few months ago, I decided to check out Martha Argerich some more ... and indeed, even if some of that I hear is not exactly how I'd envision it or how I prefer to hear it from experience with other recordings, I'm quite stunned again and again! Played some Chopin first, including the 24 (plus 2) Préludes and the third sonata, and now the disc below.

No, it doesn't ... I've read only parts of it so far, but it's definitely worth it!

Not following this thread regularly these days ... but so glad to hear you enjoy Weissenberg! My entrance point was the EMI Icon box (which bears the utterly stoopid subtitle "The Champagne Pianist"), which is full of good stuff. I can very much relate to how you describe the Scarlatti, and I found it unexpectedly good (I was on the fence about buying this DG set for a long while, but I've been glad to have it for quite a while now! Of the three easy-to-obtain sets, I think I still prefer the ICON over the others (RCA and DG), but they're all worthwhile for sure. Speaking of Scarlatti, do you happen to have the big Aldo Ciccolini box @Alexander Hawkins? Not much Scarlatti in there, but the few sonatas I enjoyed a lot. Same in fact for Marcelle Meyer, who is a great champion of French repertoire, but some of the other stuff in the box containing her recordings (EMI, 17 discs - by now there's a rip-off on Documents/Membran) was surprisingly good I found - Scarlatti, and also some of the (limited) German repertoire (there's some Mozart I think, haven't played any from that box for quite a while).

René Thomas: http://thomasia.free.fr/discography.php Swedish Jazz Disography: http://old.visarkiv.se/jazzdisk_en.htm jazzdocumentation.ch has a few other items of interest, in addition to the Milt Buckner discography: http://jazzdocumentation.ch/index.html

Dick Hafer is on the Impulse! albums by Mingus - and makes good use of his spots to shine! Agreed on the Braff - nice one.

Skipped the EP twofer disc for custom/taxes/fees reasons only ... but looking forward to checking out your music! To me, it still makes a huge difference if I'm listening a cut or two on youtube or bandcamp to listening an album on the (very modest) home set.

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Ordered the new 2-CD-set by now ... curious to hear it. The combination of all (so far) 16 takes plus the 10 with reverb was standard around here (= yurp) ... the 1988 or 1989 edition was around in shops for almost as long as they existed (the Jazz in Paris edition was around for a short time, and later on also the Originals edition - both only have the reverb tracks/master takes I think).

ordering ... and throwing in a couple of earlier physical releases - wanted to check out your music for a long time, if only based on the often thought-provoking posts of yours!

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Interesting, thanks for chiming in with some details @Chuck Nessa!

It's off topic here, but Wiki doesn't have a very clear entry, alas: Although the Apollo records catalog has seen few releases in the digital era, several doo-wop compilations have been released through Relic Records since the 1980s. Some of Apollo's jazz has appeared on Delmark Records. Bess Berman died in 1997. Cash Box said in 1954 that Berman "was the only woman ever to break through with outstanding success in the male-dominated recording industry."[11] Apollo Records and its affiliated publishing company, Bess Music, was purchased by George Hocutt on May 4, 1989. Shortly after that purchase in January 1990, Hocutt sold fifty percent of his interest to Couch and Madison Partners of the Malaco Music Group located in Jackson, Mississippi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Records_(1944

Hm, for me, it usually takes a week or more. Always registered (though when a parcel was lost last winter, oddly enough they told me they cannot track), and always sent via Dutch post (delivery by Swiss post, tracking, from Barcelona on, via Dutch post). Weird things to happen, but I reckon we get what little we're willing to pay for. (But I'm still and hope to remain, a happy customer of jazzmessengers, I just fail to understand all of this ... and I miss local stores to browse through stuff.)

My understanding is that the situation got more and more difficult ... Mosaic did a few "mixed" sets in earlier (the Illinois Jacquet comes to mind, the final CD there is from RCA, now Sony/BMG/whatever, the rest included material from EMI/Capitol (Aladdin), Savoy and others (no idea where ARA belongs ... and not sure of the Apollo/Delmark connection - does Delmark own the Apollo catalogue? License? Own parts of it?) Also maybe the fact that it was a "record club" issue did help in making things easier? Those seemed to disappear quickly as the 90s came along, similar siutation with books, I think, but there the demise is running at a slower speed it seems?

Oh, and I see your avatar is the other recent solo album ... based on the strenght of the old "Piano" and the new one on Hat, I'll have to order that one, sooner or later!