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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...

What I don't quite get is that someone in some other thread said this wasn't legit but a rip-off from some Euro label... jazzecho.de is Universal's German page, and it gives Concord as the label (Universal is the distributor of Concord in Europe). Also someone (else) said the albums with Coltrane weren't included... of course they are (CD11-14). uhm, discs 10-14 or course, including "Miles" or whatever it's title was. and to me, having the stuff on disc 4 of the "Legendary Quintet" set official was enough to get it, eventually (I never had "Chronicles" though, I'd have had more doubts if I owned that one, I guess...)

Oh, and is "The Duke's Men" available on any CD?

Been playing Carney all evening now (mostly from 50s Ellington albums), after having listened to the marvellous strings album again in the afternoon. Also played the two Ellington sides from "The Jazz Scene" (on the album, Ellington is billed as leader, the discographies list them under Carney's name - how come?) Also played the Wax sides and the three tracks from the Jimmy Hamilton Blue Note session that are included on the "Blue Note Swingtets" CD, and also the fine Timme Rosenkrantz date on Vol. 2 of Storyville's great Continental Sessions discs. Will also dig out the HRS and Capitol Mosaics (the later for the Rex Stewart and Louie Bellson) later. What are your favourite Carney moments? What are his finest moments with Ellington? Most loved solos? One of the best from the music I've played this evening must be his solo in the first part of "Black, Brown & Beige" - what a marvellously constructed solo! And the tempo is just perfect (the alternate seemed much too fast!)

some info here: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=u1ARTU0000005 Ha, I knew I had him on some CD... CHARLIE PERSIP SUPERBAND - NO DUMMIES ALLOWED Label: Soul Note Code: 121179-2 I'll have to dig it up, but I do think he can be heard soloing there.

I'm aware that it's not going to change fundamentally, yes! We continued up to episode four of season three. What kept annoying me (though a bit less after a while) is that the weird sect (that's how I look at "the others" at this moment... some sort of semi-degenarate leftovers of whatever that "Dharma Initiative" was) keeps taking a big part of the screen time yet you're not told anything about them, and the three captureds don't seem to really ask many questions either... the scriptwriters probably have no idea themselves