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Just bought the box, yippie yay yee! Will do some comparative listening now, though I'm not able to state any "expert" opinions of course ... anyway, looks marvellous - and somehow feels good to buy locally, even though it was probably 20-25% more expensive.

Actually I don't like how the Savoy 8CD set programmes masters and alternates/breakdowns separately ... takes the whole flow out of hearing the actual session. They did a "complete master takes" set as well, I think, so why pull that trick on the complete set?

So, what's this? Ella Fitzgerald - Royal Roost Sessions With Ray Brown Trio & Quintet [Cardboard Sleeve (mini LP)] [sHM-CD] http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/TLCD-5102 Label is given as "Vivid Sound Collection", price is hefty (2800 yen), description says "originally on Cool & Blue", which of course is your true audiophile top quality outfit that deserves cardboard sleeve mini lp shm treatment like hardly any other does ... but, more interesting is the description found on another Japanese site (giving the label as Sound Hills, btw), and there's Pres showing up, so ... 1. Ool-Ya-Koo 2. Love That Boy 3. Mr Paganini 4. It's Too Soon to Know 5. I Never Knew 6. How High The Moon 7. Heat Wave 8. Old Mother Hubbard 9. Bop Goes To The Weasel 10. Ool-Ka-Yoo 11. Flying Home 12. Old Mother Hubbard 13. Mr Paganini 14. There's a Small Hotel 15. How High The Moon 16. Robbin's Nest 17. As You Desire Me 18. Thou Swell 19. Flyin' Home 20. Someone Like You 21. Again 22. In A Mellotone 23. Lemon Drop Ella Fitzgerald(vo), Hank Jones(p), Ray Brown(b), Charlie Smith(ds), Kai Winding(tb), Allen Eager(ts), Lester Young(ts), Jesse Drakes(tp), Ted Kelly(tb), Fred Jefferson(p), Roy Haynes(ds), Flip Phillips(ts), Howard McGhee(tp), Brew Moore(ts), Machito's(rhythm) Recorded on November 27, & December 4, 1948 / Recorded on April 30, 1949 link: http://www.vividsound.co.jp/item_show.php?lid=4940603051022 but I see now ... boils down to one single jam w/Lester present - worth it? (btw, wasn't me who manufactured that ... not sure why quite a few of those older boots out of Italy and Spain - like plenty of old Fresh Sounds - were manufactured in Switzerland ... obviously shady business has a long-standing tradition here, but anyone knows any reason to that?)

Hm, I wonder what the info on the Mosaic page really means ... they acknowledge the Japanese set - would the "research" persons be the same as well, and what about remastering/restoration? Makes no sense to do it twice, I think, but then would this be the first time Mosaic simply takes over someone else's work? Or rather: would this be some kind of collaborative effort?

Okay, thanks! The second fact I realized while checking out its contents. Pretty lame that Fantasy couldn't just add those tracks to the respective albums. Not really an album that looks like anyone really, really needs it (two more tracks of Zoot w/Basie would have made a difference for me, though).

as for Ellington, there's this one, too:

these definitely aren't all of 'em ... in some cases, there are single SACDs culled from 2CD sets - once bought one of 'em accidentally. the proper French releases first looked like this: then later they looked like this (digipacks, single discs only, as far as I know, splitting up the previous editions): one of those SACDs: (they look nearly the same, except for the logo) These are French radio recordings, sound is pretty good I'd say (but I'm used to plenty, so don't hold me accountable if your seventhousand dollar tube amp and fifteenhundred dollar headphones make audible any deficiencies of these).

So I had figured - cheap budget label with poor playing time and (not necessarily poor but at any rate) filler-type "product" (you mean music, right? ) that is OK for the price paid but not necessarily more. Which is why why I had sprung for these two discs mentioned above that DID fill gaps in an otherwise exceedingly skimpy reissue discography (at that time). But how come, then, that quite a few seem to be drooling about those Ellington and Armstrong releases from the same series - artists where on the face of it you ought to be able to easily rehash much more material (from known and released sources) to sell to the unwary from the grab bins? Why the (relatively speaking) "gems" here? What WAS their overall (re)issue policy after all? Really only hit and miss? THAT was my question. The Nat Cole recordings for instance were on a Music & Arts set that is OOP and extremely pricey (alas, I'd love to have it, only have one of the Cole Laserlight discs). Don't know much, but they did some good stuff, such as three volumes of Baden-Baden recordings (compiled by Michael Frohne, I think) - music by Hans Koller, Zoot Sims, Oscar Pettiford a.o. Then there are the French radio recordigs they did - as I said above, I'm not sure if all of them were out on Trema/Pour ceux qui aiment le jazz or whatever that label's called (I've got some of their releases but never figured which was the actual label name). There's a load of good stuff there, and even though the LaserLight releases look cheap and come with minimal, superficial liners, they're mighty good! to be continued ... (too many pics for one post)

okay, great, only now do I see the other thread ... maybe some moderator could merge this all?

Those French sets are editions of stuff out on a French label as well, in various editions ... there are many of those, several Monks, Mileses, Blakeys, three Petersons, a great one by the Clark/Boland Big Band, one by Dizzy ... not sure if each of them has been out in each form (there were French single discs, too). A copy of "Cool Rock" was just shipped ... crossing fingers (I've come to distrust most marketplace sellers).

And a pair with Zoot Sims? Or are those trio tracks cut at the Basie & Zoot date?

okay, seing that Ellington's "Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II" comes with catalogue number SICP-4243 ... a shot in the dark on a site called cdbanq.com - a pretty wild mix of Vogue, Polydor, Columbia, Philips, RCA, whatever ... wasn't one of the Burrell ones not included in its entirety in the Columbia Small Group Mosaic? ... list in post #1 ends at SICP-4069, but none of the 4070s/80s/90s are jazz: some SICP-41xx (rest is not related): Barney Wilen - Tilt +6 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4197 Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown The Complete Paris Sessions Vol.1 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4194 Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown The Complete Paris Sessions Vol.2 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4195 Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown The Complete Paris Sessions Vol.3 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4196 Dave Brubeck - At Carnegie Hall (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4186 Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions Of Japan [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4188 Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions Of New York [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4189 Dean Martin - The Very Best Of Dean Martin +Bonus [Japan CD] SICP-4149 Duke Jordan - Duke Jordan Trio [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4198 George Russell - The Jazz Workshop [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4199 Herbie Hancock - Quartet [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4190 Herbie Hancock - The Piano [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4191 Miles Davis - At Plugged Nickel. Chicago (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4180 Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis Live At Fillmore West (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4182 Miles Davis - Miles Davis Live At The Fillmore East (March 7.1970) It's About That Tim (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4184 Preservation Hall Jazz Band - The Essential Preservation Hall Jazz Band [Japan CD] SICP-4157 Sonny Rollins - After The Bridge (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4192 all SICP-42xx (some might not be related): Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4211 Ahmad Jamal - The Ahmad Jamal Trio [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4210 Al Di Meola - Electric Rendezvous [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4264 Al Di Meola - Land Of The Midnight Sun [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4265 Ann Burton - Sings For Lovers And Other Strangers [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4223 Arista All Stars - Blue Montreux [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4266 Art Blakey & Les Jazz-Messengers - Hard Bop [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4245 Art Blakey & Les Jazz-Messengers - The Jazz Messengers [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4244 Art Farmer - The Art Farmer Quintet [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4209 Baden Powell - Solitude On Guitar [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4221 Bleachers - Strange Desire [Japan CD] SICP-4298 Buck Clayton - The Huckle-Buck And Robbins' Nest [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4274 Charles Lloyd - Discovery [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4277 Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4275 Charlie Parker - Summit Meeting At Birdland [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4201 Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4284 Dave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan - Blues Roots [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4256 Denny Zeitlin - Cathexis [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4220 Denny Zeitlin - Live At The Trident [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4219 Dexter Gordon - Homecoming'/Live At The Village Vanguads' (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4285 Don Ellis - At Fillmore (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4278 Duke Ellington - Jazz At The Plaza 2 Vol.2 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4243 Frankie Laine & Buck Clayton - Jazz Spectacular [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4273 Gary Burton - A Genuine Tong Funeral [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4258 Gary Burton - Duster [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4216 Gary Burton - Lofty Fake Anagram [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4259 Gary Burton - Tennessee Firebird [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4217 Gerry Mulligan - What Is There To Say? [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4255 Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea - An Evening With Herbie Hancock And Chick Corea (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4261 Herbie Mann - Latin Mann [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4222 Jeremy Steig - Flute Fever [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4218 Jimmy Jones - Jimmy Jones Trio [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4269 Jimmy Raney - Visits Paris Vol.1 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4270 Jo Stafford - Jo+Jazz [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4202 Joe Morello - It's About Time [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4257 John McLaughlin.Al / DiMeola / Paco De Lucia - Passion.Grace&Fire [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4263 Johnny Coles Quartet - The Warm Sound [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4212 Keith Jarrett - Expectations [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4260 Kenny Burrell - Bluesin' Around [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4208 Kenny Burrell - Weaver Of Dreams [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4207 Kimiko Kasai - This Is My Love [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4294 Kimiko Kasai with Cedar Walton Trio - Kimiko Is Here [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4293 Krewella - Get Wet [Japan CD] SICP-4299 Lee Konitz - Lee Konitz Plays [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4271 Lee Konitz - Stereokonitz [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4215 Louis Armstrong - Ambassador Satch [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4252 Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4251 Louis Van Dijk - Pavane [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4225 Louis Van Dijk - Plays Lennon-Mccartney [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4287 Louis Van Dijk - The Louis Van Dyke Trio / Quartet [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4288 Magic! - Don't Kill The Magic [Japan CD] SICP-4297 Makoto Ozone - Ozone [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4234 Makoto Ozone - Spring Is Here [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4235 Miles Davis - Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hall (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4238 Miles Davis - In Concert (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4236 Miles Davis - Jazz At The Plaza Vol.1 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4242 Miles Davis - Live-Evil (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4240 Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings The Blues +2 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4281 Nina Simone - Silk & Soul [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4282 Oscar Peterson - This Is Oscar Peterson (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4253 Phil Woods - Warm Woods [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4213 Phil Woods & Michel Legrand & Orchestra - Images [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4280 Phil Woods = Gene Quill - Phil Talks With Quill [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4214 Quintetto Basso-Valdambrini - Walking In The Night [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4267 Rita Reys - Rita Reys Sings Burt Bacharach [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4289 Rita Reys - Rita Reys Sings Michel Legrand [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4290 Rita Reys - That Old Feeling [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4224 Sadao Watanabe - Pastoral [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4231 Sadao Watanabe - Round Trip [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4233 Sadao Watanabe - Song Book [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4232 Sestetto Basso = Valdambrini - Sestetto Basso = Valdambrini [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4268 Shorty Rogers - Shorty Rogers Courts The Count [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4272 Sonny Rollins - Sonny Meets Hawk! [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4247 Sonny Rollins - What's New [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4246 Swim Deep - Where The Heaven Are We [Japan CD] SICP-4295 The Ralph Sharon Trio - Music For The Late Hours: The Tony Bennett Song Book [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4206 Thelonious Monk - Live At The It Club Complete (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4249 Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser (Music From The Motion Picture) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4248 Tommy Flanagan - Positive Intensity [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4283 Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4204 Tony Bennett - The Beat Of My Heart [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4205 Tony Perkins - Tony Perkins +8 [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4203 Tony Scott feat.Bill Evans - The Touch Of Tony Scott [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4200 Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4227 Weather Report - Live In Tokyo (2CDS) [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4229 Weather Report - Sweetnighter [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4228 Weather Report - Weather Report [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4226 While She Sleeps - This Is The Six [Japan CD] SICP-4296 Yoshiaki Masuo - Winds Of Barcelona [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4291 Yuji Ohno - My Little Angel [Japan LTD CD] SICP-4292

from my old files: New York July 26, 1952 Studio Session (Clef) Paul Campbell, Joe Newman, Wendell Culley, Reunald Jones (tp, out-1) Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Jimmy Wilkins (tb, out-1) Marshal Royal (cl,as, out-1) Ernie Wilkins (as,ts, out-1) Paul Quinichette, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts, out-4) Charlie Fowlkes (bs, out-1) Count Basie (p, org-1, out-3) Oscar Peterson (p-1) Freddie Green (g) Jimmy Lewis (b, out-2) Ray Brown (b-1) Gus Johnson (ds) 835-7 Blues for the Count and Oscar (Count Basie-Oscar Peterson) -1, -2 Clef EPC252, MGC633, MGC729, Verve VE2-2542, V3HB-8850, (E)VLP9074, (F)74085, 2304.410, (Eu)511.022, (Jap)70MJ3235, 513 630-2 [CD] 836-5 Be my guest (Ernie Wilkins, arr. Ernie Wilkins) -2, -3 Clef EPC252, MGC633, MGC729, V3HB-8850, (F)2304.410 837-2 You're not the kind (Nat Pierce) Clef EPC251, MGC647, MGC723, Verve VE2-2542, VSP13/14, (F)2304.410, (Jap)70MJ3235, Columbia (E)LB10085 838-2 Extended blues -1, -4 Clef EPC252, MGC633, MGC706, Verve VE2-2542, V3HB-8850, (E)VLP9074, (F)74084, (Eu)511.022, 2632.006, (Jap)70MJ3235 via jazzdisco.org: July 26, 1974 Vancouver, Canada Count Basie, Oscar Peterson (piano) Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (bass) Louis Bellson (drums) Easy Does It Pablo 2310-925 October 28, 1974 "Lucerna Hall", Prague, Czechoslovakia Count Basie, Oscar Peterson (piano) Freddie Green (guitar) Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (bass) Jake Hanna (drums) Royal Garden Blues Pablo 2310-925 Pablo 2310-925, PACD 2310-925-2 Count Basie - Basie And Friends that album also contains "She's Funny That Way" from the "Satch and Josh" date (Los Angeles, CA, December 2, 1974) - seems it was NOT added to the single CD reissue (same, btw, for two more each of "Basie & Zoot" and "For the Second Time" - guess I've got to look for that one!)

There are a few tracks early on the Verve Mosaic set of Basie's ... don't have details at hand, but I think all small group tracks.

Some wonderful Snooky Young there! All too rare to really hear him, but here you do get the chance!

Just went through this ... the 2011 box of Stan Getz' Columbia albums - wonder whether the US Legacy version uses the same masterings? Info given here (in a summarial way, hence I guess it applies to all the albums included): "Masterisé par Maria Triana, Mark Wilder et Vic Anesini aux Sony Studios et Battery Studios à New York." Pretty nice bot, though not all of the albums are very good - "The Peacocks" is one of my favourites though, and "The Master" is very good as well. Of the latin albums, I prefer "The Best of Two Worlds" over "Captain Marvel" (everybody sounds a bit uninvolved there to my ears), "Another World" is surprisingly good and the synth sounds don't really do a lot of damage, but "Children of the World" comes in a sonic dress I can't stand. The closing "Forest Eyes" (with real strings instead of unimaginatively used pseudo dreck) is much better again, I found. But then other than "The Peacocks", these aren't albums I'm very familiar with yet.

It's 40 discs, was 20 doubles, repackaged (for the centennial) into three "seasons" of twice 7 and once 6 Vols., coming witb original booklets - some photos and lengthy notes in French and English. I think very little is missing - but some rather uninteresting stuff is included, too ... very early stuff (banjo!), whistlers, harmonicas of all sorts ... some of the vocals are pretty nice if you enjoy French chansons, others are by squealing and screeching cabaret ladies. But those are minor issues with such a fine achievement. And you do get the first essential tracks and QHCF recordings pretty early in the game, season one is already full of wonders (including that great date with Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter).

maybe he ought to have circumcision on his brain ...

ooh, more reading than I can do right now - but thanks, will look at it in a few weeks! ... and nice to see I'm not the only nutcase around

I've heard this and that, but what really grabbed me most so far is the wonderful box with his recordings of Mozart's symphonies - very sad news.

Happy Birthday, Ronald!

Just stumbled over this giant plug that gives some detail: http://operafresh.blogspot.ch/2014/08/decca-veteran-charged-with-remastering.html Guess it will be a while before any detailed reviews come along.

What do you mean? The older box has been out for a while and EMI was/is notorious only to remaster those portions that they hadn't previously released on CD ...

I've got the old box, but hell, I think I've got to get this! uhm, the new box that is ... I think many (all?) operas have also been released separately as remasters.