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Got "I Told You So" in the current Universal sales... I think "On the Road" is in the bins, too, but I opted for some jams and the "First Time" trio date only, so far... the jams I got are "Basie Jam #2", "Kansas City 7", "Mostly Blues... and some Others", as well as "Loose Walk", an album co-led with Roy Eldridge. I have "Get Together" (with the great Budd Johnson!) and recently also found "The Bosses" (with Joe Turner) on vinyl. Also finally picked up "Chairman of the Board" before it vanishes, as well as the Joe Williams/Basie Roulette album that re-appeared as part of that great Capitol Vocalists reissue series (is Williams' own - ballad - album in that series any good ("A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry")?

Yeah, I'm really having a hard time imagining that... Zawinul wasn't just present in the glossy US jazz press (which certainly is "sanitized", no doubt about that), but also in the daily papers, and if you read interviews with him or articles about him, that's just not a thing that would ever come up... of course you can now say that he himself hid it, but then we're off into paranoia and conspiracy...

I stopped regularly reading and re-reading the liner notes, but I like having proper documentation, mainly, and I live with the illusion that lossless files burned to CDR actually do sound better to my very ears than MP3s from my analogically hooked up MP3-player...

Just to explain my scepticism, as I don't regularly take part in those MP3 downloads threads and debates... I'm still hoping that some day the labels will offer lossless downloads (preferredly the majors who hold all that material in the case of many of the labels included in the Chrono series and other such reissues - preferredly that is, in cases where any kinds of "masters" still exist). I mean, for a lossless 7CD set of Bessie Smith's music (of which I own nothing so far, alas) in lossless format plus a nice PDF with all the documentation (do you get any kind of documentation with e-music or Amazon MP3s? I'd not buy Classics downloads without that, I think! I'm anal, I know...) - I'd be willing to pay a far bit more than 40$ for that, I think. But there's no one offering that, so...

Columbia made those recordings, and they were not released because Columbia ended their contract with Mingus. I believe I read somewhere that Columbia gave these recordings to Mingus as part of their settlement. If that's the case, they should have come out on Revenge/32Jazz in the late 90s, I guess

Yup, the Reece and Jenkins are great! And so is the Richardson, indeed! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=37591

Thanks for your comments! I guess the Poole goes on the list, then! Alas, no sign of these discs in local stores yet, but if they'll be sold for discount prizes, I won't think twice!

found used yesterday: Naked City - Grand Guignol: also recently: ordered some Tyner OJCs and already received: - Michael Blake's tribute disc to Lucky Thompson (Stunt, 2007) - the Zawinul live set from his own club in Vienna (double disc) - Billy Cobham "Spectrum" - New Orleans Rhythm King (the NORK dork 2CD set)

Major Holley

Seems Fantasy (and now Concord) owns some of the rights... also the rights to "Mingus at Monterey", which would be overdue for CD reissue, it's another mighty fine album (another meant in addition to the UCLA one). I found the double LP set about ten years ago and like it a lot! Would anyone know who owns the Town Hall 1964 and "My Favorite Quintet" recordings? It's all quite irritating, as Sue keeps blurting how important all of this is, and how many reissues she'll put out (remember the notes for "Revenge!" on 32jazz? And then after that first one, how many years had to pass until a second one appeared...) The Ronnie Scott 1972 sessions are "around" - did Mingus record those himself, or were they done by a label? And why were they never released in the first place?

Didn't catch this till now... why would they have multiple copies? I've never seen that in local libraries... they're struggling to buy single copies already, it seems (often they're sort of complement each other... or they just have either an original or a German translation...)

I'm still kind of sleeping on McDuff, but among the three or so of his discs I've heard, I've always found this one here very good (but Holloway sounds a bit too much like a Griffin-imitator here and there... that may be wrong, but it's the impression I get):

Ain't they great!? Honsinger was terrific when I saw them (must have been around 2002/2003)! I also found Michael Moore to be outstanding (both on alto and clarinet), and Delius was behaving like some kind of weird/nerd/madman, but playing great, too! As for Mary Oliver, she's been with the ICP gang for a while... when I heard them, she, Honsinger and Glerum did a lengthy string trio improv that was among the highlights! And I'm a sucker for ICP's Ellingtonia!

Yes, "indisponible ce jour" probably means that they had it once, hence it's still listed on the website, but it's unlikely that they'll get it again (Amazon states "4-6 weeks" in such cases, I guess...) I think Abeille have all that's currently in print on CD. That shows how much is NOT in print these days, and it seems rather unlikely that this situation will change to the better... Has anyone gotten any news yet btw, if these downloads are legit and in fact being offered either by the label themselves or by someone actually holding a license? I've not started paying anything for crappy MP3 though I guess with many of these transfers, it would indeed not be a big loss... but there are still enough actual CDs to be found that I've never yet felt a need to explore what i-music or e-music or who/whatever they are actually have on offer... the weirdest thing is that these offerings are different depending on where you live, and I'm quite sure their offerings in Switzerland are pretty modest anyway... at least that was the case when I last browsed the apple store years ago...

Note sure I'll be ending up as a NORK dork yet, but I just snagged this up cheaply (from JPC) and am looking forward to hearing it!

Yeah, I was sort of waiting for a new one to appear in the sales bins, as that's where I picked up "Sweetnighter", "Tale Spinnin'", "Black Market" etc, all in their new masterings and all pretty cheap... but I always felt I should fill up the gap and get the first album, as these "beginnings" of fusion music and jazz rock or whatever you want to call it, are highly fascinating to me (while much of what comes later is quite completely beyond my interest... muscular chops show-offs etc... though I love the Zawinul Syndicate of roughly Joe's final ten years, got some glorious videos off TV, too! Richard Bona is great, but Joe was always the main attraction, with his "invented" world/roots/folk stuff, the great rhythms, his crazy vocoder vocalising etc.)

I see - and is it ok? Also how about "Heavy Weather" - I only have the old one of it, too... what do the experts say?

Has the very first album been remastered as well or not? I have albums #2-6 I think, plus "Heavy Weather", "Live and Unreleased" and "Live in Tokyo", and that first one I'd like to get, but the entries on Amazon are confusing, Amazon.fr has a 1992 CD and Amazon.de has several editions (including one that is not availble but is listed with a March 2009 release date), but all of them look like old Legacy CDs do:

This was on a Japanese CD when they reissued a bunch of Basie's Verve albums some years ago (for the centenary, I think). I wonder if they will just use the same remastering to keep costs down. Remastering shouldn't be allowed at all, as it spoils the original (vinyl) album effect bigtime!

Here's an earlier thread I started, where, among other things, I asked if anyone has any news about the upcoming reissues of the Pyramids albums: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=50580

Going back to my earlier post regarding the lack of end note numbers in the essay I wrote for the new Uptown CD, I neglected to take at least partial responsibility for what happened. To make a long story short, in retrospect, my submission was not formatted ideally for a CD booklet. I wouldn't worry , as a huge LT fan I found it a most interesting essay. There seems to be very little written about Lucky and what there is seems mainly to add little to the, talented but difficult character who played with everyone especially Martial Solal then withdrew from the scene altogether, repeated in most of the potted bios I've seen on Thompson. Yes, I enjoyed reading the essay a lot as well! It's just that I've been dealing with too many of these formal issues and I don't quite get it why some never get it right, so I was wondering a bit what happened there. But probably I was most annoyed about the fact that the thick CD booklet of the set I got wasn't fold straight and in the middle... I guess I'm anal, but hey, I love the music, and that's the most important thing about this release, of course!

I'm Bidin' My Time - one of my favourites from Gershwin!

Time to Smile (by Freddie Redd, from "The Connection", also performed by Steve Grossman on the album titled after this song)

Time Remembered (Bill Evans - performed many times by him)