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eke, I might have something, but you'd have to remind me in a few weeks or months... thanks for that brownie - added! didn't have it in my own favourites, so forgot to link to it!

Please have a look: http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/ It won't be updated as often as it is right now, but I'll try and post some new stuff now and then, after the sensation of newness has faded...

None are available at present. About 3hr28min playing time altogether. You'd think they'd make a good Mosaic select, wouldn't you? Particularly since MC fucked up the original CD reissues - forgot to include one track in the correct reissue and didn't discover another until later. MG The stray track on "After Hours"? What are the others again, the one with Jug, the one with Webster, and what's the fourth? A *great* select, I'd say!

The Mulligan material certainly is available in cheapo copy editions already. I think the BN set is OOP anyway, no? How about Groove Holmes' Pacific Jazz discs? I think there were four, but I never found the one with Ben Webster... the one with Gene Ammons is great!

yup, that's what it all boils down to, indeed

Yes! Some of the very best Pres ever recorded! And the "Five Spot" album, too, with Tina Brooks!

Yes, good call! Guy I've seen these 3CD sets for as little as 12-13 euro recently, in local sales! For those not wanting all of the Getz, there's the "At Storyville" single disc featuring most of the great live recording of the Getz quintet with Jimmy Raney. Two more that are not RVGed yet, for whatever weird reason: Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack not sure if these have been RVGed, I have the "old" editions of all of them: Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby! (one of my favourites) the Jimmy Smith album with Grant Green and the one with Quentin Warren done the day after or before the Green one and the 2CD set containing his first three albums (has one of these come out as an RVG?) Also the whole "Standards" series is pretty good, with discs by Sonny Clark (good), Jimmy Smith (ok), Lee Morgan (more than good!), Grant Green (also more than good - I like Green in sparse settings!) and the Three Sounds (don't have that one). I think they're all OOP but I've seen the Clark, Green and Morgan recently, the Smith is rare over here and the Three Sounds I never saw...

It's quite acceptable to my ears, Matthew. Really must give the set a spin, don't listen to it enough. Picked it up for something like $30 in the zweitausendeins bonanza ! Those were the days. Think we'll see another one of those anytime soon? I'm quite sure that one was only 9.99 or 12.99 euro-zlotys, back then (the two Tatums went for even less! Most expensive was the Monk Riverside at 15.99 or 17.99... - but I missed the Coltrane, which may have been a bit more... but I'm glad I missed it, as the Concord box is terrific!)

yup! and some of the Kenton is very nice, too! also some Benny Goodman (the Capitol Trios, BG in Hifi, BG Story) I've seen the McIntyre recently, the Grolnick I bought a couple of years ago, when it was already OOP, but it was the only time I ever saw it - great one! The Navarro/Dameron is terrific! The Stan Getz Roost 3CD set is also a great one! In the same series, the great Herbie Nichols, and the Lee Morgan Lighthouse boxes are recommended as well!

the Eric Dolphy discs - "Other Apsects" for its oddity, and the Illinois concert for greatness! Also Chico Hamilton's "Original Ellington Suite" featuring Eric Dolphy (the one thought lost and not included - except for three edited glimpses - as part of the Hamilton Mosaic). Good call on Lovano - I have most of his releases for BN and while non of them is really what I'd call a must have recording (Rush Hour closest to being that, another good call!), all of them have some great moments to cherish. Sheila Jordan's sole album Benny Golson & The Philadelphians (OOP) Stan Getz/Albert Dailey - Poetry (likely OOP, too) some of Greg Osby's albums, first to come to mind is "Banned in New York" (OOP, I guess), others aren't that great in their entirety, but as with Lovano's, most have some good stuff on them!

weird name for a label, but thanks for helping me "get" it... I only have that one from blogosphere, would have to pull both it and the "Long March" volumes out of the shelf again to comment, but I always kind of liked "The Long March"... Roach was a character I knew some about very early when I got into jazz, and this recording was one of the first I got with him, back then (along with "Study in Brown" and the Enja "Long As You're Living Yours").

Happy Birthday!

no cigars from me, I don't smoke anything... I don't know, I'm just more or less following the example of the others and thus not openly posting the links...

no more news here... what's that supposed to mean?

Yes indeed! Thank you Fer & Chuck! I have Volume 9 of the MoJs (thanks to brownie, of course!), and now I'll look for the Columbia & JSP boxes next (I have a Columbia ordered from some amazon seller, let's see if they'll come through... I hope so, though, because except with caiman and one single other case, these sellers always had what they were listing so far...)

free jizz? Even that label bugs me already... there's so much and so totally different stuff that's put in that shelf... same of course for avantgarde. It's all music, give some of it a try now and then, maybe some of it clicks, other stuff won't... Once you've been there, one really wonders why something like Ornette's beautiful Atlantic sessions may be beyond grasp and sound difficult or even ugly to some ears... that stuff's so beautiful, so simple in a way, and it grooves like hell, with Charlie Haden and Blackwell or smilin' Billy... (ever thought about the "coincidence" that Higgins played both with Ornette and at the same time was the drummer on many of your ole BN favourite groovy platters?) Thanks for posting that Art Davis thing, I'll print it out to read on the way home tonight!

Continued with disc 9 last night, the "chamber" sessions and the Benny Goodman ones (continued on disc 10) - very fine things on those chamber dates!

But just to make sure once more: I'll try and get hold of the Columbia box (via Amazon Marketplace - seems it's been OOP for a while and I didn't even notice...), and I have the OJC Gillespie/Christian "After Hours", nothing else. So with that, the JSP would be mostly or all new material, or does the Columbia contain lots of broadcasts and rehearsal material as well?

I'm crossing my fingers that all goes well!

Of course the discussion will only start on June 1, but I figured some may be like me and take a few days to finally download the files, so I sent the links out early...

Seems I have to put those Mac Steeplechases on my list, then - thanks for mentioning them!

Cecil Taylor's music around the time he did his two Blue Notes was *very* structured. Not "not in a formal way", but in a much more complex way!

links sent out to all in the above list - of course there's still lots of time to sign-up, in fact it would be fun if some more would join the game... (brownie's discs will leave tomorrow!)

That seems crazy. indeed! go do yourself a favour and watch "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and that weirdest of all westerns, "Judge Roy Bean", at least! Newman could have retired in the sixties and still be an important actor!

Yeah... my Mosaic obsession occasionally leads me to things I wouldn't have checked out (yet), otherwise... looking forward to delving into the Condon Mob and the Berigan next! (I love Lee Wiley, so there's someone I'm familiar with on the Mob box, at least...) Anyway, it's great to find out about these musicians that aren't well-remembered these days, and to discover so many hidden treasures!