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Also Quincy Jones, I heard Mark Ruffin say on Sirius today. NO. 3/14/33 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones

No, but I haven't tried in almost 20 years. Fripp, baby, what an inventive guitarist............and yet another musician who is worshipped despite his being a prick by all accounts! He never had a ranch with a zoo. Probably why he's so pissed at the world

No, but I haven't tried in almost 20 years. Fripp, baby, what an inventive guitarist............and yet another musician who is worshipped despite his being a prick by all accounts!

I hope you were playing "Fracture" and "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 2" No...that band was a rock band - Zep, ZZ, Purple, Sabbath, Rainbow - named after the Rainbow album. The tune Difficult to Cure is Blackmore's instrumental version of the choral from Beethoven's 9th symphony. We never did get a singer. :rsmile: I was just razzing you based on what I know of your tastes in music. Can you play "Fracture"........if you really focused?

I happen to live in Westchester County, but wouldn't be caught dead reading that rag! The sports reporting has won more AP awards in the last three years than any other paper in NY. That may be so, but the Journal News is still a rag. Anyway, at least we know there will be a Michael Jackson week on Idol next year!!! Btw, MJ shared a birthday with Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington, Rebecca DeMornay and ..........ME!!! How does that make you all feel?

I hope you were playing "Fracture" and "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 2"

I happen to live in Westchester County, but wouldn't be caught dead reading that rag!

Carlos Diaz, on the other hand, hasn't a clue in his celebrity-obsessed head. No one here has made more of this than it is, other than one tragic misuse of the word "tragic". It seems to me that you're the only one getting overly dramatic with your moral majority stance. Btw, I'm a New Yorker and a baseball fan. Who the hell is Peter Abraham?

We're not trying to solve the world's problems here!!! We're just talking about music. Chill. The guy was obviously a huge talent. It's sad that he passed. That's all.

Thanks, Bev. I like my music to be a bit more daring as well. I'm starting to get the sense that as ECM ages, its repertoire as a whole is less and less likely to be daring. I could be wrong though, just my impression. FWIW, I'm a big fan of the label.

I can see that. Not sure how it did commercially but Kuhn's Live At Birdland from 2007 was very well received critically and deservingly so. This one is coming out next week and I am thinking about giving it a chance, looks intriguing: After featuring on a dozen albums with Carla Bley for WATT/ECM, Movements In Colour is Andy Sheppard s first leader album for ECM. The British saxophonist heads a specially-assembled international quintet in a program of buoyant and strongly melodic self-penned pieces. Sheppard s elegant saxophone and the strongly-contrasting guitars of Paricelli and Aarset are lifted up by the rhythmic drive of Arild Andersen s muscular bass and the crisp, dynamic tabla of Kuljit Bhamra. Been out here a while. It's nice enough especially at the start but isn't one I've been rushing to play again. I've seem some great Sheppard gigs (including one where he duetted with a bird caught in a conservatory!) but have found his discs a bit disappointing. (Having said that, I've been underwhelmed by Carla Bley since the early 80s; maybe other ears will hear more in Sheppard's disc as they do in more recent Bley). I'm considering getting this. What do you find so disappointing about it? Does it lack rhythmic presence without more traditional percussion?

Mosaic's upcoming sets page: "Though not a complete work of everything Shaw recorded during the years 1938-1945, Mosaic Records has culled all of his instrumental big band and small group sides for the Bluebird and Victor labels in a 7CD Limited Edition Box Set." The Hep 3CD-set has 65 tracks that were recorded in 1944 and 1945, so the answer to your question would be yes, but not the tracks with vocals, just the instrumentals. Thanks, that's what I thought. I just wasn't sure from descriptions I've read whether or not the Hep set consisted of studio sessions or radio broadcasts.

Does anyone know if most or all of the 1944-45 Artie Shaw 3 disc Hep set will be included in the upcoming Mosaic?

According to someone at Mosaic, the replacements for disc 1 of the Armstrong set are going out this week.

I wouldn't count on it. From what I understand, Mosaic's Single series is toast. Scott Wenzel told me it wasn't a big enough seller for them to continue.

From the Mosaic website: MOSAIC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SETS: Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird And Victor Sessions #244 (7 CDs) - $119 (not yet available for preorder- Release date: August, 2009) The famed clarinetist, bandleader and author Artie Shaw was a driven individual whose vision to furnish music or literature became a never ending quest for perfection. "He was", as writer John McDonoughexamined, "a fascinating figure of sex appeal, charisma, and good looks...born media bait who could neither control nor escape the effects of his appeal". Yet with all of his complex eccentricities, his perception of how his music should be played and the prodigious method of his fluid clarinet, captured the music world's ear and left us with a vast collection of hard-core swing and exquisite ballads. He knew what he wanted and his selection of dedicated sidemen made for some stirring recordings. At various times, his band included the cream of swing era musicians: Buddy Rich, Tony Pastor, Jack Jenney, Billy Butterfield, Georgie Auld, Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, Dodo Marmarosa and Barney Kessel. His all-star team of arrangers included Ray Conniff, Jerry Gray, Lennie Hayton, Eddie Sauter and William Grant Still. Barney Bigard, a staple of the Ellington band from 1927-1942 stated that Shaw made “…the clarinet sound unusually beautiful in the upper register. The guy could execute like mad…(and) I like Artie for the things that were almost impossible to do on the clarinet.” His solo efforts were clean, clear and soaring with a strong and polished attack that was full of melodic invention. A weaving of ideas that perfectly connected one thought to another. A prime example of this would the Victor release of “Star Dust” which has been inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame category and is considered to be one of the finest jazz solos captured on record. Though not a complete work of everything Shaw recorded during the years 1938-1945, Mosaic Records has culled all of his instrumental big band and small group sides for the Bluebird and Victor labels in a 7 CD Limited Edition Box Set. A number of alternate takes are provided, rare photos and an updated Shaw discography are highlights but none greater than the liner notes which are provided by the much in demand author, Down Beat contributor and friend of Shaw, John McDonough, whose insights greatly enhance the listening landscape and further explore the Shaw psyche.

Great box! Chick's still got it goin' on

Angelica Sanchez - Mirror Me (Omnitone) with her husband Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek and Tom Rainey

IMHO, it's far better!

Yes, one cd: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7913266

Sounds like the packaging used for many classical boxed sets (Decca, EMI, DG, etc). I like it. Nothing wrong with cardboard and paper packaging; it's biodegradable and takes up less space. Amazon Canada has this for slightly more than grigorian.com, for those who don't want to register with another online store: link. Thanks to Ron S for clearing up the mystery; simple when you know how! I *think* only four of these albums have been released on CD: Porter, Gershwin, Ellington and Arlen (the last three with the relevant 1952 sessions as a bonus). Plus there was a two-disc set, The Song Is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks, released in 1996. So the 30-odd new-to-CD tracks will probably be all that were not covered by those releases. And the Kern was released last week.

Oh yeah, the 1600 series are as rare as hen's teeth. Nabbed a couple of them back in the day, which I think have seen domestic reissue. I have Sonny Clark's Blues in the Night, Herbie Nichols' Vol. Two and Sonny Rollins' Village Vanguards Vols Two and Three. I think I have a Burrell, a couple of Mobley's, and a few Jimmy Smith's.

Definitely an interesting list, including a couple of albums I wouldn't necessarily call "Prog". A little light on King Crimson though. Where's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" and "Starless and Bible Black"? :rsmile:

You're my idol! If that's so, I wonder what that makes me