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I got Mark Shim's "Turbulent Flow" today, just listened to it and am quite impressed! Thanks everybody! Only got it because you made him sound quite interesting, and that's at least what he turns out to be. His take of Joe Henderson's "Recorda Me" is quite impressive, Harris and Simon (completely unknown to me) turn in some good solos, too. The only slight drawback (upon first superficial hearing) is the sometimes a little too contemporaneous sound (alright, it's only rhodes, and I'm not opposed to electronics whatsoever, but the sound just sometimes bugged me a little). How is his first disc? Worth looking for? ubu

Up again with my question, then added details of the "Blues For A Hip King" CD in my post above (#2 of this thread). ubu

I saw it a couple of weeks ago and never bothered, because I thought it was a compilation culled from the VE cds. Well, I got it today (and got the Meade Lux Lewis today, too - as I'm one of those f**king completists...). I had no idea this was such a nice collection of rarities! Thanks, Aggie, Lon, for clearing this up for me! I think that Collector's Disc is going to get quite some spinning here! Another favorite of mine is the Modern Jazz Society Presents... disc. I look at it as a John Lewis album, actually. Very nice to hear Aaron Sachs in such stellar company! Then Luchy strikes as always he did, Getz, Scott and J.J. do some nice blowing, and then I like the arrangements very much. And those tunes are so nice! Can't get enough of any decent to gorgeous arrangement of "Django"... ubu

Why confess? That was truly a great series I think! Just as good as the Conns or whatever... Can you clear things with the Collector's disc? Does that have stuff from other (not VEE) dates? Stuff released on VMEs? Or rare takes? thanks, ubu

Aggie, thanks! But this is strange: La Rosita and Shine on Harvest Moon are from the Bean encounters Ben album, no? There, they play for at least double the time you gave!? And then, none of these tracks were on VEE discs! Will have to look for this disc. Think I saw it in a shop. And yes, the Dickerson is a good one, too! Some weird groovy stuff on this one! ubu

I have all of them except the Meade Lux Lewis, the Washington, the Schifrin (anyone has a copy left?) and the Collector's disc (has this one anything NOT reissued on other VEEs?) I like the series very much! Favorites include the Thigpen, Alan Shorter, Joneses, Edison, Konitz, Terry, Gillespie, Bauer, Cleveland, Jacquet, Lateef, Farmer, Jazztet, Brown discs. And the Joe Gordon album on the Blakey disc is cool, too! I knew none of that stuff before, so it held many pleasant surprises! ubu

I bet you have the Mosaic? Otherwise get it quick ubu

Yes, essential indeed! I have both the Paris and the Stockholm 4CD sets and like them very much! And Miles' playing harder, edgier, sort of compensating Trane's departure, that's something I hear in the autumn concerts, too. It's like with Trane, Miles was playing the softer counterpart, while later with Stitt taking the softer part, Miles plays more fiery, trying (and succeeding, in my opinion) to provide sort of an edge which went away with Trane. Then, I love Wynton Kelly on all these sets! Many great solos! An as an aside: there exists some story about Miles having given Trane his first ever soprano on the spring tour. ubu

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Don't think so, tjazz! Disconforme/Definitive has TWO Basie Columbia sets, one 1941-1951 (3CD) (link) and one 1936-1941 (4CD) (link). There has been some talk about these somewhere before (probably in the lost part of AAJ), and they seem to be "complete" (no additional material, no alternate takes, certainly no of the new stuff on Columbia/Legacy). I am not sure about this. And Definitive (just in case you don't know this yet - otherwise forgive me for stating the obvious) is a rip-off label. They have quite a lots of stuff which in Europe is in the public domain now (meaning older than 50 years), and they copied a fair amount of other label's releases. So generally, one should try to go for the original (though Basie is a special case, as no original exists - maybe the Chronological Classics would be the way, there). ubu

I'll look for this one! (Mike, by the way: thanks very very much for Oblique! I really love it! ) ubu

now that's strange - ten minutes ago I could not access the board! hope it stays well and healthy! ubu

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Uhm, just saw that Trumpet Guy and skeith already mentioned this one... so big ubu

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

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

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

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