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And I guess the same goes for the Gitanes?
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I did not know that...that kinda sucks... Neither did I. First, though: these two Merrill/Katz albums rank among the very finest of all vocal jazz! I've got the two Gitanes CDs (what version of "Lonely Woman" was used there?) and since there've been various comments on the sound of the Mosaic 2-on-1 being very low-par, I never felt any urge to replace them (they sound fine to my lacking ears... guess the Mosaic would, too...)
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Are there any box bargains currently available?
king ubu replied to GA Russell's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
But be sure them reds still take oaths on the queen or that free shipping deal may be over fast! (Kind of perverted, anyway - free shipping from UK to OZ! Holy shit!) -
OK, thanks! (Saw Visconti's very weird "Vaghe stelle dell'orsa" in the theater recently, and the dubbing was once more horrible... I hate it, but I still dearly love some Italian films from that era!)
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yes, they were all dubbed! I hate dubbing because the actor's speech is part of his acting ability so it hurts first of all the actors. Yes, that's my very opinion - in talkies at least. But here we're talking musical... very artificially staged - with extras wearing clothes in certain colors and stuff like that... sort of a reality of its very own making. So that's not a big problem at all... took me about ten minutes to get into it, to get into the mood, and then I just leaned back and enjoyed it! Thanks for the info, brownie... checked the web quickly but French wiki usually doesn't turn up when I do google searches and I didn't think of checking there. It's been a few months since I've seen the film (in a theatre, of course!), so I'm not sure... but the talking, the actors handled that themselves?
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Allen, fer chrissakes, you're a merikin, how can you know Walser and Schulz!? Interesting point there... Walser even more so, as parts of his (posthumously large) ouvre was indeed never "finished" and written into clean copy by him. But his final novel (The Robber / Der Räuber) is to me one of the most fascinating "modern era" novels, hell one of the most fascinating BOOKS EVER WRITTEN! And it was in painful work transcribed from his minuscule pencil writing... took years and a second edition (the first seems to have been marred with many mistakes). Amazing character there, Walser! Maybe my very favorite author! But it's almost sacrilege to bring this up in a Chikk-thread... (no elektrikk band for me, no matter if freezing cold or steaming hot). Can dig his old stuff a lot, now and then enjoy some more recent acoustic stuff (mostly radio broadcasts... Jaleel Shaw is a mother!), but I largely lost interest in his music post original RTF (the ECM and Polydor albums, not the later band that has been re- and re- and re-unified inspite of hubbardistical wars or whatever fallout these guys had...)
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No, sorry... not much time for reading these days. But we'll invade Poland anyway But on topic... if the CD/DL/whatever buying/freeloading public is the audience... then you can make yourself an audience by releasing your rehearsals... has been done, of course. But somehow I think that's all a bit too simple. If Corea's statement is just stating the obvious, it's thoroughly uninteresting.
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Maybe they should start a "death channel" next to FashionTV and al-jazeera...
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Who's Judith? One of the two girls that run away at the beginning of the film? And were all actors and actresses dubbed by professional singers? (Deneuve and Dorléac, Piccoli? Guess Kelly could handle some singing...) I prefer the Blue Stars and even more so the Double Six de Paris to the Swingle Singers, but that whole bag isn't really mine... give me LH&R any day, though! r.i.p. Christiane Legrand
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I still need to get to that Rutherford... one of my favorite album titles of all times! The Mangelsdorff solo albums for MPS have been collected on this 2CD set: Can be bought rather cheaply from amazon.de (while US has it for a ridiculous price)
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Ok, thanks - I thought so but wasn't sure!
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brownie: just wondering how to pronounce his name... no problems with André, but with the last name... does it sound like Hod-ir, or Hod-ère? Or yet another version?
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Very sad... will grab a disc to take with me to listen at work, love what I've heard so far!
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I will! But in this case it just makes no sense, as it would have really been two parts of the same... and I think for most here, having 80 minutes will be good enough! I will! But in this case it just makes no sense, as it would have really been two parts of the same... and I think for most here, having 80 minutes will be good enough!
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Not unlike "Solar". (Which, incidentally, has me sure that Miles understood anthropogenic climate change and the need for alternative energy sources.) (which he stole from Chuck Wayne anyway, it seems - see here)
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Hey, I only saw that now... thought you'd not seen my part about a second one. And since this here's a different environment from the other bulletin board, I'll limit it to one disc anyway. So please delete that other one a year later! Thanks!
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That's the one I fell in love with, twelve or so years back - amazing album! Spinning "Winter Rose" now... got to find me a copy of "Sunburst", it seems. Never heard of that one before!
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Very sad! r.i.p. Walter Norris.
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Just in case: there are other jazz releases from Hip-O-Select, some also in this 7" format: Billie Holiday - Decca & Commodore Masters (3CD) Clifford Brown - The Emarcy Master Takes (4CD) Also, there's an Abbey Lincoln 3CD set. None of these is of interest to me (not a big fan of Abbey's, and the rest I have in older but more complete editions). I might be interested in (but don't yet know much about) these: Lena Horne Sings: The M-G-M Singles Collection (1CD) Jimmy Smith - Respect/Livin' It Up (1CD) Louis Armstrong - Hello, Louis! The Hit Years (1963-1969) (2CD) The Hollywood Bowl release (and I think also the Ella in Japan) has been discussed elsewhere, it comes in a nice but small book (jewel case sized, same packaging for the Ella set). There's more: Coltrane, McLaughlin, and the lovely Creed Taylor Impulse set.
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Sorry for posting in the wrong thread, Jeff! And please put me down as #98 and #... what shall we say, #102? The two discs can stand on their own and figure as kind of two volumes which I'd love to present, as they are now! I fully endorse the "limit it to 80 minutes" policy (even if it's not enforced) and hence that would be the perfect solution, in my humble opinion. And still, if you have anyone jumping the ship, I'd be ready - that's all I wanted to say. I'm as good in queuing politely as the finest english gentleman, trust me
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Happy Birthday! :party:
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I'd be ready to jump in with a whopping 160 minutes (2CDs, for those who still burn MP3, or rather, M4A) - just in case someone needs to re-schedule... will be doing the same shortly on another (german) forum (with very few participators) and it would be a pleasure to do it here, too (even if later on... put me for #98 with the option to jump ahead/switch places if anyone wishes so).
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Which are the other five? I have the Ella/Hollywood and Getz 7" Hip-O Boxes. Got the Ella, the Peterson (both locally, half price in a closing store... otherwise they'd have been ridiculously priced here!), then more recently - all thanks to this thread - the Getz, the Nat Cole and the Dinah Washington. But please don't ask me about sound issues etc. - I'm no audiophile, and with the exception of horrendous RVGs such as "Capuchin Swing", or old dead Columbia CDs, I can rarely tell if something sounds really bad.
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Sorry for being late, Guy! Crazy times over here... wish you all the best! :party:
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Still waiting... never owned the second Jimmy & Wes disc and never even heard "Tequila", but the rest of it I've got already - and I reckon I won't part with the "Impressions" 2CD package anyway, because it's still the best way to have the great Half Note sessions (the official half that is) in one place. Anyway, I'm a fan of these 7" Hip-O boxes and am looking forward to #6 in my collection