Stompin at the Savoy

I have the Mosaic set with these performances but saw an inexpensive used copy on ebay and snagged it. Remastered by Malcolm Addey in 2007. Seems like this has a clearer image than the Mosaic; very lively, warm and clear.

I preordered with credit card and received the confirmation immediately. Check your spam folder if you don't see it.

I received it! Thanks so much. You did a great job of photographing those. My booklet is complete!

A device like she has there isn't much use to me. I'm trying to blow the text up on a large screen. That thing or a phone - the screen is so small that once I've blown up the text size I have to scroll all the time. So those are useless to me. I'm sure they are great for people with better vision than I have. Kindle on Ipad works ok for me in a pinch. The screen is big enough to work pretty well. I mainly use kindle with pc and monitor. OK, been derailing this too much so my final remarks on this topic: I think maybe we are talking about different things here. You are considering the kindle device and some issues surrounding the kindle/Amazon ecosphere. And there are significant issues, I'll allow. Of course you can always use the Kindle for PC reader independently of Amazon to read public domain books in kindle format from Gutenberg.org and elsewhere. From a PC point of view this is simply another format, like Adobe Acrobat. I am talking about accessibility. I am now in the 'large type' stage of life though I have never bought any large print books. I have found that I can turn any digital book into a large type book with the perfect size print to read without glasses by displaying them on a large monitor. I even photograph Mosaic booklets so I can read them blown up on a monitor.

Steve, Steve, Stevarino! This is not a battle of printed books against digital books! I'll be seventy in a few months and have been collecting paper books all my life. I have so many I have to keep most of them in a storage locker the size of a one car garage. Somebody saying that digital books can help people with visual issues is not a challenge to you and your decision to avoid them. Relax, ok? Nobody is trying to convert you. Remember the old saying: don't knock it if you haven't tried it?

I picked up the Django Reinhardt box on ebay the other day - $80, which is I think a pretty good price. But... I started enjoying the music and then discovered that the booklet was missing the first leaf after the cover, so pages 1 and 2 and 27 and 28 are missing. It looks like this was a promo or something because the serial number is "X". I've been able to obtain the discography on the last two pages of the booklet from Internet Archive old versions of the Mosaic website and I have the jewel case liner notes with more or less the same info. So I'm just curious about the first two pages. Anyone care to help me out with photos of pages 1 and 2? -edit: Ah never mind I guess those first two pages are just boiler-plate bio of Django etc. I'll live without it.

Well Steve, there are many advantages to having a book as a file rather than a printed copy. In my case, I had used progressive lenses for a few years and complained to my optometrist that it was awkward and uncomfortable trying to read through an aperture smaller than a dime at the bottom of the lenses (and having to move my head to scan the page like reading through a telescope) and asked if I could get reading glasses, whereupon he told me to buy dime store magnifying glasses. I used those for a while but I needed such strong cheaters that I was having to hold the book very close to my face and it was a jolt every time I had to look away from the plane of the book. Now I just blow up the text on a monitor to a size I can read comfortably without glasses. So it's useful for people with vision issues. But as someone else pointed out, ibooks allow you to carry thousands of books with you on a phone or tablet or kindle device (I still haven't bought a kindle device). Another great advantage is you can do things like rapid text searches through the book, which you can't do with print. In many cases the kindle edition of a book is far cheaper than the print version and in some cases the only practical way to obtain the book. Hundreds of thousands of books published before 1926 are available on Gutenberg.org for free. Paperless reading saves energy, reduces logging of forests, and reduces traffic. I could go on enumerating advantages but I think that's enough. It seems to me that your question - how do I turn electronic books into paper - misses the whole point of having electronic books. Printing electronic books negates the whole purpose of an electronic book. If what you want is a paper book, buy a paper book, don't buy an electronic book and then jump through awkward and expensive hoops to turn it into paper. This is kind of like complaining that using soap to clean your body doesn't allow you to reconstitute the dirt and put it back on your body!

Haha well I don't want to derail the thread but here is a suggestion: download the free kindle for pc software and install it. Go to Gutenberg.org and look around for a free book to read as a sample, such as a nice P. G. Wodehouse novel. See how it works for you. The whole exercise is totally free. A few years down the line it might change your life.

You might enjoy reading on Kindle as you get older if your eyesight deteriorates. I have to wear strong cheaters to read most hard-copy. Every time I look away from the book I have to remove the glasses to see. With Kindle I put it on a large monitor and bump up the fonts so I can read without glasses. It's great!

Verve released downloads in 2017: Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Decca Singles Vol. 1: 1935-1939 Featuring Chick Webb and The Complete Decca Singles, Vol. 2: 1939-1941. Are these the same material and mastering as the Mosaic set?

I've been listening a lot to the Shorty Rogers set which I recently obtained. But today I was thinking about this, which I bought new when it came out. I come back to it periodically and it grows on you. Tram, Bix, and Lang and Tea, oh yeah.

Something makes me wonder if that is even his signature!

I checked it out on youtube and liked it. The cd is not all that easy to find! Found a cd quality flac file on prestomusic for $7.50. Fun album.

https://archive.org/details/09-count-basie-musidisc-30-ja-5160_20210623_1346 This is a 1975 album on Musidisc with material from 1944-1945 called Super Count Basie. Never heard this before. Sound is goodish and some pretty great playing. Stream or download flac.

Couple more tips. Most of the time when you see albums on the Internet Archive the files are just 20 second samples. But sometimes they aren't! -This user on Internet Archive has posted some interesting files: https://archive.org/details/@chief_kurtz (scroll down!) -This query brings up postings with most of Duke Ellington on Chronological Classics: https://archive.org/search.php?query=chronological duke ellington&sin= which can be downloaded as flac files (some only mp3). As far as I know, Chronological Classics are/were a reprint series on material which is considered public domain in France. In other words Chronological Classics never owned any rights to this material. So I think it's probably ok to download these in order listen to the music as long as it's pretty old stuff and the players long deceased. I seem to end up buying more recent masterings of these once I get interested but this is a pretty good way to at least hear the music. Note - you can also get pretty much all of the Benny Goodman Chronological Classics volumes the same way.

Recent Blue Note 2 cd set.

Listening to this as I await the arrival of the recent The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66.

I like the way the Brownie Complete Emarcy Box is done. They seem to have decided to put one session or two closely related sessions per disc. So if that meant a disk with 44 minutes and others well over an hour, so be it. They were not trying to pack as much as possible into each disk but rather have disks represent sessions. I like this from a listening point of view. It's easy to follow who is playing - the different bands are segregated by disk. I also like lots of sets that are collections of original albums and have mini lp covers with the original artwork, such as those recent Columbia sets from Music on CD. The Mosaic sets are quirky and different and I love them. I generally rip the cd's to disk and photograph the booklets - very nearsighted and prefer blowing up the text and reading on a monitor without glasses. I do regret buying Lester Young, The Complete Aladdin Recordings, which is a 2 cd set. Only after I got it did I realize I had all of it (except for 2 tracks without Lester Young) on the 2016 Lester Young/Count Basie Mosaic set I have. Oops.

I don't know if this has been mentioned; been lurking a long time and don't think I've seen it. ==> https://musicbrainz.org/search On this site you can often find very complete cover art. You can search by release name, artist, label, etc. Once you drill down to the release you will see a cover art tab like this: https://musicbrainz.org/release/609a8d38-fbfc-46e7-9473-9baca2ddfed2/cover-art Check it out, great resource and includes many Mosaic booklets. You can just download the jpeg files! I find this very helpful for some Mosaic sets which are pricey: if I can find photos of the booklet on musicbrainz, then I'm very ok with downloading cd quality files from Qobuz or Presto. Here are a few more booklets: Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird and Victor Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/50f5326e-1986-4261-8acb-0f08df692e77 Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939–1958) https://musicbrainz.org/release/0b51e423-6110-4445-9b6d-02e7a595a1f8 Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/9c3f38c7-342b-4a2d-a160-6314abef8cf9/cover-art The Argo, Verve, And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions of oliver nelson https://musicbrainz.org/release/b456e37b-0506-4150-8693-8c8f595c554d/cover-art The Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/946c3804-cfd3-4a9e-93a5-653c724911b1/cover-art The Verve/Phillips Dizzy Gillespie Small Groups Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/609a8d38-fbfc-46e7-9473-9baca2ddfed2/cover-art The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings https://musicbrainz.org/release/28c2a16d-ce1c-4803-827c-74eb2b08ae33/cover-art The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/54b77fd0-118f-4337-a776-e56bc81edc67/cover-art The Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan Studio Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/4bce627c-0f4d-4e79-a122-c8dfdb547cf5/cover-art The Complete Blue Note Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Studio Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/cc1484c5-c59f-439c-8fe3-a10763ab1b3a/cover-art The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey https://musicbrainz.org/release/d6cd75d9-007d-4cb7-ab02-ae19944f77f0/cover-art The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/e9883574-788e-4dd5-9b84-909b571e92ff/cover-art The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions https://musicbrainz.org/release/7e0cf4e8-ca2d-4fc6-b519-dea789c6a82b Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945 https://musicbrainz.org/release/5cd94980-bd83-4638-a194-f4b44eaa5eb9/cover-art The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars https://musicbrainz.org/release/1f3ad4ea-004a-4ed5-b28c-a6375fb93e70/cover-art The Limelight / Verve Albums - roland kirk https://musicbrainz.org/release/3e914b5d-cbd4-4058-8279-bfd33268a2a0/cover-art The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966 https://musicbrainz.org/release/d2b5c59c-8d02-4428-b71a-950ec2431ce5/cover-art