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Obviously of it's ten cds it will contain a lot of material not on the recent 3cd set from the period.

The liner notes to the first Lp on which he appeared (a Cohn-Sims record) doesn't even mention that he sings. Just discusses him as a new find on piano. I've seen him several times over the decades (including once when he opened for Van Morrison) and quite enjoyed him but I do think The Back Country Suite period is his best as a composer. (I'm as tired of hearing "Your Mind is on Vacation " on the radio as I am of hearing Krall sing "Peel Me a Grape". )

Got mine yesterday and listened to Mitchell in the car while I drove to LA this morning. Good stuff!

Given that they seem to be pretty good at obtaining musicians' rights maybe Uptown could release the Lester Young recordings.

Anyone know where and when these are from? There's also a great performance by her of "Didn't Rain" on youtube. Seems to be from a UK show.

Ditto.

I have my sound issues with that box. Jack the Bear is unlistenable. The first few discs in the box have a whistling sound near the end of each number-- apparently caused by noise-reduction. I'm sort of reluctant to mention this latter problem because I didn't notice it until someone on line pointed it out. Now of course it jumps out at me. Hope I'm not doing it to you. ( I didn't need anyone to bring the Jack the Bear sound issues to my attention.)

I just asked about this on on the Duke-lym list serve. It's very possible of course that the theater was just playing the Lp over their wound system while they sold popcorn during the intermission. And the theater may be have created the intermission themselves. I don't think the film was released with one.

?????? You mean there was intermission music on the film soundtrack a la "Lawrence of Arabia", or that the band was present?

Chuck: Don't be shy. Tell us how to order them.

Chuck: Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.

I purchased this cd from Amazon but it has no information on it except the names of some participants without saying what numbers they play on. I found out a fair amount by Googling but none that gave a session by session breakdown. BTW I got this because of a mention in the booklet from the new Mosaic Armstrong. It referred to "Yes Suh" with Pee Wee Russell and Red Allen. They do play on most of the cuts though Pee Wee is on tenor for many of them. From my Google search I see that there was once a cd from Collectors' Classics under Billy Banks's name that contained most of this material but I presume it's oop.

This set grew on me disc by disc. (Wasn't that nuts about disc 1 the first time through.) A question: Some sessions have multiple alternate takes but many have none. Am I correct in presuming that a couple of takes was normal for each number but that the alternates for some session just aren't extant? Just how devastating the Universal fire was can been heard in the crackle's and pops on the numbers from the last 3 sessions where the original sources were apparently destroyed. But there's no mention of lost source material for the June 14 '38 session and that seems to me to have the worst sound. Any thoughts on why?

Happy B'day and many more!!!!!!!

What's Miles DAvis Live Vol 2?

Is this a legit site? I guess it's advertiser supported. Are there other Uptown releases there?

As usual I'm confused. I can't find the other thread! Happy B'day anyway!!!!

IIRC there was a two disc Lp Wilson set released in Canada in the late '60s or early '70s with a few of the Billie sides but most of the cuts instrumentals.

IIRC there was a two disc Lp Wilson set released in Canada in the late '60s or early '70s with a few of the Billie sides but most of the cuts instrumentals.

Actually Losin lists the guitarist as "unknown". Since you've done the research why don't you do something constructive and e-mail him so that he can update the discography. He's happy to do so.

I'd like a Mosaic of the Ellington too, but if you have the Sony set and track down a couple of Ivie Anderson cds you'l have almost everything Duke released on Columbia in that period. (Of course then you need the RCA box and the Decca set to be nearly complete. )

Speaking of Ben Webster has this been posted before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQVVLAO-9LU...player_embedded Ben seems to be crying after Teddy Wilson's solo. One of the comments on Youtube claims that he had just been told of the death of Johnny Hodges-- though the beauty of Wilson's solo is enough to bring tears to the eye.

I did some research: For those who want to try to find them: Bird with Woody Herman is on a Drive cd, the live McShann plus a lot of other live Bird with McShann is on a Stash cd. The Kenton and Buckner only seem to be available on Philology or The Bird Box. Lover Come Back To Me with Tony Scott at 18minutes is on one of the Ember Cafe Society discs but according to Peter Losin's on-line discography Lowe does not play on it.

I have a couple of these on cd. Do you mind telling us what cds they're all on or if they are?

I'm confused (I'm often confused)about the Birdland material. I have a 4 disc box set on Ember. People keep writing about 2 volumes. Also, though the Ember box claims to be complete I haves a vague memory that Ember also released a cd of some more Birdland material plus some from Cafe Society. Anyone have that one?