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admittedly, buy 299 get 1 free doesn't sound like a great offer... strange thing is, i think, that inbetween all those 2,99 and some 1,99 CDs there is one CD, Stan Getz "Quartets" which is supposed to cost 3,99 - I am constantly tempted to buy it just to find out why... but have resisted so far No reason, I assume... it's one of the digipack remasterings thus I didn't buy it...

I still hope for some Iberian edition of these ..... some of the best Hamp I know. That would be the date with Oscar Dennard, Ray Copeland, Jimmy Cleveland, Lucky Thompson etc.? I'd definitely like to hear that one in its entirety!

That link leads me nowhere!

had that arrrrghhhh moment there, too... bassist's one of those Scott LaFaro (ok, he himself was great) via Eddie Gomez clones, I suppose? But guitar is very nice! I didn't dare guessing on the standard of the second piano solo cut after my mis-nomers with your BFT, but this time I'd have gotten it right...

Ok, here's my impressions on a first listen of disc one, as usual this is my first checking in in this thread... #1 Nice piano solo, but nothing here that really jumps at me. Sounds like a fairly contemporary recording to me? Some traces of Tyner in the piano solo, I think. Drums are nice. Soprano is quite good... hmm, it this older? I'm quite sure I don't actually know it but somehow the whole thing does sound slightly familiar. Is that Wayne Shorter on soprano? Very nice soft sound! Trumpet and soprano mix very well on the ensembles - I liked this better and better as it continued. #2 Oh, very nice! Me knows that... it's this on that that Guitar is great, trumpet is very nice, bass gives it away in a second anyway who's group's at work. Also I think he's got quite his own way of writing these smooth (not meant in a negative way at all) flowing tunes that still have a couple of edges... also I like the tenor player quite a bit better than Chuck. Saw the trio band live and it was great (that is minus trumpet and guitar). #3 A tango... very nice! No clue, but I like it! #4 Hmmm... sort of just goes on and on without grabbing me... not bad, but not something that I'd listen to, I think. #5 I don't like this kind of groove jazz that much... never been a fan of E.S.T. and similar groups... this just sounds too clean for me, too neat and cultivated... there's no funk in there... #6 More contemporary stuff... hmmm, could this be from ... hmmm... thought it was from Lovano/Osby's "Friendly Fire" but it's not. Clueless then. Not exactly a favourite - again too neat, I suppose... but the saxes are nice, and piano as well. #7 Starts out real nice with the accordion and bass, but then there's again one of those clean straight beats... don't like how it goes on too much. Just leaves me cold. Trumpet solo is nice, though. #8 I like this alright. Could be Brad Mehldau? I've heard a very recent solo set of his on radio and it was great, much more... lucent, with a less voluminous sound, totally intriguing. So I'm not sure this is him... #9 Some kind of medley... pretty nice, actually. This gives me more than the newer cuts (#5, #6, #7) but still it's not exactly a favourite track of mine. Reminds me a bit of the medleys Jaki Byard could play, but this is too clean and not nearly as exuberant... still, as it goes on I start liking it better and better! #10 "Skylark" - this is such a beautiful tune! I adore some of Carmichael's tunes, and this is definitely one of my most cherished ones! Guitar is very nice, soft... for whatever reason, this brings to mind Joe Diorio. But I'm really no guitar expert at all. #11 Nice one! I like these last few cuts much better than some of the first half.

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Well yes... I guess all of these discs contain nice music, but in the end none are essential (still I have all except "Once Upon a Summertime"...)

ouch! of course! I was typing fast (at work), but I felt something was weird with that name...

I have the digipack bad-sounding versions of the Baker albums (five albums on five discs, or is it four?). This 3CD version of the same session(s?) seems to be much better sounding. But then while it's a good band and all, it's not the best Baker there is (for that, I'd advise you to look for the quartet stuff with Bud Freeman - some of the live discs, there are 3 of them, all on Blue Note, seem to be or go OOP). Anyway, the Mabern isnt' exactly what I'd call essential (got it in this sale, too). It pairs two albums, so value for money is good, as well. The music is nice, some of it groovy (think Memphis...) but there's nothing too deep about the music. Of course Coleman is nice (but he's nice on the Baker discs, too, even in the lousy editions I have). Not really much help, I'm afraid... "Lerner & Loewe" is nice, though, if they have it at 2001!

ain't that contradictio in adiecto?

i prefer to call them Fantasy/OJC 2,99 € discs well you know, I never fell for that trick... but there are some 2 € ones, too (you'd call them 1,99 € ones, I assume ) (edited for typo)

Yep. Not now... I ordered another package of Fantasy/OJC 3 € discs a couple of days ago (another 100 € gone).

All the best, Agustín! Hope you're settled in your new appartment by now!

Jewels & Binoculars is a great group! Saw them live last fall and liked it a lot. But I don't think they have a recording of "Sad-Eyed Lady" (a lovely song, indeed!)

c'mon, stop that!!! I still haven't ever seen a decently priced copy of this and if you continue pushing, I'll have to consider paying the 60 or 70 € this seems to go for...

That's too bad. I really love the Dinah stuff and actually have it in a couple of different forms. She had a fanatastic voice. As far as Desmond/Hall, that was my first Mosaic and words cannot describe the beauty of this music. Hmmm, I can sort of understand. But I *love* the albums with Merrill & Vaughan and also enjoy the strings album quite some. The jams I think I've played maybe twice so far, only (I've had the box for some 7 or 8 years, I think). But still this is a great box set. I wonder: is sound on the Verve Master Edition reissue better, or even much better, so that maybe some favourites should be bought in that form as well? (I used to have some of the old Polgygram CDs before getting the box, so I don't know any of the VMEs.)

Another non-expert whose posts have so far been dutifully neglected/ignorated in this thread, luckily, dares to speak up... How about starting games with penalties? Then, in case the game ends with a draw, the team who did better in the penalties wins - this would help doing something against the defensive way of playing, at least on the side of one team...

Mike, thanks again for your effort! I've said it already: the track from "Morava" is a favourite. And that Danny Thompson tracks makes me willing to look for more, too!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

A BIDR FLU BUG? HA HA...

I almost know that tenor solo on the opening cut of "Congregation" by heart - what a terriffic solo! I have this as Conn LP, never managed to find the CD, so I will pick this one up. But why aren't they first reissuing the first Griffin album? That one has been gone for much longer time...

What a lame game that was, yesterday... just about as boring as France-South Korea or Switzerland-Ukraine... maybe they should all go back to their roots and study with him again?

You mean you memorized all this dialogue!!??? Wow, I'm impressed. BTW Do you know how much, if any, of it was in the novel? Or is it all Faulkner/Brackett/Hawks/Bogart/ Bacall? No no, nothing memorized... I didn't learn that at school, alas, being much too young - never even had to know any poem by heart... But I'm familiar enough with the film to be quite sure that the parts I used (from the web...) for my signature are just like they happen in the film. Being no reader of crime stories, and not familiar enough with american literature anyway, I don't know how much of the film's from the book and how much from Faulkner/Hawks, sorry.

Happy birthday!