Stompin at the Savoy

I am in the minority on this but to me the cd is packaging or delivery system. I no longer think of recordings as cd's. What really matters to me are the files on the cd. The first thing I do when I get a cd is to rip the files to my hard drive and copy to backups. The cd itself is just another form of backup for me. Having been read once, the cd goes in pristine shape to a storage unit.

Jim Hall? Joe Pass? Tal Farlow? Kenny Burrell? Howard Roberts? Barney Kessel and Johnny Smith could be considered bop but had long careers post-bop.

Really? That doesn't seem right to me.

They did issue Up at Minton's, which has some nice jazz playing by Green.

I think it's putting it a bit strong to say Blue Note "tainted" jazz history. They put Grant Green on a lot of records. This was a record label. They made all sorts of decisions based on presumed profitability, personal esthetics, budgetary considerations, etc etc. We cannot hold them criminally responsible for this or that decision about what and whom to release. They gave musicians opportunities. In some cases, yes, they failed to extend opportunities that in retrospect seem regrettable.

Presto has the set in four pieces, each of which corresponds exactly to two disks from the original set. $26 each for cd quality and I think $20 for mp3. (Always better to get the cd quality imo). Depending on which cds you already have you might be able to get the rest of the set by buying three downloads. The discography is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20120303081131/http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.asp?number=251-MD-CD&price=$136.00&copies=8 CDs

Our access to music 50 or 60 years ago was limited. It was not really possible to have as many records then as today. For one thing it depended on what your local record store had in stock. No internet stores and no streaming. If you wanted to listen to new music without buying it you had to listen to whatever your favorite radio stations happened to be playing. There was no way to listen on demand except perhaps at some record stores. Naturally as a kid I listened to the few records I had over and over.

I reluctantly settled for cd quality downloads of the Coleman Hawkins set from Presto. I checked it out a bit on spotify and got tired of those ads. Enjoying the set. It covers so much time and development in the music.

With arrangements and several compositions by Bill Holman.

Just realized I don't have that and downloaded the flac files from Presto. $7. Excellent! Cover art: https://musicbrainz.org/release/74215367-4638-4c0d-8e84-5a2323c7cd18/cover-art

This is pretty great stuff. Many of the same arrangements were also done with Terry Gibbs, also very good stuff.

I never went but friends have told me that Dead concerts had a festival-like quality and there was a whole hippy trip and marketplace going on around the concerts. I've never been able to understand the attraction of the music. Much of a muchness.

I think I have most or all of this on single cds but I ordered it, as I did the Henderson, Clarke etc. I like getting it all with the Mosaic treatment.

Oh goody, I like this series very much! Sound is good, consistent approach. We were just getting to a lot of the best stuff in the mid and late 30's and then the monthly releases stopped.

Dalgliesh. This is one of the best British detective series in a long time.

I buy a lot of books, new and used. If I can find something as an ebook I will get the ebook because my eyesight is poor and I like reading text blown up large on a good sized screen. No ebook - buy new or used. For me buying books is like buying music cd's and downloads: I do it habitually and shop quite a bit. Other people put money into cars, motorcycles, boats, houses, etc. I buy books and records. Of course it's too much to keep it all in my house so I have a storage unit. Am I crazy? Probably.

Back around 1995 I was just getting into Mosaic sets. I had bought the big Andrew Hill set and one or two others. I called up Mosaic to order the Serge Chaloff cd set but was told it was sold out. So I ordered the Lee Morgan 50's set instead. The other day I came across the Serge Chaloff set for about what it would have cost new and purchased it. It arrived today and I am on the second disk. Really enjoying it!

Very sad to hear this and grateful to Michael Cuscuna.

If you look around in Chrome you'll find Bookmark Manager. Look around in there and you'll find Export Bookmarks. Click it. It will create a file, a piece of html. Click the file and it will come up in whatever browser with all of your bookmarks listed as clickable links. Do this every now and then and you will never be worried about losing your bookmarks.

Would love to find a cd copy of this. Unfortunately the clip above has a few skips. Snowden was leader of the Washingtonians before the Duke took over. Here playing with stride pianist Cliff Jackson.

Here's the booklet for the set: https://www.fremeaux.com/img/cms/Livret 32P Duke at his very Best FA5869.pdf (scroll down for English)

It's the first 8 tunes on disc 6 of the Herman Capitol Mosaic. Giving it a spin.