tranemonk

I'm going to pick up a copy next week.... (Still recovering from the Basie order:) Okay.. I changed my mind...

Madeline Peyroux @ the Berklee Performance Center last night... :tup She was quite good.. she's kinda sexy... The show was a little short... ( an hour and a half)... but I enjoyed it... Lee Konitz in two weeks!!! :excited:

I caved and bought the Basie Verve Fifties Studio Sessions... I have to sleep on it though... I might call Mosaic in the AM and switch it to the Lester Young.... :wacko: :unsure:

I wonder if it's been delayed??? Mrs. Pepper????

Ditto... Same here... thanks Ron!

Anybody found that new Art Pepper online yet????

Hmmmm... you've got me thinking... I've never sold a Mosaic... (until now... I'm about to donate the Chico Hamilton to my local library)... At the moment I'm giving the digital version of the Basie Live set another go-round... The thing that originally turned me off about it was the dozen or or versions of One O'Clock Jump... :angry: :angry: What makes you think I'll like the Lester-Basie set better than the Lester Verve box?? Or should I take a deep Basie plunge and get the Basie Verve Studio Sessions??? I'm really confused.... :blink:

My sole hestitation is that I have the Lester Young Verve box which I hardly play... and the Count Basie Live Roulette... which rarely gets played.... :unsure: :unsure: If you don't already have the Lester Young material, it is essential. Agreed.

I'm really torn between this and the Lester Young... I've got to figure out how to spend my Father's Day present.... :D :D

Disc 6 of... Five Trios.. Chick Corea... Available only in Japan or off his website....

tommorrow's the big day...!! As soon as it's on CDbaby... I'm there! thanks a ton Laurie.!! and thanks for the pricing info... A great idea!

Good show... not great but good... When Pat & Gary played duos or Pat played in a trio setting it was excellent.. The full quartet thing didn't work too well...

Off to see Pat Metheny/Gary Burton Quartet in Boston!!!!!!

Got a question for you Shawites... Do you think this set would be a resonable/good intro to his work???? I'm on the fence on this one... debating whether I should spend my Father's Day gift certificate on this on Lester Young???

She did both.. A lot of solo tunes when she played on guitar or piano... and she had the full band.. She was hot... really funny.. great stage presence... I was very pleasantly surprised... The lack of strings didn't matter.. might have even added a tad bit of suspense.. Definitely go if you can.... The show here was sold out weeks ago...

Caught her show last night... Very impressive... she was into it and played for 2 hours... Definitely recommended...! :tup :tup

Ditto - Well Said.. I'm a huge OP fan.... and I've got the box set in my listening queue....

thanks Ron... Seems all the usual US distributors (e.g., Amazon, CDU, tower) don't have this in stock... And it seems to be ONLY available from our Canadian friends... :unsure: I've never seen that happen before...

Way way way better than nothing... Me - I'll take what they give me.... Nothing. Some of their other sets (the Beiderbecke/Trumbauer/Teagarden set, for instance) have lots of vocals. Why don't you ask them why they're leaving out the vocals on this one? The reasoning on the Goodman set was that almost all of the vocal material had been issued separately by Collectors' Choice or other labels. I haven't really checked on how much of the Helen Forrest etc. from Shaw's band is available elsewhere...but I'm guessing that including the vocals would make either the Shaw or Goodman boxes 12-13 CDs, which might be a bit unwieldy for cost/price/economic purposes in the present climate. In a way, I can understand leaving the vocals out, but still, I think doing so creates a distorted picture of the Shaw band, and the era. iIwould say that the vocals tracks are essential to a valid understanding of any of the big bands, and to leave them out goes against the very reason Mosaic was created, as quoted from their website: We want Mosaic Records Box Sets to be as important, and as complete as we can make them. Our sets include every significant track that falls within the scope of a given project, presented in an organized, chronological manner. We go into the vaults of as many record labels as necessary to examine all the original session tapes. In addition to all previously issued material, Mosaic box sets are usually rich with unreleased tracks and valid alternate takes. It's no accident we're considered the label for fans and collectors "who want it all". It's nice that this set is being created, but I feel that this continuing trend, in terms of traditional big bands, weakens the historical and artistic viability of what Mosaic is doing. I don't want to go on rant, but still, I think Mosaic can do better. Still, in these financial times, this is way better than nothing.

As per my last post... I decided to give Stitt Disc 9 a spin....

Yea a 13-CD set would be destructive... :wacko: I can't see them issuing another set more than 10 CD's ever.. The last biggies were the Stitt and O'Day which came out at 9CDs Nothing. Some of their other sets (the Beiderbecke/Trumbauer/Teagarden set, for instance) have lots of vocals. Why don't you ask them why they're leaving out the vocals on this one? The reasoning on the Goodman set was that almost all of the vocal material had been issued separately by Collectors' Choice or other labels. I haven't really checked on how much of the Helen Forrest etc. from Shaw's band is available elsewhere...but I'm guessing that including the vocals would make either the Shaw or Goodman boxes 12-13 CDs, which might be a bit unwieldy for cost/price/economic purposes in the present climate.

Digging the new live stuff (2nd disc) from the Legacy Edition of Time Out... Morello's drumming is quite fine... as well Mr. Alto....

Looks like Storyville is releasing some live Johnny + a DVD from a Village Vanguard performance... I had one of the dates... but as CDU has got it for a ridiculous price.. .I caved... http://www.storyvillerecords.com/Default.aspx http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7955729 :excited: Hopefully it will come in better packaging than the Art Tatum & Ben Webster boxes last year....

thanks for the first hand review/knowledge Ted.... I'm bumming about the "not new" tracks... but it doesn't make a lot of difference to me as I didn't have any of this stuff before... Is the packaging cheap? What would u compare it to?

I got it for $37.50 before the price went up.... Just curious, tranemonk. What was the great price you got? Tower is showing $41.50 currently. I just bought the OP Mosaic but have yet to crack it open. My discovery of him is yet to begin.