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I found "At This Time" at the used store yesterday! No time to listen yet, but nice to have it!

I don't know the Japanese edition but I always figured that the two US discs contain all the material there is. One or both of them have been in the massive EMI/Blue Note deletings list a few months ago, I think, just in case...

That Peterson is nice... I got mine for about 15€ and thought that was a great deal already... Some may consider there to be too many notes, though

The main Newbury site says this is back-ordered, but the deal is still up on Amazon. I figure it is worth a shot. That occurs fairly often--Newbury's Amazon Marketplace stock and/or price is not always the same as what's reflected on the Newbury site. Also, mine has apparently shipped! Amazon has switched over to a new procedure for most of its Marketplace sellers (including Newbury), so that it doesn't actually charge your credit card--and send you a notice of same--until it has been notified by the Marketplace seller that the item has actually shipped. The order also displays in your order history as "open," and not "completed," until that occurs. I got one of those charging notices from Amazon today, and the order now shows as "completed." This is a significant improvement to the Marketplace system, although Amazon doesn't seem to have done much to publicize it. I'm not sure about that. After the Mosaic debacle, I've had a couple of orders that were charged a week after ordering, and then another ten days later I got a refund, and I still believe that the item listed was never really in stock with the vendors. I guess if a vendor just tells Amazon to charge, they do so, regardless if the vendor actually has shipped the item or not. Refunds, however, have never been a problem for me, I always got them. But it's still a doubtful business practice in my opinion. But back on topic: seems my Garner box is on its way, too! Cool!

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I'd try and find the 2CD "Innovations" band reissue (on Blue Note/Capitol). Almeida is there (but not "Lament"), as are Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Maynard Ferguson etc etc. As a supplement, there's also the Graettinger compilation "City of Glass". Then I'd go for some of the 50s discs (Kenton Showcase, Easy Go...) - look for who are the featured soloist and get those with soloists you like.

Yeah, and Michael Jackson on guitar

The KD was also reissued on CD in the Chessmates series. Not sure if it still can be found in that version, but it's worth trying! I still dream of seing Vol. 2 some day...

Thanks for that great write-up - makes me wanna dig out my Knit edition of this set and play that stuff again! And yes Chuck: sure would be great if all of this sounded even half as great as "Saga"!

Those Almeida albums are Brazilliance Vols 1 & 2 (on regular US CDs, that is). Between them the contain, I think, three albums (some ten inchers), Almeida & Bud Shank, backed by Babasin/Harte. Good stuff, and certainly discussed elsewhere! As for "Cuban Fire", I think that's mostly just Kenton's regular band there... these "guest musicians from the west coast" were member of his band! (At one point or the other, they included Frank Rosolino, Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Bob Cooper, Shelly Manne, and many, many others... also non WC guys like Stan Levey, Charlie Mariano, Lee Konitz...)

you absolutely HAVE to look for this one here:

I ordered a copy... though I just bought three of the albums as cutouts... will pass those on if the box comes through. The three cutouts cost me twice as much as the box now...

Btw, there's a mistake on the big Columbia box (one title is duplicated at the end, instead of there being the actual alternate take). Don't have the info at hand, but mmilovan (where are you, buddy?) knew the details... I guess that would be the same on the new version, or would they invest time to fix such a goof for a cheapo version? Let me search my mails... Holy crap, Opera Mail is amazing, already found it: "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" (session with Jonah Jones and Ben Webster) - instead of the alternate take, at the end of the set where the collected alternates are located, the master take is sequenced again.

This looks great! Guess I won't make it to Paris in time, alas... Just skipped through the press release... those photos for "You're Under Arrest" are amazingly ugly... I think the main reason I don't like that album as much as most other of Miles' 80s albums is that disgusting cover shot. It's not the fact that he carries a gun - looks like a silly toy anyway - but the whole combination of red, black, leather... yuck!

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here's an earlier discussion with some recommendations: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=44909

had this one in the mail today:

Buy booze, go to Tahiti, order porn...... gregmo yeah, who'd have thunk it seriously: does this sound like a scam or am I being touchy? I guess I'll know the day I get my Shank/Cooper (would be #2 if the other order indeed goes through) or my refund...

Thanks for the reactions folks! "Anthem" just didn't do much for me (at least that was my first impression, checking it out in the store). It'll probably be a while before I get more Dead, but I'll know where to look!

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a recent favourite is "Caravan" from Van Morrison's album "Moondance"

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