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I have the Hamilton Mosaic and enjoy it a lot, in fact the dates with Collette, both studio and live, are very good, in my opinion! He's got more beef than Dick Katz, later on. Collette appears on a few tracks on the great Uptown Baron Mingus 40s disc - I always find it interesting to be reminded again of these common beginnings of Britt Woodman, Charles Mingus and Buddy Collette, hard to think of more different musicians, if viewed from their later careers! There are two fine discs of Collette out on Fresh Sound, "Tasty Dish" and "Soft Touch" (better get both together, my versions as well as all others i've seen in stores have the front covers mixed up/printed onto the wrong liners...). On these you can hear Collette fronting his own quintet with Gerald Wilson, Al Viola, Gerald Wiggins, Howard Roberts a.o. Info is here: http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/search.ph...p;artist_id=859 I don't know the OJCs of Collette's and I guess they're gone by now... there also was a flute duet album with Herbie Mann on Mode, presumably on CD by VSOP, but I don't have it, either. I think I like Collette's tenor the best, in general, so the Hamilton dates fit me well as he's playing all his three horns there, not just the bottom-less flute stuff (though I'm not a flute hater at all, Collette wouldn't be my first choice - I prefer an approach like Yusef Lateef's...)

Up for eloe_omoe - maybe he can share some definite/insider knowledge?

here's the discography: The Complete February 1957 Jimmy Smith Blue Note Sessions (#154) Discography All sessions were recorded at Manhattan Towers in New York City using remote recording equipment brought in by Rudy Van Gelder. Only U.S. issue numbers are used in this discography. ______________________________________________________ (A) Donald Byrd (tp), Lou Donaldson (as), Hank Mobley (ts), Jimmy Smith (org), Eddie McFadden (g), Art Blakey (d). February 11, 1957 tk.3 Falling In Love With Love BLP-1547 tk.4 First Night Blues (omit horns) unissued tk.5 Funk's Oats 45-1677, BLP 1547 tk.6 Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart (omit horns) BLP 1556 tk.8 Groovy Date BLP 1548 tk.9 I Let A Song Go Out OF My Heart BLP 1548 _____________________________________________________________ (B) Lou Donaldson (as), Jimmy Smith (org). February 12, 1957 tk.1 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 45-1668, BLP 1548 tk.2 Summertime 45-1667, BLP 1551 same session, add Eddie McFadden (g), Donald Bailey (d). tk.3 Somebody Loves Me (omit as) BLP 1556 tk.5 Plum Nellie BLP 1552 tk.6 Plum Nellie (alternate take) 45-1668 same session, but Kenny Burrell (g), Art Blakey (d) replace McFadden and Bailey. tk.8 Billie's Bounce BLP 1552 tk.10 Yardbird Suite BLP 1551, BST 89903 BNLA 159-2 tk.11 There's A Small Hotel (no as) BLP 1551 tk.12 All Day Long 45-1676, BLP 1551, BST 89901 _______________________________________________________ © Jimmy Smith (org), Eddie McFadden (g), Donald Bailey (d). February 13, 1957 tk.3 The Third Day unissued tk.4 All The Things You Are (omit g,d) BLP 1556 tk.6 The Fight (omit g,d) BLP 1556 tk.7 There Will Never Be Another You 45-1686, BLP 1556 tk.8 How High The Moon 45-1667, BLP 1547 tk.9 Buns A Plenty BLP 1552 tk.10 The Duel -1 BLP 1552 tk.11 Blue Moon 45-1685, BLP 1556 BNLA 400-2 tk.12 Cherokee unissued -1 omit McFadden, Art Blakey replaces Bailey (d). _____________________________________________________ ALBUM INDEX BLP 1547 A Date With Jimmy Smith - volume one BLP 1548 A Date With Jimmy Smith - volume two BLP 1551 Jimmy Smith At The Organ - volume one BLP 1552 Jimmy Smith At The Organ - volume two BLP 1556 The Sounds Of Jimmy Smith BST 89901 Jimmy Smith's Greatest Hits (double LP) BST 89903 Blue Note's Three Decades Of Jazz 1949-1959 (double LP) BNLA 159-2 reissue of above BNLA 400-2 Jimmy Smith (double LP) Original sessions produced by Alfred Lion Reissue produced by Michael Cuscuna Executive producer: Charlie Lourie Recording engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Recorded in mono All photographs by Francis Wolff Design direction: Richard Mantel Design production: InkWell Inc. Masters courtesy of Blue Note Records, a division of Capitol Records, Inc under license from CEMA Special Markets. (p)1994 CEMA Special Markets. Product of CEMA Special Markets, a subsidiary of Capitol-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. ©1994 Mosaic Records, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Producer's note: The wealth of material that Jimmy Smith recorded for Blue Note from 1956 to 1962 could generate a dozen boxed sets. We've selected this three-day run in the studio not only because of the exceptional quality of the music, but also because it is a wonderful microcosm of his output. There are sextet jams, Jimmy's own trio with and without a soloist added and an all-star trio with Art Blakey and Kenny Burrell, as well as some experimental solos and duets. These three days set the pattern for the various contexts in which Smith would record throughout his Blue Note career. Because of the extremes in tune length, we have had to stray farther than usual from chronological order in order to fit this material into the LP and CD formats. Since we have had to break the mold in this regard, we've tried to make the LP sequencing as musically sensible as possible. The first selection on Discs Two and Three are out of chronological sequence. Unfortuately, no Francis Wolff photos exist from these three sessions. For the booklet, we have selected other session shots by the participants from the period of 1956-58.

I'm playing it right now, in fact - almost through with the second disc now Don't have time to write up kind of an ok review but maybe later, assuming the disc will be available for a while!?

I think I posted over in the Thirsty Ear thread that I'm no big fan... all hyped up, mostly, imho. As for Rune Grammofon, I only have one disc that I found in a sales bin after having seen a compelling live show by Supersilent. This one's recommended!

Thanks, will add a link, yup! Niko showed me the site already but the links need major updating anyway... As for Devilin Tune, that's fine - I was about to ask again within a few days, but doesn't matter - I picked up 20 or so new hatOLOGY discs and keep buying OJCs, too... let me know when you ship it, will you?

disclaimer, any Solal broadcast would be greatly appreciated.... http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/2007/06/mart...1-exclusif.html

These Vogue discs, and it seems many of them, are up on French Amazon again for the sale prize of 7 euro a pop! I am not quite sure this link really goes through big-o, but I hope so: http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=sr_nr_n_0/171-3...64%2Cn%3A301175 Recommended discs: - all three Clifford Brown volumes - both Lucky Thompsons - all four Martial Solals - Barney Wilen's "Tilt" . all three Bobby Jaspars - the Hodges/Hawkins - the Mary Lou Williams - the two Bebop in Paris - 54 Sessions w/Henri Renaud - Duke Jordan/Bud Powell - New York/Paris - Oscar Pettiford (duplicates stuff on the Fantasy "Birdlanders" discs, I think) - both Mulligans - the Monk solo album (might be the best of all his solo efforts!) - Jimmy Raney (mainly Vol. 1 with Sonny Clark, but Vol. 2 is fine as well) I didn't check if indeed all of these are up, but I saw some Jaspars and these have been hard to find for a while now, so here's your chance! Same for the Brownies, I think Vol. 1 was quite gone...

The layout changed to b/w pic w/orange text before the cardboard hatOLOGY series got started (the second of the Anderson/Doran/Benninks also has the new layout but is still part of the old series). I didn't know if the Braxton was a CD or LP sleeve, though.

Hm, I'll have to wait a month or two before buying more CDs, but thanks for the offer!

They're all listed in my post in the other thread (see links above)! What that list doesn't include is the four boxes (4CDs each, seems they're marvellous but I don't have any of them), the DVD/remix thing, the 5CD "most beautiful melodies" compilation (all tracks from single CDs, I think), and the Catalogue (I'm not sure if that contained a sampler CD, too, don't have it).

It's done pretty decently on the hats, not really advertising, rather just saying thanks and having the small logo there - FBI warnings on US disks are far more annoying and are kind of an advertisment, too, aren't they? Also they suggest me, the paying customer, being a guilty criminal really... As for the cover discussion, I think the current layout is by far the best. It's difficult to find older covers online, but the preceeding one was this: Here's an example of an earlier one: I can't find any of the earlier ones right now - didn't like the stamp ones at all, btw...

Addition: the UBS logo (that stylized key thing, first just the image, then the three letters "UBS", too, before it was "Swiss Banking Corporation") is in the orange thing on the right of the cover, usually below the adds for other releases and on top of the barcode.

A little discussion from the "what are you listening to right now"-thread, pasting it in here to bring it in context: nothing much, just a sponsoring deal - the run of Ellery Eskelin discs was sponsored, too - in fact hat used to be sponsored UBS, one of the largest swiss banks, before they stopped sponsoring culture and started doing just sports (Alinghi, anyone?) - as far as I know it's a simple fact that hat/Uehlinger couldn't do what he does without any sponsoring. I also quickly had a look at my hatNOW discs, there are other sponsors there, notably some Austrian national organisation. I have about 80 or so of the hatOs, not many of the most recent ones (I try getting them cheap since they're ridiculously overprized in local stores) and only about 12 hatNOW discs, just in case.

yup, all the best to you, Garth!

There are four High Notes by now (I only have Vols 1 & 2 so far). Will have to look for "Song of Songs" and the Enja... never found a copy of the later so far.

It isn't available in my "Edit profile information" thing. Do I need to do lots more gratuitous posts? MG seems you need 10'000, yes...

The Selects usually include several of the original album covers in CD size, also all the original notes, sometimes with additional post scripts or just a short note by MC or something.

Bumping this up since the Universal Classics series came up in another currently active thread here. The link to the Classics series: http://www.jazzecho.de/series.jsp?objectId=103603 These are full prize digipacks.

I've mentioned the Classics and Originals series before. The LPRs (which were digipacks anyway towards the end) came out in the Originals series, the VMEs plus lots more in the Classics series. The Originals series also contains other Verve releleases, but it all looks very much like a best of thing, and it's indeed limited to Germany it seems (Universal france still does their admirable digipacks!) I've started a thread on one of these series, I think, with links to the site where you can check out all of these series (though the listings seem to be incomplete). Edited to add: the french releases are also available elsewhere in jewel case packages, they're also listed on said site (see other thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34194) as "Heritage Series".

Glad to hear you liked it in the end! Ward's not present, nor is McBee... I'm a bit astonished you don't get this, but then someone else certainly will, I hope! Ibrahim it is of course. There's also a setlist around for this medley, but it's not correct (one of my favourite melodies that turns up towards the end - a version of it with saxes is on "African Horns" on KAZ/Camden - is missing on that setlist, for instance - so I'll just call it a medley for lack of better knowledge and laziness to compare songs for a day...) Basil, yup! Stone classic - one more to go with #8 from disc one (not same session of course)! I guess the bass player is jut prominent because of the bad mix... another partly mysterious track (just one horn player given on the disc I took it from - Basil... though he's not here, I think...). Drummer may be slightly better known and is, I think, still around. Thanks for your lenghty replies, MG - these are the kind of BFT posts I enjoy most!

'54... but this (#1-4) is what I consider the "historical segement" (you can add #1-3 of CD1 if you want, but they're slightly more modern). I included this exactly because I like the bluesy quality... This is them trying to do proper jazz, you know... not music of much originality, but I decided to include these four tracks because they are sort of a "pre-history" for the beef of the stuff contained on both discs. Drummer is indeed the same as on the following cut! Again from the second half of the 50s (as is #2, btw). It's a Duke Ellington classic - as clunky noted! Indeed one with an almost dixielandish drive, but I love it, too! (Great version on the Columbia "Piano in the Background" album that's available in a nice Legacy reissue.) It's pennywhistle, indeed. This is a great one, no? Very different, not really jazz at all, but the feeling is there! Sorry for the vow in sound, but believe me, before I cleaned it up, the only thing you heard where the bass beats from the drum... I don't know this chap from anything but this live recording, but it seems he's a bit of a legendary person. '77 - both horn players aren't from SA, but the band and its leader is... not Ricky Ford. Damn good indeed! May I give a hint here: check out the mf rhythm section! Yup, Feza! Sound again isn't great, but this was my pick for a tune by this group of players just because it's so strong and beautiful - it transcends sound issues easily for me! Not Coetzee, there's a piano player and I'm sorry this chap isn't featured longer here... Not Abdullah, not Robbie, not Adams... check the mo-fo riddim section again, Sir! Love this one!

and Jazz West - the Sonny Criss (a great one, in my opinion!) The Sonny Criss sessions were recorded for Imperial, not Jazz West! The Jazz West material (Art Pepper, Jack Sheldon, Kenny Drew ...) was reissued on the parent Pacific Jazz label. ooops - was posting while at work without checking... don't want to do too much web browsing here...

They had been midprize until somewhen in the late 90s, then all of a sudden and with no reason given they went high prize... some went down again, but several I'd be interested in (Coltrane's Ascension, Village Vanguard Again, Olatunji Concert and Interstellar Space - first and last I have in old editions, other two I don't have at all) are still labelled with the full prize here.