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  1. You can go a little crazy searching for the best possible sound for the recordings. I have the RCA Box but because I hear some distortion on Jack the Bear and Koko, I've gried to find other transfers.  I now discover that I have four other sets that have much of the best sides from this era.  My favorite is from France, the  Dreyfus cd entitled "Koko". Dreyfus did an additional cd called "Take the A Train" which has 21 cuts from 1938 to 1950.

    I also have a 2cd set from Avid,  "Highlights of the Great 1940-1942 Band".   They claim to use "Advanced Transfer Technology" but add a riders saying the quality of the sound depends on which studio (Chicago is best, LA worst) was used and you need to compare it to other reissues to understand why they advertise "remarkable sound". 

    Another Avid cd "Jack the Bear"  containing recordings from '27-'45 claims to be in "3 Dimensional Sound" which produces a stereo effect". 

    Finally there's Robert Parker's "Jazz Classics in Surround Sound. Duke Ellington the Great Bands of the  1940s".  

    I haven't listened to these in years but I hope to do some comparisons this week and will report back .  (I'm not really an audiophile and have 81 year old ears. ) 

  2. 4 hours ago, mikeweil said:

    Turns out I bought that Jacquet album a few months ago, but listened only once or twice to it until now. His Clef/Verve albums are a cause of neglect - they deserve the Mosaic treatment! I thought of Jo Jones, but wanted to listen once more to confirm .... 

    I should probably try to hear more Jacquet in non-JATP settings. 

  3. 7 minutes ago, felser said:

    It's great, you'll love it, Mark.  I grab anything by her I can find that's not outrageously expensive.  Saw her live at the Philadelphia Art Museum several years ago along with my wife, board member LWayne, and some other board members.  Amazing show.

    There's a very nice selection of Kurt Weil songs on the 2nd disc. 

  4. 2 hours ago, JSngry said:

    The Mosaic is what bumped my appreciation up to the next level. I was expecting to need a break before listening to it all, but that need never arose. 

    Which Mosaic?  This is great cut and seems to me to be rather subdued by their standards. 

  5. 1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    Those 1964 dates were a cut above, though. Imo. It was like a  Messenger supernova, a torrent of energy amped up and unleashed one last time. 

    I saw that group in '64.  Remember being really impressed by Workman. 

  6. 3 hours ago, JamesAHarrod said:

    If by "release date" you mean when a record was available in retail stores, I am guessing it varied across the country. Pacific Jazz releases were available earliest in Los Angeles where the local distributor, California Record Distributors, received stock from the pressing plant and filled orders from local stores. CRD would then ship to 30+ other distributors across the country. Down Beat was probably the best source regarding availability as Bock would place ads to promote new releases anticipating that records would be in the stores when the ad appeared or shortly thereafter. The Gerry Mulligan Songbook was recorded in New York in December of 1957. Woody Woodward dated the test pressing when he received it, January 29, 1958. The LP was included in a fullpage display ad in Down Beat on April 17, 1958. The Mulligan Songbook was the first stereo release in the new ST-1000 series. Woody dated the test pressing on June 30, 1958. The stereo version was featured in a display ad in Down Beat on September 2, 1958.

    And there was always the Schwan's  Record Catalogue  but I've heard almost no person or institution has a complete run.

  7. 2 hours ago, felser said:

    How good is it?

    I read it a long time ago. IIRC (and I often don't) it connects KOB to many other movements in the arts. I liked it.  BTW I really liked the first chapter of the new book which was quoted above.   Even though I've claimed I'm not going to buy any more books about either Miles or Dylan (I am  still buying nearly everything about Ellington) I'll probably get this book.  KOB has a special place in my heart. I got it from the Columbia Record Club when it was first issued and I thought that if this was jazz, I loved jazz. 

  8. 15 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    I've been surprised that not only are there more albums than I thought I would find with a wikipedia page, but also that they generally/most of the time do reveal the release date.

    Yes and sometimes for a musician's  complete output.  There's a Miles Davis discography on Wikipedia from which you can see that in 1957 Miles had five great albums released: Walkin', Cookin', Bag's Groove, Miles Ahead and the first Lp actually titled Birth of the Cool.  What kind of impact must that have had? 

  9. 1 hour ago, felser said:

    Cut 4 from this is what we are discussing then.  I have never checked out that album - my bad I guess?  Easily remedied on the used market.

    I can't get the "Show more credits" to work. In case anyone else is as clueless as me: It's Fathead, Art Blakey, and Dr. John.  All three get writing credits for the song, which is a bit simple for my taste but I love Mac's piano solo. He does sing on some cuts and on one Blakey plays piano!

  10. 33 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Some good stuff on this one!

     

     

    @medjuck Definitely Fathead, and I'm pretty sure that I have this record and that I like it. But that's all I can think of right now. Always a pleasure to Fathead, Always.

    It is indeed Fathead but I think there's a good chance you don't have this record.  Hint: 2 of the other musicians get equal billing. 

     

     

     

     

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