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I really enjoy the Christian. The same tunes appear many times, the solos are different, but there's still a lot of "hey-that-sounds-similar" going on. Anyway: it's a great complement to the Genius of the Electric Guitar box with the studio sides. If I had to pick between the two, I'd go for the studio sides, though. I only have volumes 1 and 4 right now, and I enjoy both. The first has some stuff not under Waller's name (backing singers like Alberta Hunter). The fourth has stuff all under his name. If you don't feel like going complete, I think the 4-disc Proper box ("Handful of Keys") is a very good best-of sort of collection. If you do think you want to go complete, I'd probably start somewhere later in the series, unless you have a strong interest in the singers he's backing earlier on. Anyone want to post their embarrassingly long list of purchases at this sale? Mine, including lots of non-Jazz: Fats Waller volumes 2, 3, 5, 6 (I had the other two already) Gennett Jazz Bing Crosby: Vintage Years Bessie Smith volumes 1 and 2 Memphis Minnie volumes 1 and 2 (Country Blues, Delta Blues) Blind Boy Fuller: 1935-1938 Jook Joint Blues: That's What They Want Chicago Is Just That Way: 1938-1954 Spreading the Word: Early Gospel Recordings Nuggets of Golden Age of Gospel: 1945-1958 Clarence Gatemouth Brown: Boogie Uproar: Texas Blues & R&B: 1947-1954 Roy Brown & New Orleans R&B Classic Doo Wop Phew! No Mosaic purchases for a while now, I'm afraid.

Yes, it overlaps with both the "London and Paris" and "Rome" sets. It has some stuff (after 1950) that's not on either of those, though. I believe most of it is overlap, but I don't have it handy with me right now to check. And thanks for the heads-up, medjuck!

So...did everyone here already know the Reprise Mosaic is available for download at Amazon? It was (pleasantly) shocking news to me: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016O6WBU/

Download, please!

edit: Shoot. I was thinking of "Things Ain't What They Used to Be", not "Don't Get around Much Anymore" when I wrote the thing below. Sorry 'bout that. My favourite is one of the Cote d'Azur concert versions. I don't have my CDs handy right now, but I know there are two takes on the 8-disc Ella & Duke set. One has a slightly fumbled piano intro, the other one doesn't. They're both excellent. I don't know if it's of interest to anyone here, but it turns out that lindy hoppers love dancing to those two tracks. Nice slow tempo and an excellent rhythm, somewhere between "driving" like the old Basie band and "grooving" like Ray Brown and Gene Harris and folks of that ilk. It's one of those melodies I find myself humming a lot for no particularly good reason: badabedoDEE-BA-doo-dah...

Which CD release of this do you guys recommend? I see a Collectables, an "Avex Trax", and an M&I Japan on Amazon. Are they all more or less straight copies of each other or do some have NoNoise hideousness?

The canonical one, in my opinion, is the March 12, 1931 Brunswick recording. I love Cootie Williams' plain statement of the melody, I like Ellington's menacing pounding, Bigard's runs, Ellington's break, the ending to the break (I always thought that was a baritone sax, but liner notes to "Early Ellington" suggest Carney was playing alto on this track--so is it brass?), the little trumpet "ta-da-da-taas"...well, the whole thing. My next favourite is the November 8, 1930 OKeh. Those exhaling sounds! Great. The 1931 RCA takes sound a little rushed to me--perhaps because I'm so used to the OKeh and Brunswick, both of which are a little slower. I'm also not sold on the "wa-wa" bits (0:40-0:55 or so on both takes) in the RCA. There's a very tight sounding recording from 1938 that I have on a CD entitled "Cotton Club Nights". Horrible recording, but man does the band sound tight and swingin'. I enjoy the later ones (with increasingly wild endings!) from Newport and the Cote d'Azur concerts, too, but not as much as the early ones. Incidentally, there's a cute false start on the World Broadcasting Series, Vol. 1: 1943 disc. (And three full takes, too.) It's nice to hear such an amazing band screw up.

That set was, IIRC, cut short by the trouble with the lost glass masters. If you're getting desperate, you can try contacting Mosaic and see if they have any partial sets. I know they did right after the set was discontinued, because Scott offered half the set to me. He may have sold it already, of course. (And, yes, I decided to try and grab a whole copy on ebay instead. Still looking myself.)

Oh, man. You chose a tricky one to start. We'll have to talk matrix numbers here to keep track of the various versions! Bruyninckx lists 41 takes by Duke (or The Washingtonians, or Lonnie Johnson's Harlem Footwarmers) of "East St Louis Toodle-Oo" (or "East St Louis Toodle-o" or "Harlem Twist"). Many are unreleased. Of the (still many) that have been released, I seem to have a dozen or so, plus a half dozen covers by various groups. The one I keep coming back to as "the best" is the 1928 "Harlem Twist (East St. Louis Toodle-Oo)" on Okeh 8638 (matrix W. 400032-A). I have it on "The Okeh Ellington", which is an excellent collection. I'll try to listen to them all this week and see whether I have anything mildly interesting to say about any of them.

Some tracks from my Hallowe'en playlist: Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa, "The Walls Keep Talking", 1941, Young Anita Artie Shaw, "Nightmare", 1938, Self Portrait Artie Shaw, "Mysterioso", 1940, The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions Chick Webb, "Midnight in a Madhouse", 1937, Strictly Jive Duke Ellington, "The Mooche", 1928, The Duke: The Comlumbia Years Duke Ellington, "Harlem Twist (East St. Louis Toodle-Oo)", 1928, The Okeh Ellington Duke Ellington, "Saturday Night Function", 1929, The Centennial Edition Glenn Miller, "Song of the Volga Boatmen", 1944, The Lost Recordings Louis Armstrong, "Spooks!", 1954, Satchmo in Style Mills Blue Rhythm Band, "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town", 1936, 1933-1936 (Hudson-DeLange, Louis Prima, and Mora's Modern Rhythmists versions are nice, too) Red McKenzie, "Murder in the Moonlight", 1935, Eddie Condon: The Classic Sessions Tommy Dorsey, "Satan Takes a Holiday", 1937, The Seventeen Number Ones Not scary sounding, but still Hallowe'eny in lyrics: Artie Shaw, "Don't Fall Asleep", 1940, Begin the Beguine Delta Rhythm Boys, "Dry Bones", 1947, Jump & Jive 'til One O 'Clock: Anthology Volume 2 Ella Fitzgerald, "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", 1960, The Harold Arlen Songbook Ella Fitzgerald, "Ol' Man Mose", 1962, Jukebox Ella (The Complete Verve Singles) (Armstrong versions are good, too, naturally) Harlem Hamfats, "Hoodooin' Woman", 1937, Harlem Hamfats Vol. 2: Jam Jamboree Dinah Washington with Lionel Hampton, "Evil Gal Blues", 1943, The Swinging Block-Chords Pianist 1943/1950 Lionel Hampton, "Lavender Coffin", 1954, The Legendary Decca Recordings Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, "Walking Slow behind You", 1949, Complete Original American RCA-Victor Recordings everybody and their brother, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" Edit: and as for non-Jazz: I'm partial to Belafonte's recording of "Zombie Jamboree".

That's an excellent CD. I don't have an extra copy with which to part, but if you're open to the amazon route, there are some there right now for around $30: http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Solos/dp/B000008CAE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1285548654&sr=1-1

Surprised the HRS set hasn't gone yet. That's one of my favourites. Pick it up, people!

Speaking of Dutch clarinetists...I don't know if either are in A'dam, but I've enjoyed what I've heard of Bernard Berkhout and David Lukacs (the "4 Beat 6" things).

Thanks for the recommendations, Jeff! I went ahead and ordered both the Faz and the Evan Christopher. He's not on my list of superstars, but I've really enjoyed Bob Helm lately. (Living in the SF Bay Area probably helps.)

Any particular album recommendations? Same request here. All I have are four tracks with Billie Holiday & Bunny Berigan. Good call on Tesch and Nicholas, BTW. I should have included those somewhere on my list. I forgot to include a living player I enjoy: Doreen Ketchens. She plays on the streets in New Orleans with her tuba-playing husband, and she has a bunch of CDs out. I found the CDs disappointing, but the live stuff is great. There are some good videos on youtube: Professor Longhair's "Mardi Gras in New Orleans": And a little about her:

The alto sax thread was a good read, and I was sorely tempted to start a "who's your favourite C melody sax player?" thread, but this will probably generate more responses. For me, miles ahead of the others, are Edmond Hall and Sidney Bechet. I am never bored listening to either of them. Then there's a big gap. In the chase group, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and George Lewis. Not far behind, leading the peloton, are Darnell Howard, Pee Wee Russell, and Barney Bigard. Johnny Dodds and Jimmy Noone are somewhere near the front waiting for a good wheel, but don't seem to be able to make any attack stick. Yes, I *have* been thinking about cycling a lot lately.

Jonah Jones and His Orchestra: Jonah Jones (tp), Tyree Glenn (tb,vib), Buster Bailey (cl), Hilton Jefferson (as), Ike Quebec (ts), Dave Rivera (p), Danny Barker (g), Milt Hinton (b), J.C. Heard (d), New York, July 31, 1945 Stuff Smith and His Orchestra: Jonah Jones (tp), George Clark (ts), Stuff Smith (vln,vcl), Sam Allen (p,celeste), Bernard Addison (g), John Brown (b), Herbert Cowans (d), New York, December 7, 1939 Joe Marsala and His Delta Four: Bill Coleman (tp,vcl), Joe Marsala (cl), Pete Brown (as), Leonard Feather (p (on R in H only)), Carmen Mastren (g), Gene Traxler (b), Dell St. John (vcl), New York, April 4, 1940 DeParis Brothers Orchestra: Sidney DeParis (tp), Wilbur DeParis (tb), Edmond Hall (cl), Clyde Hart (p), Billy Taylor (b), Specs Powell (d), New York, February 5, 1944 I don't have the info for the Leo Watson session--sorry. Someone with the Mosaic Commodore set may be able to help you out. Sounds like good stuff. Bruyninckx shows some of it as available on CD, too. Note that there some additional takes on the Jones session that aren't on your tape.

Thanks guys! That Teagarden disc looks particularly good.

I've read somewhere (and I can't for the life of me remember where) that Mulligan played a fair bit of traditional/dixieland/pre-war-ish/... jazz, and I know he played with Armstrong and Ellington at festivals sometimes. Is any of this recorded, and, if so, can you recommend a CD or two to start me off? I don't dig the West Coast cool school, but I sure would like to hear some more swinging baritone (outside of Carney, Caceres, and Fowlkes). I have heard the 1958 Monterey dates of Billie Holiday, but something where Mulligan's featured more would be great.

"Self Portrait" you mean? It's $50 used on amazon right now (worth it, in my opinion), and $40 in mp3 format. You can pick tracks a few at a time, if $40 is too much all at once.

Yes, that's correct. And, for Alex' benefit, the pianist is Mary Lou Williams. You were right: now I really want to hear more of the piano! As for 13: I'm pretty sure it's McKinney's Cotton Pickers from '29. It took me way too long to recognise this. Such a wonderful track.

Another mostly unguessable one for me. If I had to categorise most these tracks, I wouldn't call them "jazz", but then again, I wouldn't really know what to call them. 1) Sounds like a college marching band! I actually kind of like this sound, but probably just because it reminds me of playing when I was a student. 9) Oh, this is the best so far! But then it goes all weepy weird on me. It's O.K. Not something I'd listen to a lot, but new and not offensive to my ears. ) I wish the levels were set a little differently. I would have liked to hear the piano more. 13) Well, it's "I Found a New Baby". God, I know I have heard this before. I'll have to think about it a little more. 14) The Tijuana Brass play tribute to the Kinks? Bonus: 4) Yeah! This has me from the first note. Is that Teddy Wilson? Ah, yes. "Moments Like This" Who's that singing, though? Nan Wynn? I think it's her. Thanks, MG!

A download for me, too, please!

Well, the only one I recognised is track 16: Lionel, "Fiddle Diddle". Good stuff. The rest...pure mystery! ) I'll quickly go back and read the rest of the responses now.

I assume you know that most of the Mosaics you're looking for usually go for hundreds of dollars on eBay. yes, hence the "+ some money". this isn't the first time that you've assumed i'm stupid on this forum. it's kinda annoying. (your remark has a strong sarcastic tone to it. perhaps you didn't intend it as such, in which case, mea culpa.)