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Exploring these very fun concerts.

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The anniversary got away from me too. Playing some Fats tonight!

Haven't heard from you in a while, Chewy! Hope you're well!

This one is a 3-disc set with some trombone by Miff Mole.

Recently got the Condon Town Hall Concerts, but it's nice to break them up with some rare tracks from Nat.

Yeah, it was like "Combat!" The Germans would all jump from behind rocks and trees so they could all get drilled by the heroes of the show. I often wondered what real vets of the war thought of that. I bet they *wished* the enemy would have done that!

Thanks Chuck. I hadn't realized that Koester did them all, but it does look like he did. Apollo did a fair number of blues/early R&B things that were reissued in that series. I went back for a look, and I think Mosaic would define around eight or nine of those as jazz, but given that they were all reissued anyway--and pretty well--it probably wouldn't pay to do it again.

That is a drag. When I went several years ago, I stayed in there listening so long, my ears got sore from the headphones. Hope they make them available again soon!

A recent acquisition. OP at the height of his early powers and some very fine Herb Ellis. And then there's Ray....

I recently got a Delmark cd with some Apollo sessions by Ellingtonians plus Earl Hines, and it struck me that a Mosaic box of Apollo jazz sessions might be possible? Or would it be too big?

Victor Buono was my favorite villain in that series, but then, I liked him in everything he did. Conrad was so disgusted by the dreadful movie supposedly made from the series that he showed up in person to receive that movie's Razzie for worst film of the year!

So, like the pack rat I am, I kept every "True Blue" catalog from Mosaic. I've decided to get rid of those, but I'm actually paging through them to see if there are any treasures I forgot to acquire at the time (a dangerous activity for my wallet, to be sure). I'm also seeing things I've had for a long time but haven't played in a while, like this one. Listening to disc 2. BG may have had his problems as a leader and occasionally as a human being, but he was a great, great clarinetist, and he really loved the small groups.

This is a fairly rare season 2 shot. Diana Muldaur's Dr. Pulaski (a character I liked a lot) only appeared in that season. Great series! I'm finishing up season 3 of this one:

I first hear Rosolino on the original vinyl. Listening to the Fresh Sound reissue.

Sometimes Darwin Award candidates are saved in spite of themselves.

After a recommendation here on the Board

I agree. I didn't know much about it before I went (except that Mirren was playing the lead). I was surprised at the focus on the '73 war, but thought she was very good indeed. Watched Denzel slaughter bad guys last night in Equalizer 3. With those movies, you get exactly what you expect.

Nice Sammy Nestico arrangements, and Capp propels the band very well.

Every time I hear (or in this rare case, see) Rosolino play a solo, I can't figure out how the hell he did it. I played trombone through high school, and I wasn't bad, but not in my wildest of dreams and with a zillion hears of practice do I think I could have played like that. It's said that when he was young, Jack Teagarden (whom I couldn't emulate either) couldn't reach all the positions on the instrument and used his lips to "relocate" notes on the closer positions. I wonder if Frank did that too?

Yeah, that's a bizarre one! One of the few that has never been reissued on cd! I'm listening to this one, which I got after reading about it here on the board: