Brad

Yup, that should be some serious booty, esp. with Serena.

Love to go but alas the closest I'll get is my business trip to Germany in two weeks. Any suggestions on Nuremberg restaurants?

I'm going to ignore this thread

Art Pepper Select, Disc 3.

As a reminder, this festival starts tonight (or Friday morning) at 12:01 est.

Looks like Aric has moved to Richmond.

Mostly use it in the gym (a company one) so I'm not too concerned.

Calling this material "throwaway stuff" doesn't seem to make much sense when it applies to the collaboration of these two. Some of Byrd's solo material, BN or not, may not be the stuff of legends but there is some fine material there: Transition, Savoy are very good and let's not forget his appearances on some of the Wallington cds. As far as Blue goes, much of his BN material is memorable as is his Riverside work. I often reach for the Mosaic. It's one of my favorites.

Not sure what you're looking for exactly.

I kind of agree with Dan. I've got the Select and sold the earlier discs but I have a little trouble getting into this set. Yes, he's no Kenny Drew. The groups on the Steeple Chase discs are damn good.

Ray and I are not in cahoots but the Kenton presents of Rosolino, Holman, etc. is a very good Mosaic. If you're into the California sound or just plain good jazz, this is a great buy, esp. if you missed getting this before it went oop.

Big thumbs up here for this set and since we're mentioning Live at the Half Note, check out, under Pepper's leadership, 10 to 4 at the Five Spot. Great disc.

Dan, Sorry you lost your job but good luck in the new one. Florida always seems like an up state to me so I have to think you'll do well.

On a related note, this is what they appear to be doing with the Basie Mosaic Roulette Studio material. A bit of that has come out in the past few years and I would expect to see more.

It's hard to know where to begin with a topic like this but the material at the Royal Roost that's on the Savoy Live set is fabulous as is the Bird at Birdland material. There's also the Mosaic box that has a lot of good nuggets (although this box is not for everybody). But the Uptown releases are very good.

Ditto. I'd like to hear the Allen-ized version.

Lon, I agree with you but for someone who only has the Blue Notes I don't know if that's the way to go until they've listened to other material.

WoW! Just saw this thread. How exciting, to say the least. Quite happy for you Dan, to say the least. Love to hear a cdr if that's possible. You never know what nuggets you're going to find.

178? Man, that's a good couple of weeks for me. Either no job or very tolerant boss.

As a self styled Bud Powell nut, I would probably agree with Jim. There are plenty of other things you could buy for this. This was an album recorded at Birdland upon his return to the US and he had just gotten over tuberculosis (more or less) and needed to help pay off some debts. I happen to like some of the Mythic Sound released by Fantasy as well as the one recently released on Piadrum Records. Some of the Verve material is not bad although uneven. If you can get hold of his mid 40s material, you'll hear some playing. I also like some of his Steeple Chase material, like Swedish Pastry, and Black Lion material like Salt Peanuts. Even Strictly Confidential on Black Lion, solos recorded by Francis Paudras in his apartment isn't bad. The RCA material, Swingin' With Bud and Strictly Confidential is very, very good. I could go on but I think you get the gist of it. Have you read Paudras' book by the way? A classic.

New specs? I'm having trouble reading this....

The only thing I can say is (and it probably doesn't help much) that you're still relatively young and things will get better. I wasn't in great shape at 27 but am better off now. I know this is not too helpful but things will change.

In this week's Sports Illustrated, in talking about Avery Johnson taking over as Coach of the Mavs from Don Nelson, it says "Johnson's inexperience will be tempered by having longtime assistant Del Harris, Charlie Parker and Larry Riley...." Bird Lives!

Of any type, I'd have to say Revolver. For jazz, Bird's Savoy Dial Sessions.

We're lucky to have a place like this and a very tolerant moderator like Jim.