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Hi, first post around here. The Futterman is really enjoyable, as are the Simmons and Gjerstad (my favorite of the three so far). The Steve Swell is right up my alley, with Ascension-like bits and pieces and incredible energy. For the prices, it's true they varry from store to store, but as all releases will eventually be available at both iTunes and eMusic, it's just a question of time to get these at the best quality/price ratio. I couldn't help but notice the comment about cover art, but I find Ayler's position on this quite unusual and noticeable. They do offer cover, tray and label artwork on their website, in the form of PDF files. This is rare enough to be acknowledged. My 2 cents. welcome here! At the moment I do have a job where I can occasionally print something in colour and I'm happy with those printouts, but still, it's not quite the same. I do not enjoy the whole development from quality to MP3 format, in general, but I do see the new distribution possibilities of the web. Anyway, I have not embraced it yet and I'll keep being at least reserved for some more time, I'm afraid...

just for the record, I have plenty of Mosaics I hardly ever post in that thread this list is based on... not sure what my favourites are, but the Hill may be among them. I missed a lot of the older sets (hey, I was born merely 2 years before Mosaic was founded, so...), and since many of those have been reissued by other labels (mostly BN, Monk, Bud, Nichols, Green/Clark etc., but also some others, like the Desmond/Hall RCA, the Mingus CBS on Sony/Legacy), many of these older boxes are perceived by us younger people as BN (or whatever) boxes. Oh, the Tina Brooks is one of the old sets I got, and that one was great to have, since by the time I got it the Conn of "True Blue" was long gone, and the only one easily available was "Back to the Tracks". So it served me as a great introduction to Tina (I still don't have "True Blue" and last unreleased album in their CD incarnations). Others, beside the Hill, I enjoy a lot, are Thad Jones, Jones-Lewis, J.J., TKM, Jimmy Giuffre, O'Day, the VeeJays, the Ventura/Phillips, the Basie live (missed the studio when it was available). Hard to pick any absolute favourites at this time. THe Weston is my favourite select, but I only have four (Amy, Brookmeyer and Bennie Green).

Just finally ordered two copies of this one from CDU (oh my, I hope I used the correct big-o link! not sure anymore, but it's too late now) for me and for a friend as an x-mas gift. Looking forward to throw the vinyl rip CDRs in the garbage! This is such a great recording, most certainly one of Mingus' very best ones!

Long Goodbye is great, Allen - I wanted to post in here yesterday but forgot the title of the film. Elliott Gould is one of the weirdest private eyes in the history of cinema. I don't care wether he's over- or underrated. He was one of the best in modern crappy commercial Hollywood, and that's an achievement however way you look at it. Oh, and "M.A.S.H." is pretty feghing hilarious, even in german synchronization and on tv. r.i.p.

That one was a printing error, Mr. Uehlinger told me. I got one from him when we interviewed him, gave away the blue one to a friend, but in the end I'll want to get the hatOLOGY reissue, as it seems it sounds quite a bit better... There'd be tons of different hat covers, but the onld ones are very hard to find on the net. Virtually any album reissued after ca. 1993 or 1994 (when they started the current design, musicians, later citiscapes b/w photos w/orang text) has had another cover before. There are a few post 1993 albums that have been reissued in cardboard hatOLOGY versions using the same covers again (for instance Myra Melford's quintet album with Dave Douglas).

Colin, "Yarona" is my favourite, but then it's 10 years old already - a magnificient live recording with a slightly more intervening trio than he leads now (the youngsters he has now are merely supporting, and alas a bit boring, I think). Good to hear Ibrahim is still in good form, though!

I'm afraid I'm once more making a fool of myself, but here are some impressions on disc one... thanks, Mr. Bassman! #1 nice little opener - setting the theme? #2 Everything I Got Belongs to You - a nice old-fashioned arrangement with horn backings. Like the singer a lot, somewhere close to the songbirds but with a heavier touch in the voice, very nice! Sounds like from the 50s? Very nice, although the backings get a bit tiring after a while... don't dare to mention any names... #3 That's one of those stiff Glenn Miller riffs, no? The growling brass is cool and the beat is decidedly dry and funky. Not to put this down, but it sounds like something any kind of professional big band could do... nice, but lightweight fun. #4 A very, very nice combination, bass & baritone sax! Tune sounds familiar... a bit tame, bari could try a bit more, soundwise, but it's nice! A combination I'd like to hear more often, for sure! #5 Bass sound is pretty ugly, gives this away as a retro recording (prob. by older guys, thus retro is unfair...) of much more recent vintage than it is, stylistically... tenor is pretty nice, drummer I don't like a lot - pretty clichéd bop fillings, all stuff you can hear much livlier and done in a more swinging way on recordings of all the great bop drummers (Max, Philly Joe...). The sound also keeps me from enjoying the bass solo a lot, sorry. Tenor is the only thing I really like here... the tune sounds familiar, too, but as usual I can't pin it down... #6 Sounds like it could be a Dave Brubeck tune... but the rhythm is even more restrained, Wright would swing in an earthier way and Morello would play a bit more... but this drummer starts building some and gets quite good, too! Tenor is of the "inside" kind of Trane followers, not bad at all, but sound's a bit thin. Not a bad performance at all, but maybe a bit long? #7 Post Bill Evans piano trio? Bass solo is good, but in the intro/theme it's too "glibberish" for my taste... #8 Now we're talkin'! I like this one a lot! Swings quite some, even though there's no drummer. Nice vibes, not sure who, but either some mainstream chap (Hampton) or a rather modest modern one (Charles?). Very nice tenor here! Out of the Hawk bag, but much softer... Lucky T? Long time I played any of his stuff... hm, thinking of Lucky would make Bags the obvious choice, but if that's bag he's quite laidback, not to say restrained! Not Bags & Lucky, no... nice trombone/tenor shout chorus! Nice how at the very end the trombone gets a bit dirty and a wee tiny bit out of line, compared to the very tight surroundings. #9 Fairly recent recording, not bad, tenor has some nice small sonic inflections, but alltogether this doesn't really convince me. #10 I love this kind of funk with a real double bass... beats are sort of drum'n'bass-like... a bit of a pastiche, but fun! #11 This one grows on me... I hit the repeat button a few time because I drifted off, but I begin to like it! The guitar reminds me of some of the tunes on Keziah Jones' great blue-cover album (the blufunk one, before he turned to doing harder stuff). #12 Another post-Evans trio... nice one. #13 More funky stuff. The combination of sax/trombone is a good one, and too rarely heard, I think. Ray Anderson? Sounds definitely familiar... one of my favourite cuts, with its lazy funky groove! #14 More groovy stuff, good, but not the most involving... not sure if the soprano amounts to much, but I like it, even if it may just be noodling around... #15 Is that from Dieter Ilg's folk songs album? I heard another tune from it elsewhere when it came out in the 90s, very nice. Would be a disc to get, eventually! Very nice closer!

I figured everyone know the original ones thus I was a bit lazy...

a few other alternates: (this was actually a Ron Carter date, also issued as "Where" on the Prestige sub New Jazz) (this is of course the great Mal Waldron album, same title originally)

two from trane, never saw them before, I think:

and some smartass remarks to make us laugh here, too!

Actually, that bit about VAT is not quite correct; VAT is not deducted for EU residents, only for those outside the EU.

Seing this thread back up, a note to Mike, just to say I got "A Word from Bird" (Koch reissue) in the meantime and it's indeed excellent. That "Coolin'" looks fine, but Jenkins is an artist I never liked that much, not exactly that full of ideas, it seems to me... I'd like to hear more Sulieman, though, that's for sure!

my copy arrived today, too! thanks again for the pointer!

brownie's post reminds me that I once passed up "So What" in a sale (too much synthy and very ugly overall sound, I thought) but did pick up "The African Game"... will have to go through some CD stacks to find that one and play it again, didn't leave that much of an impression, but I still liked it enough to pay some 6 or 7 $ for it, as opposed to "So What"...

I am more or less in the same boat as you, jostber, but I have "At Beethoven Hall" (Motor Music CD reissue from 1998 - got it from a marketplace seller on amazon.de) - that one is indeed excellent!

you seem to like this... just to sample i loaded up "Oy Veys Mir" from emusic - choy boyh it's a shavingah! I already stomped on my coffee cup! you'll like it, too, once you get yourself a copy! now move your assa out to the shoppe to do so!

Hilary Swank is the hottest thing in this movie, for sure! She easily outshines Scarlett Johansson, but then she's got the fatale part, while Johansson has the platinum blonde cool part... I greatly enjoyed the film - but again, I'm not familiar with Ellroy so I can't comment how well or how wrong he may have translated the book to the screen... anyway, the film stands on its own just fine, and with the story (as I understand) altered quite a lot from the book (and the historical case, notwithstanding the 2003 book that might or might not have closed the dahlia case), it deserves being looked at on its own, I'd say. Big from me. (edited for spelling both ladies' names the wrong way... )

Thanks, wasn't aware of that... never saw the vinyl of this! Two more of the Mulligans: second volume of the great french digipack CDs: and one I never saw before:

Mine looks like this:

Belated best wishes

If you have the Jazz Hot ones, please do post them!

Take it easy! I was merely pointing the way to what's certainly the most spell-binding text (it's fiction, btw, based on facts, as is all fiction anyway) you can find about Bird... Suhrkamp has a cheap edition of just this story, called "Der Verfolger" - do yourself a favour and get it! And there are at least two or three spanish chaps here... maybe one of them hasn't read the story yet, so... and learning a language to be able to read literature in its original language is maybe not everybody's thing, but I definitely adore anyone who does it and I wish I had time to brush up my own spanish (and french, at that...)