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I'm going to do that as well. But I'll postpone buying this set until the Lunceford is ready for pre ordering.

When you consider that Mosaic did a replacement of one of the discs in the Lionel Hampton set (wrong track) and that Hep replaced an Artie Shaw disc (track missing) it is strange that Universal won't replace the faulty Stan Getz disc. On the other hand Sony did not replace the Duke Ellington "Such Sweet Thunder" 1999 release when it was discovered that a wrong take of "Up and Down, Up and Down" was used. There must be a lesson in this somewhere

The "A Duke Ellington Panorama" site (http://www.depanorama.net/) has a discographical section. The most complete disco of Duke Ellington is Luciano Massagli - Giovanni Volonté "The New Desor" (Desor = Duke Ellington Story On Records). Published in 1999. Updates to this book are made available 3 times a year on the NDesor section of the Ellington Panorama site. I don't know if it is still available somewhere. I got it from Norbert Ruecker Jazz Books some years ago. It's no longer in his catalogue. Alternatives are: Eric Raben: Jazz Records 1942-1980 vol. 6 Duke Ellington W.E. Timner: Ellingtonia The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidemen (Scarecrow Press 2007 5th edition).

How complete are the sessions in that box? Are there tracks left out, or do you get everything that was recorded? (And are there any good Cole discographies online that make it easier to piece together this info myself?) As far as I can check all Universal owned sessions are there: Decca, Keynote and Verve including alt takes. The Decca sessions include the Eddie Cole Solid Swingers session from 1936. It was Eddie's singing they were trying to promote back then...

I have Jazz Beat 527 'The Complete Ellington Indigo's' and I don't think they had acces to the original tapes. If you had you would mention this. No bad sound to my ears.

Me as well.

Alonzo Levister 'Manhattan Melodrama' Debut DEB 125. Maybe there could be a set The Complete Debut Recordings Without Charles Mingus

I like to hear jazz from all ages and places. Apart from the USA I have compilations of historic recordings from the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switserland and Australia. One white spot on the map was filled last weekend when I found 7 LP's from a series named 'Anthology of Sovjet Jazz' in a second hand record shop. They were 2,50 Euro per lp. The series name and the lp title are the only English on the cover of 6 of the lp's. One has the artist names and the song titles also in English. From a list wich seems to be an "also in this series" I came to the conclusion that there are 8 LP's in this series. The titles of my 7 lp's are: The First Steps I'm Blue With Out You A Chance Meeting Fall In Love With Me Dancing Fingers Sing For Me Hitparade A collegue of mine who comes from Russia agreed to translate the songtitels and artits names for me.

Still waiting for my set to arrive... #1 is a minor issue, but #2 and #3 sound rather annoying to me! Too bad if it's so (not doubting your findings!) - quality control costs too much in these cheapo times of ours, I assume... I didn't buy this set yet but according to the tracklisting on Amazon "I don't mean a thing" is on disc 2 track 9 and on disc 3 track 1. Also according to to Amazon (fwiw) the playingtime of Flamingo on the Quintet set is 7:25 and on At the Shrine 8:34. If it's the studio version with applause it's annoying if it's the Shrine version it's als annoying. You still need the Poll Winners edition of 'At The Shrine', wich has both versions, of Flamingo to be complete.

The Bennie Green is gone to.

Artie Shaw 1939-1940 Classics 1087 This CD has: 'I didn't know what time it was' with Helen Forrest, 'Frenesi' 'Gloomy Sunday', 'My Fantasy', 'Don't Fall Asleep' with Pauline Byrne, a singer I like very much. She seems to not have recorded more. I can't find any more info about her. 'Dreaming out loud' and 'Now we know' with Martha Tilton. And Artie Shaw plays clarinet.

The Tal Farlow is now gone again.

Mosaic has come up with a few Tal Farlow Sets and Bennie Green Selects. They are on last chance. If you want them hurry. I ordered the Tal Farlow.

I just love Hawkins. The first recording of Hawkins I heard was 'Stardust' with Django and Grappelli on piano. Still a favorite of mine. Followed later by Fletcher Henderson's recording of 'The Stampede', The All-Star Jam Session with 'Crazy Rhythm'. The 78 Sw. 1 is one of my prized possesions. The 1944 session with Monk. 'The Man I love' from December 18, 1943. I could go on and on. Will 7 CD's be enough to do Hawkins justice?

I ordered the Dizzy and the Hackett sets. No wife to put a shovel in my skull.

Answer to my mail was that it must have been lost in the mail. The replacement they sent arrived today. Now find time to play the CD's

I have my eye on the Dizzy Gillespie and the Bobby Hackett sets. Actualy this sale comes a month too soon for me but I just might squeeze one of them in. Allready in my collection: Oliver Nelson Woody Herman Charlie Parker Django Reinhardt Jack Teagarden I'm not too fond of Sarah and more a Verve than a Blue Note man so I give those sets a mis.

I ordered the OP box on January, 25. UK to The Netherlands is mostley a week or so. But so far no OP box for me. Sellar gave me positive feedback though. Today I Sent Filmzone1 a mail asking were it is. Best transatlantic shipping ever: 4 days by Mosaic. Once I ordered a set Tuesday got it Saturday.

Why won't the MJQ tracks on 'A quartet is a quartet' be on the set? They were recorded in 1963. Part of that album is by other quartets. No MJQ so no need to include them. Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. One side of the LP, 4 tracks, are by he MJQ. Why wouldn't they be included. I don't expect the tracks by the Quartetto de Milano and the Hungarian Gypsy Quartet to be included but I do expect the tracks by the MJQ to be included. You probably misread the original statement it says "...1/2 of Quartet is a Quartet will not be included." I think that means the MJQ 1/2 will be included. Sorry if my answer led to confusion.

Jazz Dialogue and 1/2 of Quartet is a Quartet will not be included. No Sun in Venice is a.k.a One Never Knows Why won't the MJQ tracks on 'A quartet is a quartet' be on the set? They were recorded in 1963. Part of that album is by other quartets. No MJQ so no need to include them.

Nor mine. This is a good set. Yeah, I was a drummer and maybe I enjoy the drumming aspects a bit more than others may, but there is much swinging jazz here to get excited about. I truly like this eet more than I expected to, and am glad I've had it a few years. I second this. I like it very much and 'm glad I have it. It's on running low now together with the Johnny Smith set. Sorry for mixing up Jimmy and Johnny. There is no Jimmy Smith set that could go out of print.

I have about half of the music from this set in a rather haphazard way so I think I'll get this one. What I don't get is the 1964 cut off date. Half the "Porgy and Bess" album was recorded in in 1965 (unless the disco's are wrong). With the album "Jazz Dialogue" also from 1965 it would make more sense to make 1965 the cut off date. Especially considering the next Atalantic Studio album "Plastic Dreams" is from 1971. So maybe an 8th disc would be in order. That would make room for the alternate takes as well.

Since it arrived I played the Ellington set three times in a row. Even after knowing most of the music at least ten years it was like new. It won't be far from my CD player for a long time. Now it's Onzy Matthews Select disc 2. I realy like the big bands from that period.

about 3700 CD's 400 LP's The most interesting are on my display wall. 300 45's/EP's 200 78's All jazz All in my music room. Some pictures taken during recent modernization of my appartment. Not all was in it's right place at that stage.

How about Ella Fitz & The Geralds? This was a band in Holland 30 years ago.