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I have old editions of all of these (except for Blue Spirits and Here to Stay). Not going to replace them, too much new stuff around, and too little money, and enough general insecurity with all the stoopid greedy people buying and selling crap instead of just living in a sensible and responsable way... well, enough of my sermon, happy new year, nevertheless!

hm, hasn't everything been out? Open Sesame (RVG) Goin' Up (Conn - OOP soon!) Here to Stay (RVG) Hub Cap (RVG) Ready for Freddie (Conn, now RVG) Hub Tones (RVG) Breaking Point (RVG) Blue Spirits (RVG) Night of the Cookers (RVG) So I don't really see what would remain... except for a reissue of "Goin' Up", which is not likely going to happen, as the Conn has been in print for what, ten years or even more! By the way, my RVG of Blue Spirits is really weird - it has a US-made traycard (including FBI warning logo), the booklet is made in Europe, so is the disc, which is a copycrap disc, even though obviously on the US-tray it doesn't say so. I bought it assuming it was a non-CC edition (it came out originally while Euro-EMI releases were CC-discs) and was quite pissed to find out it wasn't... the only indication is that circle/eye-symbol printed on the CD itself. I only realized that quite a while after buying it so I figured bringing it back was useless, alas. It's been around as an actual CD by now. But the weirdest is the US-made traycard (it was that which disguised the copy-protection, as the euro-tray-cards of CC-discs had a CC-logo/info thing on the spine next to the RVG-logo... the non-CC new prints just leave a blank spot there, while my Blue Spirits has the RVG-text on the whole spine.

Ah, ok, I see - I never cared to figure that out as none of the three were common here in the past years!

Hm, my old McLean had indeed a white tray!

That was only an issue with the Collector's Choice version, the Mosaic is fine. Also with the old US ("domestic") disc - or would a CD ordered from Trueblue in the mid/late 90s be a Collector's Choice edition? I've never seen "Collector's Choice" discs over here until I bought one recently (the Hackett/Teagarden Capitol twofer), and I noticed some Nat Cole pop-twofers (South of the border and stuff like that) are turning up now, but I've never seen a "Collector's Choice" Blue Note CD, would they be labelled someway? Of course I couldn't tell if there was a sticker on the shrinkwrap, 10 years ago...

I'd like to see the third Coltrane box... sorry, off-topic, but generally I'm still decidedly pissed at what Concord does with the Fantasy holdings.

and another series, though not from EMI, but if we're talking recent reissues of Brasilian music - these are from 2004 and some are OOP it seems: Elenco Brazil-Serie Contrastes (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Odette Lara Bossa Balanco Balada (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Sylvia Telles Nara (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Nara Leao A Bossa Nova de Roberto Menescal (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Roberto Menescal Samba E Aracy de Almeida (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Aracy de Almeida Sidney Miller (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Sidney Miller Surfboard (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Roberto Menescal Balancamba (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Lucio Alves Bossa Nova York (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Sergio Mendes Trio (with Art Farmer!) Um Senhor Talento (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Sergio Ricardo De Vinicius e Baden Especialmente Para Ciro Monteiro (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Ciro Monteiro Caymmi Visita Tom (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Dorival Caymmi / Antonio Carlos Jobim Maysa (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Maysa Antonio Carlos Jobim (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Antonio Carlos Jobim Reencontro (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Sylvia Telles / Edu Lobo / Tamba Trio / Quinteto Villa Lobos Edu e Bethania (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Edu Lobo / Maria Bethania Vinicius/Caymmi No Zum Zum (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Vinicius de Moraes / Dorival Caymmi / Oscar Castro-Neves / Quartetto Em Cy Cantiga de Longe (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Edu Lobo Vinicius & Odette Lara (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Vinicius de Moraes / Odette Lara The Astrud Gilberto Album - With Antonio Carlos Jobim (Elenco Brazil-Serie) von Astrud Gilberto sorry - I was in fast reply and hit "enter" once too often, hence the edit... seems several of these are gone for good, I don't have a single one, alas... which ones would be essential?

Pery Ribeiro & Leny Andrade - Gemini V Doris Miltinho e charme Pery Ribeiro & Bossa 3 - Encontro Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes - Orfeu da Conceicao Marcos Valle - Samba Demais Elza Soares - Elsa Pede Passagem

These aren't exaclty from Blue Note... Odeon reissues all, I think? I caught an earful of the Wanderley in a store recently, left it behind though it was cheap...

Sad news - I hoped he'd pull through... r.i.p., thanks for all the music!

for fans of Astrud - got to check this out! http://songlines.co.uk/youtube/astrud-gilberto.php It's her with Getz' quartet performing "Girl from Ipanema" in a ski resort, of all places...

just went looking, here's the thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34193

I posted another similar thread a year or so ago, with a list culled from jazzecho.de - Universal is the international distributor for Concord/OJC etc, and they have re-printed many of the more common Fantasy reissues, with new order numbers on the spine and the traycard, as well as with a Universal logo replacing the Fantasy info. I have not been able to find any particular method behind these reissues, they include many of the more common or "to be expected" titles (Peterson's Pablos, for instance, and all the Miles discs), but also some by less well-known artists (that yellow/green one by Farmer/Gryce). I guess we just have to take what we get... the good days of CD reissues are gone.

No, it's called "Bill Wymans Rolling Stones Story" (no apostrophe as it's in german) - here is it's entry on amazon.de Forgot one thing: also gave the new Randy Newman disc to my girlfriend - fabulous one!

Hey, the Turrentine is NOT running low! I just had a shock! The Leo Parker is most welcome, other than that, the Turrentine is the only one I don't have and I'll get that Mosaic in time, hopefully!

What I gave for gifts: Bill Wyman's great diary of his years with the Stones, a huge collection of drawings by Robert Gernhardt, a small one by Blaise Cendrars to my girlfriend... (and some more) Peter Beard - The End of the Game + Herbie Hancock "Empyrean Isles" (to my dad) Nina Simone - The Philips box + the latest book by Christian Kracht (to my mother) Stan Getz - Getz Au Go Go (to my girlfriend's mother) Ry Cooder - I, Flathead (to my girlfriend's sister's ex) Hartley's The Go-Between (new German translation, to my girlfriend's sister) Kronos Quartet - the african disc + the first volume of the complete Mumins comic strips (the the sister and her ex' son) just so I don't seem too greedy

The Steve Kuhn ECM 3CD box (lovely!), the new cheap (25th anniversary) edition of William Claxton's "Jazz Life" (which was my wish from my parents), another couple of books, some chocolate, a sweater, two bottles of wine (to be shared with my girlfriend) and some vouchers for the local arthouse cinemas (again to be shared). Too much, as usual... the Claxton book is awesome, only just flipped around in it a bit, wow!

Yeah, and happy orgasms, too! sorry, couldn't resist, in light of this other thread...

Don't know that one, sorry!

sorry, my typo - fixed above. no relation to Strata East, then?

Is this really the only thread about this great box? Got it recently and am making my way through it, reading and listening. Very cool set!

Everybody have a good time, hellyeah! (Well, most won't just have a good time, but some kind of mix... family usually combines good and bad times, all within the same minute...) - check out some swinging holiday sounds if you feel like

I only have one of his HighNotes, in addition to this fine Marge release. The HighNote seems much more... contained/mainstream/cool by comparison, and in the end compared to this one with Christophe, the American gang on the HighNote smells like routine. But I'll have to dig it up now, maybe I'm wrong...

I bought Patton's "Accent on the Blues" as such a manufactured CDR. Wrote them an angry mail as I wasn't aware if was a CDR when I ordered... of course they just sent a pre-fab mail in response suckers. "Blue John" is also available as CDR from Amazon. I'll watch closer next time... 13 or 14 $ for a CDR is way over the top, and the prize for "Accent" went up to 16 or 17 later on. That's crazy!

bump! Just about to finish my first listen to this box (took in in small doses, as the somewhat indifferent sound ends up suggesting a bit of a sameness - which musically isn't the case, but to my ears it sounds all a bit flat). Lots of wonderful music! Lots of band music that focuses more on the collective rather than on individual soloists, but of course you get to hear plenty of great solos as well. Pity there's not information on soloists, I'm not familiar with many of these bands, even less with particular band members, so if there's no information in the shortish track-by-track notes, I have mostly no clue who's soloing here. But hey, this all doesn't really matter... there's so much good music here! Well-known bands like Lionel Hampton's, Basie's (rehearsals, two titles with Pres), but also bands I've never heard before (Wilbert Baranco, for instance, or the International Sweethearts of Rhythm).