J.A.W.

Yep.

Sound samples on AMG (scroll down)

Sorry to disappoint you, but I've seen private sellers at Amazon ask much higher prices for CDs, including jazz.

JSP is notorious for "borrowing" masterings from labels like Mosaic and Bear Family (Germany). Bear Family won a lawsuit against JSP a few years ago. I don't know if the above box contains any Mosaic masterings, though.

A happy and healthy 2009!

A legitimate concern, but all I can tell you is Cedar called me early this morning with the news. Freddie Hubbard's passing has now been confirmed by downbeat.

Sad news... again. He'll be sorely missed.

Whwn was this review published? Judging by the price of the record, 27 shillings (about £1.35), it must be quite some time ago...

It took five attempts, but now I'm in... (sigh)

I can only dream of a quick registration, it was refused by the server... I keep getting error messages.

Could you post a link? Or, alternatively, what's your eBay handle?

Loved his plays, especially The Servant and The Birthday Party. One of the great playwrights of the 20th Century, along with Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and a few others.

You obviously got a great deal. I think the list price was much higher. Prices shot up after the set went out of print.

As far as I can tell the Archeophone King Oliver set does not have excessive noise reduction, unlike the Retrieval King Oliver set. I'm told Retrieval applied heavy noise reduction after John R.T. Davies had done the mastering. It's very audible on the Retrieval set.

King Oliver set on Amazon

I don't know if you've done a search, but this label - at least their King Oliver release - has been discussed before in this thread, this thread and also here.

$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.