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This will tie you over till Hawkins arrives. In Hawkins' interview by Paul Bacon and Bill Grauer for the Riverside record 'Coleman Hawkins a documentary' as printed in vol. 1 of the Jean-Francois Villetard Hawkins disco he says about Chu: Q: Who do you think at this time was a really good man on that? Hmmm... Chu. Chu was about the best. Yes Chu Berry was the best man around.

This is exciting news. That means an extra CD to an already very promissing set. :)

Treated myself to: Jimmie Lunceford big box, Charles Tolliver big band select, Ruby Braff and George Wein singles. Next on the waiting list Coleman Hawkins and the MJQ. Later this year: Joe Pass and the Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald sets.

Would you mind, if it's not to much trouble, posting a track or session list for this set? I would be very greatfull to know especially about the September 12, 1955 session wich has never been on CD in total and the November 8, 1955 session. This is not really a big band session but it is not included in the Mosaic Dizzy Gillespie small group box set nor on one of the CD's devoted to the All Star sessions. This one has Harry "Sweets" Edison, Melba Lison and Willie Smith. I know the two tracks wih Tony Harper are on Fresh Sound.

Lang & Venuti disc 3 after 1 and 2 earlier today.

Miles Davis & Gil Evans disc 1. On my new Denon amplifier.

I'm single but still felt the need for a music room.

Release date now: late January/February 2012.

Chu Berry Disc 7

The Al Cohn/Perkins/Kamuca The Brothers is on Last Chance now.

Buddy Rich in London is gone now.

It's on last chance now. So hurry if in doubt. It's a great set.

Back to Chick. I checked his discography published in "Ella Fitzgerald: An Annotated Discography" by J. Wilfred Johnson. The following sessions will not be included as they are owned by Sony: 20-12-1933, 15-1-1934, 4-5-1934, 18-7-1934 (8 tracks) All for Columbia. 6-7-1934 (4 tracks) for Okeh So hold on to your copy of either: Hep 1023, Classics 502 or Properbox 97. Chich Webb made only 4 sessions as as sideman: 8-12-1932 with Louis Armstrong for Victor (on Louis Armstrong Integrale vol. 6) 7-5-1932 with Mezz Mezzrow for Victor (on Classics 713 Mezz Mezzrow 1928-1936) 3-3-1937 with Jimmy Mundy for Variety (on Classics 1200 Jimmy Mundy 1937-1947) 25-3-1937 with the Gotham Stompers for Variety (on Mosaic 235 Ellington Small Groups)

BG Classic Columbia and Okeh Sessions disc 2 (played disc 1 earlier this evening). Just love this band. "Benny rides again" is one of my Goodman favorites.

The Mosaic site now has an annoucement for the Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald set: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/genres.asp?dept=50

Don't want to be the prophet of doom but: Don Byas set. I'm afraid the Byas material is on too many labels to make this happen. It would make a great set. Marshal Royal select. I believe Concord is part of OJC group (Prestige/Riverside etc). Don't see this happen as a Mosaic. But one never knows do one? Johnny Hodges 60's Verve: Again this would make a great set but a lot is on Lonehill. So I don't see this happing soon. I hope to be proven wrong.

I believe on the other thread, someone found it was just under 50 tracks that overlapped with Affinity, which makes it even more of a no-brainer in my case. I just need to come up with the dosh now! May I refer to post #66 in the original thread about this box. I'll be getting this box in December with my 13th month.

Off course, but CD's are also tangible and downloads or streams are not. Yes, you can burn a download to a CD. If you have a record or a CD you have something you can hold in your hands. What happens to the entry in the disco if the website that offers the stream disapears? For me including digitital streams/downloads in a discography is a new step of wich I don't know what it means for the feature of collecting.

Go to either: New/reissues and set the numbre of days to 4 and scroll down. Or do a word search on Wolfgang's Vault. OK, I understand now. I thought you meant that you could actually stream or download the music there. To hear the music (for free) go to http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ For downloading you have to pay.

Go to either: New/reissues and set the numbre of days to 4 and scroll down. Or do a word search on Wolfgang's Vault.

Tom Lord started to incorporate downloads from Wolfgangs Vault in his online disco. some 40 concerts so far. Artist include Benny Goodman, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich etc.

How do you like this set? I know a lot of people rank it near the top of Mosaics. I missed out on this and I can't justify paying OOP prices on this... One day though!!! It's a good set, I'm not heavily into vocal jazz and this or a Chris Connor CD often does the trick. So many songs on it that there's always one to fit your mood. I love this set. Anita is my favorite jazzsinger. Highlights are the Cole Porter and the Rodgers & Hart albums. IIRR this was the firts Mosaic I bought through their website.

The Properbox "The Arrangers Touch" disc 2. Disc 1 has as sample of Duke Ellington's style "Reminiscing In Tempo" (all 4 parts). I wonder how representative of Ellington's style this is. Four sepereate tracks would have said more about Ellington's style than this I think. Not that I don't like Reminiscing.

In the case of the missing blues tracks either Armstrong solo is pretty much the same as on the other take or he only plays obligatos. The Alternate of "I can't give you..." is not of very good sound quality. Maybe that is the reason it was omitted. It is extremly rare. If I recall right there is only one copy known it is in the John R.T. Davies collection.

If I counted correctly there will be 190 tracks in this new set (including breakdowns) 18 are previously unissued. Of the issued material the only thrack I don't have is the Mamie Smith. For me 10% will be new. This is reason enough to buy this set. The much beter sound and the book also helps. Off Course I could listen to the 180 tracks I have by pulling out all the diffrent CD's by Hawkins, Henderson, Carter, McKinney's Cottonpickers etc. It's a good idea I think having a selection showcasing Hawkins' development in his early years. Comparing this set with the Affinity set there are 47 tracks overlapping. The Affinity set covers the years 1929-1941, the Mosaic 1922-1947. The Affinity has no Fletcher Henderson, (Little)Chocolad Dandies, Lionel Hampton, McKinney's Cotton Pickers nor the Benny Carter 30 January 1940 session. For the sake of completenes also missing are the 3 sessions with Spike Hughes, the Varisty Seven 14 December 1939 and 15 January 1940 sessions and the Quintones session of 2 February, 1940. Of the European recordings 5 takes recorded for Dutch Decca were not availlable or overlooked at the time of issue of the Affinity. Otherwise it's complete.