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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:

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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)

Donna Lee was Curley Russell's daughter.

Berigan, thanks for those links!!!

There´s a new Hatology Cecil Taylor release: hatOLOGY 622 Cecil Taylor Unit The Eighth Total time 69:01, ADD, Barcode: 752156062226 Taylor's art confronts Nature so organically because it embraces the same attitudes, makes the same demands. Rejecting frivolous entertainment, it is ritual—a rite of creation that accepts paradox as it attempts to transcend it. — Art Lange

BTW, here´s the cover, very ECM-ish indeed:

I received this in an email from Polish Jazz Net:

Upping this old thread. Guy was kind enough to send me a copy of the magazine, that I received yesterday. The interview is really interesting, first-hand memories of those jazz greats... And as for the photos... no surprise here for the outstanding quality! Guy showed me a few dozens of the photographs he took in the sixties when I was at his place. Believe me, he has tons of marvellous pictures. I wish he could publish a book with all this stuff someday!

Just in case anyone asks who is that Torrebruno.... http://www.rosaspage.com/art/etorrebr.html

After all this nonsense we should start a serious thread on this wonderful pianist. ... without pictures!