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Crap, so another Brookmeyer Select is definitively out of question... I just wish the Swiss distributors wouldn't ask their horrendous fantasy prices for Fresh Sound CDs!

I just read a funny thread about David S. Ware (glad he's better, btw) on the german Rolling Stone forum... didn't dare to spoil the party there and tell them folks (all hefty believers, it seems) that his music isn't "what's happening in 2010" either

oops, thought this was a thread about Eddie Gale...

It looks fabulous, but that's still too much... Lazy bastard that I am, may I ask again: is there a lot of music in there that isn't on the single (and hors série) discs? Is it mostly different, partly different, or mostly selections from the regular CDs?

Yes, I just copied it out of the discog - sorry for not checking! None of the other tunes turn up, but then maybe some of them got new titles for this album? Great cover photo, btw!

Indonesia is listed as an unissued title from the "Jazz for Breakfast at Tiffany's" session: Joe Avant (tb) Eddie Harris (ts) Charles Stepney (vib) Willie Pickens (p) Joe Diorio (g) Donald Garrett (b) Earl Thomas (d) Chicago, 1961

And one more, short but fun: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/swissindian

The site won't even work on Opera any longer - and having it open interferes with other sites I'm using! I can do searches but not open any of the artist of album hits at all! Still to contribute to this thread, this disc by Bernard Peiffer is excellent: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/peiffer

That one could be interesting indeed... The Blues Hot and Cold (1960): Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb) Jimmy Rowles (p) Buddy Clark (b) Mel Lewis (d) 7x Wilder (1961): Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb-1,p-2) Jim Hall (g) Bill Crow (b) Mel Lewis (d) But then I'd have seen a few options for a Brookmeyer Select (either with some of the Verve stuff, though I don't know when his Verves turned crap/pop, or maybe picking up where the existing one ends, with "Portrait of an Artist", "Ivory Hunters", the Mercury "Jazz Is a Kick" and then some of the Verves.

Found Stanley Cowell's "Travellin' Man" (Black Lion, aka "Blues for the Viet-Cong" on Freedom) at the used store last week - pretty good, with Steve Novosel (b) and Jimmy Hopps (d), recorded around the same time they did the album with Charles Tolliver:

Abdullah Ibrahim's "African Marketplace" was one of the most played records at our home when I was a kid... later on (CD age, which began at the end of the 80s at our place, Dylan's "Under the Red Sky" was just out, "South Africa" and "Pearl" by Ibrahim and Janis Joplin were my dad's first CDs) my mother played "Amandla" by Miles a lot... I just went from there... At the same time, I got into funk and soul (rather than the drab pop most of my classmates would listen), and that opened up another entrance point to jazz (via Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis, the Crusaders, then Les McCann/Eddie Harris' "Swiss Movement").

No, they packed the four deluxe boxes (St. Germain, Mont... whatever they were called) in one big one... which I'd really love to have, but it was out only for a moment it seems, and probably cost a fortune and a half! On second thought, that's maybe what you were asking? Or were you asking about a box containing the single discs #1-100 (101, or 112 or whatever was the final one... I have'em all so I don't care that much for them numbers )

Thanks for bumping this up - completely missed out on this! I have both Classics, so I'll have to get this just for the live tracks as well, but hey, there's not enough vintage Wilson around!

...and Jazz Magazine has swallowed Jazzman in the meantime...

do you all have electronic agendas and stuff? would take me a while to compile it all AND to add the dates... some that do come to mind: Mary Halvorson Trio (very, very good!) CéU (great!) Richard Bona (total disaster!) Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley (fantastic!) Cesaria Evora (short but sweet) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (heady, but interestinga nd towads the end when they did the Bowie homage, it got real swinging!) Carla Bley & The Lost Chords (terrific!) Dave Douglas Quintet (fine, but Uri Caine's quite a bore...) Sun Ra Arkestra (a huge fun party!) Circulasione Totale Orchestra (how nice to see Bobby Bradford in person, and how sweet his trumpet sounds!) Roman Schwaller Quartet feat. Jimmy Cobb BraffOesterRohrer The Klezmatics I guess that's about all... I posted some impressions about some of the concerts over here:

rather than starting a new thread... thought this might be of interest to some here - annoying story! Jack Kerouac’s estate went to his mom, instead of his third wife. When mom died, she gave it back to the wife, cutting out his kids. Was mom’s will a fake?... more

Warren Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Paul Whiteman

I happened to stumble over the Stein/Fitzgerald Progressive disc - gave it one spin so far, sounded very good! Bob Dorough is on piano and Paul Motian on drums, recorded at Van Gelder's in 1955. On bass, there's an Alphonso Cotton on bass. Both Stein and Fitzgerald sound good enough, and Dorough is always nice to hear (no singing, just in case...) Funny, but there seems to be a punk guy called Warren Fitzgerald as well, and AMG wants us to think he performed songs by Hal Stein... http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hbfuxqt5ldke

I've not heard anything but "Grab This" and the albums with Amy (on the Select). Fine player - r.i.p.

Funny reading this old thread... having seen some of Oshima's films made me remember Imamura, and a search brought up this thread. I must have seen a thousand more great films (many of them classics) in the meantime, and it's a bit embarassing to see some of the "favourites" I posted here, years ago!

They're essential sides. Most of them are available on the Classics Mezz Mezzrow 1936-1939 CD. Also on a Hugues Panassié Sessions CD from the Hot Club de France that I see around off and on. Will try to pick it up for you! That would be most kind! I've never seen any Mezzrow Classics around here!

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I've not heard the music that brownie mentions, but I'd love to! These Blue Note sessions are indeed special, and I think the 2CD Blue Note Jazzmen set would sort of fit what you're lookig for (but it IS different). The HRS Mosaic set is great, loads of great music there, and quite a bit of it would fit the bluesy small groups you seem to be looking for. Here's one that might fit as well - it's less blues-based, but it's bautiful, I just played it again last night: http://www.mighty-quinn.net/EdmondHall.html

Well, with Lagrene, Miller and Galliano, it seems to not only come from Sony/BMG.

NORK - mentioned in the first post... I got the Retrieval recently, still need to play it! I finally played the whole set last weekend. The best of it is glorious! But yes, it's a bit uneven. Though still a fine package that comes highly recommended! (mine has the beige frame cover though)