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That's great! I read that he was to appear there from Wednesday night on for a few days - great to know he's playing again! (edit because i hit the post-button too soon...)

seems I missed a whole bunch of birthdays - belated congratulations!

Seconded ! Happy Birthday, Dmitry ! whatever they said... happy birthday!

belated best wishes!

Swallow's albums do... cool idea. But ECM is only the distribution (and production?) partner of Watt/XtraWatt, I think. The liners of some of those Carla Bley albums, documenting the band's way through ole yurp are hilarious, methinks!

I only have one of the Hayes albums (Candy Man). Which Bubba Brooks could you recommend? Also, what about the Buster Williams and Steve Nelson discs?

btw, my "it is" was directed at the session in question, not my nit-picking...

Sorry about that comment re: Vol. 3 of the Ellington Classics 6CD sets - seems it's gotten a bit more expensive/difficult to find. I found my copy for a very attractive prize (20-25 euro) a few months ago...

sorry, but ought that not be "madly good"? (it is, in my opinion!)

I certainly don't want to argue with anyone here, having just picked up the 40CD box, too. But even if, unlike Lon, I'm not (yet) a Duke completist, I happen to own various boxes, packages and single discs from every period of Duke's career: the RCA box, the OKeh and Brunswick/Vocalion set, Vol. 3 of the Chrono 6CD sets (they just compile six single discs in original packaging, but they add a sturdy box and a booklet with good liners, including some soloist identification, which is something I always happen to miss with the usual short Classics notes). And that Vol. 3 can be found for a prize that's hard to beat. As for earlier Ellington Classics, yup, nowadays, several are impossible to find or only available for ridiculous prizes. But they have been around for many, many years, and I'm scolding myself for not picking up more of them when they were all over the stores here (same for the Masters of Jazz which were THE ultimate series for such stuff... no one did more thorough compilations, and their notes were excellent as well, often to the point of exhaustion, really...) Anyway, my point is that with Duke, you just have to continue buying some here and there, and eventually you'll end up having a big chunck of his recordings, some in good, some in less good sound... (I also have a few dozen discs covering Duke's later periods, including the Capitol and Reprise Mosaics, most of the Columbia reissues, the Private Sessions, some of the Fantasy, Impulse, Blue Note, Atlantic etc discs... and of course Money Jungle, too, he he he - but those aren't subject of this thread.)

bumpity bump: http://www.allegro-music.com/label_search.asp?label=TCB Not that much a "sale", rather just a way to get some of these discs at sane prizes. Though for yurpeens, various Amazon marketplace offers might turn out cheaper, all things considered. There are plenty of great releases in the TCB "Swiss Radio Days" series, including a terrific one by the Jones-Lewis band, a great Mulligan Concert Jazz Band release, some Blakey, Cannonball, etc. Also, the 90s album of Jerome Richardson's is part of the offer...

two words: Jimmie Lunceford!

hey, I am a Renaissance man, yessir!

Yeah, same here... nice music, but there are several Mode/VSOPs I'd get before that!

Gee, the Herman once again! Last time this happened, I snatched it up... got all three, all fine ones!

I found it - it's an uncredited text in the booklet of David Klein's great disc "My Marilyn" (Enja, 2001 - Klein plays tenor sax and is accompanied by Mulgrew Miller, Ira Coleman, Marcello Pellitteri, and his mother, Miriam Klein, joins them on a few titles). The booklet also sports a few letters and notes that Klein received in reaction to his sending out review copies of the album to friends and contemporaries of Marilyn, including Jane Russell and Eli Walach. Here's the story as told in the booklet: (typos are mine, of course!)

Great photo! Michel Godard actually plays some great music on the serpent (as well as on his main instrument, the tuba)

I haven't decided on the Hackett Mosaic yet... might well be I'll get it in the end. Keep in mind, "Jazz Ultimate" and "Coast Concert" are not on the Hackett Mosaic, they're on the first Teagarden. I know, I know... I missed that Teagarden set, which is why I got that twofer at all...

will pick up this one later today, but it's a gift, and as it arrived just in time, I won't have a chance to listen to it before passing it on... sounds like a lovely disc though: Daniel Pezzotti

Too bad... but the writing has been on the wall for a while.

That's how it's been for me, since I was around 13 or 14, and I hope it will go on like that for a while!

Interesting and certainly valid points there, Jim!

I haven't decided on the Hackett Mosaic yet... might well be I'll get it in the end.

ok, but in true Habsburgian fashion you'd have to make sure that the heart, the viscera (?) and the mumified body will be stored in separate places... (you know, like those people that keep back-ups of their external harddrives in lockers or safes, in case their house burns down...) - I mean, you never know what happens in Cologne... maybe the ground will just disappear some beautiful day...

amazing! I just played the two first discs of the 4CD Experience box, there are a couple of tracks from the 1966 Paris concert, and some 1967 tracks as well (though I think those are from Stockholm if memory serves me right). Are there any of those ORTF boots around with complete concerts, or are the selections on the box all we can get?