Bluesnik

I like his collaborations with Horace Parlan (IIRC Look Out and Up & Down, with Booker Ervin), his album with The Three Sounds (Blue Sounds) and above all his That's where it's at.

I listened to this today (disc 10) and I totally agree.

This was a fan and friends funded project (a one-off), so I assume chances of seeing a reissue are really scarce. Now if there was a label behind it, it's more likely we'd see represses or reissues. So I think the only chance is the secondary market, that is to say all preowned articles.

I saw this boxset some days back, and while I'm sure the back pic was the same, I'm not so sure about the cover. But it was definitely a collection of all his albums for Prestige.

Finally got around to getting this one. Brilliant.

I always have liked his Prestiges (or everything previous to the great quartet) at least as much as his Impulses. Like has been mentioned here he wasn't an identifiable icon already, but was developing his own style and that's what I like him for. I particularly like Soultrane and Traneing In, and all his participation in the Miles quintet an don't forget his wonderful Quintet in Chicago, mentioned elsewhere, on Mercury with Cannonball Adderley as leader. That alone is fantastic.

Here Marc Myers talks about that release on the Artist Share label. But it seems this boxset, which contained recordings from more days in the club, is sold out.

I was listening to music the other day and I pulled Jim Hall - Live, from 1976 and on A&M, an album I almost hadn't listened to (because I normally prefer the younger artists output). I'm very fond of his mid-Fifties sessions (Jazz Guitar and All Night Session with Hampton Hawes to only name some). But I was immeditaley taken away by this great album. It's a great concert and I particulalrly liked older Hall and his bassist. And this was shortly before his death, which occured some days later. Edited to add image

Yes, I think so too.

I like Bowie's Low and Heroes, Another Green World, and above all Talking Heads' Remain in Light, which is wonderful. All (except for Another Green World) from the same years, that is late seventies, early eighties.

I wonder what the differences might be between these two boxes, since I only have the second. IIRC it was nearly the same. Blue Note "took over" the concept from Mosaic and created their own boxset.

Exactly my thoughts. Only a long while ago. Maybe a half year back or a whole. I don't know if what I got was the 2013 or the 2012 edition. Now I see it was the 2012 annual edition, with Mingus on the cover instead of Clifford Jordan. So that's how it's standing now: brochure reduced to annual edition.

Yes, Lennie Niehaus is fantastic and these albums also are.

A very fine set!

Same here, on both accounts.

Another couple of very good Joyce albums are Hard Bossa, also released on the London label Far Out in 1999 and her classic Feminina from 1980, I think.

That's the one (to own).

There is a documentary about Foxconn doing the rounds and being shown on various TVs, showing its various undersides and the general pressure under which workers work there.

I imagine you mean either the Live disc mentioned above by A lark ascending or the Songs & Themes album. I will give them a try. I imagine I will like them. It is I thought so. But I can imagine the duo from Spring Heel Jack crossing over into jazz territory easier than Jason Pierce from Spacemen 3. Anyway, he's always been really out, out.

And that J Spaceman isn't that Jason Spaceman from eighties indie group Spacemen 3? And also from Spiritualized.

I was surprised to hear about them here but Spring Heel Jack were a Drum'n'Bass (very smart drum'n'bass) group back in the nineties. Don't know what they're up to now.

More exceptions: which i have.

I think it was Horace Parlan.

Yep - great book. Yeah I agree with that. Just finished it.

Thanks Brownie and Big Beat Steve for your suggestions. I found the CD and its much more Vian the singer than Vian as trumpet player. That's what I gather from the very limited annotations. And it also gives a production date (no mention of a recording date) of 1968. So I assume it's a reissue of what was already a reissue in 1968.