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ouch! same here... but at least we now know we're drama queens

Sad if that is so, I love the Selects and think they were a great idea!

Yeah, definitely! I held off buying Spanish and Andorran Jamal discs for many years now... didn't want to come across as the kill-joy above, just in case!

Thanks for bumping this thread... played a whole lot of Air last week, as well as the recent Soul Note/Black Saint Threadgill box from CAM Jazz (including two Air and two New Air discs, Song Out of My Trees, Spirit of Nuff... Nuff, and Flutistry), as well as the two About Time discs again. "Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket" was my favourite among them all! The Nessa Air is totally fabulous, too, though, and most likely the best of the bunch of Airs that I played! Oh, and "Just the Facts..." would win just about about every "best album title" contest... now pass the..."

So did he learn it from Juliette Greco or from Jeanne Moreau?

with a sammmich? seriously: thanks for sharing, great story indeed!

Also the Hodges 56-61 has some unissued sessions (or mostly unissued sessions). And I think some of the Pacific jazz sets may also have included some unissued or partly unissued sessions (the Chico Hamilton live, maybe?), and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis contained more from the Village Vanguard dates than was on the Solid State LPs.

Hey, I didn't mention that to suggest you ought to read old posts instead of writing new ones... after all, a google search just turned up the thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1943

Thanks, I have had the Nefertiti set on Revenant for some time, and was wondering if the Montmartre set was of the same classic quality. It's the same... there's only one (details in my previous post). In addition, there's one track with Albert Ayler added on the Revenant Ayler-Box.

There were short silent tracks, I think, but I never heard about anything being defective! It's all there, the Revenant has 12 tracks! I think the story went something like: they had the covers printed already, but then found two more titles, and tagged them to the end of the discs with a pause track. Also I think they mixed up something about titles (though there are none given on the CD - maybe it's just AMG that has them mixed up... a search here would help, it was all discussed several years back) source: http://www.webmutations.com/ceciltaylor/1962.html

Grachan Moncur Select - CD3 (again, to give the "Hipnosis" date another spin)

What they said - but make sure to get the full set, with bonus tracks and all... I think around 2 hours of (mind-blowing) music!

Racine Corneille Molière

Buster Keaton Dolly Buster Dolly Parton

Digging this set now! Yowzah, this is good! Will take me a while to read all the booklet... got set #4055, so this indeed seems to sell pretty fast!

Yup, in "Walkin'" from the "Amsterdam Concert", 1957-12-08, with Barney Wilen & the René Urtreger trio.

As for the "Plugged Nickel", I guess the cheaper used copies on amazon are roughly in the price range I paid for the set back then, 15 years ago... I guess everything up to 200$ is a no-brainer for such a terrific set!

Dunlop not expressive? I respectfully disagree! I can see how you feel about the "routine" that settled down in Monk's music at a certain point, but the quartet with Ore/Dunlop still recorded some of my favourite Monk music!

Yeah, Dunlop may be my favourite Monk drummer!

Very fine indeed! I finally took out my Grachan Moncur Select tonight and had a very first listen to "Evolution" (played discs 1 & 2). Don't think Morgan adds that much, all in all, and Cranshaw is less interesting than Khan and Ridley. I think among the three McLean/Moncur/Hutcherson albums, "Destination Out" will remain my favourite - because of Roy Haynes and because of the great compositions! But it's a very close call! And of course "Some Other Stuff" is excellent, too - but pretty different in mood, more... sombre, dark. I love it! Will play it tomorrow, along with the "Hipnosis" session, which I've never heard either!

I don't even know your real name, but I enjoy your contributions to the various South African jazz threads a lot! Happy Birthday and all the best! :party: With regards from Switzerland

After having made my way through these boxes once by now (two or three of the Pieranunzi albums are still waiting to be played), I have to say I like them very much! GREAT value for the price, and loads of good to great music. Some of the Threadgill is excellent, most of it is very good (though the Nessa Air album beats them all, I think!). The Rava is a bit of mixed bag, but I enjoyed the heck out of it, right down to the electric five with Trovesi! The Haden as well is a mixed bag, though it nicely shows how much of an influence Charlie's earthy bass playing has on the band's he plays with - it's not nearly as much of a ragbag as it may look on paper! The O&ND albums are fine, the trio with Geri Allen has some very good music, and the album with Chet isn't nearly as bad as the guys in the Penguin guide want us to think - but then I guess their assessment of the final album (trio with Pieranunzi and Higgins - same band minus Chet, actually) is a whole lot better and in my opinion, excellent (and most likely beats much or most of what's on the Pieranunzi set... but I'm not done with that one yet, as I said). Anyway, I'd welcome more such boxes, that's for sure!

Well, this seems to be be the new way to bring out box sets. CAM Jazz is doing it with their Soul Note/Black Saint boxes, Universal has done similar sets by Oscar Peterson and Charlie Haden, TCB has done a George Gruntz box that way... and I actually like it, even more so if there's a booklet (which is not the case with the CAM Jazz sets). But 70$ is way too much (on the other hand the $ is low and you're buying a yurpeen product, so you experience some of what we've got when buying US products for much of the past 15 years or so...) I think the best offer nowadays might be from amazon.de, just shy of 40€.

That sounds good! I recently picked up a Lehman disc on Pi - pretty intriguing stuff! And of course I mentioned seing Mahanthappa live twice recently (with Indo-Pak Coalition and in duo with Vijay Iyer). Also bought the disc with Kadri Gopalnath but it hasn't made it on top of the listening pile yet...

Quintet, I presume? Just bought "Jumpin' In" on LP this week, filling another hole in my Holland collection. The latest ones I own though are "Big Band" (ok-ish) and the 2CD live set (which I played a few times three or four years ago but never put on again since...)