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Weird, all of this... The Benson/Horizon has been out and is very visible here, in all the dump-bins all the time, the Zawinul is on Warner CD (it's the one really good album of those, i assume!), while the Ogermann/Brecker has been reissued in the best of the various Warner CD reissue series fairly recently, too... I really don't get the point - unless it's making money to secure the other operations... but that wasn't really the point about Norah, back then... so there you go!

yup... nope... haven't heard much Kowald and not for a long time, so I can't comment on that

Colin, #1-4 of the second disc is just kind of an hors d'oeuvre... the real beef starts with #5! Hope you find time to continue listening soon!

Glad you like it, Colin! #7 is a rare one, there's another cut from the same album on this disc, by the way (but with a different line-up...) #9 has been identified correctly by MG - it's the title track from "African Sun" (the KAZ or Camden disc). As for #8 - the sound of the piano (that's how it goes on the CD info...) is indeed weird, but I have that sound on other SA recordings... don't know what it actually is, some weirdo harpsichord or an odd way of miking a weird piano...

yes, they are distributed and i don't know if also manufactured by Universal. they carry their logo. just repressings of the old late 80s/early 90s OJCs though. but it looks like the full catalog has been repressed. to be honest i was quite surprised when i first saw them pop up. but isn't there another thread about that? and about hoarding: i've been on some mad shopping sprees myself chasing down what i saw as old, soon to be or already OOP titles in the past. but i've had nasty suprises, like seeing them pop up some time later or while still shrink wrapped in my back log. i'm much more careful now. and what's been recommended here is well worth having. no doubt. Count me as a skeptic about your claim. Amazon.fr, amazon.com and amazon.co.uk list Don Friedman's Metamorphosis and Charles McPherson's Con Alma as OOP. I imagine there are many other titles like this. Guy You're correct to be sceptic, Guy - it's by far not the whole catalogue that's been re-pressed, but many, many of more popular titles have been re-pressed indeed. I started the other thread. I've been trying to get Don Friedman's without much luck, other artists' albums (Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Heath, Byard, Frank Foster and many, many others) aren't readily available either... I'm still trying to hoard, but I've overdrawn my bank account and will have to stop for a while now...

I was aware of that, but with the OJC sales I picked up a few single releases to go with my ahem... copy of the big one... sort of having less of a bad conscience... Anyway, the prize was right, too, and the album is one of the best of Wes' Riverside output, too - and of course we all love Griffin, too!

What's new on the Wes? I only bought this by chance in a sale, wasn't aware anything of the bonus material wasn't part of the big box or previous reissues!

I had a great (self-made, or course) MD compiling the whole Chicken Shack/Midnight Special session. Haven't burned a CDR though, but this reminds me I should do it again to have all of it in one place!

Bumping this up - got the Mosaic single reissue of Wiley's other RCA album yesterday and immediately gave it a spin - wonderful album, highly recommended! After it was finished (much too soon!) I gave the Uptown another spin. That one does get a bit repetitious but with the changing bands/trumpet soloists, it's another fine Wiley CD!

hm, I guess I can live without it then, having that Mobley/La Porta as well as the Morgan (fine one, particularly Doug Watkins is great!)

worst is the package was bumped around quite a bit (by or after customs - I've never seen a package that went through directly that looked like this!) and one corner of the Roach box is a bit damaged (just "angestossen" - I won't bother Mosaic about sending me a replacement because of that). Anyway, as I got this for listening pleasure, not for making money out of it later, I'm happy I finally got it!

Not that I'd be able to answer your deep questions, Simon, but these may help: european toilet: (mine doesn't look like this, though, and I'm quite sure it's a european one, too - but google can't fail, can it? it can just be paid, though...) and a pair of european worms: might be we're just a memory...

Yeah, it's a great idea to have it all in one place, and also in the correct forum! I was just too lazy to compare with my post, so I thought I'd remind you of it in case you have missed it. The Hardbop Morgan/Mobley 2CD set seems to be a tough one to locate. How's the music? All I have is the "Jazz Message" album (mini LP with OBI, yup), the one with half a Mobley session and half a John La Porta one - escapes me why it's released as by Hank Mobley... even more so as the second half is actually better!

Longtemps, je me suis couchée de bonne heure... Right now I'm here, but by the time you'll see this, I'll be gone to elsewhere - he he he

Big relief - my Roach set finally arrived yesterday. it was held up in customs once more - feggers! (At least I had to pay only about 10 euro for it...)

Ibrahim is on three of these tracks, but not on #8! You might be right about #8, but I wanted to have a track from this particular band! #9 is indeed Ibrahim - no one, not even you, has a guess at the bassist?!? #10 is a stone classic... 70s again, as I said in response to MG's comments, it and #11 are sort of additions to disc 1... On #11, that's a cello indeed!

Yes! I am familiar with an LP full of music from this, very scratchy beat-up LP from a friend's dad - I guess he got it from someone who took it home from someone's party to whom someone else invited him and where he didn't know anyone or something... that's how beat-up it looked, the cover almost torn into pieces and falling apart etc... It shall be great to have all of it in - hopefully! - decent to good sound quality!

Hey, I'm glad to see you enjoyed #7 so much! It's from an old audience tape, hence no album... I cleaned this (and #5, too) up a bit but sound remains pretty beat-up. Still, I loved the cut so much I had to include this! No wonder the rhythm section steals the show on #6... McGregor orbit is a bit off but not really again... Not Dudu, I think (and so says my info). #7 is from that orbit... have to play it again to check if there's really no piano (maybe he just had a drink at the bar and enjoyed the hell out of the great band he'd assembled for this gig?). Feza it is, he has been identified already. #4 is Duke's "Rockin' in Rhythm", the flute is indeed a pennywhistle, and the singer... she got *very* famous later on but no one pinned her down yet... As for #2 vs. #3 I have to compare them again... as I said before, these are considered (with #1 and #4 and maybe a few of the earlier tracks on CD1) the "historical segment" of the compilation... will have to check if I react similarly to you with regard to #2 and #3... btw, only just last week I found a new compilation with similar material than the one I took these early tracks from...

I'm in total agreement with you. Sound is fabulous on this and the Wes (so far the only two in the series I own). Those two I have as well (also the Gene Ammons "Boss Tenor", Groove Holmes and "Hawk Relaxes"). I agree about the Adderley, sounds good! Still have to play the Wes and can't tell about Ammons, Groove & Hawk, these are the first versions I ever got of the respective albums (they all sound good, but I just have nothing to compare them to).

Thanks for spreading the news, Mike! Will have to look for this one!

Glad to hear you enjoyed the disc! No Konitz or Jackie Mac here, and alto sax isn't the theme... there's some fine tenor in there, too (on #9, for instance, although there's an alto there as well...)

Just finished Berigan CD4, will continue with CD5 and CD6 and thus complete my first listen to this great set! Still waiting for the Roach - effin sucks that shipping costs that much and it takes so long to arrive!

I once posted some Savoy list, too - both of the Denon Savoys and covers of the digipack reissues above, don't know where it was but I think in that reissues thread about the Savoy/Denon CDs. Not sure there's something there that hasn't been covered here by now, though. Sorry I missed the beginning of this thread!

I found Optometry pretty boring, sorry to say. Have a friend who liked it a lot and gave it to me, but I couldn't connect with it... I have most of Shipp's hatOLOGY releases and while they're generally ok to good and not very good or exceptional, I like them better than the Thirsty Ear releases of his I've heard.

Ooops, Paul Horn was whom I meant... mix up of four letter names... thanks for clarifying!