Niko

have my doubts whether this will work... a bing crosby set means competing with cheapo box sets in a market where mosaic doesn't have the good name it has with jazz nerds... (and, honestly, while i don't own any of the big boxes and thus possibly am not entitled to an opinion here... contrary to what many here say i don't find mosaics especially rewarding to look at...) their strength was knowing how to suit the nerds' needs... i doubt that the crowd they're targeting now cares much about what mosaic is good at... and since everybody says making money with cds (any cds) is difficult right now i doubt that bing crosby is that much of an exception... that said i don't have anything against the little crosby i heard and saw... doesn't mean i feel like owning 7 cds of him with the buddy cole trio (will look up that name now...) though...

Happy Birthday, Dan!

as someone who has fooled around with a saxophone/clarinet for almost twenty years without significant progress (and with formal instructions), i would guess that a genius who knows what he wants to do can easily get the necessities together within a year and the rest within a second year... one moment i remember very well was when (at 16 after almost ten years of playing) i understood that playing stuff that doesn't sound good isn't necessary, that you can play everything that's in the sheet music in a way that it sounds good (to me); i guess others would have known that from day one

one thing that puzzled me quite a bit was the remark in the liner notes to that album with jack mcduff that kirk was a collector of old sheet music...

seems like they just updated the list of sold out sets but forgot to add the patton... feels like chaos....

what i wrote a bunch of times before... while the world sure is a significantly better place due to the research of steven isoardi, i really wish he was a better storyteller... somehow the interview transcriptions are much more lively than the finished books imho... wish the other transcriptions were online as well...

didn't fruscella have some sort of army funeral? at least that's what i recall from that book (and that only stella waitzkin and the trumpeter the army had sent were there... but that is second hand information iirc (from stella to her son) and badly remembered by me...) when did morgana king become famous (and forgot about her jazz friends)? did bill triglia mean her becoming "mama corleone" or did she become famous like that earlier...? (i mean, she was married to jazz musician dennis until 1965, mama corleone was in 1972) thanks for sharing these memories!

the "did not treat him well"-part was new to me... in the childhood autobiography of fruscella's sixties girlfriend's son it is mentioned that fruscella was still regularly making calls to king (from his girlfriend's appartment) which the latter never answered (or the like) at that time (1965?)

since the thing is called "The Media Mook: Satirical News for the On-the-Go Cynic" i'm not surprised you can't find anything on this person...

that one i remember, too (something like morgana king remembering that after dennis' death sinatra called to ask if she needed help...)

first thought when i ordered the amy select was, i'll have to postpone ordering from nessa then...

besides the ortega, the first 11 of these are available online: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4...al;group=Items; and here are another four http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=isoardi

bunch of info from here... http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb8779...=&brand=oac and also

order placed for the amy (already have the patton and jones, needless to say they're great...)

whatever this means... you can still see it here at the moment http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:nFCQS...=clnk&gl=de google says it collected this data 23 hours ago...

judging from the link chas posted ( http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/ping.html ) my educated guess would be: no

put differently, it would have been a sign of respect towards the old age, not to do this type of interview with him anymore... it's great that he can still play, but what he's saying is obviously not suitable for a larger audience anymore...

sorry i'm late... happy birthday!

some more info here: http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/Side-Steps/

cool! paul brewer's the guy from the dupree bolton uptown cd?

i found ray draper's list pretty impressive, notably given that he's one of those where you might think he hardly had a career at all (counting sideman of recordings where he was a sideman, concert announcements, everything...) Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Don Cherry, Horace Tapscott, Archie Shepp, Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Howard Johnson, Sun Ra (and cohorts), Lionel Hampton, Mal Waldron, Ben Dixon, Philly Joe Jones, George Coleman, John Duke, George Braith, Pete LaRoca, dizzy gillespie, buddy de franco, benny carter, gerry mulligan, sonny rollins, johnny dyani, okay temiz, jimmy garrison, dave burrell, walter davis jr, graham bond, joe beck, randy brecker, bu pleasant, dick griffin, mike mainieri, don sleet, vincent mcewan, sean levitt, olu dara, booker little, stu brotman, maria muldaur, kenneth terroade, big black, quincy jones, sonny criss, tommy flannagan, al mckibbon, conte candoli, teddy edwards, sabir mateen ____________________ just in case anybody owns this album by cathy chamberlain's rag and roll revue and could look up on which tunes draper plays (on only one, or tuba on all, baritone saxophone on only one... that might give another bunch of names like eddie bert, joe farrell and louis metcalf...) some info here: http://gumboyaya.rakurakuhp.net/i_344629.htm so in terms of "creative music" there is basically an early association with john coltrane (and an even earlier one with george braith...), two times with tapscott in the late sixties and in the late seventies, a time in europe around 1968 where he played with terroade, shepp and cherry, a mid seventies recording with shepp, and an early eighties association with sun ra (for about a year it said somewhere) - but of course tuba players are hard to substitute...

don't know if this excites anybody but me but about 200 lonehill albums can be streamed at lastfm http://www.lastfm.de/label/Lone+Hill+Jazz/albums

what did he say?! (or have you reported elsewhere..? ) what did he say?! (or have you reported elsewhere..? ) edit to add: i've seen these double posts several times now - went back in my browser, i didn't do it, must be some new bug...

i think i can take 50s wallington much better after accepting that he played hard bop by that time... isome tracks on the prestidigitator i would rather have guessed to be horace silver in a blind fold test (if it wasn't for that bass trumpet...)