king ubu

Great news! Also I'm crossing my fingers on the Jamal and Ellington Big Band sets!

My set is on its way already! Ordered yesterday, shipped today... but I obvously took the 20 Can$ shipping option, so it might as well take... 12-16 or what does it say again, months?

Disc one is the Griffin/Taylor "In Copenhagen" (great messy live recording), disc two is the Griffin/Davis "In Copenhagen" (a recent reissue - lame to re-pack that again already....), and disc three is "Catharsis!", the only one that escapes me so far. I wonder how much there is on the DVD... from Amazon.com's product description: So I guess it's three titles with Mathews (maybe the best quartet Griff ever led as a working unit?), and then two more w/Lock...

Good news! Like you I've got a fair few of these euromosaics - I find the non-Mosaic number on the spine jarring, since it is all I can see of these sets most of the time! So I ordered one of these from an Amazon seller and the box came shrink-wrapped, but the jewel cases inside were not. Everything else is as king ubu said, with the possible exception of a tearing scrape (like somebody dragged a staple point) across 2" of the title on the front of the box cover. Funny thing is the damage was done underneath the shrink-wrap, as if it was deliberate by the factory. Does anybody know if this is the standard way of marking these euromosaics as not full fledged versions, similar to scratching out a UPC code? Other than that, there's no difference between this and the set that costs twice as much directly from Mosaic. Anybody could fill in the serial number and no one would be the wiser. I never saw any such damage on a Euro Mosaic - certainly isn't standard. CDs in Europe often aren't shrink-wrapped, I can't even remember if the Euro Mosaic usually contained shrinkwrapped CDs, however it would be a waste if the box is shrinkwrapped anyway, wouldn't it? I guess we're a bit less afraid of germs or whatever... in stores, you can usually open and listen to any disc (with the exception of expensive multi-sets or specially packed things that might get damaged, but those would contain a special "please don't open" sticker), hence it's normal to buy new CDs that aren't shrinkwrapped. Also if there are special sales, most often those CDs aren't shrinkwrapped, either. Of course that means that sometimes you'll want to check a disc a bit closer for ugly fingerprints on the booklet or even those "half moons" that you get when not putting back the booklet correctly... but that has maybe kept me from buying four or five discs only in all the years I've been buying CDs (fiftenn years?)

found this in the sales bins yesterday: also picked up some more Dylan (Another Side, & the Dead) and some Doors (the "deluxe" editions or whatever they are), the first one, "Waiting for the Sun" and "Morrison Hotel", all very cheap.

well, I guess it's as you say, "never before on CD", nothing more: (bold by yours truly)

Great! If anyone finds a good offer for shipping to yurp, please post here!

Agreed. Fantasy was doing great stuff at the time of the sale, and Concord put out what was in the pipeline, but then pulled the plug and went to slop. A pity we never got the third Coltrane Prestige box to finish the set. AH! I was wondering what happened to the third box! I could have sworn I read there was to be a third...and then the trail went cold. Real cold...I couldn't even find where I thought I read about it. I was beginning to think it was something I imagined. By the way...what was to be in it? Fearless Leader was his solo lead sessions, Interplay his sideman role...what else is there? Interplay was the co-led dates, the third would have been the sideman dates (Red Garland, Mal Waldron, Elmo Hope, Gene Ammons...). I'd have loved to see it happen, too!

anyone? Great fun...though breaks no new ground. He's keen on Monteverdi as a source! I like it. That sounds good enough!

This is sad news - baritone saxophonist Jack Nimitz seems to have died (no news items on the web yet). This comes from saxophonist Kim Richmond, mailed to me by a friend: I'll spin this beauty over the weekend:

Kim Clarke! Joe Henderson once had a ladies band backing him, I think it was JoAnne Brackeen, Marlene Rosenberg and Sylvia Cuenca. Not quite jazz, but... the duo of Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins is quite cool! Also there's Andrea Parkins, best known from Ellery Eskelin's trio (with Jim Black)

Happy Birthday!

Recently got Mose Allison's "High Jinks" and finally sat down and played the first two discs yesterday - fantastic! Got to get more Mose!

I can quite well imagine "L'etranger" still having a big impact, yes, but less so with Camus' others books... the one I'm thinking of mainly is "La chute", which I found the most impressive of the lot when I was reading them in my teen years.

two favourites here! add Jackie McLean to that list

I forgot: "c'était le soleil qui lui poussait au crime" - or how does that great sentence go?

How does it hold up? I still have lots of respect for Camus, but somehow I tend to file most of his books in the "stuff I liked when I was 16" box... the post-humous "Le premier homme" might be different, and also more generally his philosophical position seems to hold up quite well (much better than Sartre's, for sure), but I'm no expert there...

Still have to look for those Jazz Icons... I like what you call middle period Evans a lot, those Verve albums are great! I still haven't thoroughly listened to the Fantasy set, but I have played most of it over the past years, and it sounded good to me, both musically as well as sound-wise. I'd probably still consider it the least interesting period in Evans' recorded output, but that doesn't mean much, as it's still Evans!

If you're bored by the Dianas, Norahs, Amys and Melodys, I suggest you check out Maja Solveig Kjestrup Ratkje... But I can't guarantee you'll like it, he he he

I guess 100$ for the Kenton alone is a steal! It was more expensive than that when it was new! It's formative stuff, but there's a lot to enjoy! The Quebec has been reissued by Blue Note - fine music!

anyone?

Yes indeed! Sad! I'm glad I spent so much in the past years... at least Universal is bringing some stuff back in yurp, but I guess you can't find those in the US. The Universal re-prints contain few of the less obvious titles, but of course plenty of Basie, Ellington, Peterson (Pablo material), Miles, Coltrane, Tyner, Brubeck etc is around again. Among the less obvious ones I'd count "When Farmer Met Gryce" and the "Jazz Scene San Francisco" session, also the Mingus Esoteric or whatever it was 1954 date with Thad Jones, Macero etc, as well as some (all?) of the Debut Rarities.

About time she got mentioned! She was the first that sprang to mind! The Laubrock disc I just bought - missed her local gig alas. And yes indeed on Carla Bley! Her music keeps astonishing me again and again, the more I hear the more I like it... but the liking sort of goes up exponentionally Has Karen Borca been mentioned?

Peter Gay's classic on the Weimar republic: not that surprising as I know some about the subject alreay, but a very good synopsis, and also a pleasure to read.

Happy Birthday! :party: :party: