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What Ed said (the Billie Columbia arrived today ) I stand half-accused of getting stuff I don't know before, and of getting rather a Mosaic than a few single discs - just because. The credibility they have make their sets a more or less safe way to check out new stuff, new styles. I have heard some New Orleans music before getting the Atlantic box, but not much. I got the Capitol and HRS because at that time I had money and was all-eager to dip into swing music a bit deeper. I guess that's all ok. Never cared the slightest bits about numbers, but now it's being talked about: how come the sets without numbers? Are they all sets that were delivered to critics or industry people? All advance copies? Whatever, PDEE, your post makes a great read! And it's of course at least half-true for all us box sets fans... By the way, if this interest continues: someone could start a poll asking for the relation of Mosaics to total number of jazz box sets. I'd sure have more others! I'm more a box set victim than a Mosaic-victim. ubu

have a drink and try again... I've got nothing but an empty bottle... Don't forget to get two and send me one when you buy new ones! Could stand one or two, too! ubu

Isn't it more about the musicians (Hubbard, Mogie, Spaulding, mainly, also LaRoca), than the label?

I saw Perry Robinson live (with Art Barron on trombone and Ed Schuller on bass) -one of the best concert I've ever seen - but npot because of the RObinson, but because of all three - this is the best example I ever witnessed of supreme level of interaction where whole by far exceeds the sum of the parts... this was something absoliutely unbelievable. And musicians obviously thought so as well, because after the music was over they kept staring at each other for a minute or so silently, with stunned expression on their faces. Barron then said something along the lines of "we didn't even need to use drugs, eh?". There were 4 people (including myself) in the audience. Great story! (I think you told me that when we met, didn't you?) ubu

Wow! I guess I really should get me that CD!

No sweat, my friend! Check the Perry Robinson Savoy album for some funky clarinet!

The old jewel case one? (That's how I got it) Or is there a newer one?

You never know! you ain't god anyway, Gott ist tot!

Great post! Similar to what I thought when I first heard it. Makes me want to spin it again, has been some time... ubu

A great one indeed! Hope to get a chance to spin it in time! ubu

be careful my friend, I might drop by some night

And I dig the shit out of the cover photo! If I could get the LP cheaper then for around 30-35 bucks (that's the prize these Shepp Impulses go in the one jazz second hand vinyl store in Zurich), I'd get it just for that photo!

Here you are!

You really are setting yourself up for trouble with comments like these...now we all will want to verify your findings, just in the name of "objective research." Seriously, that band is great. I've really enjoyed all of the Stanko I have heard on album. If, as Gary said, they are better live, I will most definitely have to go see them the next time they tour anywhere near here. Definitively check them out live! They're much more, let's say "lively"... Not as calm and lyrical, but pulsating, and pretty wild at times. Have checked the Brotzel Tentet, there's some slight distortion, and a few pops and clicks that I cannot edit out, but it's totally listenable, in my opinion. Won't go out right now, though. Be patient! ubu

Problem has been solved, thanks for looking. ubu

Same here, except there are days completely without, and days with 5, 6 or 7 cups... not a problem. Usually when I feel like having a strong (black, of course) coffee late at night, I've had a good dinner before and are dead-tired anyway, and coffee won't keep me awake a second longer. ubu

Methinks this one's FANTASTIC at least! Maybe my favourite Shepp!

Got that one recently - my first Scott. Some tracks are so beautiful they make you cry!

Listening to a FANTASTIC Stanko quartet concert from London, last year (a BBC broadcast provided by guess who, and not transferred to CDR by yours truly). This band is one of the best currently active! They're smoking! Each of the four is a great instrumentalist in his own right - Marcin Wasileski is GREAT! I'd love to hear him in trio! Slavomir Kurkiewicz has a beautiful big and woody sound, a huge sound, and Mihal Miskiewicz sounds better on these live tracks than on the ECM-mixed studio recordings (well, I only have the first disc so far). ubu

Dan, do you mean Joe Chambers? That's a great one! Everyone who comes across it should definitively pick it up!

You really think they don't have it? Give it a try, and if you don't get a shipping confirmation mail say on Monday, they really don't have it... they won't charge before they ship, I think. If they were as accurate as JPC e.g., they would write: Usually ships in 2-3 days, given it is available from the label. That's what it means. I'll take my time .... and clean the salsa die pomodori from my keyboard Of course they do not charge before they ship. I just cannot make up my mind ... You know, I always get a HUUUUGE uplift when I enter my room and see all those metal spine boxes neatly placed in a row... (will have to do a custom "In a Silent Way" set for me with metal spine some day...)

50 cm diagonal - not large enough? May you have sweet dreams about Basie and about web-designing ... ubu

Well, finally posting my answers... as usual, I haven't read a thing of the whole thread. As always, what follows is exactly what I wrote during listening: #1: Wow this is fun! Love the drumming here! Sounds European at times (the opening, for instance), but then, by the violin solo, less so, much less so. Could it be Mark Feldman? I guess rather not. #2: I know this tune, what's its title? Ah, "Donna Lee", of course! No idea who's playing. #3: Beautiful one! The sax almost sounds like an accordion at some moments ( , but that's what my ears tell me). Once again, not the slightest idea, and no need to come up with wrong guesses... #4: Again no idea! The alto saxophonist has heard some Dolphy, the whole thing bears some reminiscences to Mingus' music. Great writing! Great bari sax! Love this one! #5: Nice piano at the beginning. The entrance of the drummer made me worry a bit, but then he starts playing some great shit! No idea again, here. Trumpet player has a beautiful sound, bassist too! #6: The tune sounds slightly monkish. Lee Konitz? Sound is not dry enough for him, I think. A beautiful one! #7: The first one I know, and this is a musician I recognize with the first note he plays! Love him! He's got the advanced harmonies of an Eric Dolphy, the angularity (well, almost) of Monk, and couples that with the old Hawk/Webster sound and lots of texas tenor, too... Tons of jazz history in here, but what comes out is something I think is not new at all, no reinvention of the wheel, but something pretty unique, and very honest. And this is a manner of treating jazz history I like a lot more than what the Wynton type Young Lions do! #8: "Alone Together" - a very good tune. Touches of Bill Evans. Him with Eddie Gomez? (Due to reorganizing all of my belongings, among them several thousand CDs, I cannot find the Fantasy box, and thus check if my guess might be correct). Bass sounds a bit too earthy for Gomez. Beautiful it is! #9: This one sounds familiar. Don't think I know it, though. A good one! #10: Eeeek! What is this screaming shit?!? Noise? Music? Strong and fascinating stuff! El Gato? I hardly know him (have some of his Flying Dutchman CDs, but never really sat down and listened, yet). Nice tune, rather simple, changes with some ressemblance to Dorham's "Blue Bossa", if I hear this right. Pretty nice how the theme and changes can be heard even during the more abstract passages of the piano solo! When the melody is repeated at the very end of the bass solo, it already sounds like an old friend! Another great drummer at work here - that old-school moment starting at 6:29 is pure fun! #11: Very nice! Like it how the left hand has almost as much importance (and notes to play) as the right. That, as well as some romantic touches, make me think of Brad Mehldau (confession time: I not only like him, but I think he's a great pianist). #12: This one's solid. Not sure it needs the sax. The trio itself has a lot going on, sax starts rather dull (not sound-wise, though). Uh, trumpet, too? At the beginning I reckoned this is another trio performance. Quite good, but still not sure it needs the horns. #13: "Solar" - the Jarrett trio? None of those strange noises, though! Really like this one. #14: A good one, although I'm not too much in favor of this particular guitar sound. It's just clean enough to pass my test, though, and what is played, I like a lot! Thanks very much, Nate! I really enjoyed listening to this disc ubu

Oh, and yes, the design's indeed good!