J Larsen

If true, that is really egregious, as they clearly went way out of their way to make it look legit. You've talked me out of the box, but how is the sound on the individual jewel case versions vs. the mini-lps? BTW, my vinyl copies actually don't have great sound quality, so it would be great if I could get a sonic upgrade.

Apparently there is ANOTHER big Anthony Braxton box set coming out - this one is a DVD set with 6.5 hours of music: http://www.rastascan.com/catalog/brd060.html

2005 Roger Naudet Sancere

So I've had the Ayler ESP records on vinyl for about 10 years, but lately my records have been neglected due to the need to keep them locked up so the cat won't destroy them. I would like to buy cd versions. There seem to be three options. In ascending order of cost (at least at my local shop): ESP Box set Jewel Case Reissues Digipack reissues Is there any difference in the remastering of these three versions? If not, I'm just going for the box. Thanks.

Just got home and checked. All nine tracks with LD from the complete box are on the Memorial album RVG.

My office is just a few blocks from the Grace Building on 43rd Street. Passing by on my way to the subway this evening, I noticed a banner for a free lunchtime concert series. I read looked over the schedule with very low expectations, and boy was I surprised! July 10 | Tuesday SambaSunda July 11 | Wednesday, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm Strange Fruit July 17 | Tuesday Henry Grimes July 24 | Tuesday Vieux Farka Touré July 31 | Tuesday Somi August 7 | Tuesday Terry Radigan August 14 | Tuesday Marie Knight Looks like I will have to figure a way to step out of the office on a Tuesday or two this summer...

The Memorial album is available both as an RVG and as part of the (somewhat crappy sounding) complete Clifford Brown BN/PJ box set on BN. I'm not sure if the Memorial album RVG has all of the BN recordings with Donaldson, but it seems that the complete box must.

That's the thing, I don't know exactly what % voting interest EMI has in Capitol, and to what extent they actively manage that interest.

Kind of depends on how much voting interest EMI has in Mosaic, and the extent to which they choose to exercise that interest.

This gets released on my birthday and will be the first new-to-me Mingus I've heard in quite a while. Good stuff!

Yep, I went through something very similar 1.5 years ago, just about 6 months after I turned 30. Broke up with a girl I had been living with for five years. It was the right thing to do, but it was a really confusing time for a while.

My friend and I just A/Bed the first two tracks from the 63 session vs. the old Newport 63 cd. We agree that it is a pretty subtle difference, but we both slightly prefer the sound of Trane's horn on the new cd (even though it does feel a little "pushed") but and we also both like the way the old cd tamed a little bit of the boom in Garrison's bass.

Right, of course it is Haynes on the 63 date - I typed Jones above our of force of habit. I just A/Bed the 65 show. It isn't nearly as dramatic of a difference as the version of Impressions from the 63 show. The New Thing CD already sounded pretty good. I think Trane is a little louder on the new remaster, and the drums are perhaps slightly more crisp. I can't really say which I prefer. They are both good. In the process of A/Bing the other tracks from the 63 date.

Not quite unreleased -- but previous versions were edited. Now that you've listened to it, what was taken out on previous issued versions? Is it just bass and drum solos, or part of Coltrane and McCoy's solos? Guy There is a comment in the liner notes that the bass solo was for the most part so badly distorted on the tapes that it's not usable, so most of it is edited out. according to the notes, that's all that's missing, purely because it couldn't be rescued. So the bass solo isn't in the newly released version either? What's the substantive difference between the two versions? The old one is 15:52, the new one is 23:30. I just A/Bed the versions of Impressions. There is about a one minute intro (maybe a little less) by Trane that has been restored, followed by an approximately five and a half minute solo by Tyner, followed by about 30 seconds of the lost bass solo (which really does sound awful - I'm sure his playing is fine but you can see why they did not include the entire solo - it's nice that they included this little snippet just to satisfy mycuriosity, though). I think the distortion on Garrison's bass may be why they left the piano solo out to start with; it is fairly prominent in that section, too. However, there is no way I can think of that they could have restored Trane's intro without reintroducing the piano solo - it just wouldn't have worked. Trane does sound much better on this remaster. Elvin Jones is a little higher in the mix. Garrison is much higher in the mix, which is somewhat debateable choice given the sound problem. Oddly, I actually prefer the way Tyner sounded on the old master. I haven't listened to the rest of the disc. Edit: I was way off on the duration of that Trane intro. It is about 20 seconds.

It would be great to see Smtihville come out. That's one of the few BNs from the "classic" era that I've never heard, and Here Comes Louis Smith is a personal favorite.

Wow, what a complete fucking asshole. I've probably bought around 2,000 cds over the last 10 years, and I'm the reason the music industry is dying. Why don't you get the slightest clue about who/what you are posting about before you go around throwing words like "asswipe" around? Some of us have been weary of (or even insulted by) Universal/Verve's cynical marketing methods for years, and see no need to give them the benefit of the doubt, ESPECIALLY when it comes to new repackagings of material by major artists (where they tend to stoop the lowest). Off I go to figure out that "ignore" feature...

Went to the link and the price is now $29.99. I'm really tempted to get it at that price. How is the readability of this for those who have it? It's fine. You can blow the font up if you need to.

At one point he bragged to a reporter that he jacked himself up on meth to get the 4F, then later claimed that the reporter was too stupid to realize that he was just bullshiting and that he had in fact received a student defferal (which I didn't realize existed).

I have kind of a strange reaction to the London recordings - on the one hand I feel like they aren't as "good" as, for instance, the classic Riverside recordings, but I enjoy listening to them as much as anything else he did.

That could be, but I think we've just seen too much of this kind of crap from Verve for me to give them the benefit of the doubt. Yes, they did manage to reissue a lot of important and even surprising stuff in the mid-to-late 90s - I know I once eagerly anticipated each new batch of Impulse reissues - but I do think that over the last several years they have really been jerking their customers around.

They got to hold something back in the vaults so that they can later reissue the material in a new, indespensible format... Verve has really mastered the art of crass marketing. Next up: Coltrane at Newport for After Dinner on a Second Date.

I have it but haven't played it in a long time. Truth be told, I remember it being a bit boring, in the "typical hard bop" way. But my memory has been known to be faulty at times. I'll give this a listen tomorrow and check back in.

It may well be a new online sale.

Does Marion Brown still live in NYC? I'm asking because when I saw Cecil Taylor at the Blue Note a month or two ago, I was seated with a very, very old man absorbed in revising a thick stack of handwritten sheet music who looked for all the world like Mssr. Brown.

I heard you couldn't access an exchange server with an iPhone. If that is true, then it is really an entirely different tool from a BlackBerry.