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That wasn't a Beatle song. Are you saying that he was The Secret Shirelle?

That pressing shows three cuts on the one side. The Savoy record has two cuts per side. And Capitol? For a Savoy test pressing? Interesting ...

Indeed it is!

And Tony's "first" phase of "rock" drumming is nowhere near copiously documented. By the time he got back with Believe It...that was a different game altogether. All the more reason to dig down to the bottom of a mix like this beautiful bashfest:

I dunno, spend $39.00 on a better internet package?

I stand by that - the reasons given for no Joe Williams Roulette set was that there were a lot of unfinished takes and othe untangling of materials. This has no relevance to an Eckstine collection of already issued material.. As far as the multi-lbel thing - as it now stands (and has for some time) - MGM & Mercury have long been owned by the same people (and the Eckstine material sees release on various Verve Compilations), Along with Roulette, there should be no difficulty in combining the materials. Earlier, Hines is RCA, right? Again, Mosiac does Victor. That leaves National, which ended up as Savoy which has ended up...someplace. Point just being - there are "excuses", hell, probably sound financial reasons even, for not doing an Eckstine Mosaic. I think we can all see the direction Mosaic is heading. But the reasons given for the Joe Williams Mosaic not happening ain't them. So the erasure continues. Probably unintentionally, but an accidental death is just as surely a death nevertheless. Quincy Jones could probably make something happen. But he could probably make LOTS of things happen if he wanted to die broke (and he probably would if he did, that's how much that could/should be done).

Duly noted, and with appreciation!

One of the best Sonny Stitt album covers ever!

I'm in no way denigrating the musicians. Simply expressing my extreme dislike of their records and their presence in a Mosaic set.

Not a great movie, but a damn entertaining one.

That's no excuse on an Eckstine set. The released material is a finished product. From Hines through National, through MGM, through Mercury, through Roulette, it should all be there. Collate it, clean it up, get some good liner notes, and the set makes itself, I think. I could see a stumbling block being the dreaded "lack of jazz content", but historically... I know it's not going to happen. But somebody needs to do something. Billy Eckstine, even on his non-jazz records, is a truly awesome voice. And he knew how to use it. especially when the production was "jazz oriented". A truly historical figure, imo, and one who is not being at all well-served by contemporary "history".

Is Corbett vs Dempsey still upstairs from Dusty Groove? Either way, that would be someplace I'd like to go.

Lissa Reyovack - Screeching To A Halt

Desertina Crunkle - Sweet Love Games

There's not as much of it as I remembered. A LOT more playing than singing!

"Garrulous", there's a word for the list!

I too experienced a lot of "fusion" before getting a copy Emergency (and just the first volume at that), and, yeah, I was a bit befuddled. This was NOT Mahavishnu!!! But it's a lot later now. So many things that I didn't know then I know now, and the chronological gaps no longer exist for me that once did. So revisiting it today (and with Schapp's mix to assist), just clicked in a way that hadn't happened before. There's a group "howl" (for lack of a better term) that I hadn't picked up on before that just thrills the hell out of me, the rawness of discovery and of leaping headfirst into the more-or-less unknown. Too bad about the truly unfortunate recording, but at this point, if I can get thrilled by some really craickly Bird bootlegs, the I can get thrilled by this. I have heard the one real-time live recording of a club date, and it's....I'm not ready for THAT rough a recordding just yet. But you know, time marches on, so never say never.

Helen Reddy Helen Wheels Genya Ravan

Songs, with strings, and female vocals. Like a Sarah Vaughan record only coming from someplace else. It's a good listen.

Billings McCummenstant - Improvisation No. 3 for Prepared Piano and Unprepared String Trio

Smile! You're on Candid Camera!

It's duck season?

Listening to this this morning. It's more than fine!

From the 1967 album "Magical Mystery." Bud Shank - saxophone & flute Chet Baker - fluegelhorn Gary Barone - fluegelhorn Dennis Budimir - guitar Herb Ellis - guitar John Guerin - drums Robert West - bass Victor Feldman - percussion mixed chorus