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Caught them in Zurich. Two blazing, amazing sets - my head was spinning and my ears bleeding for a whole day... Brötzmann played alto, tenor and taragato. McPhee played pocket trumpet and some fine alto (him and Brötz did an alto duel in the second set). Gustafsson was mostly on baritone, solid but rarely exciting, and at the end he also played his fluteophone. Vandermark was surprisingly good on tenor as well as clarinet (I'm no big fan). Holmlander (who was plain amazing all the way through) also played the cimbasso. The drumming of Nilssen-Love was outstanding (so good to have him instead of Hamid Drake, sorry to say), and so was the trombone playing of Jeb Bishop - what force (they played unamplified, except for the bass and cello). Also it was amazing how McPhee could project through this massive wall of sound...

Just had to check... #11 is part of the Stitt Mosaic. Most of these have been around in the bins, but I've never seen #19, #25, #28 (it's in the Joe Pass Mosaic). Also it's nice to see the Sonny Criss and Chico Hamilton albums in there... it's a pretty interesting selection, I'd say! The Laurindo Almeida was part of the two "Brazilliance" discs, I assume?

Yeah, just the final three cuts of CD 4 for the Coltrane demos. While this music is fantastic of course, this definitely strikes me as just about the most superfluous box set I've ever seen. It looks like 6 complete albums (all very available) and then the 3 demos. I believe any other bonus tracks have already been released, as on the Complete Africa Brass. And all albums everyone already has anyway... Gil Evans' magnificient "Out of the Cool", "Africa/Brass" (at least all of it is in there! For those having the recent "Impulse Original" single disc, they get the full 2CD "Impulse Master Sessions" digipack contents, and that's one great reissue!), "The Blues and the Abstract Truth"... the one I don't yet have is the Ray Charles, but there's a 2CD edition of it out now, adding "My Kind of Jazz", "My Kind of Jazz II", & "My Kind of Jazz III". The Kai Winding album seems to be the rarest of the bunch: The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones. But then I guess it's also the least interesting of the bunch. Double and triple hmmmms... As for most unneeded box sets, Coltrane Legacy runs a close second... a full four discs of well-known Trane, with ONE rarity, namely the entire 1965 set from which only "Nature Boy" had previously been available (CD4#4).

Great! I've been a huge fan of Hal's ever since discovering the ECM "Hal Russell Story"! There isn't nearly as much as there should be of his!

Thanks a lot for weighing in, Chuck! I guess first I'll order the ones new to me (now how about shipping the Ha Russell LP to yurp? or is a[n expanded?] CD reissue planned of that one as well?) and then decide later on about the AEC music (which I've been loving for what must now be around 15 years!)

Chuck may offer his opinion, but I much prefer the sound of the new reissues over the sound on the AEC box. If Chuck hadn't done the reissues, I could have lived with the box. Now I'll probably only listen to the reissues. And you get all the great photos, too! I love those in all the new Nessa reissues! High quality printing of the booklets, too! I guess I'm sold anyway...

Some voices on later Atlantic productions... Eddie Harris comes to mind first and foremost, Lateef has been mentioned, I guess there's some on Fathead albums, too (I might have some). Stan Getz did one, too ("Voices" from 1966 - Manfred Schoof has one with that title but no voices, coincidentally). Shepp's "Cry of My People" and some other tracks on other later Impulse albums have some cuts with voice.

Chuck, I'll order once you're back! That Eddie Johnson looks mighty tasty and I still need the Braxton/McDonough, too... Can you ship the Russell/Williams LP overseas or will that cost a fortune? And what are the opinions (including yours Chuck, I'm really interested!) regarding the AEC box vs. the new single/double disc sets?

Sorry, I'm a bit slow today... so it's just the final three cuts, huh? Hm...

Wow, lots of Coltrane there! Will definitely look for this! Or wait, is some of it from the regular release?

Happy Birthday, Mark!

Thought I'd help out, mike! Good to know the one Gulda is worth getting, thanks! Will also get "Missing Link", I think. The Mangelsdorffs all used to be part of the "complete" edition Universal Germany put out a few years ago ("Originals Vol. 1" and "Originals Vol. 2" each containing five albums on five single discs in separate jewel cases in a filmsy box; "Live" was a 2CD set containing the two live albums and "Solo" a 2CD set containing the three solo albums... or was that 2 solos on 2 cds and 3 live on 2cds? Either way, two 5CD sets, two 2CD sets, plus "Albert Mangelsdorff & Friends", still available in its previous form from around 2004 or so, also in Universal's MPS reissue series.)

crap, you beat me! I wonder, what does "promo" mean? Any difference from the regular boxes?

Very good news!

Albert Mangelsdorff - A Jazz Tune I Hope Albert Mangelsdorff - The Wide Point Albert Mangelsdorff - Birds Of Underground Albert Mangelsdorff - Never Let It End Attila Zoller / Hans Koller / Albert Mangelsdorff - Zo-Ko-Ma Friedrich Gulda - Music For 4 Soloists And Band No.1 Friedrich Gulda - As You Like It Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass - The Catfish Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass - Scenes Volker Kriegel - Lift Volker Kriegel - Inside: Missing Link Dave Pike Set - Infra-Red Dave Pike Set - Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise

Thanks everyone... off to the dentist's soon, hope to be better after that!

Haven't bothered to read anything yet... but enjoy the box a lot!

I'll have to get "Faces"! The "Latin Kaleidscope" album was part of an earlier twofer titled "Three Latin Adventures" (it was paired with "Fellin 712" there).

It's past midnight over here, so I'm handing over my reign, crown, warts an'all to Aggie87! All the best, Erik, and many happy returns! :party:

Thanks a lot everyone! Bad luck day losing (well it's not lost, but it did fall out) my effing temporary front tooth during birthday dinner in the restaurant tonight... yawn... as if this whole darn thing of having to replace a tooth that's been dead for (by now about) two thirds of my life and had seen lots of work done with an implant isn't enough (it will take most of this year it seems). Ah well, other than that I'm doing fine and have no major trouble to complain about... so that's that... Guess I'll look *much* worse than Lauren Hutton tonight... ... but then I always do, anyway

Thanks a lot, everyone! One of the gifts I just got is a night at the Schaffhausen Jazzfestival! Mêre ubu will join the proceedings as the parade will be off to catch: - Omri Ziegele Where’s Africa Trio (with Irène Schweizer & Makaya Ntshoko) - Miniatur Orchester (led by sax player Araxi Karnusian - check her out, she's good! Her website's down, but a sample can be found here: http://www.yvp-music.de/3147.htm) - Malcolm Braff Voltage (with Patrice Moret & Marc Erbetta) Looking forward to that! Malcolm Braff is a treat each time, and I've not nearly seen Ms Schweizer as often as I should have!

There's mess done in Billy Bang's great "Vietnam: The Aftermath" (Justin Time, rec. 2001). The timings given on the traycard (and not repeated elsewhere) are totally wrong, Sonny Fortune is said to play flute on #7 and #8 but there he is on #6...

Is mikeweil's Patterson disco still around here somewhere? Best source of information for such questions!

so how do Schopenhauer and exta-sensory go together?

Yay! Leave me some of that cake, Marcel! Thanks everyone!