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Listening to the crap Cecil plays over KD's composition and solos, I bet KD wished he hadn't shown up either.

Here's a good one... Phil Dwyer should be more well known. Here's a review. You can buy it off cdbaby or amazon I think.

Certainly not! Ron Jefferson was nowhere near great! He was a heavyhanded drummer relying on simple formulas. Had the misfortune of running into him on several occasions when he was in Paris in the mid-sixties. Not only was he a lousy drummer, he was also an obnoxious person! A musician to avoid! Yeah, I heard he was a jerk too.

You guys must be joking. I can see maybe not being into his fusion revival sort of thing he's doing now but there's no denying that he's a fantastic player. One of the greats, up there with Mr. PC, OP, and Ray Brown, imo.

I did a search and came up with this post from king ubu (see the bottom).

email sent Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen, "Trio" (Rosnes, Johansen), Milestones - $6.00 McBride/Payton/Whitfield, "Finger Paintings," Verve - $5.00 Joe Henderson, "Lush Life," Verve - $3.00

New info from the jazz icons website: "April 25, 2007- more tidbits : * The newest artist that we have cleared is: Sarah Vaughan - Live In ’58, ’59 & ’63 (3 shows, 65 minutes). * We found another incredible, unseen Wes Montgomery show from England which we'll be adding to that DVD, bringing that up to 3 shows at 85 minutes. * Four titles from the 1st Jazz Icons series were selected by the prestigious French awards foundation The Victoires de la Musique for best jazz DVD releases in 2006: Ella Fitzgerald- Live in '57 & '63 Thelonious Monk- Live in '66 Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers- Live in '58 Quincy Jones- Live in '60"

Looks like the Mingus tribute is all day Sunday, April 22nd (his birthday). from mingusmingusmingus.com: "WKCR (88.9FM) in New York: 24 hours of Mingus music, part of the station's Birthday Broadcast tradition. 12AM through 12PM. Primarily hosted by Phil Schaap." Duke Ellington's birthday broadcast will be on the 29th. Andrew Hill is on Monday.

I have the Quincy and I don't think the second show being of lesser quality than the first had anything to do with the remastering job. Seemed like the tape just aged poorly to me. I think they mentioned something in the notes about that also. I'd check but I don't have it in front of me.

Thanks, this looks like a pretty good deal if you buy more than one and even better if you use the $10 off google checkout promotion.

are they on the web?------my kind of music! Yep, here's the link.

I just heard Rosetta and Body and Soul on the radio this morning and I couldn't tell who was playing it. We have a local radio station run by a museum that plays all kinds of obscure old music but never tells who's playing! It sounded like Armstrong to me but I knew it wasn't him by the singing. So I looked through allmusic.com and figured out it was Henry Red Allen! I really enjoyed those two cuts and the sax player who I think was Chu Berry? I'm going to have to pick up some of his records.

"Tricotism" has also been recently reissued by Fresh Sound records as "Lucky Thompson Meets Oscar Pettiford" if you can't find the GRP disc. It's really messed up how The Crusaders "Royal Jam" and "Tricotism" have the same upc code.

I was in your same situation a couple months back and ended up choosing the Sony over the JSP set. I don't know if you care about the material being at the original pitch but I noticed some the JSP sample tracks on websites were out of tune but all of the sony material has been adjusted to the intended pitch. Also, the packaging is really beautiful on the sony set. Sony reissued this set in August (see this thread) and changed the packaging a bit I believe. I purchased the newer set and have no complaints with it but I remember reading some amazon reviews of the older set that people were having problems with the glue getting on the discs or something. If you sign up for google checkout (google's answer to paypal) before Feb. 15th you can get $10 off your purchase at CD universe so it would be about $25 plus shipping. Here's the link for google checkout. The google thing also works at buy.com. Anyway, I think that price is about as cheap as the JSP.

I enjoyed this program. It's on again tonight where I am...check your local listings at... http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/billystrayhorn/index.html click on "Schedule"

Saw a link to this record company in another post and noticed this cd. The samples sound interesting.

Here's a good one for this forum... All Jazz Music Buy 2, Get the 3rd Free http://f.chtah.com/i/9/276579820/jazz32.htm valid 1/11/07 through 1/15/07

Are they raising it to $6.99 next year? anyone else get the email this guy received? http://www.imwan.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?...3330de1b3011544

If anyone hasn't subscribed to yourmusic yet there is a promo code right now for a free cd for new subscriptions. It is "BLENDERCD". Put it in the box on the opening page.

http://f.chtah.com/i/9/276579820/coupon10email0831.htm $10 off $20 (expires 9-4)

I wonder if this new August 22nd reissue of this box has the same packaging as the one put out in 2000. Has anyone heard about this? Here's the 8/22 one: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...16722&BAB=E and the original: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...16722&BAB=M The tracks look the same, I think. Looks like a good time to pick this up for the price.

Glad to hear the packaging is nice on this set as I'm still waiting for mine. I have to agree about the Mosaic Select sets. I just got my first a few days ago (Randy Weston is great!), and the outer box is flimsy and thin. I find this strange seeing as Mosaic Select sets are numbered and supposed to be collectable...I wonder what mine will look like in 20 years... Mosaic would be smart to look at what Proper Records is doing with their sets (they have sturdier outer boxes). Of course, I doubt Proper is paying anything to lease the music on their sets... I'm also disappointed that some of the music (the last session) on the Randy Weston set is a quarter tone off or so. I guess Mosaic doesn't realize that some of us musicians actually learn tunes off records and it would be nice to have the music at the pitch the musicians intended. Proper has some tunning issues also but I wouldn't have expected this from a major jazz reissue company like Mosaic.