Brad

Since I have most of these in JRVG or TOCJ, I'll probably pass. The one I don't is the Duke Pearson (which I think is a Conn; not totally sure) but it sounds fine to me so I'll probably pass on all of these.

According to Mosaic, they're receiving these today and will start shipping today also.

It's a little bit of what Jim and John said. He was a great motivator, fearless and inspired fear and loyalty in ohters. If Lombardi said it, it must be true. He, from what I remember, didn't have much respect for less than perfect execution and having said all that, he was loved by his players. I don't know if you remember that photo of Jerry Kramer looking up at him as they carried him off the field after one of his super bowl victories. That is love and respect.

Deus, happy birthday. Although, one wonders how does a deus have a birthday if he's been around since the beginning of time .

One cd which hasn't been mentioned, which I think is quite nice, although not as much a favorite for me, is Moods. It's a Japanese issue that I picked up. I can't really tell when it was recorded but since it has Jacky Terrason on it, it must be more recent than others.

I was unfamiliar with this until now but now it's on my buy list. From the column posted by Roger, I'm really looking forward to this.

As Jim notes this is out of stock again so I have followed his advise and asked for notification when they get it back in stock. I'm sorry I missed this thread earlier.

That Manne CD is not bad. Just worth getting for Richie Kamuca. Also, wasn't there another JATP cd of Gerry Mulligan that Fantasy released a couple of years ago? Here's the link to the Mulligan Cd.

I heard some of his solo playing recently on WKCR and was very impressed. Really nice.

There's a few more that have just come out in Japan. See the attached thread, although a couple were cancelled, like the Herbie Harper.

Or maybe he just needed a title for a song and figured it'd be a catchy phrase

I received a response from Michael. Nothing imminent. He's still trying to figure out what to do. I certainly wouldn't look for this anytime soon.

I know my copy of Blowin' in from Chicago was white. Maybe they were trying to replicate the TOCJ series, which are in white. Frankly, I like the white myself. It stands out from the normal grey/black. But maybe it was cheaper to go with the grey/black.

Well, it's too bad we can't read their stuff. There's a thread involving Buddy DeFranco that's 6 pages long. There has to be some good shit in there. I think you need a special browser for japanese/chinese characters.

Since the information that Dan posted came out, there's been nothing new to report that I've heard of anyway. However, I think it's time to send an email to Michael about it . I'll report back. BTW, if anything came out, it would have to be a Select. A Mosaic would be too large and Michael doesn't believe there's enough of a market out there for them.

As a follow up, I took a brief look at the web and unfortunately couldn't find a discography for JATP.

Good suggestion from Brownie. I wanted to respond but it's a little hard. There's a bunch of stuff listed on AMG but I'm not sure how through it will be for your purposes. Plus, let's not forget that Norman Granz kept at least one JATP for himself (might there be others?) not owned by Verve. I only have one JATP from the 50s (and it's not on Verve); it's a concert in Japan. It wasn't as dynamic as the 40s stuff unfortunately.

I, too, must join with Catesta. I only got a chance to seriously listen to this disc last night so I'm a little to late to post but I can tell you I wouldn't have gotten any of these anyway. The ones I particularly liked were Max Roach's Parisian Sketches, Elvin's Polycurrents (I did recognize Pepper and was impressed with the tenors; I may have to consider getting this or the Mosaic some day), Lucky Thompson (embarrasingly, I have this and will be listening to it again tonight), Slide Hampton, Ear of the Behearer was not bad (impressed with Dewey), Pee Wee (another embarrasment that I have) and Art Pepper, very moving solo. The others did really nothing for me. Must pickups for me are the Art Pepper, Slide Hampton and Max Roach's Parisian Sketches. So, I'll be on the lookout. Thanks again John.

Yes, but not on the LP, on the CD. I forgot exactly what they were but my recollection of what people said back at the BNBB (any my memory is a little hazy about this) is that when Blue Note realized there were problems they didn't make any more copies, making it a very hard to get cd. When ebay came along, it obviously fetched good price, nothing like Mobley's Straight No Filter, but in the $50-60's range.

Damn, I've got that cd and was thinking of selling it since I've getting the Select. Does anyone know if it's against ebay rules to contact the losing bidder.

I'm not exactly in favor but not exactly opposed either. It's not an idea that appeals to me because as you say this is a jazz board. However, if members want to do it once in a while, like monthly, why the heck not. I suppose we could all use a little diversity and dredge up some things from our non-jazz past. Bob Wills might be pretty interesting.

No offense, but I can't imagine not picking this one up, if you love Jimmy Smith. It's a good-un. The problem with the first one was pitch problems (I think) and it was fixed. This is just a fabulous session all around. I always like a bit of crowd noise, makes you feel like you're in the audience.

Thank you all, especially Brownie and Jim. The embarassing thing is that I have the Carnegie Hall Concert, from Jass . The other I'll try to locate. Thanks again.

For anyone with the same dilemma, I'd say go with the box. The RVGs may sound a little better (possibly) but then you wouldn't get a great Mosaic-like book, which has many letters to and from Alfred Lion, plus a few tracks where Dexter reminsences. I believe those tracks were taken from Danish radio interviews. I'd love to get my hands on more of those.

Does anybody know this disc and have any thoughts on it. I'm not that much concerned about the sound, unless it's absolutely horrible.