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  3. new box set on Oscar Peterson Songbooks???

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    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!

  5. Verve Originals, complete list

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    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

  6. Louis and Wingy

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    Thanks Lon! I realized that myself... still a pity, as those few sides would have easily fit in and nowadays Universal often leases material to Mosaic.

    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.

  8. Upgrading iTunes

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    I still don't understand the "sorting tab in preferences" reference...

    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! :wacko:

    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!

  9. Upgrading iTunes

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    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.

  11. Quotes

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    In the Horace Silver composition "Quicksilver" he uses a couple quotes as part of the melody. The first occurs in bars 13-16 where he quotes "Oh You Beautiful Doll". The next one is in bars 29-32- I'm pretty sure it's from a classical piece (Prokofiev perhaps?) but I can't remember which. I've heard it quoted repeatedly in bop solos.

    Your help is appreciated.

    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.

  16. Verve Originals, complete list

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by crisp

    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

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