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As an ex-employee of HPB, I can explain the low price. There are two kinds of merchandise they get, the used stuff people bring in and overstock stuff that corporate buys from who knows where. During the time I worked there, Disconforme stuff started appearing (along with Proper boxes) and the prices were usually about $8 for a single disc. This has got to be more of that stuff. The thing I always felt was weird was how all this stuff was ending up in the US as it's gray market as best. I know that they buy out remainders from distributors, so I can only guess they bought this stuff from an overseas distro and since it's just old jazz, no one is getting that upset over it. It seems as if the majority of jazz CDs at HPB are not used or legitimate cut-out CDs, but rather are Spanish grey market CDs. Personally, I never buy them and find having to wade through so many of them rather irritating.

Those are in the HPBs down here too. I'm going to skip them.

I like the quartet recording with Martial Solal alot also.

Also, in addition to the VV, from there you can walk to other jazz clubs--just keep going south on Seventh Avenue, and you pass Smalls, Fat Cat, and finally Sweet Rhythm (used to be Sweet Basil). On the other side of Seventh Avenue, there's the 55 Bar. Or walk across town down Bleeker and you'll pass Cornelia Street Cafe and when you get to Sixth Avenue, go north a few blocks and there is the Blue Note.

Good luck! I have Bebo de Cuba in my pile of as yet unheard CDs--as I now see, it is mixed by Jim Anderson.

Here's a copy, no bids so far, starting at $4.99 (but ending today). http://cgi.ebay.com/LP-CHARLES-MINGUS-MY-F...318#ht_1375wt_0

The last time I was in the VV (about a year ago), the pillar on the right was still there.

I also like the second album from the same date: "Charles Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach". There are a slug of unreleased tracks from this live recording session on the Debut box.

Shirley Scott--On a Clear Day (impulse, black and orange, strereo) Yusef Lateef--Live at Pep's (impulse, black and orange, mono)

I suppose it fits this thread--the new Oliver Lake Organ Trio recording, Makin' It, is quite enjoyable, with Jared Gold on organ, Johnathan Blake on drums.

I would have wanted to be at the Village Gate every night in July and August.

Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe--Columbia, six eyes mono.

Dave Brubeck--Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (Columbia six eyes mono) Charles Mingus--Mingus Dynasty (Columbia six eyes mono)

That's terrible. I quite enjoyed seeing him with Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Iridium a couple of years ago.

I checked the expanded CD reissue and Ammons is listed as a soloist on 8 of the songs.

Oi! Wossis? Never heard of Ammons working with Mingus. Early seventies? Montreux or somewhere in Europe? More info pliz. MG Gene Ammons is a guest artist on Mingus' large group concert at Philharmonic Hall. I forget the exact year, but maybe 1972 or so. The album is on Columbia, originally a two LP set. An expanded CD reissue is better than the original issue, especially for omitting an opening track featuring Bill Cosby. Ammons is featured on a couple of tracks (Mingus Blues and Jump Monk, I believe), and these are probably the two best tracks on the record. Overall, a somewhat disappointing record, not measuring up to the other contemporaneous great Mingus release on Columbia, Let My Children Hear Music, but still pretty good, especially the Ammons features. This one? A bit bleedin' expensive! Still it is two discs. And it DOES have Jug on it. MG Yes, that's it. It appears to be out of print in the U.S.

I don't think that track was on the original LP--a CD bonus cut, I believe.

Oi! Wossis? Never heard of Ammons working with Mingus. Early seventies? Montreux or somewhere in Europe? More info pliz. MG Gene Ammons is a guest artist on Mingus' large group concert at Philharmonic Hall. I forget the exact year, but maybe 1972 or so. The album is on Columbia, originally a two LP set. An expanded CD reissue is better than the original issue, especially for omitting an opening track featuring Bill Cosby. Ammons is featured on a couple of tracks (Mingus Blues and Jump Monk, I believe), and these are probably the two best tracks on the record. Overall, a somewhat disappointing record, not measuring up to the other contemporaneous great Mingus release on Columbia, Let My Children Hear Music, but still pretty good, especially the Ammons features. I agree that it is disappointing, but I have always liked the swinging "Us Is Two" on that album, in addition to the Gene Ammons features. I like that track quite a bit also, and I don't believe there is another Mingus recorded version of Us Is Two. The Mingus Big Band does a nice version of that composition.

The bass is amplified I believe because Mingus' illness was taking his strength--this is his final recording on the bass. I recall this came out at the same time as Cumbia and Jazz Fusion--I bought them both on the same day--it seemed pretty disappointing compared to Cumbia and Jazz Fusion. Now I like it for what it is, a blowing session on Mingus themes.

Oi! Wossis? Never heard of Ammons working with Mingus. Early seventies? Montreux or somewhere in Europe? More info pliz. MG Gene Ammons is a guest artist on Mingus' large group concert at Philharmonic Hall. I forget the exact year, but maybe 1972 or so. The album is on Columbia, originally a two LP set. An expanded CD reissue is better than the original issue, especially for omitting an opening track featuring Bill Cosby. Ammons is featured on a couple of tracks (Mingus Blues and Jump Monk, I believe), and these are probably the two best tracks on the record. Overall, a somewhat disappointing record, not measuring up to the other contemporaneous great Mingus release on Columbia, Let My Children Hear Music, but still pretty good, especially the Ammons features.

Happy birthday!

Sidney Bechet, Volume 1 (Blue Note, New York USA) Lee Morgan--Charisma (Blue Note, Liberty, blue and white)

Tonight at Noon, perhaps. It's a combination of unreleased tracks from two sessions recorded four years apart--but the title track and the complex composition Passions of A Woman Loved (from The Clown sessions), along with Peggy's Blue Skylight (featuring Rahsaan), and Invisible Lady (Knepper) (from the Oh Yeah sessions) make for a really fine record.

Buyers can no longer receive negative feedback on ebay. That change was made a few months ago. So feedback ratings were restated, eliminating prior negatives received as a buyer.

Love it too, but I have the 8cd box. What 8cd box set?