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In the US, themusicresource.com is pretty reliable. I picked up one recently from there with no problem. themusicresource.com Has anyone picked up any from the latest batch?

Just received my Jazz Review today from across the Atlantic. Great magazine--hip enough to know that bulletin boards like this one are the broadsides of the 21st century.

Has anyone picked these up yet? I bought Tests of Time from the Music Resource. It's a little more mellow and restrained than I imagined, but in a good way--some flugelhorn and flute and stuff like that. I really like the Jimmy Greene and Jeremy Pelt front line. Good writing, varied program. Those are my initial impressions. It only arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. I'd be interested to hear what others think. The Wycliffe Gordon is next on my list.

Ralph Peterson -- Tests of Time Basie--America's #1 Band Paul Quinichette--Vice Pres (Verve Elite) Stanley Turrentine Mosaic #1 Eric Alexander--Second Milestone ANd inadvertantly caught Glen Campbell on tv singing Galveston--that song keeps playing in my head, so I guess I've been listening to that too. Maybe it's time to track down a Jimmy Webb collection or something.

P.D., The honeysuckle jam session on the Avid is 13:54. I don't know if that includes everything or not. From the liners: "a couple of additional band tracks from the event have been uncovered but they cannot be included for copyright reasons" I think the source material is the 1950 release (most likely mint)

I COMPLETELY agree with this. And you'll notice Schaap hasn't been invited back to the party by Sony since this release and the Ellington Newport. I have the Avid release remastered by Dave Bennett and I HIGHLY recommend it. If anybody thinks noise reduction inevitably causes loss in fidelity, I would urge you to give this a try. It can be had fairly cheaply by buying directly from Avid. avid goodman I had the Sony release and sold it as soon as I could.

I enjoy Belly of the Sun quite a bit (except for the India.arie appearance which serves, I guess, to highlight how good Cassandra really is--the comparison between the two certainly favors CW). Anyway, you gotta admire anyone who can get away with putting Darkness on the Delta and Witchita Lineman on the same album and make them both fit. Of all the Dylan songs available, LLL is a curious choice. I would like to hear Cassandra try her hand at one of Dylan's gospel songs. Maybe next time.

Some initial impressions: If this set doesn't convince you that Jimmy Rushing is the best male jazz singer ever, nothing will. Reinhardt Reinhardt... And Lester shines. The liners are great. Over 80 pages by Loren Shoenberg (spelling's off--sorry). Mosaic should hire him. Sound is pretty good, although the masters here and there are a little rough. The live material sounds very good, considering thecircumstance. Keepnews' decision to not program chronologically bugs me. The octet recordings start on disc 1 and spill over onto disc 2, disrupting continuity on both discs. ALso, none of thediscs are filled to capacity and at least 30 minutes of prime Basie could have fit. It's bad enough to only have 4 discs of this material, but to have room to add a little more and not use it... Overall, though, indispensable, swingin' jazz

My two little girls love to dance and march around the house when I play some traditional/New Orleans jazz. Recently, on the morning of my older daughter's first day of kindergarten, there was the expected apprehension as she was getting ready for school. I put on some Kid Ory and the mood lightened considerably. Her first day of school went great--the credit goes to her, not Kid Ory, but...the Kid came through when we needed a little jump start.

Great. I generally like the work from the Meyer- Wilder combo--can't wait to get this.

I have the Blakey, Jacquet, Teagarden, Eldridge, Terry, Brown, and Jazztet CDs. All are fine although I find Lawrence Brown's playing a little hard to warm up to for some reason. Jazztet and Tea probably get the most playing time. I see the Elites pop up now and then and I'm never sure whether to pull the trigger--the recommendations in this thread are gonna be helpful.

Payton's playing (or composing, maybe) generally leaves me cold (although I liked him on Osby's CD). This one isn't for me either. But it'll probably sell well, like Hargrove's did this summer. One thing I don't get. Why is it that when musicians draw on the pre electric jazz tradition, they're called retro or conservative, but when they draw on 1970s jazz they're ambitious?

This thread inspired me to pick up the "Nice Work" CD and I'm grateful for that. If there is a prejudice against pre bop music, it's too bad. This is jazz of the highest order. Blues, blues, blues...pure and deep. The Vanguard recordings with Vic Dickenson and Edmond Hall are at least equal, I think, to their Blue Note work together in the '40s. I hear so much here that moves me, but I'll just say that Edmond Hall, for my money, is unmatched among clarinet players, then and now, when it comes to playing the blues. He digs in, and swings, throughout. The rhythm section with Jo Jones and Sir Charles keeps my feet patting. I've been so impressed with the two Vanguards I've picked up recently (this and Buck Clayton) that I'm on the hunt for more. Think I'll go next with the Mel Powell.

Lon (or anybody), Who did the remastering and liners? Any other impressions? I ordered mine from CD Universe and I don't expect it to be here until tomorrow at th earliest.

Sound samples are up at the Sony website. I'll try to link to it: basie sound

Whoa, this is a surprise! I expected possibly Blue Mitchell or Mobley to be next on the list, since they've been around for awhile (relatively speaking). I would second GOM's recommendation. Ther's a wide variety here, and it's a lot of fun. I mean, this is ELLINGTON. Ain't another like him.

I really enjoy Sarah Vaughan's Mancini tribute that was reissued a few years ago by Verve. "Slow Hot Wind" and "Dreamsville" are a couple of tracks I particularly like on that album. Eric ALexander has a Mancini song, "Moment to Moment" on his recent release "The Second Milestone". Just bought the CD so I haven't really listened to it closely yet, but it's good to see that Mancini is still being played by today's jazzers.

Well, for starters they might be able to find Vic Dickenson's estate if they spelled his name right: Vic Dickerson???

I didn't like the sound on this either. Also, and this has nothing to do with the remastering, I really miss hearing the piano. Seems like there's a big hole in the ensemble. I'm happy for those who have been waiting for this set for a long time, but for myself, I'll probably pass.

This may be a bit off topic, but has Verve ever released on CD "Sweets" with Ben Webster, Barney Kessell, Jimmy Rowles etc.?

Interesting. Even when Verve does something right, they don't do it right, if you know what I mean.

I'd just add a hardy second to that recommendation. They blast out of the gate with Rock Candy and never look back. I love listening to this CD with the windows rolled down in the car, just cruisin' and groovin (well, to the extent one can cruise and groove with a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old in the back seat). Has anyone heard the Prestige big band dates that were just reissued? I'm curious how they sound.

If Hibbler gives you the willies, what does Jimmy Grissom do for you? For me, Duke reached a low point as far as vocalists go when JG signed on. But, I still love Ellington's Capitol period.

Th current state of these Vanguard sessions on CD is absolutely maddening. Two Vic Dickenson sides are on one of the Vanguard Ruby Braff CDs, but not on the Vic Dickenson one. Most of Sir Charles Thompson's sessions as a leader are on his CD, but not all--some are on a compilation shared with Ray Bryant. You get the picture. Because of this, I've been holding off on these, hoping against hope that they would be reissued in complete form. However, I recently broke down and picked up the Esential Buck Clayton and absolutely loved it. John Hammond just seemed to have a knack for getting an extra bit of energy and swing of out small group sessions. Vic Dickenson and Edmond Hall are great on the Clayton comp. All of this to say in a long-winded fashion: this is an inspired choice and I'm looking forward to hearing what others say about it. And I'm grabbing the Nice Work 1999 compilation. I'm tired of waiting for Vanguard to do it right.

I just preordered this through CDUniverse. Of all the stuff coming out this month (Mosaics etc), this is my first priority--I've been waiting a long time for Columbia to do something with at least some of the Basie material in their vault. The only question for me at this point is who did the transfers. Sony's remastering of older stuff has been pretty good lately, so I'm pretty confident.