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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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