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"Honeysuckle Rose" is on CD1 (#10) of the 3CD set "The Columbia Years / '62-'68"

The Bunk is great! I just ordered "1944 (Second Masters)", myself! Guess you'll also need "1944-1945"

next one:

since me ol'Lenco's workin' fine today (it's got speed issues now and then), it's been an all vinyl day today - pretty broad programme of music: Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Live in Nashville & Louisville François Jeanneau - Techniques Douces The Lee Konitz Nonet (Chiaroscuro) Stan Kenton - Back to Balboa Golden Vibes - Lionel Hampton with Rhythm and Reeds Silver Vibes - Lionel Hampton with Trombones and Rhythm Inside Sauter-Finegan Erroll Garner - Paris Impressions McCoy Tyner - Supertrios Ornette Coleman - Skies of America The Garner contains a great harpsichord piece! And the Doyle is surprisingly good! (edited for spellink)

Thanks a lot for these pictures and all! Chris' great post on his blog came to mind immediately upon seeing the thread title!

Too bad there's no gig nearer to me... would have loved to see Janiva and you! Hope you'll have a great little tour!

discplus.ch has the 3CD set «Complementary Tracks» from Chronological Classics for 4.41€ (not sure what shipping outside of Switzerland costs though): http://discplus.ch/1758/Chronological-Classics/

I have the LP box... lovely! Kept it even though I've later got the Savoy/Dial 8CD set (which I think also made use of at least some of the notes of the 5LP set).

Went on with this one... into CD4 by now - great! Blargh ... yet another set on my 'bypass' list that I now feel an insatiable urge to own. It is a good boxed set, that I don't regret owning. However, the set is redundant---with that said, it's redundant with Stitt's great playing, supporting cast, etc. It just is the BASICALLY the same thing for 9CD's, a big band session that's OK, and a bunch of blowing sessions. If you just need a cheap Stitt fix, get the recording Sonny Stitt sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio, it's excellent Hard to say if one really needs it... Stitt seems to be "on" on almost each an every track here, though, so that's a strong plus. But I've got a whopping 44 Stitt CDs (plenty of them being twofers, making it probably more than 60-70 albums) not counting the Mosaic, so it seems I'm a fan... I prefer his tenor actually, and there's more alto than tenor on the Roost dates, but that didn't bother me, as, again, Stitt's "on" nearly all the time! Anyway, for the casual listener, I guess one or two of the albums with Ammons, the Prestige dates (either just the ole Stitt-Powell-Johnson disc or the 3CD "Stitt's Bits") and the two Cobblestone albums would be the essentials. But with someone like Stitt it's not that easy to pick... whenever he was "on", good music resulted, but little is truly great or even essential, I guess (other than the two Prestige dates with Bud, Curly Russell and Max Roach in support - those should be in every collection). But again, to me, it's all good to great, as I'm a fan!

Yes indeed! Please someone edit this! Glad to see it wasn't what it looked to be...

Belated best wishes! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

The "old" boxes contained large-format (LP sizedd) booklets with liners, discography etc., but the most important difference is that they are complete, well most are. The Evans does not included the Cannonball album with Bill (but it does have the Cannonball/Evans co-led album), the Coltrane had the Miles and all other sideman sessions included, the Rollins had the Farmer, Miles and other sideman dates. Guess nowadays that won't make that much of a difference... I have most of these in the mini ZYX-versions with tiny booklets (some with no booklets at all, the Rollins with booklet but that booklet has no discography, how moronic is that!)... No idea how sound compares (I have the old and new versions of the Rollins, but never bothered to compare or even check mastering information - might well be the same in all cases). Yes indeed! Three wonderful boxes!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Yeah, I've had a real copy of "Surrounded" for a while now - very good disc! Too bad about Humair's accident. Here's hope for a quick recovery!

Roscoe bent out of shape, too?

The Amazon UK pre-release price that I took advantage of was pretty good (about £35 I think). Just checked... my (later cancelled) Amazon UK order said 44£ (including a bit for shipping, minus, I guess, some taxes). Went for 50€ (all inclusive, again minus taxes) with Amazon France, instead. Back then that made quite a difference.

All morning long: Oscar Peterson - The Songbooks Now just started with: Oscar Peterson - The London House Sessions

Don't know that one... don't often buy bottles, but we get half a dozen single malts in every better bar or restaurant here, and many of the other places have at least one or two... Oban is a good one that's easy to get, Talisker a particular favorite, but there are so many... I'm not expert enough to brag, I just taste different ones when I get a chance and enjoy! Oh, and I do know Glenfiddich, of course - but just the regular one (which I always thought was blended?)

I prefer mellow Irish or Scotch of all kinds (including peaty ones). But that's not why I abused your thread for "digression (coherence is overrated)" purposes (for which I apologize), I swear...

I've never used make-up so far... and if you're dry, I recommend you use some lubricants

Whoah, that's crazy! Guess it's a wise thing to do, or else the Hank fans will steal your children.... or some such

There's a plane taking off somewhere during Don Ellis' live album from Monterey (during an announcement, I think).

Well, you can invade it... most of them don't even close their doors if Michael Moore didn't lie about that...

Yes indeed: Source is McMillan's Mogie chronology