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all the best from rainy zurich! hope you're doing alright, sir! and if you can, do show up here a bit more often again!

These boots of the older (mid-sixties) quartet, can you give dates and locations? I've heard 1967-11-30 from Amherst, Mass (very bad sound, incl. Sadness, C.O.D. and a few unknown titles), and 1968-02-05 from Milan (Italy) (much better sound, incl. Tutti, Three Wisemen and the Saint, New York). Here are setlists of the new quartet (didn't put them together myself, wouldn't be able to do so): Liubliana (Slovenia), 2004-07-02: 1. Song X; 2. If I Knew As Much About You...; 3. Women of the Veil; 4. Skies of America; 5.-7. Unidentified; 8. New York; 9. Unidentified; 10. Turnaround; 11. Lonely Woman Austin, TX, 2004-11-14: 1. Unknown; 2. If I Knew As Much About You...; 3. Tone Dialing; 4. Mothers of the Veil; 5. New York; 6. Air Ship; 7.-9. Unknown; 10. Song X; 11. Turnaround Chicago, IL, 2003-09-26: 1. New York; 2. Unknown; 3. Picolo Pesos; 4. Woman of the Veil; 5. Unknown; 6. Song X; 7. Unknown; 8. Spelling the Alphabet; 9. Turnaround

Let's hope they got the spelling of Chet's sidemen correctly in the DVDs themselves!

a glass of ginger ale

Look, I say it again: the main reason why CC bothers me is that *I am willing to buy their product* - yet, instead of punishing those who download or copy, instead of buying, they punish me by selling me a defect (that's what the CC is, tiny errors on the disc) product. Something gone wrong here. This punch in the face of the buying customer is what puts me off. Everything else is debatable - I have some 5-10 CC discs, too (mainly Conns that I got in sales for 5-8 or 9 euros).

Video of the two tunes mentioned in the first post is widely circulated.

They could easily use the US masters. Not that I think they will - but it's an option. They'd have to redo all the inserts as well, and even the disk printing. But they love us! So maybe they will!! If they do that they could also start using real paper as the US editions have, not these flimsy covers that often have some marks and folds in them from the very beginning, even if shrink-wrapped! The difference is rather enormous - I have the US version "Dance of Death", and comparing it to the CC-"Passing Ship" cover, the US one is twice as heavy. Much better quality.

Well, I say if I see CC discs cheap, I get them, but cheap in switzerland usually means roughly full US prize, so it's rather unlikely I'll buy more of those. And I'm afraid they will just re-press the CC discs, too...

Something true about this... years ago that little jazz/blues store in Zurich (closed by now) had these weird and boring-looking b/w boxes... only after reading a review of the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh and ordering that one did I realize slowly what those boring b/w boxes actually were... I guess this being 10 or 12 years back, I could have found some long gone ones there, but the prizes were insane, at 35$ per disc or similar, since they had bought them from Mosaic at the regular prize obviously. Anyway, for a few of these long gone ones, I would be ready to pay a lot, if I'd see them in a shop, could have a look at the condition etc.

This one has been mentioned before, but I recommend it again: Very nice to hear Basie sideman Al Aarons on the first date!

Featuring the late Duke Jordan, along with Gigi Gryce (who wrote five of the six tunes, the first one is by Jordan). Very, very nice one!

Well, I saw it in a store today, a few hours after I posted here... of course it's not a CD but a copycrap... I was so far from buying any Blue Notes for those two or three years they'd been selling us turds that I wasn't even aware this had been reissued. I wonder will they start selling older reissues in non-protected versions too again, or will I have to get these from the US?

Marvellous one! The LPR is good as well, but I like the VME quite a bit better.

Got "Another Workout" (first time I heard it - fantastic!), "Congregation" (my Conn LP sounds better, I think...), and "Trompeta Toccata" (had a vinyl rip, nice to have the real thing). A pretty nice batch, if you ask me. Though I wonder why they didn't bring back the other Quebec I never heard (the Conn of "It Might as Well Be Spring" is not that long gone, or at least it did pop up now and then, and it sounds fine, I think). Never had a chance to hear "Heavy Soul", so I'm waiting for that.

Marcus, check this thread for discussion of Concord deliveries: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...8102&st=600 (not that I ordered anything, but the thread was about something else, before taking that twist...)

Thanks for the info! I'm sure you keep us posted... shall we bet how low it will drop? Anything below 50 would be great! Vultures! Somehow I still wonder if Mosaic gets screwed with this deal, or how this exactly works... on the other hand, the number per box is still limited, thus if the Universal ones are gone, there will be only the Mosaic ones... though looking how slow some sets seem to sell of late, I still wonder - in the Universal sells their part and Mosaic has to quit after 10 years because of the licenses, yet there would be another 2000 in the limited edition...

The Mingus is the Chateauvallon disc, yes? Isn't speed off there? As for Bertrand's optimism: isn't it possible the the Monk/Trane could be released so fast because a) it's not just some artist's live concert, but... and b) both the Monk estate and Alice/Ravi are truly dedicated folks, not crooks in for money or other weirdos? (Eroll Garner, to some extent I'm afraid also Sue Mingus...or will she ever release some of the stuff she promised?) The situation is different from country to country. In Switzerland you have three national broadcasting companies (German, French & Italian), in Germany you have regional stations (NDR, MDR, WDR, BR, HR, SWR, etc), and each of these has their own archives (maybe the swiss stations have a common one, since the Italian one is often broadcasting recordings from the German and French ones, too). I've had a tiny bit of insight in the case of SWR when we tried to do that Basie website, some time back. They have typewritten session logs for each recording they did, and if you ask them, they will kindly provide photocopies of them - but of course no recordings, even if it's just a recent re-broadcast. These session logs, in Basie's case, show a lot of deleted material, some of which has been broadcast, some not. That's the next point, then... all these stations are likely to have space and storage issues, too... Oh, and SWR recently broadcasted some of their own Kirk recordings and threw in a few tracks from the Paris concerts that were on Esoldun... I found that rather remarkable, broadcasting bootlegs that are owned (or rather: held) by another radio station...

Thanks for confirming, I was totally unaware of that!

I have three Robertson CDs that I like: "The Legend of the Missing Link" (Splasch), with good Italian players (septet and quintet); "Elaboration" (Clean Feed), with Tim Berne et al.; and "Shades of Bud Powell" (JMT), from 1988, with a brass ensemble and Joey Baron. All of these, though, good as they are, take up a lot of space with writing and/or collective improvising and don't really expose Robertson as a player that much as I recall. But when I heard him live in NYC in 2002 -- with a group led by Mark Helias that included Mark Shim (whatever happened to him? -- a really promising player), Craig Taborn, and Eric McPherson -- Robertson got a lot of solo space and was on fire. The thing he does in particular that knocks me out is use a plunger at up tempos to alter the timbre of individual notes in already multi-noted passages, which creates the impression that one is hearing maybe three times more notes per bar than would be possible -- this being done not with any air of trickery but because Robertson can actually think at that speed. It was wild, ecstatic stuff, a bit like early Dizzy. Sounds like I ought to check him out a bit better, thanks!

You're talking about the "normal" Monk Prestige 3CD "cubebox" released a few years ago? Wasn't aware that was a K2 (I always thought I didn't own any of these at all...)

I've heard most of her Vienna Jazz Fest 2006 gig on austrian radio and thought it was terrific. Band (incl. Sam Yahel-org, Matt Penman-b, Jenny Scheinman-violin) was indeed great, but she was good as well, I thought.

Ronald, I second that "altruistic notion" of Rooster's - just a month back I gave a friend of mine three single Hills for birthday present (the one with Hutch, the two basses date, and Passing Ships), and he was totally astonished. I played him some of my Mosaic years ago, but besides "Point of Departure", none of it was available a few years ago (and it took PoD a while to appear, too), so for someone not as dedicated to the music and not as much of a collector of jazz (he has no Mosaics, spends his - limited - funds on classical music, almost exclusively, but loves jazz as well), there was no possibility to hear any classic Hill albums if not by asking someone for CDRs.

What I know from the "early Savoy sessions" (Jazz Moods and Jazz for Thinkers) is among the very best Lateef, in my opinion. I really wish OK or whoever came around putting the "first" sessions set together, too! Somehow I always found the word "last" in the title of the released set rather strange - if there's "last" and "first", there's something missing in between - maybe even the main chunk, no?

Well, all the info I have is posted, someone needs to do the work now