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Italian stickers are even better! I guess it's about the germs...

Yes, a well-known Mosaic issue... I still prefer the older fat two to four CD cases, honestly (but then the insert sometimes was a bit wobbly). btw, I've never bought or tested those thingies from Jazz Loft, but the idea certainly is smart!

The Storming of the Verve Palais? Am I the only one here to read Jazz Loft's emails?

Sorry to read all this, but glad it seems to ease up after all! Working for the post, do you often experience things as described in here:

Yeah, I guess so... but my Pullen and Richards finds were quite unique as well, it seems. Anyway, after a while of being annoyed, there comes the time where rationality kicks back in and I start thinking I paid a bit too much for some of these, after all...

Laubrock seems to be more at home in the UK scene, after all, no? There was an article about her in The Wire some months back, but I only dimly remember it (not sure I even read it all).

Thanks! I've bought about 15 of the Touchstones. I agree that they're a bit awkward, but they do look nice!

So for instance the recent Touchstones were using the same masters? I didn't "upgrade" any, but I could have bought "Gnu High" dirt cheap and thought about it for a second, as these Touchstones look nice and the old CD looks ugly (ECM took quite a while to fit their highly estheticized needs to the CD age, it seems...)

What was there that still needed remastering? The 1949 Paris set, the comeback albums, the unreleased material - all else was recently remastered for the recent box sets. I do hope however that some of these come out on their own - I'd buy the unreleased items of course! Also I still don't have "Star Time", which seems to be one of the best of the 80s albums (I've heard it once, years ago, a friend's LP)

Thanks - but it seems to be rather expensive right now... will keep my eyes open though!

Sad news. I've heard him on quite a few discs, but to be honest, I've never particularly listened to his contributions... will have to do so next time I indulge in some UK jazz. Those Oxley Columbias, I've never heard them, sadly. They seem to be hard to find by now!

Those Hip o Select releases are limited. My guess is that none of the non-US sites will get these. On the other hand, the Haden and Getz/Barron are European Universal releases, with the latter not even being available in Europe on its release date! Hm, I thought this was an Universal release? It says "Verve (Universal)" on German Amazon (and November 17): http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002IRBGYC...;pf_rd_i=301128 It's my understanding that Hip o Select is a reissue arm of Verve, which is owned by Universal USA. I see... I don't know anything, I only read that name here, now and then...

next up (November will be a seven-gig-a-month-month, or so...): Carla Bley & The Lost Chors (Friday 20th) The Klezmatics (Sunday 22nd) www.unerhoert.ch (Friday 27th to Saturday 29th) including: Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief, Iva Bittova/Pierre Favre, Nate Wooley (in a trio with Christian Weber, Paul Lytton), Nik Bärtsch Solo, Co Streiff/Russ Johnson Quartet, OM, Han Bennink solo, Gerry Hemingway/Marilyn Crispell Duo Not sure I'll manage all three nights (financially, that is...)

I'm enjoying the perspective of receiving the Dizzy Reece set... Seriously, I've not played any Mosaic set for quite a while (ever since the Great Mosaic Debacle, or GMD as it came to be known...), haven't spun any of those Selects I managed to buy, and am still pissed at not having been able to find the Pacific Trios (a friend helped me out, but I prefer having the real thing...)

A Blythe Columbia might indeed be nice! I'm not entirely convinced by his music, but there's always something of interest going on, to say the least. The trio with Stewart/Thigpen was great! I have some of these Savant discs (also Exhale) and some earlier stuff (an Enja with John Hicks that's not that exciting), and I've heard Lenox Avenue as well, but never heard anything with Eyges (Byard Lancaster worked with Eyges as well... those would be some nice Selects, one by Lancaster, one by Blythe, add one by Oliver Lake... I'm sure there'd be plenty of good stuff around, loft jazz scene, some major albums they were able to make in between, etc. -------------------------- Latest discovery here: John Mayall. In the latest update of an ongoing Universal sale, most of Mayall's Decca discs popped up, and I got curious. I knew "Laurel Canyon" and "The Turning Point" from my dad's collection. Got those (Turning Point is post-Decca, just in case), as well as the albums with Clapton, Peter Green, the BBC Session, Crusade and Bare Wires (with Mick Taylor). Plenty of good music there! And some of Mayall's organ playing is mighty fine!

Those Hip o Select releases are limited. My guess is that none of the non-US sites will get these. On the other hand, the Haden and Getz/Barron are European Universal releases, with the latter not even being available in Europe on its release date! Hm, I thought this was an Universal release? It says "Verve (Universal)" on German Amazon (and November 17): http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002IRBGYC...;pf_rd_i=301128

I already have Atomic Mr Basie, Chairman of the Board, Basie at Birdland and Kansas City Suite. Are there any other Roulettes I should know about, or do I have the best ones already? Other fine studio Roulettes are: Basie Plays Hefti One More Time (arrangements by Quincy Jones) Not Now - I'll Tell You When Easin' It (arrangements by band members Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Frank Wess) Back With Basie The following live Roulettes are recommended: Live In Sweden (Louis Bellson substitutes for Sonny Payne) Breakfast Dance & Barbecue Another fine Verve album is: Lil' Ol' Groovemaker Thanks for that little list! Is "Lil' Ol' Groovemaker" out on CD? "Basie Plays Hefti" is around on one of those highgloss-digipack-boot labels, I think.

No idea, but the Ella In Hollywood box should have been released today and it says it will be delivered as soon as it's released... Maybe Universal folded last night?

I forgot about that - but I was hoping the Gismonti would have been added... too bad, but I've got most of the single discs anyway (I don't have the one with Gismonti and Rubalcaba, and if the Metheny was out, I wouldn't have it).

Earlier this year, Universal also released a 6 cd box containing the individual Charlie Haden Montreal concerts from 1989 that were originally released by Verve within the last 10-12 years or so: http://www.amazon.de/Montreal-Tapes-Charli...7956&sr=1-1 Is the new People Time box all duo recordings, or does it include extras from the quartet recordings originally released on Anniversary and Serenity? That box omits the concert with Gismonti (released on ECM), it seems, and contains the trio sets with Don Cherry (& Ed Blackwell), Joe Henderson (& Al Foster), Paul Bley, Geri Allen and Gonazalo Rubalcaba, as well as the Liberation Music Orchestra set.

Wow, amazing! That lady, relative of Stan's, who dropped by here (and I think left again?) mentioned this being planned, I think? I've had two discs of unreleased material, not in very good sound. It will be great to have all of it!

hm, seems Vol. 3 is impossible to find and "Unissued" costs almost 20€, which makes the box an option, after all... It's listed as an MP3 download on amazon.com already, but not as CD release. No listing on amazon.de or .fr yet. There's also this recent 2CD set: http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.a...mp;state_2838=2 I guess this, too, is a re-packing thing? I don't have any Marsh/Mitchell disc, so this is very attractive! ------------------- Here's the info from the Storyville website on the 4CD set: http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.a...mp;state_2838=2 Amazon MP3 listing

I already have Atomic Mr Basie, Chairman of the Board, Basie at Birdland and Kansas City Suite. Are there any other Roulettes I should know about, or do I have the best ones already? I don't have "KC Suite" and "Birdland" but own the live Roulette Mosaic, and someone once burned me a copy of the studio box... I'll still buy whatever studio albums are out there for grabs, but I doubt there'll be many coming out... there's just one more I have recently found, part of Capitol's short-lived (? I guess it's indeed dead?) Vocal Classics series: Ev'ry Day I Have the Blues As I'm a big fan of Joe Williams', it was a no-brainer. I didn't even check if it's included in the studio Mosaic or not (I guess it is, but other albums including one with Lambert Hendricks & Ross were omitted). Williams' crooner album "A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry" also came out in that series, just in case!

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.