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What's the best deal to get the box in Europe? Amazon France has it for 60 Euros. Cheaper than that anywhere? ubu

Claude, SWR2 usually has bi-weekly jazz live broadcasts on thursdays. Usually they broadcast stuff they recorded themselves (the so-called "SWR Jazz Sessions"), but now they have started a series called something like "From the SWR (actually SWF and SDR) Archives". The first in the series was an hommage to Albert Mangelsdorff, then came a Brubeck quartet date from the eighties (with Bill Smith) and now comes Mingus. In between they feature some new stuff. I think you get archivals once a month and new stuff once a month. Find more here: http://www.swr.de/swr2/sendungen/jazz/index.html ubu

Yes, I do have several recordings of this tour (the two Enjas, the 3LP thing from Amsterdam, a very cheap CD from Oslo, the Revenge set... and the "Great Concert" has recently been reissued, too). This is what I found on the Stuttgard concert: Source: http://webusers.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/1964.html So the upcoming broadcast will contain maximum half of what was recorded that night... And poor king ubu will have to hunt down those LPs nevertheless... ubu

Well, I looked at the Savoy 3CD issue (Odyssey or something), and at the Proper box. This raises some questions. I do own the RCA 2CD set (and consider it essential), and the Bird 8CD Savoy/Dial etc. box. Now: are the Dizzy sessions included in the Savoy box complete? Or are there tracks missing? As I get it, the Proper does not have any of the DeeGee stuff of the Savoy. Is this music worthwile? The Musicraft dates are also in the Savoy box? (The May 15, June 10, and July 9, 1946 dates) Somehow it seems I could pick up the Savoy thing and disregard the Properbox, but the Proper does include the Manor date (Jan 9, 1945) and the Dial session (Feb 6, 46) as well as two tracks released on Phoenix and Guild respectively (Feb 9, 1945). What's the best way to get all this music? Chronological Classics? thanks for clarifications / recommendations! ubu

This might be of interest to our german (and swiss - hell, I love talking to myself...) friends: This concert is available on some bootleg, but it's certainly nice to hear it again (or, as in my case, hear it for the very first time), in what might be the best possible sound quality. It seems they play LPs in their recently started "Archives"-series, but usually, it's in quite good quality! ubu

I cannot tell you, but I know I'll have it before it goes OOP! ubu

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For me it's Miles Smiles, with The Sorcerer, ESP and the Berlin concert close behind. Though I do not know any broadcasts of the second quintet - I would certainly love to hear some of it! The mood on the Berlin tracks is great if you ask me. Plugged Nickel is beyond category, for me. And I have to admit that I don't know the music on those 8 CDs very well. I could hardly tell the different sets... gotta listen again! ubu

I know there was no Miles-Moreau story, but I love those pictures nevertheless! You don't get photos taken from one of your favorite jazz musician with one of your favorite film star that often, do you? ubu

Very well said, SEK! I never had a problem getting access to Russell's music. It strikes me as some of the funniest, weirdest, grooviest stuff around! Hope you have fun with the Finnish/Swiss album, as well! I have that one, too. Somehow though I prefer Story - I think it's the more rock-like stuff on Finnish/Swiss which makes me like it a little less (I never could relate to rock that much - with exceptions of course; going to see Bob Dylan next week once again...) What strikes me most about Russell is that he does not care about "genres" of "styles", and yet his music still never get ecclectic. It's more like he collects all his influences, the re-shapes everything along his own premises, and the outgrowth of this is a highly individualistic, and completely "new" musical universe. And then he's quite a player, too! Gary, I'm glad you're enjoying it! Keep the comments coming! Matthew, John B? I have very little time to listen right now, but I hope to give some more personal comments on the weekend. ubu

I don't care about the sound that much, as none of this music was readily available before... Can anyone comment on the Brook Benton and Frank D'rone releases? Never heard of these two (men & albums)! ubu

That's what I was afraid of... I will look for them! Thanks! ubu

Starting with this one??? cool, sure B) Hell, what's Miles got to do with that?! Was he ... there?!? Holy cow! ubu

yes! I know an even better pic, but cannot find it online! YOU are the picture-wizard, EKE, you try to find some more! (Maybe we could stard a Miles-Jeanne-thread?) ubu

and dig once more? (all off topic, but such nice pics,... I'm sure no one gets mad about that!) ubu

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Have fun with these! Some good ones, you have picked up! Don't forget to add the other Donald Byrd disc to your list. They both come from the same concert - and I love them! Walter Davis and Bobby Jaspar are great musicians, whose fame could be a little wider spread in my opinion. The Clarke, Criss and Thomas are favorites of mine. There's a second one by Thomas, and as a companion to the Criss, look at Saxophones at Saint-Germain des Pres. That one has tracks by Criss, Hubert Fol and Michel de Villers - the Fol tracks are sublime! ubu

Thanks for the Song X . Just added it to an open order on amazon Germany. Costs me 8.5 Euros, no shipping. Not bad! ubu

Is that one still around? It's been at least five years since I last saw it here! ubu

Rooster, I'm from Switzerland... HELL! Thanks everybody for your recommendations (keep'em coming!). I have seen "In All Languages" here, someplace, but for the usual price (being around 22-25$ for fully priced CDs). Nobody can speak in favor of "Body Meta"? And how about acoustic stuff? (yes, I know the duo with Kühn has been mentioned. I will pick up that one for sure) What do you think of the two discs with Geri Allen? thanks, ubu

I read Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is illuminated" on my vacation. It's been quite some time, believe me, that I have read a book which so thoroughly amused me, and at the same time, moved me. One of the best books I've read since quite some time! Anybody read it? Just bought Eugenides "Middlesex", but no time to read it right now. Others on my stack are: Franzen (Corrections), McEvan (Atonement), and of course much german stuff (Ingeborg Bachmann, Robert Musil). Other future reading shall include Paterson by W.C. Williams (anyone knows it?), some Blake, Elliott, Whitman etc. ubu

bon anniversaire, brownie! nice conversing with you here! ubu

I heard "Alone Together" on the radio recently - and while I was immediately sure it was Gene Harris on piano (although actually I don't know more of his than this 2CD set and two Three Sounds discs), but somehow I had very very long to find out the tenorist was Turrentine. My main problem was that I thought this was one of those Harris Concord albums (I know none of them), the style of music they dub "modern mainstream" here. However the interpretation of that nice standard struck me as beautifully crafted, open-minded swining music. I usually tend to under-estimate the whole album, though every time I spin it again (three or four times a year, maybe), it strucks me as a very fine one! ubu

I have seen that by now all of Ornette's Universal/Verve stuff is OOP. I don't have any of this, and would like to get some recommendations. Not only for the electric (prime time) stuff, but generally for the post Impulse, Columbia, post-classic or whatever you could dub that period of his work. The only one I do have is one of the two discs with Geri Allen. I have listened an hour ago to some of "Body Meta" - and somehow I find it difficult to get into that music. Recording quality (or generally the sound) bugs me quite a bit, too. However, I would like to explore some of this stuff before it vanishes at all... thanks, ubu