Bluesnik

Thanks, Sidewinder. And thanks also to Simon, who I assume is Simon Spillett, for his very helpful comments.

What do you mean? The sound? The album's excellent.

Oh, I want that. Plus there will be very little duplication as I only have Mexican Green in its Impressed/Repressed edition.

That one's very good, although that has already been pointed out. But I have the old edition and may have to upgrade. Though I don't do sonic upgrades. Let's see what will happen.

I have a still sealed surplus copy of that. It's on sale. The Charly midnineties edition.

I've only ever checked on Amazon but maybe I'll have to change because the copies I see there now are crazily priced. The one I got was from an Amazon marketplace seller, and it was a sealed copy and the problem was on all four dics (not scratches, but something that looked more like acid or chemical etch. Probably a fabrication defect). Its OOP, but maybe there're more around. Just saw this from a thread here in 2006 where a user points out that flaw: One note though, make sure to check each of the CDs. There was some sort of production flaw. And several of the sets had CDs with a "film" on the music side that looked faintly like the cover art - as if the CDs were stacked before the graphics were "dry". Anyway, the CDs wouldn't play all the way through. They skipped around like they were scratched. I bought this set new shortly after it had gone OOP first from B&N... and then from Amazon. I returned about 5 copies - a couple to each vendor - before I got a good one. From blake

I have a theoretically wonderful boxset called Hot Jazz on Blue Note that covers the first years. With Art Hodes, James P. Johnson, Max Kaminsky, Sidney de Paris, Edmond Hall and others. But I say theoretically because it won't play. I've never heard it. The cd player doesn't recognize the CDs because they're damaged. I got a refund from the seller and will have to wait to find another one with a good price. Mastering by Malcolm Addey, notes by Dan Morgenstern. From 1996.

I was thinking in this direction too last night as I was listening to this and thinking how well they celebrated the 60th birthday in 1999, with a series of special reissues such as this and also the fantasticThe Blue Note Swingtets or Edmond Hall's Profoundly Blue, and not the reissue of the megasellers the Japanese are preparing for this year.

I considered this set a while ago, but now I think I'll stick with the Resonance, not least because I like early periods in artists.

Same here. I already own different Resonance sets and am very satisfied with them. They're on a par with Mosaic, with good booklets, good notes and overall concepts. Plus the high quality of annotators and collaborators.

Will have to seek this out.

That one must be really good. I have another equivalent that's absolutely brilliant: And I was in Togo in the 80s.

I also have this and like it very much.

Very good piece.

A set I like very much. And one with which I learned to like Joe Pass more than I already did.

From the LPR collection though I have it as a digipack. With Dave Burns, Ray Copeland, Chick Corea and Willie Bobo on the first session only. It comprises 3 sessions. One with Attila Zoller.

That's the way I see them and use them too.

I used to be one too in my teens, in the seventies. First reaction when I saw this I thought it was that movie about that fateful season with the Lauda accident and the great Lauda Hunt rivalry, 1975 or 76 IIRC. And that movie I've seen, in TV some years ago.

Will have to check that! And, by the way, I forgot to mention in my earlier posts what a big loss this is. I have always liked and admired Gilberto. Even his daughter Bebel was great in her early 2000s heyday.

Yes this one is also called Joao Gilberto aka Aguas de marco and I think is from 73. Yes that's the one I was referring to. The Legendary Joao Gilberto. And my favourite tracks would be O pato (the duck) and Bolinha de papel (paperball) from his second and third album, respectively. And Dave, the second album you mentioned is the same as the first, only from a different (Spanish, from the Freshsound family ) label.

One of the Selects I own I like most. Specially the Street Swingers album, as I've said before. With Jim Halll and Jimmy Raney!

Oh, thanks. I thought it was a double, but I don't have it.

Wow, hadn't heard about this. But my three favourite Gilberto albums are his first three: Chega de Saudade, O amor o sorriso e a flor and Joao Gilberto (1961). They were recorded for EMI Odeon and sometime in the early nineties were released together by EMI in a double CD, called something with Joao Gilberto (I don't remember the exact title right now).

Agreed and recommended in both cases. Ted Gioa's book on West Coast Jazz is also recommended. As is his study about blues Delta blues.