neveronfriday

Yes, I certainly will. I just didn't have enough time to get it all done. Livingwithmusic.com is dead, but I have another site (deus62.com) set up (it includes everything from lwm.com plus more ...) but I haven't had the time to move the Google juice over. I need to program permanent redirects from the old lwm links to the new deus62 links in order not to lose Google ranking. That takes a full weekend ... which I haven't had yet. The new site already has some more Mosaic discographies, an up-to-date Jazz in Paris page (which also looks nicer with lots of larger cover images, etc. ...) Here's a screenshot from quite a while back of the new site which is hidden behind a maintenance screen until I've had time to complete deus62.com (December?). If I opened up the site now, Google would punish me for mirrored content on two sites and push me down to the bottom of the bits&bytes barrel. http://deus62.com/linkto/deus62.jpg P.S.: At the very top left you can see the old "Discographies and Lists" menu item which houses the Mosaic and JiP pages. Note: The screenshot is full-size: a 1.5 MB jpg file taken at full width on a 27'' monitor. The site is responsive btw, so you can even view it on a smartphone, tablet ... whatever. The elements are scaled accordingly.

Nice and clean new look.

Yes, meant was what I was after ... @mjzee ...I posted it in the "open" because there is a ton of great stuff on Allen's boxed sets that everyone should hear. There's a lot of fascinating thought, insight and a ton of knowledge that went into those sets. They're really worth your time and money, if you are so inclined. Yes, you can (no pun intended, although...): go to your first post -> edit -> use full editor -> topic title can be edited. Ah, "full editor". That did the trick. Thanks, Hans. As the thread starter, I think you can change a thread title by editing the original post, and changing it there. By coincidence, Allen's mammoth "Really the Blues?" was coming together just as I was going through a somewhat less bruising battle of my own with cancer. And like you, the music gave me great nourishment. Best, Paps Good to hear, Paps. I don't have that yet, but I intend to get my hands on it.

The JSP set sounds great to my ears. It was mastered by the late John R.T. Davies. Unlike Lon I don't like the remastered Sony box from 2000, it sounds harsh/piercing to me. I agree with Hans. The Sony box wasn't my kind of thing sound-wise either, and I have what, at best, can be called a mediocre system (Marantz A-class, with its added warmth and all, Dynaudio 1.8 MK II speakers) and on my system, the John R.T. Davies remasters were tons better. But, as is often the case with these issues, YMMV.

Shall do, Guy. Paris and/or France (once again) is at the very top of my list. Chuck, thanks for many of your releases. I continue to enjoy them time and again! Thanks, Noj. Long time, no hear. Thanks, David. Thanks, Jim, always a pleasure to check in here. You've got one helluva board here.

Allen, it's been ages ago I have been on here. If you remember at all, I was this complaining dude from Germany who was (somewhat) obnoxious ... I wanted to post the following, also for the others on here to see. I can't recall when it was, but at some point I jumped on your offer when you sold some remaindered/reduced/whatever copies of your "That Devilin' Tune" boxed sets. They made a difference in my life. Shit, there was a ton of stuff I learned, heard for the first time, enjoyed, took in by osmosis. Thank you, Allen. Those boxed sets got me through a truckload full of shit. I think I know both the music and your notes inside out. I'm indebted to you. Volkher (deus62)

I have kept every single mail I have received since 1989 (Usenet, anyone?). I have a program that just regularly empties my mail and mail archives into one huge database dump and ... well ... keeps it. I haven't been online much these past 12 months, but going through said database dump, I received 102 mails (plus ensuing correspondence) from people on this board throughout those months, inquiring how things were, remembering stuff I was looking for and offering it to me, sending me perverted jokes and lurid photos ... stuff like that. I'm really embarrassed that I didn't react to more than a handfull and wanted to let all of you know how much I appreciated every single one of your mails, even if I didn't reply. If you have cancer, which I had several times, you just automatically have to find a different center for yourself, and I did. My new center did and does NOT include online forums like Organissimo and S.H. I also reduced all my online-activities to virtually nothing. I beat the cancer, but it's a truce that, instinctively, I don't trust. One I shouldn't trust. That shit pops up whenever you least expect it and just bites you in the ass so severely that you shake your fist at the powers that be and hope that your "f*ck you" doesn't get you automatically dismissed at the pearly gates when the time comes. I'm fine. Thanks guys (and the one? two?) gals around here. Many of the old-timers remember couw, a great guy, and I just followed suit and demolished 90% of my hardware and just left the Internet. To be quite honest, I intend to keep it that way. But I thought I should leave a line of thanks here (see above). I'm still a regular reader (as admins can confirm by checking my log-in data) and I have bought ... shame on you bastards ... a TON of stuff these past 12 months directly or indirectly related to posts on the one and only forum that, in my opinion, has the most knowledgeable and discerning people on it. Yes, I have fought with some of you, and I have blown my top time and again (did you know that experts actually link psychopathic and sociopathic behavior to thyroid problems, which I have had for 6 to 8 years?), but I always return to get your opinion on recent reissues, boxed sets, weird LP covers and whatnot. I'll be around. Thanks, guys. P.S.: I have/had this old site called livingwithmusic.com. It had the Mosaic discographies on it. That site is dead (but still has what I posted on there). Whenever I had the time, I moved all of that over to another site, deus62.com (where it all started 20 years ago) ... but it's not live yet. At the end of the year (and I'll post here again), it will be. Wait for it. It's got ... more. BTW: I haven't posted sh*t over on lwm for 12 months and more (besides updating the Jazz in Paris section) but it still gets 180 unique visitors per day on the Mosaic discographies page and about 200 unique on many other pages, even though because of not posting, Google is pushing my former front-page ass to pages 8, 10 and 28. That just sure as hell proves proves that music fans dig deeper. Cheers, guys. Have one on me, the missus ... or ... whatever.

I'm on here again lately, reading along. This is what I posted on another board: "I don't know if I'm allowed to say bull***** here, but both the Armstrong and Bessie Smith boxes are. It's the third or fourth time I got shafted by this Sony/Columbia/B.s. outfit (remember the screwed-up Miles Davis shoebox, glue, scratches, tears, errors and all?) and I'd love to shove both boxes up some executive's rear end. Sound sucks on both (Armstrong and B. Smith) ... and I would have loved to have improved versions, especially since my other Armstrong Hot boxed set had black cardboard color all over the playing surface when I bought it ages ago and is completely unplayable. At the moment I'm ready to shoot whoever screwed this up, yet again. Repackaging old stuff and falsely advertising (maybe it was a copy&paste error, no idea) the sets to have been newly remastered by someone I respect, is ... All of this music is really important, excellent, breathtaking ... and they treat it like some everyday commodity. Pi**es me off to no end." Just don't get either box. You're wasting your money*. * unless ... like me ... you know that every subsequent reissue will probably be as bad as this one. Both boxes contain some of the most important music of the 20th century and one should have at least some version of it ... for the Bessie Smith, I'll just start buying into the Frog reissues. People whose opinion I respect have recommended them to no end (despite the butt-ugly covers).

Yeah, it's the corporate thieves that are actually trying to make sure that the "normal" thieves have to pay $100.000 per tune and disappear in some dark and dusty jail cells. Just make sure they're all imprisoned in the US, they've got far too few of their citizens imprisoned anyways You're not trying to stir the pot, are you? If yes, let me have a spoon ...

Yeah, it's the corporate thieves that are actually trying to make sure that the "normal" thieves have to pay $100.000 per tune and disappear in some dark and dusty jail cells. Last thing I heard from Scott Wenzel is that they are planning a late 2012 release date for the Webb/Fitzgerald box. Could be later, of course Good it's not sooner. Mosaic is beginning to cost me two arms and half a leg. I'm quite sure Mosaic can do a much better job with the Webb/Fitzgerald material (if the right person does the mastering). Looking forward to it.

After some closer listening, I can't help but think that Universal simply took the old Chronological Classics (plus whatever), squeezed them through the Studio 101 board and spewed them out as a reissue series. If that happens to be the case (I have a few of those 90s Classics Fitzgerald Cds and they do sound nearly - if not totally - identical), doesn't it make at least the Fitzgerald box quite a shady affair?

I'm not REALLY a collector, but with the "Jazz in Paris" series, I really can't help myself. BTW: My JiP page is still up and the revived site (elsewhere) will be up in July. On that site, things have also been updated considerably. Old site: http://livingwithmusic.com/discographies-lists/lists/jazz-in-paris-gitanes-jazz-productions-universal-france/ New site: (NOT available at the moment, but bookmark it anyways): http://deus62.com/discographies-lists/lists/jazz-in-paris-gitanes-jazz-productions-universal-france/ Once the new site is up, I will redirect all livingwithmusic requests directly to the deus62.com site (nobody will really notice). P.S.: Don't forget this one: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Series/Jazz_in_Paris Cheers! Gone again for a week or so ...

Great! Thank you!

that´s a nice sectionalfurniture you have - but what´s there on it? keep boppin´ marcel a) It's an IKEA system. Trustworthy, solid, cheap. OOP, so to speak. b) On it are, for the photo, the new "Jazz in Paris" out-of-series double CDs, just in case you were wondering. c) On the left side, you can see the base of a "Stelton" (Denmark) stainless-steel oil lamp. c) On the right side there is a the base of a weird sculpture I bought somewhere, at some point. d) Behind the CDs, you can see the bottom of a framed (outrageously expensive when compared to the price of the prints) "Aerobleu" quadruple set of prints I bought years ago. e) Just out of eyesight is a dark-blue bottle of "Conquistador Suave Blanco", one of the best tequilas I have ever tried. f) Next to that is a full glass. g) There's a naked girl dancing on the far left, but she wouldn't allow me to include her in the photo. Other questions? :D Don't want to miss a single one, eh! Trust you'll enjoy them! Cheers! I'm still missing the "new" single ones (I'm not ... like that weird Swiss dude, buying into others 'just for the cover') . I hate Universal for milking this series for what it's worth*. *I love Universal for having put this fabulous reissue series out there. It's become a fetish of mine. Cheers, Guy!

What do you guys (Flurin et. al) actually want to know? Session info? Details? If I like it/the new ones? Sorry for the delay. Too much partying in the "real world" these past days. Sidenote: @Flurin: and others: Do you/anyone have the discography of the Mosaic #239 "The Lester Young Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 (4 CDs)"? For some reason, I forgot to download that one. The "Wayback/Internet Archives" machine complete fails on third-level links for this one.Blanks across the board. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could PM or mail me that one (plus anything else they have). On the side, next to hospitals and crap like that, I've been updating my "Mosaic discographies" and "Jazz in Paris" pages ... elsewhere. They are not live yet and won't be, until I get the dirt on that set. Thanks, guys.

Will do later tonight or tomorrow. Am in town right now.

Mine are on the way, according to Francois L. Les miens aussi That was fast. Mine arrived today. No time to check properly if they are correct. Too much damn work at the moment.

Mine are on the way, according to Francois L.

Re: Fitzgerald box (from Amazon.co.uk):

Unfortunately, that is true.

I have it here. All the right CDs seem to be in it (numbering) and the CDs look spotless. I simply don't have time to listen to the whole thing at the moment. I don't even have time to spot-check. The only issues I could think of are faulty pressings or doubles (right number, wrong content). So, if anyone finds out, I'd also love to hear what's supposed to be wrong with the box. I checked last night, btw, and all the other Amazon sites still had the set listed as available.

Thanks guys, but I just jump out from my dark corner every couple of months or so to scare everyone. I've joined the silent majority and just read along when my thread subscriptions throw this or that up in the air.. Cheers!

Flurin, a) longer text by Fabrice Zammarchi in both French and English b) bunch of photos c) "Recordings" section (see photo link below) d) Some basic reissue info (also studio 101 remastering) http://www.deus62.com/linkto/bechet.jpg Volkher

I just got the Bechet and Fitzgerald sets today if you have any questions. Unwrapped and stored for listening in a week or so.