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Haven't listened to this one in too long
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I guess when it's complete, Riccardi's 3-volume effort, written, interestingly enough, in reverse order, will be pretty well definitive.
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On 4/23/2024 at 1:52 PM, jazzbo said:
Look above in this thread, this was just offered with membership in the LA Jazz Institute and that opportunity has apparently ended.
Thanks Lon. I had seen that but hoped there might be another way. Oh well, it'll come up for sale some way some day!
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On 4/21/2024 at 12:42 PM, jazzbo said:
I don't have it but here are the details:
Where do I go to buy this? Discogs lists it as existing but has no copies for sale.
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Tough call, but I think I agree with those who've listed the Basie Live Roulette set on Mosaic. That said, the Savory set........
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Oh my, this is dreadful news. So very, very sad to hear this. From the first Monk set on, I feel like much of my jazz listening life has consisted of following in his wake as he birthed beautiful album after beautiful album, set after set, opening me up to so much wonderful music. I will be forever in his debt.
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On 4/5/2024 at 12:30 PM, Chuck Nessa said:
IIRC, those were "cleaned up" for this package
Got this one on Chuck's recommendation, and, as usual, he's absolutely right. The sound is very good. Like the video stuff too. Thanks Chuck!
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7 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:
No doubt these records sold reasonably well compared ot the more purist forms.
The Wyndham site with its "plethora" of articles and stories is a hard one to digest evenly but from what I've glanced at I'd say that to him these "Dixie bands within the band" were neither flesh nor fowl. Unjustified but understandable from a purist stance. (Though, OTOH, who within the overall Dixieland/Revival/latter-day Traditional Jazz artists would objectively have been entitled to calling himself a "purist" - beyond the "Bunk Johnson adulators" fraternity? 😁 And even then ... )
Actually I often am not quite sure where to file records by some of the artists from your latest post. My Bobby Hackett leader LPs sit in the "White US Traditional Revival Jazz" corner but (by personal majority vote
as to its musical contents) all the Bud Freeman LPs are filed in the (much, much larger) "Swing" section. And I cannot see why I should separate the small group spinoffs from their Big Band homes.
But the Jimmy Dorsey LP you showed would be worth the price of admission for its Jim Flora cover alone!
That IS a cool cover!
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Nice liners by Loren Schoenberg on this one, but no personnel list, which is irritating. Sound is good.
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Lord shows Daily on cornet, Warren Smith, trombone; Stan Story, clarinet; Don Owens, piano, Nappy Lamare, guitar and banjo; Phil Stephens, tuba and bass; George Defebaugh, drums. Recorded October 1949.
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Very cool! Congrats!
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Continuing my exploration of early Chicago jazz while re-reading _Hear Me Talkin' to Ya_
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11 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:
I loved John R.T., nicest guy ever - and he was able to transfer music in the best possible way - and the key, other than his expertise, was the sources he had. He and Brian Rust were able to acquire test pressings and metal masters from sometimes mysterious sources (meaning someone spirited them out of certain places), clean sources in mint shape. The tragedy of American music is the loss of masters, from Victor, Okeh, Columbia - though some still exist, clueless engineers have no idea how to handle them (and also, note, that Davies, by the time of the above transfers, was using CEDAR digital noise reduction; he was no Luddite).
And the losses of the Deccas too. A real tragedy.
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Davies really was a magician when it came to remastering
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9 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
MSN ... but not yet at the NYT. Sad.
It is now: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/arts/music/albert-heath-dead.html
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Back toward the beginning
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3 hours ago, T.D. said:
Doin' The Thing. That's the only live recording he released on Blue Note.
That's my favorite Silver album. I've always figured Mosaic didn't do one because most of them are easy to get and have remained in print and because there are a LOT of them.
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Don't pull this one out very often, but reading Hentoff's _Hear Me Talkin' To Ya_ led to a listen.
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I've had this one sitting on my shelf longer than I've had shelves, and I know I've read "in" it, maybe through it, though if so, longer ago than I can remember, so I've decided to read it through...again?! I find myself wishing I had the original 1955 edition with the discography that they decided to omit from the later editions. It would presumably have been mostly 78s.
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On 4/1/2024 at 3:20 AM, JSngry said:
Who are the soloists on that one? Would have been cool to hear her do one chorus of "Groovin' High"!
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I like the live Tokyo date from Mainstream. Picked that one up in a Jazz Heritage edition. For some weird reason, Jazz Heritage reissued a bunch of Maintream jazz things from that period.
I also prefer later Sarah, especially the Ellington song books on Pablo.
Return Of The Film Corner Thread
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An amazing film which I thought was richly deserving of its oscar wins, *especially* for sound.