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Yes Tea or Lee (Wiley or Peggy) doing Willard is always moving.

Well. . . doesn't everyone know that April is Sony Month?

You are not dreaming, that has been out!

"The Secret Ascension, or Alas Philip K. Dick is Dead," Michael Bishop

But yes, Douglas needs to be taken with grains of salt I think.

I actually doubt he would be intimidated by Hendrix's playing. . . . I think he may have been intimidated by Hendrix's charismatic nature and the effect it may have had on his wife!

Congratulations all of you on your published efforts! I'll try to seek these out and squeeze them into my reading schedule. I'm about 100 books behind right now, all bought, waiting for my attention! I used to write poetry in my late teens and on up to about age thirty. . . when the muse fled me. I mean totally deserted me! One day I had it. . . then I couldn't come up with the magic no matter how I tried. . . . Something else took its place however, not too much later: involvement in music-making and then the love of my life.

Great music in that Mosaic set. . . ! Sure wish Universal would consider a comprehensive cd reissue program. . . but know better.

I don't know. . . you can clearly see a mark on the cellophane of the box. . . that troubles me. I'm not going to bid on it for that reason.

I could certainly imagine this happening as I had seen it chronicled: i.e. at the last moment Miles phoned Douglas demanding 50 large upfront and Douglas turning that down. He didn't ever have to consult with Jimi about the money, I think his managers were quite used to not consulting him about the money, keeping him in the dark that way, and of course Jimi's own attitude probably aided that. Maybe Miles had a talk with his wife and didn't want to show?

I've had both. . . ended up selling the Blue Note box because I felt the Mosaic cds sounded a hair better, and the booklet was more than a hair better!

That's correct if you define the booklet/accompanying essays as part of the packaging; the written material accompanying each is different, as well as the artwork and packaging.

It IS a moot point. And somehow, I just can't imagine it. And I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't GUESS it.

I can recommend exploring recordings on the Jazz Oracle label, the Timeless label and the Retrieval label of twenties recordings; you'll get good notes and great sound. Jazz Oracle http://www.timelessjazz.com/shop/default.p...0b944fae80f74b9 There are also good recordings available on Columbia, RCA Bluebird, Decca GRP, The Old Masters, Swingtime and many other labels.

Welcome! I think if you want to learn about jazz in the twenties there is a wealth of information out there on the internet. Some key figures to seek out and study to would be King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer, Eddie Lang, Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols, Adrian Rolini, Fletcher Henderson, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton. There are many other important figures as well. Enjoy the search!

Fan of Burrell, here! Thanks for posting that interview Laton.

"A very cool set from Lee." Yes, indeed! One of the first Verve Konitz sessions I ever heard. I've noticed that there is a lot of unissued Verve Konitz sessions from this general time frame. . . sure wish these would come out!

Well, it did introduce unedited material then before it was remastered and available in the three subsequent reissues. . . . So in that sense it did make a contribution (Dynasty had not been released on cd before this, so at some point this was someone's idea of what a Dynasty cd should be . . . . NOT mine!)

Hope they have more J. R. T. Davies remasterings in the can still. . . We're going to really miss that guy more as time passes I think.

Volume 4 is good too. Except for some great soloing by some members that was fun to hear from the start, this band seemed to get better as it went along. I just realized I now have all the Jazz Oracles. Sheesh that was an expensive collecting. . . but a collection well worth having.

I didn't feel the Rudd was really bad. . . just not really good. And the two others I've listened to so far, the Shepp and the Wright, have quite good sound (the Shepp sounds really really good to my ears!)

That's two words. There were some other good players in this band as well, as you know. . . .

??? I know that there was a cd "The Shoe's of the Fisherman's Wife are some Jive Ass Slippers" that had items from "Dynasty" and "Ah Um" and some alternate material; nothing that hasn't been out before or since actually. . . .

I like Volume 5 a lot as well. I have all of the volumes, including the Whooppee Makers ones, but that is not the full band. . . . I'd agree: try Volume 5 with some Jack vocals.

Please don't hold it for me Tony. . . I'm way over extended at the moment. Flurin, thanks for weighing in re: the Shepp defect. Guess it's just my copy!