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Okay, great! After reading the review above I kinda lowered my expectations, but seems that was unnecessary then - all the better! And yes, it's cheap. 7€ in the store I think. No wonder majors don't do jaz reissues any more when they're practicality giving them away from day one (Miles' "Bitches Brew Live" was another sich case, Sony as well).

Monk's first and arguably finest solo record has been reissued recently with some intriguing (but probably not very good) bonus tracks from the concerts he was brought over for (the album was a by-product only I assume). His French accompanists (Jean-Marie Ingrand on bass and Jean-Louis Viale on drums, the later replaced prob. by Gérard "Dave" Pochonet on the last incomplete track) had a hard time it seems to figure out what was happening ... Have bought the CD in Milan on Sunday (was there to hear the new Sciarrino opera at La Scala) and will only be able to listen once back home (Wednesday evening earliest, still in Ferrara now, the most beautiful city on the planet ) Found this review though: http://www.londonjazznews.com/2017/09/cd-review-thelonious-monk-centennial.html?m=1

Not sure I care in this case ... hardly any of Solal's records made/owned by the majors have been in circulation ... where's all the brilliant stuff from the sixties and early seventies (three RCA albums are notable exceptions of course: At Newport, En Solo, Sans tambour ni trompette)? All those with access to MPS (until revently for two decades Universal) ignored Solal (see the brilliant bunch of albums above ... "Suite for Trio" and the one with Hans Koller and Attila Zoller were on CD, other than that they reissued bland silly fusion by Germans but none of those great Solal albums!) Probably none of those were involved in the productions in question, but with the current state of record business, Fresh Sound has advanced to be one of the best, no matter some shady aspects.

Thanks Jim - on vacation till Wednesday. Let me check after my return (btw. my order did include another disc, just in case). Not sure I was initially entitled to get the bonus material from the option I'd chosen, but as I'm a CD listener putting in a new order was fine either way!

Somewhat annoying news, me having shelved out too much for that overpriced Japanese disc ...

Oh, cool! Got the mail and wondered why they announced the large ensemble companion disc to the recent box once again ... now I understand

Okay, will try at home on my computer then. The app on the pad is just called "Music" (more of that disguise nonsense - though Samsung does that generic naming too) - it however allowed me to locally save the files (but not to put them into my dropbox or anything). What a nuisance it is, dealing with apple - doing it exclusively for the Savory compilations. At least the music makes up for the pain!

The Solal/Liebman is nice, if somwhat understated. But this here looks mighty good: ---- Martial Solal SOLO PIANO: UNRELEASED 1966 LOS ANGELES SESSION · VOLUME 1 Fresh Sound Records In June 1966, invited by the shrewd American producer and author Ross Russell, Martial Solal traveled to Los Angeles to record these forgotten and unreleased solo piano sessions. Russell, who had launched the legendary label Dial Records back in 1946 to record Charlie Parker, had spent several years away from the jazz scene after shutting Dial down in 1949. When he decided to return to the jazz record business, he organized a series of recordings at Glendale’s Whitney Studio, which had a wonderful Steinway. Unfortunately, Russell’s new project didn’t come to fruition, and so Solal’s recordings never saw the light.Now we can finally hear them in two CD volumes. They show Martial Solal at his best, his incontestable talent, dazzling virtuosity and invention, but also his good taste and sense of humor in the execution. The originality of his conception, paired with his elegant control and technique, put him on a par with the great American pianists.Tracklisting:01. Groovin' High (Dizzy Gillespie) 4:0202. Scrapple from the Apple (Charlie Parker) 5:5403. I Can't Get Started (Duke-Gershwin) 3:4404. Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) 8:5305. Ornithology (Charlie Parker) 5:4306. Yardbird Suite (Charlie Parker) 4:3107. Embraceable You (G. & I. Gershwin) 4:1708. Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) 4:3609. Lover Man (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) 6:1010. Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk) 4:3811. Billie's Bounce (Charlie Parker) 5:0112. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) 5:2813. Un Poco Loco (Bud Powell) 3:20Martial Solal, Solo PianoRecorded at Whitney Studios, Glendale, California, June 18, 19 (#10 & 13) & 21 (#3,9 & 12), 1966Original recordings produced by Ross RussellProduced for CD release by Jordi PujolStereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered

That´s the problem: it was there when I bought the album, but is not listed in Apple Music (the pre-installed music player ... do I need to install another, although it is all Apple, just to read the pdf?)

Finally remembered to buy this (have my unuses ipad with me on vacation ...). Listening now ... needless to say it´s great fun! But where the fegh can I read te booklet on this silly secty locked mystery device?

It has been pulled because it combines half of the album with half of the next one ... bit of a goof. So go for the Japanese reissue if you want to get it.

No rush from my side ... there was a date going with the announcement of "coming on CD as well now", I may still be ahead of schedule but as I don't remember where I saw that date I just wanted to check quickly.

Maybe not quite THE ONE for me, but agree on all accounts, it's wonderful!

@Jim Alfredson any updates on the CD-version of the SpeakEZ tracks? I put in an order on Sep 7 (adding another CD), nothing here yet ...

Haven't listened to the samples, but ordered mine already - great to see Bertrand continue his work!

Pre-order in

... which is the case pretty often. Their database is a real mess.

Wot? Look here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TIOZS5Q/

amazon.com ... 20 or so $ - with 15 added for shipping not cheap but very much okay. I know about yurpeen second hand prices, had been checking every once in a while for several years. Not sure, but it's not on the "complete" set released by Collector's Choice (which btw fails to give line-ups/session info - I hate that).

Brought it up to 98% funded ... thanks for the alert (went for the package including the Levin, hadn't been aware of that).

Any of those so fed up with the masses of Ella releases has a Verve edition of "Live at Mister Kelly's" to let go?

I think Sorey is the dep, not quite sure though ... when I heard Lehman at Berlin Jazzfest last year, Gilmore was with Wadada's "Great Lakes Quartet" and was effin' awesome! Sorey was with Myra Melford's "Snowy Egret", and Lehman had a terrific sub (for Sorey) in Cody Brown, whose name I'd not noticed before. Plenty great drummers around these days!

One other thought that crossed my mind: I would like to get an alternate version of the entire album with Marcus Gilmore's hip shit drumming, which is fiercer, lighter, and punchier than Sorey's more horizontal, expansive playing.

Outstanding disc, in my opinion. There's lots in there - I have to think of Andrew Hill often when I hear these guys (Steve Lehman live can really channel Jackie McLean, btw) ... Marh Shim has an amazing solo towards the end, and it's great to hear Graham Haynes again ... Crump is very much alright, though not a guy whose presence would lead me to buy discs, it's usually the others he's with (Iyer, Lehman, Halvorson, Laubrock/Smythe), Tyshawn Sorey may suffer just a bit from ECM's sound, but in general this is a very good production (listening to the CD, heard the LP wasn't so good, but the friend reporting that isn't sure if his copy was bad - so bad it seems to sound, maybe it's indeed his copy, who knows). Anyway, other than that BN vibe, there's of course the spectral stuff (which doesn't need a vibraphone as in Lehman's octet), there's Coleman and that M-Base vibe, and there's lots of hip hop, too - "Break Stuff" was going in that direction even more so, and was brilliant already, I found. The entire mixture here is really something of its own. Way to go, Mr. Iyer!

Endorsing both yours and the @soulpope recommendations ... found both last year, together with a third disc (also on Milijac) with Frank Wess, Jimmy Owens and others. Guess they come recommended all three, but "I'm the Blues" may so far be my favourite of the bunch