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I am clueless as far as hifi stuff goes, but I might have a chance to get this one used (in superb condition) for roughly 60 or 65 euro. Good deal? I have no especially great speakers, nor do I have a good CD player... I have some Denon midi thing that always was alright for me, but the CD player broke down (too old to replace or fix...) and now I assume it might be smarter to start anew... not that I need to do that right now, but I thought I'd ask for opinions here to see what people think of this, to check if this might indeed be a great opportunity or not.

One of my favourite Wilen albums, I think! Very very good one! Also a great companion to the "hors série" Distel JiP release!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Nikolaus! It's a pleasure having met you here, so keep posting your uninformed posts! Sorry to be late for celebrations but I'll only have my own computer back tomorrow evening... and last night I was listening to Mikail Aslan's band with board members mikeweil and Mr. Bassman on drums and you-guess-it. Photo should follow if the old men (he he, I'll be the youngest on the photo, of course) can handle all the technical stuff (I couldn't, of course )

It's also mentioned in the "Fearless Leader" notes that the labels had fixed weekly days.

ever heard of seedless grapes?

Oh yes! I have heard an LP full of that date, great music! Also the Sonet never mentioned is terrific! Forgot to mention that I had that one as well.

Thanks, F & Steve - unlikely I'll find that 6LP box, so it might indeed be good to get these discs! What about the big band? Nothing currently around?

but can I at least blame the girl for my own getting fat?

so it's us who is to blame, really...

Can you give some specific recommendations regarding RCA - big band or small group? I have none of it and never saw anything in local CD shops... The only Hamp I have, besides the Paris stuff (all of it, also the ones in the JiP series) and the Tatum date is the 2CD Decca set, so I'd definitely be interested in getting more (mainly earlier stuff, meaning RCA rather than the OP/Verve albums)!

Played the first three dates of the Hill Mosaic again over the last few days (plus "Spiral") - great music! Looking forward to continue with "Point of Departure" tonight!

on this one, too:

not that bad a cover, I think (but certainly not one of the best...) Regarding Landslide, it's sort of a patchwork with a few good moments, but not at all a good album... Tommy Turrentine, whom I like quite a bit, is pretty weak on his date, and there's hardly a weirder rhythm section on any DG date than Sir Charles Thompson, Al Lucas and Willie Bobo... The date with Dave Burns isn't closely as successful as the soon-to-follow quartet dates with pee-pee Warren replacing Ron Carter. But then again, I like the whole Dexter Gordon box quite a lot and there's nothing *really* bad in it, in my opinion (my favourites are "Doin' Alright" and "Our Man in Paris").

I'll have to play both "Clubhouse" and "Gettin' Around" again soon (I have the box, no RVGs at all). Both of these were my least favourite albums from the box, besides the one clinker (Landslide - although the title track which is from the date that ended up on "Dexter Calling..." I love!). The tracks I remember liking most are "Devilette" (on Clubhouse) and the beautiful take on "Manha de Carnaval" (on Gettin' Around).

This is my only album of Lowe's (of course he appears as a sideman on countless albums...): Very nice one!

Bunny Berigan Mosaic Andrew Hill & Andrew Hill Solo Mosaic Selects ouch!

Just in case, it's 76€ on Germany Amazon (link via big-o): http://www.amazon.de/gp/search?index=blend...;_encoding=UTF8

Agreed. I don't understand the box set fetish. Guy In my case it's just that I have the music in various editions: digipacks, old GRP jewel case versions, a japanese disc... and I think it would be a very varied set. Anyway, I can live with single discs as well, of course. Expressions has not seen a digipack-reissue, has it? There's still only the old CD?

Thanks for the feedback, Late! I have some periods where I feel like upgrading discs, I'll keep this in the back of my head but definitely won't do so right now!

ah, I see - I have the old one there, too - sucks with all these various editions. so what then is the ghost track? something worth updating? or is the sonic difference worth getting the newer edition?

check page 14 in the booklet for instructions. Rewinding from track 1 somehow does not work for me. You'se talking of "Interstellar Space"? I don't think my booklet has more than 8 pages... but I'll check tonight!

That hidden track talk was in another thread, where hidden track(s) on a Satchmo disc and the Billy Bauer VEE CD were mentioned as well. My disc has the same tracklisting you give above. No idea what the hidden track talk is about and how to get them to play... (I have the Bauer as well, never found anything hidden there...) My listing omits the Cosmic one - two tracks with Trane, bass clarinet included. Would definitely be a great thing to have all these sessions, quartet to (almost) big band collected in a nice set - how many discs would that be, 5 or 6? Likely depending on what still lies in the archives...

Late for the party once again - hope you had a good one, many best wishes!