Eric

I bought this from Dusty Groove along with a Mercury Cannonball Adderley CD. The Gryce CD obviously appears to be part of a Japanese Mercury series. The sound is not great - but not in the needle-drop sense but in the probably never sounded great sense. http://www.dustygroove.com/browse.php?kwfilter=Mercury+%28Japan%29&x=0&y=0&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1

good read, I particularly enjoyed this passage: "Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!"

more here: http://resonancerecords.org/ I ordered and received directly from the site, have not had time to digest the music - notes are interesting and packaging is well done

I know exactly one song of his, "Give Me Back My Wig" from an Alligator sampler. Raw and crazy fun

OK, that is some cool-sounding stuff! $4.94 new from an amazon seller ... hard to go wrong

$ sent

Hey Stefan, Too late to sign-up? The guessing/discussion has me very intrigued ... I am a download guy. Thanks, Eric

That's what I'm going to do, starting, probably, this morning. I thought about that ... sounds like a pretty good plan. Set 430 BTW, in case anyone is logging all this ...

Any recommendations on where to start with this set? Most of the music is new to me ...

I love his contributions to the Miles band mentioned above. RIP

Jeff - just responded

PM sent on Coltrane/Davis.

I felt the same way – it was pretty damn thrilling! Glad you brought it up :-) I wasn't paying close attention to the band for the second song, and my first reaction was wow Arcade Fire can really rock out :-) I agree that the lyrics on the Jagger presidential song were lame. But… I thought Jeff Beck was smokin' with his guitar. Great evening all around for rock 'n roll!

Happy Birthday Chuck!

never heard of this series, but did a search and came up with this

Just ordered Gleam from DG ...

There is a ton of 80s-era live Pepper out there, but this is one of the very best. Great sound too!

Sounds pretty encouraging, all things considered.

Bob Marley, some of it on the Stylistics

wonder what else is coming out in this batch of Wounded Bird releases (if there is a "batch")? no mention on their web site

sweet!!

saw this on amazon ... like the cover work!

Same here ... I can still remember the UPS truck delivering the first Monk set back in 1985 or so ... Christmas present to myself Very much looking forward to this set ...

I'm considering purchasing an automated ripping station for my 4,000+ cd collection. Most products are for professional use and cost well over $1000. The Acronova Nimbie NB11 pictured below is less than $500 and allows you to load up to 100 discs at a time. Most likely I would sell it on eBay or a computer/audio board after ripping my collection. Very interesting. Curious - what other models did you compare this with?

looks there are a couple of interesting jazz exclusives - a 10" inch sampler from the upcoming Bill Evans record (see separate thread), a Miles sampler and the lp version of the new Branford Marsalis record ... http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home