Bluesnik

The LPR series initially came out over here, in Europe, as Mini-LPs (with their own kind-of-OBIs), but after Universal's accountants found out how costly they were to make (they sold for around 12 € and were not as wildly priced as in Japan), the company switched to Digipaks. So later LPRs are Digipaks. LPR, which AFAIK stands for LP Reproduction. The Digipaks are nice still. They capture the cover very well. I have examples of both.

Curiously I just bought Lars Gullin's album the other day (Quartet, Quintet, Sextet, Octet and Big Band, IIRC). No, no. Now I see its Lars Gullin Swings. The rest is a kind of undertitle.

Curiously I just bought Lars Gullin's album the other day (Quartet, Quintet, Sextet, Octet and Big Band, IIRC) from a heap of Japanese Atlantic 1000 yen reissues, but I was told, strangely enough, (and it's clearly stated on the package) they're manufactured in the EU.

Yeah, that one is great. It was reissued, at least in Europe, as a Mini-LP in the LPR series. It belongs, like Sharpshooters, to his early Emarcys. But my favorite, I think, is Quintet in Chicago with the Miles Davis band (himself included), sans Miles. And maybe also Somethin Else.

Yes, I dig that one too a lot.

I like that one reissued by Freshsound and also the Bethlehem one mentioned by jazzbo

So am I and I share your view of this material.

Do the individual discs issued under Nocturne Records "Jazz In Hollywood" Series cover everything in the box set? The individual titles were: Virgil Gonsalves Sextet / Steve White Quartet-Quintet Herbie Harper Bud Shank Quintet / Lou Levy Trio Harry Babasin Quintet / Bob Enevoldsen Quintet Steve White Quartet *Edit: It appears there is a CD by Jimmy Rowles that is missing I don't have the answer to this since I don't know what the totality recorded for Nocturne was, but the contents on the set are: Herbie Harper Quintet Bud Shank Quintet, which would be his first session ever Harry Babasin Quintet Bob Enevoldsen Quintet Herbie Harper Quintet/Quartet Virgil Gonsalves Sextet Lou Levy Trio Jimmy Rowles Trio I don't know why I was under the false impression that this was to be a three volume set. But i've read again through the liners and there's no mention of even a second one. But the mention of Vol.1 on this one points to the intention of releasing at least Vol.2, even if it was a 2 cd set. From your notes the only material missing from the only existing volume is the Steve White material.

Yes, great trio.

I like that one, that collects Signifyin and Possum Head. Both on Argo, from the early sixties.

I have these two but haven't listened to them in too long a time. Will give them a new spin soon inspired by this thread.

Yes, that's true. These collaborations are not on a par with his flmaneco work. And the concert per se was not a flamenco affair. But still it was a reunion of some great guitarists, of which only one was a flamenco player.

Me too. But who I find the most unchanged are Sonic Youth and the most unrecognisable, as has been mentioned before, Chrissie Hynde

I saw him once in the late seventies with Al Di Meola and John Mc Laughlin forming a great trio of guitarists. I think they also recorded an album.

Recomendation seconded, plus the album called, I think, Courts the Count.

Yes, I would also highlight that one.

Got mine today. Thanks.

The Freeman/Twardzik Trio album can be heard on said Super Bit Classics TOCJ reissue and on the Pacific Jazz Piano Trios Mosaic Select.

Picked up a great condition SH copy of this last year. Lucky find ! Good for you. To me it also wasn't easy sourcing a new copy when I got it.

That guitar's beautiful. It reminds me a bit of that time when neck through guitars and active pickups were first seen at the end of the seventies, beginning of the eighties.

I also thought that they didn't sell well enough. Just my imagination. And about the three volumes which were planned and at least announced I guess I deduced that of the booklet. But it would have been a lot of material. For me a 3 CD-box is enough, but it's a pity for all the material that could have been reissued. And I think this Harry Babasin-Roy Harte run label only operated for about two years: from 54 to 56.

Yes, I don't know what happened to vols.2 and 3. They were planned but never materialized.

An interesting box about a minor and partly unknown West Coast label.