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Raising Hope, on Demand. God I love this show.

This week's Cafe Racer Last night's SNL

I thought we were perhaps talking about this 7 cd box set on the horizon, bootleg, available from amzon.fr: Lavish deluxe collection of stunning performances restored & re mastered. Contains unreleased material. Superb performances by the 'Classic Quartet' - McCoy Tyner Piano , Elvin Jones Drums & Jimmy Garrison on Bass. Guest appearances also by Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson. Includes the first ever recordings of the collaboration between Coltrane & McCoy Tyner. Also we hear the first performance of Coltrane on soprano Saxophone. Includes rare 30 minute version of 'Liberia' compared to the 7 minute LP version and another rarity .The Night has a thousand eyes'. The song 'Delilah' by Victor Young performed at Copenhagen 1961 would never be recorded again so its inclusion in this set makes it also a rare jewel. Also includes poster and 2 Postcards. Disc: 1 1. On Green Dolphin Street 2. Walkin' 3. The Theme 4. Yesterdays / Autumn Leaves/ What's New/ Moonlight in Vermont Medley 5. Rifftide Disc: 2 1. Liberia 2. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 3. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Disc: 3 1. Summertime 2. I Can't Get Started 3. Body and Soul 4. But Not for Me Disc: 4 1. My Favourite Things 2. Blue Train 3. Naima 4. Impressions 5. I want to talk about you 6. Delilah 7. Ev'ry Time we say goodbye Disc: 5 1. Bye Bye Blackbird 2. Chasin' the Trane 3. The Inchworm 4. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 5. Mr. P.C. Disc: 6 1. I Want to Talk About You 2. Traneing In 3. Impressions 4. My Favourite Things (incomplete) Disc: 7 1. Naima (Newport 1961) 2. Ev'ry Time we say goodbye (Copenhagen 1961)

He was quite a man.

Interesting. Can't really say I hear treble boost in most of those i have.

Odd. I really like them.

I get them from dustygroove at decent prices.

I've enjoyed the ones I've had. Most recently picked up two Shelly Manne, and three Mingus.

Ah, that's one I can skip.

Well I guess reissue records . . . it may have been alive as a reissue label, but as far as being "alive" with new recordings, not really for a few decades. Whereas Fantasy was putting out records part of this time. I don't know the histories all that well so I may be way off.

They stayed in business? Wasn't there a time when they really weren't. And the current Blue Note. . . and the Blue Note of the last few decades? Is that THE Blue Note?

Mine too. This reminds me of the Hoffman forum.

Not sure what she is up to lyrically on "Cotton Avenue." Probably not as much depth as one might want to assign to the meaning. It may be just a sort of warmup to "Mingus."

It's about 60 tracks.

Kind of lame, a little entertaining.

Allen, there's a lot more, lots of Decca recordings, a good crop of broadcast material, etc. Flurin, the Swing and Vogue sides are all together in that Vogue set.

I've been enjoying the Complete Vogue set of Django recordings lately. The final discs are mostly new to me and feature Django on electric guitar. They are really great listening. This set also contains the recording of one of his featured spots with the Ellington Orchestra, this one from a Chicago Concert. (The concert was released on a two cd set from Music Masters.) Always fun to listen to that.

No, never have.

I have the set and confess I haven't spun any of it yet. It's a great looking set (I have the earlier edition that I got at a great price).

Not me. They're open unless I've fallen into a doze.

I got the Vegh set in a few days ago and have listened to the first four discs twice each. I mostly know the music from the Guarnieri Quartet cycle and I'm familiar with the Tokyo Quartet cycle. To be honest (and it seems not many share this opinion) so far the Guarnieri is still my favorite though the Vegh has a very tight ensemble sound and a rhythmic emphasis that is different and interesting. The sound. . . is okay. Not knocking my socks off. The booklet has nice background on the compositions.

Doesn't bother me. Didn't notice it but wasn't listening for it.

Finally got my set. Listened to the two I don't remember ever hearing in mono before: Kind of Blue and Someday my Prince will Come. Both sound excellent. Paul Chambers and Bill Evans sound especially nice on Kind of Blue, and the horns are a bit smoother in sound overall.

Yes, I very carefully worded that.

Nah, Russell's best work was way way earlier, though I like the stuff with Brown. Russell is one of my favorites. He was amazing and exciting in the 'twenties through the 'forties and just more consolidated and concentrated beyond. I can hear a bit of Russell in Webster, I hear also a sort of Trumbauer/Young thing too (maybe from Lester's Dad as a teaching influence), and later Webster a sort of Hodges/Bechet thing. Components that are woven into the tapestry. The man came up and through great times and absorbed and assimilated so much. What a player!