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If you are in London and still don't have a copy of this book, Fopp in Earlham Street WC2 has a number of hardback editions for just £4.

Spotify seems to have just added several Lonehill titles. I've noticed a number of Illinois Jacquet and Buddy DeFranco titles have appeared that weren't there before.

It's possible that this could be the complete Songbooks from 1959 in Originals-style packaging, like the Coltrane and Getz Bossa Nova sets: Oscar Peterson Plays The Duke Ellington Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The George Gershwin Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Jerome Kern Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Harry Warren Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Irving Berlin Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Harold Arlen Song Book Oscar Peterson Plays The Jimmy McHugh Song Book Some reasons for thinking it's this rather than the 1951/2 sessions on the Mosaic: 1) Verve is reissuing Peterson's The Jerome Kern Songbook in the Originals series the week before 2) The 1951/2 albums were called Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter, etc. No use of the term "songbook" 3) Although Amazon has it as an import, meaning it could be just another European PD release of the 1951/2 sessions, both Tower and CD Universe have Verve (US) So I'm cautiously optimistic. Good spot, tranemonk!

Thanks - missed that one in the cut and paste.

Amazon has the next batch listed for June 9: Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata - Gato Barbieri Blues in Time - Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond Images - Crusaders As Quiet As It's Kept - Max Roach A Secret Place - Grover Jr. Washington Explores the Music of Henry Mancini - Quincy Jones Plays The Jerome Kern Songbook - Oscar Peterson Virgo Red - Roy Ayers Basie Land - Count Basie

But Mosaic never(?) releases sets mixing music owned by different companies, unless it can be branched off on a separate disc, as with the RCA disc of the otherwise all-EMI-owned Illinois Jacquet set. I think it's because the parent company manufactures the discs for Mosaic as well as leasing the music. Regarding this issue, I'd like to see Mosaic release a select collecting some of the odds and ends left off the big boxes due to these rights issues. It would be an interesting mix. The Bix set was another one affected.

Thanks again for all the useful tips, guys. Like the term "virtual Rolodex".

My mistake. It's not viewable from Preferences. Go to "Get Info" from the drop-down File, and then a window will pop up. The tabs are: Summary ~ Info ~ Video ~ Sorting ~ Options ~ Lyrics ~ Artwork When you click on Sorting, you'll get that song's information (i.e. track name, album name, etc.). You can then enter the criteria you want (e.g. year) in one of the "Sort" boxes (though there's actually no "Sort Year" box; I use the "Sort Album" box). The default for iTunes is to sort alphabetically by artist first name, and then alphabetically by album name. This can be changed with the Sorting feature. I had to play around with it a bit, but now my iTunes library is sorted by artist, and within artist by year. I hope that helps some to clarify! Late, you're a genius. I've done a provisional update using this method on the Various Artists comps and one of the Mosaics and it works like a charm. Many thanks. Still don't understand why Apple changed it, though -- it was fine as it was!

When I started using iTunes I spent a lot of time inputting album info, including assigning all compilations a "Zzzzz [Genre]" label in Album Artist, so they would be grouped by compilation title. The last upgrade wrecked that, arranging them by Artist even when Album Artist was selected. I've looked for a solution on the web, but the situation seems to be that it can't be fixed. Thanks, Apple! That annoyed me so much I lost all interest in using iTunes. I have just upgraded and the glitch is still there. When I have more time, I will look into switching to Winamp in the hope that it is better and won't be subject to sudden destructive changes like this. Really hate iTunes now.

If anybody is still really interested, this is just £17.99 (£53 off) at hmv.com.

I gave it a spin. It's The Donkey Serenade by Rudolf Friml. So not classical, but since it's operetta, quite close. It does sound a little like Prokofiev, come to think of it.

Thanks Crisp - it doesn't say how long the sale will last. Do you know? No idea, MG. Sorry. ISTR a similar sale last year, so if you pass on this one, there's bound to be another.

UK members might like to know that hmv.com has the new batch at a preorder price of £6.99 delivered (£12.99 for the two-disc Getz): search results.

UK members might like to know that HMV has the first batch for a preorder price of £5.99 each delivered: search results. There is also a £3.99 BN sale here.

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Amazon has a new batch listed for January 27: Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle Bud Powell - Blues in the Closet Gato Barbieri - Chapter One: Latin America Count Basie - On My Way and Shoutin' Again Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Ubiquity Nina Simone - Let It Be Me Grover Washington Jr - Feels So Good Louis Armstrong - Satchmo at Pasadena Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad, Girl There is also a boxed set, The Impulse! Albums, Vol. 3 by John Coltrane for January 20, and a batch of Coltrane CDs (presumably the contents of the box) for March 24: Kulu Se Mama New Thing at Newport Ascension The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Meditations

Amazon.de is currently selling this set for 55.97 Euros. Not a bad price for seven discs: http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Mercury-Clef...3401&sr=1-1