Bluesnik

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!

i went to my favourite bookshop yesterday (160411) and found the Inventor of the modern album cover Taschen book on alex steinweiss. i was very suprised, i didn't know or remember it was about to be published. one of my biggest passions being jazz covers (and not only jazz, but every kind of record cover) i got it, but for a much, much smaller amount than the ones here mentioned: 50 €. it was a bit expensive, i know, but i think it's worthwhile with the lots of good quality record cover repros and the high end graphics (the book in itself imitates a 78 album). and it's a big and heavy book. you have to think it needs to acommodate the multilingual text in english, french and german. but the massive text is peppered with lots and lots of good repros. i agree that it would be more interesting to have something like this about jim flora or david stone martin, but it's a good starting point. i think i have many of the cover repros in other books like taschen owns' jazz covers (which, btw, cost about half the price). but here they are better reproduced and the general layout of the book is very good. so why does it cost now a fraction of what it used to cost? i don't know. i suppose taschen have many left... first i thought this was something new, but upon seeing this entry i realized it was a kind of reissue or reprint. i wouldn't have taken it for more than it costs.

what do you mean with the lewis/perkins? 2° east 3° west? if it's that it' very, very good. i got it recently in a cheap japanese edition (it was on my wants list for a long time) and it's brilliant. i don't know why i didn't get it earlier, because it' very good. but i didn't know it had been reissued here. together with john lewis and bill perkins it also has percy heath, chico hamilton and jim hall on board. it's called grand encounter, meaning between two east coast men and three from the west coast.

i have these in their standalone edition, which i think you are referring to. and i also have some of the older editions, like grey december. an advantage of the newer ones is that they replicate the original edition, with its proper cover and its choice of songs. so they're no compilations, like some of the old ones used to be. but they would duplicate material. that's for sure. but, on the other hand, you would get a better sound (at least only because they're contemporary. well, as contemporary as a cd from 2004 can be). as for your question, i'm not sure. i would prefer the newer editions. but if you already have the material and are happy with it, or its sound...

i have this one too. and no need to go japanese, there was a (brilliant) connoisseur 10" series edition with howard mcghee vol 2 plus the mentioned quartet album on one cd, in 1998. i love this series. it's one of my alltime favourites. there are a lot of 10" albums reissued from the blue note 5000 series from around '55, when the switch from 10" to 12" was made. and the sound is also good: it's a 20 bit SBM affair. or 24 bit? it also exists. i'm not sure now. and of course i also have the mosaic box, which is wonderful!

bola sate is very good. i have this same album and like it a lot, like everything out of brazil.

i don't like creed taylor much, nor CTI, nor A&M. he's resposible, in my view, for sweetening and making jazz (and bossa nova) palatable to an american audience, so that it would sell much and he would get rich. the results are horrible. all bossa albums sung in english are nothing compared to their brazilian counterpart. they're not really bossa. and the same goes for jazz. it is, in effect, the precursor to smooth jazz. i don't doubt that it was, in its day, commercially successfully. but it wasn't jazz (or bossa), but (60s) pop.

barney wilen is very good on afternoon in paris, one of my favorite discs.

the verve gerry mulligan concert jazz band sessions. it's very good with lots of big or medium band playing.

not the stephen frears version (from somewhere around the turn of the 80s to the 90s) with john malkovich, glenn close and michelle pfeiffer?

90's pre internet? but the nineties were when the present internetboom was built. and you are right that the first penguin guides were a godsend. i still have the first, which if i'm not wrong is from 91.

art pepper select

that's a very good idea. pity it's not by the material owners but by some other label.

the complete prestige thelonius monk recordings on concord. it's very good and they are k2s. and it features an amazing miles davis session with the modern jazz giants, i think, milt jackson, percy heath and kenny clarke. plus it (the box) has those fabulous sessions with sonny rollins. but what really stands out for me are the piano trios.

the kenton jazz presents ... bob cooper, bill holman & frank rosolino. for west coast heads it is fantastic and i think it was very hardly available before mosaic reissued it. and i'm surprised i don't listen more to the mobley set, being as i am a big hank mobley fan. and i like the 50's blue notes.

the hum dono would be good. its with this strange indian from bombay da silva on it. the name sounds like from goa. i have it digitally, though i would prefer the cd issue. and i endorse the compilation recommendations. i have #2 and i listened to it a lot some years back.

mexican green is very good. i have it and i love it. as i remember, there were the two impressed compilations by gilles peterson and then a series of reissues of british jazz which he endorsed. i can't tell you the whole list but i think they were a bit on the free side. or at least a part of them, because mexican green is not. apart from the echoes of the title, which i like a lot, the album is a gem. and it's good news that the albums will be available again. i think they're not otherwise.

yes, afternoon in paris is very good, with john lewis and sacha distel, before he bacame a hit-parade singer. and also the next one, from the JiP series.

the art pepper mosaic select is also very good.

mine too. hahaha

i have the mosaic box of the concert jazz band. it's very good. although i particularly like his pianoless quartet and that philips record (i don't remember its name right now. it's the one with the blueish painting cover).

i enjoy your first mention a lot: the pianoless quartet with chet baker. this is some of the chet baker i like the most. but there are also other albums that are worthwhile. i have the mosaic box about the concert jazz band, which is quite good. it was a medium band, not really a big band.