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That one too, but the most "intriguing" one for me is the last..the one w/"In Your Own Sweet Way", "No Line", & "Vierd Blues". That's where you can hear that Miles has finally become MILES and Sonny has finally become SONNY, kinda like two brothers who grow up together real close and finally each go out on their own. Hm, I'll have to revisit that date then, sounds intriguing. I've never thought of it like that... I always thought Miles was quite MILES on those 1954 sessions w/Horace (Walkin', Bags' Groove, the Blue Note quartet date).

guess the one positive aspect about the miles/rollins box is that it shows concord aren't through with fantasy-prepared box sets yet... Yeah, but I have the impression that at the time of the release of "Interplay", that box was already announced as being such a pre-conceived set that Concord merely put out... I doubt that the third set was ready, but I don't know anything about it, of course. Would definitely be nice, but on the other hand a bit of a nuisance as well, as the Garland albums and the Ammons albums contain various titles without Coltrane (same was the case with "Cattin'" and "The Cats" - both are not completely included in the box, hence you'll have to keep the OJCs).

I'd say the highlight is the session with Rollins (Oleo, Doxy etc). Never warmed that much for the Dig album and the other two sessions, though obviously the Miles/Rollins/Bird session is very special. I wonder, if they pack up this half of "Bags' Groove" onto this 2CD set, will there be a new edition of the x-mas session by Miles/Monk/Bags to complement it? Or will those who don't have it on CD3 of the Monk Prestige box have to buy the 2CD set plus "Bags' Groove" plus "Modern Jazz Giants" to have all of that date? And to have all of the "Jazz Giants" album of Miles', you also need the Miles Quintet box, since there's the Prestige version of "Round Midnight" there, which wasn't added to my knowledge to any of the more recent reissues of "Workin'", "Steamin'", "Relaxin'" or "Cookin'" (it was definitely not on the old OJCCDs which I had). It's all a bit weird... I don't doubt that Fantasy had the best of intentions when they started doing these boxes, and I have the Miles and both the Coltrane longboxes, all three are well done. But with Concord having taken over, all these intentions have likely vanished, alas. But yes: still waiting/hoping against all odds for the third Coltrane box, too!

Nice find. And it is indeed fantastic. Where else can you find prime Satchmo, Jimmy Smith and Tal Farlow on one disk? AND that great jam track where Johnny Hodges sits in with the band of Dizzy Gillespie (Have Trumpet, Will Excite session) - I was so delighted to find that one there! It was also released on Hodges' Jazz Masters compilation on Verve (or whatever that series was called), and me no likee buying such comps...

I also don't have the Washington either - unlikely to go for it too I guess. Once my latest 'presciouses' arrive, I'm only missing the Peterson/DeFranco, Ray Brown and the Teagarden I think. Any movers and shakers amongst that batch? I keep the boxes though ! I didn't go for the Washington when I saw it because I had all the material. I have all the Mercury box sets, so I'm a big fan just haven't gone for the single releases . . . . Get the Teagarden (you can get it on iTunes if you do downloading) Thanks Jazzbo and Ubu for the rec - I'll pick this one up at some time (in the 'old' CD format when I can find it). Must have the booklet ! I played the Peterson/De Franco again some days ago, and I enjoy it quite a bit better than I used to! And I also like the Ray Brown a lot, just in case I haven't said that before (I think I have though)... it's much superior to the "Jazz Cello" album (LPR Series) and to the stuff on that 3-on-2 Ray Brown/Milt Jackson(/Cannonball) set.

well, there's just one real Guinness, isn't there... all the bottled and canned versions aren't the same either, here... but still I sometimes buy cans (44 cl, they cost around 3€, rather crazy... but then a pint of open Guinness is usually around 5-6€... quality has its prize, I guess... :-) though as it certainly qualifies as medication, there should be a tax relief or something!

Sure, I can vouch for Guinness being healthy... and tasty! Yum yum! Will have some tonight, after work... but first I'll have to make it through 8 boring office hours

I guess all of it... too lazy to look it up, but go to Losin's Miles Ahead site... roughly: an early date, the "Dig" album (w/McLean, Walter Bishop etc), the great session with Horace Silver/Percy Heath/Art Blakey that yielded "Oleo", "Airegin" etc, and both dates from that Prestige compilation album (one with a transitional post/pre-Trane quintet w/Rollins, the other one with Rollins and Charlie Parker on tenors). I think I'll stick to my old Rollins Prestige 7CD set...

Chuck, would you be so kind a post the list of these 18 releases, please? Just so we youngsters know what to hunt for... I am aware of: Roots Earthy Outskirts of Town and I own: Olio but I think that's all... (or I forgot some or file some under one particular artist, who knows... All Night Long and All Day Long are under Burrell and/or Byrd in my shelves, for instance) I include: Just Wailin' 3 Trumpets 2 Trumpets 2 Guitars All Day Long All Night Long Tenor Conclave Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors After Hours Wheelin' and Dealin' Cattin' Very Saxy Dakar The Cats Coolin' and you could add a couple of Swingville dates. Thanks! I need Coolin' and the multiple trumpets, have the rest, I think... didn't think of all those with Coltrane... The Cats and Cattin' are among my favourites from this bunch of albums! As for Swingvilles - the one on the Hawkins "Bean & The Boys" CD, originally titled "Stasch", was that a Hawkins album, or more of a jam thing? Looks kind of interesting... the disc's around as a cut-out in a local sale right now!

the egg-into-the-bottle-trick looks kinda cool... (should I be worried about me thinking that?)

Chuck, would you be so kind a post the list of these 18 releases, please? Just so we youngsters know what to hunt for... I am aware of: Roots Earthy Outskirts of Town and I own: Olio but I think that's all... (or I forgot some or file some under one particular artist, who knows... All Night Long and All Day Long are under Burrell and/or Byrd in my shelves, for instance)

yeah, I'm a fan of Rorschach as well

and you only post this here to harm scientific progress, right?

I can only talk for a small non-european (or partly european) island here Specialised music stores are closing down or sizing down, the few large ones (not exactly chain stores, there are two, both go back to old families also selling pianos and other instruments - the worse of them bought the better a couple of years ago, but they both remain with their own names so far) are still ok-ish. The jazz selection gets smaller and smaller, but they keep having special offers, usually by label, meaning: Blue Note/Capitol, Sony/BMG... some Warner stuff turns up here and there, too, sometimes they have these odd inventory sales with old stock from distributors (last time I found a huge number of Steeplechase, Storyville, some Soul Note, and various small labels stuff). A great recent sale was of Universal-printed reissues of OJCs, which didn't just include the usual stock of Ellington, Basie, Rollins etc, but also some rather surprising choices, such as "When Farmer Met Gryce", the Mingus Period and Debut single discs, some of those Fantasy compilations (such as the San Francisco one w/Mariano, Dodgion, Guaraldi etc) Plus, there are always good offers in the rock/pop area as well... So, there's still enough opportunity to browse through these sales and pick some things up every other week (usually the sales go on for two or three months, then they change). As for regular inventory... it's weird. I think only one of these larger shops has a person in charge of jazz that is pretty knowledgeable. But there are still plenty of odd things that they keep in stock, while some stuff I'd want to be there, they just never have. Also they have plenty of new releases, but usually for such ridiculous prizes that I only pick those up if I happen to find them in a clean-up sale a couple of years later. So it's all a bit hit and miss, but in the end there's still plenty of good stuff around!

I know "People Are Strange", of course... I think I had a tape dub of the 2CD best of set for a while, when in high school... one of the greatest impressions was seing the opening of "Apocalypse Now" for the first time... How about that Doors box, the longbox one, w/outtakes, rehearsals, live recordings etc? Worth getting?

Those interested should actually queue up... a marvellous set!

Getz/Gilberto #2 was never a VME, I think. It was packed in a regular jewel case, released in the mid 90s, when Verve still did nice reissues, not just fancy series and silly easy listening crap...

AP has the news now: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...7hejuQD99NBNU81

I suggested that one to Mosaic as a Single one time, but didn't hear anything beyond "we'll look at it," which is their stock answer to irritants like me. I think it's a great album that really captures Hackett's gorgeous tone well, and I've always wondered if there weren't more things recorded at that session worth issuing. greg mo Mosaic pretty much told me there will be no new "Singles". . . at least not for some time. That's too bad! Would that mean that the Johnson/Winding is gone? I wanted to add it to several orders, but it's always been "on backorder", whatever that now means...

Can't find anything else on the web, but this would be very sad - will spin some music of his today, that's for sure!

ordered today: The Doors - Strange Days The Doors - L.A. Woman (the two missing ones... got the old version of L.A. Woman though, never had/heard Strange Days!) plus: Joni Mitchell - Blue Joni Mitchell - Hejira an artist I'm just starting to discover - found her first three albums in the summer sales and I guess I'm slowly being hooked... somehow I sort of need to get over her voice... to hear how beautiful her music is and how well her voice forms part of the music!

is this the one? never heard of it, looks interesting!

"Amandla" was my entrance point into Miles music... not voluntarily, though. It was one of the CDs my mother enjoyed a lot, back when I was around 10 or 11. Next one I heard was "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet", but there were a couple of years in between, and I listened to a bunch of other things before returning to Miles again... Anyway, I haven't played it for many years now, I don't even have it, I think... I remember "Mr. Pastorius" as being very, very groovy in a laid-back/lyrical kind of way, and I remember loving that groove. (Of course I have a friend who was just started playing bass back then, and Marcus Miller was a big hero... then he/we found out about Jaco himself, too, soon after... I still play "The Birthday Concert" now and then).

Nice album indeed! I slept too long on these Prestige jam sessions, but the ones I've heard so far have all been good!