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Yeah, Lon, like THAT will work!! gregmo

I've always particularly liked this album. Indeed, it's my favorite Woody Herman record, and I have just about all of 'em. The band is certainly looser than on the Phillips stuff (which I also like), but I've always credited that to the fact it's a live album. It has my favorite version of "Northwest Passage" with a great, great solo from the little-discussed Sal Nistico. This band could *burn*. gregmo

Fans have been requesting the whole series on dvd for a long time. Seasons 1 and 2 have been available for years, season 3 for streaming relatively recently. One can only hope the rest of the series will finally make it onto disc. It was a helluva fine show.

This was reissued in cd on the Teagarden Capitol Mosaic box. gregmo

Now that I have the Earl Hines Mosaic, it sure would be nice to have affordable copies of the Classics cds on either side of it (the ones including the 34-35 Deccas and 46-47 band sides) gregmo

Amazon sellers have it for a little less http://www.amazon.com/Bopland-Legendary-Elks-Club-Concert/dp/B0002W4V0Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359182498&sr=8-1&keywords=Bopland+the+legendary

I'm bumping this one to see if, short of trying Allen's rather original suggestion of screwing around with my system (I'm so incompetent, I'd probably screw it up forever) this material has ever appeared elsewhere with really good remastering? I have the Victors, and the old Brunswicks on GRP (where the remastering sounds better than it does here, but maybe not?!). I know JSP did a set. Is it any good?

I sent some also, but only after checking out the website youcaring.com. It appears legitimate. I generally prefer donating to the Jazz Foundation of America. A very worthwhile cause. I wish Mr. Priester the best. (One wonders how a retired professor did not have health insurance, but I assume there are some kind of weird extenuating circumstances?) gregmo

Get in line on that Mosaic box, Ubu. I've lusted after it for several years. I was just too poor back in the day to get every Mosaic I wanted, and that one slipped right through my greedy little fingers. Sigh. gregmo

No more calls, please. We have a winner. Oh yes, I'd say so, especially since it includes that ninth song. Actually, that and the first one would make a nice single...er...double....er...single........ Actually, Greg, those are bands/artists, not songs - this is apparently an anthology. This old dude has actually heard of about one-third of them. El Vez bills himself as "The Mexican Elvis." Really? This one just gets better and better! gregmo

No more calls, please. We have a winner. Oh yes, I'd say so, especially since it includes that ninth song. Actually, that and the first one would make a nice single...er...double....er...single........

Hines disc 7. I started at the end! gregmo

Wonderful trumpeter, fair singer, cool comedian. Jack's still with us, isn't he? gregmo

Regarding the delay, I am pretty sure since few past orders and after they outsourced the logistics, that the actual shipping date vary significantly from the shipping notification we receive. In my case it happened at least twice to be 10 days later! I was perhaps a bit too impatient--my Hines box arrived today, and disc 7 (I decided to start with the last one) is spinning on my cd player as I type. Sound is great. gregmo

Ditto. gregmo

Even though I bought them, I was never a big fan of the Singles. They were either too ambitious and not ambitious enough. I'm thinking particularly of the J. J. Johnson RCA single and the Woody Herman Woody's Winners one. Both of those artists would have fared far better with Selects, which I thought were, in fact, a pretty good idea. But, so it goes. If it means more big boxes, I'm all for it! In the meantime, I'm still waiting for my Earl Hines box. Takes a while to get across the country, I guess.

I hope to be in New York for a few days in April. It would be cool to go there if it's opened by then. gregmo

Right on the money, Brownie. The only people I really feel for in all this are the cyclists--and there were some--who raced honestly and didn't get the glory that should have been theirs. gregmo

I've seen it. There is one scene with Franco Nero in the new film in which QT pays a nice little homage to the original, of which this is decidedly NOT a remake. I liked the movie, not only because of Waltz, who was wonderful, but also DiCaprio, who obviously relishes the part of a nasty villain and plays it to the hilt. gregmo

I thought "Lincoln" was wonderful. I'd add the amazing little movie "Bernie" to the list--a surprise for me, since I'm usually no Jack Black fan. And while I enjoyed the performances in "The Master," I thought the movie itself was a bit aimless. I avoided the really bad ones this year, well, except for "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," which I may be alone in considering to have been goofy fun. But then, I'm something of a "sucker" for vampire movies. gregmo

That was a bit of hyperbole, even for Mosaic. Whether he was the "most influential" ever is certainly open to question, but he was a superior pianist with a marvelous series of bands, and I'm hopeful it will be a great set. gregmo

This causes me to ponder again what a pity it was that the whole big box reissue boom ended before Prestige did a proper Gene Ammons box. gregmo

Clever!

Me too--I'm really looking forward to this set! gregmo