Stompin at the Savoy

Disk 5 track 22 is Call me Darling with Thelma C. I think Fred has it right. Keep in mind that what you see on the player probably reflects the entry in Gracenote database which it picked up when you inserted the disk. I noted that there are multiple gracenote entries for some of the disks. I ended up changing the metadata for some disks because what came up had an 'album artist' of V-disk All Stars but other disks did not (I ended up deleting all those album artist entries in the song info). With collections that have multiple artists I always set it up to display the box with one head entry and then disk numbers show up in the track listing. Like this:

Here is the quote in question. I think it is likely Janak meant the 15 records or 30 sides all together had 40-60 tunes.

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I came across this album. It's Andy Kirk with a bunch of musicians playing Kirk's old 1930s Clouds of Joy hits in 1957. This is interesting because I've been getting into Kirk, Mary Lou Williams and Clouds of Joy but particularly because of the musicians on it. It's a lot of the same players as MS-027 Mosaic Select: Al Cohn, Joe Newman & Freddie Green, including Frank Rehak. I love that Select so when I saw this I really wanted to hear it. It does not seem to be available to stream anywhere so I ended up ordering a used copy which will arrive in a few days.

Well, my copy arrived today and I got it all ripped to lossless files and listened to the Basie stuff, which is about an hour and 22 minutes, and the Lionel Hampton section, which is 30 minutes. I have nothing to compare besides public domain sources on the internet but the sound does seem quite excellent here. The content is, as you know, splendid.

I grew up with bound 78 albums around the house but I haven't been counting those as box sets.

I didn't own it but this (or possibly a version of it with master takes only?) was the first multi-disk set I got interested in. A friend in grad school owned it and I first heard it in autumn 1976. What an ear-opening experience that was! Since then I have had cassette tapes, single cds, japanese cd set, complete savoy and dial cd box, etc.

Yeah, this is good.

I like Lady Gaga's contribution, which is a little more subtle:

They decided they had to kill the center in order to save it. 😒

I have no idea if this new song will move anybody. I couldn't get through to the end of it but that's just me. I do think that many musicians and artists beginning to use their voices and platforms to advance a cause can move the dial. It's a form of cultural solidarity.

Season 4 of "Munch" on PBS Passport.

Did you check the status of your order on the Mosaic website? Sometimes the email notifications get lost.

I didn't buy the Basie Roulette Studio box when it came out. Later I became a big Basie fan and searched a long time for a copy. It was pretty expensive but you are right, it's glorious. For months after I got the Roulettes I played little else. The first Basie I bought from Mosaic when it came out was the Verve/Clef box. Eventually I had to have them all. Plus the Savoy Sessions. And this new V-Disk set...

I want to like this new tune about Minneapolis and I think I am in sympathy with his viewpoint here - some crazy shit happening. But somehow I have never quite 'got' Bruce Springsteen. Then again most pop music doesn't do much for me.

I can't quite remember which was the first box set I got. It might have been the John R. T. Davies set of Louis Armstrong's Hot 5's and 7's. I remember being blown away by the big Andrew Hill Mosaic, which was probably the first of those. The Columbia set of Miles Davis 2nd quintet studio albums was also a memorable early box set, which I remember unexpectedly finding very cheap at Costco.

Yeah, too much at once is over-stimulation and I don't have enough time to digest it. It's like rushing through a huge museum and at the end you feel exhausted and can't really remember much. If a set has recognizable albums I'll usually listen to an album, repeat a few of the tunes that I liked and then put it aside for another day. Sometimes, like recently with the Bob Crosby set which turns out to be really engaging, I listen to one disk per day and repeat some items. That Basie Roulette Live set is great! Desert island stuff.

Yeah, that's true. Oftentimes the individual cds would be more expensive. And in some cases the box set is the only practical way to get the music.

Over the years I've taken to buying a lot of box sets. I have individual cds too but somehow I seem to have plunged for the big sets quite often. In the beginning I would just play the disks one by one and maybe look at the discography a bit. Later I decided to rip everything to hard drives and other storage and play everything on computers and other devices. I used to be an IT database and systems guy so I just treat my music the way I used to handle data and have backup scripts etc. This arrangement means I can break up the box sets into digital playlists. Whenever a set has lp size albums on it, I break them out into single album playlists. I usually add a number in the playlist name (and sometimes a set abbreviation) so that the playlists for the albums in each set sort and show up in chronological order. There is a significant amount of curating work in doing all this and some might ask wouldn't it be easier to just buy the individual albums? No answer for that. I guess I just like the completeness of having the sets. Mosaics and some others have good sound, I suppose... How do you approach listening to these box sets and what do you think of the whole box set thing?

I just finished this. I found the first third or so, which covered her life up until she left the Clouds of Joy, pretty interesting. As it continued the writing deteriorated and took on a repetitive quality. It went on and on about Mary's efforts to get the Catholic church to let her stage religious works in church. I don't find her religious works as interesting as her jazz work so I ended up rapidly skimming a lot of that. This is an interesting subject but the book is not terribly well written. I have another bio of Williams, Morning Glory, on order. https://archive.org/details/soulonsoullifemu0000kern/mode/2up

I have quite a backlog of new stuff and am just getting around to this one. Listened to the first disk yesterday. I like it more than I expected to. Pretty swinging stuff. Bob Zurke! Sound is good.

https://flashbak.com/cab-calloways-hepsters-dictionary-a-guide-to-the-language-of-jive-1938-378657/

USPS acknowledges receiving the package and gave a delivery date of monday. Looking forward to it. Meanwhile on with my Freddie Hubbard Mosaic and Chron Andy Kirk festivals!

Playing the 1996 Connoisseur after reading another thread about Jutta Hipp documentary.