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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)

ok, since I mentioned in the "2009 top ten" thread how far behind I always was... a few 2008 favourites include: Alpine Aspects - Homage to O.C. (Universal Austria) O.C. is Ornette Coleman of course, and this project features Wolfgang Puschnig, Herbert Joos, Jon Sass, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Reinhart Winkler with the Amstetten Brass Band (dir. Robert Pussecker). Sort of an Alpine, or rather Tyrolian, look at some of Ornette's tunes (Peace Warriors, Latin Genetics, Theme From a Symphoney, and In All Languages) as well as some Puschnig and Pussecker tunes, and a traditional. Stefano Bollani - Carioca (Emarcy/Universal) A latin jazz project by the great pianist - beautiful music! Charlie Haden - Rambling Boy (Verve/Universal) A discovery for me... having discovered some of the early 70s stuff by Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, the Flying Burritos etc, I went further on and got some more Johnny Cash etc. This came in handy, and to me it feels very genuine and the music's beautiful. Aldo Romano - Just Jazz (Dreyfus) A fine quartet with the great Géraldine Laurent on alto, Mauro Negri on clarinet, Henri Texier on bass and the leader's drums. Mostly short pieces, including some Romano staples (Lontananza), a pair of classics (Maple Leaf Rag and Black and Blue), and some tunes with clear dedications (Township, Chick Webb). A fine example of working in the tradition without sticking the head in one's ass... And of course some of the great reissues dedicated to South African Jazz need to be mentioned (they've been mentioned by others above, but this is my own list now...): The Blue Notes (Ogun Box) and all the Fledg'ling reissues by Chris McGregor

I'd sure be there if I was in Paris, Tom!

some discussion about how the film came to be here:

Thanks, Brownie. Minimal in the sense of lacking personnel info? I would imagine that the EMI has better sound, though, since EMI made the original recordings. my own, rough translation from "Jazz Magazine" Jan 2010, p.26: "Collecting the recordings from the Pathé catalogue (EMI), 'Djangologie' was one fo the first large complete editions on LP ever dedicated to a jazz musician, and was a reference until the appearance of the compact disc (...). Three decades after the advent of CDs, EMI finally offers a CD version for a price around 51€ with (mini lp or digipack?) sleeves, facsimiles of the 18 original sleeves, with no liner notes or an additional booklet." Further the short review says it's actually not complete, spanning 1928-1950, with 2 bonus CDs (27 "unreleased" tracks, their quotation marks) from the Rome sessions in 1949 and 1950. "If you compare it with the track listing of the complete edition on Frémeaux, you'll see that in fact there are but three unreleased titles: Nature Boy, Night and Day and a third version of Micro. The rest is more complete on Frémeaux." And then they add a note snorting at EMI for being one of the biggest obstacles for Frémeaux!

So are these licences by someone? Or did all the labels get together and decide to do these 5CD set?

Seems the EMI "Djangologie" has minimal info... Frémeaux is the route to take, I guess!

The Galliano has been around for a while. Those are Dreyfus discs... are they part of Sony/BMG now?

Happy Birthday, Tom! :party:

Those four tracks are on this one: http://www.amazon.fr/Collection-Jazz-Paris-Renaud-Digipack/dp/B000051TKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1263589232&sr=1-1

Moncur in 1970, with the AEC? What's the story about that?

so I got my package today... Eureka Brass Band (AMCD-70) George Lewis with Kid Shots (AMCD-2) Baby Dodds (AMCD-17) Bunk Johnson - 1944 (AMCD-3) Bunk Johnson - 1944/45 (AMCD-12) Kid Thomas and His Algiers Stompers (AMCD-10) George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers Vol. 1 (AMCD-100) Papa Celestin's New Orleans Band - Marie Laveau (GHB BCD-106) George Lewis - Beverly Caverns Sessions + Beverly Caverns Sessions Vol. 2 (Good Time Jazz) these will keep my busy for quite a while

Very sad - a terrific drummer. His "Out of the Storm" is a hell of an album!

bump... still waiting for that order I mentioned, it went under in mid December, but when I wrote to ask about it yesterday, I got an answer immediately and they promised to send all the discs this week! I can't even remember what I ordered (that site - jazztime.ch - doesn't create automated emails for order confirmation).

I wondered about that as well, but I can't find anything on the web... Another one that I think hasn't been mentioned here: ESP' Disk AAJ article

some others: James Dean, of course... NEW YORK - Refugees aboard a ship in New York Harbor, 1951. © Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos NEW YORK—People protest outside the trial of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951. © Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos

Sad news. I've not seen many of his photos, I think, but some of these are icons! Love the one of Pres on sitting on the bed, had that one on the wall for some time.

seconded, i am really not following German jazz much, but this is a great record! Are the first two similarly good? Does my description give an idea of how the music sounds?

Very nice video - and a smart move to chose this calypso tune for such a tv show, I guess...

wonderful box, isn't it? Whoah, this is scary! I quoted brownie's post before he actually posted it!?

wonderful box, isn't it?

Thanks! That early one (video #17 I think) is quite amazing, too bad the guitar is so low in the mix, and the general volume is too low for my computer speakers, too! Who's the pianist there?

Thanks for reporting, Michael! Good to know Lateef still has it down! He appeared in Paris with Archie Shepp (and Shepp's band: Tom McClung, Wayne Dockery, Steve McCraven, with Leon Parker added on percussion) in September. A recording is in circulation but I haven't come around to it yet. His album with the Belmondo brothers also yielded a few fantastic live concerts, though again I only heard some of it on the radio, alas. That was in 2006.

Yes, Jazzcraft... sorry for being too lazy to read that up! That was a nice series of Storyville discs there! Wyands, Turk Mauro, Benny Bailey... and one more very nice trio set: http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.aspx?tabID=2633&productId=26763&state_2838=2 (it's a single disc, the price listed there is ridiculous!) Bob Cranshaw played upright bass again after all those years, and Ben Riley is on drums!