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The Band! Got this great box set with the finder's fee (I found a purse with more than 1000 CHF in it... got 10% for bringing it to the next police station a couple of weeks ago... went home and ordered this one...) More info here: http://theband.hiof.no/albums/a_musical_history.html Definitely one of the most amazing groups I've ever heard. Endlessly nuanced, highly musical, terrific songs, great singing (quite a variety, with Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel taking turns) - and Garth Hudson, too!

I guess someone could still find the NDR disco with help of the wayback machine... I'm not good at that. It indeed is a fact that plenty of them were done not in Hannover or Hamburg. They usually were quite a bit longer than what an LP could hold, and of many, i think only a title or two have been officially released, if anything at all.

darn y'all - this thread made me look at the Liona Boyd website - jeeeeesus!

Capitol Partners? As in:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party: Hope you enjoyed that Luis Russell set!

Yeah, I highly doubt that a small niche company like Mosaic has any influence on what Sony/BMG keeps in print and what not... I guess it's rather the influence of Org that has brought too many lurkers to snatch up the remaining Ellington sets around and now we missed it (me, too, but since the Mosaic is now definitely announced, I don't mind much).

Got my set already! Wow, that was fast - even more astonishing as the cheapest overseas shipping option (20 CAN$) indeed said something like 2-4 months delivery time... I'm a happy camper, yessir I am!

Yeah, and while Chuck's comment about re-assessing what you do and why and why you don't do something different... while that comment may seem hard to those actually without employment, it made me think. I've been expecting to be fired quite definitely for several months (I got a bad "rating" for last year - change of bosses, me being a smartass and often cynical commenter... and more tough shit going on there before etc etc), and Chuck's comment definitely made me think quite a bit!

paps, that Luis Russell is terrific! *** today at the used store: Ry Cooder - Jazz Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

Just posting here to bow before Ms Pepper - I love Art Pepper's music very, very much!

as for Larry's off-topic remark - go here to get a touch: Diaspora of Rembetiko (Neatwork, 2CD)

I don't have much so far, but I'm intrigued... this one I read a rave about it, and I think it's quite fine: Astor Piazzolla - Muerte del Angel (Milan) Be aware though that it's a single disc and that the amazon.com prize of 30$ is pure fantasy... I first got in touch with Piazzolla's music via Gidon Kremer's two albums, the first of which I still enjoy: El Tango Homage a Piazzolla They came out on Nonesuch in the late 90s.

I don't know, but I found one of the Chronicles in a local EMI/Blue Note sale... haven't played it yet though. Blythe and Wallace, that sounds intriguing! "Your Mind Is On Vacation" has some nice Al Cohn!

The material from the OKeh 2CD set are owned by Sony. The material from the "Early Ellington" GRP 3CD set are owned by Universal, hence not likely to be included. The question is if the set will reach back right to the earliest Ellington ARC/Columbia sessions?

Probably 10 according to Mosaic. A massive load of great Ellington this will be! Paired with the Small Group set, it shall be a great complement to the RCA Centennial box!

And just to add this: I have been following this depressing thread now and then and with the situation I've been in, those concerned have my full sympathy!

Wow. Talk about cruel. Yeah, must have been the longest 1.5 hours in my life so far. The thing is, there were a few among us who wouldn't have cared to be laid off, but even those sat there paralyzed, just because that situation was so impossible to take... On the other hand, they let us wait for about five months now, while for about three months it was perfectly clear that lay-offs would eventually follow.

I just survived the current waves of lay-offs... it's just a part-time job (in a big company touched badly by the financial crisis and some strawberry diet coke consumer has his fingers in there...) and I'm no longer emotionally attached, after they let us wait for almost half a year, in complete ignorance of what's going on behind the scenes. Anyway, at the current point in life, it would have still been a major drag if I'd been among those who were fired. And I feel it was a very close shave, actually in light of the persons hit, I'm still astonished I wasn't part of it. It's been a horrible day, we were all sitting there paralyzed, waiting for them to come again and pick up the next person... they didn't even tell us it was over until about an hour later. But then I guess that's how it goes in those big corporations.

I'm discovering Mose (again)... had that "Greatest Hits" (now as "Mose Allison Sings" in the Prestige RVG Remasters) and "You Mind Is On Vacation" (Atlantic digipack) for a long time, as well as some sideman recordings (for instance the ones with Al & Zoot mentioned above), but now I found "High Jinks", the Columbia/Epic 3CD set, and it's brilliant! And in one of those ZYX liquidation sales also got the marvellous "Back Country Suite". It was the stuff on "High Jinks" though, that completely won me over now... Have the Collectables 6 albums on 4CDs set on order right now! I'll look for "Sage of Tippo" as well, that one has 4 albums on 2CDs, and as far as I understand, only one is duplicated with the Collectables set (which I gather is just a filmsy cardboard box wrapped around four normal Collectables releases).

Yes, good music! The quartet is marvellous! Those "Plays" albums (by Charlie, Stu Williamson, Max Bennett...) should have been given the same treatment as the "Kenton Presents" sessions got... but Bethlehem is beyond reach for Mosaic, alas.

There are (were, I guess?) two fine Fantasy twofers by Hopkins: Claude Hopkins - Swing Time (+ Let's Jam) Buddy Tate / Claude Hopkins - Buddy & Claude (Yes Indeed! by Hopkins w/Tate + Tate a Tate by Tate, no Hopkins there) Four very nice Swingville albums with a bunch of nice sidemen, Emmett Berry, Clark Terry, Tommy Flanagan, Vic Dickenson, Budd Johnson, Joe Thomas (trumpet) and others.

who/what is Hiromi - more than marketing?

Here it is: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=50551 But I'd rather ask the moderators to merge the topics than to delete this one!