king ubu

I only have one of the Hayes albums (Candy Man). Which Bubba Brooks could you recommend? Also, what about the Buster Williams and Steve Nelson discs?

btw, my "it is" was directed at the session in question, not my nit-picking...

Sorry about that comment re: Vol. 3 of the Ellington Classics 6CD sets - seems it's gotten a bit more expensive/difficult to find. I found my copy for a very attractive prize (20-25 euro) a few months ago...

sorry, but ought that not be "madly good"? (it is, in my opinion!)

I certainly don't want to argue with anyone here, having just picked up the 40CD box, too. But even if, unlike Lon, I'm not (yet) a Duke completist, I happen to own various boxes, packages and single discs from every period of Duke's career: the RCA box, the OKeh and Brunswick/Vocalion set, Vol. 3 of the Chrono 6CD sets (they just compile six single discs in original packaging, but they add a sturdy box and a booklet with good liners, including some soloist identification, which is something I always happen to miss with the usual short Classics notes). And that Vol. 3 can be found for a prize that's hard to beat. As for earlier Ellington Classics, yup, nowadays, several are impossible to find or only available for ridiculous prizes. But they have been around for many, many years, and I'm scolding myself for not picking up more of them when they were all over the stores here (same for the Masters of Jazz which were THE ultimate series for such stuff... no one did more thorough compilations, and their notes were excellent as well, often to the point of exhaustion, really...) Anyway, my point is that with Duke, you just have to continue buying some here and there, and eventually you'll end up having a big chunck of his recordings, some in good, some in less good sound... (I also have a few dozen discs covering Duke's later periods, including the Capitol and Reprise Mosaics, most of the Columbia reissues, the Private Sessions, some of the Fantasy, Impulse, Blue Note, Atlantic etc discs... and of course Money Jungle, too, he he he - but those aren't subject of this thread.)

bumpity bump: http://www.allegro-music.com/label_search.asp?label=TCB Not that much a "sale", rather just a way to get some of these discs at sane prizes. Though for yurpeens, various Amazon marketplace offers might turn out cheaper, all things considered. There are plenty of great releases in the TCB "Swiss Radio Days" series, including a terrific one by the Jones-Lewis band, a great Mulligan Concert Jazz Band release, some Blakey, Cannonball, etc. Also, the 90s album of Jerome Richardson's is part of the offer...

two words: Jimmie Lunceford!

hey, I am a Renaissance man, yessir!

Yeah, same here... nice music, but there are several Mode/VSOPs I'd get before that!

Gee, the Herman once again! Last time this happened, I snatched it up... got all three, all fine ones!

I found it - it's an uncredited text in the booklet of David Klein's great disc "My Marilyn" (Enja, 2001 - Klein plays tenor sax and is accompanied by Mulgrew Miller, Ira Coleman, Marcello Pellitteri, and his mother, Miriam Klein, joins them on a few titles). The booklet also sports a few letters and notes that Klein received in reaction to his sending out review copies of the album to friends and contemporaries of Marilyn, including Jane Russell and Eli Walach. Here's the story as told in the booklet: (typos are mine, of course!)

Great photo! Michel Godard actually plays some great music on the serpent (as well as on his main instrument, the tuba)

I haven't decided on the Hackett Mosaic yet... might well be I'll get it in the end. Keep in mind, "Jazz Ultimate" and "Coast Concert" are not on the Hackett Mosaic, they're on the first Teagarden. I know, I know... I missed that Teagarden set, which is why I got that twofer at all...

will pick up this one later today, but it's a gift, and as it arrived just in time, I won't have a chance to listen to it before passing it on... sounds like a lovely disc though: Daniel Pezzotti

Too bad... but the writing has been on the wall for a while.

That's how it's been for me, since I was around 13 or 14, and I hope it will go on like that for a while!

Interesting and certainly valid points there, Jim!

I haven't decided on the Hackett Mosaic yet... might well be I'll get it in the end.

ok, but in true Habsburgian fashion you'd have to make sure that the heart, the viscera (?) and the mumified body will be stored in separate places... (you know, like those people that keep back-ups of their external harddrives in lockers or safes, in case their house burns down...) - I mean, you never know what happens in Cologne... maybe the ground will just disappear some beautiful day...

amazing! I just played the two first discs of the 4CD Experience box, there are a couple of tracks from the 1966 Paris concert, and some 1967 tracks as well (though I think those are from Stockholm if memory serves me right). Are there any of those ORTF boots around with complete concerts, or are the selections on the box all we can get?

did you buy a plot at the cemetery already? here, graves will be emptied and re-used after a certain amount of time has passed (10 or 15 or 20 years, I don't know... you can pay to prolong it for some more years). would be quite crowded with cemeteries if all mankind still inhabited their own grave

"Ophelia" and "All La Glory" (early versionn) by The Band

Happy Birthday!

nah, the older music is the richest, really... before they all turned into post-Trane robots seriously... i guess that 50s/60s/hardbop fixation here still goes back to the roots of this board, when it was founded after the Blue Note board had been closed. Discussions about other kinds of music (I'm thinking more of anything avant or free, rather than all the new retro and new mainstream stuff, much of which I find rather cold and boring rich/complex harmonies notwithstanding) always had more of a difficulty getting started here.

I have way too much, but I can't see this happening to me... There's so much early jazz around, with all those specialist labels, radio broadcasts, etc etc... And also, there's so much lesser known stuff, non-US stuff... much of it expensive and hence not stuff I regularly buy, but there's plenty of music around there that is of interest. Finally, there's all the other stuff than jazz... world musics, avantgarde stuff of any kind... just read a few issues of The Wire to get some fascinating new ideas! To me (young and foolish... well, past the big 3 by now...), it seems endless!