king ubu

No. The stuff on disc 4 of the #1 band set was out before (on Masters of Jazz) and it's worth the price of the set alone! It's absolutely fabulous, some magic Pres there!

Albert Schweitzer Mother Theresa Mother Mary

50 now... waiting for the Herman Capitol... 8 Selects (Weston, Green, Brookmeyer, Amy, Williams, Tyner, 2x Hill) 1 Single (Wiley) That's scary, so many more in just 3 years... an a few hundred other discs, and a dozen or more other box sets... 69 big suckers 23 Selects 9 Singles again three more years gone by... the additional Selects mostly happened because of the great mosaic catastrophe that took place in the meantime...

See post #193 After mocking King Ubu for missing one of my post in the 'Ella in Hollywood' tread, I find myself in the same position for missing an earlier post here. I'll join Ubu in the Organissimo penitents corner

Oh, now I remember... but bear with me, it's almost a year!

I wonder, too... also I never heard about any production issues/errors before!

up - anyone has an idea where jazzdisco.org might have gotten their "early 1953" date from?

I've spoken to a few musicians, told them I enjoyed concerts etc, but the only autograph I got so far is from Rhoda Scott (see the Rhoda thread in the artists section for details). She signed the back of the booklet of the double disc "Very Saxy" that I brought with me, putting a little dedication onto the organ she's playing on the photo there - very nice to have this little memory of that great night!

It was deleted because it made too obvious a reference to bootlegs... or something along those lines. This IS the Miles in Boston thread now!

If pitch is variable, to get it right is a lot of work! I'd not trust any software... if it's wrong at constant speed (or getting faster/slower constantly as the tape runs) that can be fixed. But determinig the offset has to be done by someone with good enough ears... it's not mathematics! I'd not try this myself - I just follow instructions of others who I trust can provide the necessary information.

Terry Bozzio Clark Terry Terry Clark ahm, Terry Clarke, rather...

The bonus track on Lionel Hampton's Impulse album is "Jingle Bells"... quite a bit of fun!

Yes brownie, that's the one this thread was about originally! Very nice set, got to sit down and spend some serious time with it yet though...

Reading all your guesses it becomes obvious to mee how bad I got at recognizing tunes... I was much better at this some years back, but I guess having stopped playing (even if just for my own pleasure) makes a change in that. I love Trane's "Crescent", hence I should have gotten "Lonnie's Lament", and even more so I should have gotten "Filles"!

Verve/Universal is releasing this again as two 2CD sets in January: Vol. 1 & 2 Vol. 3 & 4 Haven't compared the tracklisting yet... Seems to be identical though: 4CD version

DISC TWO #1 - Sounds about like I'd imagine a McCoy Tyner big band to sound... solid stuff, a Jazz Messengers vibe... good tenor! Not Billy Harper by any chance? The tune sounds very familiar, too - even as it can be felt during the solos... #2 - Similar fare... electric bass, but more fine large ensemble music. Good groove! Very good trombone solos! Smooth soft sound on the second. #3 - More slick sequencing... theme sounds like a mexican bolero... lovely! Nice twangy guitar... and another great sax solo here! Very nice, how the balance between the soft and the exciting is kept! #4 - On we go... very good tenor solo, lovely sound! #5 - Oooh, and now we're definitely in Cuba? Nice stuff, but not my home turf, so I can't say too much about it. #6 - Another groove... guitar has a slightly arab feel to it, sounding similar to an oud here and there. Nice how it builds and releases tension. And another piece with two guitars - who'd have thunk it?! #7 - Great bass opening! Wow, this is nice! Soothing melody... or rather melodies, layered on top of each other by trumpet, alto, tenor, before the go into a theme with the tenor providing counterpoint... very good tenor solo, with fine bass accompaniment and some good sparse drumming (not recorded nicely though, the drums). Got to repeat this one... lovely! The alto almost sounds like a soprano in its first line! Love this one! #8 - Another nice and moody piece with slight hints at tango in the rhythm... nice one, but fails to grab me as much as the preceding track, though the trumpet solo beginning halfway in is very nice! #9 - Nice groove, catchy piano! Lovely tenor... catchy tune that does sound somewhat familiar. Like this one! #10 - Yowzah! Love this one with the accordion and the different rhythms stacked... very cool! Two accordions? Really? And here's a warm guitar sound I enjoy! #11 - Oh, what's that tune again? A staple! Love it! Solo guitar... not something I listen too often, Joe Pass would be the first to come to mind... or Lenny Breau. But I'm not familiar with neither's output, really. A lovely closer! Thanks a lot for the ride, Tom! Enjoyed it!

Happy Birthday, Jim!

There's another cheapo live boot 3CD set duplicating the Stratford set on disc 2 but also including a 1953 Blue Note, Chicago (disc 1) and a 1968 Vienna set - all for 4€.

One more thing... the question arose if this is really from Feb. 1955 (as given by Losin, too) - someone mentioned this might rather be from 1953? I'm no expert in Miles' schedule and when he had what band, but February 1955 would fall in place as a one-nighter... he only had his quintet later in 1955, right? And the Silver/Heath/Blakey (or Silver/Heath/Klook) unit wasn't regularly touring with him, I assume? They were just assembled for studio gigs regularly? I'll soon have speed-fixed files available (more via PN!)

I think it does go beyond that... but I can imagine hearing it, too... to me I guess seeing him live was the decisive moment that made me "get" him. No gimmicks, serious stuff, yet not without humour.

How 'bout Dhafer Yousef? I have a few of his discs and once saw him live - astonishing! How he mixes his pure oud sound, amazing (wordless) voice and adds ambient elements and some electronics (via his bands, not himself... Eivind Aarset, Markus Stockhausen...). I can't listen to it on any day, but every now and then I love his stuff!

That's exactly right about the slip-in page with the CD info; I have several of the early Mosaic CD editions. You already know that there's some fabulous music on that set. Yes, that's why I spent some $$ to get it (135$ to be exact... and it slipped through customs without trouble, luckily). I've got two early vinyls (Tina Brooks and Art Pepper), but then there's quite a gap... I think the next ones I have are in the 130s. From about the 150s/160s on I have most of what I wanted. But it's always a thrill when I get a chnce to grab another earlier one!

YOWZAH! enjoying looking at the Hall/Johnson/De Paris/Dickenson Mosaic (CD-version) that just arrived! know much of the music already, but this does look nice, very nice! the page with the cd-tracklists is a loose sheet, slightly smaller, put inside the booklet - was that how they presented their early CD-versions, with the booklet being just for the LP-version and thus they had to add an additional page?

This is some GREAT music... gee, I might still need it for the cover and the notes, although I do have the AEC box already...

ok, after all the fuss... I just finished disc one - some very nice stuff, mostly recent-ish, some of it suffering from the very same that lots of recent NYC mainstream jazz seems to suffer... but some of it very, very nice! so then, I've not read anything above, typed while listening... not many guesses, really, just some impressions. will not read here before having posted my impressions on disc two (tomorrow hopefully). DISC ONE #1 - Hm, I have a definitive feeling I should be able to pin these guys down... twin guitars... nice repetitive lines, very warm sound... touches of Metheny or Frisell, but these are younger guys, right? More likely someone such as Shepik, Cardenas... touches of Chris Speed, the Claudia Quintet... that kind of bag. Nice but not capturing my attention all that much in the end. #2 - Very good one! Great soprano sound, with a little bit of a husky sound... and just the right amount of "cry" in between to loosen it up a bit. Very nice touches from the drummer (those soft, soft rolls!). No clue really, but sounds like a pretty recent performance, too... a shot in the dark: Jane Ira Bloom (with Fred Hersch)? Ah, there's a 'bone in the ensemble, too... hm, no idea really who this might be, but this is nice! #3 - You seem to like your music high-pitched, huh? Nice arrangement here... jumpy piano solo... I like it more and more as it goes along. Nice alto solo... solid phrasing... Kenny Garrett? The drummer gets pretty busy - like it! And it does swing! #4 - Ooooh, nice! What's that tune again? Love it! Clarinet with strings... sounds marvellous! It's a Coltrane ballad, isn't it? Lovely clarinet playing! Oh, what's this now? Is this Trovesi? These rhythms with the tambourine or whatever it is... hm, the piano gets a bit too... easy-flowing simplish. Loved the opening and the clarinet solo, but then it kind of gets lost. #5 - South of the border... what kind of rhythms are these? Dense arrangement, nice flowing trumpet with a soft and classy sound. Dizzy's influence looms all over this... the hand drums and all the percussion gets a bit too much now and then, but the solos flow nicely on top of the rhythms and the bass carries it. #6 - Ooh, squeezebox... Dave Douglas and Guy Klucevsek are my first thought here... Charms of the Night Sky territory... but of course there's guitar and no violin... very nice! Sentimental, but never quite kitschy. And the bass keeps a good groove going all the time. Touches of "Love for Sale" early on... and some "Poinciana" kind of stuff. No clue who these guys could really be, but it's charming! #7 - More accordion here... and the tune is familiar of course, Miles second quintet material, or slightly later... one of the endlessly flowing open tunes (Directions?). Nice with the bass clarinet, accordion, vibes, double bass... and another lyrical trumpet soloist on top. Very good! This is one of my favorites so far! Good tenor, and a very nice arrangement! #8 - More similar stuff - very groovy! Great barisax accompaniment... very nice sound here, sparse and clear. Cool moment as the barisax begins the solo! Rough and tumble... ah, no solo really, more like a dialogue. Good stuff! Are there two drummers here? Another favorite, for sure! (And yes, I gave up the guessing/name-dropping by now... most of this seems to be from recent times and I'm not familiar with too much recent jazz of this sort... some of it I might enjoy better in a live setup, but this one here's fine!) #9 - Good sequencing, Jeff! This one I like a bit less though. Good groove, but the solo guitar sounds too thin and distorted, more Sco in there. #10 - Sorry to say, but by now the sound of several of the tracks gets a bit same-ish... tenor, guitar, double bass... nothing bad about this, but it just flows a bit too easily... Chris Cheek and Kurt Rosenwinkel are musicians that come to mind. I'm often having a hard time articulating what bothers me (or fails to grab me) about their music, and it's the same here... there's no fault to it, but it has a slightly cold feeling to me, even though the tenor solo is pretty good. Oh wait, there are two tenors... the second one, entering after the long solo has a less Coltrane-ish sound (did he have a longer solo first, too?)... anyway, no time to repeat now, and as is often the case with such contemporary jazz, my mind would wander again and not pay attention during a repeated listen either... #11 - Ha, what's that again? Fun stuff! Electric bass makes for a change in sound... gots his Jaco down... again twin guitars... that seems to be a sound you enjoy particularly? But this again feels rather cold-ish to me, I'm sorry to say. And the bass does get somewhat obtrusive. Thanks for the ride, Jeff! Looking forward to disc two now! The opening tune sounds good so far!