Chuck Nessa

Harry must be a junkie.

Good catch and good memory.

BN also tacked this session onto this cd: This 1989 issue gives April 20, 1955 as the date.

Scott is helpful.

But I would have thought seriously about buying the 18? disc set just for the remastering.

Pete is more than cool.

Number of ways to explore Henderson (if you really want to) via sideman compilations of Hawk, Berry, Pops and Red Allen. Fortunately I picked up all the Chronological Classics discs and the Neatworks. Frequently the band was a mess, but when it was on..........

Read that when it happened. At every point, Miles is right and wrong.

I agree. Fine performances in good recordings.

Those tracks were licensed from Universal, the owner of the early Brunswick titles. These titles were deleted in the following reissue:

Whatever. I have about 50 cds of Mingus and untold lps and tapes. I think this might be enough.

I will live with what I have.

No.

try deleting the extension.

Thanks.

So friggin' easy. Exit by butter slide.

And how do German friends spending time in Denmark say it?

Bechet is ignored. A case can be made for him even ahead of Armstrong.

Time to ignore this thread.

My set arrived on Monday. Have listened to about five discs. If anyone is interested, it appears that this set uses 11 XRCD24 masterings that appeared in Japan. I listened to one and it sounds pretty amazing. Here is a list: http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/search/index.asp?keyword=toscanini+xrcd&site=&target=SEARCH&type=sr Pictures at an Exhibition is one of them. All the mastering info is noted in the comments/reviews on the Amazon UK site. The Japanese remasters are not the only upgrades from the original edition. About a third of the set is "newer". FWIW, I think I started listening to some of this material in the '50s. Whatever they are charging for the set now, I really only wanted to expand my collection by about 20 cds. The set was cheaper and I have a bunch of bonuses.

Working on notes and info for the last reissue from our Art Ensemble box I found a typo in the booklet to the set. The location of the recordings to be reissued was wrong. The two pieces were recorded in Lester and Fontella's home at 1739 E. 74th St. Somewhere in the process the street number was changed to 75th. As it typed it in, something seemed wrong. I went to Google Earth and saw a huge block of a building and then I checked my ancient phone book and found the error. One block north was the row of townhouses I remembered. DANG, I hate errors like this.

To his credit he was charged with "slapping around" Ethel Merman, one of his wives.

I had the same experience this morning - only 5 posts.

How about the opening phrase from Roscoe's Willisau performance of Nonaah!

Please stop.