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my first Sammy Price: with Lucky Thompson, Jean-Pierre Sasson, Pierre Michelot and Gerard Pochonet

My first Ben (& Bean, too): with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Alvin Stoller (would be cool if this went on with Stoller, who's a terrific and underrated drummer, to realise which I took many, many years)

Here's the beginning of chapter 33 of Mingus' "Beneath the Underdog" - he wouldn't even give Norvo's (or Kessel's) name:

my first Aaron Bell: with Coltrane, Ellington, Garrison, Jones and Woodyard

my first disc with Eddie Jones: features Thad, Hank & Elvin plus the music of Thad and Isham Jones

Happy Birthday, Barak! :party: Hope all is well!

gave this one a first spin yesterday: why is mine only 2CDs when this page here says it's three? http://www.rhino.co.uk/rhino-store/products,three-from-the-vault-3cd_103.htm is that just a typo? below in the description, they talk of two discs.

Fruscella is wonderful! For once, this is one of the better ways to get his music (most of it): http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Works-Tony-Fruscella/dp/B00004LMQY/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1278336068&sr=1-8 Seems pretty OOP, but maybe you'll be lucky and find it somewhere... it duplicates the Atlantic album with Eager of course but that Eager 2CD set you picture above is mostly a cheapo hack job anyway (I have it as well and was slighty pissed to see how much of it I already had elsewhere...)

Oh, and a wonderful young American singer/songwriter, Eilen Jewell http://www.eilenjewell.com/

lately: Poco Johnny Cash (well, expanding my collection, not really a new discovery) Elvis Little Feat (amazing! though I've only heard early stuff w/Lowell, not sure if I ought to check out more... not right now anyway.)

Carlos Ward Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller

Yeah, and Switzerland is behind the iron curtain judging from American "knowledge" of geography

That's indeed helpful... but I guess in the end any "serious" collector will end up with lots of duplicates, eventually!

That's how I see it, no matter if it's by the rules or if others call me "misguided and misinformed".

As for Ghana... seems to me a penalty wasn't enough for that fowl! It should have simply counted as a goal (looks to me like it was almost behind the line anyway)!

Late reply... I have some of the Intégrale (Vols 1-3), the Sony Hot Fives & Sevens, and the RCA 4CD set - so I'm in a similar situation... should I go on with the Intégrale despite all the duplification, should I get the Mosaic... what about the darn 12 or 13 Chrono Classics for which I spent way too much and that will (at least half of them) be superfluous when I get the Mosaic (and the rest, I guess, when I go on with the Intégrale... which would triple the stuff in the Mosaic...) I guess I'll just keep buying and live with duplicates - similar with Ellington. There's just no way to have most of it and have it all only once, it seems! Though with Satchmo, if you had nothing at all yet, the Intégrale would do that job, I guess!

Gee, Ghana was fun for the second part of the first half... then it got boring... hope they'll find some more energy to win now!

There's also this now, it seems (never saw it, wouldn't bother, I guess... but if worse comes to worse): http://www.amazon.com/Capitol-Sessions-1953-55-Duke-Ellington/dp/B000JBWWDI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1278049160&sr=1-1

Most (if not all) of the Reprise material ia available also in this format: Not all by far! If memory serves me right, the Reprise Ellington is one with very full discs, almost two albums per disc. But these Original Album Series sets are pretty nice to sample some new music, even more so as they can be found very cheap!

any relation?

Very cool!

Whoah!

Just had something in my amazon.com basket - but newbury won't ship international any longer!? Weird... trying some other items, it would work... but not for the one I wanted!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Ah, I see... will let MC know about that!