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two good news: Vol. 7/8 of "L'intégrale" is out on Soul Note and this humble king has just ordered - finally - an acceptably priced copy of Vol. 5/6

First heard Coleman on the My Funny Valentine/Four & More 2CD set - huge impression he made on me! A very nuanced player, lots of great moments on those two hours of music! I don't have many of his leader dates, but "Big George" is fine, so is "My Horns a Plenty" or what it's called, that Birdology/Dreyfus thing. Last week I found Joey DeFrancesco's official bootleg disc in the summer sale bins - some mighty fine Coleman there, as well! I was lucky to see Coleman live with Ahmad Jamal, around the time Jamal's live disc from Paris was made, with the very same band (James Cammack, as usual, and a smoking Idris Muhammad). That was one of the better concerts I've witnessed, though Jamal to me lost quite some of what made him so special back in the days of is Argo albums... Coleman was great, though!

btw, J.A.W., you forgot the first one that's part of the offer: #210 The Complete Capitol Bobby Hackett Solo Sessions "What was special about Bobby Hackett? In a world of hit-you-over-the-head, high-note, high-speed, supersonic, loud trumpeters, Bobby Hackett caressed your ears with understated astonishingly beautiful melodies." - Joe H. Klee, The Mississippi Rag

just sent in an order for Bix/Tram/Tea - it's now under 100 bucks, so the 6$ (wasn't that 12?) surface shipping option is available... won't get that one any cheaper, I assume... not that I can really afford it right now, but...

These were released on Verve originally, no? Or at least some of them? Of course that's a huge achievement, and the "Group Masterpieces" aren't far behind! The Gokudo site has some of the covers: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/12in1/Lpmik...keshi%20365.jpg http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/12in1/Lpmik...shi%20539_1.jpg http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/12in1/Lpmik...shi%20568_1.jpg (I can't seem to post them as jpgs because of the "%" in the url)

I don't have many Pablos I think... still need many of those Zoot Sims discs, but I agree that the Gershwin Brothers is indeed very good! I also recently got hold of both the before mentioned Milt Jackson "At Kosei Nenkin" discs. Just in case: the first one contains both original LPs (or the original double album, I think) minus two tunes, while the second contains those two tunes plus more than album's worth of additional music. Still need to digest all of that. The Edison/Grey/Davis JATP 1983 disc is also very nice! Also some other JATP releases, like the 1949 Carnegie Hall concert with Fats Navarro, Coleman Hawkins and others, and then that Frankfurt 1952 w/Prez... that latest one is designed to look as part of a little series that also includes live releases by Ellington (two, but one is designed differently), Cannonball (again several, but only the Paris 1960 is designed that way) and others. Then there was the Horace Silver Paris 1962 release, as well as some others that came around the same time - the 1957 Newport Adderley/Shearing, a Kenton I think, and also a Louis Armstrong? Those were the great days at Fantasy - all of those discs came out as Pablo releases though, and most or all indeed stem from Granz recordings (he did the Newport 1957 releases on Verve, then Pablo got some of the rests). Also the Coltrane "European Concerts"... those are all rather "from the vaults" releases, not actual Pablo albums.

and all the guys in the band want me to tell you: we all do love you madly!

there we go again - feliz cumpleaños amigo! espero que un dia nos encontraremos en Madrid (y beberemos algunos San Miguel...)

I finally bought "Live from Los Angeles" a couple of weeks ago and played it together with the second half of the Mosaic. I found it excellent, some great spots by Frank Strozier!

That's sad news. I wish the Shandar catalogue was more readily available! Besides the Water/ESP releases of Ayler's concerts, I know of nothing that is around. Here's an excellent site listing the Shandar releases: http://home.comcast.net/~ed_maurer/Shandar/index.htm

maria toledo ! she was the female singer on some bossa tracks by stan getz. i always wanted to hear more of her singing. has anybody already heard this album by maria toledo & luis bonfa? Yup, she's outstanding on "Jazz Samba Encore"! I mean, I do like the charms for Astrud Gilberto, but Toledo is something else! Will have to check out that new one as well!

The TCB is smokin'! And it's perfectly legit, all issues cleared etc - I guess the other one's just a cheap rip-off... (or does TCB now license their music? Would be new to me, as they mention Amazon.com being one of their distributors/sellers, so...)

Happy Birthday!

Getting really excited about that Masekela now!

That's a letdown in my book - but it fits if the lineage of this series indeed goes back to the LPRs, ultimately.

happy birthday!

belated best wishes!

hope you had a good one!

Missed a few birthdays again, it seems.... congratulations, Barak, hope it was a good one!

It is indeed! I was listening to it a week or so ago. Fabuloso! And just fits onto a single CD. The only complaint I have with the album is the LP packaging, which is dire, as well as being horrid. I suspect I'd welcome a CD, simply to not have to fiddle with the packaging. MG So was that a double album, or why does it just fit onto a single CD? I don't know anything about it, but now I'll go and look for it! This may be regional differences, because here in the US botht he Lateef and the Ayler are digipaks. . . . Yes, now I remember, we discussed that before... seems European Universal made the change from LPRs/digipacks to Originals a few batches earlier.

Does Getz/Gilberto #2 have all the bonus track from the (fine) old US CD? I think I only miss Getz Au Go-Go from all his bossa albums (I have the old versions of "Jazz Samba" and "Jazz Samba Encore" - the later is likely my favourite, his solo on "Insensatez", wow! Also the singer is quite something!)

Oi, Masekela w/Dudu, 's nice!

yup, seems so - #11-18 of the following disc:

Are you talking of the old box (4CDs) or the new one (5CDs), the later of which I assume is a re-packing of "Originals" like the two Coltrane Impulse boxes? Ah well, I answer my own question... the new one is called "The Bossa Nova Albums" and has the following contents:

Is there a list of all of these releases somewhere? Edit: or rather: is the listing found here complete? http://www.jazzecho.de/originals_103604.jsp And to make things more confusing, they get mixed up there with the last few batches of Digipack-LPRs (or rather some were jewel case-packed but already named "Originals", such as Lateef's "Psychicemotus" and Ayler's "New Grass", so they went jewel case when renaming the series but then returned to digipack again... all rather confusing...)