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There wouldn't necessarily be that much overlap between the Mosaic and the BF. What bugs me is how much of this I have on other Capitol cds. . . a LOT . . . a BIG LOT! I'd be tempted by the BF set but better served hanging tight with what I have.

Okay Clem, we'll just agree to disagree on THIS one. I think the Motown set is quite a historical document, and I'm digging exploring it. And like I may have said, I think that one single from Marvin is the best thing in the box, and there's really not much like it to be found all over the discs. I wish there were!

Losing it, you lost it a long time ago! B-) It is a nice feature to be able to switch between layers on a hybrid disc I guess; I have this as a button both on my remote and my player on my Sony modifiec DEC 685. I recently tried the video of this out for the fist time on dvd and it's excellent! Odd thing on this machine: cd playback is SO good that SACD really doesn't outshine it! At least not yet. One owner says his does but he plays predominantly SACD and he says it took two or three months for the SACD section to break in and bloom. In contrast, I hardly ever play SACDs so I guess it could happen for my machine too. Not sure I MYSELF would make a change in players in your situation as dvd is not that great an issue for me and neither would the button for SACD and CD switching. But as much audio buying as I've done in the last fifteen years I totally understand the temptation and would understand the move if you make it.

Hey I can understand that I think Mike. Sort of. But he's always been someone I enjoyed and this year he's really gotten under my skin. I sort of wish he had been able to be the balladeer of standards and torch songs he wanted to be and tried to start out to be. . . . But then the journey he followed instead led to "What's Goin' On" which I think is a timeless work of art and more beyond where he was really able to be his own man. "Here my Dear" is something else too, I've never heard vocal harmonies and music and theme so carefully and yet organically interwoven. . . . It's sad how he spiraled down and out like a fast burning flame but that's life too. The single that was his very first release for Tamla, and fizzled like a lead pipe, "(I'm Afraid) This Masquerade is Over" and "Witchcraft" is so really cool in all ways that I wish there were hundreds more renditions like this. . . and there aren't. Anyway, I keep getting more and more respect for Marvin and Jim is right, he's someone you get deeper and deeper into.

Black Christ of the Andes looks like THIS in the new cd incarnation (recommended!)

No I won't be abandoning him. . . he'll just be bumped from heavier rotation for a while by my new musical exciter. Luckily, I'm very faithful and loyal to my WOMEN.

Yes, Kay was a heavy-footed and flailing-armed bebop monster too in the final years of the fifties on recordings I've heard . . . . I guess you make a good point about the Modern Jazz vs. Milt Jackson aspects.

Yeah, I do this, I get on an artist like a terrier on a trouserleg until I get shaken off.

I guess one man's color machine is another man's boring to tears vehicle!

Lately I've been listening to one of my favorites a lot, the "Jean Grey/Marvil Girl" of jazz, Mary Lou Williams. Her Zoning on Smithsonian/Folkways is recommended!

Just preordered the Armstrong disc. This is exciting!

Not the one in blue!

What he said! AND. . . the sound is good. Comparing a version here to an earlier Motown cd version yields this set a clear winner.

Take one Armstrong, Ellington, Monk and Basie and come back tomorrow.

Personally, I think it's because "every little breeze seems to whisper Louise." (I have a personal pet theory that "Louise" was the melodic inspiration for the song, I'm probably wrong). Not sure about the Porter song. . .

Well at least they recognize I'm a born leader. . .

Flurin. .. the Toots is really nice. As good guitaring as Wes Montgomery is what I usually think when I hear it! I like the Harlem Pianos one a lot as well. Nothing earth-shattering. . . I just love piano and there is great piano here. And on the Dearie. I really like her light and swinging piano (there's no vocals on the piano trio tracks, 3/4s of the cd). The Blue Stars stuff is from one of their best sessions. . . .

I'm becoming a fan. My problem with them is bass and drums. I just think that Heath and Kay are. . . boring. I wish I didn't. Heath and Clarke were FAR from boring! I really like what Lewis and Jackson do/did. . . though the "prissiness" Jim talks of is there and sometimes too much.

You're welcome! Some really nice music has been on these shows by Betty Carter, James Moody, Brubeck and many others!

Clifford: Have you looked at ESP-Disk lately (www.espdisk.com) ? They are reissuing the ESP catalog. I've only bought two (items I didn't have in other formats) (the new Ayler and Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3) and the sound is excellent.

I was wrong, Jackie is at the end of this month, after Mary Lou Williams and the Maria Schneider shows.

You're missing out. Weekly broadcasts, I have hundreds of good hours of music from this series, thanks to a compadre: http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/radio/

What does Austin and Tower Records have to do with my birthday wish? I know you would enjoy France and the French! (Even if you think you wouldn't and your fearless leaders tell you not to!)

Going to be some nice JALC broadcasts in the near future, including Jackie McLean next month.

Jim, personally I don't think that theme from the show IS predominantly ragtime, but swing. I'm hard pressed to think of ragtime that is really like it structurally or performance wise; it really is more like Glenn Miller/Benny Goodman swing to me distilled to a small group in a different instrumentation than say the small Goodman groups. I think the Titanic disc will be interesting as an overview of pop music of the time; looking forward to it. Jim, I'm not sure how conversant you are with early jazz in Chicago and elsewhere. Are you familiar with the Jimmie Noone sides with Earl Hines and Joe Poston? These have a flavor that may be somewhat in line with what you are seeking.