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If you don't have the set and you like Lester Young get it. It might be the only way to get the complete Jones Smith inc session.

I was thinking about 'The Carnival of Swing' 29-5-1938 on Randall Island (NY). 25 bands in the line up. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stuff Smith (with Ben Webster), Artie Shaw, Ella Fitzgerald, and Gene Krupa as the closing act. But also Kay Kaiser and Vincent Lopez. Great bands for shure but jazz?. I could not find a complete line up. Missing from the line up: Benny Goodman he played at the Steel peer (Atlantic City) that day. Count Basie & His Orch. 1938 Randall's Island NYC - YouTube Carnival of Swing: Uncovering an Historic Jazz Concert at Randall's Island Stadium, 1938 | The New York Public Library (nypl.org) The poster 1938 Carnival of Swing Poster | Growling Hamster is a recreation of how it might have looked.

Warren Vaché Cow Cow Davenport Bix Beiderbecke

The Woody Herman 1943-1954 set is now OOP. Still available at Jazzmessengers Barcelona.

Maybe you should ask Tom Lord who runs a large on line jazz disco behind a paywal. Tom Lord - The Jazz Discography - Catalog of Jazz Music (lordisco.com) Compiling the disco is his livelyhood so it seems natural to me that he asks a subscription fee.

This is my greatest wish at the moment. I spent one afternoon listening to Duke, Django, Goodman (mostley sextet) and Goodman with Roy Eldridge and Lester Young iirc). There are more than 1.100 tracks to listen to. It is not all jazz there were also fireside chats by president Roosevelt. My listening was cut short when someone came to test Illinois Jacquet's sax. That sound was so loud it drowned out everything else.

Oslo 4/12/64 Stockholm 4/13/64 Both partialy on Jazz Icons DVD. CD's are near imposible to find.

Classics is mostly ok. In this instance I don’t think they used original lp’s. Classics 1003 Bud Powell. Same quality. Don’t think lp’s were used.

Classics 1000 Charlie Parker 1947

Classics 980 Charlie Parker 1945-1947

I looked at the website of the publisher Z2 comics. The standard edition has a 7’ flexidisc unissued track(s) not mentioned. The the luxe edition should have 45 rpm single with unissued tracks. No titles mentioned. The text with this graphic novel on Amazon states Verve will issue a cd spanning Bird’s L.A. Period. The must be JATP recordings.

Thanks. It seeems to be have been a temporary thing.

I would be very happy if Mosaic did this.

I wanted to see if Peter Losin had news on his Miles Davis-Bird website. But I get a 'Website Unavailble' message. It would be awfull if that would be permanent. Webage Unavailable (plosin.com) Does anyone knows something about this?

Placed a preorder. I suggested this one long ago. And I was not the only one I guess

I would love to hear this. I think it is a pity it is not included in the Mosaic set.

Yes but only 2.000 copies not 5.000 or 7.500 as in olden days.

Just got an e-mail from Mosaic stating that the Woody Herman set is on last chance. It bypassed the running low status.

Just learned that Claude Bolling died the 29th 90 years. I saw him perform a piano recital at the Woking Ellington conference (2012). He joined us for drinks afterwards. Spoke with him a few words. A very curtious and plessant man. BIOGRAPHIE | Claude Bolling (claude-bolling.com)

The Ruby Braff single is OOP again. Took longer than normal for a reapearing item.

I wonder how Mosaic could possibly get that on 8 Cd's. The Sony material would need 4 Cd's. Duke's first stint with Victor 1927-1934 takes up 7 CD's in the Big RCA box. Only with a 1931 cut off date it would be just possible. The are 6 12" recordings in this period. This would also orphan the 2 Cd's worth 1932-1934 recordings. I have no idea in what sort of box these would fit. Stylisticly it would be strange to add these to a 1940-1942 Victor (6 Cd's worth) set though that would make it a 8 CD set. Assuming Mosaic would contemplate such a set. The 1940-1942 Victor recordings are not rare. And such a Mosaic set would only make sense if it would be followed by a 1944-1946/1952 Victor set (4 Cd's) and a 1947-1952 Columbia set (I asume 11 Cd's if all unissued recordings and unlicensed issues are included).

The Count Basie/Lester Young set is now OOP. The Braff single made a come back a few days ago. Usealy the come backs are short lived.This time it takes longer.

Yes I'm still around.

If you listen trough the surface noise. Just beautifull

Ray Noble & American Orchestra. Don't know if you can call it all jazz but some pretty good music.Especialy the Indian suite I never heard his own version of Cherokee before. And Ray delightfully hamming it up on 'Slumming on Park Avenue'.