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Peter Gay's classic on the Weimar republic: not that surprising as I know some about the subject alreay, but a very good synopsis, and also a pleasure to read.

Happy Birthday! :party: :party:

Yeah, but I can't help thinking of the lyrics whenever I hear it... and it's more or less a one-idea tune, isn't it? Other idea for a topic: top riff tunes... not many good ones around, I think - Baby Baby All the Time comes to mind. Or top one-note tunes - one of the best is listed above, "Night and Day" (Monk did a great one as well, of course... and maybe "Straight No Chaser" would sort of fit as a twisted riff-tune...)

Wynton Kelly - re-discovering, or rather, discovering him as a trio pianist/leader as opposed to all the sideman sessions... been playing the Vee Jay sets (both of them) and have arrived at the trio dates now. Very infectuous music, wonderfully fresh, with a clear touch and an ability to play lyrical yet rhythmically propulsive, as well as an ability to play very fast yet let each note ring... An allusion to Steve Kuhn is made, who's supposed to be the last of the guys who has that latest ability... I always considered him being on a constant search for beauty, maybe that's the same thing... Kuhn was someone I was just discovering a few months ago, coincidentally, and with his music was really a "discovery" for me!

Please throw "My Funny Valentine" out there! What a horribly bad song, even though the melody is kind of nice (albeit simple, or maybe that's why it' nice), if it weren't for Chet and Miles, no one would play that one... and I hold that against Chet (who even sang the silly lyrics) and Miles! Tom, what's the source of this list?

Sad news Though, to be honest, the whole Canterbury scene is something still ahead of me... I dabbled here and there, but never really dug into it deeply so far. The more recent tribute bands (Soft Machine Legacy, Soft Heap) were quite good, too, from what I've heard. And Hopper also played with Carla Bley! edit - a link for those who doubt: http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/component/...10854?task=view

dammit... missed the Ellington (it was listed as "in stock" when I ordered, but it was gone already, it seems...), and now they keep the Lady Day back, which should have been a gift for my mother's birthday and hence should have arrived next week - sucks! They should at least admit their fault and send out the in stock items immediately!

when I came home yesterday, the mailbox had these waiting for me: - Fats Waller JSP Vol. 1 - Fats Waller JSP Vol. 2 - Mose Allison "High Jinks" (Sony/Columbia 3CD set) another recent acquisition, as of yet unplayed, ist Jarvis Cocker's second album on his own. Should be great... Also bought Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" for a colleague who was retired this week.

Go Roger go! (What the hell's up with the photoshopped images above? Has this turned into the new babes thread? Or wait, is that actually a photoshopped girl or what? Yuck how disgusting!)

Got that one a few months ago - very nice one! Very easy, soothing music, quite to my surprise... but I love it!

yesterday: Benny Carter - Alive and Well in Japan (Pablo Japan) today: Ramsey Lewis - Down to Earth (Verve By Request) + Kenny Wheeler - Music for Large & Small Ensembles (ECM) all used

alas not, I'm afraid...

Mosaic has promised an Ellington 30s Brunswick/Columbia box, so the material should be available before long in a deluxe form--'course, it will be just a tad bit more expensive! greg mo Mosaic won't and didn't promise to release anything they don't have the rights to. They might be thinking about leasing the Ellington stuff from Sony/BMG, but that doesn't mean they've promised to release it. And you'd better not count on anything in the current economic climate. Now I'm a bit irritated... I thought a big band box was to follow to complement the small group box that is already available? Was that just some rumour?

I think so - and am I missing anything, having the Jazz in Paris of the Stitt/Peterson and the VEE?

has anyone checked out Trovesi's latest, that opera thingie? looks nice...

Yeah, I've been having second thoughts... Chuck, how do the new Bowie/Mitchell/Art Ensemble reissues compare? Much of a difference, or would you say the box is fine enough? (I'm sure it is, actually! But still...)

so this is the HQ of the British crown?

plus just added the Billie Holiday as a birthday gift for my mother!

Just ordered the Ellington - missed this thread before... I guess with a few previously unreleased RCA tunes, this might even stay in the collection once a big Mosaic will be around, too... I have the RCA box, but not yet the Small Group Mosaic... and quite a few Classics, too... most of those won't be needed any longer if Mosaic indeed releases a 30s Columbia big band box.

This one's pretty good: And it's been on sale (9$) for quite a while: Freddie Hubbard - Super Blue

Not a "who" but a "what"... Sonny Rollins' Milestone albums - recently bought "Horn Culture", "The Cutting Edge", "Don't Ask", "Love at First Sight", and "Falling in Love with Jazz", and just now returned with "No Problem" (spinning now!) and "+3". The highlight of the bunch though is the most recent one, "This Is What I Do" - magnificient Rollins there, on each tune... amazing!

Never bothered me, really... but it's still nice to have what looks more like the "original" product!

And I trust all the names will be spelled correctly. Looking forward to the Bobby Bradford! Booby Bradford? Recently saw him live with Frode Gjerstad's Circulasione Totale Orchestra, he turned in some great solos! Will get that and the Wadada (and I guess skip the others as I have the Art Ensemble 5CD set)

By the way, the outside box of this Euro set has the normal Mosaic number, and the booklet is normal as well, but no handwritten number, just the blank line (the earlier Euro sets used to have a printed line stating "This is one of an edition of 10000 sets" or something). Probably cheaper to have just one set of boxes/booklets to print... it's still clearly a Euro-version, with glossier paper (or has Mosaic changed in that respect, all my recent ones have been Euro-sets, the latest of the US ones is the Columbia Small Group I think) and that outside paper thingie giving some general introduction about the set. (The Quincy Jones box, the other most recent Euro-box I got, also had very glossy thick paper used for the book, the Dizzy one has a "normal" Mosaic booklet, paper-wise)

Flurin, sorry, just remembered your mail when I read this ... sorry. Been too busy with getting into mud-wrestling fights with the state legislature. A new OP "fan"? Who might've thunk it? There's a definite need to get the OP trio with Ed Thigpen (and, of course, Ray Brown) out as a Mosaic set, hopefully with better sound than some of the Verve remasters. I'm a huge fan of the London House sessions, but (although the original tapes might leave much to be desired?) the Verve 'boxed set" (more of a layout and design clusterfuck) is just too thin in the sound department. I do believe a decent engineer can get more out of it. Some of the earlier OP CDs by Verve (f.ex. "Plays Porgy & Bess") are fabulous, sonically. I am one of the (very) few that believe that OP did better in that trio setting than the "classic" one before that. YMMV. I'd spring a huge amount for a complete (alternates at the end, not one after another as, f.ex. again, "Plays Porgy & Bess" is about as complete a gem as it stands with perfect sequencing) Mosaic boxed set. So, no need for me to answer anymore as you bought it all, hook. line and sinker? > P.S.: Glad you got with the programme. V. I guess for my ears, the London House set should be ok... but I'll report back. Next up on the menu is the one OP set I've had for a few years, the great Lionel Hampton w/OP set - loved that one even before I "got" OP!