Swinging Swede

And Manfred Mann had a background as a jazz pianist.

Yes, but the track can be found on Helen Humes 1927-1945.

It was my first thought that the law cases had to do with this "Complete Jazz Series". I still can't see why Classics would change the name and the covers. What other label does that for digital downloads?

I think you'll enjoy it, Bertrand. Perhaps he already has in the five years since he posted that...

Or van Gelder is too old and/or hearing-impaired to be up to it any longer (he turns 85 this year after all), so they just take earlier CD releases, like the near-mono Grant's First Stand JRVG or the old domestic One Step Beyond, boost the volume, perhaps tweak it a bit, and slap the RVG tag on it. Perhaps an EMI bean counter ordered this practice in order to cut production costs. It would certainly be a lot cheaper. I can't see what any other explanation could be. Saturday And Sunday was recorded after Frankenstein at the session, so you couldn't get this error by going back to the original master tape. It was only on those early CDs alternate takes were placed directly after their master takes, and the alternate take of Saturday And Sunday therefore came right before Frankenstein. There is no reason those tracks would be adjacent otherwise. And only those early JRVGs had near-mono versions of stereo albums.

Or... you could rip the CDs, post them on a blog, and then sell the set.

No.

From Wikipedia: "In schools in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Iceland, Dux is a modern title given to the top student in academic and sporting achievement (Dux Litterarum and Dux Ludorum respectively) in each graduating year." But also: "Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini used the title of Dux (and Duce in Italian) to represent his leadership."

You can do that in her discography thread.

Van Gelder started to record for Blue Note in stereo with The Stylings Of Silver (1562), recorded 8 May 1957. But Blue Note had recorded in stereo at Manhattan Towers earlier than that. Palo Congo (1561), recorded 27 April 1957 is in stereo, and I think Orgy In Rhythm (1554-5), recorded 7 March 1957 is in stereo too.

JACK WILSON NOT SURE DEAD IRENE REID ALIVE DEAD

I noticed that Harry James 1946-1947 was one of World's Records' top sellers in 2008. I don't know how much that means, but at least something. Harry James is one of the names whose 78 era output I would like to see completed. And Charlie Barnet of course. Known as having the blackest white big band his output can't stop at 1940. Blue Note released a CD of his 1949-50 Capitol recordings, but we dearly need his output before that.

Between Herbie Mann and Wingy Manone actually.

Speaking of Julie London & Don Bagley...

Those Chet CDs sound really terrible. Truer words have never been spoken. I managed to get 4 of the Japanese CDs but never found the 5th, so I decided to get the ZYX 20bit counterpart instead. I had read the warnings, but foolishly thought that it couldn't be that bad. Big mistake. It was worse than I could have imagined, truly abysmal-sounding. How on earth could they be put on the market at all? Incomprehensible.

Something I thought was cool with this session was that it combined Ellington's 20s tenorist Prince Robinson with his 50s-70s tenorist Paul Gonsalves! Talk about time warp!

Now try to explain Harvard Blues...

But still licensed from Blue Note/EMI I suppose. In which case these CD-Rs have official Blue Note/EMI approval.

Pianists Ralph Sharon and Ralph Sutton

It has had a CD reissue: MVCJ-19145.

I thought that was weird too. Do they have to bid on eBay instead of EMI providing them with CD masters? In that case:

Also, does anyone remember the shortlived pre-Classics label that had the same concept? These new covers made me think of it. One or two batches were released, and then it disappeared, and soon Classics came along. I haven't seen any of them in years, but I managed to find one cover on the web: Now compare it to the cover of this new "Complete Jazz Series": A certain resemblance, don't you think? I seem to remember that Fats Waller and Johnny Hodges were among the other names released.

So I wonder if that is what this is, or if if they are being ripped off. Someone bothered to make new covers, although you will see that the same photos were used. "The Chrono[lo]gical" has also been changed to "In Chronology". I don't know what to think of this. We will need Jaffa's input to be sure, I suppose.