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Sounds good. Let's hope the sound quality is good, too!

Another copy hits eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Tokyo-Live-Williams-To...1QQcmdZViewItem This time the seller is asking for $55 as the minimum bid.

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The Lonehill Jazz set "The Complete Harold Land/Carmell Jones Quintets" includes Blues March ("First time on CD!"), which is indeed just an edit of Sad March. They claim the piece was written by Benny Golson anyway... Idiots.

I've been looking for this set as well (and I don't even have CD-Rs of this material) ). Three eBay auctions I've been watching closed way past $50 (two around $80) which is an unacceptable price for me. I wish Blue Note would just reissue this set...

I got the Prelude set today (paid just €10.99 for the last copy at our local Zweitausendeins). I really like those compilations of originally separated tracks that belong together.

No, it was just a rather small set back before there was a Select series.

The Mosaic set didn't contain any of the Sermon and House Party material, just the other LPs from your list. It was a three disc set and the "Sounds of J.S." RVG includes all the tracks that weren't part of the "Date" and "At The Organ" LPs.

I don't know, but I'd say they'll probably reissue the Date material (seeing how the third disc of that Mosaic set is already out as an RVG) before something that just barely entered the "potential future project" phase like the Trio 2CD set I suggested, don't you think?

LP is an unacceptable format for me for a number of reasons. As I said I'm talking about CDs and if you can show me where I can get Getting Into Something on CD outside of the Lonehill set, please do. I'm already having a hard time tracking down a copy of Two Feet In The Gutter (which was issued on CD at some point - although it seems only in Japan!). Seems like One Foot... is the only readily available CD. I might be able to find a used copy of Two Feet..., but Dave isn't going to make any money off that anyway.

I'd rather buy the Lonehill discs and personally send Dave Bailey a $10 bill than pay Epic Records who still haven't even bothered to release some of this stuff 25 years after the first CDs came out.

They're great, but there's three discs of material and it's all available as a Mosaic Select set already.

What's coming up next? Maybe Bluerein or someone else can shed some light on this.

I find it interesting that they chose to omit Gazelle when Keepnews himself wrote in the liner notes to the Milestone Years box set that the original plan was to release two live LPs - the second one featuring Gazelle as THE track or something like that.

Fantasy (back then) or Concord (now) didn't bother to issue this material in a comprehensive manner and they had decades to do that before this box set came out. I'd rather have this all in one place considering how chaotically McLean's Prestige sessions were divided across LPs - the quartet session with Mal Waldron was spread over four albums and they never released a CD compiling those onto one disc. And the price is also a factor: To get all this material on CD I'd have to pay about $120 even though it would fit on five discs (and that's not counting the two Jubillee albums!). No, actually make that $130 as they didn't think it necessary to include Bird Feathers with the rest of the Alto Madness session. Even Mosaic charge only $80 for a set of that size and they have to pay licensing fees for the material they use. They could've easily seen this coming and released an official Prestige collection in the last few years. Instead we got the RVG of "4, 5 and 6" - the THIRD American CD issue of the same material. This wouldn't be as easy for these "producers" if those in charge at Fantasy/Concord didn't MAKE it as easy for them.

It includes all the Fantasy stuff except the alternate take of A Long Drink of the Blues plus "The New Tradition" (aka Presenting Jackie McLean) and Fat Jazz. I ordered it since I have all the Fantasy material as eMusic mp3s and would like to have it all on CD as well (plus I own none of the AdLib/Jubliee albums).

Finally ordered the Thad Jones, Art Taylor and Andrew Hill discs. I've had the Hill as mp3s for quite some time, good to see it finally released individually. Never heard the other two but they sound interesting. Also ordered Horace Silver's In Pursuit of the 27th Man, thus completing my collection of European RVGs without copy protection (I'll probably order the remaining ~20 from CD Universe next month).

You can also get the Japanese edition which is not copy-protected.

There are Milestone albums by Sonny Rollins (Reel Life) and McCoy Tyner (Horizon) still waiting to be issued on CD (I think the Rollins came out on CD in Japan at some point but I the McCoy is still LP only). I hope this will change with this Keepnews Collection.

What makes you think that?

That's pretty much what I wrote - those additional tracks have not survived, only the eight tracks already released will be on the RVGs (probably two discs).

I got a reply from Cuscuna! No alternates from the Club Baby Grand recordings have survived, the remaining material is scheduled for release as RVGs in early 2009. He says he likes my idea for the 1957 trio material. "I'll play with it".

Now I have to get this!

Time Control is out now in Europe and the US. And I think it's an awesome album!

Yeah, I forgot to mention that my European copy of Out To Lunch has the same problem.