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yes, expansions and the title track are very good.

thanks. that one looks good.

yes, i second that decision about the blanton-webster band, which was one of his best. there's a good one on rca-bluebird, i think.

yes, yes. i'll give it a spin tonight.

you hipped me to a book i want to read. and i didn't know this was coming up. it seems very interesting and hits the nail on the head. i know reynolds from way back when and i'm sure he has some very important book about britain in the punk years or postpunk. i just don't happen to know the title now. and i'm very interested in pop culture. always have been.

this is a very nice album!

stan getz. the complete roost recordings. it's early getz... so it's good enough if you like the formative years, when the artist's voice is still fresh and not too overmarketed, better than the later years when it's more a question of satisfyinig an audience than saying what you want to say.

yes, and why? i was so happy when they started to pop up in the stores. they were like the japanese mini-lps, only cheaper. well, maybe the quality of the packaging wasn't as high, but they were good, and mid-priced. but as soon as they had appeared they disappeared. they were going to be verve's regular reissue series, later replaced by the originals. must be verve's complicated situation in those years... and in present times.

oh, yes. i forgot. on the rvg cd there's another session with monk, which in my opinion was added to the cd but didn't appear on the 10" lp. the 10" lps were time limited. very time limited, so i guess the first session was recorded for inclusion in the lp. but not the second one, which, curiosly is previous. but that's my guess. i'll have to read the liner notes...

yes, the're very great. wizard of the vibes is wonderful. from its cover to the content, which is basically the modern jazz quartet plus lou donaldson before the MJQ. and this is part of my favorite 5000 10" series.

but aren't the impulse albums available individually?

very good video. it made me think of round midnight, which i saw at its time.

wahoo, the right thing and sweet hone beat...

yes, yes, yes. very, very nice. but what i wanted to state here is the complete blue note fifties hank mobley sessions. very, very good! and a good way to own all of the great and not always availalble 50s albums. plus the sidemen list is amazing.

totally agree with you, though i haven't read the de valk bio but i have read the gavin book, which i didn't like very much.

count basie - america's #1 band, the columbia years.

i particularly like the pacific jazz album with chet baker from the beginnings of the 50s (52?). the famous pianoless quartet stuff. it should have been wonderful seeing them at the haig! marylin monroe and robert mitchum and other pals apparently did. it was issued on the west coast classics series in that wonderful year of 98. i also like the concert jazz band. but that's very personal. others might like his verve material.

i specially like the first art pepper. all of his 50s material is good. very recommendable is the mosaic select, which has the return, modern art and the art of pepper (which is that omega tapes project) and also surf ride, which i like a lot. though to get that last one you'll have to go japanese because to my knowledge it's not available here.

i don't have the braziliance albums, and the album that i have is called laurindo almeida quartet, so that's why i thought it was this one. and i thought the almeida/shank collabos were three, the quartet, the earliest, plus the later braziliances, but maybe the braziliances are compilations of "brazilian" material out there that include the quartet album. in any case, i just wanted to make that clear, that maybe the almeida quartet was the one i have, which, following the japanese tradition, is an exact reproduction of that issue. but i'm not sure now what is what. probably it would much easier to reissue one of the braziliance albums, which had european and american distribution, than the one i have. so you might be right.

or it's a reissue of that pacific jazz album almeida recorded with bud shank in 54, i think. if the year is this (which i seem to remember, but am not quite sure about), it would be the first encounter between bossa nova and jazz. you know there were pretty much crossed influences... both ways! but bossa nova's birthyear was 58 (now that i remember), so it would be prebossa, because almeida's guitar playing is kind of bossa, but not yet entirely it. i listened to that album the other day (it's with harry babasin and roy harte, so a dedicated west cost thing). i have it in a japanese mini-lp, and i think (but am not sure) it was never released here.

most of it i have. and what i don't have i really don't want, with maybe one or two exceptions. the main selling point here seem to be the mini-lp covers. to make you buy again what you already have... the usual.

thanks for the list. so this confirms what i maintain: that the 90s were the best time for reissues ever. 1998 was an outstanding year and remember the excellent impulse reissues.

with his wife, or i don't know if she was already his wife. so his soon to be or ex-wife (miles being miles!).

there's another band called the mastersounds doing the rounds today (well, at least there was in 2006). they play deep funk, with a lot of funk, some hammond jazz, a lot of soul too and a bit of boogaloo. they're good and they are british, i think. a bit in the vein of the quantic soul orchestra.

thanks for the info. so now i know what i have. good!