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Erich Fried Carl von Clausewitz Von Freeman

continuing, with disc 4 again (which wasn't complete yesterday) finishing disc 5, getting started with disc 6 soon! finished this one - great! looking forward to one day actually sitting down and listening to it attentively!

Ooops - my bad! I thought it was just some kind of a compilation series, wasn't aware it was (almost?) complete! I guess I'm too young to have known...

Can we get a solid confirmation of this? Yes, this does not seem possible. The smaller booklet is 68 pages and contains the following; 1. Song Index 2. Ladies Day by Gary Giddens 3. Literary Lady by Farah Jasmine Griffin 4. Discography 5. Production Credits Did the first big one have a track by track analysis as well? Yes, by Michael Brooks, if I remember correctly. Yes, they were by Brooks, and were the same liner notes that accompanied the individual "Quintessential Billie Holiday" volumes that Columbia put out in the late 1980s/early 1990s. So they were not new ones commissioned for the big box??? They would have to be re-done and amended at least, I figure... or did those (four?) Quintessential discs contain all that was on the big box? Rather unlikely... I think I found that "Literary Lady" essay quite weird... they should rather have dropped those essays and included the track-by-track in the small box, in my humble opinion. But then of course if this is directed at newbies and casual fans, maybe they prefer having some more general information over the specialist and detailed analysis that's in the track-by-track comments of the big set.

Veronica Lake Bette Davis Joan Crawford

Here's a thread on the Mode label - plenty of good releases there! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7006 And that Nocturne 3CD set is highly recommended! I missed grabbing the Fantasy CDs in time, alas... there's some stuff on those that's not in the Nocturne box.

This single one is from the same gig, I gather? Seen it but haven't heard it:

Lou Levy (p), Herb Ellis (g), Wilfred Middlebrooks (b), Gus Johnson (d) Crescendo Club, Los Angeles, Ca., May 11 & 21, 1961 Could be nice... or a nice x-mas gift for my mom, that's for sure! Quite a steep price for a 4CD set though, 70€! Will it include one of Ella's 70s glasses as a bonus?

i belive that in emails with mr. landolt, that number was mentioned. hopeully, my memory is faulty, Gee, that is shocking! This label is far too good to be so little known, really! I think they have done about 150 CD releases by now (and some vinyl before that), and I have probably about three dozen or so and they're virtually all good!

continuing, with disc 4 again (which wasn't complete yesterday) finishing disc 5, getting started with disc 6 soon!

continuing, with disc 4 again (which wasn't complete yesterday)

Mickey Folus Mickey Mouse Mickey Rourke

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday, Marcus! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

this afternoon, discs 1-4 of: Bill Evans - The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings live at the Keystone Korner

yesterday had most of the Carmell Jones Select on (all except the Harold Land album on CD3, for time reasons)

Camille Desmoulins Marat Jacques-Louis David

Walter Bishop Reverend Gary Davis Odean Pope

I haven't heard this one, but I've got the Trio 3 release "Time Being" on Intakt and plan to get the one with Irene Schweizer, was a concert the night before or after the CD was made. Also I've raved quite regularly about Intakt... I wonder, where does that 250 number come from (and why are they called "Trio One"?). I doubt that Intakt could survive on 250 discs sold per release!

Although Lee Morgan did a lovely version on Delightful-Lee, with Johnny Smith's on his eponymous Verve album not far behind. I actually just heard the original version again (from the mono box) and it is a lovely tune... it's just been played to death by too many mediocre musicians all over the place...

As for Hancock playing "ballads"... his most delicate touch and endless flow of ideas in his best years (I'd say 65-68 though I do love the Mwandishi band a lot as well, but it's so different) often had an extremely lyrical touch to it, no matter what tempos he played in... check out his best solos of that time ("Circle" has been mentioned) and you might get in touch again...

The label was founded by Franz Koglmann, sponsored by some finance company (Deutsche Structured Finance), and as far as I know it almost went under. Now, I think ownership has changed, or Koglmann got out of it or something. I guess they just never had a big budget to do marketing... but their roster is quite impressive: Ralph Alessi, Christy Doran, Kermit Driscoll, Trevor Dunn, James Emery, dem Ensemble Plus, dem Ensemble xx Jahrhundert, Drew Gress, Gerry Hemingway, Peter Herbert, Tristan Honsinger, Francois Houle, dem Klangforum Wien, Art Lande, Peggy Lee, John Lindberg, Carl Maguire, Michael Moore, Simon Nabatov, Kevin Norton, Giorgio Occhipinti, Louis Sclavis, Gebhard Ullmann, Wolter Wierbos, Andreas Willers, Nils Wogram und Yitzhak Yedid (from wiki) http://www.betweenthelines.de/main/index.shtml

Michael Mann Dillinger J. Edgar Hoover (this time with the names in the right order...)

Gina Lollobrigida Sophia Loren Claudia Cardinale