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I have all the discs but would love to be able to secure a box and book for them in this lifetime.

Jazzbo's post of 24 November may have the answer: All Ellingtons seem to have been commercial recordings recycled for V-Disc use. So they are outside the scope of this set.

Probably a silly question but just to verify, label discographies organize sessions by recording order, right? So if "Honky Tonk" is listed first in Ruppli, it was first song laid down. And I guess, similarly, the log for what became The Sidewinder would show the title track as the last tune since Lee composed it at the very end to get an LP-worth of music done. (Actually looking at the Lee Morgan Discography project page, Gary's Notebook was the last tune recorded. Is my assumption wrong or is the story of how Lee composed it not really true and actually easily controverted by the session log?)

Simply sublime

Good stuff. NP:

Erroll Garner, Penthouse Serenade (Savoy)

Great finds! Lenny's first Mahler cycle is a classic!

Hard to process these kinds of senseless acts. Their son was likely in some sort of severe dissociative state and I can't imagine he was in his right mind. Such a terrible tragedy indeed. RIP.

Thriftstore find

Not yet seeing the Dodgers as Evil, currently just Annoying As Fuck, and WELL on the way to Evil. Wishing Adolis Garcia some kind of Renaissance in Philly, maybe in a way that gets the Phillies past the Dodgers. That would be as glorious as it is unlikely

Ts-find, NP Symphony No. 2 two other Thriftstore-finds

I really need for the Yankees to miss out on Tucker and then see the Mets snap up Bellinger. I'd even take the Evil Dodgers throwing insane money at Tucker until he says "yes" over dealing with Tucker, still in his prime for at least 5 years, in the Yankee lineup.

Okay, I'm going to ask another stupid question... Just out of curiosity (if anyone knows), why is there no Ellington on this set?

I am a big fan of Duke Jordan's lengthy series of albums on Steeplechase.

I think you are right. I just saw a news report that stated (how they got the number, we'll never know) that 37% of young LP buyers are using them as art decorating their walls.

Very unexpected, as well. FWIW, the tune i was inquiring about was Maimoun.

Thanks for alerting (those who didn't know yet - like me ) to this Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz series. I am indeed tempted by the Gerry Mulligan Quartets volume. Not expensive at less than 20 EUR on Amazon, and the sample pages looked "digestible enough" even to a non-musician like me.

Actually Basie and Herman are part of the reasons why I am going to pass. I have all of these (as well as the Sam Donahues a.o.) and am quite satisfied with the sound on the vinyls. With the overall cost anounced for the European distributors the set would work out at something like 20 EUR per CD anyway, so if you already have a substantial part of the music anyway the cost per REMAINING CD just exceeds the limits of reasonability, alas.

Johny Coles, “Little Johnny C” on Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversay UHQCD.

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I remember that report from a couple of years ago that cited half of LP buyers didn't have a turntable to play them on. Maybe that trend has changed a little since, but I'd be surprised if CDs ever catch back on domestically enough for a spike in demand for players. I'd be all for it, but seems like a long shot.

That was extremely generous of him and very cool to hear.