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Dick Wellstood Dick Hyman Mike Lipskin

This could set a record in the history of jazz CDs auctions....

Jack The Bear Abba Labba Seminole

My sincerest condolences to his family. The cyberspace jazz community has lost one of its most valuable assets. His insightful reflections on the music, his encouraging work promoting and helping jazz and his warmth and gentleness will be missed. RIP

At the Mosaic website:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz...erson/index.htm

Raynald Colom is the greatest promise when talking about trumpetists in the Spanish jazz scene. "My fifty one minute" (Fresh Sound New Talent 214) is a great disc!

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')."