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Thanks for posting that review, Chris! I guess I'll steer cleer of the later RCAs ("Silk & Soul" is on its way already though), and rather look for more of the british EMI reissues (including At Town Hall!) and mainly get the Bethlehem next!

Hm, I didn't know, but frankly the Chronos sound alright (Lon said they did, I trusted him once more, and that wasn't a wrong decision), and I could get them all new for a good prize at a used CD store. I bet the JSP would have been nice as well!

Not to forget: Lou McGarity and Cutty Cutshall (tb), Peanuts Hucko (cl) and of course Gene Schroeder, who became the pianist used on most sessions (though to be honest, I prefer Stacy quite some...)

Played all the Condon Chronological Classics (minus the most recent one covering the mid 50s) which I bought recently. Great music! Not claiming this is earth-shaking stuff or anything (though those few early sides with that reeds guy, what's his name again, Teschemacher? Those might have been rather new in their day...), yet the 1938 Commodore sessions are terrific, and Pee Wee Russell has countless fascinating solos! The presence of people like Wild Bill Davison, Edmond Hall, Jess Stacy, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan and others helps a lot of course, and George Wettling must have been one of the best suited drummers for this kind of music! Though what about the trombones? I've read somewhere (the Mosaic liners?) about the way the various trumpet/clarinet combinations (Kaminsky, Davison... and Russell, Hall, Wilber...) changed the character of the music, but rarely you read anything about the trombone players. Of course now and then there's Big T doing service, but his replacements on most of the sessions (George Brunies must be the one appearing most often) do a fine job as well. Also it seems the pianists have quite some influence on how these sessions sound, overall. Stacy always shines, Sullivan brings a bit more edge to the proceedings, Waller of course is great on that one date... Now I need a bit of a break from dixieland (he he... started playing the Berigan Chronos instead last night... only knew the Mosaic with the early material so far, now digging into his RCA output for the first time!), and then I'll play the Condon Mosaic, which I was able to acquire from someone on the board, and in prime shape, too!

RCA also had a 2CD set covering her whole career (Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, RCA etc), and now an expanded one with three discs + DVD, "To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story" - here's an AAJ review of that one: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30269 Anyway, as an x-mas gift for my mother I ordered another Philips set (available cheaply from Caiman via various amazon sites - ordered mine from amazon.fr, but for those in the US, amazon.com would be cheaper, I'm sure). Those albums to me are close to perfect in the moods they cover, in how they're sequenced etc.

Would be a GREAT Miles release to have a double disc of his 1969-07-25/26 Antibes shows! Much better than yet another KoB deluxe crap (though I haven't finished fighting temptation, but I already cashed in some coupons and stuff for the Dylan deluxe one, which costs way over the top).

Would that be enough for covering those albums? I see there have been no replies at all in the RCA reissues thread (see link in post #3)... The AMG review of the compilation (assuming this is the one) states that those weren't her best records: Now this review seems to imply the compilation contains many of those pop covers where she was "ill at ease"?

Is there a legit edition with the bonus tracks? Which edition would you go for? Quite a chaos with Bethlehem albums...

and here are some earlier threads: R.i.p. thread Four Women (The Philips box) Universal's Philips reissues RCA reissues (and related Night Lights thread) (edited for typo)

I am in the process of discovering the music of Nina Simone, and again and again I'm almost overwhelmed by her sheer power, her full emotionality, her musicality. I used to have a cheapo sampler when in high school, containing some crap, but also some of her most well known songs (Mississippi Godamn for instance), but it was the Philips box that won me over. Now I also got two of those EMI reissues (see this thread for a listing - the two I have, Forbidden Fruit & Village Gate, are normal non-CC CDs), as well as her first RCA album, Sings the Blues. Here's a more or less helpful discography (failing to list those EMI UK reissues, alas): http://boscarol.com/nina/html/album/albums_orig.html Both Forbidden Fruit and At the Village Gate contain quite a few bonus tracks btw, which certainly aren't on the Collectables twofers (and I still have a hard time accepting their crappy design and lack of information... though they do put out some wonderful music). Now where should I look next? There's a CTI CD that pops up now and then (can't imagine that coupling, though), there are those other early Colpix albums, more RCA...

You won't regret it! There are ten albums in the set, two of them "pop" albums, the first of which is saved almost on his own by the great Teddy Edwards. The second is rather drab but ey, there are eight more albums in the set, and some of them are terrific, and all of them contain at least a few very, very good things! I guess this set is sort of similar to how the Blue Mitchell would be, would they not have omitted the final Blue Note albums of his... ok, not a good comparison, but I assume you get a rough idea.

Jack Teagarden Roulette - disc 1

Just gave this a first spin - lovely recording! Great sound and lots of very good bass clarinet playing. As has been mentioned before Darek Oles plays a rather important role on the album. He's a mighty fine bass player!

Finished the Wilson - excellet set! The second pop album is pretty weak though... not much there to enjoy, quite unlike Teddy Edwards on the first one.

Hm, that Cobblestone Stitt twofer might by my first or second choice... also some Kirk - all those "ugliest cover threads" dedicated to 32 Jazz notwithstanding, that label's missed here! They did I a great service to Woody Shaw!

This was one of 32jazz' best reissues, in my humble opinion!

last night: disc 2 & disc 3 of the Gerald Wilson - big - Teddy Edwards saves many of the pop tunes on the first album on disc 3!

Fine player! His disc "Zimphonic Suites" (Sheer Sound, 2001) is all I have (in addition to said radio broadcast). Planning to catch him live in a few weeks!

I remember having read somewhere about a "purge" of the italian boot market - there used to be many labels before... don't know what prompted that purge, but I guess some change of law?

And just in case: labels no one ever questions, such as Classics (Chronological) or the sadly gone Masters of Jazz make/made use of the very same difference in copyrights. In its heyday, with monthly releases, Classics was often running just behind the 50 years line.

Quadromania is one of the reissue series put out by Membran (www.membran.net). I think there's a connection to TIM, but I'm not sure. They have some Candid material available, in repacked ugly blue covers and fitting cardboard boxes around the jewel cases. As far as the covers go, they seem to actually license the Candid material. Other than that their releases (as well as Membran's, including "Original Longplay" and "Quadromania" releases) are compliant with the 50 year copyright period in Europe and hence are to be considered "legit" (if not necessarily legitimate...)

1201 is the US license label of DA Music (Deutsche-Austrophon or something), which is the owner of the Black Lion catalogue, as far as I know. I guess those reissues are as legit as original Black Lion releases were. (Not implying anything here, I just don't know anything about Black Lion.)

Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean :tup

Big fan of his - sad news, but then he got old and acted for many decades and did a whole lot of great films! Thanks for that!

Yes, maybe Switzerland is just too small for there to be a big market for used vinyl... I mean I occasionally find something used someplace, but there's just one shop specialising in jazz vinyl I know (and I mentioned the prizes above...)