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Gloria Estefan (& Miami Sound Machine?) night this week. This will be interesting - quite a few of my fav. songs from the 80s. Wonder what Jon Steven's will sing? It'll certainly be a roar if he does Conga.

I've not heard her singing but this Cole Porter album gets a fair number of good reviews. There's also a CD released on the Audiophile label (GHB Jazz), "Echoes of My Life", with the Loonis McGlohan Trio. The recording was made in the late 70s/early 80s. You may want to check these out.

Added a few more Blue Note/EMI releases: Lee Morgan - Last Sessions Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Freedom Rider Ben Webster - The Holland Sessions I grabbed the Morgan album in spite of poor reviews and based on a listen to the first 3 songs, it really does deserve better ratings, IMO. A couple of titles from Jazzology: Eddie Condon - Town Hall Concerts Vol.10 This is Jazz, Historic Broadcasts Vol.1 GHB Jazz Foundation's (of which Jazzology is 1 of 9 labels) catalogue of 500+ 'trad-jazz' titles is mind-boggling to say the least. Lots of good stuff by musicians such as Wild Bill Davison, Art Hodes, Tony Parenti and Kid Thomas to be acquired from them. Not to mention more recently recorded trad-jazz albums.

I haven't heard any of these albums for a good 4 - 5 years now but I'd say I was totally captivated by E.S.P and Nefertiti when I first heard them.

Count me in for that lobby.

Well well well. William Hung's CD is a top 1000 best seller at Tower Online. Ain't that great!

Thanks for all the information. Glad I bought none of the earlier box sets. Now I can indulge.

I recall Thelma doing some numbers on Count Basie's mid-40s radio transcriptions (available on the Hep and Hindsight labels). There's also an album, Herman Chittison with Thelma Carpenter which I'm not sure is still available. There's a list of albums/recordings in which she appears here. Hope that helps.

"Good Night" has to be it - literally puts you to sleep. "What Goes On" is another candidate.

My top 3 in no order would be: 1. I Still Believe - Brenda K. Starr 2. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House 3. Fight Fire with Fire - Metallica (would rank Battery and Damage Inc up here too) This thread brings back all those memories... -_-

Thanks Lonson for the info. Any comments on the Joe Venuti big bands also on JSP? Thanks.

Four Freshmen set selling at discount, about $127, at Tower Online (part of their "Blue Note" sale).

A few more sets to consider: Louis Armstrong - Big Band Recordings 1930-32, 2CD (JRT remaster) Joe King Oliver & His Orchestra - 1929-30, 2CD (JRT remaster) Henry Red Allen & His New York Orchestra - 1929-30, 2CD (JRT remaster) Mills Brothers - 1930s Recordings, 5CD Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, 5CD Big Joe Turner - 1938 - '52, 5CD Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - 1920/30s, 2CD (JRT remaster. Not sure if this overlaps material on the Mosaic set and if so I would go for the latter, price notwithstanding) A few more releases I haven't bought such as Django in Rome and the Hoagy box set should be worth exploring. I generally stay away from these sets if the recordings have already released by 'legit' labels such as Mosaic, and I would certainly avoid the outright rip-offs such as the Bunny Berigan set.

Scott of Mosaic has confirmed that the JJ set is 'safe' from the Running Low list at least until well into 2005 (barring a sudden big surge in sales or unforseen licensing issues cropping up). So, no need to hit the panic button just yet.

I'll bet it'll sell more copies than most RVG reissues.

FWIW, it's even rated! Maybe the guy planned it all along - the 'horrendous' singing and actions. He knew he couldn't compete with the rest, so he'd play it on his own terms. So far, it's worked! Now gotta go listen to some 'rough jazz' ala Kid Thomas to get rid of that rendition of 'she bangs' from the brain.

Barry Manilow night this week ?!@# Bring back Sir Elton.

Buddy Bolden ...if only he had recorded just a handful Joe King Oliver Booker Little Another vote for Clifford Brown. One could always turn to the unofficial Philology series I suppose.

May be a moot point for some. One thing Mosaic booklets lack is a page or 2 dedicated to original album or record cover art. The Selects rectify this, to an extent.

I have all of early Manone on the Collector's Classics label. There is plenty of excellent music played by a long list of top musicians associated with the 'trad-jazz' idiom. The sound quality is quite good for recordings of the era and should be even better on the Mosaic discs (as confirmed by jazzbo). Can't speak for the Louis Prima since I don't have any of his recordings. Based on the Manone material alone, it's a very worthy addition to a jazz collection and I'm sure looking forward to getting the set, even though there'll be many duplicates.

Thanks for the info. alejo.

I never heard any of this music before. Wonder if this box makes a good introduction?

Is this also true for CDs? Thanks.

I woulda thought Deep Purple's "Highway Star" or "Speed King" or Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" would have done the trick, or any of that headbanging Metal music.

I'm dead wrong on the JJ set. According to Mosaic, it'll still be around (barring a sudden surge of sales) at least into a good part of 2005. B)