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Duke Ellington – The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia & Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (Mosaic)

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CD 3a (K–Dec 1932) – with The Mills Brothers, Ethel Waters; three tunes by Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields from "Blackbirds" – "Diga Diga Doo", "I Can't Give You Anything Blue Love" and "Porgy"
CD 3b (LMN–Jan–Feb 1933) – retakes of two tunes by Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields from "Blackbirds" w/ Adelaide Hall, plus "I've Got The World on a String" (Ivie Anderson) & "Sophisticated Lady"
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Found a used copy in excellent condition from a German amazon seller, for about the original price. Had to skip this when it went last chance for financial reasons, but wanted it for the session with Quinichette. Now that I can listen, I like it all, great music all the way through.

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Found a used copy in excellent condition from a German amazon seller, for about the original price. Had to skip this when it went last chance for financial reasons, but wanted it for the session with Quinichette. Now that I can listen, I like it all, great music all the way through.

My very first Select. A great set! Enjoy it.

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The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker. I'm listening to disc four, which is probably the hardest to listen to - this is where they grouped some of the shortest and/or poorest-quality recordings from the Benedetti archive. But it's got some amazing playing, including one of my favorites, item #64, "A Night in Tunisia." Bird's break and solo is very different from what he usually played on this tune.

Later: There some near-unlistenable tracks on disc four, along with some stunning ones. But overall, this set is one of those bodies of music that you could study for a lifetime.

And I'd forgotten that the last fragment on this disc is the only version in the Benedetti holdings of Bird playing "These Foolish Things" - one of my late mom's favorite songs. That minute of music kind of got to me.

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