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Finishing up this set with disc 10. Decided to take my time and enjoy it!

Like Brubeck's light touch on the piano, do you, there, Allen?! 😏

And funny too. I loved seeing interviews with him. What a great run by a brilliant artist! R.I.P.

Mine failed the first time but succeeded the second. Many thanks to hopkins for this one!!

I liked that one. Thought Fiennes was particularly good.

I just watched "Blonde" last night (I try to see all the Oscar-nominated performances) and really hated it. Ana de Armas was fine, but she was undone by a lousy one-note screenplay that had nothing but Monroe as victim. She *was* victimized, but she also formed her own production company, negotiated a tough deal with another studio and won several awards for her acting. The "scene" with JFK was particularly nasty. Hated the movie. Hated it.

A while back, someone said they were working on a Sonny Clark Blue Note set.

The thread on Billy Eckstine caused me to get this one out and give it another listen. Some fine work here:

It appears several of us are on a Rollins kick. I've been listening to this one as I read the earlier part of the biography:

Oh yeah, that one is a classic!

How's the sound on this one?

It sure is. Now I have to go hunt down those Jazz Anecdote books!

Listening to disc 5. Some great DeFranco on this disc!

Me too, but Rabshakeh's response was very funny!

Just finished a very good British series called "Bodyguard" on Netflix.

Thanks for the heads up on this one, Larry. I'd collected the first five volumes years ago and listened now and then. I confess I didn't know they'd continued to more volumes. I wonder whether the fact that Yale controls this material is a factor in the Goodman Estate's being so unwilling to let other stuff be reissued? I'm thinking here of the sizable trove of Savory material that they wouldn't let Mosaic issue?

The things I learn from this Board!

👍 Like those Fuller Savoys!

Mine finally arrived today. Looks fine (except that, bizarrely, the cover insert on the first set of cds was upside down!). With the exception of the three Opera House cds and part of the Hollywood Bowl concert, all previously issued, this will be new music for me, so I'm looking forward to exploring it. Memory fails (it often does), but didn't we hear somewhere that Mosaic was going to issue all those 1957 Newport records in a set? Or was that just one of those ideas on the "they ought to do this" thread?

That's a lovely memory! I was there once in April. I'd just had a lovely dinner and gotten a fresh street nutella crepe (it's a weakness, what can I say?). I walked on to the beautiful Pont des Arts in a gentle rain and stood at the rail. There was no one else there, and it was as if I had the city all to myself. The tower was sparkling in the distance, the Louvre to one side, the Institut on the other. If I didn't already love Paris, then at that moment, I would have fallen in love with it all over again.

Though I don't think she much liked the song, I always liked Ella's version of "A House is not a Home"

Thanks Lon. I had gotten caught up in the whole credit card hold issue and had reordered right away, but I took your advice and wrote them. I got a short note from Fred that it would be shipped "in a couple of days." Then I got a shipping notice the next day. Soooo, I should see the set before long. This rollout definitely has been a bit messier than usual.