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Another one of these threads...
I love that series, picked up about half of them. Can only post the list of them when at home (tomorrow), but why not start a discussion of some favorites?
Here are some of my favorites:
A very fine album by one of the best tenor saxophone players from europe. Milt Jackson's on piano, Kenny Clarke on drums. Highly recommended!
And another one by a highly regarded european tenor man. With Sacha Distel on guitar.
This one was quite a surprise for me, never heard Eddy Louiss before. A fine disc!
Another good'un (with Burton, Swallow, Haynes)
This one was a discovery, too! One hell of a fine disc!
Other favorites of mine include the three Jazz & Cinéma volumes, the Chet Baker "Broken Wing" album (thanks, brownie
), the Lucky Thompsons and the Hodeir/Jazz Group de Paris stuff, the Djangos and the two Donald Byrd volumes.ubu
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Have seen "Fellini: Casanova" yesterday. Very amusing, great scenes, some hilarious moments, some typical (and fucking stupid) mediterranean machismo, a little bit of tragedy, great Donald Sutherland, and many funny 18th century clichés...
And near the beginning, when he (Casanova-Sutherland) comes back to Venice, over that plastic sea, that's a great moment! No need to disguise that all we see as spectators is theatre...
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I should have mentioned Jean Vigo's 'L'Atalante' much earlier. One of the best film ever. Pure visual poetry.
Vigo died just after completing the film in 1934.
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo and Jean Daste's superb acting and the haunting music by Maurice Jaubert add to perfection.
HELLYEAH!
Truly one of the greatest films ever made! Vigo ranks very high with me, and this film really blew me! It's so modern, by the way. If not for the bad quality of copies you usually see, and some minor details, the whole camera/perspective/view thing could be from now.
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Hi guys, sorry for being off-board for more than, like, 20 hours... hope that's non of the 7 deadly sins... So the PMs came through just right, but I have only now seen them.
I stay in contact with Dmitry & SEK and will post more later.
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sidewinder: London seems the place to pick up OOP VEEs. It's been two years since I was there, but there were a dozen each of several then already long OOP titles (like the Ray Brown, for instance). There might still be some lying around there... but they've got prices that beat even our swiss ones (which are ridiculous already by themselves)
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Thanks for your Teagarden recommendation, Lon! I like those Verve LPR series quite much, actually, but have not gotten over the first couple of batches, yet.
I thought Teagarden might be someone I ought to explore more. Someday I might come around to do it, and then I'll think of you
Can you comment on the Mosaic?
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Aggie & Lon: HUGE thank you for pointing me the right direction to get that Collector's Disc! I have listened to it three times now, and it's on the way to become one of my favorite VEEs!
Very glad I have it!
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Nice (and veeeery similar) pic and better quality
Well... but mine's bigger
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Finally came around listening to the third session. While Gold Coast is a very good performance, and the other tracks (while quite far from any african influence) are good, too, the real jewel of this date is "Oomba", in my opinion. A perfectly shaped and performed small masterpiece. Modal sounds, short solos, Trane at the height of his art, Fuller showing off his beautiful sound, and Harden in charge of everything. Art Taylor is very good on this one, too, shading the whole performance with a stunning display of his abilities - an undersung drum hero.
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Happy birthday, Bud!
Needless to say he's one of my favorite artists ever.
Bad quality, but nice pic:
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Yes, www.amazon.fr has them (I mentioned this above, but it turns out some people are too lazy to find out without a link posted...
And yes, it's not the concert on Revenge. Was also on Fantasy (3LP) earlier, and on several other labels.
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There are also the two Shank/Cooper sessions that were on one of the Pacific Conns. I have no idea what else will be on it, but I hope it does not dublicate the Shank set!
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Obscure Merrill: there's one track on which she sings - a devastating "Last Night When We Were Young" - on Tommy Flanagan's Inner City piano trio recording PLAYS THE MUSIC OF HAROLD ARLEN, which Merrill produced. Flanagan's trio is in great form, but it's that cut that steals the show.
However, I may be the biggest sucker for JELENA ANA MILCACTIC a.k.a. HELEN MERRILL, a crowning achievement. She's lost a step or two on her voice, but never has she sounded more emotionally direct. The arrangements are just perfect, and Steve Lacy makes some nice craggy comments on soprano. The eastern European folk music touches are totally organic, never crass or contrived.
A wonderful artist. I'm lookin' forward to hearing the John Lewis collaboration too.
That was the one track I mentioned above. A nice Flanagan date, too!
And yes, Jenela Ana Miketic is a great record! I got it out of some sale bin for 6 or 7 bucks. It's a grower! And Lacy is marvellous!
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Is "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Talkin' About" and/or "Street Of Dreams" still in print???
Those are ALL top notch.
They should all be. Thanks for mentioning the titles (I was far too lazy looking them up)! I meant these three Green albums, EKE! These are all great. You gotta have'em anyway, if you also like Green!
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cool!
but 27 $ + 6.5$ shipping... this is would be too much for my wallet!
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according to amazon.de it was released on CD in Japan in 2002. They no longer offer it though. Couldn't find it at amazon.co.jp. Maybe ask that man from Japan that sells all these disks to Hans and Weizen.
thanks for your help, John, but I won't start buying from Japan now! Maybe once I'm not a student anymore, but for today... there's too much stuff around here anyway!
And I am a patient man (at least I'm trying to be, I jumped for the Blackhawk two days before 2001 - you know, "those" germans - offered it for half the prize I got mine...)
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Alas...
'that texan for "hélas"?
Someday someone will sure produce a nice little reissue of that one... time will tell.
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I would sure like to hear this one:
I have heard it, and yes, you would!
Hey, got an idea how I could?
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Have fun with your Dylan box...
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Somehow, while hunting down (or just buy, not to exaggerate all the time) older or OOP stuff, it gets less important to have all new releases and new reissues.
I mean I often only get BN titles when I receive a mail telling me this and that is going to be continued - this also has a further positive aspect in that I don't have the whole catalogue at home and get bored and don't know what BN titles I could still get. Same goes for other big labels.
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Im sure some Larry Young RVGs must be due for those of us that were too late to pick up the mosaic.
yes PLEEEEAZE!
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Ahem, and yes, I do hunt down OOP stuff (but NOT on ebay - as a student, I cannot afford that), like, I tried to get as many 32jazz and Avenue/Bethlehem releases - and they were cheap, too. A great way to make discoveries. And BN recordings will be reissued periodically every 10 or 15 years, I think, so it's not so bad to miss one or the other.
And I do not indulge in Japanes stuff at all. That would simply be too much for me to handle!
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I'm a huge fan, an enthusiast, actually, yet I have the collector's gene, too. Don't think one has to exclude the other.
My collection (long time since I counted them the last time, but maybe somewhere in between 3000 and 4000), is usually alphabetically ordered, but there are always a few piles of either new stuff, yet little known stuff and some things waiting for a new discovery.
The library aspect of my collection is something I do like.
I usually don't give things away, rather seldom upgrade what I have (unless it's Mosaics or other box sets).
Then, being young (and foolish
) I usually soak up as much (new) music as I can. And staying around here doesn't make things easier I often though about a self-imposed buying stop, but it's usually just then that I find like 10 or 15 new CDs for so few $$ that I cannot resist... However, I leave for vacation soon, and those two weeks at least I will not buy anything as there will sure be no good music store around...
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EKE,
for Into Somethin'! And if you're into Grant Green, get his albums with Larry Young (they're 3, but one has only the trio of Green-Young-Elvin Jones - the core band of all three - and no horns, the other has Bobby Hutcherson and no horns and is a gem, the third has Hank Mobley is a lesser effort, in my opinion, but still very nice.)Otherwise, I, too, am no Larry Young specialist at all.
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Thanks for giving the Michelot details. Grenu is also on soprano (or is it Migiani?) - and his playing is breath-taking! There are some tracks with a quintet line up, and the others feature the whole band.
Very very good arrangements and compositions (by Michelot himself), too!
If you like small big bands, no hot blowing, but neither too cool stuff, you'd love this disc, bertrand!
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