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There's a third Freeman to add to the two before mentioned ones: I also quite regret these costing so much... I usually only buy them when I find them on sale, but I guess I've got 25 or 30 of them by now. Favourites are the Johnny Dyanis, the Walt Dickersons, also all the Ken McIntyre's I've heard have things going on that are of interest. Then there's the wonderful Pierre Dorge... his New Jungle Orchestra discs are among my favourite yurpeen jazz albums.

There's been a bit of discussion of this Masekela reissue in the Universal reissues thread - I agree, it's a wonderful disc! Can't compare it to those Spear albums, as I don't own those, but indeed, Ntshoko is wonderful here - his long solo somewhere in the middle of the disc is a treat as well! And Willis/Gomez fit in nicely with this kind of groove! Also indeed Pukwana is the wildest, edgiest element of this band, reaching beyond the "limits" of the grooves and of the all-together pretty polished sound. Highly recommended!

A serious and near-catastrophic issue ! :rsly: There have been a few times that these things have swung open, jettisoning out the disk and forcing me to perform Olympic-standard pseudo back-flip manouevers to catch said disk before it hit the woodwork ! hey, next time you perform such extraordinary deeds, please swith on your homecam and put the results up on youtube!

I heard part of that concert with Hamid Drake on the air - great indeed! Had to buy that CD eventually - it's available from CD Baby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/angelidrake Angeli btw plays a guitar he built/modified himself, with more strings than usual or something crazy - he gets quite wonderful sounds with that instrument!

um, I wasn't entirely serious... threads like these get so... nerdy...

That doesn't do anything with the double cases. The worst thing about the double case they use is that if you get one CD off of one side, the disc on the other side is even harder to remove since they share the retention hooks. indeed! and something else I am (in the slightest way of slightly) worried about is those new double jewel cases where the tray doesn't have any kind of hinge, but rather just sort of a perforation that allows it being opened/flipped open - these will eventually just fall apart, I assume... question is, will they last as long as I live? (I am not quite yet 30, but it's only a few months...)

Hm, maybe I haven't just heard enough music yet... couldn't say I know many other albums who did better takes on what Barney did on "Moshi" - it's quite a singular album in my opinion...

PM sent on: Lou Donaldson, Quartet/Quintet/Sextet) (BN) $7 Lou Donaldson, Fried Buzzard (Chessmates) $7 Shelley Manne, Perk Up (Concord) $7 Wes Montgomery, Far Wes (Pacific Jazz) $6 Neil Swainson, 49th Parallel (Concord) $7 (Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw in band) Stanley Turrentine, Let It Go (Impulse) $7 Ben Webster, Gone with the Wind (Black Lion) $7 Ben Webster, There is no Greater Love (Black Lion) $7 Ben Webster, See You At The Fair (Impulse) $7 Grant Green, Iron City (32 Jazz) $7

mine got here very fast - likely it came by air mail anyway... got it about ten days or even two weeks ago already (ordered just a few days before the July sale ended), and the sucker made it even without taxes, for a change! good one, so far, but I'm only halfway into disc 3 after three listening/reading sessions.

yeah, I don't doubt your being serious - but you could let us know why you're of that opinion... also the word "legit" strikes me as weird (not sure I understand it in this context at all... I guess it was up to Barney to decide if his albums were legit statements of what he wanted to tell)

Tremendously enjoying the bits of music left by Luis Russell's terrific band (with Higgy, Red Allan, Charlie Holmes, and some other great soloists) - there's some celeste there as well - used to great effect, in my humble opinion!

a c'mon, you can do better...

I never thought of Wilen as a Mobley disciple - in fact I never thought of him as anyone's disciple... maybe a tenor sax disciple? (But don't forget his wonderful soprano piece on the "Liaisons Dangereuses" Blakey album! He was one of the first modern jazzers with full grasp of and technical ease on the bitchy small horn.) Barney is hard to pin down (but maybe that was one of the things he wanted to achieve), almost chameleon like... he did way out free stuff (with Tusques), world/free fusions (with Irene Schweizer's trio and Indian musicians), classic hardbop (Blakey, Miles, also as a leader with guys like Kenny Dorham and Duke Jordan in his band, or again as a sideman with George Lewis and pre-singing Sacha Distel), and then later on he played with mainstream guys such as Kenny Barron or several good French pianists (Alain Jean Marie, Michel Graillier), yet in between he did weird things like that album with Marie Möör or that Barry & the whatevers thing, where he's just doing some r'n'b honks and obbligatos, mostly... I love Barney! Here's the main >>Barney thread<<

You didn't get a price for it, did you? I still haven't had a response to my e-mail. No, but I didn't ask for that... just asked them to please put me on any future mailings.

Bix/Tram/Tea - disc 3 right now, been playing discs 1 and 2 a couple of days ago, some great, some good, but some annoying vocals, too...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotlan...ast/7562773.stm

yeah, what mike said - quite a story!

The "Greatest Jazz Films" DVDs are great - but I think they ought to be considered boots, too.... they're on idem Home Video or soemthing, and that label's distributed by Fresh Sound... anyway, even weirder is that the same distributor/label carries two series of "Jazz Casual", one called like that, combining two shows on short DVDs, the other series called "20th Century Jazz Masters", combining 3-4 "Jazz Casual" shows, both contain the complete series, I think... all rather shady stuff. The "Greatest Jazz Films" is also available on two single DVDs (which is how I have it), one being mainly the 1957 "Sound of Jazz" with some bonus material, the other being "Jammin' the Blues", the Herridge Davis TV show, plus the second Mili film, plus some more. Glorious, all of it, that's for sure, but weird editions, nevertheless.

Funny, his playing on "Star Bright" never caught my attention. I think I first noticed him on Comin' On as well. The sessions with the Three Sounds are also par excellence. ok ok, I don't get what's so hilarious about me mixing up two albums - or is that some kind of language joke that I don't get or what?

Both these tracks have been out before, perhaps not legitimately. The Zurich concert (4/8/60) is on Jazz Unlimited 2031. The Netherlands concert (4/9/60) is on Unique Jazz 19 and Natasha 4002. Yes, I think the Zurich is not legitimate either... another stupid decision along the lines of including just one of the Newport 1955 tracks on the 2CD edition of "Round About Midnight"... And what crap about the "Love for Sale" etc. session only being on the box? I thought it was on one of those old Legacy CDs (1958 Session or Stella By Starlight or whatever, never owned it), and of course it was on vinyl before that...

Yeah, I've heard it...it's fun, but not deep (Moshi is! It goes all the way!) I thought these WERE european releases, i thought that whole label was german or something... even crazier what prizes are asked for these releases!

I'm still doubtful about buying the Leary one - it's cool, ok, but these reissues cost almost twice as much here as on dusty (but dusty charge a helluva lot for shipping to yurp) - as crazy as rare japanese reissues... funniest is the George Duke one - it costs almost as much as the 4CD box that Universal put out themselves, which includes six more albums...

Ha - you ought to check out "Moshi" then - that's the real thing!

Add "Blues & Roots" and "At Beethoven Hall" or whatever the Russell MPS is called! Mingus is somewhere in between if we apply Larry's criteria (I did - that's why I mentioned Dameron instead of just some hardbop stuff that happens to have three horn frontlines, which is rather common if you give it some thought... Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Clark all did albums with three horns, so did quite a few organists, not just Jimmy Smith, I think...)