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I really like the Hardman-McLean band a lot!

I confess to really liking the fifties material for Pacific Jazz, and other labels, and any of the bands with Gabo Szabor and/or Albert Stinson.

Thanks Gentlemen! As long as I'm still getting birthday wishes, I'm "Fifty," and not yet "OVER Fifty."

Me too! I've spent a LOT already on affordable modern tube gear and speakers that really makes my happy to turn on my stereo!

I pretty much agree with you there. There might be a dealer or store owner with enough coin that would want to have those Marantz and McIntosh items. . . they're well sought out items th at would individually go for some dollars. I grew up with a great Dynaco system built (and given to!) my Dad by an electrical engineer in his church who moved to England for work. . . It was the main system I learned to love music on and it sure sounded great! Started my love for tube amps that has remained with me whether for instruments or for stereos. -_-

That's wild, because it's the OPPOSITE for me, really fast at work, really slow at home. . . .

Rosco, no, I would have married Sade if I could before I married my wife! But actually I've been in love with my wife since I was 18, though we didn't get together til we were both 35. She dances as sexily as Sade, and has that high forehead. . . she looks a bit more like Liz Hurley than Sade though. And she's been my best friend for 15 years. I'm a happily married man.

We need a smiley for that Brad! Jim, yes, I agree with your assessment. I also have to say that as I listen more and more to sessions that he appeared as a sideman on I think he really excelled on some of these with swing, interactive comping, etc. No slouch! And some of the dates that will be on the Mosaic are good ones.

That's an interesting observation. I think that RDK is correct when he says that the man on the street is likely to be more familiar with Rich than other drummers we prefer, and I think that perhaps the jazz fans that would be fanatics for Rich are NOT posting on jazz bulletin boards with frequency or in numbers. . . .

Jessica is not really my "type" either. I like smarter women. And women less "well-endowed". . . . Actually I most like women who resemble my wife! In my opinion, I'm a lucky man!

I guess I just misunderstood your initial posts. They disappointed me too. You're allowed your opinion, I'm allowed mine; I wasn't disputing this. I guess I do strongly disagree with your assessment that he is not a significant jazz artist. That I think is incorrect. And I guess I read too much value into your statement about "odd choice." (And I strongly feel it is just the kind of choice we're going to see in the future from Mosaic, and not odd at all). I'll shut up about it. My apologies if I seemed to be belittling your opinion, I did not mean to be.

Okay, so why did you say this was an odd choice for Mosaic? You trashed Rich and implied this should not be a Mosaic, read what you wrote. I'm not discussing this any longer. . . .I've said enough on this subject. I'm inclined to buy this after it has been out a while if my finances improve. 'Nuff said.

Thanks Alan! Not even the black balloons my boss brought in got me down!

Tranemonk, it's hard to say for certain without a discography posted, but yes, I suspect that Rich vs. Roach will not be included in this set. It's worth checking out. Niether Rich nor Roach are particular favorites of mine, but as Mike points out this session was very well arranged/orchestrated, and there are some great performances.

I wasn't viewing that as unacceptable at all. I do feel that Brad's statement that Rich was not significant or important as a jazz figure or even a good player and that it was odd that Mosaic would dedicate a set to him was just. . . wrong. Seems like he was saying that Mosaic shouldn't issue sets by anyone HE didn't like. I'll quit harping on that.

Sure. Not my situation though. I don't have all these in K2, etc. but that's less and less an issue for me.

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Just got this in last night and have become fixated upon listening to it. EXCELLENT release! Three new Bix items! (One alternate from a Whiteman session, two Trumbauer session alternates). An exceptionally well selected and sequenced 23 other items that showcase the Bix influence and style from cornetists and others such as Bose, Secrest, Payne, Theck, Bruce, Norvo, Carmichael, Nichols, Goodman, Bloom, Stewart, Nesbitt, Hackett et al. Reallly this program is a delight: the material is exceptional, the flow from one to another just wonderful. Top that off with excellent notes from Sudhalter and superb sound. J. R. T. Davies handled three items, Michael Keiffer the rest (and Keiffer's work here is top notch) with an amazing restoration of the "Futuristic Rhythm" alternate by Keiffer and "Seth B. Winner Sound Studios" (the disc was cracked all the way through and you don't hear a thump at all!) Highly recommended for those who own the previous four volumes, or who just dig the Bixian sound. This is up there with the Bird and Diz Town Hall Concert and the upcoming Carnegie Hall Monk and Trane as releases of the year in my opinion!

I fully understand why these are reissued this way. I just wish there were items here that weren't reissues of reissues of reissues.

I certainly don't expect you to. Why would i? I'm in no way suggesting that.

Yes, I'm not rebuying this stuff. . . . Give us something not yet on cd!

Hey, I prefer Big Sid, Klook, Jo, Elveen, Tony and a dozen others to Rich as well. But tht doesn't mean he is not a significant jazz artist and leader, or that he was an "odd choice" for a Mosaic set. Looking at the market that Mosaic carved out for themselves, it makes perfect sense for me that Mosaic is releasing this. It's a chunk of material not well reissued on compact disc in this country, with a roster of jazz greats and a clear connection between all the sessions. It will sell better, I predict, than the Kid Ory and a few other sets. If you look at it with an open mind and a sense that others' tastes may differ from one's one (especially a jazz audience that is not posting all over the internet) it's not an "odd choice." They have to move into directions like this now I think. There is so much that has been released from the Blue Note vaults, and some items will have to be left for the parent label there to handle. This Rich set falls in line with sets from Krupa/James, Ventura/Phillips, even Eldridge and O'Day. . . . We'll see more items that the bebop and hardbop centric here may find "odd". . . but it's not a bebop and hard bop only world that Mosaic has targeted!

I was surprised to note that the OOP Byrd-Adams Mosaic was within a catalog from Collectors Choice Music that I received Wednesday.

Thanks for the headsup!

Affleck should be smiling all the time. . . doubt he is. He probably thinks SHE'S lucky.