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There's a local sale here... they were all pretty cheap (I also bought two by Luiz Bonfa, already had the great one with Maria Toledo), Jobim's "Tide" (not sure if I should get the old version of "Wave", will there be a new one?), some Getz (Au Go Go, In Stockholm), three by Astrud Gilberto (Album, w/Evans, w/Wanderley), and more... The Mayalls I got (out of the same sale) are: Blues Breakers (w/Clapton), A Hard Road, BBC Sessions (mostly w/Clapton, some with Green, but those are on "A Hard Road" as well, and a couple of unrelated 1975 tracks), Crusade, Bare Wires, Laurel Canyon, The Turning Point, and a later one with Blue Mitchell and Clifford Solomon, Jazz Blues Fusion (that and Turning Point being on Polydor/gram, the others all on Decca). I skipped a few others (Blues Alone, Mayall Plays Mayall and one more, I think). Enjoying those a lot! And "On My Way & Shoutin' Again" is prime Basie, I'd say! Up to the standards of the Roulette new testament albums!

recently: Junior Mance - Happy Time Joe Lovano - On This Day at the Vanguard Count Basie - On My Way & Shoutin' Again Count Basie - Basie Land Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry of Chick Corea/Miroslav Vitous/Roy Haynes - Trio Music Live in Europe John Mayall - Bare Wires (and a whole lot of others) also waiting for some stuff to get delivered, including most of Lonehill's "John Graas Project", some Richard & Linda Thompson, the recent Basement Tapes remaster and - yes... - the Dylan x-mas album, too.

What?!? Are you serious! So they do this friggin' expensive box set but they DON'T INCLUDE the originally released album? So they want us to buy the box AND the album? Crazy! This is really unbelievable!

Yes of course! Also with their recent Griffin set (3CDs plus a DVD, I own 2CDs... and might have seen the DVD footage, but as I don't watch such things repeatedly, I'll not jump for the box and rather look for the missing disc, being "Catharsis" in that case).

Thanks for clearing this, Chuck! I guess I'll rather look for the third volume and the "unissued" disc then... Would be nice to see some box sets from Storyville that go beyond re-packaging, indeed! I was happy with their Duke and Ben Webster boxes, and still need to get their Dexter Gordon box, as in none of these cases I'd owned anything before (except for one disc from Webster, which I passed on to a friend who loves Ben, too).

I guess this is mainly a repacking of the Live at the Montmartre Club discs? I have two of those... not sure I'll go for this.

just sent a PM re: Jimmy Heath "Swamp Seed"!

That would rule out big band players? Some of them were around for a long time, Benny Bailey for instance... not sure if he actually did record that much, but he was a longtime Clarke-Boland Big Band member and was often a featured soloist (so the true jazz credentials are there, at least).

Same here. Except I would add the Old and New Dreams reissues to that Conference of the Birds album. Fine music, indeed! And of course the Mal Waldron! That one was the very first release on ECM!

I guess someone like Plas Johnson (see MG's post above), or some session player (a few are mentioned there, I'd add Jerome Richardson).

The Weber box is out here already. Also the Burton/Corea duo box (4CDs).

why is this called "World Series"? Because US = world?

That would be fine with me, too... but I guess the chance that we'll be seing such reissues is zero. These big corporations (SonyBMG, EMI...) seem to no longer be interested to cater to minority markets like the jazz crowd, alas.

A swiss vendor is offering Harry Edison's "The Swinger/Mr. Swing" for the attractive price of CHF 34 (roughly 34$ or a bit more than 20€): http://www.jazztime.com/detail.php?JazztimeNo=26647 Not sure if they ship to foreign countries, but there's an email address... I'd act fast if I was interested, but I have that one (very nice twofer, same band on both albums, including Jimmy Forrest)

My mileage definitely varies... the New Morning album on hat records is one of Lacy's finest, in my opinion, and it features the quartet w/Potts!

I heard a rumour that the next generation will not only contain a music player, telephone, video camera, razor, gps, nail clip, saw (to cut off your arm if it gets under a heavy stone or a meteorite - what? you rather die than cutting off your own arm? What a sissy you are!), microwave (to dry up your little dog), umbrella, missile defense system, submarine, and it will also wipe your ass... I guess that's about all a non-hifi person needs to know

Catfish in on Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3

I'd rather go with another one by Roach: And also possibly rather Andrew Hill's Grass Roots, instead of Hill's album by the same title as the Roach above? Unless of course your friend wants to hear more w/voices albums. Booby (Hutcherson, that is) did one of those as well:

here's a good one:

Oh, wow, that's cool! I can't afford these right now, but I had no idea there was another option but to buy all those 2CD sets!

Well, thanks to the big crooks in our western economies and governing bodies, the $ and hence the Mosaic is also quite cheap

Gary Burton (been discussed many times before here). Does RCA hold the rights to Flying Dutchman? Might be some potential there. Desmond and Rollins were boxed at least twice (US and Euro versions, I think). Gato Barbieri's Flying Dutchmans were boxed, too (yes, by RCA), not sure if there were two editions as well. Gary Burton's RCAs would be most welcome! I thought this was actually planned at some point in time? But there's been no news about it for a long time, right? Chuck, I haven't heard many of these Lacy RCAs, so I can't comment about the sound... but I guess a good engineer could fix that? At least in case Mosaic would indeed release such a box, I surely hope they would try their best as they usually do!

I haven't read all this thread (being at work), but I repeat: Winamp, a nice and free music player for your computer, allows you to pull music back from your ipod to your HD. I've got a 30GB ipod but probably around 200GB of MP3 files (some blogosphere rarities, but most of it my own CD rips, usually @ 320 kbs). No need to have a huge ipod, but rather put some of it on some harddisk (my internal one is tiny, only 160GB, so I have several 750GB and 1TB HDs - FLAC files need space, you know!) And I never used the automatic synchronisation function back when I used itunes in the beginning, as I always purged the stuff from the library there, so had that function been on, it would have wiped it each time I connected it... I never used itunes to play tunes on the computer, so there was no point in maintaining that library. So my advice: get winamp, give some thought about how to organise your MP3 library (big enough HD in your computer? separate partition? external drive? second back-up external drive?), get any kind of player (I only have this one ipod - have had it for a about three years I guess - but it seems other players are about the same in quality and handling) and change around the music on your player every now and then...

Why, what happened? Hope he's fine! We got tickets for a concert with Ekaya in March (I think, might be February...) --------------- saw her yesterday: Cesaria Evora great music!

Well, I don't mind either... and somehow I don't mind Dylan doing a gansta song either, regardless if it's just been a game or not. (The story about Hurricane though, that I do mind!) I was merely pointing out that Dylan seems to be good for some irritation all of the time.