John Tapscott

Absolutely great idea!!! for a Beehive box!

I must take all this back. Checked the Uptown website today. Completely updated with the Pearson CD apparently available right now. I ordered one. http://www.uptownrecords.net/home/

Discs 4,5,6

Amazon.com lists release date as Sept. 17; Amazon.ca says Nov. 19; cduniverse says Nov. 19. Strange discrepancy. And the Uptown website is no help at all. They don't even have the Lester Young Boston 1950 CD posted there yet!

These are several I like.

What is your involvement? BTW, this one looks like a must-have!

I was at this one - Massey Hall, Toronto, 2001 (Wish I had been at a particular concert recorded there in 1953!)

And the Herman Herd rode in a fancy sight-seeing bus! (But the lead trumpet player was apparently tired after a long bus ride).

I'd forgotten how good this one is!

Argo's are done for the season if Ray is gone.

Not reading it yet, but just ordered it (to be released next week). I really like Peter Leitch and I've followed his career/recordings ever since seeing live him in his struggling days in Toronto circa 1980. Here's the write up from his website - looks very interesting ( at least to me) Off the Books: A Jazz Life Coincidental with the CD release is the publication of Peter Leitch’s memoir Off the Books: A Jazz Life by Vehicule Press in Montreal. Slated for summer release in Canada, September launch in the U.S., in it the author recounts the in vivid detail a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, learning his craft on the bandstand in the days before jazz education, while battling depression and drug addiction. His depiction of the Montreal of his youth reveals a long-gone vibrant club scene in that city. Peter’s moves, first to Toronto in 1977 and then to his present home , New York City, in 1982 are also recounted in detail. There is a great deal of humor in some of his recollections and observations, and more than a few hard truths leavened with bits of absurdist fantasy. Also ordered Peter's new CD release referenced above:

Ditto. Edited to add- I have paid customs on Mosaics in the past, but not for 10 years, at least.