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At least we should be able to audition the Tiberi tapes (at some point) on YouTube before pulling the trigger on a box set. Sometimes, when I'm just about to make a CD purchase, I hop over to YouTube for another discretionary listen. I've ended up saving $ (e.g. no purchase) this way.🤨

And, for classical music, Opus Kura. I also really like the Harlequin label, where you can find -->

This one is a lot of fun. McFarland is always a stamp of musicality.

That Rosemary Clooney version is really nice—it sounds like it should be played while credits for a James Bond movie crawl up the screen. Goodness—I have that Lucky Thompson disc...and spaced it contained "Invitation." I need to spin it soon! I dig Joe on that Roy Haynes record!👌 I haven't heard the Konitz or Friedman versions. Need to change that.

I've been spinning this record quite a bit lately. I love the un-pretentiousness of Scott's playing. Ron Carter also sounds great on this record.

Tetragon has to contain one of the best versions of "Invitation." What are some other great versions? I watched a YouTube video the other day of Roy Hargrove, an artist I never really followed, play "Invitation." Faster than Henderson, but really nice. I think Joe's tempo for this song is perfect.

Frog (UK), Oracle, Pearl

I'm still a Kenton neophyte, but I linked Easy Go up above as a solid comp for those who might just want "one" Kenton album. I only have 6 Kenton discs, and that's been plenty so far. The Innovations Orchestra 2-disc set is really nice. I wish, for the compact disc issue, the original cover of City of Glass had been used. It's practically a Sun Ra cover!

I wish Jonathan (Horwich) could've kept International Phonograph going, but I'm very grateful for all the reissues he did gift to the listening community. The 2-disc Joe Daley set was going to be something else.

I don't know why exactly, but this morning the phrase Where were you when the Tiberi tapes were released? popped into my head. 😁 My next thought was: Acquisition Moratorium until September! (Unless Miles Davis's centennial in May brings about an unheard early 70's concert.🤪)

Easy Go

1921-1934 Thoughts on Whiteman's music (as opposed to public persona)?

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Agreed. According to information on Bandcamp, the New World issue is working from Jonathan Horwich's digital transfer.

Bam.

Freedom

Listen here. 💥

👌 Agreed on all accounts. (I've listened to the McIntyre but don't own it.) It's a great sub-series.

Red's debut, which many members here likely have. Wynton Kelly's playing is especially beautiful on this record. The liner notes state that Red's full name is: Junior Sylvester Kyner.

True. Maybe Frank had some spontaneous RVG moments with his reel-to-reel? 😁 I think some of the Showboat recordings have been on the bootleg market for a while, but I don't know if those are Tiberi recordings or not. I'd be down with that. I'm guessing we'll see vinyl, however. ================= An aside: When I see the name "Frank Tiberi," I don't think of Coltrane recordings at all. Instead, I think of Tiberi's transcribed tenor solo on Chick Corea's "La Fiesta" from Woody Herman's Giant Steps album. My high school jazz band (this was eons ago) played that chart (the actual Herman chart), and Tiberi's solo was written out as an option for the tenor player to use as a solo. My director said, "Yeah, you should learn that solo." I did, and it was weird for a 16 year-old. I didn't understand what I was doing at all, and had no idea how Tiberi was handling the changes. 😅 Here's the track. Tiberi's solo begins at 2:08. Listening to it now, I only remembered the first four bars. (Our band did not play the tune this fast.) It's a good chart though!

Listen here. The (so far) 4 volumes of Studio Rivbea sessions put out by NoBusiness have been really good. (Note: I don't have Volume 1. Need to correct that.)

Whoa. I've been (very much) out of the loop as far as the Tiberi tapes. 86 CDs?!? Holy moly. Perhaps Verve/Impulse has culled the best-sounding of the tapes into a logical package? Fun to speculate at least.

My first Mosaic was the Lee Mogan set, followed just a few months later by the Serge Chaloff and Jackie McLean. Before that, I'm pretty sure my actual first "box set" purchase was the Ornette Coleman on Atlantic. I listened to that box nearly every day for over a year—pure love. Then I discovered John Zorn's Masada (this was about 1995) and my listening turned a corner. Then, a few years after that, I discovered the JSP box sets, and my listening went backward chronologically, and I purchased the Jelly Roll, Armstrong 5's & 7's, Django, Bix & Tram, and Hoagy Carmichael JSP sets.

Dig Sylvester with Miles' rhythm section of the day.

All excellent. I warmed up to Red as a sideman before I "got" his leader dates. His website is really informative.