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I absolutely agree. Would be good if these unruly comparisons here would end - now!

Guess you're right there... just had the Columbia Small Group Swing Mosaic in my hands today - got it when it was running low - seems they only sold about half of the planned edition of 5000 before it timed out. Too bad!

Yeah, I'd be all over that Vanguard material, too! Missed it when it was still around on CD.

Hans Dulfer - The Formative Years '68-'98 some great stuff there... though not so sure how much sense the word "formative" makes, considering this is a broad overview of Dulfer's career.

I'm definitely interested - for lack of better alternatives, that is... would have much preferred a Mosaic with proper sound restoration, though (even if based on needle-drops).

Time to dig out some Art Ellefson again Happy Birthday, sidewinder! :party:

Yes indeed - most interesting, Chris, thanks a lot!

Yeah, the CD sounds fine. Not too big a fan of the layout, but as I said: the notes are a good read! (Would they be included in the LP set?)

Those were my feelings when I read it.

Been playing that most of the day now - amazing stuff! Amazing Pepper but also plenty of amazing Milcho Leviev! Only knew one of the Moles before, very cool to have it all! The notes from Laurie are a great read, too!

Having babies and marrying multiple times is not at all unusual, especially when one considers Peterson's environment and the fact that we only recently have woken up to reality. I am currently compiling a list of jazz musicians who might possibly be straight. Please bear with me. Don't want to continue this much further, but I am trying to understand the terms here. Valerie above says that some of these musicians must be bi-sexual, which would seem to be accurate (assuming there's any merit to some of this, which I'm beginning to doubt quite frankly, and no, I'm not in denial). But Chris, stay with me here, you're saying that if someone is married to a member of the opposite sex for 50+ years (whether one marriage or several), dies married to a member of the opposite sex, fathers children, but also has relations with members of the same sex, that person's not bi-sexual; they're strictly gay??? This is a bridge too far for me. I'm not in denial mode or morally shocked or anything... and I don't mind discussing these questions. I asked Chris the very same question that John Tapscott rose again - however he seems to ignore it. So... Niko's explanation makes sense, but my point still is: it can be multi-faceted. You can be married, have affairs with people of both sexes... bi-sexuality exists. I quickly had the impression Chris was in denial-mode regarding bi-sexuality and found that a bit weird, but I guess I'm out of here now.

Art Pepper - Blues for the Fisherman: Unreleased Art Vol. VI Had it in the mail yesterday - first of the series that I got so far, and sounds great! Very good to have these sessions in their entirety!

Belated best wishes! :party:

Valerie said "if true". Chris is saying there is no "if" (or "are no ifs") about it (he's asserting that what he said is true). Thanks Jim - I get it now... was too tired last night! @Chris: why is "pulling out the old bi-sexual card" "just plain naïve"? So Basie can't have really loved his wife AND be in love with men? Is this an "either-or" thing? Never thought about love that way... interesting concept. Of course having kids, being married etc. etc. is no proof of anything, that's most well-known, but still...

No if about it regarding the names you cite, Valerie. Puilling out the old bi-sexual card is just plain naïve—perhaps with a bit of wishful thinking or denial thrown in. You have been on the scene long enough to know that any gay jazz musician had to play the game and at least appear to be bi-sexual, but even that was not accepted—except when it came to women. For some reason, perhaps because many men like to see two women make love, same-sex affairs (or just dancing and holding hands) was quietly acceptable. If a man wants to have sex with another man, and enjoys it, you can call him a grapefruit, bi-sexual, curious, or whatever.. he is as gay as the man who expresses his desires openly. Whatever way I turn it, I don't understand the sentence I put in bold above. Please explain! And Basie? Really? Not that I'd be morally shocked or something, but it always seemed to me he had loads of love and affection for his wife Catherine - "my Katy, my baby" - here's a passage written by Larry Kart in 1986:

yeah! got this a few days ago, giving it a first spin tonight - into the third album by now, not sure about the fourth and fifth, but the first two are classics of course and the third so far sounds very good, too! the five full albums included are: Music for K (Polish Jazz Vol. 22) Twet (Polish Jazz Vol. 39) Music 81 (Polish Jazz Vol. 69) Lady Go Switzerland - Tomasz Stanko Freelectronic Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987 in case someone wonders: I bought mine from amazon.fr - pretty acceptable price there... the discs come in mini-lp/replica cardboard sleeves in a small box (CD-sized, roughly) and there's a booklet coming with it - two essays, one on Stanko in general, another one on the albums and the music, both in polish and english. Haven't yet read any of it though.

AWESOME VENERABLE BEAST!!!!!!!! yours???? speeding, drunk, no tags, loud cherry bombs, loud stereo? Not mine, alas... I don't even drive (no need - most of Switzerland by now is kind of suburbia, you get trains and buses everywhere, at least once every hour). Read about it only - seems the steering wheel was too lose for today's rules...

Guess I should really dig it out and read that booklet, then, huh? (Just in case someone wonders, it's this box we're talking of.)

those pictures remind me of the Tin Lizzy that was stopped Sunday by police here: built 1927, still driving!

"Essential" is the place to start. If you like what you hear there, go to the box set collection of the seven LP's. You'll need to keep "Essential" anyways for the single-only releases. "Greatest Hits" was a gem for it's time, but "Essential" renders it totally extraneous. Is there anything on it that's NEITHER on one of the albums NOR on "Greatest Hits"? Four tracks by Little Sister - very Slyish and very good - and various other Sly produced tracks are available on this compilation. Little who? Had no idea Sly was involved there... have had "Stanga" as my ringtone for years (taken from that great Atlantic 4CD rare groove box from several years ago... 'fraid I never looked into the booklet yet ). So that compilation has three of the same four Little Sister cuts? Plus the rest? Guess that would make more sense for me than getting the Essential set - thanks a lot!

German article about the book: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Ganz-schoen-von-gestern/story/17767539 Doesn't make it sound too promising, I'm afraid...

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kewl! Thanks!

Uhm, I can't find anything on any album called "Last Time Out"... anyone care to enlighten me?

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