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I'm going to test this right now. Hey it works!! I originally wrote "I'm ging to teste this right noww.

Maybe it's because the sets are out of print and the music is available elsewhere now but I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the Mulligan/Baker or Mingus on Candid sets.

I presume that the JSP set is not just a rip-off of the Mosaic. It should be a good price but if not and you just want to test the waters I wouldn't scoff at a greatest hits package. I used to have a good one from Telarc I think before I got the Mosaic set. The first volume of the Columbia gives you most of "the gretest hits" but not Davenport Blues or River Boat Shuffle. (They aren't on the Mosaic either.) Personally I wouldn't start with the Goldkette or Whiteman recordings. You gotta have Singing the Blues and In a Mist.

Is the Dragon release the one with the Trane interview? I thought it also had another take of So What with Trane.

I think it came out and was a 2 disc set which included some broadcasts from Cafe Society as well. But the original Ember 4 disc set of the Birdland material is amongst Bird's best. I'm curious: has anyone heard any Parker recordings they think are not worth having (for musical, not sound, reasons. ) Even the notorious Lover Man session on Dial has always seemed pretty interesting to me-- though maybe only for biographical reasons. If it were the only Bird available what would we think of him?

I guess I'm going to have to start using FireFox to access Organissimo.

I may have posted this earlier but a couple of months ago I was there! The Camarillo State Hospital has been turned into a college and I gave a seminar there. I made reference to Relaxin' at Camarillo and no one knew what I was talking about.

Which records supposedly had Gil Evans' arrangements on a couple of tracks?

Been listening to the music in my car for the last two days and just watched the documentary. Will watch the concert disc soon but it looks like a lot of the concert footage was excerpted in the documentary. Interesting how the music affects me differently when I see the perforance rather than just listen to it. BTW I met Ranni once. Had dim sum with Ron Mann and a bunch of other people. Were you by any chance there Adam?

Saw Dexter at LAX once. Looked great: Long Tall Dexter walking all alone with his sax case. Saw Anthony Braxton on the street in Paris, Charles Loyd on the beach in Santa Barbara and Charlie Haden at a restaurant with his son-in-law Jack Black but that was before a Keith Jarrett concert so does it still count? Similarly I've seen Horace Silver several times but always in the audience at musical events. .

Guess what I'm getting for Xmas!?

Wow. That's impressive. Thanks.

On the 1941 Metronome All Stars version of "One O'Clock Jump" Coleman Hawkins begins his solo with a 3 note repeated riff that shows up a few months later as the main theme of the Basie band's Feedin' the Bean with Hawkins sitting in. It's credited to Basie as composer but on The Hawk In HiFi it's called The Bean Stalks Again and is credited to Hawkins. Basie, of course, was on the Metronome All Star date. (Where they don't ever play what I-- perhaps wrongly-- have always thought was the main theme of One O'Clock Jump.) I don't really care who should get credit but I am interested in the source of the riff. Anyone know if appears anywhere earlier than Hawkins solo on the All Stars date?

Anybody hear the long story about Art Tatum on the NPR morning news show this am? On line it even has some complete performances: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6434701

Saw Lou Reed last night on the first stop of small Western tour (in fact Santa Barbara may be the biggest town on the tour!). He was accompanied only by 2 bass players one of whom was Rob Wasserman. I've never seen Reed before but I really liked the show. Do you think he's been influenced by Ornette? He did comment "Who needs a drummer?"

It still hasn't even made it to "Upcoming releases".

If someone was really willing to do all the work there might be a chance to score review copies. If I ever retire this would be a fun project.

Probably Cd Universe or Amazon but I do buy a lot of things I'm just a bit curious about from the iTunes store. When I'm in LA I do stock up at Amoeba.

Joyeux Anniversaire! And many, many, more.

My point about this is: I know of many, many reissues cancelled by US copyright owners 'cause the "cheapies" were issued. I can personally attest to 4 cancelled Uptown projects. All from far superior sources and extra material. I also know, from "industry sources" of projects cancelled by EMI, Sony/BMG and Universal. The "cheapness" deal was about inexpensive "Andorran" reissues and cheap JSP/Proper issues. What some may not consider is the US companies recording Armstrong, Morton, etc have some contractual obligations to the estates of the artists. The EU "50 year" folks and other outright thieves do not have this obligation/expense. Were any of these ever announced? And even if they were what are the chances they'd actually appear? If someone in Europe issues a reasonable sounding "A Drum Is a Woman" should I wait for Sony to bring out their version? I'm 63 years old. I probably won't be alive when that happens.

Seems to me there are 2 separate issues: one is the right of archives to make copies and the other is copyright in general. I presume everyone including Chuck thinks it's ok to copy music for archival reasons whether it's pd or not. And I doubt if any copyright holders would complain. This is just bureaucrats (and I hate using the word) following the letter of the law rather than the spirit. As to copyright in general: I like Chuck's idea of a compulsory license fee though I'm not sure I really understand it and the devil is in the details. And despite what Chuck writes, I don't buy the imports because they're cheap. I onlly buy them when the music isn't available from any other source. Sony's finally making some of their Ellington material available through Mosaic. But until recently you could only find much of it by buying the Classic series and those Chronogical cds are certainly not cheap.

I read it several years ago. It's idosynchratic and personal. In fact about all I remember from it are some of his personal anecdotes.

Thomas also wrote for some jazz magazines. Chilton's biography of Hawkins quotes from a piece he wrote about the session he led with with Hawkins.

On Oct. 19, 1944 Thelonious Monk made his first studio recordings in a group led by Coleman Hawkins. Four songs were recorded and they're all listed (on the 2 cds I have which contain them) as having been written by "Thomas". Is that Walter Thomas with whom Hawk recorded the week before? I can't find anything about the composer in the liner notes to either cd or in the bios I have of Monk and Hawkins. Holy shit I just put The Chronogical Classics cd in my computer while I was writing this and checked the Get Info on iTunes and it gave me the answer!! It listed Walter Thomas as the composer. (I don't suggest that the CCCG database or whayever is a reliable research tool. It definitely doesn't always give this information.)