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Yes, true! I first bought "Someday My Prince Will Come" after all the boxes were out and it was quite clear that the Mobley parts of it would never be on any box... marvellous album! And the material is great, too! (It's 6CDs of live and one of studio material btw, but I guess it would have all fit onto 5-6 CDs in a box-set).

Yeah, very good one! I got into Weston mainly via his great series of Universal France/Gitanes album from the late 80s and 90s (Volcano Blues, Saga, Spirits of the Ancestors, etc) and a few earlier ones (the CTI, the Dawn and the Monterey '66 album). Buying the Mosaic Select was quite a revelation! I love the two albums on disc 3, but this one is outstanding as well! And it's a pleasure to hear Griffin in such a cool setting!

Mobley has some stunning moments there (on Pfrancing I think? Or was it Oleo?), and the rhythm section really smokes! Also "Concierto de Aranquez" might be even better here than on "Sketches of Spain"! Plus I'm a total sucker for "Teo", that one just smokes, up to the end, and to me, it could go on for ten more minutes!

Yeah, it took me several years to get into 20s jazz and early Armstrong... I got the Columbia Hot Fives & Sevens box years ago, but only after several listens (with much time passing in between) I got to appreciate it and then later on actually enjoy it. In the meantime my listening had changed to include a lot of pre-war jazz (Condon and all those folks around him, Wild Bill Davison, Pee Wee Russell, etc, Lee Wiley, Teagarden etc) and that helped me to take the step back to the early stuff... and of course listening to Mosaics is always a big help and an eye and ear-opener to me - in this case the Bix/Tram/Tea, and then I found some of Bix' Masters of Jazz discs which mainly include Whiteman recordings - concentrating on the solo voice of one artist can make it easier to get into such music that seems strange and well, foreign (as in "the past is a foreign country... the did things differently there" or how that quote goes).

For international customers, smaller sets are much nicer to buy - orders under 100$ can be shipped surface and often slip by the customs. That includes sets of 3-5 discs only, alas (used to be up do 6CD sets, but not since their last prize raise). That may be part of the fast selling... but also generally, I'd be happy to see more 4CD and 5CD sets. Of course if they go for a big body of work, sets will be larger and I'll still buy them, but I love some of the smaller sets from earlier years (Thad Jones, Jones/Lewis, Sam Rivers, Illinois Jacquet, Byrd/Adams, Curtis Fuller - just a few that come to mind immediately).

A member here has used the cover of Idris Ackamoor's 2CD compilation "Music of Idris Ackamoor, 1971-2004" for a long time. I finally bought me a copy of it, outstanding music! http://www.emrecords.net/records/00077.html It contains tracks from the great albums he did with the Pyramids, as well as later recordings, and it includes a few unreleased things, as well as a great booklet with lots of photos and notes by Ackamoor himself. Very well-done. CDbaby has three discs of Ackamoor's available: http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=Idris+Ac...chsubmit=Search Anyone is familiar with any of those? And this label here is supposed to reissue the three albums by the Pyramids this year: http://www.locustmusic.com Anyone has any additional info on these upcoming reissues? there's also this one (out in bloggity sphere), seems it's not scheduled for reissue, probably this was just some kind of test pressing?

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=123133 Maybe I could come over to your place and you'll play some early Kenny G for me? Or (get your ammo out) some of that kitschy PMG stuff... now that's a guy I never got into, although "Question and Answer" with Holland and Haynes is pretty good, and 80/81 has some fine moments, too... and of course the first album with Jaco... but that's about it, none of his "main" stuff does anything for me.

Why Coltrane is THE paradigm... no one would dare and make a fool of himself by stepping out and saying he pee on Love Supreme (ok, some might not dig the final two years, but hey, that's only a small portion they would say - though I'd say it's an essential portion that showed him developping and searching further beyond what he'd done before, and is also an indication that by 65/66 he was not content to just go on doing what he did from roughly 62-64/5). But someone once was bold enough to say he hates Miles... read on here, great thread (seriously): http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7784

Braxton has a huge oeuvre - I guess everybody will find some stuff in there that s/he can't connect to... but I have a feeling he should be treated like a giant of contemporary music (not just jazz, music in general). Though how would I really know... Some of his stuff is just great fun to listen to (anything by his quartet with Crispell, for insance, or for a more recent example, the two volumes of duos with Andrew Cyrille on Intakt), but some can be rather hard to take in, such as his solo work (which is I guess "idiosyncratic"... for those inclined to think so, it will also contain ample "proof" that Mr. Braxton is technically inept as far as playing a saxophone goes...), and then there's stuff that most here (including me) just might never get around listening (his composed works for piano, to name an example). And yes, Mr. DB, I'll look into some early Kenny G. (but only if you invite me over and offer me a few beers along with your playing your early Kenny G. discs for me!)

Just got "Nearness of You" and gave it a first spin last night. Nice one, far from essential though... (but I think in my book Grappelli in general rates as "far from essential", so...)

Taylor a few years later really sounded good to me - like on those sessions from Europe (A Day in Copenhagen with Dexter/Slide Hampton from 1969 is a great example, just reissued), really hotter and more outgoing than in the 50s. I prefer PJJ on recordings from those years.

Happy Birthday! Sorry to be late, but I'll make up by spinning your disc again soon!

What about the Monk Riverside 2CD set? I never ever saw any K2 over here, so I have the Monk as part of the 15CD and that recent 2CD set (used to have the OJCCD as well). I must have missed that earlier discussion!

hm, I don't know... maybe Getz was just all crazy... it's frightening how he plays on those airchecks with Herman, considering his age!

Play some of his early stuff - the quartets with Haig and Silver on Roost for instance!

I have never gotten into Kenny G - need I be lobotomised maybe?

gee! Brubeck... ok ok... but he was an idol of early Cecil Taylor (along with Tristano, of course), AND he offered Paul Demond many a chance to blow outstanding solos (one that pops up immediately: the Audrey Hepburn dedication on one of the "Time" albums, but you really can't pick one... and it doesn't sound to me like Desmond was unhappy over the situation in the Brubeck quartet - he could have left earlier, too, if he'd wanted to).

I never got into Wynton though, but I've never felt an urge to try... anyway, I would find that a bit... well, disgusting, though

sorry, it's just you

They were all digipacks originally, and the "hors série" 2CD sets I've only seen as digipacks to this day, while (some of?) the single discs have turned up in jewel cases - I guess it was mainly those with a lot of demand (for instance the two Grappelli/Petersons) and re-pressing them with regular packing was way cheaper. The 2CD digipacks are beautifully made, the booklets have a few pages more than usual and include some photos and in the case of the Fohrenbach a picture of one of the original albums, too.

This is great news! And a note on this one: certainly you're aware of this smokin' live disc featuring Henderson: an excellent disc, all 'round!

hm, I thought it was Larance Marable, but of course you're right, it's Chambers and Philly Joe indeed - so it was right on topic! Yes, those were Jazz West and Transition dates. They're all on the Mosaic Select, but as I have all of the music on it on CDs and on that double LP, I haven't bought it yet... I know I will some day, though!

I've heard some Ra from their tour through Europe - interesting stuff of course, with some terrific moments. But in the end to get a full picture, you'd have to hear full shows (or did those shows only last an hour or a bit more really?). There's a DVD around (off TV, not commercially released I think, but I didn't check) that runs for an hour or so, from the jazz days in Berlin, there's some great stuff on it, but there's too much of the theatrical and whimsical stuff in it as well (or rather: in the end there's not that much meat on the bone, so to say... but the concert ran on when the tele-cast ended I think, so that's why I say one would have to hear complete shows...) That release, is that one of those advertised by Jazz Loft? Are those legit anyway? But it's off topic anyway, as there's no Chambers there... but allow me to put in a good word for another off-topic date without PJJ: that quartet date by Chambers/Coltrane, the one on the brown Blue Note 2LP set, I like that one very much!

That's a good read indeed - thanks for posting! The Moran from Banlieues Bleues was on French radio a few days ago but the announcer kept talking over the music, very annoying - certainly a great show to catch live! Somehow though I mostly started losing interest in Moran a few years ago... and that statement about "Modernistic" being the greatest piano solo recording of the past 20 years, I really don't know about that... there's plenty of Cecil Taylor (Willisau Concert stands out), and there's for instance Irene Schweizer's terrific "Chicago Piano Solo", but my pick might be this one (how fitting to post this after a post of our stride loving EKE BBB!):

wow, fantastic news!