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Sure! You do deserve it, after all! :tup

Had no idea Lucky Luciano was a jazz guitarist

Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (Mosaic Select 38) - disc 1 is there anything in there that is not on: - the complete Bluebird 2CD set - the Savoy "Odyssey" set - the various Verve CDs (2CD set 1956/57, Newport 1957)? has anyone taken the time to compare?

or t-shirts with LeeWay prints

well, you do need some tape to hold all these cans and bags and boxes together... but why the worm?

That's cool Allen! But bear with us non-promo-non-media-non-paid folks who struggle to keep up and collect old stuff, too (okay the last part may be an issue, but hey, you help flooding us with great old stuff, too, so don't complain too loudly!) Anyway, I'm not posting a best of 2011 list since I've hardly yet bought 10 new releases from this year... but in a few years, I might have enough of them to post a list - yet then no one will care any longer. Same thing each year... maybe I'm too patient, maybe I mis-allocate my budget, maybe whatever... but I'm no teenage fan waiting for the latest Olivia John single or Julie London cheesecake album cover. Not entirely sure why, but I keep lagging behind all the time... My favorite new releases of the year are: Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation) John Zorn - Nova Express (Tzadik) Marilyn Crispell / Gerry Hemingway - Affinities (Intakt) all of which would get * * * * 1/2 from me. then there are pair of * * * * albums: Colin Vallon - Rruga (ECM) Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble – Live In Nashville & Louisville (Sagittarius A-Star) and a much longer reissue list: * * * * * Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph) Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph) [Cover sagt: 2010] Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Live (Sony/Legacy) Sidney Bechet - The Complete American Masters 1931-1953 (Universal) * * * * 1/2 Black Artists Group - In Paris Ariès (Rank and File) Charles Tolliver Big Band - Mosaic Select 37 (Mosaic) Art Pepper - Blues for the Fisherman (Widow's Taste) Stan Getz Quintets - The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums (Hip-O-Select) First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary (Hip-O-Select) * * * * Wes Montgomery - Movin': The Complete Verve Recordings (Hip-O-Select) Miles Davis - Tutu (Deluxe Edition) (Warner) Nathan Davis - Rules of Freedom (Universal) Eddy Louiss - Orgue (Universal) Swiss All-Stars (Sonorama) Various: Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl (Hip-O-Select) In the "from the archives" secion (where partly the Tolliver, Pepper, Miles BB Live and Jazz from Hollywood Bowl could also be listed), I have these: * * * * * Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1967 (Bootleg Series Vol. 1) * * * * 1/2 G.F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill - The Poppy-Seed Affair (Reel Recordings) Tubby Hayes - Tubby's New Groove (Candid) Tubby Hayes - Dancing in the Dark (The Tubby Hayes Archives Vol. 2) (Savage Solveig) * * * * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald in Japan (Hip-O-Select) John Surman - Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop April '69 (Cuneiform) And still, there's plenty of new stuff missing, including the Sam Rivers Select, which I've received a few weeks ago but haven't heard a second of yet. Also I've not caught up yet with Chuck's latest (I'm sure the new Roscoe would be on or near the top of the final list). Also haven't gotten several recent Mosaics, or else the Lunceford would be way on top somewhere, too... there's just so much you can handle, ain't there? (EDITED because I messed up and repeated the reissues list instead of including the archives list)

It's quite amazing to me how many of you keep to have seen David Bowie last night... (last time I could've said that was after I'd seen that weird Oshima film with him).

Can't you edit the flutist (and add your own or Kenny G's solos) and release them?

That's the one I've got (LP version), and here's the cover: Looking for it, I just found another cover... listed on Paris Jazz Corner with the following info: But then the question that just arose: Jeff - or anyone else - any clue as to who the guitar player is, then, if it's not Danny Barker?

That Eddie Bert disc that Larry mentions above is pretty fine! So is the Mighty Quinn... Very good player from what I've heard so far - sure would love to find more!

Ah well, depending on your point of origin, it's same music from different source Either way, it does look good! Problem is that some original tapes were deleted/re-used, whatever... it would have been too great to hear the complete Basie & Ella live shows, for instance! But there's still lots of material to be found there, that's for sure!

Oh, thanks! Wasn't aware of that!

Sounds like a similar venture to what WDR has been doing with Jazzline/LaserLight? I wish them good luck... bet if they're trying to do it the right way (I'm not insinuating they don't!), it takes a lot of time and money and patience to clear up rights for these recordings!

r.i.p. Barbara Lea Love the two Prestige albums, too! Either there's more than they contain or the discographies make a mess there... not sure, don't have any of the stuff at hand right now... or was there even a third LP? Also, why is the harp player given for the one (great) track on the one album but then is given as unknown on the other one, when the harp tracks seem to stem from the same date?

Very sad news. Thanks for all the music, r.i.p. Sam. Thanks brownie for sharing that wonderful photo!

Still need that Singer/Murray disc, thanks for the reminder!

Thanks, PM sent! Both of those Chet booklets (the 'Live' one and the 'Studio' one) are nice - well worth having. I'd be even more interested in the Studio one, as I've pieced those sessions together with various Pacific Jazz CDs... not even sure I've got it all, but then there's all the Sextet, Ensemble etc. sessions that weren't part of the box and that I want, too... quite a mess there, I always thought.

Hey, no offending Krazy!

Not exactly jazz, I know - but great!

True nail! @colin: I'd be interested in the Chet booklet, but I'm not sure shipping it to Switzerland makes lots of sense... could you roughly venture a guess on the total sum it would cost to pack it properly and have it shipped over the pond?

This one here looks like you might find it helpful: http://books.google.de/books/about/The_Miles_Davis_reader.html?id=Dx2Ty5xVg04C&redir_esc=y Don't know it, only just heard about it yesterday...

I believe ya ... Well, I was busy doing my second listen and typing my replies for the second time while you were busy typing up the reveals... not too familiar with Winstone yet, but what I've heard is quite a bit to my liking!

True, cih - I started out with 50s and 60s albums... the ones I got right away include "Hawkins Encounters Webster" (the very first one I heard of either of them, when I was what... 13?), the one I still don't just enjoy on an emotional level is "The Genius of". The Impulse quartet album is another mighty fine one, but I don't just get it on any given day. Btw, I was in the movies tonight and they had Hawk on before... a wonderful version of "Carioca", which I just saw is on that "Body and Soul Revisited" GRP disc... I see that one's not part of the Mosaic, guess I ought to get it!

Hey, and after all I *did* recognize/guess Winstone... too late, but still before having seen your reveals here! Managed to find used copies of the Hendersons last year... two slightly different editions, but never mind, it's all there and they're tons of fun!

Ha, I had that Ethel Ennis disc open thinking the Joni song might be from there! Is the whole album as good as that one? So that's Mahoganny and Joe Lovano then... good sax solo indeed! Also same question about the Winstone: whole disc as good? That's the most interesting one to me, I think! Bill Henderson, too! Did think of him, but as I only recently got the two Vee Jay discs (aren't they great?!) I didn't dare mentioning him...