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ha, as long as he doesn't look like Joe Farrell...

I never even thought there could be more... RANDY WESTON SEXTET July 5 1974 Congrès Montreux Randy Weston (p) Billy Harper (ts, fl) William Allen (b) Don Moyer (dr, perc) Steve Barrios (congas) Ahmed Abdul Malik (oum, b) 1. Carnival (12:40) 2. Mystery Of Love (17:41) 3. Isma (16:50) 4. Ellington Medley (07:25) 5. Sahel (27:25) Total Timing : 01:22:01 source: http://www.montreuxsounds.com/detail2006.php?fiche=266 There were other Weston concerts at Montreux: 1985 (w/African Rhythms), 1988 (w/Monty Alexander), 1994 (solo), and 1995 (with the Gnawa's of Tangier) Tonight I'll dream of a little box set, but I guess that will never ever happen...

How come some of those are owned by Universal anyway? Great news if such a set ever happens!

Isn't that just a different title of the same album? The Atlantic "The Wonderful World of Jazz" is great - some quartet cuts with Jim Hall, some larger ensembles, featuring among others Eric Dolphy and Benny Golson! Of the Evolutions I only have II so far, but that's another very good one! Will have to get the first one, too. The "Modern Jazz Society Presents" album (on CD in the long-gone Verve Elite Edition, with bonus material) is another terrific project masterminded by Lewis, featuring Lucky Thompson, Stan Getz and Tony Scott, among others.

but no one sane would consider Heineken a good beer, really! (if it's to be considered a beer at all... yuck!)

ha!

No! THIS one is on Freedom, too. Yeah, but that one's in quartet, I was only talking of solo albums... and I mentioned "Carnival" earlier, it's one of my favourite Westons!

Private Concert, a solo outing recently reissued in French Universal's "Anniversary Series" (or the other series, same beautiful digipack packaging) is stunning! Also the album with Distel I like a lot, it has Barney Wilen! It was out on a Koch CD (OOP I guess) and is now out on Lonehill, if you don't bother about having stolen music... I'm not the biggest Lewis expert, though, but these two I really like a lot!

hey, wait, but I like sex!

on the contrary, the germans got a dual one... they're all pope, too! ****** oh, and if you merge never with deus, will that produce some kind of auto-erotic selftolerance-being or what?

oh yeah, the holy basie crap... good to see you back in action, Volkher!

I'll look for the Black Lion then, thanks Chuck & Mike! The Hall (yup, two "l") Overton and Monk sides are the big band At Town Hall (Riverside) and Big Band & Quartet in Concert (Columbia - the last one next to the flawed one with Nelson that still awaits a new/good reissue on CD).

Oh yes, a great one! I found a new copy of it a year or so ago in a local store... my Hines collection is still non-existing (this one plus the two Jazz in Paris discs, the second of which is pretty mediocre), but with Eldridge and Hawkins aboard, there was no need for hesitation! Here's the cover of the 2CD release: brownie, has that Xanadu been on CD (Prevue it would have been, I assume)?

Mike, I think I agree about Marrakech, that's one of the best, indeed! Will have to look for the Enja, then! Is there anything else on Freedom other than the one recording in Zurich ("Blues for Africa")? I never got hold of that other Black Lion/DA Music album, "Berkshire Blues", how's that one?

I don't think it's among Weston's strongest, but that doesn't mean it's bad... his 90s Verve recordings are such a great bunch! Main problem wiht Spirits is its length, I think - it's just a bit too much. On the other hand, the band comprises Idrees Sulieman, Benny Powell, Billy Harper, Alex Blake, Jamil Nasser, Idris Muhammad and others, as well as guest spots by Dizzy Gillespie, Dewey Redman, and Pharoah Sanders, so in the end for me it would be too good a thing to miss!

Thank you so much! I've been away from the board for a while due to work obligations and a death in the family. Oh, sorry to hear that. Glad you saw the scans!

Guy, don't take this as a personal attack... it was just that your post did fit so nicely with my point...

Am I missing some kind of irony here? It's still easily available from Warner - since 1988... OOP in the US. Guy What kind of a business plan can Mosaic have for this? It's nuts. You can get it from Amazon.co.uk new for £4.97 about $10 plus post. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zawinul-Joe/dp/B00...5279&sr=8-5 Mosaic of all companies realises that it's in an international market? MG see below... Am I missing some kind of irony here? It's still easily available from Warner - since 1988... OOP in the US. Guy merikins expect us to buy everything from the US but don't look no further to get "Zawinul"... their loss, I say!

I do see the point about the euro labels making it difficult for such projects to see the light, but this is your feghing cultural heritage! There needs to be some way... on the other hand, if even the people in charge of stocking up local stores are totally clueless about this issue, I don't really see a solution. The Bird/Diz Town Hall thing is a case in point, in local stores... at the moment, the one I go to most frequently has both the Uptown version, as well as two cheapo euroversions, one of them with liners describing the sensational finding... ha ha. And then they don't have no releases at all by important artists, yet they carry multiple euroversions of this...

oh man, I just got weak and ordered if from Amazon France for 43 eurozlotys (that is 46 minus VAT plus 5 for shipping). Not bad since I only have the Fargo (I did get the Carnegie sets from Fantasy in the zweitausendeins Fantasy sale, but never got the Storyville one to complete the run).

Am I missing some kind of irony here? It's still easily available from Warner - since 1988... and it's a stone classic, including its cover:

I recently found "Buzz" in the sales bins, and it's pretty good: Hell, anything I've heard with Michael Blake has been fine at least!

http://www.cduniverse.com/sresult.asp?HT_S...;cart=499854558

Happy Birthday, Paul! I wish you all the best with your new job and new life! And let me use the occasion to once again tell you how much I enjoy your CD!

Unless they're the super saver jewel case titles, but I don't know if there exist more of those than the five I mentioned... do you know, Lon? Or anyone else? (In fact I don't even know if all five of those exist, the Hank Jones and the Dixon/Shepp are the only ones I saw and I quickly bought both of them!)