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Wow, i didn't realise there are HAT reissues going one. Two Ayler's and Marion Brown are definitely being ordered right now! Thanks.

There's a new batch of Deep Jazz Reality - a collection of Tribe's albums, mostly Wendell Harrisons'. The most interesting is definatyle the 2CD "A Message From The Tribe". The second CD is full of alternate mixes (which is a bit of a bummer, as there are no outtakes or live tracks, but still - some 70's music was a bit too rough and new mixing could resurrect it, like Stanton Davis on "Isis Voyage") https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/OTLCD-2475?s_ssid=e323b45e94c0fecd0a

Wow, that sounds awesome! Really looking forward to this set and I hope it will be issuead also on CD (I hate this LP-only craze) But if anyone had missed, here're the released Sun Ra's albums from Egypt 1971. Available on separate CD's and in 8-CD box set with various 70's gigs. https://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-And-His-Solar-Arkestra-Horizon/release/1789865 https://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-And-His-Myth-Science-Solar-Arkestra-Nidhamu-Dark-Myth-Equation-Visitation/release/2189759

There's a funny story about this album - it was supposed to have lyrics, vocals and all this stuff, but - to Chrises surprise - there was just instrumental session released with no add-ons. And lucky us! Have you heard "Backwood Progression" or "The Only Lick I Know"? The first one is, well, let's say accetable, but the latter is just awful.

Oh, finally someone from my region :). I strongly recommend to watch what those guys are releasing! Fusion lovers - pick two album by Krzysztof Sadowski ("Na Kosmodromie" and "Three Thousand Points"), both with 20-minutes wicked suit with organs, synths, ring modulators, flutes and all those crazy things; Jazz Q "Live 1975" - supreme jazz-rock by Czech band and - surprisingly - one of the best live fusion recording that was oficially released! [Return To Forever/Jean-Luc Ponty style] Also both albums by Alex Band will suit all fans of jazz-funk in Brecker Bros/Crusaders/Ronnie Laws mood - fine grooves and nice soloing. "Bazaar" by Jerzy Milian is a classic Polish jazz LP, but also the "Semiramida" compilation is really kickin'! Too me it feels just like Charles Lloyd Quartet, with this slighlty free-jazz attitude. And for those who don't mind a bit of guitar-focused progressive rock playing, SBB "Warszawa 1980" is a real killer.

No. It's pirate label, probably another grown-again branch of a big company, that serves us plenty of boots. Look at the enlarged back cover on Amazon. This "Manufactured UNER[!] license...." phrase kills me

I just got Marion Brown's "Vista". Well - the album itself is brilliant and so is the sound quailty. Really, really classy, just what you can expect from the type of delicate, ambient music. It's also good to notice that the track "Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim" was one of the earliest pieces defining the ambient genre. Harold Budd (also present on "Vista") recorded/composed it in 1974 but it wasn't released until 1978. So "Vista" should be treated as one of the god-fathers of ambient music - and it was recorded by the "screaming", free-jazz/avant-garde Marion. What an irony!

I didn't have mine yet, but I listened to some stuff on Spotify. Well, I was mostly curious about the electric playing. Whereas the CD4 sound brilliant and is something fresh for me (from many 1971 shows I haven't heard this one), the CD3 is total disappointment - besides the previously released 1969 show, the Berlin show sounds too harsh. And i believe "Mtume" (which is a percussion interlude and doesn't fit to the rest at all) from 1975 was inserted only to have this 1955-1975 on the cover, instead of 1953-1973. I hope the memorabilia, photos and liner notes inside would be satisfying!

Larry wasn't singing on "Offering", it was "The Real Great Escape". And few previous. I don't have any bootlegs from 1972, but I believe it's purely instrumental playing. In fact "Offering" is one of his best LP's for me, hardcore spiritual jazz-rock playing. A pity Steve Marcus didn't play with Eleventh House, it could be a real dynamite.

It looks pretty neat - 1CD from 1972 and very underrated "Offering" period (I hope Steve Marcus is there), 1CD from solo gig in 1976 and last, and well, least, from 2012. Label is Cleopatra Records/Purple Pyramid, release date: 27.07 for US, 21.08 for EU http://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Coryellis-Larry-Coryell/dp/B00YOA7N48 The 1975 show by Most Promising Music from last year was also great, though not perfect technically. I've listened to many Coryell's concerts from 70s and its a great stuff, the same league as Mahavishnu or RTF. Larry deserves wider recognition of his jazz-rock period.

Isn't Hi Hat a purely pirate label? I've seen some fusion releases (Mahavishnu, RTF, Hancock) - covers looks like from classic bootlegs and reviewers complain about low sound quality.

Browse Amazon's shops. I've seen some CD's (that are OOP in Japan) still available at fair price.

Is there really a big sound difference between nicely remastered CD or SHM-CD and Blu-ray? A read something about pros of blue laser, but sounded to me like like classic audio-voodoo. Sorry if I didn't find a thread where this topic was discused through and through.

Wow, that extended tunafish line killed me. Unnecessary. As I wrote before, I'm aware that those kind of releases are not the official ones. I'm curious about sound quality, the edition quality and also if any of those are actually legal - it's not that obvious. Wounded Bird Records, for example, releases very cheap-looking CD's with great music, but as far as I know, they're buying rights to do that (mostly from Sony). So again - it's not that obvious. Just to make things straight - the reasons I started the topic are mentioned above, I don't encourage anyone to buy it or break a local law. Thanks AllenLowe - that's what I wanted to know.

"We (...) you" - that sounds pretty scary So that's as I though - unofficial crap not worth buying. I ordered one set just to check how it look and sounds, but cheap editions isn't anything fancy for me. But I'm rather disgusting seeing all those cult albums by Dexter Gordon, Miles or Coltrane laying around in shops. For sure many people will buy it without knowing something is wrong. Any really bad experience with sound quality of those pirate editions?

I just wanted to know what do you folks think about that kind of re-issues like from the image below. The market is full of 1, 2 and 4CD sets with 50s and early 60s sets. I guess some of them are pirate releases and some released when the copywrites expired (isn't it qute short in USA?). I'd like to have always best editions but damn, sometimes it's tempting to collect 8 albums for 10$ instead of buying each seperately. I don't have any knowledge about sound quality, source, covers and so on - any thoughts about that too?

Yes, "Bitches Brew Live" was audio only. For sure CD's aren't as important as they're two decades back, but... how about all those "Complete Sessions" boxes? Jack Johnson - 2003, OOP. Cellar Door - 2005, OOP. On The Corner - 2007, OOP (I feel like writing about KIA soldiers...). Not to mention a mammoth Bitches Brew set from 2013, which is now having a re-release in 4CD form. So the logic dictates that further boxes would also be out of print pretty fast. There must be a reason that all of those Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton's and other rock stars have epic super deluxe editions. I know it's a dream, but a box set inspired by King Crimson's "Road to Red" would be an amazing thing.

tl;dr version: CD1 is '55 and 58' (previously released as "Newport '58") CD 2 is '66 and '67 CD 3 is '69 (all previousle released on "Bitches Brew Live"), '73 and '75 CD 4 is entirely '71 Well, strange move. I guess "Newport", as well as "Fillmore" is a better key word to sell a product than "Miles Live from 19xx" Obviously adding cuts from "Bitches Brew Live" (which is a must for a Davis maniac, and so as the bootleg series) is a very, very uncool move. As well as shrinking the '75 sets from a 2CD material to just one short track.... anybody remember disappointment with the great Montreux DVD boxes with only one track from the 70s? (possibly the weakest one). Of course the '71 set is fine, as well as the Berlin 1973, although a well known gig. I'm curious what they're waiting for with "unleashing the vaults"? For all older fans becoming old and deaf ? Why no more complete sessions boxes (all OOP), why no big live collections? This "Newport" key really makes me thing they want to target as many jazz fans as possible, vast Miles fans horde is not enough.

Since few years he is re-releasing some of his great albums from the 70s on own label UBX. Here is the list of things available: - Fusion III [CBS 1975] (CD 2011 without booklet, double LP on Asfalt Records, CD 2014 with booklet) - Body English [CBS 1976] (CD 2011, CD 2014 with some minor liner notes) - Smiles Ahead [MPS 1977] (CD 2012 with booklet) - Inactin* [spiegelei 1971] (CD 2013 with booklet, LP on Asfalt Records) - Atma [CBS 1974] (CD 2014 with booklet) I've got a great pleasure to co-work with Michael and I wrote liner notes to every CD release . Some words on the music, beginning from the earliest: Inactin* was the first album for German Spiegelei label, known for many freak-out things. Indeed the music is a bit freaky, a very nice early jazz-rock with some free-jazz and krautrock influences. Atma is my favorite one - and first for American Columbia. Hypnotising fusion with many Latin elements and dozens of violin and keys solos. You should check out also the vocalist Urszula Dudziak, who made some out-of-this-world things with here voice. Fusion III features American musicians Larry Coryell, Anthony Jackson, Steve Gadd and John Abercrombie. As for 1975 this is a mature, "thick" and raw fusion (and lasts for 52 minutes, quite unusuall for that time). The unison parts in "Roksana" always makes me shiver. Body English is the most electrified one with plenty of effects, electric violin, lyricon(!) and synthesizers. Smiles Ahead was recorded for German MPS and 1976-7 and contains also some freaky conceptions (many thanks to drummer Woody "Sonship" Theus and keyboardist Harold "Ivory" Williams), but I have to warn that CD sound had many issues, like vinyl pops and hum... what a pity. I think all of those releases are available online, on Bandcamp or Spotify: http://ubxmusic.bandcamp.com/

I didn't put that in good words. I meant that we will got another BB reissue INSTEAD of a new Bootleg Volume. I know of course that famous albums are reissued regulary, but c'mon - many previous editions are still available on market, and so is the latest 2CD+DVD with the Copenhagen 1969 concert, which was supposed (I guess) to be a "smaller" version of the giant box ith LP's. So what the "bigger but still smaller" is for? It doesn't bother me at all, they could make a 100 of versions of this album, but I'm just sad there're no news about "new" concerts. Yes, I also hope they will pick up on 1971. There is a lot of great stuff, including many videos. But honestly I'm most interested in the year 1972. There were some nice changes in the line-up. The Live at Philharmonics (which I find boring, not to mention its bad sound quality) have some potential, with all those Indian instruments. And I'm a bit tired of Jarrett's playing and more like things but Cedar Lawson or LL Smith. Actually I haven't heard a good quality bootleg from 1972, which makes the whole thing more interesting to me . Actually they've got so much stuff laying just around the corner (pun intended), I'm wondering why they didn't throw a 6CD boxes, like those with "Cellar Door" or "On The Corner" complete sessions. I'd love to have a wast collection of 1973 and 1975 gigs, with those famous Japanese videos... Oh Miles, this topic is bottomless... what about the unreleased 1975 studio sessions? And those from 1978 with Larry Coryell ....

Any news about vol. 4? I'm affraid this year Columbia Legacy is gonna re-release one more time "Bitches Brew", now in a 4CD book format with all classic material, few well known outtakes, Tanglewood 1970 concert on CD and.. Copenhagen 1969 on DVD Seems like somebody responsible for all glorious Official Bootleg sets lost his jobs. Puzzling, as the previous 4CD Fillmore concerts sets won a lot of award an media coverage.

Misleadingly I thought that two albums by trumpeter Shunzo Ohno - "Anteres" and "Quarter Moon" - where from East Wind label. In fact it was a Electric Bird label. They also have recently quite vast batch of reissues, but I checked some performers (like guitarist Katsutoshi Morizono or keyboardist Toshiyuki Honda) but its mostly average smooth jazz with some platitude themes. Although the 2 aformentioned Shunzo Ohno albums are really fine, reminding me a lot of lat 70s Lonnie Liston Smith. There re even Marcus Miller and TM Stevens. But I'm hugely disappointed by the lack of artworks. I always thought that any Japanese edition = best quality. I was surprised after finding that it has NO back cover or inner sleeve replicas at all.... and sad when I checked, that original albums has very nice photos of musicians from the sessions. In fact there are some vinyl-replica SHM-CD's and I believe those has every original graphic, but they're far too expensive as for just nice funky, smooth jazz.

Any recommendations for more spiritual-oriented Lake albums? There's a nice package from Black Saint/Soul Note, but this are mostly late recordings, not much from 70s http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oliver-Lake-Complete-Remastered-Recordings/dp/B00DQF1YSS/

Jaco and McCann are available on CD, Jaco also on vinyl. Yes, their eclectic. Maybe too eclectic - like you don't know what would be next. I guess everybody prefers label on which you'll find something fine each time you check what's new. Here is another interesting album from the field of jazz: http://omnivorerecordings.com/music/worlds-around-the-sun/ I'd ordered it from Amazon recently (by coincidence through Amazon's recommendations) and it's very credible spiritual-jazz set with electric touch.

I haven't heard about this label until last year when a news about Jaco's full Criteria Session poped out. http://omnivorerecordings.com/press-release-jaco-pastorius-modern-american-music-period-the-criteria-sessions/ I'v bought it and it's really fine treat for Jaco fans. Not a top quality studio recording, but sound like a good "A-" soundboard bootleg, and it really shows Jaco's creativity, his filled with freedom style. Those who have read and enjoyed biography by Bill Milkowski will surely dig it. But except "tha Jaco thing" it's also interesting discovery from the field of Rhodes-driven jazz-rock. And it comes with nice booklet, which is fine. Recently Omnivore released rare Les McCann's album "Invitation to Openess" which is the only one in his vast discography, that aims into style of Mileses "Bitches Brew". Well, it's no masterpiece, in fact sometimes it's rather dull, oneiric playing, but still a rather must-have gem for any fusion lover that is into the early jazz-rock period and with "never enough Rhodes" attitude. There is also a bonus, a live track "Compared To What", but it's nothing suprising, just a regular cut from Passport's Klaus Doldinger "Jubilee" '75 album. http://omnivorerecordings.com/music/invitation-to-openess/ There're more jazz stuff, maybe someone will be interested.