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No one has commented on the quality of this set yet. Let me be the first: I'm really enjoying it; think it's great.

There was a good British saxophonist, Lol Coxhill, who busked in the streets of London a lot. I remember seeing him once playing soprano and being quite impressed. That was before I read about him. Joshua Bell once played outside a metro stop in Washington but that was for an experiment to see if anyone noticed how good he was. I don't think he needed the money.

I was interviewing Frank Zappa once when he was backstage with The Mothers and BS&T so began talking with the BS&T guys. They knew nothing about Satie, just thought it was a cool piece of music.

So I guess if there's no booklet there's no discussion of how Wes turns Ruby My Dear into Laura. Are they the same chord structure?

How about every recording of Gymnopedie No 1 played at once? http://disquiet.com/2016/01/15/brendan-landis-satie-gymnopedie-hey-exit/

I saw Lloyd with Frisell and it was like a Bill Frisell concert with CharlesLloyd as guest-- which was fine with me, I like them both.

I'm not sure you will ever need a 4 K unless you have a huge screen. But I've been wrong about this sort of thing before- I wasn't sure of the need for a Blu Ray until I A/B'd it with a DVD.

Thanks. IF it's been on Lp in Europe maybe it will show up on cd download over here.

I've read that Prez played in an all star group with Pee Wee Russell and Jack Teagarden at Newport in 1958. Does any know if this was recorded and if it is available officially or otherwise? Ok I did some on-line research and discovered that the following is at the Library of Congress? Buck Clayton, trumpet; Jack Teagarden, trombone; Lester Young, tenor saxophone; Pee Wee Russell, clarinet; Don Ewell, piano; Tom Bryant, bass; Jo Jones, drums. So it was recorded. Is it available?

They'd say I didn't know anything about opera and I'd say who gives a fuck, I know what I like.

Well opera often gets great reviews and many of my friends love opera but I don't like it . But I also don't feel a need to tell them they're wrong.

Am I the only old white man who thinks it's not my job to tell young Black people what they should be playing or listening to?

I think a lot of this discussion can be summed up as "Hey you kids stop playing on my lawn." And I've never even heard The Epic, so I'm completely objective.

How does he compare to Aldo Ciccolini? (Who 50 years ago was Satie's greatest champion.) BTW If you like Satie, I just discovered that Rene Claire's "Entr'acte" with music by Satie is on Youtube. For many years I could only find it without music and even attempted to sync it up with a record myself.

The pictured cd includes only the first half of the concert. (As I unfortunately found out after I bought it.) This one contains the whole concert and though I think the first half is the best half it's all good.

Pearl Jam

A couple of years ago Terry Zwigoff told me that Amoeba was offering to digitize his entire 78 collection and put it on line. At the time I wondered why but I just discovered that they sell digital downloads from 78s (not sure that these are from Terry's collection). I presume that the ones they sell are all pd, but who knows. They offer 3 different formats at different prices for those who want higher fidelity. I don 't know how to search them except by title or artist so I don't know how many they offer but if you're in the market for some rare old recording..... (BTW I discovered this when I Googled The Harlem Strut.)

I ordered mine on December 29th and nevertheless got No 00006! (I hope that doesn't mean only 6 people ordered it before me. ) BTW Mosaic says it's everything from the period controlled by Sony and I guess it is, but I have a CBS cd entitled "From Ragtime to Jazz: The complete Piano Solos (1921-39) and it includes The Harlem Strut from 1921 which is not on the Mosaic. Probably because it was recorded for Black Swan which is probably pd rather than owned by Sony. Even that CBS cd's subtitled may be a bit misleading since it doesn't include the flip side of Harlem Strut.

I've been trying to find this for years.

This sounds great. Wish I was there.

I always liked him but wasn't a huge fan. Despite that I did see Ziggy Stardust at The Rainbow in London with Roxy Music as the opening act. I also once saw his mentor Lindsay Kemp perform Wilde's Salome and that was amazing as well as giving insight into Bowie.

Right you are. How weird that the seller is Amazon.

I think they've caught it. It's back to $43.

I saw her do this show and quite liked it. I was in the first row because a friend who had a series ticket couldn't go. Not sure it's jazz but it's definitely entertainment.

Wolfgang's Vault has a few Mingus concerts but this one from The Jazz Workshop in Boston 10/12/72 is particularly interesting because it has a composition I've never seen anywhere else: "Blues for a Saw". (The vault lists it as an "unknown title", I got the name from a listener's comment. The vault also listed Billie's Bounce as unknown.)