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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

"Kenton Plays Wagner" But you'll have to find it on LP because, to my knowledge, it's never been reissued on cd. gregmo

From me too--a happy, jazzy holiday to you all! gregmo

I'm with you there--loved those print catalogues, and like you, often found some interesting things there. gregmo

If I had *very little* Charlie Parker, I'd spring for the box set, "Bird: Charlie Parker, the Complete Masters, 1941-54" put out by Universal. All the early McShann solos, all the Dials, Savoys, Guilds, Musicrafts, Verves (masters, not alternates) are there with what sounds to these ears like good sound and a pretty good booklet. And when I last Iooked, Amazon sellers had it at just under $42.00. gregmo

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I seldom (ever??) disagree with Lon, but this reminds me of some students I've had who wrote badly. When I corrected their papers, they objected, arguing that they should have "artistic license." I told them that a license was something you had to earn. Only once you'd mastered the essentials could you take liberties with them. I've always felt the same about music. I don't always like the later stuff that Miles and Trane did, but I can respect it because I know that they knew what they were doing. They had earned the license.

My heart goes out to Mr. Greene. I have three young grandchildren, and every time I watch reports about this dreadful tragedy, I break down into tears--and that hasn't happened to me on a news story in many, many years. It is just so, so awful. The president spoke exactly the words I would have chosen, and with exactly the same degree of emotion.