Swinging Swede

USA has 2-0 against Brazil!

Are you aware that there is no overlap between these two sets? The new Canadian Verve box has the 1959 stereo albums with the drums trio, whereas the Avid set has the 1951-54 mono albums with the guitar trio.

Is that his personal archive? Or does he have mutiple copies?

I'm not generally a fan of vocalists, but there are some exceptions. Dinah Washington is easily the #1 female vocalist for me. A perfect voice and feeling that turned everything she sang into gold AFAIAC. As for instrumentalists, how about the entire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNjAmQmq90?

Not only that, but among voters up to 30 years of age they became the *largest* party, getting nearly 20%. All in all, parties not represented in the national parliamant got over 16% of the votes. Significant changes surely are ahead in the Swedish political landscape.

What? It should go up to February 1940 when the last session before the switch to Victor was made.

The article mentions that he played with Fletcher Henderson. Another guitarist who also played with Henderson is Lawrence Lucie who now is 101. Pretty amazing, isn't it? I guess Charlie Christian should have had a stint with Fletcher before he went with BG...

The Mosaic is 1951-53. This is all 1959. No duplication whatsoever.

Wow. 5 of those 9 albums have not been on CD before, by the way.

Not to be confused with pianist Johnny Ace.

Spo-Dee-O-Dee!

Concord is clueless. We have seen many examples of that since they took over the Fantasy catalogue.

Isn't that supposed to be Louis Metcalf?

There was at least a Barry Harris Plays Barry Harris album on Xanadu. Sonny Stitt comes to mind. And the compositions that have his name on them are very simple riff tunes. The contrast to Charlie Parker is striking in that regard.

BIRTH OF THE VERY COOL!

Well, talking about music is like dancing about architecture, so... -_-

I think it can still be restored. It has happened before with deleted threads (I think).

At the same time they are available in the "Complete Jazz Series" incarnation for £6.99. Well, I had my doubts about those all along.

I thought the gokudo image was too dark, did a Google Image search, and there it was.

Not for the Farmer/Golson set...

I didn't know that one can make a link that starts a certain time into a YouTube video. Very cool, I will have to remember that trick.

This was on a Japanese CD when they reissued a bunch of Basie's Verve albums some years ago (for the centenary, I think). I wonder if they will just use the same remastering to keep costs down.

You're right, it hasn't been on CD before.

No. Oscar Peterson Plays The Jerome Kern Song Book was recorded in 1959. You are thinking of Oscar Peterson Plays Jerome Kern which was recorded in 1952-53. However, be advised that even this album isn't complete on the Mosaic set. They left out one track because it has Herb Ellis on guitar instead of Barney Kessel. Similarly the Richard Rodgers and Vincent Youmans albums are incomplete for the same reason. I think this was a bad decision on Mosaic's part. Completing the December 1953 trio output would have made those three albums complete, and those few extra tracks might very well have fitted on the same number of CDs. Now, if Mosaic is planning a second box covering the Herb Ellis recordings the situation will be remedied eventually, but if not, I think it is unfortunate that those albums are left incomplete when just a few extra tracks could have completed them. The complete 1951-54 "songbooks" (not part of the album titles) have however been reissued on CD on an Avid set, so one can get the missing material there, but it will be remastered from LPs then instead.