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Those are the Pres volumes (and more about them can be foudn in the Pres corner). The ones I was talking about are the Basie volumes (eleven of them up to mid 1939). A quick search didn't turn up much on them, though I do rememeber they have been discussed somewhere here, several years ago.

just a little footnote for Mssrs. Sangrey and Mommentine: saw Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter" in the movies a few days ago - score by Dee Barton. And a pretty effective one, too. Seems he also wrote the music for Clint's debut as a director, "Play Misty for Me" (which is referenced early in "Dirty Harry" on the marquee of a movie theater in the background), but I missed that one, alas.

Look through the Basie and Pres corners if you want to know which volumes contain lots of live material... I've got Vols. 4, 5, 6, 8 and 11... guess those fit the bill. The Famous Door material from July 15, 1939 is on the second half of Vol. 11 - I think that was how far they got with Basie, but I'm not sure there (it came out in 1999). There's one overpriced offer here: http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Edition-Vol-11-Masters-Jazz/dp/B00000K2L7/

MoJ discs are difficult to find nowadays and may cost a lot. They went under around in the early noughties, not sure when exactly, 2001/2, I think..

just took out some hatOLOGY discs last night... including the two Lieb solo discs - but right now I'm spinning his duo 2CD set with Marc Copland, "Bookends", and on disc 1, there's a wonderful tenor sax solo performance o" Lester Leaps In"! Also, have the Shepp solos from "The Long March" been mentioned?

Yeah, it was a tough call between her and Helen Merrill, really - but in the end I reach for Merrill more often.

Mike, I did get the orange and blue LP boxes... other than that, yes there's the "America's Band #1" box, which has all the octet studio material, some other small group (most of that in fact) and some selected big band sides (not enough of them, not nearly so!)... but the main point is the glorious live material on disc 4. Most or all of it had been out on Masters of Jazz before, but not in as great sound. Pres is amazing there! Some of the best I've heard!

Billie Holiday Anita O'Day Helen Merrill and plenty of others, too... Ella, Lee Wiley, Sheila Jordan, Shirley Horn, June Christy, Chris Connor, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Beverly Kenney, Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Betty Roché... Male would be more difficult... Jack Teagarden, Hoagy... Andy Bey, sure, Jimmy Scott, on some days Johnny Hartman (or some of his recordings), Mose Allison... Guess I still forgot plenty.

That's very good news, Jonathan! A few hours ago I took out "Ne Plus Ultra" (the hatOLOGY CD reissue) to play again... great persprectives that I may be able to hear more of the kind in the not-too-far future!

A not-to-be-named member of this forum sent me an empty (darn!) bottle of Ubu Ale along with some music I still have it on display here!

What Jim says... there have been some "fixing" attempts, but even the best version I've heard is virtually unlistenable... guess these sexophones could actually have been impersonated by a muddy early rhodes or some such. Quality is really, really bad, and if it weren't for Trane and the other luminaries involved, I'd certainly not have played this through several times.

Happy Birthday, Al!

lady Jim's no repeater's pencil!

hey, who took my nuts?

But no matter how much we try, we won't be able to reproduce terminology of a by-gone era nowadays... I mean I would have issues if quotes got mis-treated by fitting them into current terminology or if old books would be adapted. But I really do think Pullman is entitled to use the terminology he wants to for his own narration.

Interesting... I just got a mail from amazon.fr moving back the expected release/delivery to March 31! Lame, will compare prices with other sources, I guess. Oh well, just did... and I'll just wait and pay some euros less.

Yeah, he's great on those Lennie's discs! Plenty of music on the two CDs!

There's one he made with Art Pepper, too... haven't heard it for quite some time though.

Yeah, Thad/Mel, Elvin and RTF for me, too... with Elvin, there's a nice live one on Enja, in addition to the Blue Notes (the trio plus Hannibal on trumpet on one track). Farrell's fine on that one Hill Conn he's on (Dance with Death?) That Xanadu looks mighty interesting, Jim! Farrell and Teddy! I got to look for that!

Got the orange one last autumn... the box itself in better condition, but vinyl all looks good and clean in both boxes. Love having it all, finally! (Though I guess I would have enjoyed a complete Mosaic CD box even more.)

Yes, very much in the same boat here! (Lon, you forgot the wonderful Aladdin set!)

Gee, I guess I'd have to go through virtually hundreds and hundreds of crappy James Last and Cap'n Cook LPs to find any Hazy vinyl here! He's not stored with anything that I'm regularly browsing for... never, ever saw an LP of his!

Yes, I think I do understand Honestly, I've not (at least consciously) heard a lot of his music yet... but my interest is piqued for sure, and I do enjoy some of this jazzed-up pop stuff if it's done well (Kaempfert, for instance, though that's a different sound). Will look for the box and then see if I feel like exploring more.

You mean the music on the box is rather more adventurous (or jazzy) than that "rare jazz" disc? Just to clarify!