king ubu

As in "your eyes are too bad" or as in "you're not used to read music anymore"?

Thanks! Hmmm...I may just get the CD, it's certainly easier to find & probably cheaper than the vinyl at this point. Thanks for checking that, I really appreciate it. I think the whie on blue of the inlay could easily be changed with some software... but I wonder: are these two short bits actually the complete "lead sheets" of these two songs? Will have to check them out while playing the disc next time!

Yes yes yes! Bring them on... I hope the impression that these are selling well is indeed true and they'll go on with them for a while! A Giorgio Gaslini box of later material might also be cool (though I have several of his discs from that time), to complement (the hopefully continuing) "Integrale" anthology!

Hope not... I want a Mal Waldron box, a Lacy box, a Muhal box, etc etc etc

No, it is a jewel case edition, however with the same contents. Ok, would you please put it aside for me? I'll drop you an email later!

Warne Marsh Pete Christlieb Tom Waits

Is the Jaspar the recent digipack? I'd be happy to get it for a "zehnernötli" :-) And maybe combine that with a beer or a cup of coffee some day?

So I am the only one with a goofy CD here, it seems!? As I said, I take offers... list price for this one on amazon.de (it's still in print) is almost 20€ (these "Master Sessions" went from mid- to high-prize somewhen in the late 90s, from one day to another). Crazy! Now in all seriousness: what would you folks do? Just buy another one? Or buy the "Originals"? Or try and get a replacement (we're talking 14 years...) in the store where I got it, or by writing to Universal Switzerland (risking in both cases that IF at all I'll get something, I end up with the "Originals" disc, which misses "Vilia", the nice bonus track, which I also have in the 8CD "Classic Quartet" set, though...) - what would you do?

btw, the amazon-listing for the "Originals" reissue gives no timings - thank you: http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Birdland-John-Coltrane/dp/B0018RWD68/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1276644073&sr=1-2 the MP3/download edition that can be bought is the "master edition" (1996, which I have the faulty one of - wrong cover on amazon.com, right one on amazon.de): http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Birdland-John-Coltrane/dp/B000003N8O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1276644073&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.de/Live-At-Birdland/dp/B001SQPVMW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1276644170&sr=8-2-spell

Gee - can I get a free replacement after all these years?! At this very moment, I feel like I was screwed by GRP/MCA/Verve/Universal for 14 years with no intermission!

Yes, "Made in the EC" - gee, I am so ANGRY about this! Edit: must have bought this soon after it came out (somewhen in 1996).

I'm just reading in the "Coltrane Reference" (p. 689) that IMPD 198 (CD) contained a wrong master tape for "Afro Blue", running 8:05 instead of 10:40 (Tyner's solo deleted). Now I pop in my 1996 GRP CD (one of the old Impulse Digipack CDs, IMP 11982, with "Vilia" from 1963--03-06 as bonus track), and that one also has that "Afro Blue" at 8:07!!! (I guess that's what the "Coltrane Reference" refers to as as IMPD 198... as in 11982) I've had this disc for so many years and never noticed this goof! Is the "Impulse Originals" fixed? Where the hell can I get an ok version of this? I'm really pissed right now, this is such a fabulous album and I've known it since I was in highschool and into jazz newly... and I've never, not ONCE, heard the actual master take of "Afro Blue" - friggin' unbelievable! Can anyone confirm that the "Impulse Originals" has the correct version? And does anyone want to give me 100$ for the effin' rarity I seem to have bought? (The Coltrane Reference says "Although most copies were recovered and destroyed, a few (no one know exactly how many) made it out in the marketplace, especially overseas [yeah, them merikins like to eff us yurpeens, we know that!] (where release dates are usually earlier to prevent piracy). But the fiasco does not seem to have ended there: There are now releases available with the timing on the liner notes 'corrected' to show 8:05 [mine gives '8:07'], rather than the correct 10:40. In some cases, the CD has the full "Afro Blue," but in others the incomplete master has been used." I just can't effin' believe this right now! Was anyone here aware of this???

Not a mistake as such but the disk 7 "Impressions" is definitely not Stuttgart. No one seems to know where it comes from but the Stuttgart performance has been widely circulated and this isn't it. Yes, that's being taken care of in the note at the end of my little inlay - the "Coltrane Reference" puts it with the preceding material of the box, 63-11-02 Berlin. The session notes there say: In the November 2, 1963 entry of the chronology (pp. 289-290) there's a shortened reprint of a concert review, in which it says about "Impressions": "Nevertheless: to fulfill himself he perhaps needs an opponent like Jones; this might be inferred from the almost endless duel he had with the drums at the end - while Tyner and Garrison watched the fight of the two masters with noticeable pleasure. At first it seemed as if both exhausted themselves completely, like drummers and dancers in the blackest Africa who only stop when they lie on the ground - foam at the mouth. But thank God they finished civilized, and amid the applause they left the stage as relaxed as if they had been through a conference, not an orgy. As I said, rationality is called for." ("Black Dionysos: John Coltrane and his quartet at the Freie Universität," by "G.G.," in Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 6, 1963 - quoted from "Coltrane Reference", pp. 289-290). I love these contemporary reviews with all their flaws and prejudice! They're great documents to capture the mood of those bygone times when this music still had the power and force to shock people (even music lovers and critics).

Dana Andrews Julie Andrews Julie Tippets

Nettie Moore Absolutely Sweet Marie Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Very sad news!

Pig Pen Penny Lane Eric Dolphy

Btw, as with all the Trane boots around, some tracks of the box seem to run at wrong speed... I can't provide details about that, however - my ears aren't sharp enough to tell, usually.

Takeshi Kitano Toshiro Mifune Akira Kurosawa

Valerie Plame Olof Palme Abba

That brings back memories of the Art Blakey Bohemia disc (can't recall which volume) that used to be in the shelves of a local store for quite a while... it contained some silly acid jazz crap... a friend and I who both wanted to buy these Bohemia discs returned there several times, to find they still had that (or maybe several) faulty copy in their bins. The printing on the CD was giving Blakey and all the info you'd actually expect... but us being 13 or 14 back then, we didn't dare to inquire, being afraid we might be accused of having exchanged the disc or whatever... so we just returned until they had good copies, eventually

Sol LeWitt Al Levitt Sean Levitt

I'm tempted by this one, although I really can't afford it right now. It's strictly instrumental, isn't it? No, it's just the trio with Cole on piano & vocals. The set is very good, but it's been some time that I played it and honestly I don't remember how many of the 71 titles are instrumentals. Cuscuna puts it like this: The booklet, btw, is designed fancily but ultimately contains little of interest. Discs 1 and 2 are entirely by the Cole-Moore-Miller trio (1946-47), disc three is by Cole-Ashby-Miller (#1-6, late 1947) and by Cole-Ashby-Comfort-Constanzo (#7-23, two sessions, 1949-26 and 1950-03-09). I found the box rather cheaply in a store here when it came out (2005) - I'd say get it if the price is right!

Oh yes! Though I'd be happier to get some complete concerts (which would have meant a box for each of the three tours, I guess). There's some more with Dolphy that I love!

I've never understood that concept about index points... never even had a player capable of finding them. I guess that's a purely classical music thing?