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hugely enjoyed revisiting the Vee Jay sets ... and frankly, I'd love to have a huge number of alternates on the albums that don't have any - "Kelly Great", the first Kelly trio w/Philly Joe and the Chambers with Lateef and Tommy Turrentine - that's one cool band right there!

No the ones I mean were later and added up to the complete Mangelsdorff on MPS. Universal's earlier series (that was intially all digipacks) included one: And then, they added the whole sheband - two double discs (live and solo) and two five disc sets (regular jewel cases with cardboard around them) with all the remaining studio albums - not duplicating "And His Friends"): The earlier ones you had in mind were these (Motor Music, same series as the Henderson I depicted, and the 2CD edition of the Sun Ra I mentioned):

Not sure if it's only a BE variant or just a general old-fashioned variant, but I've seen it before (prestoclassical.co.uk uses it as well when sending out their shipping - or despatch - confirmations)

I usually capture my cat and use one of her claws ...

Yup, that's of course what I've been reading about in the past days (got the big two part Whaley book on the way as well, not sure when I'll find the time for it, but what bits I read left a pretty good impression).

Happy Birthday, Allan!

Well no, why, it's all been out Sorry, couldn't resist ... but I guess this indeed does make sensse as the audience is probably pretty small. It is a pity though that Universal didn't keep their Mangelsdorff reissues in print longer, prices have indeed gone through the roof quite a while ago (except for the two double disc sets, "Solo" and "Live", which can still be had for fairly acceptable prices in used condition, it seems). The Mangelsdorff and Koller reissues were the best part of Universal's short-lived MPS reissue programme, I shall think. Though they also gave us some off-kilter things such as little box-sets by Art van Damme and Eugen Cicero and a few single reissues that absolutely deserve mention (Annie Ross/Pony Poindexter, Art Farmer in Vienna, Don Menza ...). I guess the fact the series didn't live all that long means there was pretty limited interested, so actually, all things considered, I'm rather surprised anyone thinks they can exploit it in a profitable way again (and I guess that goal, to make profit, explains all the odd club jazz crappy choices Edel made ... or maybe theire producer in charge just loves that kinda light music?)

Well, they had a Buddy Tate rekkid, specially for you:

Yeah, and this one's very nice as well! I think the photo is from one of those sessions, the liners tell a bit about it all - relaxed jam sessions and that night, luckily, tape was rolling.

Oh yes, I'm a happy customer there as well!

The Henderson's from 1980 and is real good indeed. Mine looks like this: http://www.allmusic.com/album/mirror-mirror-mw0000102031 The Basie was recorded in Chicago in 1969 - not his best time I'd say. Line-up has Lockjaw though ... Gene Goe, Oscar Brashear, Sonny Cohn (tp), Waymon Reed (tp,flh), Frank Hooks, Melvin Wanzo, Grover Mitchell (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Marshal Royal (as,cl), Bobby Plater (as,fl), Eric Dixon (ts,fl), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bari), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Norman Keenan (b,el-b), Harold Jones (ds) Seems it was also on Groove Merchant back in the day, and on a Verve CD later on. I recently bought the Jim Hall in a reasonably-priced edition from Japan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-6113 Back in the day, I had the Sun Ra and the Archie Shepp. I think it's the only Shepp album I've liked; very intense, though. The Shepp falls in his very best period I think. Thanks for the link to the Hall - guess I might go for the new one though, if only to check out the series.

This one, too, Larry: Pretty darn good session!

Thanks a lot for filling in all these details, sonnymax! Whacky stuff!

That's not the TCB by Peter Schmidlin, right?

xept they walk like ducks and want us to think that's elegant

You're talking of the Gonsalves I assume? I've heard it, and I fully agree! Looking forward to having a proper reissue of it! Same for the Ronnie Ross ... couw made me a copy of that one, many moons agon, and it's really good as well!

Yeah, Solal, too! I've bought two or three of his MPS albums on vinyl by now (and have the one that was issued on CD - at least the one that was around everywhere, that is), so I forgot mentioning him. There's also "ZoKoSo" which took me a while to find - part of Universal's own MPS series which after all was more daring than this new Edel series - they got at least Mangelsdorff and - almost - Hans Koller right there - still would love to get the missing Koller ones as well ... and "Ellerine Harding", please!.

Just got my shipping notification, yippie ki-yay! (And put in another order for a couple of Red Garlands, an Arnett Cobb and that Freddie McCoy one that all seem to be OOP and no longer in stock at CDjapan.) Any luck, Head Man?

discs 1-5 (all but the classic first quintet dates)

Looks like a pretty uninteresting bunch to me, I'm afraid ... the Sun Ra was out previously as a double CD set, the Joe Henderson was in print for a loooong time (same mid/late 90s MPS series done by Motor Music), some of these are beyond light music (Kovac goes to the moon), though the Jim Hall I will have to get (only have a cheapo vinyl of it, not with the gorgeous foldout cover, alas, but some later pressing), maybe the Hank Jones, Golowin/Gulda, and also the Iturralde. Let's hope they'll do more and also go places the recent series by Most Perfect Sound Edition (who are no longer allowed to do any MPS reissues alas, by new owner Edel Music) went. I have a Japanese edition of the Shepp and Donaueschingen and Cherry's "Eternal Rhythm", but these do deserve to be widely heard! Most Perfect Sound did the Taylor solo one (but where's "Black Forest", please? Not sure Edel cares though, they might offer digital, but there I guess I don't care), the Tchicai, the Wilens and a few other fine albums. Not sure Edel will bother with that or if they stick to mainstream jazz and crappy club sounds (or rather stuff that appeals to that kinda crowd).

defenestration (don't think there's undefenestration, at least not literally )

Thanks for stating that.

What's the gist of the DB review? And who wrote it? Problem was: music was good, but the high-school-teacher-like announcements took the momentum out of it all ... here's my report from back then: