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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...)

No - it's "Dial 'S' for Sonny" I was talking about. Somehow it doesn't jell ... it may sound heretic, but to me the top Sonny Clark album is the trio date on Time Records! Ah, I see... but that one's a sextet, with Fuller on trombone in addition to Mobley and Farmer (and Ware, Hayes). I would have been quite amazed to see "Cool Struttin'" in this thread (well, maybe it's been mentioned above, I didn't re-read it all). The Time trio is the last Clark I got (I still miss the Uptown though), and hm, it's fine, but the BN "Sonny Clark Trio" is likely my top Clark, with Chambers/Philly Joe doing a terrific job. The "Standards" disc on the other hand never did much for me. As for Lee Morgan... I love some of his albums (including "Rumproller", which is one of the typical "Sidewinder" re-trials), but while I have all or most, I'm not sure I can even tell them all apart... "Sidewinder" I love, though (also "Search for the New Land", but that's likely his most atypical album anyway, and then "The Procrastinator"!)

which is Clark's first quintet date - not "cool struttin'" I hope?!

Yes, Smith did a few too many, I guess... some are terrific (Groovin' at Smalls, Crazy Baby), some are good to great (all the sessions with horns I've heard, maybe with the exception of "Rockin' the Boat" which I'd rate as fine, but not great), but some are quite lacklustre (Movin On and the other one done just a day before or after, with Quentin Warren in Grant Green's place - or is Movin' on the one with Warren? Either way the one with Green doesn't do much for me). One I'd not rate as highly as many here seem to is "Home Cookin'". And also "Prayer Meetin'" never did much for me, which is weird since I love "Back at the Chicken Shack" and like "Midnight Special" quite some, too (but not as mcuh as "Back at.." which happened to be among my first ten jazz CDs).

I bought the RCA albums quite cheap in those japanese re-editions mentioned above (I assume, if it weren't those, they'd have cost a lot more I guess). Not quite sure how they rank, but then I've been partial to the Blue Notes not only as far as the late 50s recordings are concerned... had those box for years before getting the Verve box, and I just don't know the Verve recordings as well. The RCAs definitely aren't bad, but I think the BNs do more for me. The Verves I need to check out again soon! And I also should get more of the live material!

There are previous threads listing the LPRs (out of which the "Originals" evolved - in yurp the package and design changed a bit earlier, LPRS > digipack-LPRS > jewel case originals > digipack originals is the way they took here - I think in the US the change to digipack took place later, and maybe you never had any jewel case versions in between?) Best you do a search for those older threads, maybe some of the originals batches are listed there. Also look through the recently active Universal reissues thread. Some batches are listed in there. Also if the org-search won't help much, try a google domain search (hit ... ah, shucks, look below for links, doing the search right now myself). I'd be very much interested to see the complete list (though all the smooth crap they included recently doesn't interest me the slightest bit), but I don't have time to do a lot of searching now. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3566 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=8835 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=39885 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36409 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10004 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=8334 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=44720 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34194 (with links to listings on jazzecho.de which aren't complete either, though) Now you can do the hard work

The Buck Clayton box - from LP1 side a on... just about wrapping up "Christopher Columbus" - holy smokes, this stuff swings like mad! (<< Jo Jones!!!) Beautiful solos by Lem Davis, Julian Dash (that fellow is good!), the trumpet players (Joe Newman, next to Buck), and lots of smokin' trombone, courtesy of Bennie Green, Henderson Chambers, and Urbie Green... then there's Sir Charles Thompson, and then quite a surprise each time I pop in some of these LPs, Charlie Fowlkes' baritone - beautiful sound, and quite lovely solos, provided he was just a section player during all the years he spent with the Count!

Well, the fact that they don't include original album art is indeed a bit of a letdown sometimes. I guess they'd need to pay more to also license the right to re-print the art, though. As for second hand vinyl - nothing like that available around here... I just know of one shop, but prizes there are normal, 20-35$ for an album, just like a new CD. So Mosaic in the end will be the cheaper way for some of us non-spoilt non-americans.

the mingus is this one: Ed Armour (tp) Charles McPherson (as) Pepper Adams (bars) Jaki Byard (p) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d) "Symphony Sid" Torin (ann) "Birdland", NYC, October 26, 1962 Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa Ozone 19; Yadeon [J] 501 The Search - OP. (O.P.O.P.) - Eat That Chicken (theme) Yadeon [J] 501 * Charles Mingus - Cecil Taylor (Ozone 19) * Charles Mingus - A Night In Birdland Live, Vol. 2 (Yadeon [J] 501) someone ought to clean up these Birdland broadcasts and put them in a nice 3CD box, equivalent to what's circulating already... great stuff!

playing the Ozone right now - much more Mingus on it (and good one!) - the Taylor part is just a couple of fragments, one with Lyons... doesn't fit to the 1965-09-10 entry on the sessionography, really...

thanks for the recommendation, took a note! that tatum I have somewhere, not played in a long time, though...

hm, tenor? there some swiss trombone players also making use of alphorn (roberth morgenthaler would be one, I think), but tenor and from austria? not one of wolfgang puschnig's projects?