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MomsMobley = Clem? (If so, thanks for the Schnittke recs from long ago.)

Read the reviews on the Casals 2-disc set. Superlative. I own the set and agree.

That's what I kind of figured. I only have a CDR of the TOCJ, and so I'll probably end up purchasing the AP edition when it shows up on importCDs. (Goodness knows I can surely wait to purchase another CD.) The track "Formidable" isn't hugely important, but it's decent enough. It's the first track (to me) that's great. Too bad the entry on that track (just the first few seconds) has always sounded (sonically) botched. I wonder what happened to the tape there, and if that same glitch (drop-out?) is on the LP. (Do you guys know what I'm talking about?) I also dig that Pete LaRoca is credited with a "free" drum solo on this LP. (Five years before Sunny Murray!) All said, it really is a fine solo.

Also wanted to say that it's such a pity that Stockhausen yanked (purchased back) all his recordings on DG. Why? (I should start wiki-ing these things ... )

I'm guessing that would be the original (?) on Deutsche Grammophon. Thanks for the great responses guys. I appreciate it. On The Corner has been clicking for me like never before. I can sit through the whole disc (just the album proper) without getting bored or distracted for even a second. Whereas before I "appreciated" it, now I find it transfixing. Funny how these things just take time. Now I wish I'd gone for the box set when it was in-print. Oh well. There's still a ton to listen to. (Dark Magus, Get Up With It, etc.) I used to have a CDR of that Chitinous LP, but now it's nowhere to be found. Great buggy stuff.

I have it and it does. Thanks. A sonic improvement over previous versions? One of my favorite McLeans. (I forgot about Elusive Discs. Thanks, Hans.) I'm still waiting for importCDs to carry this title.

Dang. Some great titles there, and good prices. Too bad the ones I want the most I already have.

This question has bugged me for a while, and maybe I'd know the "answer" were I to read more biographies, but I thought I'd ask the cognoscenti here (and I mean "cognoscenti" in a good way!): Miles Davis, when On The Corner came out, cited both Karlheinz Stockhausen and Paul Buckmaster as influences. What music was Miles referencing? What do you suppose he had heard and absorbed as an "influence"? I actually have a small number of Stockhausen recordings (five), but they don't usually put me in a Miles frame of mind. I don't know the music of Paul Buckmaster at all. Looking to be enlightened — thanks in advance for your thoughts/observations! (I put this thread in Recommendations so that someone might recommend some of these "influential" recordings.)

I wonder if the forthcoming Jackie Mclean New Soil hybrid SACD will contain the bonus track "Formidable."

Opus Kura has been around for more than a decade now, and if you like classical recordings made in the 20's-40's, you owe it to yourself to try at least one disc from this label. Opus Kura website. Their edition of Pablo Casals' Bach Cello Suites is a revelation, and their series of Dinu Lipatti are the best (sonically) I've ever heard. I've also discovered the great conductors Felix Weingartner, Willem Mengelberg, and Václav Talich through this label. An enthusiastic . Anyone here have discs on this label? Which ones?

This 2-disc set is one of my all-time favorite, dessert island classical collections. It can still be purchased at Amazon. The one review for the set is mine.

This is a great box set. I really like this series (Decca Original Masters), though I think that they're all officially out-of-print, and some now go for very high prices. That said, I strongly recommend the box sets of: • Ruggiero Ricci • Ernest Ansermet • Wilhelm Backhaus (Beethoven Piano Sonatas) • Eduard Van Beinum • Pierre Monteux The Australian Eloquence label is also an excellent resource for sometimes hard-to-find recordings on Decca, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, etc. If you like Benjamin Britten, I strongly recommend this CD: You can currently purchase it new for under $4 here at Amazon. It has the superior (in my opinion) mono version of Britten's Serenade that is NOT on any of the larger Britten box sets. (I don't know about the 37 disc box set. Probably is on that one.)

I do this with the old blues players! People such as Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Furry Lewis, Miss. John Hurt, Bukka White, etc. and even later greats like Lightnin' Hopkins, Lightnin' Slim, Jimmy Reed. I love all the blues players you've listed, and they're my entry, I suppose, into this music. (Is "mountain music" the generally accepted term for this kind of music? Hillbilly? I never know what to call it.) I have about 25 Yazoo CDs, and love them all, particularly those with Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, and Barbecue Bob. And I especially love the few tracks available from Tommy Johnson. Thanks for all the great recommendations, everyone. I'll be making a list. And, I agree, comps (I love some of the Yazoo comps) are a good point of entry. I'm sure I've actually even heard some of the musicians listed above, but never checked the liner notes to whatever comp I'm listening to at the moment. The world of music constantly opens new doors.

I've been listening to this box set a lot recently and really enjoying it. I used to hate this kind of music, but Poole's playing and singing have really opened my ears up. But I'm still a novice as far as this branch of the music is concerned. A question — If you're a fan of this type of music, what do you listen to, or what do you recommend? I like to savor this music at about 5-6 tracks at a time, repeat them, and focus in on certain lines or counterlines. Too many tracks, and for me it starts to sound same-y.

That'd be a good box set (though I already have it all in some form or another). Was there a particular reason that Chappaqua Suite wasn't issued in the U.S.?

Thanks for the tips, Andy. Do you have this title (out of curiosity)? I love the sound of the "Jazz Classics on Blue Note" TOCJ series. I wonder if the U.S. counterparts use different mastering. (I'm guessing yes, but don't know.)

Listening right now. "Caprice Rag." Jesus.

Only 10:30 p.m., but The First Day plays. Gorgeous start to a label. I also constructed the playlist from a Japanese issue (which I don't have, but would love to have) just to hear the ordering of tracks. It really works. If anyone wants to part with TOCJ 660006 or TOCJ 660012, or knows where a copy can be obtained (outside of the $90 items currently on eBay), let me know!

Sold. En route to Germany. Thanks!

• $115 + shipping (at cost) CDs, box, and booklet all in very good condition. PayPal OK. Please PM. Thanks!

Up? (Three years later.) Amazon currently has this title for just over $41 ...

I actually think that Dexter does cut loose on Takin' Off, as an example. For me, his solos on that record are more inspired than any of his solos from his own Blue Note output. I do agree, however, that some of Herbie's best solos (at least from the Blue Note era) are on other leader's sessions. Sam Rivers' Contours and Wayne Shorter's The All Seeing Eye come to mind. I also tend to think that Herbie plays more engagingly with Joe Chambers on the drums rather than, say, Tony Williams. Miles might disagree though.

While it is great that this album finally is coming out on CD, I'm not sure that I need it twice! TOCJ 50152's title indicates of course that the session was not recorded in a studio, while the little-known TOCJ 50156 is actually an imperative to the infirm.

I have it as a Japanese mini-lp. 'Tis really good. TCB is an excellent, excellent record. Swings hard with some break-out solos. But the cover? It's either slightly disturbing, or suggestive of ... ? Also of note — John Taylor on piano is amazing on this recording. Reminiscent, to me, of Herbie Hancock's playing on Joe Henderson's Power To The People. Very sensitive.

Some interesting reissues in September. Very nice to see Herb Geller's Fire In The West out again. My enthusiasm for new Japanese reissues has waned however — I just can't deal with the wall-of-sound approach to remastering. To me, the last batch of TOCJs sounded awful. Some of the loudest CDs I've ever heard. Great music nonetheless. Does anyone here actually have a SHM CD? Super-high material, like "super high me"?