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Me, too. I think that this issue, as I can observe from what all of you lucky persons who manage to get it said, is not so much different from those Columbia masterpieces they did years ago - there were also master takes only. Added remastered broadcasts perhaps are most interesting part, as well as good sounding of big band, Jones Smith group, Basies Bad Boys or Kansas City Sevens. I simply cannot understand that separate non-complete treatment of one of the most important big bands ever.

... and one have to look at the Basie discography to get to conclusion how many remained unissued.

So it is only ONE broadcast, right?

ghost of miles, fine. I must subscribe to this two CD's. Freddie Webster - it all sounds so wild interesting.

Anyoneheard this set till now on?

Helen is surely one of my favorite female jazz vocals, and I like her special approach with so many feelings involved in a song (and I like that her's roots are, in fact, from my country ). Apart from being mentioned in various contexts, I must remind people to collaboration with Gill Evans, and they suit each other very fine. Monk, Teddy and Helen! Of course, Monk is next to his favorite pianist - Wilson. Great photo, and probably the album is also nice - pity we don't have it widely available.

Thanks Al and Brownian Motion for sharing these two invaluable rememberings to the great Kenny. He certainly is among the "best jazz pianists no one ever heard of". We can only hope that things in future will change by reissuing his recordings. I am just reminding myself: Kersey was on that Holiday small group Commodore dates while she was under contract with Columbia, right? And, also, did he backed up Billie in Cafe Society Downtown days?

There is also some Kersey's playing at Minton's, but problem of attribution with Minton dates is big, until now on. It is interesting that people used to replace Kersey for Monk when reissued bunch of Minton's CDs. And that is one important part of the story! He was very advanced player for his time, speaking of his amusement complex harmonies. I like him very much. And he certainly is kind of a prototype for bop pianists, until there was no Bud Powell on horizon.

Nothing came till now on, but I can wait, and will put my comments when it arives.

It certainly is not circuis! I can not say that it is magic ALL the time, but for the most time, about 80-90% it IS magic! How can anybody ever not accept to listen to Bird, Pres, Hawk, Mingus, Dizzy, Rich and other greats played together. And we can only hope for more to come later. Somewhere I've read that there is more material that Granz got with him when he sold Verve. It is only hope. As it is for 1949-59 section to be issued.

Agustin, what is exactly, content of that box set, you put cover on? Are they complete recordings? I've heard about some Django set (Mosaic, probably) that have all studio and prewar live recordings, never issued studio takes etc. And, do some Djangologist among us know, if the whole opus of this master issued, or we can expect new additions in future to come?

Last night I listened to this title, slow blues with Hot Lip's singing added - and lyrics refer to subject - Caladonia. I though how it might inspired Woody's Herman first band (The Band That Played The Blues), and perhaps all the others bands/heards to come, and famous late 1940's version of "Caladonia". I know Jordan recorded "Caladonia", as many others, but Woody's singing and Lips matched each other so well that is unbeliavable. Would be glad if anyone hear what I heard.

They spell it like "Dickerson"? This is EMI's terrible shame! And, of course the other's musician's families deserved it also; if we pay whole lot of money for rights, we want our money to be in right hands. Did they give something to Barney Kessell, who is in struggle with cancer?

from http://www.macrovision.com/solutions/audio/system.php3 "CDS-300™ (NEW) With CDS-300, consumers can make a back-up copy of the original disc to any PC through the Windows Media® Player and listen to their music without the CD present. Any further duplication or Internet sharing is inhibited. And because CDS-300 allows labels to copy protect their major releases with a single global technology, open source discs from one market can’t be used to fuel file sharing in other markets. The honest customer’s needs are satisfied. The labels stay protected. And CDS-300 is the key to it all. Creates barriers to ‘open source’ Red Book audio sessions Uses only 5–10% of a CD for compressed files and support programs, allowing for a minimum of 67 minutes of audio on a 74-minute CD Original audio quality maintained"

This is nice idea!

Just what John said! Although I have no set, but separate discs - I still cannot find what critic thought when them talked about late Bird. Absolutely marvelous Bird, and his genius is sparkle through all the sessions. And I understand JATP set too. It IS the material of great importance, and some of the greatest Bird's solos ever are included. And JATP's are not blowing sessions

Well, thank you Karl Knudsen for everything you did. His Storyville label he used to put licence to issue in my country, was honest and good sounding label, always issuing very rare stuff by jazz giants hardly obtainable. These vinyls include everything - from NOrleans to hard bop, and they were important in mine development as jazz listener and fan. RIP

Apart from being marked as such - copy controlled, I think it would be fair to mark them also as "on PC devices this disc will be played from compressed source".

Looking at various sites about (new) issues of Pres music (that is thing Pres fans often do) I found Columbia/Legacy compilation. http://www.legacyrecordings.com/catalog/ja...z/jazz-v-z.html Is it the same compilation you saw/obtained?

Claude, I must say - agree with everything you wrote. My intention was to bring some irony to my thinking - I don't know if I was clear enough. If record company often spoke about the truth, fair games, copy write protection, etc. it would be honest to clearly explain what they gave you in theirs product - compressed music and formats that are not compatible to written red book standards. But, it is not such the case. The other thing is, of course, that protections of such rare available and expensive music are on the other side of mind or brain. Or we don't know every score of the game. Maybe jazz is selling more than they told us, more than 1-2 % of whole record selling business.

And there is more: "Story in the Los Angeles Times today reports on Artie Shaw, 93, being honored in Westlake Village as he was presented with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his contributions to music. This time he was presenting two of his clarinets, which have remained dormant and unplayed since 1954, to the Smithsonian in Washington. Artie's hearing and eyesight have been deteriorating lately and he is wheelchair bound, but his mind is still active as well as his aversion to stupid questions from the press. Q: "What's so special about this clarinet you're donating?" A: "It's not the clarinet. It's me." Q: "Why did you switch from alto sax to clarinet?" A: "I was playing and recoridng in studios around New York - we had to run from program to program - and I was always having to run around with my sax, and, well, the clarinet weighs less." When asked why he left the U.S. in 1954: "I could no longer stand the fulminating of McCarthy, so I went to Spain. Five years later, someone told me 'It's better now,' so I came home, and the first thing I heard was Lawrence Welk on TV."

It is a bit cynical to call these CD's audio, or to say something like: this is new standard for an audio CD... like EMI said. What it seems to me: this is very old standard but in new package: a "Mixed mode CD" or "CD extra" where data portion is used to bring compressed music (in any known codec, it can any known coded sound format that can be played with Media player), and audio portion (playable on any ordinary audio CD player) while this portion is disabled for ordinary CD rom players found in computer. So, great idea! Everybody satisfied! You can play it on your computer (who will notice the difference on pair of plasic desktop speakers, right), play it on your audio, and you can not digital copy it. But it is not audio CD!

Yes, and I also was not aware of that... And if you are believe in zodiac...

Rudy's supposed hearing loss... and copy controled more!

Birth of a cool?