Brad

That’s too bad about Larry. I imagine it’s a function of life advancing to its inexorable conclusion.

I don’t think there’s enough material there for a Mosaic.

My first exposure to Bird was through Phil Schaap and then I purchased the Yardbird Suite that I mentioned awhile ago. I then followed that with The Complete Dial Sessions on Jazz Classics (which was a very useful set), then a large Savoy and Dial set from one of the Spanish companies, which I sold when Savoy issued the Complete Savoy and Dial. Like you I have a lot of live stuff, plus the Mosaic and the 10cd Verve set and anything else that comes out that may be interesting. Stash put out some interesting CDs that I have.

Yes, that’s a Select. The Keystones are sufficiently distinct from his earlier BNs that it doesn’t make sense to join them together in a regular Mosaic and if you take out the Keystones there’s not enough there.

I still say get the Complete Savoy and Dial from 2000. There are a couple on Discogs for $70 and $58. A steal in my opinion. If you don’t like alternates or false starts, just skip over them.

Nights at the Keystone.

I just picked up the Willis Jackson one from Dusty Groove.

I purchased six of those OJcs as well as a couple of other items I hadn’t pulled the trigger on yet. Nothing I wanted was out of stock. I would have purchased more but others I was interested were a little expensive, in my opinion.

I know a lot of players are into it but to me it’s not like the World Cup. That has significance.

RIP brother.

I watched it last night. Terrific. Very well done.

I think it’s a great book, both a bio and social history.

I agree. Haven’t watched a second of it; just an exhibition.

I had wanted to read it since it first came out because several years ago I had seen a couple of his films which were very good, such as Westfront 1918.

The NYT included this in one of their top 10 books of 2025. I thought it was ok, somewhat interesting but nowhere near that good.

Dylan is still performing and he’s almost 85.

Disc 1.

Simply, no.

Missed it but it’s on later today on one of the PBS stations in my area.

RIP. His work with Xanadu is legendary snd I have a lot of his work in my collection. Beautiful homage by Zev.