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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"!

I still have to get the CD - and here it was a club setting as well... it was the final gig of the tour and they just all seemed to be in a jesting and upbeat mood and enjoyed playing a bit longer and taking requests etc. Ballsy, yes indeed! And he dares to be ugly... his sound is still often pretty cool, but he can get that much emotion out of it, it's astonishing! And often he seems to rail on falling off track, playing such weird runs and notes or notes that don't fit our Western tuning at all (microtones if you will... more like just bent and slurred stuff, I guess though), and he is a master in bringing it back just in the right moment. Similarly with the pianist... in the opening number he took a long time joining in, and when he did he threw in chords that were indeed totally "false" (not just weird suppositions, I think, but actually chords that wouldn't fit the key of the tune at all) but he always made it work. I guess in some ways this group could be compared to Wayne Shorter's great quartet (which I've never seen live so far, alas), in how they walk the tightrope. Yes Shorter is younger and his chops and stamina are intact, so I somehow find Lee all the more impressive and daring!

Amazing concert last night! As usual with Lee, completely acoustic (except for a pickup and an amp hidden behind the curtain for the double bass), two hours without a break... (they announced it would last 90 minutes). Two or three tunes into the concert, Lee started to take requests, and all the time he was joking with the audience and the guys in the band... some terrific piano playing from this guy Florian Weber, and some very good drumming as well! Ziv Ravitz, the drummer, did one truly great solo on brushes, which sort of made me think of Fred Astaire at his most graceful... the drums really started to dance in my imagination! They did the usual old hat of tunes, Stella, Valentine, April, Body & Soul, but some of the requests were pretty cool: 'Round Midnight and Now's the Time, for instance, the later inspiring Lee to some weird, idiosyncratic yet clearly blues playing, the former leading to a whole new interpretation of the theme... which of course he always does... and Valentine... someone in the audience said "oh, that's a romantic one"... and the pianist mumbled - I sat in the front row so I could hear it all... - "yeah, I bet it is..." with a mean grin... and on they went doing a poised mid-up version, morphing into Softly As in a Morning Sunrise halfway through. Lee also did a fantastic duo with the drummer, on some old standard that I couldn't pin down but recognized... and to end things, they did an amazing take on "Cherokee" (and as in most themes, Lee just kind of touched the theme here and there, but did all of his own stuff all the way through). Even though his technique probably isn't what it was, it's truly amazing to see how he re-invents himself and this same bag of tunes again and again, after all these years, never playing the same thing twice! And having him play "Now's the Time" really made me think... this guy was around when Bird was around! And he's still doing his thing... now how great is that? A fantastic night!