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This is such a great set! And the 20bit domestic disc, IMO, sounds just amazing! Definitely "you are there" sound on that one. I'd love to hear what you think... I like it! Got to hear it some more times, but the first impression is very positive! A bit on the short side - I'd love to hear more of the quintet, but the two trio tracks are very good, too! Tyner definitively smokes! ubu

Looks good. I know Texier only through his recording in Sclavis-Romano-Texier trio, which I enjoy but wish it would have more edge - it is all just too pretty. Looks like this one is a bit funnier and rattier, so I'll probabl give it a try. Do so! I think Sébastien Texier is cool! His playing is very hot, very melodic it is all (that's part of the mediterranean thing, I guess), but always with an edge, and Rabeson really drives, as - of course! - does Texier himself. I had a chance to pick this up used some months ago (even cheaper), but passed it after a quick listen. Maybe you need a few go's to really get warm. By the way it's a soundtrack project of some sorts, for a film shot by a French director in 1970. That film had no soundtrack, and Texier was asked I think for a live screening, originally, to provide some music where it would fit. The disc, however, is in perfect studio quality. ubu

Got this one dirt cheap (less than the prize of two cups of coffee...), and had a listen on the way to work today. Very intense, and very good! Mediterranean jazz, I'd call this. Henri Texier has his usual big beautiful sound, his son Sébastien is on alto saxophone and clarinets, and Tony Rabeson on drums. S. Texier plays the alto with much urgency and drive, going to the limits volume- and soundwise, to very good effect. Rabeson does some quite astonishing things, too. A great trio record - and all in all pretty far removed from your olde sax-b-d trio recording. ubu

Like I said in the whisky thread, I don't do Islays I know that, Hans! It was actually directed at brownie anyway!

Or was it Juliette? Or Justine?

Sue?

Ain't it fun to try to "catch" an artist or an album while using Opera? Doesn't this tell it all?

You know, these rats here have taste! If you follow the link and go to the prize list, then to the Islays, you can - without any bigger problem - order a Laphroaig 40yr in a wooden box for a mere 548 Euro, and let them mail it to me...

no need to argue - I just disagree with those who think it's that bad. I would never say it's a great session. It's a live date, raw and authentic, and I do enjoy hearing what these cats sounded like when they did NOT have their best day, and did NOT have the studio pressure and atmosphere. It's just that for me, no more. ubu

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