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Amazon.com is now listing this set here for a US release on November 10 -- at the much higher price of $54.98!

I remember that - got a couple of Verve Elites on that deal. They were still cheaper at most places over in the US though. Ah, but in those days you had to GO to the US. No internet, you see (God, I feel old). Yeah - and it was a revelation to see how cheap they were. Toronto Sam The Record Man was the place that I first 'filled my boots' (and being resident there were no import restrictions ). Even with that damned Ontario sales tax it was still cheaper. Never having been to the US, for me that moment came when we first went online at work. Suddenly, even 3 for £20 seemed extortionate. I guess the death of the British record shop began right there.

I remember that - got a couple of Verve Elites on that deal. They were still cheaper at most places over in the US though. Ah, but in those days you had to GO to the US. No internet, you see (God, I feel old).

Like HMV and Virgin, Tower used to have regular 3 for £20 sales on Blue Note, Verve, etc. The regular sale bins were rotten, though: usually a load of CDs nobody wanted (eg Japanese pressings of albums by obscure contemporary singers) with just £1 taken off. One advantage the Piccadilly store had in the Nineties was it was the only place that marked down Verve Elites; got most of mine from there for around £12 each, sometimes in a 2 for £22 promotion. When CDs came in they would take the booklet out of the jewel case and reseal both in a strange long plastic container, so they would stand up tall in an LP rack, like the cardboard longboxes CDs were packaged in in the US. Later, CDs were all put out in little transparent plastic bags, as were the LPs. My best memory of Tower Piccadilly is the sale on everything they ran each New Year's Day. I waited until one 1 January to get the Reprise Sinatra boxed set: normally about £550, I got it for the less unreasonable £350. When I brought it back to work (I'd shot out there at lunchtime), my boss was so inspired by my profligacy he went out and bought himself a new pair of designer glasses. My worst memory was passing on the RCA complete Ellington for £197 because I had just bought my first flat. That was dumb. Oh, and very rude/arrogant staff at Tower Piccadilly for some reason (the complete opposite of the charming staff at Virgin and HMV).

Play has a track listing for this here. Quite a good price for a three-disc set, although it's £1 cheaper at HMV. Disc 1 1. Announcement By Norman Granz Live At Carnegie Hall 2. I Only Have Eyes For You Live At Carnegie Hall 3. Fine And Dandy Live At Carnegie Hall 4. Carnegie Blues Live At Carnegie Hall 5. Gai Live At Carnegie Hall 6. Padovani Live At Carnegie Hall 7. Tea For Two Live At Carnegie Hall Disc 2 1. Title Additional Info 2. Debut 3. They Didn't Believe Me 4. Lover, Come Back To Me 5. Where Or When 6. Three O'Clock In The Morning 7. All The Things You Are 8. Tenderly 9. Oscar's Blues 10. Little White Lies 11. In The Middle Of A Kiss 12. Nameless Eng En Mai 1950 New York 13. Two Sleepy People 14. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 15. Robbins' Nest Eng 8 Mai 1950 New York 16. Tico Tico 17. Get Happy 18. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 19. Deep Purple 20. Exactly Like You 21. I'll Remember April Eng 8 Mai 1950 New York 22. Easy To Love 23. Taking A Chance On Love 24. Squatty Roo Eng En Aout 1950 New York 25. After All Disc 3 1. Title Additional Info 2. Caravan 3. Summer Nocturne 4. Salute To Garner 5. I Get A Kick Out Of You 6. What's New 7. Dark Eyes 8. What Is It? 9. The Way You Look Tonight 10. Minor Blues 11. Slow Down 12. How High The Moon 13. The Nearness Of You 14. There's A Small Hotel 15. Lover 16. Fancy Free (Gypsy In My Soul) 17. On The Alamo 18. Lullaby Of The Leaves 19. Laura 1952 Version 20. September In The Rain

Regarding Dig It!, only half the album is on the new box. Two tracks, Crazy Rhythm and CTA, don't feature Coltrane. All of Mating Call and Soul Junction are on the box, however. Actually, I'm surprised a second Miles box hasn't appeared, because I recently bought all of Concord's Miles RVGs...

It looks to me like a New York equivalent to the Vegas live box that came out a few years ago. I bought that box, but have only played it once. Sinatra's live shows get a bit samey after a while, at least to my ears. Plus this is mostly late-period Frank with all the issues that entails. I'll probably pick it up if it ever enters a sale.

I don't think he'll ever be a footnote in musical history, but he's probably an irrelevancy to the contemporary pop music market, except at Christmas. The average person probably thinks of him more as an old film actor than a recording artist. The fact is, most people aren't interested in the past at all.

Except for the Oliver Nelson set. I guess Impulse! tends to be neglected by Mosaic because there are relatively few artists with a large group of albums on that label, and those that there are (Coltrane, Shepp, Tyner), have been covered by individual releases. However, they could do a five or six-disc Impulse! set of Shirley Scott (who has been neglected by Universal thus far), and I wish they would.

My educated guess is that this material is just what the link says it is: the small-group transcription sessions Crosby and Cole recorded for the former's radio show. Some tracks were released in the Fifties on the albums Some Fine Old Chestnuts and New Tricks, while others were put out in the Seventies with overdubbed orchestral backing (done at Crosby's instigation by British bandleader Pete Moore). Most have stayed in the RCA vaults until now. This is solid jazzy stuff, easily the equal, in style terms, of many other jazz vocal releases Mosaic has put out, such as the Peggy Lee/June Christy transcriptions. Not John Scott Trotter material by any means. I must say, this announcement has made my day -- many thanks to ghost of miles for posting it.

Amazon made the same mistake with the Verve Originals edition of Stan Getz in Stockholm. Got my hopes up, but I'm happy with the release anyway. I think it's safest to assume that, in spite of what some retailers say, none of these CDs has any bonus material.

What's odd about that is that Parcelforce would normally handle the delivery at the UK end if you had opted for Airmail. DHL and, before that, Airborne Express always handled the whole delivery process if you went for the courier option, so surely UPS should do the same. I've only used US Airmail once before on a Mosaic order, by mistake. My boxed set (the Berigan) was delivered by Parcelforce unharmed, but I had to go to a depot quite far from my home to pick it up.

Out of interest, are you choosing the "US Air Mail" option or "UPS International"? I haven't happened to order from Mosaic since the company dropped DHL, but I always went for the courier option because it was quicker, Royal Mail wasn't involved and the package had to be signed for, plus it cost the same anyway.

From memory, I think it was the album 12 Songs of Christmas, a mid-Sixties Reprise project. The five tracks featuring Sinatra are on the Reprise travelling case box.

Yes, apparantly those are the two. Unfortunately, Tone Poems is oop.

Perhaps hold out for this edition, then. It has a DVD of the 1971 Royal Festival Hall gig thrown in, so at least you might be getting something extra for your money.

Good lord! You mean this? I completely missed it. Seems it was online only(?). Still, two albums are absent and you have to buy the Singles set to get the rest. Quite nice, though. I recall from Charles Granata's book that the Reprise sessions were not known for their quality control, so that might just be down to source limitations. Remastering technology is improving all the time, of course.

Quite nice, but not worth buying a whole CD of material you already have in order to get it! Apparently it is a new (and newly recorded) Torrie Zito arrangement married with a 1984 vocal track for which the original arrangement proved unsatisfactory (so I really got my wires crossed when I misplaced it as a Capitol recording). There's a short video about the project here.

Sorry, Greg, my error. It's actually a Reprise version. But it's on the CD Nothing But the Best if you are looking for it. A better example of a recently released stray Capitol track would be the alternate of Nice n Easy which is on Romance: Songs from the Heart. In any case, there are others. I'd say the Capitol sessions have been treated adequately, but this is Capitol Sinatra! Adequate isn't really good enough.

The Capitol albums badly need revisiting, I think. I'd like to see a boxed set along the lines of the upcoming Beatles ones: new mono and stereo remasters in mini LP sleeves. The RCA, Columbia and Reprise albums have all been handled perfectly in their respective boxed sets, but EMI's neglect of the Capitol albums stands out a mile. Well, they did do the Concepts and Singles boxes, which pretty well reissued everything. One can certainly argue with the quality of the sound (though it mostly sounds pretty good to me), and it would be way cool to have the mono pressings from the early stereo era, but those still strike me as pretty good boxes. Is your problem with the sound? greg mo Partly the sound, which is variable, but mainly the way the music is organised and annotated. With the other labels putting everything they have in one lavish box, in session order with excellent annotation and illustrations, it stands out that the Capitol material is sort of all over the place and carelessly presented. There are many odd tracks that are only available on "best of" compilations, such as Here Goes and Body and Soul, for example. Songs for Swingin' Lovers! still has that horrible band across the top of the cover explaining what a CD is ("Compact disc version of original full-length album"), Only the Lonely has a couple of bonus tracks that don't fit the concept, and so on. It's probably picky of me, but I think EMI's treatment of these famous sessions is kind of sloppy.

The Capitol albums badly need revisiting, I think. I'd like to see a boxed set along the lines of the upcoming Beatles ones: new mono and stereo remasters in mini LP sleeves. The RCA, Columbia and Reprise albums have all been handled perfectly in their respective boxed sets, but EMI's neglect of the Capitol albums stands out a mile.

Maybe to find there's nothing there. The Beatles' only appearances on Juke Box Jury and Top of the Pops are among the many tapes that the BBC wiped.

This was released on both LP and on CD. This was not an original score, but a collection of standards arranged/played by pianist Dick Hyman. Thanks, Jim, but yes, I was referring to the original score. Little did I didn't know it at the time, but most--if not all--the tunes were remakes of famous ones from days gone by. I got hooked on the remakes and haven't been able to find them on CD. As with most of Allen's films, the music was drawn from existing recordings (in this case by the likes of Harry James, Count Basie and Roy Eldridge), with some new solo piano recordings (by Dick Hyman and Derek Smith) for those scenes when Lloyd Nolan was miming playing the piano. There's also the odd "live" performance where the likes of Bobby Short or Carrie Fisher sing. You can piece together much of the "found" score on various CDs, such as the Harry James comp Trumpet Blues, and some of the new piano pieces were on the LP already mentioned, along with Basie et al. There's a rough list of what was used here. This film is a favourite of mine and one of the reasons I became a jazz fan (and a Woody Allen fan).

Thanks for that. Clearly more than one disc required, though. UK release dates.

"Ah, let's tear it up!" at the end of Something's Got to Give on Come Dance With Me