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Claude: It´s not listed in the Peter Losin´s online discography, but I guess it´s in yours. BTW: is your 1999 Bird discography available anywhere?

From Peter Losin´s website:

Wardell Gray Glen Gray Glenn Miller

Teddy Wilson Teddy Edwards Teddy Charles

Yes! I have them in my wish list. Yes, these and 300+ titles. I still have a "general jazz next purchases list" that I prepared some two years ago with more than 1.500 CDs... but lately I prepare "partial" lists (artist by artist, style by style, label by label...) and go hunting budget prices and offers in on-line stores.

In other life I was a decoder of Egyptian hieroglyphics...

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...39694&BAB=M http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...=28196&st=0

Yes! I have them in my wish list.

Oh, and I´m also in the +21 category.

Flurin, I hadn´t read your post before throwing mine. Of course, not talking about you. You better fit with the "completist for each and every musician" definition!

I think that one of the basic problems some people have with the Mosaics (leading them to call a box "overrated") is that they buy them as an introduction to an artist. I have read many times "Well, this is my first XXXX acquisition. I bought it because it was a Mosaic....". Well, IMHO Mosaics are for completists (or for collectors, or for traders, or...) but NOT thought as a "first-pick" for a musician. Just my 2 cents.

Fletcher Henderson Horace Henderson Horatio Cane

This damned Spanish Postal Service!

That's how it struck me. I also like Carl Woideck's "Charlie Parker." And don't miss Argentianian writer Julio Cortazer's long short story/novella "The Pursuer" (in his collection "Blow Up" -- yes, Antonioni's film is based on the title work) about the relationship between Bruno, a Leonard Feather-like jazz writer/promoter, and Johnny, a musician who is mostly based on Parker with a sprinking of Bud Powell. There are passages here where Parker the man and artist comes alive for me as he does nowhere else (nowhere else on a page, that is).

Yes. Brian Priestley's "Chasin' the Bird," page 59: "... the 'Indiana'-based 'Donna Lee' was an original line put together by Miles, whose authorship ws contradicted by the record-label credit 'Parker' but confirmed by Gil Evans and many other observers." Also this, from Priestley's earlier, briefer "Charlie Parker": "Parker also uses a melodic 'macro-syncopation' of the length of phrases (a lack of which easily identifies tunes attributed to but not written by Parker, such as 'Ornithology' and 'Donna Lee')."

Just looked it up there: "Bird prepared three of his finest and most sophisticated compositions - Chasin' the Bird, Donna Lee (named for Curly Russell's daughter) and Cheryl (named for Miles' daughter). His fourth original, Buzzy (named for Lubinsky's son), is a simple, but attractive riff blues." (from James Patrick's article on "The 1947-1948 Sessions" in said 5LP "Complete Savoy Studio Sessions" from 1978) i think i read somewhere that buzzy was named after (??) boston drummer buzzy drootin (spelling?)

To avoid this discussion gets lost in another longer thread: Donna Lee was Curley Russell's daughter.

Yes. Brian Priestley's "Chasin' the Bird," page 59: "... the 'Indiana'-based 'Donna Lee' was an original line put together by Miles, whose authorship ws contradicted by the record-label credit 'Parker' but confirmed by Gil Evans and many other observers." Also this, from Priestley's earlier, briefer "Charlie Parker": "Parker also uses a melodic 'macro-syncopation' of the length of phrases (a lack of which easily identifies tunes attributed to but not written by Parker, such as 'Ornithology' and 'Donna Lee')." I found this technical explanation on why 'Donna Lee' was not composed by Bird on some remote web:

Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman

Could anyone post the discography for #148 The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman 1944-1955 (4 CDs or 6 Q-LPs) ? Thanks in advance!

Horace Tapscott Horace Parlan Javier Castillejo (El Lince de Parla)

Alphonse Picou playing "High Society" (Paul Barbarin´s Band, 1959)