John L

I don't know about this post-Aretha world. I can't identify. RIP

If Coltrane didn’t like Red Garland’s playing, it is curious that he recorded so much with him, including as a session leader. But who knows?

The 120 gb iPod touch is very nice. I have one. But the price is not very friendly.

Right - the last 4 are on the first Mosaic Basie/Young set. None are on the second (latest), as that does not include Columbia material.

Let me also chime in on recommending the Private Collection. Some of the live recordings in that collection are not too special, at least as Duke Ellington recordings go, but some of the studio recordings are spectacular. I listen to them probably as much as any Ellington.

Do you mean this one? There is great material here, but nothing that hasn't been reissued since. In the LP days, this was one of the key sources for vintage Basie. Now, the best source for the majority of this and the rest of the Columbia recordings with Lester Young in the best sound is the first Mosaic box of Basie and Lester Young...this one: On the other hand, Super Chief also has some nice tracks of the Basie band without Lester Young, not rare but nice.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Happy birthday and good luck to you, Victor!

RIP

Yes. I'll Remember April is apparently not on the same tape from December 14 that is on the Uptown disc. It could have been from another date of the same gig.

Yes, those Basie tracks on Historical Pres never made it to CD as far as I know, but they are dynamite.

RIP

All of this material was out and around on various bootlegs before these box sets appeared.

Seven of these tracks appeared on a bootleg CD, "First Giant Steps," that also included the 1946 army recordings.

Was it Blues in the Night?, i.e. "My Mama Done Told Me." A lot of bands hate playing that, and I don't blame them.

Not jazz, but a great Sonet release. I consider this to be the single best recording that Mighty Joe Young left us.

You are giving us a mighty good feed here, soulpope!

Thank you for this service. Spirituals to Swing is a unique treasure trove of American music.

RIP Rick Hall!

Thanks! Very enjoyable.

The word genius is used in different kinds of ways, and there are different types of genius. Someone with an IQ that is off the charts qualifies immediately as a genius, even if he or she is unable to create anything original at all. Then there is "creative genius," which is what we are talking about, I guess. Yes, Monk is the personification of a creative genius to me, someone who had a completely unique sound world inside of himself, and was somehow able to bring that whole sound world gift to all of us.

I have the JSP and Columbia CD boxes, as well as the Columbia LP series. When I reach for the Hot 5s & 7s, I almost always choose JSP: great sound and programming.

. Not necessarily. They pretty much cleaned the Impusle! vaults a long time ago, but the new studio material released in the last few decades comes almost entirely from the Coltrane estate, i.e. tapes that Coltrane kept at home. I know of no reason to think that there is not any more.

I love Dex, used to never miss his concerts, and have virtually all his records. But how can they objectively justify putting him above Pres and Hawk?. No problem preferring Dex as a matter of taste but... I would say the same for Getz.

I didn't even consider myself a fan. A CD store was at the last day of its closeout sale - all remaining discs for $1 each. Not much was left, but there was a stack of this one. They were also playing it in the store and that sold me right away. This record has been in very regular rotation ever since, one of the most beautiful and emotionally-riveting collections of music that I know. It might have been my best spent dollar.