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That Dixon album on Master Jazz is indeed pretty good - recently picked it up:
Since Jim forgot to mention it: Lloyd Mayers is on "Griff and Lock", one of the finest albums by the Johnny Griffin/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis team. He also shows up on albums by Joe Newman (At Count Basie's), Etta Jones (From the Heart) and Lock's "Afro Jaws".
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I could have had ... but I usually opt for the jazz concerts and have thus missed several potentially great African musicians, not just this year (but I did catch Tony Allen a few years ago). Coming up in the first days of October are Hindi Zahra and Bassekou Kouyaté ... within two days, so I might miss out on one (or both, as again there's too much going on at the same time - another two days before there's Bebel Gilberto ... and few days later Natacha Atlas - and then probably nothing until late November).
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... reminds me of some venerable board member letting his kids use the box of he Andrew Hill Mosaic to draw whilst in the backseat of his car
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Looks about right to me - haven't seen any others, not that I remember. The only one I've got is the Blakey/Monk one.
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Offer is good - though the box is not sealed - one of the copies I got missed a disc (which was just supplied by the label) and thus I opened up the other to make sure the contents are okay. The set is brand-spanking new, unplayed, it will be carefully packed.
It's yours for 80€ (Europe) or 90€ (Overseas) - shipping (& tracking) included.
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Not that I know, but my first reflex is of course to post: are you kidding? Kinda funny to see the new Bootleg set (finally arrived here today, inspite of having pre-ordered many weeks ago) in the midst of all those crappity craps linked below.
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The black "Original Vogue Masters" would most of the time display original cover art inside the digipack - though when a disc contains several EPs or 10" albums, they would be pretty small reproductions.
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Jewel cases are a bit of a bulk, true, but on the other hand, moving mass quantities of those poly-sleeved things is no picnic either, they're slippery as a tub full of naked eels!
big advantage if someday all goes down the potty
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Don't discs get scratched by using these plastic sleeves? Or do you all use additional "inner sleeves" or paper sleeves for the discs themselves?
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Little to none, it seems. Counting existing sets of this material (none of the discs filled to the brim though):
- Basie on Decca: 3 CD
- Pres on Aladdin: 2 CD
- Pres on Commodore: roughly 1 CD
- Pres on Keynote: 1 CD
- Pres' session with Nat Cole for Verve: half a CDThat leaves a disc for the other bits mentioned, plus some 15-20 minutes per disc to fill everything to the brim, if they're inclined to do so (usually they're not).
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I'm confused, since I still don't even know what a "pocket cornet" is ... those on the top two Cherry photos I posted seem to be pocket trumpets, both. Wiki has a pic that makes that conclusion seem correct:
I also just found this:
Pocket Trumpets are nearly the same, except that they have slightly larger receivers to accept the larger trumpet mouthpiece. In fact, aside from the mouthpiece receiver, some of the pocket trumpets I’ve examined are really pocket cornets with respect to their design “wrap.”
source: http://www.pocketcornets.com/html/about_pocket_cornets.html
So I guess I'll never really be able to tell them apart anyway
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Okay ... and on my work computer the Curson cover shows, at home it wouldn't - weird.
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site won't load, please someone tell me!
okay, just loaded, after hitting F5 at least twenty times ... mostly duplication here as well of course, but I'll quite certainly go for it!
what Goodman sides are there, other than a jam w/Teddy Wilson and the studio jam with Charlie Christian that was on the Pres/Basie set?
There is Ti-Pi-Tin from March, 1938 - a studio Benny Goodman track with Lester sitting in and soloing beautifully. Freddie Green and Walter Page are also there.
I honestly can't think of anything that would tempt me more (within the realm of "I have most of the material already, but want the rest".) Comprehensive Pres at his peak (IMO). The three-CD Basie Decca set is a treasure within my collection.
If you have been listening to the three-disc Basie Decca set, you are in for a treat. The sound quality on the HEP releases of that music is SO much better, and I am sure that Mosaic will work at that level.
Thanks - not sure if I know "Ti-Pi-Tin", but I guess I have it in some form - and that exactly (meaning some sessions only on CDRs received from friends) is the reason I'm interested. And of course I am hoping for an sonic upgrade of the Decca material indeed!
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still confused (and I only see one pic above, the first one ist just a part of a URL so I can't even look it up) - this here would then be that Besson thing?
while this here would be the nasty thing:
so, what's this:
regular cornet?
anyway, the one in the top pic is MUCH smaller than what was introduced as Taylor Ho Bynum's pocket trumpet (is Alexander Hawkins reading this, he might know about Taylor's instruments?)
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site won't load, please someone tell me!
okay, just loaded, after hitting F5 at least twenty times ... mostly duplication here as well of course, but I'll quite certainly go for it!
what Goodman sides are there, other than a jam w/Teddy Wilson and the studio jam with Charlie Christian that was on the Pres/Basie set?
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Ubu, where did you come to stand on Brautigam? I recall it as disappointing, overall-- better than his Mozart with the boomy acoustic, not nearly as hot as the Beethoven that was forthcoming. Granted, I'll almost always prefer a fortepiano in this repertoire but I might also recall Mikhael Pletnev a strong Haydnista too.
I've not come far yet but found it more gripping, more forward-driving than Schornsheim - but I really need more time to dig deeper.
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Interesting! ... when I heard Anthony Braxton recently, Taylor Ho Bynum was announced as playing pocket trumpet, but the instrument looked more like a regular cornet to me ... though I'm sure the guy who announced the band got the info straight from Taylor - Don Cherry's regular instrument (as seen on those photos) looks much smaller for sure, but I had always assumed to be a pocket trumpet, not a pocket cornet.
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday!
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The James P. was mentioned before here, I think ... another Basie/Lester sounds great ... but what is left from later years? Much of it is transcriptions and live recordings, would be a first for Mosaic to do such as set (and obviously there'd be some terrific live recordings from the period covered in the 1936-40 set).
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Not sure, but there were two long shows in Dietikon:
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re: Horowitz deal on aES, there we go:
Nos ponemos en contacto contigo para informarte de que el precio de "Vladimir Horowitz in Recital-Compl.Columbia Rec." (ASIN: B00RKSTMCC) era manifiestamente erróneo en el momento en que realizaste el pedido en Amazon.es, por lo que lo hemos cancelado y no te hemos cargado el importe del mismo.
so the answer is: no
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went for it earlier today ... will they come through in such a case? (aDE has it for 170€ and gives an october release date ... guess it must be a mistake on aES's end?)
link: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00RKSTMCC/
coming in October, too:
Classical and Early Romantic
Arleen Auger, Barbara Bonney, James Bowman, Emma Kirkby, Malcolm Binns, Martyn Hill, Andras Schiff, Esterhazy Quartet, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, The New London Consort, Philip Pickett, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
• A 50 CD Original Jackets Collection celebrating the greatest Classical and early romantic recordings from Decca’s pioneering early music label L’Oiseau-Lyre.
• The box features orchestral, vocal, chamber and solo piano music from Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, Malcolm Binns, Andras Schiff, the Music Party, the Esterhazy Quartet among others.
• Many of the recordings in the box are available for the first time on CD internationally:
o Malcolm Binns’ complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas (the first complete recorded cycle on period instruments)
o The Music Party performing Mozart’s Serenades K375 (sextet version) and K525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) and chamber works by Krommer, Crussel, Weber, Schumann and Glinka
o Mozart’s String Quintets K515 and K516 performed by the Esterhazy quartet
o Selections of Beethoven and Weber songs from Martyn Hill accompanied by Christopher Hogwood
o Piano works by Haydn, Chopin and Liszt on period instruments from Malcolm BinnsCD 1 – Stamitz: Three Symphonies; Clarinet Concerto
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 2 – Boccherini: Symphonies
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 3 – Haydn: Cello Concertos
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 4 – Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 96 & 94
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 5 – Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 100 & 104
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 6 – Haydn: Arianna a Naxos; Berenice
Arleen Augér • Handel and Haydn Society • Christopher Hogwood
CD 7 – Haydn: Masses
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford • The Academy of Ancient Music • Simon Preston
CD 8-9 – Haydn: The Creation
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 10-11 – Haydn: Orfeo ed Eurydice
Cecilia Bartoli • The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood CD 12 – Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16 & 17 etc.
András Schiff
CD 13 – Mozart: Clarinet & Horn Quintets; Oboe Quartet
Academy Of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble
CD 14 – Mozart: SerenadesK375 and K525 (“Eine kleine Nachtmusik”)
The Music Party • Alan Hacker
CD 15 – Mozart: String Quintets 2 & 3
The Esterhazy Quartet
CD 16 – Serenade for 13 Winds K. 361
Amadeus Winds • Christopher Hogwood
CD 17 – Symphony no. 29, Symphony in F K.19a, Divertimento K.136
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 18 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31 & 40
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 19 Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto; Bassoon Concerto
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 20 – Mozart: Horn Concertos
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 21 – Mozart Piano Concertos K.453 and K.466
Robert Levin • The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 22 – Mozart: Mass in C Minor; Coronation Mass
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 23-25 Mozart: Così fan tutte
Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra • Arnold Östman
CD 26 – Beethoven: Songs
Martyn Hill • Christopher Hogwood
CD 27-36 – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 -32
Malcolm Binns
CD37 – Beethoven: Piano & Wind Quintets; Mozart: Quintet K.452
Academy Of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble
CD 38 – Beethoven: Septet; Weber: Clarinet Quintet
Academy Of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble
CD 39 – Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat “Eroica”
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 40 – Beethoven Symphony no. 9 in D Minor “Choral”
The Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood
CD 41 – Hummel: Piano Sonatas; Haydn: Andante con Variazioni; Chopin: Barcarolle
Malcolm Binns
CD 42 – Hummel, Crussell & Krommer Clarinet Quartets
The Music Party
CD 43 – Schubert: 3 Violin Sonatas
Jaap Schröder • Christopher Hogwood
CD 44 – Schubert & Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas
Jaap Schröder • Christopher Hogwood
CD 45 – Schubert: Piano Quintet – “Trout”; 7 Lieder
Academy of Ancient Music • Chamber Ensemble
CD 46 – Schubert: Octet
Academy Of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble
CD 47 – Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas
Christophe Coin • Patrick Cohen
CD 48 – Weber: Songs
Martyn Hill • Christopher Hogwood
CD 49 – Trios by Weber, Schumann & Glinka
The Music Party
CD 50 – Liszt Piano Works
Malcolm Binnshttp://umusicdirect.com/classics/*/Box-Sets/Classical-and-Early-Romantic/4Q9704G6000
and these, mid September - they both look mighty tempting:
An Earl Wild complete RCA and a Marcel Dupré complete Mercury are coming up, too.
Miles Davis: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4
in New Releases
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Yeah, okay ... first spin of the first two discs today, the set having finally arrived a day or two ago (what's the point of pre-ordering months ahead if it doesn't get delivered on or shortly after release date?) - anyway, the 1955 set was a pleasant surprise today, though I still don't think it's all that great. The old "Miscellaneous Miles" disc from Jazz Unlimited (that was recycled, together with the same Storyville sublabel's inferior version of the 1960 Zurich concert on the two disc set mentioned above) certainly didn't sound as good - and I'm still convinced those were bootlegs (as for Zurich 1960, get the TCB release, which is sourced from Swiss radio's original tapes as well and sounds gorgeous - even to this non-audiophile a clear improval of the JU release).
I can see all the rants and stuff, I think I contributed some, myself ... but, and it's a big BUT (the good but): having the 1966 and 1967 Newport sets on official CD is terrific! And how did that line go? He who not dig this is a dumbass donkey moron - or some such. These two sets are amazing and at the budget price, they alone should be worth getting this set.
The Dietikon concert was indeed re-aired some years ago (but I think it was in the late 90s, rather than in 2004 - or maybe it was aired twice, who knows). Anyway, I taped it back then and was pretty much hooked (except for Gary Bartz who only seemed to fit in half ot the time).
My main BUT (the bad but now, but it needn't happen) concerning this release is: I really hope it will not cross out entire sets dedicated to both the 1971 and the 1973 tours. I'd be all over either of these, that's for sure! And if they want to do one for 1975 as well, all the better! They could also do another 1969 one, but only dedicated to the fall tour this time (I assume that will not happen, but I still feel that the lost quintet one, while fine, is a somewhat odd compilation of stuff, giving too much room for that spring/summer gig in France, and then adding a set with only acoustic piano ... there's enough good music from the European tour or October/November to fill an entire four disc set, but well ...