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Or, to put this back on sort of a jazz footing (!), there is Paul Desmond's legendary story about the security guy at the fair where they were about to play. He stopped their car and asked them who they were. "The Dave Brubeck Quartet," they answered. He looked at his paperwork and asked, "How many in the Quartet?" Desmond always intended to use that as the title of his autobiography, but sadly, never got around to writing it. I love that line. Greg M.

You're ALL lunatics. This is really MY kind of group!

The very last cd in the Venuti/Lang set, which I hadn't gotten around to listening to for a while after I got the set. Turns out there is some wonderfully funny, goofy nonsense toward the end when these characters were cutting up in the studio (including a tune they entitled "Non-Skid Manure"!)

You're not Greg Maltz are you? I don't remember him ever using a smiley... Nope. Last name's Monahan. I only use the smiley's cause they're so available! And as to this being a dangerous thread, not to worry--I lost my wallet to Mosaic years ago. I order just about everything they put out, and finding space on the shelves is part of the FUN!

This board is *really* bad for my wallet! I hadn't even heard of the big Concord sale before I started reading here only a few days ago, and now, I've ordered 62 cds. I have no idea how many I'll actually get, but at $3 a pop, what tiny, insignficant, wispy resistance I *usually* mount to such an order disappeared immediately!

DVDs? No discussion of them here before - do you have any more information?

admittedy, I am using the search function as well whenever it makes any sense...(favorite counter example is still joe guy) don't know why though Sorry I didn't see the other threads. I'm fairly new to this group, so I'm figuring out all the ins and outs. Bear with me. It'll take me a while! As for Jazz in Paris, they've also issued some DVDs. I saw 'em in Paris when I was there earlier this summer (along with the cool new box sets). 'Course, there's probably a thread on those too!!

Nice collection Greg! There has been a gap for the big box sets, however they did release a bunch of singles in that time span. I'm getting excited about the Ellington and the Chu Berry later in '07! Oh me too--especially the Ellington Small Groups set. In fact, I sent them an email suggesting that while they were at it, it sure would be nice to have an Ellington 30s box collecting together all the big band stuff owned by Columbia. That material hasn't been issued in any organized way in the US for a long time. I *still* have the old "Ellington Era" boxes issued by Columbia back in the late Jurassic when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I could still find old 78s at Goodwill, but it would *really* be nice to have that marvelous material in a Mosaic box!

I have 96 sets, 91 on cd, 5 on LP (including Monk on Blue Note, which dates me!). There's been a bit of a gap, hasn't there, between sets? The Ellington small groups set isn't due until November, and the Gillespie came out, when, in the spring?

I've been reading this thread with interest, and I'd appreciate some info if anybody has it on the difference between the older "piano box" issue and the newer "standard box" issue. *Is* the box the only difference? Does the newer box include the Lomax book, etc.? Also, is one version "unexpurgated" as one site rather bizarrely put it, and one set possibly not?! THAT would be weird! Greg M.

I just came across this thread. Sorry for coming in after everybody may have left the room, but I really love this series. What I *didn't* know until I read the posts is that there was a 102 (Django Reinhardt, Place de Brouckère). I thought I had all of 'em! For the sake of the hopeless completist, there are three 2-cd "Hor-série" out there. Posters have already mentioned Sacha Distel, "Jazz Guitarist" (01) and Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, "Fohrenbach French Sound" (03) But there's also number 02: Bill Coleman, "The Complete Philips Recordings." And for the truly hopeless among us (like me for instance ), they also issued a Sampler cd with a cool cd-sized catalogue. The sampler does have one track by Bill Coleman, a version of St. Louis Blues at 8:26 which *may* be an alternate to the one on the Coleman 2-cd set, which is 9:02. Or, they're the same, and the timings are off!