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This is a great series, hope it will continue with new sets.

You gotta do this one then: Bird is always the answer.

That William Parker is a great one! And "Open to Love" and "Mosaic" are classics of course.

Does the owner say anything about it, and why are there no more releases in the Blues & Rhythm series as well? In my opinion the Classics series was the foundation for the the Penguin Jazz guide to Jazz on CD. This series made it possible to get a complete overview of the released material by early jazz artists, making this book much more authoritative and comprehensive.

Would like to see these release too. Thanks for the info!

I bought these a couple of months ago, so much great music here! V.A.: Eccentric Soul - Twinight's Lunar Rotation V.A.: Good God! - A Gospel Funk Hymnal Catherine Howe - What a Beautiful Place

Now, that's a cool album title.

This a fantastic album, some of Tristano's best here. That title song is a sound marvel, I have both the CD and the Inner City vinyl, and think they sound fine. http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhe...assical-manner/

Some more interesting and strange toys for kids: http://www.cracked.com/article_17493_13-mo...drens-toys.html

Happy birthday to you, have a nice day today! Play some music that you love!

I love Chet Baker's singing, listen to it often. He's got that feel. If you hear "The Touch Of Your Lips" on this great record, and say that he cannot sing, you have not listened: Baby Breeze

Great stuff. A longer version of it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57bil_ba...-grant-gr_music

A great way people could misjudge Chet is to read a bullshit claptrap of a 'biography' that came out a few years back---by a guy named James Gavin. I really wish people would boycott such sensational garbage, but the smarter ones will realize where it's at after a few sentences. A much better one came out by a Dutch author. I can't remember his name (someone help me out, please) but the guy knew about music, didn't talk out of his rear end, and it never sidestepped the addiction thing or other less appealing factors, he just didn't try to sell books with it. I felt the same way about that movie that came out in '89 or so (Let's Get Lost) as about Gavin's book: shameful image-pimping by an exploitative music no-nothing. But it had a great version of Zingaro, at least. Just thought I get it off my chest. Hope it wasn't a bringdown, but we've had enough sensational idiocy that gets a pass b/c people just don't know enough about music or the lives of its practitioners. The Dutch writer is Jeroen De Valk and the book is "Chet Baker: His Life and Music". http://www.jeroendevalk.nl/books/his_life_and_music_CB.html

Sun Ra Sunday: http://nuvoid.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun%20Ra%20Sunday

I always loved George Russell's great music and compositions since I first heard it. RIP to a great artist. My favourite records of his are "Jazz In The Space Age", "Jazz At The Work Shop", "New York, New York".

That Miles set is a great one, and is that the coolest album cover ever?

More on this release: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseact...iendId=79809502

Another nu one coming up from Transparency, saying it might be their best release ever! http://www.jazzloft.com/p-50399-helsinki-1971.aspx This seems pretty hot.

I'd really wish there could be more new CD releases in this great series.

I ain't got this set, but the Spanier-Bechet sessions here, which I got on other records, must be some of the greatest jazz ever.

Thanks for the clip, great! I love that record "Os Afro Sambas" too. A classic.

It seems like Atavistic Records has a new Saturn reissue coming up: "Continuation": http://www.amazon.com/Continuation-Sun-Ra/...5032&sr=1-1

Amalgam - Prayer for Peace Lester Young - BD Jazz Ben Webster - The Soul of ' Thelonious Monk - Super Best The Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool

And the T-Bone Walker set too!

Well, the Richard Thompson set looks like something! I have the "Watching The Dark" box set from 1993, but this seems like a better song selection covering more, and the new set probably will have much better sound. My experience with Shout Factory releases is that they are careful with their mastering, like with the Chet Baker "Career: 1952-1988" 2 CD.