king ubu

yeah, and more Lacy and some Mal Waldron, too!

Yeah, the torrent title made me think of scatology several times... as for Pops:

"Mingus in Wonderland" is ever-amazing! It was both Handy's and Booger's recording debut, wasn't it? That long, fast blues with their exchanges is amazing!

Is that white or black magic?

Krakow is definitely worth seeing, yes. And the trip to Auschwitz also. Make sure to plan a whole day for it and make sure to go to Birkenau as well (the destruction camp, largely destroyed, but walking through that huge area with your memory working and your imagination bringing up all the terrible stuff you know about what happened there - that's one of the worst and most intense experiences I've had so far)... some of the exhibitions and brouha in Auschwitz (the work camp) is high-gloss crap, but it's definitely worth looking at some of the pavillions (when I was there, about ten years ago, each nation had their own pavillion with their own "history" and exhibition in it - guess that's still the same - and the jewish/Israeli one was just loads of images trying to impress, but others - mainly the Polish - were very good.

Um, I beg to differ, amigo! Yeah... I'm sure we'd get along well and try out plenty of great beers together! I love the variety, there's so much good stuff... yet most people fall for drafts and Heineken and other such crap... hell, even light beer! Btw, I think I had some distant relatives in Alpirsbach... even was there on a visit once. But that was when I was in too tender an age to drink beer.

It is strange... but that's how it is. Atlantic has never released this (are the releasing any jazz at all these days? Anything since the "Tutu" deluxe edition?) and it's great to be able to get it. On the other hand you can say: No one should ever hear it, no one has the right to release and/or hear it. Nothing wrong with that view, but curiosity just gets the better of me!

Happy Birthday!

And Chubby Checker wrote "Now's the Time"?

What's the critical mass?

Wow, this is seriously GREAT news! Anyone knows anything else about these recordings? How might Fresh Sound have gotten hold of them? Were they, as they say, "in circulation"?

light beers ahead... count me out on that crap... and nothing against Belgian beers, please - there's none better!

Happy Birthday!

Yeah, definitely has that vibe... interesting to know, thanks Larry!

No one wants that Lime Light Beer anyway, yuck! Truck driver just did his duty, I guess... couldn't have drunk it all himself, after all.

You know, each of us has his own weirdnesses, I guess... me, I'd have been all over a nice 7" Hip-O of Trane's later stuff and would have been all over that. But then, too, I'd still have wanted the bonus tracks (which in a larger box would have made more sense). I was slightly disappointed to realize that Hip-O is merely continuing the concept of the Original series by Universal (which, true enough, have done some wonderful digipacks... I got "Crescent" again and it's indeed very nicely done, as are of course many of the non-Trane reissues!)

Ok, good. Thanks everyone. Will not buy then, I'm afraid. Don't feel the need for yet another sonic upgrade that my ears won't really notice and already own all of the music, some of it in various issues ("A Love Supreme" must be the album I've bought most often, four or five times, I think... plus I've got an old mono LP from my dad's...)

But do I get it right: this is a flimsy cardboard wrapped around five regular jewel cases that contain the albums and (lousy - see Chuck's post) reproductions of the original folout covers? That's it? Btw: I don't mind if the cardboard it flimsy or sturdy... I enjoy the 7" Hip-O packages and love the larger Impulse/Creed Taylor set - if they did Coltrane that way, I'd love it!

Just read it elsewhere - sad. Listening to "Deep Dark Blue Centre" right now... lovely trumpet by the recently deceased Harry Beckett on "Hirayoshi Suite"! Great music all the way..

So this box has no additional booklet and stuff - none of the reasons why I after all do pay some more for Hip-O releases now and then? Sounds entirely skippable then... not out over here anyway, it seems. As for Seattle: releasing that in original album form makes little sense to me, really... yeah, I know: part of your biography, you heard it like that in 1783 or whenever, I understand that... but still: the old 2CD set had some GREAT additional music and there's even more, so I'd rather be for a new 3CD edition with all of that music, separately!

The attack of the extraterrestrians, no doubt... though they told me they wanted to start their invasion in Cornvall but their compass went wrong because of two short power outages... oh, wait

something like that... but add the early Brunswick/Vocalion ("Early Ellington" 3CD) and Okeh ("Okeh Ellington" 2CD) to the Mosaics... and then for me, add "Money Jungle" and the complete 50s Columbia box (non-existant), and then we'd about be there. If that's cheating, see mikeweil's answer for an alternative...

good 'nuff - but then you're missing out on plenty of great Paul Desmond!

... a holding corporation called America ...

Just started my first spin of "Old Stuff" Dammit, that groove on the opening "Rosmosis" is great! Love Moholo's drumming! The opening of Finn von Eyben on bass is very cool, too! @Leeway: no, didn't notice - thanks for mentioning again here! Looks like an interesting disc!