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It's been done! Regarding the Herbie box, I too will get this if the price drops, as I expect it will. I have hardly anything from this period of his career. It will be fun to explore it for the first time.

I've also been checking Amazon's international sites, so far to no avail.

Debussy's Clair de Lune J.S. Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze Richard Rodgers's My Romance, It Never Entered My Mind Jerome Kern's Bill, They Didn't Believe Me, The Way You Look Tonight

The Andante cantabile from Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini The Intermezzo from Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana Meditation from Massenet's Thais Richard Rodgers's You'll Never Walk Alone, Something Wonderful, This Nearly Was Mine, If I Loved You George Gershwin's Someone to Watch Over Me, Isn't It a Pity?

Van himself slagged off that reissue of Moondance on his website recently. Since he is the most negative man to have ever walked the Earth, however, his disdain probably doesn't count for much: Yesterday Warner Brothers stated that "Van Morrison was reissuing Moondance". It is important that people realise that this is factually incorrect. I did not endorse this, it is unauthorised and it has happened behind my back. My management company at that time gave this music away 42 years ago and now I feel as though it's being stolen from me again. 18th July 2013

Still no sign of the Dexter Gordon box in that series being marked down. If anyone sees a good deal, please let us know.

He also wrote the scores for Chuck Jones's later cartoons, including Tom and Jerry and the Bugs Bunny TV specials. Very heavy-handed and much of their time, I rather like them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMP-stjTnb0

That's cool, although the reason I've often heard is that the music is too samey for a Mosaic. But there are plenty of samey Mosaics anyway: Johnny Smith, Bobby Hackett, Four Freshmen...

Michael Cuscuna has done a great deal for recorded jazz and we all owe him a debt of thanks, but his prejudices can be *really* annoying.

Coincidentally I passed a branch of Five Guys in Covent Garden last night. Didn't know we had it over here. There was a queue out the door. Is it really that good?

I ate at Shake Shack when I was in NY last year. A very long queue for a good, but not amazing burger. There is comething of a craze for burgers in London at the moment with posh burger chains and indies popping up all over the place. Byron is probably the highest rated, but my favourite is still the original Ed's Easy Diner in Soho; a Big Bubba with Atomic Fries and a butterscotch malt is a pre-theatre dinner that cannot be beat.

Thanks. I assume you've bought direct from them? I never have, although I've bought from their Amazon Marketplace account and have emailed them with release requests (never got a reply). Sadly, this is all the jazz we will be getting this time. The home page says that part 2 will be popular music.

How do you know?

It should be compulsary to shout "bravo" at a classical concert. If this action isn't taken it will soon go the way of saying "chin-chin" when drinking and shouting "good show" at a cricket match.

Bear Family should do a Nancy Wilson set, her discography is so disorganised, but unfortunately they are looking the wrong way. Corruscating is a word that people get wrong so often (assuming it means "excoriating") that it's nice to see it used correctly.

I think you are thinking of Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. Amusingly for British viewers the trumpeter was played by Roy Castle, a light entertainer (and trumpeter) who presented a long-running children's series called Record Breakers. Tubby Hayes also makes an appearance.

More new releases. Acker Bilk fans will be happy. ACKER BILK & HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND THE RADIO LUXEMBOURG SESSIONS VOLUME 7 ACKER BILK & HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND THE RADIO LUXEMBOURG SESSIONS VOLUME 8 DON CARLOS & LAURIE JOHNSON CRAZY LATIN & A BRASS BAND SWINGING ACKER BILK & HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND THE RADIO LUXEMBOURG SESSIONS VOLUME 9 Hope this isn't all we're getting...

It's OK, I agree with you that Jarrett takes it to extremes. I just also think it's unnecessary for person B to cough because person A just did, then person C and so on. Unless you're choking on something or have bronchitis there isn't any need to do it. It's throat clearing actually.

I wouldn't know how to go about doing it if that's what you mean ("Hmm, think I'll do a bit of coughing out of restlessness now"). But it's surely the main reason why bouts of coughing break out in theatres during quiet moments. It's a nervous reaction that's easily controlled but spreads quickly once it's started.

True, but the thing is: he's right. You should make sure your phone is turned off before you enter a theatre. You should avoid coughing out of restlessness during a live performance. My only quibble is that he seems to be enforcing these rules for his own benefit. In fact, they should be observed out of the respect of everybody in the auditorium.

...because they don't sell? I speak as someone who doesn't really enjoy jazz organists. they did very nice big boxes of Jimmy Smith and Larry Young But those were a loo-oong time ago. John Patton could have justified a big box but instead he got a rather frustrating Select. A Freddie Roach Select was mooted at one point, but never happened. I'm guessing Head Man is right and that they don't sell. Pity as a Shirley Scott Impulse box would be great.

This is my first Jacobson novel, having long enjoyed his TV documentaries and general demeanour in the media. I think I made an attempt at Coming From Behind but gave up. I strongly recommend The Finkler Question, however. I'll try Kalooki Nights next I think.

The song titles are enough to put me off.

I read and "enjoyed" the Idiot as a young adult, also Karamazof and Crime and Punishment (twice). I wonder now if I was making allowances to bolster how clever I thought I was being. I'm currently reading The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson. Laugh-out-loud funny and very educational.

Didn't the Oliver Nelson box include a lot of his Impulse! material? Yes. I don't get the impression there's a problem licensing Impulse material, but rather that very few artists recorded enough on the label to make a box. Coltrane and Hamilton were among the few. Plus there are a lot of populist elements (harpsichords, varitones and Sixties hit tunes), which it's obvious Cuscuna hates. Shirley Scott did enough for a box and that's one I would love to see, but Mosaic seems to avoid organists for some reason.