king ubu

And in case that's an offense, you can exchange "English" and "American" by "British English" and "American English" - no offence intended. (Now I do admit that only now, thinking about it, I realised that offence isn't spelled with "s" in British English... but that stuff is hard to know if you're not consciously working on it - which I am not, besides org and some mails, I hardly ever get to use the English language.)

Oh well, just because... and yes, of course it's colour (and favourite, too...) As for sounds, english hardly makes any sense concerning writing and actual sounds, does it? wear/hear/here, there/their... no other way than to just learn it, I assume. Not that German was perfect in this respect, but closer for sure. If you learn English as a foreign language, you have to opt for English or American - makes more sense than to change halfway through a sentence. I opted for English - that's all there is to the why.

How about that "Live and Rare" Bluebird set? Is that worth looking for? I remember it got a rather lukewarm reception, but now that my interest in ducals sounds has majorly grown I wonder...

The Zurich and Drum discs have been out for a while, what's the Indigos? Courtesy of some Andorrans?

Oh, and notice that the album designers got the spellink right, not like Hoagy...

RDK's signature (You can do what you like with jazz as long as it doesn't lose it's Deep Dark Blue Center." - Hoagy Carmichael) made me think of this one: Thanks Al, I'll try and grab the files tonight!

Bev, about the Private Collection: of course I understand if you want to get all of it once you start looking, but then the whole series is made up of various larger and smaller chuncks, so just having some of the better volumes might actually do quite a lot, too... there are two volumes from dances, those are marvellous - Volume 2 is one of them, not sure which is hte other, 7 I think, but there are various dates on that, so I may mix some things up... but Volume 2 I like a lot! Alas it's been a while that I played all of these, so I couldn't give an account of what to definitely get and what to likely skip.

You get loads of great info about sessions and releases here: http://www.depanorama.net/ CoCo The Complete Duke Ellington 1947-1952 4 CBS 462985-6-7-8 2 8/47-12/52 plus these for 1956-1962 material: 56/62v1 duke 56/62 vol 1 2 LP CBS 88653 1956-1962 56/62v2 duke 56/62 vol 2 2 LP CBS 88654 1956-1962 56/62v3 duke 56/62 vol 3 1 LP CBS 26306 1956-1962 I'd love to get all that on CD... in a perfect world, there'd be - in addition to the Mosaic 36-40 Small Group Set - a 32-40 big band set, a 47-52 big band set, and a 53-62 "supplementary" set (I assume that's what the above five LPs were, actually - stuff that didn't end up on any of the official albums that were released back then). I'll dream on... maybe someone should send a set of clean LPs to Andorra... Here's the entry for the Private Collection: http://www.depanorama.net/cds/pc.htm

I'm the zec. Thanks!

Do you happen to have attended that weird (and ultimately pretty bad, I found) trio concert of Solal's with Johnny Griffin (most likely pretty drunk...) and the late NHOP at the Tonhalle some six or seven years ago? Solal was dazzling now and then, but the whole concert was quite a mess, only NHOP I found to play on more or less steady a level, Griffin totally out of it, and Solal changing between too few moments of brilliance and some pretty lacklustre playing... Where did you find the France Musique 2CD set? It seems by now it's not that easy to find, at least I never managed to get a "real" copy of it...

10 Jimmie Luncefords 11 Benny Carters

Well, I didn't edit - only just caught my mistake... anyway, thanks to whoever did!

yeah, sure - I assume your were the zec who adjusted the title - thanks for that! btw, with all love for the lion, smith the alto player was a giant, not nearly as estimated as he should be!

yeah, and that he loves the idea!

One of my favourite Weston discs - Teddy Edwards is marvellous! indeed! thank you so much for recommending it, spinning it for the second time now... my second later weston disc (after kephera) and i like it a lot more than that one, favorite track so far is that trio version of Mystery of Love with Weston, Edwards and Jamil Nasser... "Saga" is almost as good - it has come out in one of Unviersal France's digipack series (Heritage, Anniversary, whatever). I'll keep my old disc for that one... it does not have Teddy Edwards, though, who's a major bonus to me on "Volcano Blues". The 2CD set "Spirits of Our Ancestors" is likely what you should look for, next, I guess... (seems there's a one CD selection from that one, too, so be cautious!)

Don't wait too long with the Private Collection, they are OOP and vanishing as I type this! (Took me loooong to find Volume 8! And that was three years ago or so...) I was asking myself that very same question... how to fill the gap between the last of the RCA dates from the big box (and the Brunswicks from the 3CD GRP set) and the next bunch of Victor sessions. I haven't yet gotten the Mosaic (I will do so, but not right now) but I did some researching (using mostly the great Duke Ellington Panorama site) and ended up buying as many of the Classics as I could. Abeillemusique.com still has a sale (Ellington is here and here), where I was lucky enough to snatch up Vol. 3 of the 6CD boxes (repacked single-CDs with an additional booklet), covering 1933-1938. I also got 1932-33 and 1933 (the box then covers 1933-1935 to the first of the 1938 discs), and then that's where things get more difficult...Abeille only lists 1938-39 and 1939 Vol. 2, with 1939-1940 still listed but out of stock, while several other volumes are gone for good. My listening brought me up to the fifth disc of the box by now. From the fourth to the sixth disc of the box, more than half of the material is by small bands, hence covered by the Mosaic box. Still a 2CD set (that Braggin' Lon mentions - never saw it, didn't even know it existed...) can never cover all of the big band material, I think! The music is marvellous, by the way, all of it, and it keeps getting better and better, as the 30s proceed... a kind soul will help me cover the OOP Classics later, for now I still hope some of those Amazon Marketplace orders to come through... some of the OOP discs fetch crazy prizes, however, whcih I'm unwilling to pay.

One of my favourite Weston discs - Teddy Edwards is marvellous!

I was lucky to find a japanese mini-LP edition of the Gryce last summer (I didn't care what edition I got, I just wanted the music...) - make sure you also try your luck on "Sayin' Something", that one turned out even better to my ears! (I still have to get "The Rat Race Blues", but I figured that one was the easiest to find...

Hey, Sandi, long time no see! I stopped posting on AAJ quite a while ago - but I certainly remember our PM exchanges back there... great to see you here, do stick around!

more [smack]s, I guess...

will your effing gubernment send me a check, too? if my salary stays put and I get no or less than last year incentive, your gubernment is partly (for quite a part, I guess) to blame, too! hell, I want some $$ to buy Mosaic boxes, too!

found this by chance: http://blackarts.peopleaggregator.net/content.php?cid=28249 (photos/scans aren't displayed below - look up the original to see them!)

The piano playing is quite wonderful. A great deal is made of Stan Tracey's Monk influence but listening to lots of Elington over the past week I can really hear his (frequently acknowledged) debt to Ellington as well. Nice and percussive. I'm not (yet) that familiar with Stan Tracey - but more great Ellington piano playing can be heard on the Ellington/Hodges "Back to Back" album (Verve, reissued on CD in the Verve Masters Edition, now I think in one of the new Universal series, Originals, Classics, whatever). The "Side By Side" isn't bad either... (but Ellington is only on half of it - same session I think as "Back to Back", with another wonderful session to fill up the album)

Hi, King Ubu, It arrived this morning - I've never even had the Fargo so it's all new to me! Looking forward to wallowing over the next couple of weeks. The Fargo date is terrific! The Blanton/Webster band in an extended concert recording - not much more you could wish for, as far as Ellington is concerned! The earlier Storyville 2CD set had a booklet almost as thick as the (filmsy - too bad they couldn't use some heavier paper at least for the front/back page!) booklet of the "Duke Box", so I'll keep that previous version. But the annotation in the "Duke Box" served me well enough, giving some selected background info and also soloist run-downs (yup, for trumpet soloits mainly I was often glad to have it... I'm not so familiar with all these guys, and during that period some new ones kept arriving and leaving again). Besides the Fargo date, the Carnegie set (you'll need the four Carnegie Hall Prestige 2CD sets, two!) and some of the radio broadcasts have been on a 2CD and 1CD set before, too, as far as I know (I only saw that in the Penguin guide, didn't check the discographies if the rest of the material has been released before).

You also ought to check out the Paul Gonsalves Impulse twofer, "Tell It Like It Was" - the first album has him with fellow Ellingtonians (plus Rolf Ericsson), and the second ("Cleopatra Feeling Jazzy") in a totally different setting, with Kenny Burrell and others (much like the Jazzland album quite a departure from Ellingtonia, but in rather different a direction). info taken from jazzdisco: Rolf Ericson (tp -1/5) Ray Nance (tp, vln -1/5) Johnny Hodges (as -2/5) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Walter Bishop Jr. (p) Ernie Shepard (b) Osie Johnson (d) NYC, September 4, 1963 1. Tell It The Way It Is Impulse A 55 2. Things Ain't What They Used To Be - 3. Duke's Place Impulse A 55, AS 9285-2 4. Impulsive Impulse A 55 5. Rapscallion In Rab's Canyon - 6. Body And Soul - * Paul Gonsalves - Tell It The Way It Is! (Impulse A 55) = Paul Gonsalves - Tell It The Way It Is!/Cleopatra-Feelin' Jazzy (Impulse 314 547 960-2) * Various Artists - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2: The Impulse Years (Impulse AS 9285-2) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Hank Jones (p) Dick Hyman (org -1/4,8) Kenny Burrell (g) George Duvivier (b) Roy Haynes (d) NYC, May 21, 1963 1. Caesar And Cleopatra Theme Impulse A 41 2. Antony And Cleopatra Theme Impulse 45-217, A 41 3. Bluz For Liz Impulse A 41 4. Cleo's Blues - 5. Action In Alexandria Impulse A 41, AS 9285-2 6. Cleo's Asp Impulse A 41 7. Cleopatra's Lament - 8. Second Chance Impulse 45-217, 314 547 960-2 * Paul Gonsalves - Cleopatra-Feelin' Jazzy (Impulse A 41) = Paul Gonsalves - Tell It The Way It Is!/Cleopatra-Feelin' Jazzy (Impulse 314 547 960-2) * Various Artists - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2: The Impulse Years (Impulse AS 9285-2) * Paul Gonsalves - Second Chance c/w Antony And Cleopatra Theme (Impulse 45-217) then there's also this one: reissued with a short Clark Terry album on this CD (US cover, European version looked very different): The Terry album is lightweight, but the Gonsalves one is fine - I haven't played it in a while though, need to dig it up again!