Swinging Swede

#1 will always be the RCA Victor studio recordings, but for half the price you can't really go wrong with this set. The main complaint for Ellington collectors was not the material itself, which is mostly well-recorded, includes many tracks not commercially recorded and allows the band to stretch out for longer than on the studio recordings, but rather that it duplicates what many already have bought on individual releases. If you don't have anything of it, that's obviously not a problem in your case.

We have wondered for a while in Europe what would be the next thing from America after rap. Now we know.

Let me just say this: I'm very glad to see that they finally continue releasing Ellington's stockpile (and DETS) recordings. We were worried for a while about what would happen to Storyville. 13 new compositions! Wow! Here we are in 2008 and still new Ellington studio albums are coming out. It's pretty amazing when you think about it. Rext is from Hodges's last recording session. If (and that's a big if) he takes a solo, that would now become his last solo instead of Blues For New Orleans. I'm very fond of the last five years of Ellington's career. Many see it as a phase of decline as the old stalwarts were either dying or leaving the band, but I find the influx of new solo voices, new instruments (flute & organ), and Ellington's increased reliance on his own creative abilities after Strayhorn's death, refreshing and stimulating. Nothing wrong with the stalwarts, but there's a newness to the Ellington sound in the last years that I like, and I'm delighted to see more material from that era.

or Kim Kim Keree (Kim Kim Carrie?)

And Denzil Best the Pete Best?

As far as I remember, it wasn't released until the 70s. Its catalogue number is a lot later than other sessions recorded at the same time. Edit: Stereojack beat me to it!

But Pete was Best.

This set will include unissued tracks (unless masters have been lost) as well as singles tracks. Not everything on it can be collected even by picking up LPs. What irks me is rather the incompletely reissued albums this will result in.

New Orleans musicians Santo Pecora and Santo Pecoraro. The former's real name was Pecoraro too! They were relatives and recorded together, but at least the former is a trombonist and the latter a drummer.

I suppose you may have heard of a certain Austrian village which often has had its signs stolen. God forbid that something internationally important ever happens there. It's close to the German border and just half an hour by car from the Bavarian town Petting.

It was a variation of this:

The only material on the CD that isn't yet in the public domain is a couple of Warwick tracks that are thought to be from 1960. I guess they figure that noone is going to sue them for their inclusion. Without them Millinder's discography wouldn't be complete on Classics. Perhaps they even had intended to release it later but the interest expressed in this thread urged them to release it sooner? It has actually happened on a few occasions before that Classics CDs have included material not quite yet 50 years old. In 2003 they released Cab Calloway 1949-1955 which ended with two Bell tracks that were listed as "c. 1955" and before that two tracks for the same label listed as "c. 1954". In the Blues & Rhythm series there is also a release titled Jim Wynn 1947-1959. I don't have it, but probably it ends with something that is a lot later than the rest.

I don't know, but there have been several months between recent batches, unlike in the old days when a new batch was released monthly. I'm just hoping it will come out at all. The future for the label is very uncertain as you can see in the thread about it. I fear that each batch can be the last, although I hope that the label will continue for a long time to come. There are so many artists left to complete.

I thought it was humorous (at least if it's up for just a limited time). But allegedly additional cookie information is listed for those who have been porn surfing, so I also realized that some would be annoyed. -_-

Pulling up this thread to mention that the next batch will include the final Millinder volume! Classics 1460: Lucky Millinder 1951-1960 Perhaps someone was reading this thread?

Of course music is essential. Why else would there be a release like this?

Some interesting languages to choose from there...

It is well known that all jazz styles were invented by Jelly Roll Morton.

But he got the last laugh!

They do happen, and nowadays they quickly get uploaded to YouTube, so the entire world can see them! Here is a classic:

There are actually many Clef/Verve albums that haven't been on CD. Unfortunately I think several albums will be incompletely represented on this Mosaic set, since many 12" albums drew their material from different sessions in the 1951-54 period, some with Kessel and some without.

Some of those not in the list: Oscar Peterson Art Pepper Cannonball Adderley Gene Ammons Woody Herman Jimmie Lunceford Stan Kenton Roy Eldridge Ben Webster Lionel Hampton Lee Konitz Hank Mobley Shelly Manne Earl Hines Fats Navarro Artie Shaw neither Kenny Burrell nor Grant Green nor Barney Kessel Lou Donaldson Soul jazz doesn't seem to have happened at all (except for one Jimmy Smith album). Neither does West Coast Jazz. Nothing from the Condonite scene either. It is admittedly difficult to put together a list like this. At least it was about jazz.

Lots of Proper and Definitive in the list. Interesting.

USA was leading 2-0 against Finland in the third and final period. Finland's Ville Koistinen shoots a puck that ends up in the goal, but replay clearly shows that the puck entered through the outside of the net. The Russian referees approve the "goal" even after official video review. That helps Finland turn the match around and win 3-2 despite scoring only 2 goals. The video goal judge has been suspended and I doubt we will see the Russian referees again in this tournament. "They go upstairs. They look at a replay. What the hell were they looking at?" U.S. coach John Tortorella said. Notice how the Finnish commentator goes silent when he sees the slow replay! In English (shorter)

I see. Thanks for the info.