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behead them! all of them! the Swedish and Belgian and Dutch and Bourbons and whomever is left... all the German junkers, too... yowzah, that would be a feast!

I guess you can generalize... and some of these boxes are VERY crappy. Worst I've seen (and, alas!, bought) is the Lionel Hampton 10CD set, where several discs contain just 30 minutes of music and sessions are so jumbled it's nearly impossible to find out the details with help of Lord or Bruyninckx, even! Same applies for lots of the Quadromania boxes (though some, such as the Gene Ammons or James Moody, are pretty nicely programmed - while others such as the Wild Bill Davison or Pee Wee Russell have sessions spread all over and in case of Condon dates sometimes duplicated or split up between sets...) On the other hand, my ears aren't that discriminating, and I'm happy having the Artie Shaw and Sydney Bechet 10CD sets and will hold on to those Quadromanias, even if it's just to fill some gaps...

No, can't afford it right now. Alas, alas...

Whoah - amazing stuff there... 300€ for the Tina Brooks? That's tempting to sell mine... but no, I'd never be willing to part with it in the end! The Hodes is the one I'd want most badly (the Commodores... forget it, way too expensive!) But anyway, I got that Amos Milburn (CD version) today and that already feels like x-mas and all that other crap in one day!

Good suggestions, all of them! (At least all of what I know, but that's most of what has been mentioned.) Check out some of the live stuff... several releases out on Cuneiform - the first one to get might be "Eclipse at Dawn", from the 1971 Berlin Jazz Days. Feza was absent that night... but the band's on fire, and the late Harry Beckett plays some mighty fine solos! Big YES also for the suggestion of Hugh Masekela's "Home Is Where the Music Is". Burning stuff from Dudu Pukwana! And Moholo has been mentioned, so have McGregor and Dudu and Feza... THE BLUE NOTES! The 5CD Box on Ogun is some of the finest ZA jazz you'll ever hear! There's also a disc on Proper with some more early stuff ("Township Bop"). Harry Miller, too... his Ogun 3CD set is long gone, alas. Some great stuff there, mainly the Isipingo, but also the solo album! One Miller disc easy to find and very much worth having is also on Cuneiform, Which Way Now. More Miller can be found on a disc by Reel Recordings (which I still need to get - they have some other interesting things on offer). As for Abdullah Ibrahim... I suggest the small groups with Carlos Ward (Zimbabwe or South Africa, both on Enja), the large ensemble albums "African Marketplace" (Elektra) and the earlier "African Space Programme" (Enja). And of course any or all of the KAZ/Camden reissues of his African recordings from the 70s. Brilliant music there! We've had some threads dedicated to Ibrahim, Kippie Moeketsi and ZA jazz in general, a search will turn them up, I think (if general searches don't help, search for Moeketsi or Coetzee or any others of the guys and you'll find them).

Yowzah! It just made it here... brand-spanking-new Amos Milburn #173, discs were still sealed... cost: about 130US$

Big for the Mankunku! Also the compilation mentioned by mwtga is terrific! Got that one recently... need to give it another spin soon!

I got your back, Roi Ubu. Those are my choices exactly. That's the band I first thought of... "Free for All" might be THE Blakey album for me - first I heard... before "Moanin'" (second I heard), so yes, the Golson/Morgan edition is up there, too! Hm, I finally found the BN CD of this one... some others I enjoy better, including the VIK ones (Night in Tunisia, Lerner & Loewe) and of course the Atlantic with Monk! As for favorite obscure Messengers: the three cuts with Ira Sullivan and Wilbur Ware are pretty cool, too!

The original ones (KD, Mobley, Silver, Watkins, Blakey), followed, I think, by the Morgan, Shorter, Timmons, Merritt ones (with honorary mention to the transitional edition w/Mobley back! I love the live recording by that unit! Chicken an' Dumplins anyone?)

Thanks for letting us know... got to watch this in quiet tomorrow! Too bad I don't understand sh*t when they're speaking Dutch!

Bootleggers/Pirates usually don't know or care about proper pitch, and don't/can't be bothered with fixing it when it appears. Their only interest is a hit-and-run getting the product out there. Of course! But it shouldn't happen with jazz live broadcasts on a radio station that uses top sound guys like Martin Pearson!

I know it's not exact science of course, yes. I'm no good in determining the pitch offsets, but if I get exact information, I can do such fixes - it's indeed pretty easy. The Miles in Amsterdam 1957 set with Barney Wilen is another one that suffers from wrong speed, btw. It's a not uncommon problem. Either the original recorder speed was off, or, I suspect, the tapes had been frequently played over the years & had stereched just enough to affect pitch on playback. More amazing, it still happens nowadays... I remember in particular one broadcast on Swiss radio that was wrong by quite some. And that was in the late 90s - no idea how that can happen in our digital age.

Ah, never mind... we can't help it, alas, if amazon and everyone else is selling that crap - maybe we should sent Sue Mingus... No need to feel stupid. I was just checking every forum here and doing searches with no luck... thanks for explaining!

I know it's not exact science of course, yes. I'm no good in determining the pitch offsets, but if I get exact information, I can do such fixes - it's indeed pretty easy. The Miles in Amsterdam 1957 set with Barney Wilen is another one that suffers from wrong speed, btw.

Jim, can you confirm it's exactly a half step? If so, that wouldn't be too much work to fix... (but first I gotta lay hands on this, of course - and where is Larry's thread to which I replied? I can't seem to find it any more!)

Thanks a lot, would be terrific if you'd come up with some review or ad or anything! Thanks in advance!

Sorry to hear of your loss, Kevin. Always tough to lose one of these little creatures! Our cat: Our neighbours' cat, out in the staircase: The two of them, he doing some kind of submission tango: And ours again, out in the "wild": Sorry for the bad quality and for being too lazy to make the images smaller...

up for the weekend crowd!

Nah, Rolf ain't "nouvelle vague", he's old school!

GA's on my mind... but still I forgot to send best wishes in time Belated congratulations! :party:

I ordered the Amos Milburn from somewhere else today (a regular mailing I get from a small Swiss vendor) - no idea if it really comes through, probably just a single box, but I ordered as soon as I got the mail, so I do hope I was the fastest! Would be oh so great!

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Great, thanks a lot! I remember reading your post last year and was dying to hear some of the music!