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Just checked the thread and there hasn't really been that much discussion here of the explosion of legit Sun Ra reissues over the past few years. I've owned almost zero Sun Ra before (only the more recent ESP reissues and Space Is the Place), so it's really cool to dive into this discography with fresh reissues created from the best possible sources. Between Cosmic Myth directly and their licensees like Modern Harmonic, Strut, and previously Art Yard, they've really done a great job getting this music out there and I can't wait to get hold of all these CDs! 🥳

This is not true. The track "Outer Nothingness" is merely an edit of "Interplanetary Chaos" and the two following tracks from "College Tour Vol. I". There is an edit at about 4:42 in "Outer Nothingness" and you can still hear the last bit of the vocals as it cuts to "Theme of the Stargazers" about 0:45 in. The next edit is at about 5:28, where the piece jumps to about 1:06 in "The Second Stop Is Jupiter". So they basically edited out the themes and kept the improv bits. You're not missing out on any music on "College Tour Vol. I".

Anyone here familiar with this series? I've liked all of these so far and I'm curious if there are others out there: Jean-Philippe Collard plays Ravel and Debussy piano works https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravel-Debussy-Piano-Works-3CD/dp/B074TCMQGG/ Mikhail Rudy plays Brahms piano works https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Piano-Works-Mikhail-Rudy/dp/B00004Z4XK Alexis Weissenberg plays Bach keyboard works on piano https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldberg-Variations-Weissenberg-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B00004Z4XO/ Augustin Dumay plays Mozart works for violin and orchestra, string duos and the trio/divertimento https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Violin-Concertos-Sinfonia-Concertante/dp/B000009MMW/

It looks like this series has sadly been discontinued (many old titles are still available, but no new releases for years now). But if they ever add more sets to it, I would like to see a Hamiet Bluiett set - he recorded seven albums for BS and SN as a leader.

Oh yeah, I didn't consider that possibility. Just checked, looks like the IPS albums haven't been released on CD with one exception which was an admitted needle drop with the blessing of Milford Graves. Sounds like they have misplaced the original master tapes.

Looks like Candid Records has reissued much of the Whynot Records catalog on CD. But not this album. Has there ever been a CD edition anywhere?

I've been listening to this stuff on Google Music Play and digging it a lot. So I just placed my order for the big CD box set - gotta support this! I also managed to find a cheap copy of the New York Sessions CD, which I also ordered.

What's up with this release? Other than the link posted in this thread, it's impossible to even find it on the Mosaic website - which seems to be the lone place where the CD is supposed to be available in the first place! It's not listed under recent releases and if I go to the Charles Tolliver page, there's just a placeholder item listed and clicking on the link leads to an error message.

Oh boy, I've waited so long for this to be released on CD, I might just accept those international shipping costs in this case.

I got the CD edition of the original Darn That Dream album: 1 Section-8 Blues 6:20 2 Someday My Prince Will Come 7:45 3 Sweet Lorraine 4:05 4 Mode For Joe 8:13 5 Darn That Dream 5:38 6 Who Can I Turn To 5:15 Would love to hear more from these sessions, but it seems the companion album was never released on CD: A1 Fun For One And All 3:00 A2 Blue And Boogie 3:40 A3 Around Midnight 1:20 A4 Epistrophy 8:30 A5 Come Rain Or Come Shine 1:10 B1 You Stepped Out Of A Dream 5:30 B2 Someday My Prince Will Come 7:00 B3 On Green Dolphin Street 8:20 The compilation CD mentioned above (also called "Darn That Dream") is missing three tracks from the original Darn That Dream album (Sweet Lorraine and Who Can I Turn To?, both solo piano pieces, plus Someday My Prince Will Come, another take of which *is* included) and three more from the Someday LP ('Round Midnight, Epistrophy, Come Rain or Come Shine), though those add up to just 11 minutes (only Epistrophy gets a serious workout, the others are below a minute and a half each). If the track listings on Discogs are correct, both albums together add up to a playing time of just 75:46 (and that's including both takes of Someday My Prince Will Come). Would be cool to see a complete reissue of this material!

Just realized that Sony introduced their new "Jazz Connoisseur" series in March - looks like there are a few CD debuts here: > Stan Getz Featuring Joao Gilberto – The Best of Two Worlds > Helen Merrill – Parole E Musica > Phineas Newborn – Fabulous Phineas > George Russell– The RCA Victor Workshop > The Dave Pike Quartet – Pike’s Peak > Dave Bailey – One Foot In The Gutter > Chet Baker – Chet Is Back! > Ray Bryant – Little Susie > Gary Burton – A Genuine Tong Funeral (By Carla Bley) > Johnny Coles – The Warm Sound > Paul Desmond – Easy Living > Les Doubles Six - Les Doubles Six > Duke Ellington – Far East Suite > Gil Evans – Plays The Music of Jimmy Hendrix > Dave Grusin – Kaleidoscope > Lee Konitz – Stereokonitz > Jeanne Lee with Ran Blake – The Newest Sound Around > Lou Levy – A Most Musical Fella > Charles Mingus– Tijuana Moods > Pony Poindexter – Pony's Express > The Bud Powell Trio – Strictly Powell > Sonny Rollins – What’s New ? > Charlie Rouse – Yeah ! > The Sextet Of Orchestra USA – Mack The Knife > Martial Solal – At Newport ‘63

Thanks!

Got the CD, excellent album! Sadly the discographical information is incomplete and jazzdisco.org doesn't list the extra tracks. Can you give more detailed information on this? Also, there are only eleven tracks on the disc (you list twelve above).

Thanks for mentioning this - jazzdisco.org doesn't include it and so I never realized that this material had been reissued on CD in Europe. Managed to find a cheap copy right away, too!

Sweet!

Same here! Been waiting for an affordable CD edition of that album for a long time!

Haven't seen this mentioned yet. This reissue is out now, featuring a bonus disc with about 45 minutes (6 tracks) of additional performances from the Prophecy sessions. Track Listing Disc 1 1:1. Bells 19:45 1:2. Spirits 7:53 1:3. Wizard 8:24 1:4. Ghosts, First Variation 11:18 1:5. Prophecy 7:13 1:6. Ghosts, Second Variation 7:06 61:39 Disc 2 2:1. Spirits 6:38 2:2. Saints 10:32 2:3. Ghosts 10:56 2:4. The Wizard 6:51 2:5. Children 9:05 2:6. Spirits (theme) 0:28 44:30 1:1: Albert Ayler, tenor saxophone; Donald Ayler, trumpet; Charles Tyler, alto saxophone; Lewis Worrell, bass; Sunny Murray, drums. Recorded live at Town Hall, New York City, May 1, 1965. 1:2-6, 2:1-6: Albert Ayler, tenor saxophone; Gary Peacock, bass; Sunny Murray, percussion. Recorded live at Cellar Café, New York City, June 14, 1964. All compositions by Albert Ayler (Syndicore Music BMI). http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/4076.html

Just going through this list again. Has it really been 10 years since I first posted my question? Haha! Anyway, I checked my CD copy of Sam Jones's Down Home and it doesn't have "A Cannonball Adderley Presentation" anywhere, even though Cannonball is listed as one of two producers. And while I don't have the single CD for the Dexter Gordon release (only got the big box set), the LP covers I found online don't include the "Presentation" line, either. I think all other titles in this series were released under the Riverside umbrella while the Gordon was on Jazzland, so it's probably not part of the series. Since the Sam Jones was already his third album, he probably didn't need Adderley's name to promote his album - and Dexter Gordon certainly did not, either. But I can definitely confirm the other titles listed above - The JFK Quintet, Budd Johnson, Roosevelt Wardell, Dick Morgan, Lennie McBrowne and Paul Serrano. The latter doesn't have the "A Cannonball Adderley Presentation" line on the cover, but it is present on the back cover.

Cattin' would be the Coltrane/Quinichette album, right? I have most of those, although I'm still hunting for affordable copies of Roots and Outskirts of Town. I think the Four Altos album (Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein) also belongs on this list, as does the Curtis Fuller & Hampton Hawes with French Horns album (which was in fact the other half of the Modern Jazz Survey "series" alongside what later became known as Dakar).

Yeah, I saw that. Still don't feel good supporting the "PD pirates", especially seeing how expensive all those releases are. On the other hand, if the original label can't be bothered to keep the material in print, that does limit one's options quite a bit.

The decision to drop a track of the Heavyweights album instead of keeping it intact seems puzzling. I get it, lack of space - but why not drop something from the bonus album instead?

I would assume that Keepnews wanted to do another album that would've contained the remainder of the session (plus Hotline, I guess). Same deal as with the Yusef Lateef "The Last Savoy Sessions" that never got its companion set (which, as the title indicates, was quite certainly planned at some point). Which still hasn't seen an official CD release based on the master tapes, right? All I see are questionable editions that seem to be sourced from the LP.

Just got the CD, thanks for pointing out this little problem - it's easily fixed with Audacity. :)

Amazon.de lists all these for November 20, 2015: Three for Shepp / Vista Marion Brown 1984 / The Golden Flute Yusef Lateef Tauhid / Jewels of Thought Pharoah Sanders Thembi / Black Unity Pharoah Sanders Fort Yawuh / Treasure Island | Double CD Keith Jarrett Death and the Flower / Backhand Keith Jarrett New Grass / Music Is the Healing Force Albert Ayler Gypsy '66 / Spellbinder Gabor Szabo Out of the Cool / Into the Hot Gil Evans Passin' Thru / Man of Two Worlds Chico Hamilton Things Have Got to Change / The Cry of My People Archie Shepp Tranquility / Outertimeinnerspace Ahmad Jamal Some interesting stuff there! I've been waiting for 1984, Vista and Things Have Got to Change in particular.

Oh, a Dexter Gordon release with George Cables that I've missed so far? Thanks for mentioning it!