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add the Joe Maini set to the list of fine Lone Hill reissues - separate thread here

well, for them it was learning experience, wasn't it? others pay for that (aren't similar stories being told about Braxton when doing large ensemble stuff with young musicians?)

Thanks for your impressions. Hope this also applies to fairly obscure collector labels (where the CD is listed on that label's website). As for Amazon.de buyers outside Germany they might of course be better off with buying from their own Amazon branch (if one exists for their countries, e.g. Amazon.fr). Of course there's none in Switzerland... there's one fairly good website for *some* jazz (www.discplus.ch - great prizes/offers sometimes for hatOLOGY, for instance, quite a lot of Chronological Classics available), but as far as Amazon goes, German is the best site for their own offerings (free shipping for orders over 20 euro), but Marketplace is better on French Amazon (cheaper shipping). Priceminister.com beats both though, if what you're looking for is a wee bit less obvious/new. Some of the same sellers (DVDmars, DVDlegacy) are active there, too, but the real plus is the private sellers. Only good experiences so far, very fast delivery, discs usually in the shape they were described being.

Thanks for confirming... I don't really trust my own ears that much!

Since the Uptown comes directly from the original acetates and not via cassette dubs and LPs, I think we can look forward to improved sound. Great! I missed that discussion, thanks for filling me in!

If the CD is in print, they'll follow through. And for everyone else outside of Germany, the fee is 6 euro, which isn't that cheap (even less so if you order a disc from a German seller... and if you order two from the same seller, it's 12 euro, etc).

This is a great site, I am ordering more and more from them (among others "Tentatives" by René Urtreger just about a week ago). Yes, it's indeed a great site! A couple of weeks ago I ordered half a dozen Stephan Oliva discs from there, the first one arrived a day after I sent in the order! Just to be correct: two of the Emarcys I ordered from French Amazon.

Allen: Given your description, I bet that you have in mind the other OJC release, "Bird on 52nd Street." In fact, there is a lot more where that came from (Onyx mid-48) on the Benedetti box. Is the Debut/OJC material from "Bird on 52nd Street" covered in the Benedetti Mosaic? I have "Bird at St. Nick's" already, but not the other one, and will skip it if it's in the bigger box...

I'm just doing some loud wishful thinking... I guess Concord would be among the companies that would ask way over the top money from an outfit like Mosaic... (that impression is based on the general impression I have from Concord, since they started selling out/cutting down the Fantasy catalogue, and then started their own, weak/absurd reissue series)

Olio (Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Mal Waldron a.o. - OJC) Hal McKusick/Betty St. Claire (Fresh Sound) and just now fell weak to priceminister.com again an ordered a shitload of René Urtreger discs: - Onirica (Sketch) - Tentatives (Minium) - Masters (Emarcy) - En direct d'Antibes (Emarcy) - Récidive (Emarcy) - Jazzman (Emarcy)

and another fine sax player (baritone & alto, also pennywhistle), Shannon Mowday from South Africa: Her website: http://www.shannonmowday.com/news.htm

Géraldine Laurent, sax player and leader of the Time Out Trio is great! Here's Joe Fordham's review of their CD: http://music.guardian.co.uk/jazz/reviews/s...2183772,00.html The disc can be bought on CD Universe:

Now that Concord is somehow (only as far as distribution is concerned?) connected with UMG, could there possibly be any Mosaics drawing from the ex-Fantasy labels? Not that they'd need to reissue stuff in boxes that has been available for a long time, but for instance a Select of all of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's albums would be terrific! And I'm sure there are plenty of somewhat more obscure albums not on CD yet - Freddie McCoy was mentioned elsewhere, for instance.

Slow Boat to China!

Single track would likely be "Bluebird", but that's an extremely tough call to make.

Would that Dizzy set contain the live broadcasts that were on Masters of Jazz Vol. 7/8? That was a 2CD set ccotaining Dizzy big band airchecks plus that film soundtrack (minus the two or three tracks that were by this annoying organ duo or whatever it was)? Shall be great to have this material with the usual careful Uptown treatment applied! And I guess if it's indeed a 2CD set and doesn't also contain the soundtrack, chances are there's more music on it than there is on the OOP Masters of Jazz set! First time I heard about either of these new releases - very excited! Please keep us posted, Chuck!

I still need that Benedetti... the Rockland I have (2CD set) but I'm not yet really familiar with it... I keep starting to listen to Bird in chronological order (the great six CDs of "Young Bird" on Masters of Jazz, some of the Jay McShann material, then the early stuff w/Dizzy, the Savoy/Dial box...) and then I somehow don't have the time to continue into the 50s... next time I'm in for some Bird, I'll start straight with the Verve box and the live material from 50/51.

I somehow missed how this turned into a Beatles thread.... but back on topic of Morgan: First, here's a working link to the blog of Larry R. Thomas (welcome here!) http://carolinajazzconnectionwithlarrythomas.blogspot.com/ I'll gladly read that article, wasn't aware of it! And as a little remark of a historian... weird as it seems, but just as often as not, eye-witnesses are wrong about what they think they have witnessed. It may seem weird, but it's not uncommon at all.

now if you all allow me to mention something actually related to CT again for a change... a friend of mine finally got hold of "Akisakila Vol. 1" (the Konnex CD, I own Vol. 2 which holds the final 20 minutes of the 80+ minute improv by CT/Lyons/Cyrille, plus a solo album called "Lono"). Now what about sound? It seems the recording is balanced rather badly, too loud at some moments. Was that the case with the original vinyl issue already? Has this never been a great-sounding recording, really? Can anyone shed some light, please?

I hear you, John! These were the first sessions that came to mind! The Carnegie Hall concert while certainly great wouldn't have come to mind I guess if it hadn't been in the title of this thread. Runners up: The KoKo session, while somewhat chaotic - some severely great Bird on there! (Nov 26, 1945) Also the two Dial sessions with tenorists added (Mar 28, 1946 w/Lucky T & Feb 26, 1947 w/Wardell Gray, both with Dodo Marmarosa) The two Dizzy Gillespie Guild sessions (Feb 28 & May 11, 1945) And I think the Savoy session w/Donna Lee (May 8, 1947) ain't too shabby, either (but it's been a while that I played that one). Honorable mention then, for "Repetition" w/Neal Hefti from "The Jazz Scene"!

I suggested that to Mosaic. They were not interested. They said that the albums were too inconsistent in quality. Hm, that would be a project for Revenant... or make that "The Complete Sun Ra Sessions - Every Note, Every Fart" or something like that... instead of a box, it could come in a pre-furnitured house so that all the CDs would fit in

I'm clueless as far as rock music's concerned, but I liked the recent Grinderman album quite some. And the new Portishead, but that's not rock, really...

quite definitely, yes - they quote stuff from there and use photos etc. but the whole design is much better, too, with just one booklet the size of a jewel case (as compared to two normal inlay covers in the Fruscella set), and slowly but surely they get their act together as far as layout is concerned (just as Freshsound did, their 1990/91 discs look horrible, while the latest issues look fine.

The Doldinger is great - (some more info in this thread) Discs 1-3 contain all the Philips albums/EPs, and disc 4 is all bonus stuff, live cuts of the Doldinger Quartet, material with guests, etc. Mighty fine set, and quite a surprise, as I didn't expect it to be any good at all, really...

I got hold of this Maini set - have played about three discs by now - great! Sounds ok to my ears but I don't bother much about that. The Jane Fielding album (some nice Teddy Edwards there, too) and the Kenny Drew "Talkin' & Walkin'" are the highlights for me, so far. But then I knew the other Drew quintet date from the Sheldon West Coast Classics, the Knepper/Maini from the Mingus Debut box, and the two first dates from the respective OJCs. Still, it's good to have all of this collected and the focus on Maini! The design, just in case, has leaped forard a bit again since they did the Tony Fruscella 4CD set.