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ah, I see... but at least you got shipping notifications (if not the set, too, you lucky bastard!), I'm still waiting for that, too!

Yeah, but has anyone gotten their set from UK amazon yet? I've ordered when... seems like ages ago... October 23rd - the new arrival date period commences this Monday... I hope this will not end up another case of British Amazon Monkiana...

my package with the latest batch (minus Kid Ory) arrived today, just after I came back picking up the On the Corner box from the post office... almost like x-mas! will take me a while to play all of that!

Ah well, so it's just a re-pressed set as is the Evans... wasn't aware of its existance, sorry!

You certainly can't blame ECM for that development, that's rather all-encompassing nowadays... and the bad thing is that in music business it seems to only fasten the demise of the big corporations... and you can blame ECM for jumping that train, for sure! Anyway, still waiting for Sam Rivers' "Contrasts"! (There the original cover should be ok enough to be re-used, I assume...)

Here's the "Montreux Alexander":

First, let me point to this other thread I started in the reissue section of the board: Monty Alexander, George Shearing etc - new box sets and some more MPS stuff Now I see the German Universal-related site www.jazzecho.de lists two other new boxes: And this one, which isn't new at all, but I guess it being listed as new means that Universal Europe is re-pressing it and selling it again over here (it came out in Japan first, I think, when Fantasy was still holing the rights - correct me if I remember that wrongly):

There's a new article up from yesterday on the Monty (and the Shearing) box on jazzecho.de. I guess that means it won't be too long until they'll be out. It also mentions a new reissue of "Montreux Alexander", I didn't check if that's part of the box, though. http://www.jazzecho.de/mps_piano_power_131043.jsp

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Here's what's circulating from that Ronnie Scott's gig - an official release would be most welcome, for sure! And having the Tyrone Guthrie thing out again is a great idea, too, as far as I'm concerned... can't say I ever heard it (but brownie showed it to me, so I know it's not a phantom, at least...)

I wish I could - and it's almost for free, too! You guys are lucky!

Over the weekend, I played the 3CD Dizzy Set (from Savoy, but also including sessions for some other small labels, as well as 50/51 dates from Dee Gee) - pretty fine! The early dates with Bird I have elsewhere, but those RCA Dizzy big band dates are a blast, and some of the small band stuff with John Brown and Sonny Stitt is mighty fine, too!

Happy Birthday!

Yeah, that sucks! Even more so as this particular album looks like one of the most interesting items included in the box! As for CT: it was clear even with the much better earlier (digipack, around 2003) MPS reissues, that besides some of the fairly adventurous Hans Koller albums, none of the more "out" stuff on MPS would be reissued. Now that Universal Germany has taken full command, it's a pretty sorry thing, with the occasional album (such as the Clark Terry mentioned in my first post above) being the only thing they do more or less right, at all - besides the prestigious boxes, that is. (I doubt that they earn any money with those boxes either, wouldn't hold my breath for more of them to appear!)

Yeah, the Turbanator knows how to put on a show. Last time I saw him (with Lou!) he got down on his knees and played the pedals with his hands. Yeah, he did that, too, on "Come Together" in the second set... hilarious! In fact his "bass" solo didn't include more notes that his usual, basic (but great!) bass lines, but it was a great show he put on!

Max Steiner (Vienna 1888 - Hollywood, CA 1971) - his page on IMDB - wiki - article on Steiner

Wow, that shall be da shit, as they say! At least i was able to hear the Burton Greene concert you heard thanks to that other site....

a quick search didn't help... what's on that twofer? "Kirk's Work" and "Jaki Byard Experience"? Or is there anything else by Rahsaan that's part of the Fantasy holdings? These two LPs exactly - all that Rahsaan recorded for Prestige. Thanks - I'll stay with what I have, then...

I don't think you mean this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075335/ But Mingus did compose a soundtrack (out on the Atlantic album "Cumbia Jazz Fusion") that wasn't used in the film. (Great film by the way, but "Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto" is even much better - both feature stellar performances by Gian Maria Volonte!) Nino Rota absolutely... his final march from "Otto e mezzo" is terrific! (It seems they shot the scene with some Sousa march, Rota only composed his own march after the shooting.) The theme from "Le mépris" is great, too. I don't tend to think in "soundtrack albums" at all... Miles' mentioned above is great to listen to, there's plenty of good moments, more motifs than you usually get. Otherwise I'm rather on the side of those who think Steiner (hey, no one mentioned him yet, I think!), Hermann, Bernstein etc. and Rota, Delerue and a few others for European cinema. Fusco's work for Antonioni strikes me as outstanding, but none of it would even remotely work without the film... And how about "Sweet Smell of Success"! Then what about Fred Astaire? As for soundtracks composed of various songs, I never got the concept of buying that on CD... "Jackie Brown" was fun, and there are some other films who have that sort of compiled soundtrack and make it work in a nice way, but I'd still not get such compilations, even less so if they're filled up with generic stuff... How about Henri Texier? He does some great stuff, too... I recently bought his disc "Lola", from the Tavernier film (which I don't know and am not interested in at all), and that's a fine disc to listen! Also his trio disc, "Remparts d'argile" was a soundtrack, I think - great disc!

Forgot to mention that after the Lonnie Smith concert, I got a free entrance ticket for the concert of Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca - that was another great concert! I guess some might find his music a bit kitschy... influences (as I hear them) are Rubén Gonzalés, Abdullah Ibrahim, some mediterranean/arab/andalous stuff, and generally Cuban son and also Mexican bolero, I think. His quintet features the great Javier Zalba on saxophones (soprano & alto), clarinet and flute - it was a joy to see him play!

Not much to be found, but his name seems to be spelled Chris Aiello. The Paris gig has been mentioned here a couple of times, for instance in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=35419 Seems he is young and was a student of Mosca's. Some sideman gig references are all that come up doing a google search.

Nothing like that The scene was caught in the 60s. Different hairstyles (and attire) then! This was shot at the Square du Vert Galant on the western edge of the Ile de la Cité. Another classic kiss (by Robert Doisneau) at the same Square The Square gardien would have made sure that no improper conduct would take place between two ladies! So the photo on the new set is also by Doisneau? Nice photos, both! I thought so, of course (re: the ladies)... but then the guy definitely has something androgynous about him, no?

Holy smokes! Smith was da shit, as they say!!!!!!!! The band really got it together in the second (almost 90 minute! the first was more than an hour already) set. They did some standards (Sweet and Lovely, Willow Weep for Me, a beautiful alto feature Harlem Nocturne), the Beatles' Come Together in the funkiest ever version, and several Smith originals - great great music, loud and stinky as that kind of music ought to be! (I did some thinking and I'm quite sure Larry Goldings' Trio was the only organ group I've heard live before... now that was a whole different thing last night!) You'll find it elsewhere in a week or two, if you know where to look!

Hey, wait, is that two ladies kissing there? Oh-la-la...