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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.

I have that set of Griffin with Urtreger, some 30 minutes I think, all in all - very nice! As for Drew: just because you don't know Gruntz, don't diss him! He's a fine pianist and has in the late 60s founded his great Concert Jazz Band. He recently celebrated his 70th birthday and is still doing annual tours with his big band. The band always includes a number of great US players, in its rank have been guys like Ray Anderson, Marvin Stamm, Alex Sipiagin, Danny Gotlieb, Doug Purviance, Frank Lacy and many, many others. Anyway, he's a very good pianist in a small group setting as well. In 63 or 64 he also played for Kirk on an tour in Europe (some of those recordings are on the 32 Jazz 3CD set "Dog Years in the Fourth Ring").

well, just for the record, I won't bid anyway... don't have these amounts of money at hand in one go... and I own half of the sets, plus several others are still readily available, too.

and Jazz West - the Sonny Criss (a great one, in my opinion!)

Does anyone have a disco or a list of what's on the Kenton Holman/Russo? I assume much of it is on individually released CDs by now, but I never found complete info on the Mosaic anywhere... As for the Hall/Johnson/DeParis/Dickenson, there's a 2CD that came out in the late 90s - I love that one and certainly would love having all of it!

Those were the 60th B-Day sets: Blue Note Swingtets (incl. Quebec, Hardee, Hamilton a.o.) Blue Note Jazzmen (2CD set, 4 dates with James P. Johnson, Edmond Hall, Sidney De Paris, Vic Dickenson, and Ben Webster on one, too) plus four discs by single artists: George Lewis (mostly disc 2 of his Mosaic) Edmond Hall (3 great dates, incl. the celeste & Charlie Christian on acoustic guitar) Sidney Bechet "Runnin' Wild" I think, two or three dates with Wild Bill Davison Not sure these are the 6 already (thus the 2CD would count as 2) or if I'm still missing one... There are other "early" CDs, too, such as the one by Babs Gonzalez or the "First Day" by Gene Ammons/Mead Lux Lewis. Too bad none of the Art Hodes came out on CD! ANd there's another Bechet that came later, titled I think "The Fabulous Sidney Bechet" with his latest BN dates (De Paris and Jonah Jones on trumpet, I think).

Thanks for your post, MG - I'll post a tune-by-tune reply when home from work tonight. The Ibrahim medley would have been the first thing I'd have omitted on a one disc-compilation, but I'm enjoying it a lot... you're quite wrong on his accompanying players, though... I thought this was one of the most obvious cuts. Also on #10 you're a bit off... but as I said, more later!

You know, the worst is, back when I started buying Mosaics, some of these would have been easily available, but they held no interest for me back then. Aaaargh!

I'm sure you'd pass the Milburn, Hall/Johnson/DeParis/Dickenson, Master Jazz Piano, Teagarden 50s, Chaloff, Otis Spann/Lightnin' Hopkins, Charles Brown, Kenton Holman/Russo, and the T-Bone my way, yes?

I keep noticing how many jazz fans are afraid of / have aversions against some hand drummers ..... Why do you wonder about that? It's almost as bad as free jazz, you know... all these boring bumpy beats in a total mess with no order, and no melody at all!