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Skipped the Lang/Venuti - money was short and it ran out too soon for me... got the JSP instead. Too bad. Anyway, I've been catching up on some OOP sets (most recently the Satchmo All Stars and the Blue Notes from Bechet and George Lewis) and I hope if I'll be patient, the Lang may turn up, too...

Fela - The Complete Works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti Again and again played discs from this in the past days... making my way through it, trying to sort things out (they could have programmed this chronologically, methinks... doing my own discography with help of this site now). Needless to say, the music's effin' amazin'! Btw, it's of course not quite complete... but 26 CDs will be more than most want, I guess... Me, I need more Koola Lobitos, that's for sure!

They could include the live stuff from the Half Note... but I guess legal hurdles would be way too big. Uhm, that's the *inofficial* live material I'm talking of...

The Parker finally... the Turrentine, the Hampton and throwing in a Select (Bechet or Hutcherson) I'd be under 300$ and the $ is worth sh*t... got to think it over.

We've got the whole lot of the previous ape-films on our hd recorder now... will spend a fun night drinking beer, eating crap and watching those

That Russell boot is sorry-assed indeed. The material is around and it would of course be great if it was released officially. As long as it's not, there will be folks trading it and folks buying the lacking boot (wrong info, less material in lesser sound quality than is around). I'd buy a well-done, official 2CD (or even 3CD) set of the existing Russell material from the early 60s in a whim!

Got my George Lewis Mosaic today (the Bechet and Satchmo All Stars, too)... hell, why could no one tell me I didn't need the two "George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers" volumes, then? Or do I need them because they sound considerably better than the Mosaic? Duplicates have become more and more frequent here, so I will likely just keep both versions, but I'd be interested in opinions regarding sound issued (Mosaic: 1990, American Music: 1994). Anyway, I've had the music on disc 3 of the Lewis Mosaic before, too (on that disc that came out for the 60th b-day of Blue Note... how times have changed since then, holy holy!) so it's just two thirds of disc 2 that are really new to me, but hey, there's the booklet, too, and I'm a fan of Mosaic's

The Compelete Blue Note Recordings of George Lewis (CD1)

hilarious! there should be a law that "estates" of crooks should be lawless...

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper - Mosaic Select Disc 1 (Cooper) of: Kenton Presents: Bob Cooper, Bill Holman & Frank Rosolino

yowzah! The Complete Blue Note Recordings of George Lewis The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet The Complete Decca Studio Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars not that cheap, of course, but hell! still... yowzah!

I've gone round and round on this before, but as a layman I've always relied on Karl Popper's view that science is in the business of disproving theories, not proving them. Through this ongoing process of falsification, knowledge advances. As you say, a little off topic. But Popper's paradigm does tend to make one a little more hesitant to accept certain judgments about cause and effect, for example. Popper's method may be sensible *within* science (natural, exact science, to a lesser extent also humanities). What Fleck does is analyze how theories get constructed - an aspect that sort of turns science back on its feet, as I see it. Science never happens to be exclusively about theories, science is never free from social, political, you name it, influences. That's what Fleck brings back in - and that's what I think needs to be reflected.

Also, to get the whole story of "Coltrane on Prestige", the info for one more Concord/Prestige box has to be added: Miles Davis - The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions - the albums contained are: - Miles - Cookin' with Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' with Miles Davis Quintet - Workin' with Miles Davis Quintet - Steamin' with Miles Davis Quintet Plus, completing the two sessions from which albums #2-5 of the above list were taken, the track 'Round Midnight, originally on "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants". Furthermore, on disc 4 of the Miles box, there are a few really cool live dates, released officially for the first time on this box. (Addition: the Legacy Edition of Miles' first Columbia album, "Round About Midnight", adds the Newport '55 "comeback" version of Monk's 'Round Midnight and one more very cool - Gene Norman presented/produced - live session that was never officially released before).

I got his from Wikipedia: W/o reading the man's actual writings, I would take this to mean that A) "facts" are one thing, "truth" something else altogether; and B) at some point, what we learn ends up being more than want we already know can handle. I'd certainly agree with both. But even if the whole "brain thing" is just another first step on the way to another obsolescence, I do think it moves us ahead nevertheless. But amybe not. Time will ultimately tell. But not off-topic at all, I'd say. This thread is probably more about our reactions to the alleged offense than anything else, and a big part of these reactions almost have to bounce off the "how can anybody do such a thing?" impulse, which is a more than fair question with no, at this point, equally fair answers. So, yeah, quite relevant, I'd think. Guess you'd have to dig into Fleck a little bit deeper than wiki, but for a first impression, it seems to be fair enough. The main point is something that may read kind of deconstructionalist in this prohibitively shortened form: facts are (but) a social construct. (And my personal addition to your distinction: truth will remain untold, anyway.) And you make a very valid point in your final paragraph, indeed - that's why this whole thing is so darn disturbing.

I'll have a drink with you... Don't quite get what this is about, but albums such as "Coltrane", "Traneing In", "Soultrane", "Lush Life", "Settin' the Pace", "Standard Coltrane", "Stardust", "Bahia", "The Believer", "Black Pearls" or "The Last Trane" (all in the box you're talking of) seem to be Coltrane albums to me, no dispute needed. The sidmen stuff and the jam sessions are on diffent boxes ("Side Steps" and "Interplay). Guess some of the programming decisions there could be challenged, but all in all, these three boxes are wonderful! Ah, Hans was faster than me But he's inaccurate as regards the Draper album: one cut was done without Trane and is - alas - missing from the respective box.

Yes, I do believe in science - but as a historian (well, wannabee maybe, who knows) I also know about the relativity of science. Not sure you can get Ludwik Fleck in English, but his "Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache" (1935) is most fascinating in that respect - and will, I think, in its gist, always remain valid. But this is leading off-topic.

honestly, I think all that brain stuff is the new religion and will pass... it's a huge hype and we may never find any answers to the questions.

Plenty of thoughtful posts in here... still, this whole thing has been haunting me for days and days without me finding any words. I guess I can kind of dig the concept of unconditional forgiveness - even though I'm an agnostic or whatever (do I really know? do I really care?). Either way, this is all endlessly sickening.

Happy Birthday!

Can they do substantially different/better from "Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides"? I never got the VME edition... but also have the rather nice and moody "Willow Weep for Me" (which came out in the LPR series).

Wow, congrats, Allen! And since I've not said so elsewhere: good to have you back!

In fact the packaging is mostly quite nice I find - although how you have to squeeze in the CDs in those 7"-boxes is a nuisance. But the whole design and the booklet parts of the sets, I enjoy them. The First Impulse is really wonderful (and sized rougly at 10") - I was quite amazed really, when I got it! I forgot, I also have the complete JB at the Garden set - another winner!

Hm, guess I got too much of it already and quite some doesn't really interest me that much. Still need "Further Adventures" though... And I really don't see why so many people seem so pissed about Hip-O, regarding packaging and prices. Sure, they're not cheap, but they're not that expensive either (not from a European point of view... and no, it doesn't just feel like that now that the Swiss franc is that overpriced, it always felt like that). I quite like the sets I have (the Oscar, Ella and Nat Cole and Getz ones, the Creed Taylor/Impulse set, as well as the JB singles and most recently - and as of yet unplayed - the Tammi Terrell).

Yeah, I've had it for a few months and it's pretty darn good! Too band most of the Ray Charles "reissues" Concord is doing are MP3-only (can you call this reissues at all? They don't feel like that to me... an "issue" I want to be able to hold in my hands...)

Indeed! #15 is "In My Old Virginia Home (On the River Nile)" - have the disc in my hands as I'm typing this (a co-worker got it... and don't worry, he's the only co-worker ever that I met so far that's into jazz...) There are 16 tracks on the dsics, according the facsimiles of the two fold-outs, "Soul Trombone" had 6 tracks and "Cabin in the Sky" had then. So without yet having aural evidence, it seems to be there! For further information, check the site of Universal Germany here:http://www.jazzecho.de/musik/musikproduktdetail/product/176340/soul-trombone-cabin-in-the-sky/