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Bright Moments! Bright Moments!

Hey I just love Eddie's stuff - nothing wrong with that I hope!

I'd have loved a huge Eddie Harris set, too! Probably 15ish? Also Roland Kirk, of course! Would have been a great companion to the Mercury box, but having all the 32Jazz discs and some more on Rhino is cool as well!

BTW, the Ornette box set on Rhino/Atlantic is fabulously done also, sort of along the same lines as the Coltrane box set. Yep, the Mingus too. [...] Yup, all three great boxes! But with the Ornette, the booklet might eventually fall apart...

That box was my very first box set and has remained a favourite... no sound issues as far as my admittedly bad ears can tell...

The true "Duke of Dubuque", I guess Nice site!

Good luck! I got one off Ebay recently - worth looking for, definitely!

Whenever you're ready to reply, I'll be listening

Yes, it was the strong reaction that made me react in the first place... So you'd recommend looking for the Dixon discs like they came out earlier... which ones are the ones to absolutely check out?

gone and on their way to me :-) sorry for not posting here...

I haven't even gotten an shipping notification from grooves yet - not that I'm worried, but they're shipping from the country I live in, so a parcel should take maximum two days... I ordered on March 26, probably they couldn't handle all our orders. Btw, I'd be all for a Ran Blake - and I don't quite see why adding three angry smilies is necessary if you don't like his music...

Happy Birthday, Allen! :party:

Wouldn't a Bill Dixon set be really, really cool? 9 CDs, and I have none of them so far

Got the Dr. John, Warren Zevon and Otis Redding of these - they're thinner than the Sony ones, with just a filmsy cardboard box, but the sleeves are done nicely, though of course with no info... and there seems to be no website to look up the details (as there is for the Sony/Legacy sets).

Yeah, but if you don't have either absolute pitch or are very good at it, you won't get it "right"... I don't try to do this, unless someone whom I trust gives me exact information. It's mostly not just "up a half step" or "down 35 cents", but the speed issues on such old recordings often aren't constant or don't affect all the tunes etc etc... it's too tricky for these bootleggers to get right.

Yes, that's a good one, got it (but not that Savoy, alas...)

These might run at a wrong speed... those annoying labels never get the details right, they just lift off whatever they can. THAT gets me pissed. I understand that people may prefer having these as real, pressed CDs, and I've never been one of the traders who claims to own anything, not at all... but these bunch of labels (probably it's just one guy anyway who had started 20 or these by now?) should get it right and should get the upgrades and fixes around in the traders community!

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! :party:

"Tango in Harlem" might be my lonely island Teddy Edwards album! "Live in Paris" is somewhat flawed by all the added production, I find, but still a very strong one!

Btw, a Mal Waldron box would be most welcome, too!

Allen's right. I've removed the lyrics. Give me a break. You guys are kidding, right? april's fool...

In the shape of a Commodore, of course:

The Kühn is great - part of a series of 5 CDs reissued to celebrate his (Rolf's, that is) birthday last fall. Impressions, the Kühn Brothers one with Karl Berger (still called Karlhanns there) and the Rolf Kühn with Klaus Doldinger are all fine. I didn't get the two fusion ones, as I bet I wouldn't like them much...

How about Mosaic Saturn? I hear Sun Ra wants his stuff presented in a 200CD and 350LP black box, too! Sold on Saturn exclusively!

Mighty fine one! I never understood why a lot of people didn't like it... and Edwards' arrangements are suiting the music just fine, too! Some fun tune choices, too... "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" next to "Baltimore Oriole"!