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Cool! (For someone who owns the big sucker: again, is that the same that was on the DVD included there?) Several of these sets were recently re-broadcast in very, very good quality... will be great to have those officially, for sure! The old boots I guess have mostly long been surpassed in quality by what's circulating among collectors/traders. Rooster: it will most likely be the Antwerp concert, not the Rotterdam (though that one's around in excellent quality, too). Rooster: it will most likely be the Antwerp concert, not the Rotterdam (though that one's around in excellent quality, too). I love how the forum doesn't display new additions to the post and then they're there twice... I love how the forum doesn't display new additions to the post and then they're there twice...

The ones I could buy are ordered by years, not by artists. And the booklets are dedicated to two bandleaders each, and included track-by-track comments, too... guess I'll have to return tomorrow to check again!

I grew to like Peterson a lot - and me, myself, was most surprised of it! Got to check out the Iverson post, thanks for mentioning it!

Not sure... I'm totally unfamiliar with Time Life, sorry. Might be these: http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/time-life/04swing/04swing.html So they'd be re-recordings... didn't have enough time to really read anything, but the booklets had portraits of two artists each (bandleaders), then there was a track-by-track part, which upon quick glance looked like it was all different bands, but it always said "xxx version" after the track title, so it wasn't the original tune but rather someone's version... and to note that would make lots of sense if it was indeed the Billy May re-recordings. And 1930-1936 is definitely missing - each 3LP box covers two years. (I mean: missing in the used book store where I saw them.)

Hm... silly me didn't take any notes... saw a series (5 boxes) of 3LP sets dedicated to the big band era today, could pick them up very cheaply (about 30$ for all of them, maybe 35$ now that the $ is worth shit). Anyone knows more about these sets? Each of them covers two years... didn't yet have a closer look... went to the used bookstore, then to watch the damsels of Rochefort (lovely!) and in the meantime forgot what these darn boxes were called exactly... rings a bell with anyone? Recommended?

Rotterdam (most recent radio broadcast on VARA in 2005): 1. Footprints [inc/fade-in] 5:42 2. 'Round Midnight 7:27 3. No Blues 13:09 4. On Green Dolphin Street 9:23 5. Riot 4:24 6. Masqualero 7:27 Older versions had an announcement and the full "Footprints". Can anyone who has the DVD from the big Miles box compare the setlists of the known parts of Stockholm and Karlsruhe? Here's what was on the Miles '67 Tree - is all of it on the DVD? Stockholm - 1967-10-31 1. Agitation > 2. Footprints > 3. 'Round Midnight > 4. Gingerbread Boy > 5. The Theme Karlsruhe - 1967-11-07 1. Agitation > 2. Footprints > 3. 'Round Midnight > 4. No Blues > 5. Masqualero > 6. I Fall in Love Too Easily > 7. Riot > 8. Walkin' 9. On Green Dolphin Street > 10. Gingerbread Boy > 11. The Theme

Lil Greenwood, 1960 (source)

r.i.p. Lil Lil with Duke & Billy Strayhorn

Here's one from the old place in Hackensack, NJ: Courtesy of Robert Levin's page one more - Bill Evans Trio: and Wes Montgomery: all three found here

Very cool! Though of course I was hoping for a larger box... What's going to be on the DVD? Wasn't there a 1967 European concert DVD inside the big Miles box? What concert was used there? Re: Bootleg Series: they did a pair of Johnny Cash sets, too - but they're fairly recent releases.

Found the Vogue reissue (titled "Blues March") of the first Roulette album (originally titled "Backgammon"). Haven't yet played it, but would have passed by if it wasn't for this thread... heard "Keystone 3" many, many years ago (a highschool friend had it), guess it would be one to look for... also plan to get the Sesjun set (but want the J.J. Johnson more badly there! Got the Chet and Evans).

Thanks a lot, Niko! The rhythm section is given in the Jazzwax post from May: Moe Wechsler (piano), George Duvivier (bass) and Gary Chester (drums)

Great cover! As for additional music: would be cool... but a Japanese reissue won't include any, will it?

And what album is that anyway? Or what albums, if there are indeed two?

I've bought several Argentinian pressings (Verve, Nonesuch and possibly others) - they all seem to be perfectly fine and as far as I know identical with US or Euro releases. There are "marketplace" vendors from Argentina selling these on sites such as priceminister.com.

I'm with Hans, liking the quartet box quite a lot - it was rather revelatory for me to be able to hear all the sessions in chronological order! However, I do feel sorry about having sold a few of the individual discs... so I bought several of them again in the meantime.

Happy Birthday, Kenny! :party:

Don't know... just age I think, but others certainly will know more.

Yes! It was a bit of a relief since I've heard a few stories that his playing was like that of Peterson post-stroke... sort of having very limited means and acquitting his style to them. Not an impression I ever got during the concert! But he does look old and frail - my impression was he kind of switched gears once he started playing. And I was there to help him fetch his bag from under the piano both times he walked out (after the concert and again after the solo encore). The least a young person can do to help him!

discs one & two just got this... fantastic!

Spent a rather great night in St. Moritz yesterday. Sat at the bar, half a meter to McCoy Tyner's side, so I had clear sight of his fingers all night long... and caught many of the other guys' (Gary Bartz, Gerald Cannon, Joe Farnsworth) smiles and glances at their leader. Tyner seemed frail when walking to the piano, but once he was seated and started playing, he was completely on, powerful left hand riffs and ostinati, great rhythms, his daring quick-fingered runs and those weird intervals... it was all there. Also he lowly sings along with nearly every solo and has a wonderful voice... the band was good... they did one roughly 90 minute set, mostly of Tyner originals (which I couldn't really name), in between he did a standard (again, I knew it but don't know its title) without Bartz, and as an encore, there was a truly beautiful piano solo. For those who read german, I put up a much longer account here: http://forum.rollingstone.de/showpost.php?p=2505879&postcount=16

Happy Birthday, Agustín!

When did Associated Press start going into SACDs?

Will catch McCoy Tyner's quartet at the Festival da Jazz in St. Moritz - rather excited about it!

That's better now, thanks!