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And I'm flabbergasted about what I get to read about the Porter songbook here ... I mean, Ella is as good as it gets and the songs are superior to most any of the ones on the other songbook (Gershwin exempted). Sure, the arrangements could be better, but I would never want to be without it!

Modern? Amongst others and in no particular order: Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, John Dos Passos, Sidney Bechet, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, André Breton, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, Karl Kraus, Lyonel Feiningen, Johannes Itten, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Szondi, Brassaï, Robert Walser, Joseph Roth, Alfred Döblin. Not many women in this list, I'm afraid ... there must be some that deserve inclusion though, I'm sure. First to come to mind are Anna Achmatova, Rose Ausländer and Lou Andreas-Salomé

Yep, greatest Mosaic (or Revenant or whathavyou) box never to happen.

more things in heads (including heads in heads):

Things (uhm) in heads:

This must have been here for sure, but the thread is way too large to check:

Thought we had one like this already, but I can't find it in the list - delete/merge if I'm mistaken!

Same folks I believe. Well, I don't know ... but I know I'd love to have a shop offering ten percent of the legit stuff they're selling in my town! All the bigger ones closed down by now, the one remaining has a crappy offer (i.e. fifteen Nina Simone discs, but not a single one of her classic albums ... not a single actual album at all, I think, just all kinds of silly compilations) and the usual crazy prices.

what do you mean by "dubious stuff" ? Well, all the Euro PD crap. It's perfectly legal and all, but ...

I'm really having a hard time agreeing here ... sure, the arrangements could have been better, but nevertheless, in my book, the entire album is truly great!

Seriously, TTK? I think the Porter is the best, next to the Gershwin. Irving Berlin may be my least favourite, but the Mercer and Kerns aren't that familiar yet.

Very fine pianist indeed. Only caught him live once, in a four piano affair, first him and Kenny Barron, then Benny Green and (I think) Eric Reid - and finally an encore with all four of them. The older guys taught the younger ones plenty of lessons that night! All the best to Mulgrew Miller, hope he'll recover and lighten up our days many more years!

Better than any of us deserves, so no need to buy

(good shop, even though they do sell lots of dubious stuff, too)

Ella sings Kenny G.

Got you beat. My oldest horn is a c. 1920 curved soprano, nominally a Wurlitzer (really made by Beuscher). Or rather, that's my oldest playable horn. I have a Millereau double-octave-key soprano from 1900 or 1901 that I've never even tried to get into playable condition. It's just a cool object. Very cool! I'm not a collector or by any means a musician, but I obviously got that alto to play (I got it in playable shape, but it has its warts and all ... but I love it, though I don't play these days). Anyway, my old Lenco rekkid player surely qualifies, too. No idea from what time it dates, but it looks more or less like this one below, but doesn't have a suspender for the cover (which no doubt was added later), and it doesn't have that wooden frame at the bottom, either: oh, and the lid/cover of mine is in much better shape, no holes or tears or anything!

a Selmer Mark VII alto from 1971 ... not sure it's outdated, though

Very cool! Thanks for sharing details, Ricky!

What a messy website! And not even a search function! Taylor is all over the start page (scroll, scroll, scroll, and you'll see) - but indeed seems not to be available!

Are you asking (question mark forgotten) or making a statement (word order botched)? I'd just drop Mike a line and ask about that, he said he still has the latest disc in stock, not sure about the rest (he knows I got all the rest, so no need to mention that).

well, let's see these many good talents ... but I do give them points for Ambrose Akinmusire, at least - more of that, please!

Alas I'm afraid your doubts are right on the money ... I still love the idea though.

Oh yes, absolutely Don Byas!