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By the way, these Fremaux releases are all double CDs, so they have a total of 36 (probably quite long) CDs of Django's music out!
Anyone can comment on the sound quality of these?
ubu
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Agustin,
what is exactly, content of that box set, you put cover on? Are they complete recordings?
I've heard about some Django set (Mosaic, probably) that have all studio and prewar live recordings, never issued studio takes etc.
And, do some Djangologist among us know, if the whole opus of this master issued, or we can expect new additions in future to come?
Milovan:
the following link brings you to the french Editions Frémeaux & Associés. They are releasing an "Intégrale Django Reinhardt" series, which has arrived at volume 18 currently (this covers 1949-1950). I don't have any of their Django stuff, but it seems to be the most exhaustive documentation of his music currently to be found.
http://www.fremeaux.com/catalogue.htm
The following link has a good discography (also featuring ongoing addition of new Frémeaux releases):
http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/django.htm
The Mosaic has the complete Swing/HMV recordings 1936-48. I don't know if this is complete in any useful way. Find more (& discography) here.
ubu
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Well, that seems like a good way to go. I don't have the Mosaic, and neither have the BN disc (you mean that "First Day" one with Albert Ammons, don't you?). So I'll rather go for that one sometimes.
ubu
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far from being the best pics, but I cannot find anything better on the net.
ubu
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Have seen "8 1/2" once again! What a great GREAT film! Sure one of my ten favorites. (and it's ten, this time, meaning ten, not ten meaning actually 20)
Anouk Aimée is sooo cool! And Cardinales is not bad either (though she has only a small part). Mastroianni is the epitome of cool, at the same time thoroughly italian.
Marvellous music by Nino Rota (maybe my very favorite non-jazz film-soundtrack).
And dig the final scene, when you actually see sort of the film in the film - when Mastroianni finally directs the film he could not get started during the two hours before.
Then the scene with the Valkyrie at the beginning!! Whoa!
8 1/2 blows me everytime I see it!
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Yesterday I passed that one by in a store. Should I run and pick it up? Is it a good one? It's one of two or three VEEs I don't have.
I guess I know I should pick this up, but I need some
in order not to feel so guilty about buying way too many CDs all the time 
ubu
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Hey, EKE! Nice to see you over here a little more often!
Count me in on Django! I got the Mosaic as my very first Django album. Love it! Then added all those Jazz in Paris discs (the seven of them are now jointly sold as a "box set" which just holds the seven discs as issued seperately, as far as I know), and a Definitive set of 4CDs including all (as they say in their a little better than usual liners, so this might mean most of, of course lacking any alternates) recorded encounters of Django with US musicians. (Got that so cheap that I had to overcome my Definitive-phobia...)
Love all that music! His playing is so fluent, virtuosic, and so musical
ubu
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Uhm, just saw that Trumpet Guy and skeith already mentioned this one...
so big
ubu
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And (in connection with our upcoming album of the week) there's a very nice version on a Coltrane Prestige date (from the Standards/Bahia/Stardust session) featuring Wilbur Harden and Red Garland.
ubu
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I'd love it to be Deligthfulee - it's the only Morgan on Blue Note date I don't have (have all the others in old CD releases)
ubu
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I like the Conn 180g reissues too.
So do I. I don't have many LPs, mostly stuff that was not on CD (or not available here) when I picked up the LPs.
The Conns I have on LP (missed the CD release of those, then found them on LP):
- Griffin, Congregation (This one SOUNDS soooo goood!!)
- Hubbard, Ready for Freddie
- Gilmore/Jordan, Blowing In
- Walter Davis, Davis Cup
- Don Cherry, Symphony For Improvisers
then one of those brown double LPs: the Chambers/Coltrane one. Will get obsolete with the upcoming Select. Very nice stuff, though!
and the original US LP of Stanley Turrentine's "Comin' Your Way".
and the original (prob. first pressing) of Blakey's "Free For All", though in terrible condition.
Maybe I forgot some.
ubu
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You see, sometimes even in terms of jazz, it's could to be young... I have not yet picked up Thinking of Home, neither The Flip (saw the LP used a couple of times), and even if I will have them, I've got to wait for Another Workout until my official Mobley holdings will be complete...
The Leftbank stuff was issued on Freshsound, a 2CD set, I only gave it a very quick spin, sound quality is terrible, can't remember the music (was in a hurry that day, and the next time I came to the store, they didn't have it anymore).
If I remember right, it does not have Chambers on bass (as he had died - Jan. 1969 - sometime before, or stopped performing). Seems this has been a terrible period for Kelly (who seems to have been very close to P.C.) who died himself not much later (April 1971).
I cannot access the Freshsound site right now to get more information on this. Try later!
ubu
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That's a funny story... "Quintet Plus" might well be the first Cannon CD I'd forgot I have it!
Here's another good one, featuring some very nice solos from Cannonball:
It features Joe Newman as the other principal soloist. Very cool CD!
ubu
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The Kaz CDs I've found to be extremely scarce in the U.S...I've only seen a few of them in a store in Berkeley, CA, once. However, I was once fortunate enough to work out a CD-R trade with a fellow BN BB member and received all of the Kaz Ibrahim CDs listed above...they are superb, truly a remarkable body of work and one that is worthy of a much nicer, better annotated collection (as the Penguin Guide guys point out, the Kaz CDs are EXTREMELY sketchy on details and sometimes contain flat out inaccuracies). I doubt we'd ever see it but it would be nice if someone like Mosaic would give proper tribute to Ibrahim's glory period.
DrJ: If you have all of the above, you are missing one called "Blues For A Hip King" - I just today received shipping confirmation for that one from amazon.com. Try it there!
I don't really know, but it seems the Camden discs are sonically superior (I'm no sound fetishist, however) to the Kaz discs. In the Jazz Epistles disc (from 1998) it says "These recordings have been restored and remastered, where possible, to the original standard." - Sounds good, maybe though it's just plain nonsense?
And do you have the Jazz in Africa Volume 2? If so, could you please type out the track list and more importantly the musicians & session dates for me? (PM me or post it here please! Would be happy to know what exactly is on this disc!)
Then: do you happen to see some mistakes (you know of) in my discography posted early in this thread? If so, please PM or post them, so I'll go and correct it!
thanks,
ubu
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Just listening to the Jazz Epistles disc! It arrived this morning. Wonderful music! Though the later encounters of Brand/Moeketsi somehow strike me as riper, more individual.
The CD I have now is the Camden reissue (1998), not the Kaz one (that would be from the late eighties, if it really came out on Kaz, too).
No personnel and date is given. Is the following correct:
Hugh Masekela t
Jonas Gwangwa tb
Kippie Moeketsi as
Dollar Brand p
Johnny Gertze b
Makaya Ntshoko d
And the date? September 195? (September is mentioned in the liners, but no year is given)
Are the 14 tracks all from one date? Is this the complete output of the band? In the liners, an album released shortly after recording is mentioned - this would surely not have included all the music (72'28" is what my disc has) of the CD?
Were there two albums and something left off from the CD?
Then AMG helped re. "Jazz in Africa Volume Two" (though not too much help):
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A3b6tk6axqkr0
So this is a Moeketsi disc, not a Jazz Epistles one (the liners of my CD - written by Donald McRae - make believe that Volume 1 DOES indeed include the WHOLE output of the Epistles).
Amazon lists it as available, too:
Amazon, Jazz In Africa Volume Two
And here's the cover:
I wonder if this is something similar to the "African Horns" CD (of which the discographical info can be found in one of my previous posts.)?
ubu
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I have as many as I could find - came to know the series only as late as 1997 or 1998.
Those I don't have: Whistle Stop, The Connection, Heavy Soul, A Slice of the Top, the Dodo Greene one
Those I have in Mosaics or as TOCJs or RVGs (and therefore did not pick up as Conns even if I could have): Basra, the Hills, the Parlans, The All Seeing Eye, Leeway, True Blue, The Connection
Conn LPs I have: Symphony for Improvisers, Congregation, Davis Cup, Ready for Freddie, Empty Foxhole
Then I have only picked up the Byrd/Watkins from the last batch (for 10$!) so far.
I'm actually no completist of this particular series, but this is the easiest way to get those sessions for me. Japanese stuff hardly ever shows up here, and if, it's horrendously priced (up to 30$ per CD).
ubu
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Quincy: sorry, I forgot to say I meant the later boxes only. I have all of them save the J.J., but will get that one once it's out here, I suppose.
danasgoodstuff: thanks for explaining. Do you just go for vinyl because you prefer it, or is there a difference between the "Go Ahead John" on CD/LP?
ubu
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Lucky Thompson, last track on the wonderful, great, sublime "Lucky Strikes" album, with Hank Jones, Richard Davis and Connie Kay.
On Jaco's "Birthday Concert", there is an extended version, with Michael Brecker and Bob Mintzer (one of the very few records, where I don't mind Brecker's presence...)
ubu
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well, my link does not work. Make a search for "vogue jazz", and you'll find some of the "Original Vogue Masters" (together with some other less interesting items).
ubu
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And these three collect a nice bunch of sessions:
ubu
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This link gives you (all?) of what's still available (and some more not from these series):
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/search-ha...5410900-2969847
I highly recommend the following ones:
(you sure all have this, but...)
and here comes a personal favorite, a great record by a great saxophone player:
ubu
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and anyone know whether this stuff has been issued on CD? And more importantly whether it is available or incredibly OOP
couw: don't know about the Moody stuff (but sure would love to hear that! Picked up all the Hodeir stuff from the Jazz In Paris series as well as the one from the Original Vogue Masters).
The Gillespie, Hampton (I posted the cover and link for that above) and all the Brownie stuff was available in the Original Vogue Masters series. A very good series. Over on AAJ (cannot link right now) I posted a list of this series. I managed to pick up most of them, and can only recommend everyone else to do so, too! Some great stuff by Dizzy, Brownie, Byas, Bobby Jaspar, Martial Solal etc.
The easiest way to find at least some of them is amazon.fr.
ubu
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How can you tell that they've got copy protection, Couw?
With the latest RVGs, it's written right besides the RVG-Series beneath the spine of the CD (don't know it this makes sense, hell, at least I tried). Second attempt: when you have the CD in front of you, you can read the RVG (or Conn)-logo on the left side. And with the copy-protected ones, you read: "copy protected Rudy Van Gelder Series"
ubu
Board is back in business, looks like!
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now that's strange - ten minutes ago I could not access the board!
hope it stays well and healthy!
ubu