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Happy Birthday Ronald! All the best!

had a message from the post office in the mail yesterday... prolly me mono box is waiting to be bailed out (30$ or so for taxes... still a lot cheaper than buying it locally, where everything except some of the single disc reissues is out of stock anyway).

maybe you're right, but these two should fit:

I know, I was just adding more info to the US remasters from a few years ago - the first album wasn't part of that series.

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As for the first album, I asked the same question (I think in the artists section's WR corner) and then bought the old (red frame) edition as well. And I also saw entries with 2009 and hence was wondering... Sony has a cheap series out here now, with no new liner notes, just a one-fold flimsy cover, on the outside you get the front and back covers (with a beige border) and on the inside, you get bare-bones discographical info plus production credits. I got the "Bill Evans Album" a couple of days ago (finally!) and also saw Garner's "Body and Soul" and "Concert By the Sea" in such editions (also some Miles, I think). The Evans looks like this (I think the beige border is a bit larger in real): Maybe the first WR album is around in such a version as well, hence the 2009 date? I haven't seen it however.

I didn't think of an embargo, rather sending some complaint letters, but I guess that's useless with such a huge corporation...

Yes, I got those US remasters as well (I have five, didn't upgrade "Heavy Weather" yet). Not sure "I Sing the Body Electric" was actually part of those remasters, but it looks nice and fancy... it was probably done in between the old ones (with red frames and masterworks logo in one corner) and the other newer ones (which would then be five: Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller, Tale Spinnin', Black Market, Heavy Weather). Live in Tokyo I have as a European edition with hardly any information on it. Then there's the Live & Unreleased 2CD set as well. The rest is just old versions, as far as I know. (But I'm not that interested in later WR, which is why I didn't upgrade Heavy Weather yet... it's the early open and experimental stuff that fascinates me.)

That's a great album! But I guess I'll stay with my old Warner CD... Mosaic Contemporary made some weird choices, offering stuff that is/was readily available for years.

yes indeed! and we customers should kick EMIs ass for letting this whole thing happen in the first place!

Yup, Miles... Relaxin', Round About Midnight, Porgy & Bess...

Also Ellington small groups, or anything by Ellingtonians (Hodges, Gonsalves, Nance... maybe better not Cat Anderson, he he...)

Also the Grant Green one with Quebec! What's it called, "Born to Be Blue"? And "Hoagy Sings Carmichael" on Pacific Jazz. Then the crooners... Joe Williams "Men Ain't Supposed to Cry", some Little Jimmy Scott (the Wonderful one produced by Ray Charles), maybe the ballad album by Mel Tormé, and of course the ultimate one for the wee small hours... yup, Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"!

Ah no - I play the Jones/Lewis when I want that groovy, soulful, swinging stuff... I'd never have thought of that one as late night listening... guess I got to give it a try one day! Some Basie small group jams might also be nice. Or Hawkins on Riverside and Prestige (the two that got the RVG treatment come to mind, but also the Hawk/Lockjaw one, and all the other stuff with Flanagan, on Prestige and Verve and Impulse). Also the bossa albums... Ike Quebec (actually not just his bossa, but all of his comeback albums on BN), Hawkins, Getz... Also Ellington meets Hawkins and Ellington meets Coltrane, and Coltrane/Johnny Hartman and "Ballads", and the Impulse "Coltrane" also... and maybe "Lush Life" and "Soultrane" from his Prestige time.

Hill and Basra would be too charged for my taste... also I guess anything by any big band, except maybe Thornhill...

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this thread makes me think of "the old in-out" not sure that's a good thing or an appropriate remark...

I'll be pleasantly surprised if mine ever arrives... Oh, finally it's here! Got a bit of catching up to do ... I'm still waiting

Glad you snagged that copy! It's fine music - there seems to be a bias (with reason I guess) against Q on this board, but regardless of all the debates, the music on this set is great!

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Grant Green - Am I Blue I often go for singers... June Christy, Chris Connor, Helen Merrill... or piano trios or solos (Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues, for instance)

Missed this thread before... let's see... in January, I caught a horns quartet of a friend (t/natural horn/as/tuba), then caught the flu.. nothing at all in February in March, I missed BikBentBraam but saw the Sun Ra Arkestra ( ) in April, I was busy catching around 15 films of Jean Renoir's - no concerts... but on May 3rd, I saw the Circulasione Totale Orchestra (Frode Gjerstad, Louis Moholo, Bobby Bradford...), then later on I caught the band of a friend of a colleague, doing some rock or singer/songwriter stuff or whatever you'd call that... first weekend in June was the Taktlos festival, caught Xu Fengxia/Lucas Niggli, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, and Luigi Archetti/Bo Wiget all on one night. Then I saw "The Last Waltz"... almost as good as a live show!!! in July, spent two weeks in Budapest and saw two local bands, one pretty bad one, and one great trio (Cásbár Trio? No idea who they are). in August, it was Roman Schwaller's Quartet with Jimmy Cobb at that crazy Jazz Festival St. Moritz... September will be another blank month, but plenty of good things to come in October (Henri Texier, Cesaria Evora, BraffOesterRohrer, Richard Bona and Céu) and in November (Dave Douglas Quintet, titled "Cheltenham 2007" for whatever reason, the band with Donny McCaslin and Uri Caine)

these guys are great: http://www.arte-quartett.com/ they do modern "classical" stuff, but also various projects with other musicians, such as Pierre Favre, and they form four fifths of the sax section of Kaspar Ewald's great band (called Exorbitantes Kabinett), which plays music somewhere between Don Ellis, James Brown and minimal music... I have two of those discs and have checked them out live - recommended, but not classical (although Ewald - who teaches at the Zurich conservatory - has also adapted "L'homme armé" for that band). another thing I've heard by the Arte Quartett was a concert where they collaborated with Terry Riley - utterly fascinating stuff! though if any of this fits the label "classical" is somewhat doubtful... but then "classical" doesn't really apply to much composed music of the 20c anyway... I am always at a loss how to call all these kinds of musics... Phil Niblock also did a few pieces for saxophone - that's extreme music, your neighbours will love it (and your dogs will suffer even worse...)

Ha... "Lancelot du lac" comes to mind We all ought to send hateful mails to EMI I suppose, about letting their 50% owned subsidiary hanging in such a sad situation!