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So this is a good way to get an impression of Whiteman? I only have the Capitol sides:

Great, detailed research, as always!

Paul Gresham – Every Sound We Make

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I adore this album "Jobim" aka

Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band – Mr. Acker Bilk's Lansdowne Folio Antonio Carlos Jobim – Jobim

#010 (!) just arrived.

I hadn't been on the BN forum and I joined in July 2004, after a long time lurking. So I must have discovered about here very soon. I have learned a lot here. Especially in the first times, when I built up my collection. I was especially interested in reissues. Nowadays I still visit daily, after a period of not visiting at all. I don't post much anymore, but that's how it goes. I visit daily again now. And I made some really good friends here. I'm a user of other forums now. Particularly guitar forums. But this was the first forum I hung around. I consider forums to be the mother of social media. And this is a really cool place to hang around. Sometimes I get smitten when I think of the long time I've been a user here.

Lowest price currently listed at discogs is €135, no additional shipping fees. Would you rate it as "affordable"?

R.I.P. A legend.

Albare “Electricity” Alfi cd

Just for the record to those who might rush out to pick up this individual CD from that "Jazz Connoisseur" series: This very CD (i.e. its exact contents inside the same facsimile cover of Vogue LD 025) also is included in the "Jazz on Disques Vogue - The Perfect Collection" 20-CD box set. (For once Vogue really made good use of the space on this CD - there are several CDs by other artists in that set where playing time is a bit skimpy) These 3 LPs are a very good way to cover the basics of Bechet's French period. There is so much from that era out there (in so many different repackagings and combinations that invariably overlap) that I for one wouldn't want to attempt covering it all. Re-reading this thread (and the other you resurrected now ) I see I've got most of the Bechet bases covered, though I'm no Bechet completist. Those 25-some LPs on my shelves cover a wide spectrum: early Bechet, Victor/RCA, Panassié Sessions, New Orleans Feetwarmers, King Jazz with Mezzrow, Blue Note, and then France including the Salle Pleyel and Olympia concerts and Brussels 1958, etc. And last year I picked up the Riverside "In Memoriam" LP of 1960 that reissued all 8 tracks from the 1940 Bechet -Spanier Big Four session. This is another milestone in his discography (so far I somehow only had part of it on an EP). And yes, I still marvel at that "Sidney Bechet in Switzerland" 4-CD box and book I scored about one year ago. Anyone who finds this at a halfway affordable price can do no wrong in picking it up.

Something quite different from Earl Hines, Valeria Oliveira “Imbalanca” Video Arts Japan cd

I woke up a bit ago and couldn’t shut my brain off. The constant dripping of water from the roof (about ten inches of snow and ice melting consistently) just outside the window from my head didn’t help me slip back into slumber. . . so I decided to get up and listen. Never a waste of time or attention to listen to music, for me at least. Started off with Earl "Father’ Hines “Reunion in Brussels” on Red Baron cd. What a force Hines was! An endless stream of swing with passion.

Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra – Bum Bum

Takashi Kako - Passage

Piano Concerto No.2 In C Minor, Op.18, from:

Happy Birthday! Photo from Big Ears 2024

Souvenirs

Yeah ... SMOKIN'!

"Of all the musicians, Bechet was to me the very epitome of jazz. He represented and executed everything that had to do with the beauty of it all, and everything he played in his whole was original. I honestly think he was the most unique man ever to be in this music—but don't ever try and compare because when you talk about Bechet you just don't talk about anyone else." —Duke Ellington