ghost of miles

Happy to stick with the 8-CD 2015 Exclusively For My Friends box set.

Gawd what an album. Probably my fave of the Mwandishi discography, though this is also going to send me back to the Warner Bros stuff (and to Bob Gluck’s You’ll Know When You Get There book as well). Some of the same crew who were standing around on Miles’ corner that year.

Perfect name for an 80s UK indie band. Discovered them through Cherry Red’s excellent expanded C86 set:

Who gets the tiebreaker if Houston and Texas both end up with the same record? It’s wild to think that the division winner will have at best a .500 record, and maybe not even that. Shades of the 1973 Mets!

Listening again to the "Giant Steps" track that came out yesterday, and I've sure heard far worse audio quality on bootleg-sourced releases. To each their own re what makes a recording near-unlistenable to them, obviously; I bailed on the first of the five audience recordings included in Sony's massive 36-CD Bob Dylan 1966 box because it was so bad. But this is far better than, say, the Benedetti Parker recordings. I would have loved a 6 or 7 CD Mosaic-style set of the Tiberi tapes with Lewis Porter's annotation but had made my peace with the 3-CD release, till Verve announced their $500-USB-stick-if-you-want-it-all deal that seems better suited for oligarch collectors. If they think there's a market for 750 customers buying a $500 USB stick, how could there not be a similar market for a limited-edition curated CD set that falls somewhere between the entire 26 hours and the 3 CDs that are coming out? Verve or Mosaic couldn't sell out a 1000-2000 run of an expanded "best of the Tiberi tapes" Coltrane set? That seems quite unlikely to me. Ah well, as Jsngry and others have pointed out, all of this music is likely to end up in the wilds anyway. I've pre-ordered the 3-CD version through my local record store and am still greatly looking forward to buying and hearing it, grateful that we're getting any kind of official release of this material, etc. Would have happily spent more for more music and annotation, but NO to a $500 brass-plated USB stick.

Agree with all of this. Perhaps a more conventional complete edition is forthcoming (and I'd be willing to pay several hundred dollars for it on CD, assuming it included the complete annotation as well... I don't need the other bells and whistles), but this seems to be it for now. Will buy and enjoy the 3-CD set come the first week of November, but yeah, as a friend who texted me the news about the USB version said, "Does Verve think we fell off the turnip truck?" I'm wondering if Mosaic might do it at some point, though 26 hours is a pretty big amount for them.

Uhh… welp, still excited about the Nov 6 release, but this additional news raises my hackles again about the way Verve’s handling this. Come April 2027 you’ll be able to get the complete 26 hours on a limited-edition (750 copies) brass-plated USB drive, along with some high-end goodies and annotation, all for just $500. 🤯 I really, really hope they eventually put out a CD version of the complete tapes, along with the annotation, but that doesn’t seem likely at this point. Trying not to be the proverbial demanding jazz fan, but whittling down the tapes to a 3-CD set while offering the whole shebang for $500 on a brass-plated USB drive… “annoying” is a polite understatement here.

Standard edition now up for pre-order on Amazon: The Tiberi Tapes Also, Mark Stryker posted his review in the Jazz in Print forum, but seems useful to plug it into this thread as well: Coltrane’s Shadow

The Pops has landed! Never got a shipping notice.. it just showed up today.

Debut album from a wonderful young singer who performed in Bloomington a couple years back.

A great set! Need to revisit this one.

At this point I might as well let Cherry Red start garnishing my wages.