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Too bad. The Mangelsdorff's are the best of the lot, by a VERY WIDE margin. Yes, they're great! The two 2CD sets are around cheap though, and the live one has some of the finest Mangelsdorff around! The 5CD sets are fairly expensive (around 35€ is the best I saw), but I still had to get them, of course! Haven't made my way through all of the music yet so far. Just in case: to have Mangelsdorff's full MPS output, you need: - Originals Vol. 1 (5CDs, one album per CD, in a flimsy box) - Originals Vol. 2 (same) - Live (2CD set) - Solo (2CD set) - & Friends (this one came out back with the first batches of MPS reissues done by Universal, it's not duplicated in any of the more recent sets!)

In some local store... otherwise I'd have mentioned it, of course! But all these Universal MPS boxes come fairly cheap over here (except for the Mangelsdorffs, which are a bit pricey).

Yes, saw the trio in 2008 - one of the greatest jazz concerts I've seen! Would love to see Randy again!

Jimmy Ryan's was a jazz club. See here, for instance: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/journalists/morgenstern2.htm and Sippie Wallace a blues singer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippie_Wallace

Anything else you might consider letting that one go for? The three Commodores?

Thanks for thinking of me... I still have a spare Shank/Cooper to trade for the Pacific Trios, in case

They've put out so few discs but made quite some questionable choices, it seems to me... too bad they're drawn that much to the prog and jazzrock side of the MPS catalogue. Anyway, glad to know they're doing better, and yes indeed, the Jazz Meets India will be most welcome! Btw, I have sealed spare copies of the Pork Pie and Mariano discs - both pretty good! And both overpayed of course... make an offer if you're interested!

Thanks! I'm in then!

Thanks... will get the 2CD version then, without the San Diego set!

That's what I thought! I was rather shocked for a moment! Hope you can fix it and bring down the shipping expenses to a reasonable amount, and I'll be in of course!

Happy Birthday, Colin! :party:

I do not have the Lonehill reissues but I have the Fresh Sound 3CD set The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Sextet'. A beautiful reissue which incorporates the full San Diego concert by the sextet and the sextet studio sessions, complete with the exceptions of several alternate takes ('Broadway', 'Demanton', 'Everything Happens to me' and 'The Lady is a Tramp') of their October 1955 session. Gee, it's such a nuisance to figure out these details with Fresh Sound, Lonehill etc! The San Diego is the same as on one of the Pacific "California Concert", right? Because Fresh Sound also has a 2CD version with just the three studio albums and the same alternates that are on the 3CD set. It does, btw, contain two takes each of "Broadway", "Demanton" and "The Lady Is a Tramp", but none of the two known from "Everything Happens to Me". But I guess these are the takes from different sessions? And the actual alternates are then (all, or mostly?) missing? What a mess!

Thanks Ken, good to know! As my Tatum collection is sketch and shady (Definitive set, Proper..., only the Pablo material is properly covered), this will be a great addition to my collection and there won't be much overlap with what I have so far, I think.

Had a 50€ coupon from amazon.de and finally ordered it (though amazon.fr has it almost 10€ cheaper... but it will cost me less than 10€ plus some taxes, so it's quite a deal! I might have asked this before, but are the Standards Transcriptions (from the 2CD release) included in this box or not?

This is cool, Jim... BUT: 28$ for shipping of the CD to yurp? That's out of the mind! Lucky I had a closer look before finalizing the payment on PayPal! Is there any way to get it at a sane price?

There's a story somewhere about his idea of practical jokes (must be in the liners of a Jazz in Paris CD, I think)... him riding a bike or running around the block where they club they played was located... naked, or course, in the middle of the night... or something. I guess that's why he's called a wild man... He can be heard on the Grappelli album "Improvisations", which is part of the Jazz in Paris series (with three or four bonus tracks), but it also came out on this disc, which omits the bonus tracks but adds a ten inch album by Grappelli on piano (again with Mac Kac on drums): These duplifications between JiP and other Universal France/Gitanes/EmArcy discs that turned up around the same time is a bit weird... for instance, the content of the two Dizzy JiPs (the great small groups plus the second disc with the Operatic Strings) were also combined on a 2CD set that was also part of one of those series (Anniversary, Heritage? Is there any complete listing of those anywhere, btw?)

late to the party... in my opinion these are essential: Gerry Mulligan / Paul Desmond (Verve - get the old CD w/bonus tracks!) Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan (RCA - get the Bluebird First Editions with bonus tracks!) Gerry Mulligan / Ben Webster (Verve Master Edition 2CD set) and the following are all very good, at least: the two Paris Vogue discs the two California Concerts At Storyville Mullenium and in addition to the Blue Note 2CD set by the original Mulligan Quartet, you also ought to look for this one, which features a great tentet date, too: And of course if you stumble over the Concert Jazz Band Mosaic, don't hesitate!

Nice box - I think I got mine from those crazy 2001 sales, but I can't remember... the Basie 4CD set is similarly nice!

Ah yes, Grammavision, sure! How could I forget?! I was posting from work and was busy there today, so didn't check... I can't see any BlackSaint/SoulNote ever being on Mosaic (even less so as the new owner, CAM Jazz has started repressing some CDs), to be honest.

Well, maybe you're right about the overlap... but then Fresh Sound takes their material from those previous reissues themselves, so they could make it a point to combine the rarer ones and wait about more common ones to disappear. But there the consumer laziness comes in I guess, and it's kind of amazing since in these internet times, you can order anything from anywhere and have it delivered within a few weeks. That was different even in the late 90s... I remember it took about two months for a local shop to get me Johnny Coles' "Little Johnny C" Connoisseur CD (but they sold it for "nice price", like the RVGs were priced after the first few, overpriced batches), so I wouldn't complain).

Sad news. "Catcher in the Rye" was one of the first books I read in english as well. Great book!

John Carter - wow, great idea! Do suggest that to Mosaic! No idea if these are accessible for them, but it might well worth be a try! (Are they all on RCA/Novus?) I'd definitely buy that, as all I managed to find is "Castles of Ghana", and that one's magnificient!

No no, what I wanted to say is: Mighty Quinn did the legit, EMI-licensed reissue of "Critics Choice", which is still readily available. Mighty Quinn are the good boys! Fresh Sound comes on pairing a shortish Mode album (also still in print by what I think is the legit owner of the music, VSOP: http://home.earthlink.net/~magnebit/) with "Critics Choice", and that - even if is perfectly legal in yurp - is definitely NOT a nice thing to do. So Fresh Sound are the guys I'm ambivalent about... (also lots of their twofer pairings are annoying as they tend to pair an album that everybody - well me at least - tends to have, with another one that is rare, and at their high prices, I usually don't buy them for that...)

Most of the music appeared on the single CDs. What was not on those is mostly secondary interest. However the books that go with them are priceless! Thanks - I guess I can live without them then... though of course having those books would be great!

There's no denying that Pujol did a lot. I'm very ambivalent though, when he does stuff like the Pepper Adams Quintet/Critics Choice twofer, both albums still being available (I haven't checked the VSOP site though, but the Mighty Quinn I just got a few months ago), that really, really, really sucks! Also of course a lot of the Lonehill, Gambit, JazzTrack, JazzBeat, RLR etc. activities suck big time! Also with his New Talent imprint he does some good work (though I have only few of those releases... to me they fall into a similar box as Criss Cross etc... not very attractive mostly - and of course overpriced, to). ¨ As for ordering directly, I only did once. I think the conditions via their ebay-store are a bit better But still quite pricey!