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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!

"Sun Ship" to me is a stunning and beautiful album, among the most beautiful in Trane's output, among the most beautiful ever, actually! It's "mellow" by comparison with the Seattle and other stuff w/Sanders added, and indeed Tyner is perfect there, to my ears!

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!