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That's a wonderful disc! Brownie sent me a copy of it, had no idea it even existed, and indeed it was a great surprise to hear Bailey in such a setting!

I know, but I have too much of the music already... and they're not exactly cheap.

All the music that was on the LPs will be in the box. I have not seen a track list but the cover of the box is exactly like the covers of the LPs so it should have everything! That's good to know! I guess this is a likely candidate for acqusition then... if you find out more about the 26CD set, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one to appreciate more info!

What would there be to add? There was plenty of Sketches of Spain and Round About Midnight related material in the 6CD boxes, and they added the (great!) 1958 session with Bill Evans to the KoB Deluxe set, but would there be anything for the two you mention? I assume the few alternates of Milestones are on the new single disc already, and Someday My Prince Will Come (one of the very few albums that wasn't in any of the box sets, only the tracks with Coltrane were on the respective 6CD set) contains a couple of alternates as well. The only of these that I bought is "Round About Midnight", to have the official releases of the live tracks (although of course there are a few more tracks from the famous Newport 1955 concert which were not included on the deluxe edition.

ha, who'd have thunk it...

I'm even more anal and usually do MP3 @ 320 kbs, no variability... but it makes more sense, I guess. Typical with iTunes would be 192?

Yeah, but often with these soft/hardware manuals I don't understand sh*t... I don't even know what "firmware" is, although I updated my external burner's firmware. I'll look into the rockbox thing though. I still burn most of my live shows (FLAC downloads usually) to CDR, as I don't have any means to hook up an external drive to my amplifier... so having FLAC on an ipod would be rather useful.

Is that 20 CD box a reissue of kinds of the old "Djangology" 20LP set? I once almost bought it, but the time I had made up my mind it was gone... MG, I'd assume most of the Universal 5CD set would be taken from the Jazz in Paris discs (which have also been boxed, I think?), and as brownie said, some of the Mosaic might be in the 20CD set (but the Mosaic is Swing/HMV, that's Sony/BMG, no? The 20CD set is EMI! Confusing!) I'll jump for one of the large sets once a few more details are known. So far I have all the Jazz in Paris discs, the Mosaic, and Definitive's 4CD set collecting all the recordings Django made with American musicians (including the fine All Star dates that were also on a single Blue Note CD - you ought to look for those sessions, MG, they include the classic recordings with Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter and others!)

Would an A&M Jones/Lewis select be a possibility for Mosaic? Or is that material out of reach for them? (I'd think no since it belongs to Universal, but what do I know...)

No you can play straight albums. It's just that shuffle is a nice way to mix things up. Ah, thanks TTK MG Sorry for the confusion! What I wanted to say is: I always use the album option except for some cases, where like Lester Young I loaded the complete discography onto the ipod. Since we have some rather newbies here (as digital media player users, that is), just a note again that Winamp lets you pull music off the ipod onto your computer (in case you accidentally delete something that you still have on your ipod - happened to me a couple of times...) As for the FLAC thing, isn't that a bit of a touchy thing to interfere with the firmware? The only thing I did do so was with an external burner (that cost only 20% of an ipod or even less) where the firmware was also being offered by the manufacturing company... I'm cautious about this, but if I could play FLAC and MP2 without conversion, that would of course be nice! (Winamp does that automatically, but I've never bothered to find out what settings it uses, or if the compression rate can be adjusted for this automatic compression - ituned btw also does change MP2s into MP3s automatically).

I have only got a few of these (the Billy Hart, one of the Hadens, Jim Hall Live, Cherry's Brown Rice, Brubeck/Desmond), but got another one recently, and I think it's pretty good: Dr. John's "City Lights" (reissued in Universal's "Verve Originals" series).

For shame! Yeah, my Tempo EP should be confiscated for that transgression ! :blush2: you do have my address, don't you?

I've never used the shuffle on my ipod. The only thing that goes beyond albums there is that I loaded the complete Lester Young, with recording dates as "albums", which with the "play all" option allowed me to play whatevver bit of his music I wanted... but "generation ipod" goes for single tracks, so I guess going for the full discography is quite to the contrary of trends.

don't you have to turn them around halway through? Seriously: interesting observations! I grew up right as the CD got wide-spread, but I still have about half a meter of vinyl and occasionally buy some more. I never play vinyl just for background listenig, or very rarely do so, for the same reasons you mention. But on the other hand, most often I play CDs straight through as well, it's very rare that I hit the repeat button or program my player or anything. It happens that I hit the repeat button at the end of a disc, though.

Thanks Allan! Will wait a few days (hoping their discount will still be valid) and make up my mind. I forgot that I also have the "Jazz Epistles" disc on my wishlist... hoping it contains the few titles that the Camden/KAZ "Jazz in Africa, Vol 1 - The Jazz Epistles" omitted (didn't check yet).

Not Michael Gregory Jackson, that is... obviously

I'm thinking of ordering some more South African music (mostly jazz related, but I still feel this thread is fitting better than the ZA Jazz one) - here's what I have on my kalahari.net wishlist - any comments? Elite Swingsters/Dolly Rathebe - Woza Elite Swingsters/Dolly Rathebe - A Call for Peace McCoy Mrubata - Phosa Ngasemwa Basil Coetzee - Monwabisi Basil Coetzee - B African Jazz Pioneers - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival African Jazz Pioneers - Afrika Vukani Linda Kekana - Kodumela Linda Kekana - I Am An African The Best of Allen Kwela (Sheer Sound) I am aware of MG's endorsements of both Linda Kekana discs, and I'm familiar with the African Jazz Pioneers, Mrubata and Coetzee (though I only know him as a Dollar Brand sideman so far). And I definitely have the stray Elite Swingsters and/or Rathebe cut on compilations.

Never happened upon that DVD, but you know how it is in Switzerland now... not sure I need any Jaco on DVD, but I've loved the "Birthday Concert" for many years... it's exactly that loose feel that I enjoy! The version of The Chicken there is the best I've heard so far! Both the sax and Melton Mustafa's trumpet solo, and of course Jaco himself is incredible! I'm still not completely into "Word of Mouth"... still needs some time to grow, I guess.

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Rolf! :party: Alas, I don't have anything at hand that would justify a toast, but I'm sure you'll have some good stuff later today Fräulein Maria, Herrin von Jever, sends her regards...

It must contain something else - that nice 3-tune gig at this private house runs for 29 minutes only. The DVD is said to be 71 minutes on Amazon.

Thanks, that site is new to me! And apologies... I'm sure you missed some important rugby or tennis on tv because of me Seriously: quite some tracks on "Invitation" seem to have been edited - how silly is that?! Is the Aurex 2CD set worth looking for, or is "Birthday Concert" better anyway? (I think it's far better than "Invitation")

ah well ok... found this on the Jaco Pastorius website: Jaco Pastorius - Invitation Warner Bros. 23876 (U.S. compilation of Twins I & II ), on CD as a Japanese Import WB, WPCP 4932 (ubu: it's also part of the European "Warner Bros. Masters" series of digipack releases. I'm still posting this, as others might have stumbled over it... ------------------ Can someone tell me more about these releases? I have "Invitation" (originally released 1983) and "The Birthday Concert", and a bootleg of what seems to be from the same dates on which the Aurex Jazz/Twins releases were taped (what I have is the full set from 1982-09-01 - all but one edited track, "Invitation", previously unreleased). Anyway, Bruyninckx says that the the set from Mr. Pip's, Fort Lauderdale, December 1, 1981 released on "Invitation" was released in its entirety on "The Birthday Concert" as well. But the timings don't match, except possibly for "Reza" (10:02 and 10:36, respectively). Futhermore, "Sophisticated Lady" from "Invitation" isn't on "The Birthday Concert", and the total playing time of the later is much longer as well. So, is this the same date, botchered up on "Invitation" and with complete versions but still not the full set on "The Birthday Concert"? Or are these two completely different releases? The confusion continues then with the Aurex/Twins material: the release "Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology" (Warner/Rhino, 2CD) contains a few live tracks from 1982, said to be from 1982-09-01 (only an edited "Invitation" from that date was released), as well as 1982-09-04 and 1982-09-05 in Tokyo (and said to be originally released on "Twins I" and "Twins II". So far so good... but then it says that some of these tracks (in fact three of the four contained on the anthology) were also included on "Invitation". To me, the correct version seems to be that "Invitation" was more or less a partial US release of "Aurex/Twins I" and "Aurex/Twins II" (omitting and shortening a few titles). And then "The Birthday Concert" (1981-12-01) has nothing to do with either "Invitation" nor those "Twins" releases. Hence that would mean that "Reza" on "The Birthday Concert" and "Invitation" are two different versions as well, right? Is that correct? So Bruyninckx goofed there?

Yes, just had some of that half an hour ago. Before it worked alright.

I got less enthusiastic about "Enchance" as time went by... it was discussed here a few times (I think first it was in the "funny rat", a search for "enchance" w/results as posts display option might bring it up). It doesn't keep the promise made by the line up.

Thanks! I thought it might have turned up in the meantime... another one that could be used if BN were to do further batches of RVGs or any other straight reissues.