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Swedish Jazz History anyone heard any of the Swedish Jazz History CD sets on Caprice, look interesting but it's unclear how much they overlap with Dragon issues

Zidane remains the best, certainly the best player on the pitch yesterday.

Johnny Griffin and Sonny Clark at their prime! The Conn sounded blah, so hopefully the RVG will be eons better. Spun the Conn last night and thought it sounded pretty good, great session but then you can hardly go wrong with early Griff

Dragon have done a great job with getting Lars Gullin material out there ( early stuff mainly) . The latest " Danny's Dream" Volume 8 in their on going series covers great quartet sides from 53/55. As ever beautifully annotated and very good sound.

"the Genuis of Coleman Hawkins" CD issue ( Verve, digipack) has full stereo masters and about half the tracks in mono too. Not sure which sounds better but they do sound different.

K2= high mountain mastered by Japanese

Chris Just got Uptown and Lowdown CD . Love the Dick Wellstood tracks, very elegant and of course beautifully recorded by RVG. Elmer Snowden sounds more than fine on the Cliff Jackson tracks tucked away at the end of the CD although the trumpet sound of Ed Allen sounds a little insecure. Both very spirited sessions. Was that all there was or is there more in the vaults.? Highly recommended CD, can't see Concord putting this sort of material out , so....

Duck Soup?

Got this in Fopp for £3.00 quite recently on CD. Sound is a little hissy and flat but perfectly serviceable. I think latter period HH is generally under-rated. It's very different compared with his 50s output and not as instantly engaging but still more than a little interesting.

wow, so who has the rights to this material Ind or Verve ?

I was spinning this set the other day. Amazing stuff. Wonder how much of the other Konitz's Verve sessions out takes are still awaiting reissue in some form.? Wasn't there supposed to more Konitz/Marsh from the Half -Note still to be released in addition to the 2CD issued a few years ago?

Early in my interest in jazz I picked up and got rid of instantly "Out to Lunch"- big regrets, also ditched a Jimmy McGriff CD called some thing like " Down home cooking" on BN- complete garbage- no regrets there. Otherwise I have sold, passed on/sold anything ( other than 700 disco/rock/pop 45s to the local Oxfam, pleasingly some of which they were able to flog for £10 each !!!)

I've not heard this session before but was very pleased with the sound especially as reports posted here seemed to suggest that the master tapes were in very poor condition. Cannoball's fine too but the session with Johnny Coles is better still.

Very Saxy is a sublime session, expertly recorded in wonderful sound. Listen to this session on my ipod when out running. Gets me through the 10km barrier every time , that and Right off and the groovy JB tribute from the Nessa AEC box.

I thought France were superb, here's hoping it's a Germany vs. France final.

Other than the wonderful Celestin/Morgan Jazz Oracle release what CDs are available that have "black " New Orleans bands, recorded in that city in the 20s. I gather from the liners to the Morgan/Celestin release that relativly little was recorded by these groups.

Little Bird looking great. Great photos, what a smile he has !!

I'm tempted by this one too but it's way down the order. Diz I would guess breaks little new ground but what I've heard from these sessions ( Have Trumpet will excite, Greatest Trumpet and odds`N`sods on the Dizzy's Diamonds compilation) do make me wonder if this might turn out to be a choice set.

I got a few LPs from Headman a month or so ago. Condition/ packaging etc were all excellent. Recommended.

Clifford was truly unique, the thrill of his playing is something else. Recently got the Brownie Lives Cd from Fresh Sounds with sessions from 1955 and 1956 with Willie Jones (?) subing for Max on some tracks. Not a bad live session but it doesn't quite fire on all cyclinders. Sound quality pretty good on the Carnegie Hall session from 1955 (with Land) less good on the later session but perfectly acceptable.

Well done to Australia in what appeared to be a bad tempered match with some rather interesting decisions by the ref.

Me too for both, I've a smattering of this stuff already but will be really interested reading the book and hearing the sounds.

don't count on it !!

It's a pity that the first three tracks from Hill's Pax are from 2nd generation masters. Perfectly listenable but sound much less good when compared to the other tracks. Presumably the first gen tapes are lost. Not a reason to avoid this issue as it's first rate AH

An emotional moment for Chuck I'm sure. Well done and thanks for your efforts.