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Finally, a reissue of Lord of Rose! (Alice had an extensive rose garden in the backyard of the Dixon Hills home.)

It'd be cool if that cover was resuscitated (with color appropriately added to the black-and-white scan) and added as the 16th Marte Röling Fontana cover. (Even though we already have the music.) Ayler lives!

Once you pointed that out, I couldn't not be disturbed by that hand. It was all that purple radiation. What was the artist who drew that hand thinking?

Good to know. Your edition is indeed not on Discogs. That's the edition to have! My copy is annoying. (I ripped it to digital files and then separated the tracks onto a CDR, but the track beginnings are still clipped.) Some day the Japanese market will get to this album once again. Then I will pounce!

There's also this Japanese set, with a lone Vic Dickenson Blue Note track on it:

And check out this 1990 Japanese Blue Note "SP Days" set:

1999 Japanese "Jazz Classics on Blue Note" Series You get Benny Morton, Jimmy Hamilton, and Sammy Benskin Blue Note sessions on this disc: And Clyde Bernhardt ... Are these the Blue Note tracks? Don't Tell It Chattanooga

I'd love to see that box too. This should be the cover! (Same typeface.) And I just now realized that he plays on Dewey Redman's Look For The Black Star. D'oh! Good record, though I could do with a little less vocalizing.

Bump, to go with this thread.

Same label, MUZAK. They're legit as far as I know. Manufactured in Taiwan for the Japanese market. The mini-LP jackets aren't as thick as most Japanese mini-LP's. The remastering, in my experience, is good to excellent. I don't know, however, where the transfers come from (original tapes, etc.) Marte Röling - 15 titles total? Do you have the George Russell Fontana? There was also supposed to be an Albert Ayler record with a Röling cover. Found here.

Wu Tong. Great playing. Here he is a few months ago with Yo Yo Ma.

A previous thread on the Japanese series of this music.

Whoa. I just checked Muzak's site. Scroll down to see an upcoming list of reissues (in Japanese). And with the help of Google Translate, it looks like we'll be seeing these titles this summer: May 26, 2021 MZCB 1434 • Charles Tolliver: The Ringer MZCB 1435 • John Tchicai: Cadentia Nova Danica MZCB 1436 • Stanley Cowell: Brilliant Circles June 23, 2021 MZCB 1437 • Dave Burrell: High MZCB 1438 • Noah Howard: The Black Ark MZCB 1439 • Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Spiritual July 21, 2021 MZCB 1440 • Andrew Hill: Spiral MZCB 1441 • Dudu Pukwana: Diamond Express MZCB 1442 • Jym Young’s San Francisco Avantgarde: Puzzle Box MZCB 1443/4 • Anthony Braxton: The Freedom Years (2 CD) I'd never even heard of Jym Young:

True. And for the curious ... information on the couesnophone! (Also known as the "goofus.") It sounds like an accordion.

Excellent! I wonder why these aren't yet showing up on CD Japan. I'd have placed a pre-order. Patience ... The whole Marte Röling series should see reissue! And don't forget the tote!

Good point. It could be that the Euro PD disc I have squished the tracks together in order to fit them with another LP onto one compact disc. At any rate, here's the album in question:

Agreed — the whole recording session produced two fine albums. They almost fit onto one compact disc. Well, 14 of the 16 tracks do. I actually like Alone With The Blues just a little bit better than Red Alone; kinda weird considering that they were recorded the same day. But, you're right, the tracks on Red Alone are separated. Still wondering if the vinyl of Alone With The Blues has un-separated tracks ... if so, I wonder who made that choice.

I have a question about this Garland record — does anyone here have it on vinyl? On the grey market CD I have, there's no separation between tracks, effectively making the album one long track, as if Red's "playing the blues" without pause. Was this intentional? I'm wondering if the vinyl has no track separation as well. (The music, it almost goes without saying, is excellent.) Red solo is actually quite different than Red with bass and drums.

Anyone know the personnel? I'm guessing that Shepp's doubling on piano, but who's on clarinet? It sounds like Perry Robinson. Maybe a Finnish clarinetist? Based on the photo, that looks like Don Moore on bass. Is that J.C. Moses on drums?

On YouTube at last.

Ample proof for the resurrection of the Select Series (financial rationale notwithstanding).

On 45 rpm vinyl only:

The format of this set is to-be-announced ...