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$420 less 20% according to the thread title

I prefer the JSP sets, even though they do not cover the entire period (how much Calloway does one really need?? ). The Classics are a mixed bag sonically, while the JSP sets sound relatively fine. Edit: just checked, the two JSP sets (8 CDs) cover the years 1930-1940.

Wow! Thanks Lon, that looks like what I want - at least for the thirties. Is there another set covering the forties? Couldn't see one. MG I'd also recommend those JSP Calloway sets. The earlier discs were mastered by the late John R.T. Davies, the later ones by his "successor" Ted Kendall. For once JSP paid for the masterings instead of "borrowing" them from labels like Bear Family and Mosaic.

I agree with Volkher in his old post above, those Quadromania boxes suck big time sonically, they have indeed been no-noised to death. Awful.

Pianist Page Cavanaugh (Dec.19)

Just saw this on the Hoffman forum: LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jazz pianist and singer Page Cavanaugh, whose popular trio in the 1940s and 1950s played in motion pictures and on Frank Sinatra's radio show, has died at 86. Cavanaugh died of kidney failure Dec. 19 at a nursing home in San Fernando Valley, said Phil Mallory, his bass player of 18 years. The Page Cavanaugh Trio was one of Southern California's most popular nightclub acts from the 1940s to the 1990s, performing at Ciro's, the Trocadero, the Captain's Table, the Money Tree and the Balboa Bay Club. The group played in the film "Romance on the High Seas" with Jack Carson and Doris Day. The trio showed up in movies such as "A Song Is Born,""Big City" and "Lullaby of Broadway." Cavanaugh's trio also appeared with Frank Sinatra on his "Songs By Sinatra" radio show and played for NBC Radio's "The Jack Paar Show." Their hits included "The Three Bears" and "She Had to Go and Lose It At the Astor." Cavanaugh never married and had no surviving relatives.

Did you call or e-mail Mosaic? On their site those sets are not available for pre-order yet.

You can change the thread title by using the edit button of the first post. Ahh thank ya!

You can change the thread title by using the edit button of the first post.

This was posted on the BBC site yesterday. I got the patch via Windows Update.

Leroy Jenkins died on February 24, 2007, not in 2008. Edit: offensive remark removed.

Frank Morgan died on December 14, 2007, not in 2008.

Chris Anderson Pete Candoli Jimmy Cleveland Walt Dickerson Bob Florence Jimmy Giuffre Johnny Griffin Neal Hefti Prince Lasha Teo Macero Ronnie Mathews Jimmy McGriff Dave McKenna Phil Urso Gerald Wiggins John Young (the pianist) Lee Young (Lester's brother)

The question is who left us in the jazz community.

Agreed. If you suffer from insomnia, this is the perfect disc to help you on the way... I think you're both nuts. Why? Because it makes me yawn? To each their own...

Agreed. If you suffer from insomnia, this is the perfect disc to help you on the way...

"All About Rosie" appears on Bill Evans - Piano Player and on The Birth of the Third Stream, both Columbia CDs. Piano Player - AMG review The Birth of the Third Stream - AMG review

Sound samples (scroll down)

Not bad, but I prefer Bill Evans in trio settings.

Today would have been my mother's 102nd birthday.

Got to reluctantly agree with you there, for the most part... So do I. Don't forget Gene Quill, by the way...

I think it depends on who is playing that guitar and what the rock tone is. There's a lot of guitar players out there. Organ??? I prefer the sound of guitarists like Tal Farlow, Sal Salvador and the like. Rock-influenced guitar sounds in jazz make me run in the opposite direction Yep, organ. Funny, isn't it, on this forum...

Same here. There's some harmonica stuff on the Art Ensemble box Chuck put out and I didn't like it at all. You must be thinking of Roscoe's "sound" on Delmark. I did produce that session but think the harmonica sound last less than 20 seconds. U R a tuff crowd. If I remember correctly - but my memory could be playing tricks with me, it's not getting any better - there is some repeated harmonica on the Art Ensemble box. I don't have it anymore, so I can't check.

I fully agree. Forgot to mention them in my post above

Not to be too nosy, but if you aren't keen on jazz violin, why would you spring for the Stuff Smith Mosaic? A friend of mine, who co-owns a record/CD store here, got a used copy relatively cheaply and offered it to me. I listened to it several times, with the result mentioned earlier...