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Man, they're really recycling that series. Gotta update my list. The box is out by now. They have not added any music to what was on the four individual boxes!

Now let me show you...

Red Garland 'Red Alert' (Galaxy) with Nat Adderley, Harold Land, Ira Sullivan, Ron Carter and Frank Butler

Johnny Hodges, Paris, 1958. Herman Leonard!

Bird & Diz, 1949. Herman Leonard!

Thelonious Monk 1949. Photo by Herman Leonard.

Lester Young/Herman Leonard

Ridiculous. Indeed. Thanks to Claude's link we can see that discs 1, 2 and 8 fall short of 20 minutes of music!

Yeah, but it's still a bit weid. The Baker material is Barclay material, some Barclay material was part of the series, even one of the Baker albums was... it's just not the same reissue crew, I assume? I did not see any producers credit on the Chet box. The name of critic Alain Tercinet is mentioned in the back liner notes and he was involved with the Jazz in Paris series. Since the box and the series come from Universalmusic France I'ld say the same people were involved!

Another Herman Leonard classic!

The Herman Leonard classic

Hal McKusick Octet 'In a Twentieth-Century Drawing Room' (RCA Victor, mono original)

Just a reminder that the 'Chet Baker in Paris' box is not part of the 'Jazz in Paris' series. Not all the albums recorded in Paris are part of that series!

Saw the box which is out today. Price was around €100 (about $145) at my favorite record shop! I don't plan to spend that kind of money on this (will wait for a more reasonably priced secondhand box)! The box is very nice but it does contain eight rather brief CDs. One disc per session. I did not check on all their lengths but at least two of them had less than 20 minutes of music All this could have been easily included on 5 discs.

Oh yes! Saw a couple of the originals KD Jaros in my vinyl-buying days but the copies were both in less than VG condition and their prices were way too high! I settled with the FreshSound LP reissue which looked (and sounded) betteran than the Xanadu LP!

John Benson Brooks 'Alabama Concerto' (Riverside, stereo, black label) featuring Cannonball Adderley and Art Farmer

Troy, the session was originally released on Jaro after it was recorded on January 10, 1960. The liner notes by Na Hentoff state that 'Kenny Dorham wrote Butch's Blues for bassist Warren'. Xanadu reissued this as 'Kenny Dorham Memorial Album' much later.

Damn right, Aloc! As much as I enjoyed my job, I am still amazed at the magic of having no work obligations. Now completing my third year of retirement and planning to enjoy the next years even more

Plenty of discs but the most welcome ones were: the Mosaic Duke Ellington Mosaic box L'Intégrale Louis Armstrong volumes from Frémeaux the four Fats Waller sets from JSP