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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/

The front cover, yes, but did you see one or read my detailed description above? I was very positively surprised!

I think it is, but I only looked at the facsimiles of the LP covers in the booklet. There are a few tracks (two, I think?) with rather weak singing on the second album... but other than that, I thought it was pretty much ok. Too bad about the Fuller, wasn't aware of that!

I think you meant Shirley Scott. But on the topic of Rhoda (and organists w/big band), have you heard the record she did with Thad & Mel? Yes, sure I meant Shirley, sorry! Must still be under the impression of that great night with Rhoda last November... just had that CD in my hands yesterday that she signed for me back then!

I've got the Rollins, Ayler, Sanders, Rhoda Scott (why were those tracks with Nelson omitted from the Mosaic?) and the Shepp. Some of these are silly, the Ayler mostly so, as it would have been a good idea to combine "The Last Album" with "Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe", as they were done during the same sessions. But then I say the Alice C. is silly... as "Universal Consiousness" was part of the LPR series (as was "Music Is the Healing Force")... anyway, more releases are being promised (in the booklet of the Rollins where due to the second album not having had a fold-out cover, there are two empty pages they used to print the listing and a note at the end that says "to be continued"). I'll skip the Hawkins, Tyner, Ellington and Blakey as I have all of them. Have none of the Jamal and Jackson but half of th Elvin (Dear John C) and three quarters of the Szabo (on the old Master Edition digipack of "The Sorcerer"), but I guess I'll grab that because the music is darn good! Oh, and the covers are very nicely done inside! These are 12-page booklets, so you get the crappy outside cover (p.1 and p.12) and you get the session info/tracklists (p.2 and p.11), and in between you get facsimiles of the foldout covers (p. 3 is the front of the first album, p.4/5 the inside, p.6 the back, same for the second album with p.7, p.8/9 and p.10). I didn't expect that after seeing the crappy front covers!

some previous discussion here:

Same here, except I got the music when it first came out (on vinyl). Bought the first three LPs and skipped the fourth one! This seems to be the general consensus (that CD4 isn't that interesting), which is probably why it didn't circulate as much and is the most expensive now... Yeah but disc 4 has Jimmy Smith and Lou Donaldson plus some Kenny Burrell. I do know from reading about this concert, Alfred Lion wanted Hank Mobley to play, but Hank was no longer playing. He was in the audience. I wonder how hard it must have been for him seeing all his colleagues up on stage and he couldn’t be a part of the celebration. Not on the vinyl.. it has Charles Lloyd and this guitar player.... Jordan? What's that "that a friend" has? Inofficial? Check AMG for the contents of the four albums (CDs - same as on my LPs).

Just dug out my LPs - the tracklists on the CDs are identical, indeed. Not sure how the whole thing compares to the four discs mentioned in the first post. But CD and LP releases seem to be 100% same.

your jokes are fun... but can I please get my copy signed by Wynetone?

Got your package today, Eric - thanks a lot!

Yeah, I have "Chitinous" as released in 1971 in my notes, too - fantastic album, just played it (the Dutton Vocalion CD) again recently. A classic in my house!

There was a little "tree" with this going on here, a while ago... but in the meantime I snatched the four LPs - single LPs, no box or anything, but I got them all together in very good (mint or whatever them vnylists call it) shape for a good price. Haven't really played them all yet, though...

Count Basie - Standing Ovation (MCA-29005)

Another one from yesterday's haul: Laurent De Wilde - Odd and Blue (IDA 1989), with Ira Coleman and Jack DeJohnette. Let's see if those "five spots" from Jazz Hot (sticker on the bottom left, mine has that one but not the "choc" sticker on top) were justified. Beginning is fine, but sound is, well, 80s...

A Musical Offering by Don Elliott Got the UK HMV edition yesterday. Pretty nice stuff!

Please don't take my comment as a verdict on what "our" Bill did or did not. The mere thought about what these criminals have possibly and likely done is making me feel sick! I'd honestly prefer living in a world were such things would never, ever, happen at all, it's utterly disturbing, no matter who did or does it, I just wish no one ever did even think of doing such things!

This is indeed sickening and very disturbing.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday, Lon! :party: