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Amazon is now listing vol 21 for shipping in September.

Max Beckmann show at the St, Louis Museum of Art.

So far I agree with Loren Schoenberg's comment that the only alternate that might be considered equal to the original release is "Boogie Woogie". He presumes that the alternate take of "Lady" is the second take and writes "it sounds as though he (Lester) had already said what he had to say". Not s sure of the order of the takes-- hard to believe that they thought they'd need another one after the one we're all familiar with but maybe they always did two to have a backup.

The Hajdu book shone a welcome light on Strayhorn but he was wrong to imply that Ellington never gave Strays credit. I have many, many concert recordings where Ellington names Strayhorn as the composer of the numbers he wrote. I like Hajdu's writings, but he's not one to let nuance get in the way of a good story.

Just playing 1st disc (the Sony one). I already had all but six of these cuts and I've got most of the rest of the whole set, but the sound is great, the packaging lovely and the music as beautiful as ever. What I've read of Loren Shoenberg's notes has added to the pleasure.

The Eagle has landed! Number 0184.

Has this been discussed before?: I just learned about it on a Duke Ellington Facebook group. I thought it was eye-opening. Coltrane's solo on the first cut reminds me of something he might have played with Monk. He's not very interesting on Castle Rock (so much for those who dismissed him as a honker-- he's not a very good honker). In a Mellow Tone suggests his early style with Miles was fully formed a year or so before he first joined the quintet. BTW Which forum should this be on? Broadcasts?

The Sony logo is featured. I don't even hear Wayne (but he gets credit as an arranger). Most featured is McLaughlin. It's two dates and I don't hear two basses so I think Cox was on one and Brooks on the other. BTW I've been enjoying this.

Mine's "out for delivery"!

Great!

Lucky you! Mine's not scheduled to arrive till Thursday.

So this morning I got a notice saying it would ship in a couple of days! But UPS says it's left Secaucus.

But they are different sessions?

Wasn't that the name of his first Sackville record?

And now I've had a shipping notice. We'll see how long it takes UPS to get something across the country. And it's in Secacus!

BTW The collection also contains a couple of tracks of Hawkins' playing Body and Soul a few months before he recorded it for RCA. I listened to one that was quite a bit longer than the record and it was great.

I didn't get a shipping notice but my credit card has been debited. My breath is very bated.

There's still some duplication and I think some of it has been available from different sources. Did you find anything by the BG sextet with Christian?

There's also a jam session with Fats Waller and Pee Wee Russell.

Well I'm not that familiar with Goodman but he was pretty good in the jam session.

I spent a couple of hours at the NJMH yesterday and ran into Loren who reiterated that he thought there'd be some releases soon. I spent most of the time listening to the collection. Biggest treat was a jam session with Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson and Jo Jones. I hadn't realized that the collection wasn't of entire shows but rather of separate song selections that Savory chose to keep. There seem to be only a few entire programs.But from what I heard I'd say he had very good taste. BTW of the 1100 or so items, 400 are by Benny Goodman. But there's lots of Basie, Fats Waller and even Louis Jordan. Sound quality varies from item to item.

I quite like it and it has one song (On the Wrong Side of the Railway Track) I'd never heard anywhere else.

She also did a session with Gil Evans, so worked with both Gil and Bill.

They did a great 2 Lp compilation called "Black California" (included Art Pepper!). Don't think it ever came out on cd.

Digital versions are often more expensive than the the hard copies if there's a sale price on the atoms (vs bites). True of books sometimes too. On the other hand, digital versions of music albums often allow you to buy (some) cuts separately.