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up again... I got a Pacific Piano Trios set coming to me (I hope... didn't hear from the seller) from ebay soon. Bud Shank/Bob Cooper - Mosaic Select 10 (3CD) I have a used copy (disc 2 has a minor scratch, the box is scuffed as all these Selects are because the cardboard boxes are too large... I always wondered why Mosaic doesn't produce them a little bit smaller... anyway, other than that it's in very good condition and unplayed since I bought it from an amazon marketplace seller for 53€). So here's the deal: I'll trade it for a new or similarly very good (booklet has to be excellent!) copy of the Lester Young 4CD set, which is readily in print, and costs 68$. We'd do this just straight, I send the Select, you order me the Pres (or send me your own box). I'd also be willing to give away the new and sealed copy I have in trade for a new or excellent condition Pres set. If you have any other offer to make, drop me a line!

Yes indeed - I can ship three discs without jewel case for the price of one disc with jewel case. Makes sense to me! I got stuff from other guys here in all conditions and shapes, with cases, without cases, with multiple discs packed into one case, etc etc... all's fine with me!

Yes, and he has that great clarinet spot there... although he hardly variates it, I love to hear it! It's one of the most infectuous Ellington tunes! On the Hodges concert from Berlin (on a Pablo 2CD set), Carney plays it on baritone sax for a change - pretty cool!

Well, no one here was in to get the Shank/Cooper in trade for the Pres set, which is cheaper than 80$... (offer still good). The Pacific Trios I just bought was 90$, plus quite some for shipping.

The HRS sessions by Carney and Sandy Williams are mighty fine! Also the Jimmy Hamilton Blue Note date - wow! Carney really shines there! Then there's "Blue Reverie" on the Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert! What a beautiful statement by Carney!

Well, I know that error with Burrn - I have it when it doesn't look for the right drive (I burn on an external burner, but sometimes it wants to burn on the internal by mistake).

Gee, that sucks about the Weston! There seem to be some copies of it around though: http://www.amazon.de/Mosaic-Select-Randy-Weston/dp/B00028G07C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1266489038&sr=1-1 Rather pricey, but it's a very good set!

Finally bought the Pacific Piano Trios on ebay last night... had to stay up and watch it... in the final two minutes, someone was bidding like mad but my max-bid was higher, luckily. Cost me 100$ with shipping, but gee I want this sucker!

The MPS set isn't that expensive, but I think it was cheaper at other times, might be worth watching it for a while: http://www.amazon.de/Swinging-Accordion-Mps-Art-Damme/dp/B000ION5I2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1266478697&sr=1-1

That's sad news. The recent 5CD set with his MPS albums is very good!

I just got my shipping confirmation, all discs did ship!

Hollerin' Fingers Hopkins here hollerin' fingers? what the hell's that supposed to mean? shakey fingers from booze? well, it does happen now and then... when my baby has just left me and I have the booze, ahm, blues in the mornin', or some such

As I said in my last post, the "Amazon CD" is on the American Jazz Classics label, while the Fresh Sound CD is on, well, Fresh Sound. Different editions indeed. Yes, it's truly weird as they seem to use the same cover! I just saw the Fresh Sound version in a store, it has ten tracks, nothing more. There was an American Jazz Classics discs among the recent releases, and judging from their layout, it's some sort of variant of Lonehill, the design looks identical! Wouldn't be the first time that Fresh Sound and Lonehill do reissues that are partly identical!

Sorry, my bad - but amazon has a back-cover scan that is unreadable but clearly shows more than 10 tracks! Maybe there are various editions around?

The first title on the Brookmeyer CD was a 1959 Atlantic album, the second title a 1960 Mercury album; both were done with larger groups. According to the Fresh Sound site the Stitt CD only has the 1959 Verve album Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (10 tracks). No, seems they just didn't post the complete tracklist (as on amazon, see Cliff's link), but the line-ups give more: These look interesting! I didn't even have any idea that Stitt ever played with Giuffre! A rather unlikely pairing, but then Stitt was a gun for hire...

I got the three discs I ordered directly from ESP yesterday (Graves, Sun Ra Kohoutek and Hampel). No news on the jazz loft order either - ordered on Feb. 6.

I've been playing late Ellington all day today (New Orleans Suite, Afro-Eurasian, Latin American, Intimacy of the Blues and more). Looking forward to revisiting the 30s and 40s music with focus on Carney!

That might well be... thankfully, Universal has repressed lots of OJCCDs in the past two years or so, since they became the distributor or Concord over here. Of course much of the stuff they repressed was to be expected (Basie, Miles, Coltrane, Peterson) but there was plenty of good stuff as well (When Farmer Met Gryce, the Teddy Charles/Mingus disc, to name but two) that I had no hopes of seing back in print. Anyway, of course it's even sillier to just wrap a cardboard box around 14 straight OJCs!

uh yes... but honestly I don't care much... and I had a good laugh at the America's Cup - what a bunch of idiots!

well, main thing Lance is clean

Happy Birthday! :party:

Sure, as I said: just trying to get things right! In fact, I have these moments of reissue-weariness, too, but with this box it seemed like a collective outburst of it, so several posters didn't check the facts before posting "info" about it... I can fully sympathize, as this reissue really isn't needed at all! A smaller set compiling the 51-53 sessions on the other hand might have been nice, even though we'd all own it already as well, but it might focus on a lesser known (and one of the least succesful, at least speaking of studio sessions) periods of Miles, and hence might have been interesting. With the Miles/Rollins 2CD set and the Quintet 4CD set, this new one is really a joke! (And mind me, I didn't get the Miles/Rollins set neither, as I have the Rollins Prestige set!)

another great Carney spot is to be found on "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" on this one: Duke Ellington - Unknown Session (Columbia, rec. 1960) This is a lovely septet session with Nance, Brown (the star of the first half), Hodges (second half), Carney, Bell and Woodyard. Carney is heard on a few others as well, including the opening "Everything But You" and some of the Hodges features, and he plays the opening theme of "Something to Live for".

Hey, I was the one who made that erroneous claim about the set being not legit, where/when I saw it listed it said nothing of Concord and i thought it was just another out of copyright rehashing. I was wrong. I apologize. That said, this set holds no interest to me, I have the original Prestige box set and I have all these session in XRCD or K2 issues and I know when to stop in this instance. You stopped?? Lon? YOU? That's it; the Maya were right, the world really must be coming to an end!! gregmo No problem, Lon! I just wanted to get it right in the right place This new set holds no interest for me either (I didn't even check if they skip the session from "Conceptions" or if they added it to the disc holding another album, since mostly this seems to be one album per disc, which is a bit ridiculous as most of these albums run short of 40 minutes and even with pairing two on a disc, you'd not need to switch discs in the middle of an album...

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Victor-Recordings-Louis-Armstrong/dp/B00005O6KK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1266269815&sr=1-3 you can see that only 9 tracks were remastered in 2001, the rest seem to be the same... just tried ordering a fairly cheap copy of the 1997 set, had no idea this was OOP and getting difficult to find...