Big Beat Steve

Must have been a lot of Bluebirds. The reissues on French RCA (Black & White series) ran to two 5-LP boxes plus a full 23 individual LPs. Just checked these Bluebird twofers out on Discogs. I cannot consciously recall having ever seen them in shops over here at the time, contrary to those on many other swing bandleaders. Maybe the existence of the monumental series of the French RCA Black & White reissues left no place for them?

So I suppose you do not have any other plans for the weekend than to bury yourself next to your CD player, right? Enjoy!

I wonder how many airshots released for the first time in this set also figure in the listings in this chronicle of listening to swing on the radio: https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Era-Scrapbook-Teenage-1936-1938/dp/0810854163/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529479502&sr=8-1&keywords=swing+era+scrapbook

If I got Larry Kart right I understand this to mean there was too much talk about HOW great the music is instead of analyzing WHY it is so great. Like Larry said - those who read the liner notes already HAVE the set so do not need to be sold on it - contrary to what the average sales blurb on the back of many LPs was intended for. Anyway ... one more reason to look eagerly forward to receiving the set. Lots of explorations to be done, including in the notes. That aside, I guess there can be times when liner notes just aren't quite what they usually are with a given collector's label that has set high standards. Compared to the explorations of every bit of historical details not easily accessible or not documented at all before that Uptown often managed to come up with in the booklets of many other releases, I for one find the notes to the Illinois Jacquet/Leo Parker rather a superficial hack job, for example. Those who buy such a specialist relase on this specialist label no doubt are aware of the key biographical details of the featured artists.

For a moment I was considering asking everybody who's going overboard in their praises here to PLEEEEZE have mercy on us overseas buyers who yet have to wait for a couple weeks more for the set to show up at our doorsteps, given overseas shipping lead times. BUT - your comment on the liner notes (coming from a pro in the field) has me wondering ... What happened in your opinion? Someone ran out of superlatives before writing the actual notes to THIS set? Newly discovered recordings too difficult to work into a reevaluated assessment of the featured artists' bodies of work of this period? Didn't the download instalments inculde "liner" notes too? Do they differ markedly form what's included here? In what direction? If so, I wonder why ... But coming to think of it, all this AGAIN raises the curiosity and anticipation to be be able to check for yourself. So nothing gained - and one MORE reason in fact to itch for the set to arrive ... oh well ...

Who "guys"?

Just to underline the appeal of Jimmy Smith at the time, if the record reviews in early 60s copies of the Bulletin du Hot Club de France are anything to go by, Jimmy Smith was one of those jazzmen commonly ranked under "modern jazz" that even inveterate anti-bop moldy fig Hugues Panassié really approved of (Erroll Garner was another one, BTW).

You have the entire series? I only grabbed Vol. 5 (The Rich-R-Tone Story) when the batch was available at a really affordable price here at a record fair long ago and regret not having picked up the others. Though I must admit I wouldn't pay big money for these (not that they wouldn't be worth it to aficionados, but to me they are more of a "nice to have" side line).

Cannot say that I am a fan and don't follow it closely (within the limits of what you can AVOID reading and seeing about it here in the media at all) but I must say it is highly interesting to see how this (Association) Football World Championship is being commented on here from all around the globe. Fascinating and entertaining, so keep it up, everybody ...

Exactly. Which is why I find it rather annoying when record stall holders (happens rarely with shop employees these days, admittedly) ask me what I am looking for and give me an irritated (and at any rate dissatisfied) stare when I (politely and quietly) tell them "I can tell you when I see it". (Sometimes when I am in the mood I explain that I have widespread interests and might even be tempted by something that I just hapen upon unexpectedly or is in the back of my mind but not ready to be named offhand, and then at least one or the other understands and admits this is a sound approach).

Schmeichel, perhaps?

An endless subject ... Was he more evil than many other "celebs" who were not all that pleasant in their day-to-day dealings - in stark contrast to their artist image? Artists aren't per se better human beings in the way they act in their private lives. Hasn't it often been said that in the end you cannot really avoid separating the artist (and his work) from the person? Otherwise, where would things end up if we all were to stage posthumous "Weinstein revisited" campaigns on whomever for whatever reason? Would we discard our Dizzy Gillespie records, for example, because Valerie Wilmer must have found him rather evil too after certain things that happened?

What makes you think so? She was on Kenton reecording sessions on Feb. 11, 1953 April 8, 1953 May 25, 1953 Reissued often ... https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Connor/Connor_preBeth.php

Oh you know, bumping the thread to keep it at the top of the list isn't the worst of things after all ...

Seems like there's a huge outburst of "no sex please we're British" going on here

But note where this forum is based. Would "journals" suit you better 'cross the Channel?

I doubt that your copy has THAT logo in the upper right corner of the cover.

I have the following jazz magazines and periodicals for sale. Shipping from Germany is extra (at cost). Please contact me via PM if interested so we can work out the details. I would be wiling to ship worldwide at cost but due to the fairly steep overseas shipping rates I guess these offers will be mostly of interest to European collectors. JAZZ MAGAZINE (France) - 5 EUR each 1956 - no. 17 (April), 18 (June), 19 (July-August), 20 (September), 21 (November) 1961 - no. 68 (March) , 70 (May), 71 (June), 74 (September), 76 (November), 77 (December) METRONOME Yearbooks : 1954, 1955, 1956,1957, 1958 - 22 EUR each DOWN BEAT RECORD REVIEWS: Vol. III (all reviews of 1958), (final 2 pages and back cover missing but photocopies of pages supplied) - given the recent discussion of those Reviews yearbooks elsewhere on this forum, $35 including international shipping takes it DOWN BEAT magazine: June 30, 1948 - 7 EUR ESQUIRE'S JAZZ BOOK 1944: Hardcover (dust jacket tatty round the edges, otherwise clean copy) - 12 EUR BULLETIN DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE: Complete years 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 - 15 EUR per year (10 issues per year) JAZZER - DIE DEUTSCHE JAZZ-ZEITUNG: No. 8/August 1962 (short-lived obscure German jazz newspaper-type publication): 2.50 EUR ESTRAD (Sweden): April 1941, Sept/Oct/Dec. 1943, Feb. 1949, July 1950, October 1954, May 1956 - 3 EUR each ORKESTER JOURNALEN (Sweden) - 3 EUR each: 1946 - Jan., Feb. 1948 - December 1949 - September 1951 - October 1955 - June, July, Oct., Nov., December 1958 - Jan., March, April, May. June-July, Sept., Oct., December 1959 - Feb., March, April, May, June, July-August 1960 - full year 1961 - Jan., Sept., Oct., Nov., December 1962 - Jan., Feb., March, June, Sept, Oct., Nov., Dec. (back cover missing on these issues - photocopies can be provided - but otherwise in VG condition - copes with missing back cover 2.50 EUR each) 1964 - September (back cover missing) 1965 - June And some related stuff: CATALYST - The SUN Records Story (Colin Escott, Martin Hawkins, Aquarius Books 1975) - 8 EUR Thanks!

Actually I found my shipping confirmation from that WIlliam B. Meyer company (that Jazzbo mentioned above) in my inbox this morning., so it was mailed late on 6 June. Complet with tracking number (though a search under that no. does not give any details yet - probably too early). Anyway ... this is about as fast as one could reasonably expect from here.

Well, whaddaya know ... After having ordered last Friday (June 1), today (only three working days later) I received an initial shipping notice stating that my order has been forwarded to the warehouse and that they expect to get the item out within 2 to 4 working days. Very pleased! No matter where they may have been slow in the past, they certainly don't seem to lose time in processing the Savory orders ... So let's just keep our fingers crossed that the warehouse staff will be up to snuff too.

Thanks, Flurin. In fact I received a mail from Scott Wenzel yesterday within 8 hours of placing my order (excellent reactivity!). He confirmed reception of my order and payment and said the sets ordered now should ship in the course of next week. So I am keeping all my fingers crossed that things work out that way ...

You mean that "Trakin' " should actually read Treaclin' ?

A question probably more geared towards European forumists: During my recent holidays in Southern France I let myself be tempted at a local fleamarket and grabbed (well. hauled, really ... ) the LES GENIES DU JAZZ box set (issued by Atlas in c. 1991) at what likely was a giveaway price. The box set includes six books and a total of 96 CDs. 5 or 6 CDs from the set are missing but the price of 45 EUR for the entire lot still sounded like a steal. Of course I already have a huge chunk of the contents in my collection but the set includes several interesting live recordings by the featured artists that are not that common, and at some 0,50 EUR per CD (less than the price of a CD-R blank, not even counting the books) the others can go into the car player if needed. And from what I so far have read the texts in the books aren't that superficial or cliché-laden either. As for the missing CDs, I can do without most of them and but am wondering about Pee Wee Russell (Vol. III, no. 8) and Martial Solal (Vol. V, no. 8). I found the track listings on Discogs (although only about 40 out of the total are listed there, the others apparently never made it into offers on Discogs) and will have to check how much of the Pee Wee Russell contents would actually be new to me. But if any of you out there have any of these two, please drop me a PM. Thanks!

Was on vacation for 2 weeks and on my return I now see that the Savory set started shipping about a week ago. Good news ... I had delayed placing my order but as it still hasn't shown up on the Jazzmessengers site i placed an order directly with Mosaic this morning and paid through Papyal (geetting a bit anxious about this ... ) Do any of you who placed an order only recently have any personal experience to share of how long it would then take for the shipping notice to arrive (assuming that they process their pre-ordered items first, understandably ...). Just so I know how much patience will be needed until they say that the set has been shipped ...