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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!

BUT FOR CHRISSAKES AT LEAST MENTION IT'S *ONLY* MP3, OR ELSE WE CD-ONLY GUYS WILL ALL DIE FROM HEARTATTACKS! Thanks for considering!

With "unofficial" you mean CD-Rs?

Yeah, Wilson on the Anderza - one of the good examples, to my ears!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Neither do I. @tranemonk: is there any particular reason for your, uhm, line of reasoning? Any insights that we miss?

There's no need for a new thread at all, since there's one here: I'm sure no one gets mad if you post amazon or other bargains there, similarly to how here no one gets mad about someone posting about cheapo euro rip off sets. mp3, in my understanding, is about tracks, tunes, songs... an mp3 box set is a contradictio in adjecto, at least in my book.

Discs one and two so far, going on for a few more hours... lovely music!