Brad

I've listened to the first couple of discs (following the discography order) and as Richard Sudhalter says there's a lot of chaff that needs to be separated from that wheat. Some of the vocals are generally harmless, the lyrics forgettable and this is probably their 15 minutes of fame, for singers like Dick Robertson. The Boswell Sisters are another matter however and I liked this material. In fact I found myself humming some of the tunes, such as You'll Never Get to Heaven That Way. Oh, his description of saxophonist Bennie Krueger is priceless, LOL funny. On some of these less than memorable tunes, Berigan and Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet stand out, in my opinion.

Jim, You lost me on that one

There's some definitely interesting ones. The Baker looks to have a lot of Dameron on it, the Basie and the Rushings look like ones I want to get. The Mulligan-Hodges combination also sounds like something too good to pass up. The James Moody Story I couldn't find too much about on AMG, except as a Trip LP. If it's one and the same, it's supposed to be very bop-infused. Tomorrow could be another of those bad ($$) days.

Courtesy of Alan Lankin, there are some interesting reissues coming out tomorrow: Chet Baker - The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/1965 (Colpix) Count Basie - Chairman of the Board (Roulette) Billy Eckstine - Once More With Feeling (Roulette) Jimmy Rushing - Five Feet of Soul (Colpix) Dinah Washington '62 (Roulette) Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve LPR) The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - The Easy Way (Verve LPR) The James Moody Story (Verve LPR) Stan Getz - Reflections (Verve LPR) Phil Woods and the European Rhythm Machine - Live at the Montreux Festival (Verve LPR)

This was discussed a while ago at Blue Note Book. I happened to see it this past weekend and my initial reaction after browsing through it is that it seemed a little superficial for hard core junkies. Probably good for a general reader though.

I'm trying to finish Geoffrey Haydon's book about the Massey Hall Concert and I'm sort of perusing part of Allyns Shipton's A New History of Jazz. I'm also re-reading All Quiet on the Western Front (haven't looked at it since high school; my son just read it). Also, my son and I are reading together the newest Harry Potter book.

I'm with Barak on this. I really don't like thoe digipacks but what are you going to do. It seems that Verve is getting away from mini lps. Too bad. The digipacks are cheaper to sell, I assume. Better than nothing, however.

I just got home a little while ago and turned on the tube for a few minutes and caught the end of what appears to be a british movie on one of the HBO channels. The quick summary said it was about a crooner who looks at the stars and all of a sudden starts singing like Billie Holliday. The last 10 minutes seemed somewhat amusing but I never heard of it. Any reviews?

Congrats again. I hope you choose or are able to get to do it in elementary school. I think it's important to instill a love of music at an early age. Plus, I've heard so many stories about musicians starting young so if they have the right person like you teaching them the love of music, who knows what contributions they could make?

Maybe you need to do what Deep says he does, take lots of illegal substances often (or something like that) !

You have to shake your head when you see what he did at Amazon. In a way, it's sort of sad.

Picked mine up today (yes, I drove up) (#573). Got to talk to Michael for a couple of minutes. There'll be some heavy duty listening going on.

Looks like Worlds Records has it for $29, about $6 cheaper. True Blue is always more expensive than elsewhere.

Here's the AMG Review. Sounds like an impressive set.

I thought that when the BNBB went away that the oldest running battle might be a thing of the past. But lo and belhold I was wrong. Click here for the latest. Seems like Chris with a TKO in the sixth round

I was thinking of driving up to Mosaic tomorrow (I live in Jersey) to pick up a copy of the Berigan and the Bennie Green MS so I called and told them that I'd like to do that and I assumed they'd have enough copies around, etc. They checked and said I should call to see if it's come in before I do that. So, I guess there's still some question about it arriving tomorrow.

Since they've previously issued the Nichols and the Getz Roost, it would seem unlikely this would show up again.

He's baaaaack!

Getting back to the original point, even if it's a comp, I'll get this. I have a 2 cd set that Sony put out in Japan a while back so I'd probably dump that. There's also a 10 cd set that Past Perfect put out a couple of years ago. Because their discography is not the best, it's hard to tell if it's all Columbia. Even if not, you'd have to expect that the Sony sound will be better (you'd hope so anyway).

Anyone heard about this. Someone posted it over at AAJ

Are we talking vocals in general or the so-called "crappy" vocals? If it's the former, I took a brief look at the discography on the Mosaic site and there seem to be a looooot of vocals. Since I'm not alway that wild about vocals, I'm not sure this is something I want to plunk some serious change on.

I haven't followed the SACD debates that much but what would exactly having Mosaic reissue music in that format mean. I don't have nor have any present intention to buy a SACD player so if they make it in that format and no others, will I be able to play it and assuming the answer is yes, what would it sound on a non-SACD player. Would it sound 24 bit or just how would it sound?

I'm surprised Wynton M wasn't picked for this list.

Kevin, Your post would seem to answer the question if they were only to be sold by Time Life and nobody else. If that's the case, they appear to be in breach. However, getting back to music here, if BN will cut a deal overseas to sell cds like Dizzy's Village Vanguard, why can't those be put out here. Why couldn't Leo Parker's cds put out here instead of having to pay $20 and up for these. Why can't they be repressed like the Japanese are doing. I fully agree with Claude on this.

I'm not so sure that they could stop these from being sold so quickly. The licensee is not actively exporting them to the US. They happen to be available from a third party on a web site in the country that they are licensed for sale in. Unless the licensee knew that when he sold them to companies in Spain who intended to sell them overseas, there may not be much to be done.