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Wow. I think it was still listed as a pre-order yesterday. In fact this whole grouping seems to have been removed from pre-order now.

Singles! Are they shipping the Ellington?

I've had Cambridge surround systems for the last 20 years and am quite happy with them. Must admit however that I haven't bought anything new for the last couple of years and I have a (perhaps unsubstantiated) feeling that they have gone a bit down hill since Henry Kloss died.

HJappu b'day!!! And many more.

You guys are probably all too young to remember Muggsy Spanier singing Party Doll.

I once heard him described as somone who threw better when he was on his knees than any other third baseman in history.

I've googled it and skimmed the entry in Wikipedia but haven't read anything that suggests it offers better sound. Am I missing something and do I need to read more? (I have noticed that HD does not stand for High Definition and has nothing to do with HD TV-- which I love.)

Indeed, he did! Jack Lewis was the A&R man behind many of Victor's best jazz releases from the fifties. Yes, he did supervise the Jazz Workshop series, but judging by the nature of much of his less adventurous work for RCA, I think he essentially just OK'd the JW projects (for which he certainly deserves credit). The musical supervision, I'd bet, was pretty much in the hands of the respective composers-leaders: George Russell, Hal McKusick, et al. Again, I wouldn't mind having full access to the RCA/Jack Lewis jazz catalogue of the time and being able to pick and chose, but there was IMO an air of routine to the typical RCA date of the Lewis era. And when there was some welcome focus and spark, as on the Cohn-Perkins-Kamuca album, I suspect it came from the musicians taking things in their own hands far more than from Lewis. Another way to look at it is that the RCA/Lewis material was essentially a byproduct of the relatively flush NYC recording studio scene of the mid-1950s, when guys like Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, Al Cohn, Nick Travis, Barry Galbraith, Bernie Glow, Billy Byers, Manny Albam, etc. were playing in and/or writing for a floating studio big band that found itself in whole or in part in recording studios on dates of all kinds as often as 16 or more hours a day. Thus an air of the routine was almost inevitable when those guys assembled, though it could be broken through. I would say that the vast majority of the guys who recorded for RCA were drawn from that pool of musicians, with the exception of actual Basie-ites like Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Henry Coker, etc., and the West Coast people that RCA recorded (who were of course drawn from the LA equivalent to the NYC studio scene -- though I don't know if Lewis was the A&R man for the West Coast material). As I remember it you can add Phil and Quill to that list of the NY studio guys; but I thought they did a lot of good stuff. Funny how in his autobiography (Bass Lines-- basically a great photo book) Hinton complains that he didn't get to play on many jazz dates.

Yes, it is essential.

I'm not a fan, but I get a little tired of the Oscar bashing that goes on. However I gotta say that Kelly's playing on this tour is nearly as strong as Coltrane's. He really stepped up to the challange. Miles is of course great, but he doesn't seem to me to have responded to Coltrane the way he did later to Shorter, Hancock and Williams.

The Third Man is my favourite film of all time. I highly recommend a book about the film entitled "In Search of the Third Man" by Charles Drazen. Just watched one of the 3 Criterion versions of Mr. Arkadin. Am curious to compare it to the other 2. Also rewatched the Criterion version of Renoir's wonderful French Cancan. Both films had intros by Peter Bogdonovich who I then saw on the Sopranos Sunday night.

Does one of these cds have the song that Gil Evans arranged?

i don't care too much for studio chatter usually, but in such a case it might actually help to nail down whether it really was Coltrane??? (depending on who chatters what) How did you find this on the Losin site? Does he have a Trane discography I can't find?

Duke Ellington-- though many of the releases were years or even decades after the performances.

I thought he said "I get it" too, but my wife assures me that usual I was wrong. She does have better ears than me.

The 1936 film version also had some pretty good songs that were written especially for it. More important it has Helen Morgan and Irene Dunn as well as Robeson.

I was organizing an old pile of film score cds people had sent me when I came across this. The score is by Howard Shore with a few Ornette compositions but Ornette plays on nearly every cut! Did this get much notice in the jazz community when it was released? I mean where else can you hear Ornette playing a Monk composition?

Are they higher quality sound or just DRM free?

Itunes has gotten wise to this and usually you can't download all the tracks if the album is shorter than 10 tracks. I imagine it will be the same here. I think it sucks -- one of many reasons I do almost no business with Itunes and do all my downloading with eMusic. I haven't found that on iTunes, and can think of numerous examples where records with less than 10 cuts cost 99 per cut (though you might have to get the whole record). However they often don't allow the download of long cuts unless you buy the whole record. (Though I just bought Prez's longest recorded solo for 99 cents-- all nine minutes of it. )

I checked the Disney Hall (Philarmonic) website and couldn't find any mention of this. Also not listed in the Bowl's schedule. Does the Bowl season even go into September?

It may be missing something but what is there smokes! Art's tone is harsher than on earlier recordings with which I'm familiar but I've never heard him play with so much passion-- and he was always passionate. George Cables is just great.

Thanks everyone. I seem to have everything except some of the alternative takes and Chasin' the Bass. Can anyone tell me what session it's from?

Thanks Chuck. You're right, I don't think the Chaloff is there. I presume it had everything from Blue Serge, Boston Blow Up and Fable of Mable. Was there anything else? I've got those plus a compilation called "We the People Bop". Am I Missing anything? (I've also got the Uptown but it's a live recording.)

I tried searching but can't seen to find the the right key words. I'll try again. Any suggestions?

Is there some way to get the discographies from oop Mosaic sets on-line?