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edited my post above - sorry for the confusion!

Ah well... hasn't Vitous been known for his huge ego for a while? That's certainly an issue he shared with Zawinul... as for Zawinul, much weirder and claims were once made on this board, which I won't repeat here, as I thought quite surely they were BS as well... edit - sorry, hope not many read this post yet... the person mentioned had nothing to do with that weird previous discussion of crazy Joe, apologies! Here's the thread, then - it's not nice to make allusions and not give a clearer hint. I won't comment and don't want it to spill in here as well, so go read there if you need.

Good to see ECM continuing in these bleak times! But Bollani on ECM is wrong... (Rava maybe as well, but Rava has enough grandeur, or rather grandezza, to overcome most hindrances). Bollani's music is so joyful usually, but on ECM it gets so serious and loses much of it's momentum, to my ears. That's very much true for the Rava/Bollani disc, I feel, which can of course be lauded as a masterful album of miniatures, of boiled-down-to-the-essentials music etc etc, but in the end, the live recordings I've heard were just so much more full of joy (and of music...) Would that Corea/Burton thingie be interesting? I've not heard any of their collaborations, not even "Crystal Silence". The Jarrett would be new, I guess? A pair of newly released 70s solo concerts, maybe? With that tile ("Testament"...)? Now that could be interesting! Though it's been years that I played any of his solo recordings (other than The Music At night With You or whatever that "comeback" album was titled, that one is nice).

I quite like Baker singing... for instance on "But Not for Me" on the live album "Strollin'" (Enja) with the trio w/Catherine & Rassinfosse (sp?). Also, I just bought Vol. 4 of Enja's "The Legacy" Series, titled "Oh You Crazy Moon", a fine performance by the 1978 quartet w/Phil Markowitz, Scott Lee and Jeff Brillinger. Chet does some singing AND some extensive scatting and I like it! I also like Chet's early singing... but it's been a while that I played any of his early music.

I guess it's the one labelled "Nica" on Sonny Clark Trio (Time, 1960) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:jxfwxqthld6e

saturday night: Roman Schwaller Quartet feat. Jimmy Cobb http://www.festivaldajazz.ch/de/2009/progr...-schwaller-158/ No recreation jazz there, I guess, although it's billed as a "Kind of Blue" anniversary concert... Cobb was on a fine record w/Schwaller in the mid 90s and I hope they'll continue from there!

I've prized the trio sides Tiny did with Tatum, ever since first hearing a few of them them on a Jazztone LP I purchased many years ago. These sides have usually been dismissed by jazz writers, but to me they are perfection itself. Tiny is an incredibly lyrical improviser, a perfect foil for Art's occasional forays into technique for technique's sake, and the other trio member, Slam Stewart, is his usual incomparable self. These sides are worth hearing and having. Thanks for the heads up... I remembered I have a Definitve complete Decca Tatum set lying around somewhere. I think that should cover quite some of that territory. Also, I do know the Capitol 2CDset for years (though there's not that much with the trio there) but haven't played it for a long time. In fact, Tatum's music isn't played that often here... I guess it would be wiser to play small doses more often, but I usually go for big loads (like three or four discs from the Solo Masterpieces sessions in one go) and then take long breaks...

Haven't considered that... in my ideal world, there'd be a huge market for such a reissue

recreational jazz?

Btw, my initial rather negative post opening was typed before I went to look at the amazon link and discovered it's in fact a double disc set... but still: they just did those three 3CD set (Jarrett Trio, Steve Kuhn, Codona Trilogy) with cheap (but nice) packaging and for a prize not much higher than a regular double disc set, so it's still a bit of a pity!

Crap - why not do a double disc with all the music? If Jarrett and Charles Lloyd get double discs for their musings and noodlings (hey, I like some of both of their music...), why not get it right with these great albums? Ok, I went and checked, not much seems missing after all: CD tracklisting: Disc: 1 1. Scales 2. Ostinato 3. For Marianne 4. Weep and Cry 5. Flowers All Over 6. Resonance 7. Old Ballad Disc: 2 1. Source 2. Light Lines 3. Criterium 4. Lonesome Defender 5. Horizons 6. Hope 7. Sunset Discography: Scales - Japo (G)60013/ECM 19004 Manfred Schoof (tp,flhrn) Michel Pilz (b-cl) Jasper van't Hof (p,el-p,org) Gunter Lenz (b) Ralf Hubner (d) Ludwigsburg, August, 1976 Scales Ostinato For Marianne Weep and Cry Flowers All Over Light Lines - Japo (G)60019 same pers. Ludwigsburg, December, 1977 Source Light Lines Criterium Lonesome Defender Resonance Horizons - Japo (G)60030 Rainer Bruninghaus (p,synt) replaces Jasper van't Hof, rest same Ludwigsburg, November, 1979 Horizons The Abstract Face of Beauty ---- missing Hope Sunrise ---- missing Old Ballad Sunset

Yes, full agreement with Chuck!

Hm, I need to dig it up... didn't Allen say somewhere that he considered it to contain (some of?) Jones' best recordings? The Jacquet is nice - a fine addition to the Mosaic, mostly... but then there are the two outstanding long cuts with Ben Webster!

But is it an EU pressing? If it is, it certainly complicates matters... I don't have it at hand, but I'd guess yes, it is. Imports are rare and ridiculously prized here, I wouldn't have bought that one for such a prize (although it *is* a nice disc).

Got those three OJCs last year, in one of my far too many OJC/Fantasy buying panick attacks... three enjoyable albums! Some great blowing by Hawkins... First heard Tiny on that date w/Bird, when I got the Bird Savoy LP set (still cherished, although I have the Savoy/Dial CD set as well by now). Still have to check out that Tatum trio...

I don't know... got the Hank Jones locally and it's the only one I have with slipcase...

see my first post - not sure about those +3 on "We Want Miles" and "Isle of Wight" (audio version) The 1970 Isle of Wight concert was tagged on to the end of this release (a 3 cd set comprised mostly of a 1988 concert at Munich Philharmonic Hall): http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39foxqedld6e http://www.amazon.com/Munich-Concert-Miles...7735&sr=1-1 I've seen this boot, I think... how's the sound quality? And how's the 1988 concert? The sound quality is good, and the concert is certainly good enough to be worth the 10 bucks new on the Amazon Marketplace. I think I paid around $30 for it when it first came out, at Tower Records, the most over-priced store that used to exist in the bygone days! Thanks - will be looking for a cheap copy if there's not going to be a single disc Sony edition once the box is out.

see my first post - not sure about those +3 on "We Want Miles" and "Isle of Wight" (audio version) The 1970 Isle of Wight concert was tagged on to the end of this release (a 3 cd set comprised mostly of a 1988 concert at Munich Philharmonic Hall): http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39foxqedld6e http://www.amazon.com/Munich-Concert-Miles...7735&sr=1-1 I've seen this boot, I think... how's the sound quality? And how's the 1988 concert?

soon to begin, about a kilometer from where we live (but moving away then): http://www.streetparade.ch/ the "boom boom boom" will likely go on until Sunday afternoon or so, but lucky enough for about the second or third time this has been going on (18 years, I think, but it started very small and funny), it's raining, he he more seriously: Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley - Strasbourg, Oct. 2, 2009 - very, very excited!

see my first post - not sure about those +3 on "We Want Miles" and "Isle of Wight" (audio version)

yesterday from the sales bins: Ry Cooder

I have the Grand Bahamas one, will post about it later on... but for now, I'm tremendously fascinated by this Tap compilation!

Don't have much Braff, off the top of my head just the sessions in the Mosaic Swing box, and this one, which I love a lot: Ruby Braff - Them There Eyes (Sonet/Universal) It seems the Sonet reissues (just one batch of 10 discs, the announced additional instalments never materialized, alas) are going the way of the dodo by now... most of them are very nice, this one stands out in my opinion!

some Eccentric Soul reissues

I scored lucky yesterday and picked up two of these releases... (got a third one a while back). Playing it now: here's what dusty says about it: This is only just the beginning... the story behind it is truly hard to believe. One Teddy Thompson (who had small acting parts in several big productions, including one along Sophia Loren and one in the Bond flick "Live and Let Die" in 1972 - no listing on IMDB though) turned Jeremiah Yisrael, self-made producer, paranoid maniac, sect founder (Jewish fundamentalist/fanatist)... There's not even an entry on Wikipedia, it seems... but this is an utterly fascinating reissue, picking the best sides Thompson/Yisrael produced on his label "Tap Records" in 1981/82, one side from 1980, and tagged at the end of the CD (probably no on the vinyl version) two tracks from 1972. I don't know any of the artists involved (Arnie Love, Jackie Stoudemire, Missy Dee, Annette Denvil, Fabulous 3 MCs, and in 1972, Bonnie Freeman), but some of this stuff is terrific, kind of disco-soul (standout are the Jackie Stoudemire tracks, I think, but I need more time with this disc), and some early rap, including the great Missy Dee & the Melody Crew cut "Missy Missy Dee". Much of it was done in very expensive productions, Gene Redd (instrumental in the success or at least the beginning of the career of Kool & the Gang - again no wiki entry or anything much about him on the webs, it seems) having been the partner/arranger/musical mastermind behind Yisrael. Some more info and samples can be found here: http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=00331