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this one has really grown on me and is perhaps the one I'd most likely to check out in full.. thanks ← You should do so! It's a beautiful one!

Will try to do the same (but then I can't come to Mulhouse, but I may not be able to afford that anyway, will have to do some calculations...)

... And I´ll check the LPR "Kirk in Copenhagen" again tonight, but I´m afraid it does not give exact information. ← It only says "October 1963". ← Same as the box - crappy!

Alright, P.L.M. - send that check! 500 € should do for a start!

Here's the setlist of the long version (115 min) that is part of the first Trane Tree: 1. The Promise 2. Afro Blue 3. I Want to Talk About You 4. Impressions 5. My Favorite Things 6. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 7. Mr. P.C. (Not nearly as good sound as the re-broadcast of #2-5).

Marcello, not sure your transfer would be worth all the work... Guy has a burn of the recent radio re-broadcast, in pristine mono. I have that one as well, it sounds really really good, as Guy says, and the music is great! You'd rather want to look around to get a copy of that re-broadcast than invest too much work and time into transferring a boot that will probably not sound half as good!

music to ahem... drive (???) your scooter by?

music to clean the house by? Fine job, John! Thanks for this nice compilation! The Tononi is on my list since two years or even longer, the Negris and Fazio shall be added, so will the Instabile (I have most of their other stuff, but not this one).

Happy birthday!

another one, mentioned above:

Reading the title of this topic spurred my imagination... lacking "in nuance"? "in subtlety"? "in musicality"? "in whatever respect you may think of?" As for the guys and gals you want recommendations of, I can't help a lot, but these are a few that I have and like: - Turrentine "Hustlin'" (RVG - with Shirley Scott, Burrell, Cranshaw, Fink) - Shirley Scott "Queen of the Organ" (OOP? On Impulse, same band minus Burrell) From Shirley I have two recent Fantasy twofers, "Queen of the Organ Vol. 1" and that other disc collecting two Moodsville albums, which also feature her on piano. Soothing easy blue stuff. Then there's another organ playing Ms Scott you shouldn't miss: Rhoda! Check out this little puppy: Sorry for the bad jpg - it's a duo with Kenny Clarke, and I love it!

There's a Django disc, too: (haven't heard it)

Just sent in a mail, ordering: P198 No Waiting Derek Bailey l Joëlle Léandre P498 Hauts Plateaux Daunik Lazro l Carlos Alves "Zingaro" P299 Outcome Derek Bailey l Steve Lacy P200 Dark Rags Evan Parker l Keith Rowe P201 The Contest of Pleasures John Butcher l Xavier Charles l Axel Dörner P102 Madly You Daunik Lazro l Carlos Alves "Zingaro" l Joëlle Léandre l Paul Lovens P203 exaltatio utriusque mundi Frédéric Blondy l Lê Quan Ninh P303 Fibres Stéphane Rives There go another 100 eurozlotys... Btw: there's a few more days of sale - from the Potlatch site:

Whoah! That may then be the second best album of the year! Will this have the Ware-Shadow Wilson group? The working unit? Great news, anyway!

Forgot to say: after a quick glance at the setlists of the 2CDs in the box and the TV broadcast, I think there's no duplication. Kirk played other European cities that fall (I have Prague, I think, and maybe one more) with other rhythm players (his usual gang) and had almost identical setlists, it seems.

And the TV broadcast you have already, yes? What's your source then, some collector, not that Magnetic CD? No way to find out when the Mercury album was recorded? The 10CD Kirk set just gives the month - does the LPR (digipack) reissue give more exact info?

Thanks Claude! Your ears seem to be among the better ones around here, so I'll trust that (knowing that I myself am unable to go into the nuances...). I wonder though, why there are different tapes? Would one not try and get the master? Or are these lost, and the search is for the best/first generation of tapes?

That is a great disc, indeed! Some nice Wardell Gray!

I had the older The Bridge CD Keepnews compiled, still have the box, and yet I bought the new First Editions reissue - it sounds incredible!!! The first time they were able to use the original tape!!! You can almost touch the bass strings and sax metal. All other issues used second or third generation tapes. ← Same deal for the Paul Desmond US box? Uh... I always found sound fair enough on these, but... (also the Desmond has a very good essay).

It seems that you have to wait some weeks because UNIVERSAL was forced to stop delivering, due to legal problems... I've no exact informations so far, as the producer of the series is on holiday and will be back in two weeks time. I hope I'll come back with more and better infos then. Christian Emil, danke für Deine PM! ← Any more info? I haven't ordered a copy, but I am planning to do so... I hope it will be available again!

Yes indeed! I have to revise my own rather lukewarm post from above! Gave it a listen recently, and liked it quite some! Beautiful playing by all three.

Hope you had a good one! Happy Birthday!

you seem to act against your very own principles, sir!

Got mine too, yesterday. Funny, very funny! Glad the set is in... they should try and get their act together a little bit, and send the foreign catalogues not by rowing boat (or maybe they have some crazy guy swimming accross the atlantic?) - I really don't understand why their catalogue gets delivered so late over here!

WHOAH! That's the Fred Anderson/Barbra* Streisand duo disc, yes? (*How in the world can one mistreat this name like this? Belongs to Gitmo, I say!)