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Just received from Tower: Duke Ellington - Travelogue Edition (collecting various concerts in one box set) Lee Morgan - Taru

Tapping me toes and stomping me feet to the exuberant music of the All-Star Stompers on the 'Historic Broadcasts - This is Jazz' series.

Yeh site is up. Time to dish out even more dough for yet more sets that won't be touched for at least a few months.

The Kid Ory set I acquired 3 months back is numbered 580, so it appears it is selling, at snails pace. I guess there aren't that many ardent New Orleans jazz fans out there.

Billy Strayhorn/Duke's "Take the A Train". A well-recorded live version always gives good cheer and uplifts the spirits.

Yesterday - Paul McCartney Bird - Bird of Paradise (aka All the Things You Are) Johnny Mercer - Accentuate the Positive Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started J J Johnson - Old Devil Moon Helen Merrill - What's New Ella & Satch - They Can't Take That Away ...and Johnny Hodges with a whole list of ballads.

Will be attending me first ever jazz concert, by the Count Basie band, this summer more than a decade after being introduced to and listening to jazz.

Hawk's playing was good, obviously not matching up to his peak, but his health condition didn't affect his playing.

Donny and Marie Osmond in the late 70s.

Omigosh! I just counted 118 discs still in their plastic wraps, with 28 more on the way. I definitely need to go cold turkey on these CD purchases, not.

Volumes 1 and 2 of the Sarah Vaughan sets are still available at regular prices. If you wait, you could even get them at discounted prices. I've seen volume 3 fetch about $120, which is perhaps acceptable if you're a rabid fan and have to have it.

Milt Jackson sang Time on My Hands in one of the Savoy sessions, early 50s. Quote from the liner notes, "Milt always had a yen to be a ballad singer."

There's one Helen Merrill box on sale here for a nice $250

Hamp was an occasional singer and regular grunter. Add Frank Rosolino to the list. Not a bad jazz singer plus great trombonist!

Vee Jay Mosaics Quote from Scott of Mosaic That is correct. They'll be in our next catalog as running low. It is soon, but that's the way the licensing agreement worked out. Darn! and I was targeting to get them in Jan '05. Looks like got to order them soon.

You missed the point about CD-Rs in the article you posted... CD-R longevity has a lot more to do with the dye than the reflective material. Gold vs. silver is more for the CD-ROM application. When buying CD-Rs, it's the dye that's important not whether it's gold or aluminum. Both metals have very high reflectivity and both will last as long as the lacquer (label-side coating) does. Yep. Guess I did. Thanks for pointing that out.

Frankie Trumbauer's name is missing from the list!!

I'm surprised the J J Johnson set is not even on the running low list (yet), granted it probably has a longer sell-by date. This has to rank as one of their current top low sales sets just by the length of time it's been around. There's a great deal of excellent music on this set though.

The Clifford Brown-Max Roach box is just incredible and worth every ¢ spent. The jazz material on the Sarah Vaughan sets more than compensate for the commercial ones, IMO - even then, the latter has some good moments with Sarah's singing. The only drawback is some of the sets were produced back in the mid to late eighties and hence are about 15-16 years old. A concern if you're thinking of preserving them for at least the next 35-40 years. . Could always make duplicates I suppose.

And is (Keith) Jarrett pronounced as Jare-rett or Jare-ray (or is it Jar-rett, Jar-ray)?

A few more for the list: "Hawk Flies High" an OJC essential IMO. Vogue's "Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges in Paris". For early Hawk up to the pre-bop years, outside of Fletcher Henderson's band, there was/is a 6 disc collection issued by Affinity which collects his music with Red McKenzie (Hello Lola, One Hour - beautiful!) and his tour of Europe from '34 - '39. The set is OOP but contains fantabulous music and in pretty good sound - absolutely essential. Not forgetting also Hawk was right up there when the bop movement was in its infancy, encouraging the new players in their new music. For a one disc sampler I would single out the Delmark release "Rainbow Mist" and for a larger collection Proper's "The Bebop Years". Too bad Mosaic can't do a comprehensive set for this period.

Here's hoping they release all the Duke Treasury Show material before any sale happens!

All of the above, except for the cellphone bit.

Yep agree with using quality CD-Rs, gold ones would be the ideal. Just wondering if anyone has used the services of companies who specialise in reproducing CDs, DVDs (only for backup purposes)? Would the quality and longevity of discs be the same as or fairly similar to the original discs? I assume they use similar machinery as CD producers. Perhaps such services are illegal in the U.S and Europe or just not available? I have seen such services advertised where I am and contemplating using them rather than burning CD-Rs on the PC.

Another recommendation: Au Club Saint-Germain - a live Dec '58 date. Released on a 2 CD French RCA set and more recently on 3 Japanese CDs). Lineup - Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt.