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I have to pick a King Oliver disc to be included in a "XXX best jazz discs" selection for newbies. What I have to choose is the "best" edition (material, sound, liner notes, presentation, availability). I´d prefer to pick a just-one-disc release to avoid "completism fever", but there´s no problem with a two-disc issue. I think I´d prefer to choose the 1923 Creole Jazz Band sides (with Satchmo, the Dodds brothers, Lil Hardin...) better than a compilation of 1923-30 recordings (Dixie Syncopators, KO orchestra...). My personal collection includes all six King Jazz "King Oliver Heritage 23-30" discs and the New York Sessions 1929-30 RCA/Bluebird disc. Options for the early material (only): -the Challenge "The complete set" 2 CD. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00...124267578/sr=2- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...AFB86112F0450CF -the Retrieval 2CD set, remastered by John RT Davies. I´m afraid it´s OOP. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...AFB86112F0450CF -Classics 650 (1923) -the first volume on King Jazz that I mentioned -the Jazz Archives disc http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- Options for a wider selection: -the ASV/Living Era compilation -Great Original Performances 1923-1930 (Louisianna Red Hot ???) Which would be your pick? Thanks in advance!!! Agustín

Ouch! ← I finally received my disc last Thursday. To be fair with cdjazz.com, they included a letter of apology for the delay in the envelope. First time I see this in an on-line store. The music is great, btw.

Thanks for the heads-up, Chris! I will be buying this set for sure.

Cat Anderson Orchestra- Mercury MG-36142 and EmArcy SR-80008: Cat On A Hot Tin Horn (1958)

And: Tete Montoliu / Peter King - Fresh Sound LP 12": FSR 117 - New Year's Morning '89 (recorded on Jan.1, 1989. A double LP with Peter King (as), Gerard Presencer (t), Tete Montoliu (p), Horacio Fumero (b), Peer Wyboris (d))

Not sure if this has been done before... We could list here all those wonderful vinyl discs that never have been reissued into CD. Maybe we can create a lobby to press labels to do their job! I will start with a couple of Tete Montoliu dates: Tete Montoliu - Jazzizz LP 12": JIR 4003 - Carmina (recorded on 1984, it´s a trio date with John Heard on bass and Sherman Fergusson on drums)

Woodyard, HELLYEAH! What a great drummer! ← Wasn´t this thread about "least favorite drummers"? ← Mine was intented as a very unsubtle way of making a joke.

Woodyard, HELLYEAH! What a great drummer! ← Wasn´t this thread about "least favorite drummers"?

Still waiting to receive my disc from cdjazz.com (and it was ordered 4 weeks ago)

As Lon has posted on this thread, it has finally come out.

Ever hear of a cat called Duke Ellington? Check out his recordings from, say, the 1920s to the 1970s and you'll hear a LOT of Hodges, on the tunes that made his reputation as just about the best alto player this side of Charlie Parker. ← Oh, so that´s the guy who appears playing alto in about 200 discs in my collection.... you always learn something new!

Count me in, definitely. Finally someone who doesn't blame me for it either. ← If I had to choose.... well, don´t put me in that awkward situation....

Thanks for the reminder, Lon. Will be on my list for sure.

¡¡¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS, LON!!!

Same here. 7 weeks later!!! Looks like Mosaic is getting all the records in "delayed orders to my place".

wooow!!! What a ridiculous price for a wonderful set!

Thanks again for your birthday greetings! No special feeling being 34. Feeling young becomes BEING young.

I hope we can meet, Marcus, that would be a great pleasure!

Yeah! There are several towns in Spain with a street called Tete Montoliu. Like Terrassa, with a great Jazz Festival, and a famous jazz club called Jazz Cava (now Nova Jazz Cava), where Tete played dozens of times.

Your refreshing present is much appreciated, but I prefer...

¡¡¡MUCHAS GRACIAS A TODOS!!!

Yes. The one included in this BFT is that included in "The intimate DE" disc. There are a couple of versions in the "Live and rare" 3 CD set. And if I remember correctly from Timner (I don´t have it handy), there are even two (or three?) more unissued versions.

I´ve listened to disc 1 once. First of all, thanks again to Jim for such a nice compilation, varied and sometimes shocking. I´m afraid I don´t have time to do a proper track-by-track analysis now, but I´ll pick in with some comments/guesses on several tracks. Track 13: Yep! This is the Maestro doing his celeste + vocals version of his own composition "Moon maiden". Funnily, this was recorded on my birthday, just a couple of years before I was born. Here´s what Eddie Lambert writes on his "Listener´s guide": "...It´s wholly in character that when DE reflected on the posibilities of space flight his mind should turn at once to the opposite sex. "Mooon maiden" indicates how DE would have gone about chatting up the ladies had such been bound on the moon during his lifetime. He talks rather than sings, and the main interest in this slight DE curio is DE´s solo, the only one he ever recorded on celeste." Track 9: I don´t know neither the song nor this concrete performance, but I´d swear this the Count, sixties Count (Lockjaw Davies on tenor?) If there´s any group at all that can make me hum, tap my feet and snap my fingers with every song I listen, this is Basie´s. Even when it´s not top-notch Basie. Track 2: Late Pops, no doubt. Haven´t heard this "Cheesecake" thing previously. Will come with more!

Nah, that´s the problem of living in a faraway and neutral country such as Switzerland!

According to Jazzmatazz, there´s a new JSP, focused on Basie-ites recordings with other leaders. Away From Base: Count Basie Sidemen Recorded With Other Leaders 1937-1941 Featured ensembles/artists are: -Benny Goodman & His Orchestra -Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra/Billie Holiday -Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra -Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra -Harry James & His Orchestra/Helen Humes -Kansas City Five -Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra -Jerry Kruger & Her Orchestra -Glenn Hardman & His Hammond Five -Joe Sullivan & His Cafe Society Orchestra -Una Mae Carlisle Guess most of it (if not all) is easily available elsewhere.