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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)

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!

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!

Very sad! r.i.p. Walter Norris.

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.

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

Happy Birthday! :party:

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).

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.

Sorry for being late, Guy! Crazy times over here... wish you all the best! :party:

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

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues at Carnegie Hall in very nice condition... haven't played it yet, but love to cover... seems to be a 1973-75 pressing (Rockefeller Plaza address on green/orange label with white horizontal band in the middle). Also the 10" Norgran MGN-2: "The Dizzy Gillespie - Stan Getz Sextet" (contains "It Don't Mean a Thing", "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart", "Exactly Like You" and "Talk of the Town"). Seems to be original, I assume, but it has a couple of annoying stickers - one front saying "Hi-Fi Recording", one back with a price tag - and on the back another, handwritten price tag. None too shabby for less than 10$, I guess.

Happy birthday Daniel! :party: Any news on that second CD?

To stir the pot... why would you want errors reproduced on what is NEWLY made CD art? The whole yellow-on-violet art (where all these line-up errors and oddities are to be found) was never on the LPs. Do facsimile even of what was never originally there doesn't seem to make too much sense.

mine should be on the way shortly (from amazon.it)

Gee, you guys are too fast... still haven't dedicated much time to #91 yet... So this is all about songs with teeth? Guess I might give a try again, with a DL...

I would add The Great Paris Concert, my favorite of all of Ellington's latter-day live recordings, and one of my desert island Ellington discs. Guess I got to re-evaluate that one, then... never really thought that one was out of the ordinary (which with Duke is fine enough!).

so where's all them Big Al Sears discs?

kind of difficult to listen to the CDs that way, though

I think except for the all star date opening the third Pablo disc ("Bebop" is its title) all the music from the Pablo discs was picked from the same sources as the Mythic Sound set. And I dimly remember some previous discussion about this topic here. Anyway, it's clear from the discographies that the Pablo discs are sort of cherry-picking the same material, but they do focus mostly on Parisian material. jazzbo confirms my findings here, there's some more discussion of that period of Bud here.

Mythic Sound (LP/CD MS 6008-1) has a 16:19 version that ends during Bud's second solo. The Fontana (LP 683.903ZL) and Black Lion (CD BLCD-760121) editions had a 5:25 excerpt that starts during that solo and goes on to the end of the tune. The same Pablo disc (PACD-2310-978-2) that has the full "Hot House" also has the only complete version of "Salt Peanuts" from the same date (without Griffin). The date is between Aug. 8 and Aug. 14. There are other Edenville sessions where the dates are known somewhat more exactly... the whole discography is a mess, I'd love to get some complete tapes, even if some of the music might be desultory... but as things are, the three Pablo discs seem to offer some of the best material from the Mythic Sound set (which was far from complete, too... and contained incomplete dates and in some cases it seems incomplete/shortened tracks, too)

Sounds like an alto, but sounds so much like Griffin on tenor that I think it's a tenor indeed. And yes, the speed came to mind, too - the whole sound of these recordings is pretty bad and a sharp/fast pitch might well explain the illusion of an alto. What about the bassist/drummer now? I'm confused... got to play that full "Hot House" now as well (it's on the Pablo CD "Bebop" only).

I'll buy CD (or LP), never bought any MP3 so far... part of the dead breed, I'm afraid.

Can you confirm my belief that Griffin is playing alto on Wee? Will have to listen again to that particular track... but with the discussion here faintly in memory, I did think that Griffin's tenor sounded kind of high at least once while listening. The sources all says it's tenor (including the source that rectifies the perennially wrong Gervais/Hayat information).

Finally looked on AMG - the Swiss Radio Days releases were from the 1960 band with Shorter. I don't see any indication this has been issued officially but as it turns out a FLAC copy was posted almost three years ago on Dime. So no need for a 64 KB download. But if you don't do Dime or missed it, this is an excellent set. The Swiss Radio Days series on the TCB label is legit and is offering some great music! Should be bought, not (illegally) downloaded! http://www.tcb.ch/cms/cms.cgi?prm=Green%20Spine%20%28Swiss%20Radio%20Days%20Jazz%20Series%29&short=1&cfg=1&sort=a&tmpl=style|style|id&list=style|artist|catnr There are a few there that I still need...