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That would be fantastic to have a proper reissue of Dogon A.D. Don't forget to include The Hard Blues from the same session (released on Coon Bid'ness), which was left off of the LP but would fit nicely on one CD.

The primary role model for Diana Krall was Nat King Cole. I recall hearing her in concert before she hit it big. It was almost all Nat.

That necessary pre-sales target is actually a smart idea in this day and age of huge uncertainty about the CD market. I wouldn't be so sure that they will easily meet the target, considering that the prospect of spending 450 dollars on CDs in 2011 is not a given for most people, and a good portion of true Dead fanatics have most of these soundboards at any rate. But I will try to do my part and put in a pre-order soon.

My Lord! This is great music, indeed. Maybe it makes sense to take a second mortgage to get this one....

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As long as I get to hear the Pres recordings at the Harlem Jazz Museum, I'll be at peace with myself in that respect.

Back with an additional piece of information. It appears that STCD8273 IS the CD release of Home Run. I don't have it, but it apparently contains all of those bonus tracks. Funny thing - I have the LP of Home Run, and Alone Together is not on it. So that is evidently a bonus track as well.

I was just listening through the Wise in Time CD. Some of those takes should never have been released. Howard McGhee was not in good shape.

The Lord discography makes no mention of "Alone," although it does list multiple takes for a number of tracks on Young at Heart. tk 1 Relaxin' at Camarillo Storyville (Dan)SLP4080, (Dan)STCD8272 [CD] tk 5 Reflections - - Blues in the closet - - tk 1 On a misty night - , (Dan)STCD8273 [CD] tk 4 On a misty night , (Dan)STCD8272 [CD] tk 3 In walked Bud - , (Dan)STCD8273 [CD] tk 4 In walked Bud , (Dan)STCD8272 [CD] tk 3 Yardbird suite - - tk 1 Moose the mooche - , (Dan)STCD8273 [CD] tk 2 Moose the mooche , (Dan)STCD8272 [CD tk 2 I want to talk about you Storyville (Dan)SLP4081, STCD8272 [CD] tk 1 I remember Clifford - , STCD8273 [CD] If you could see me now - , STCD8272 [CD] tk 1 Crescent - - tk 3 Ruby my dear - - tk 1 Time waits - - Apparently, the CD of Wise in Time (STCD8272) contains different takes than the other CD (STCD8273). My guess would be that "Alone" is actually "Alone Together," which was recorded at the previous Howard McGhee Storyville session with Benny Bailey (Home Run), but maybe not.

Musique du Bois is the one that I listen to the most as well. Although I also hardly listen to any of the more recent stuff, I have a strange attraction that is hard to explain to one of the later Concord discs: Flash: the Phil Woods Quintet + 1.

There is a good joke in there somewhere. I remember a joke in Russia during Gorbachev's time to the effect that Mitterrand has 12 lovers, one of them has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one, while Gorbachev has 12 economic advisers, one of them is competent, but he doesn't know which one. Here, we have 9000 jazz CDs, only 300 of which are any good, but we don't know which ones.

Many of us here, myself included, are well beyond the point where we can justify the number of recordings the we own on the basis of future planned listening. I think of it as the same sort of luxury as having a huge library of books. They are there for reference as well as enjoyment, and any single one of them can be accessed at any given moment in time. For jazz, since the sound of surprise is often important, it is also nice to be able to grab a recording every now and again that has only been listened to once several years ago and give it a go. At any rate, I have stopped worrying about a justification for the craziness, and learned to live with it.

It would be more probable to me if Morris et al had made some other music at that date. To call a reunion like that just to give some rather standard and not too exciting R&B accompaniment to Guitar Slim doesn't make much sense.

Bird on 52nd Street is a good test. In fact, that music IS on the Mosaic Benedetti box. If you want more like that, get it!

Note that the discographical entry in the original post states "Guitar Slim with Lloyd Lambert and His Orchestra." I just listened through the tracks, and it strikes me that he likely IS playing with Lloyd Lambert and His Orchestra, not with Joe Morris (who died in 1958), Johnny Griffin, Matthew Gee, Elmo Hope, Percy Heath, & Philly Joe Jones. Lloyd Lambert never had a band like that. As was mentioned above, Joe Morris did, but 10 years earlier.

It is interesting to look at B.B. King's discography from that point of view. His performances were always so original and influential that it is easy to loose sight of the fact that almost all of his songs are covers.

Yes, a much more rational approach would be to get the very short list of Blue Note CDs that might still be in print, and substract that from the total.

The vocal on Breezin' is 'This Masquerade'. You need to re-acquaint yourelf with your vinyl! Yea, and that vocal is far from dreadful, a beautiful performance if you ask me. "On Broadway" was indeed pretty dreadful. I sold that live album as soon as I bought and heard it.

I was just thinking the same thing myself yesterday.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul. I was 7 years old when this came out. My father bought a copy and I sat in front of the mono speaker every day listening to it for months. This is when I really fell in love with music. Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign. After having the fortune to hear Albert King on his tour following the release of thia album, it became my passion and led me to a lifelong deep love of the blues. Stanley Turrentine - Don't Mess With Mr. T. Maybe not a classic, but this is the album that bridged the gap for me between R&B and jazz. It wasn't long before I was listening to Miles and Coltrane. Louis Armstrong: Memorial Album: RCA. This two-record set of Armstrong's RCA recordings really hit me hard - I really GOT Armstrong from this one, and began listening to much more earlier jazz. Muddy Waters - More Real Folk Blues. This album just blew me away for a few years straight. It changed the way that I play music as much as the way that I hear it.

I also did Cooperstown a long time ago. It's great fun if you are a baseball fan. On the basis of that trip, I wouldn't see any compelling reason to stay there more than one day, but maybe something else has sprung up in the area in the last 30 years or so.

Didn't Mosaic reissue it as a single?

When it comes to Bird, the notion of "alternates" is somewhat of a stretch. His art was to reconstruct spontaneously what was mostly a limited number of basic progressions. Therefore, an alternate is virtually the same as a different composition. Only the head is (usually) the same. In fact, Dial records sometimes exploited that fact by issuing the alternates under completely different names. In other words, don't think of the 8 disc set as what you have now with a bunch of alternates. It is what you have now plus a lot more new music.

Well, the sound is a huge improvement over my previous source of the material: Chronological Classics. The booklet is extremely informative and well written in general, but has has one major defect. A box set like this calls out for at least a few introductory paragraphs that look at the big picture and discuss the place of this body of work in Ellingtonia and jazz history. The essays just jump into minute historical details right away, without introduction, and remain there the whole time. I guess that is more or less OK for those of us who have done a lot of reading and listening on Ellington and jazz, but not for the general buyer.

RIP