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Jack Teagarden, Eddie Lang, Slam Stewart

I like Rickie Lee Jones' version. . .

I actually LIKE jazz vocalists. I'm just not a Hartman fan in a big way at all. If it had been Jimmy Scott, that would have been something! Something very different, I'm sure. . . .

I know this goes against the party line. .. but. . . I just have to say it. . . I'm not crazy about this one. I'd be happier if they had just done another "Ballads" instrumental session! Over the years Johnny Hartman just does less and less for me. Okay, thanks for letting me vent that one!

Well, I've become less and less a fan of "special packaging". . . . I'd have everything in Maxislim cases if I could (and believe me I've converted hundreds of releases TO Maxislim recordings in the last year!)

Man, this looks good. . . but. . . I wish I could get a less deluxe version without cotton and cedar. . . . Specially the cedar the way my allergies have been the last few years!

HE DEFINITELY listened to those two, and I think they did influence his sound and thinking. Still, the reason we love Pres is probably most because of . . . Pres. That whole family was so musical! It would be really something if we could hear the music the others besides the bros Les and Lee made!

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES!

The US Prestige "Chronicles" box was from the early days of cd remastering, long before JVC came up with a K2 system.

You mean this is NOT A ROCK ALBUM? Hey, it's an OLD wall, because jazz is dead, see?

There HAS been a two cd "Best of the box set" issued!

How about Ellington Indigos redone by Mariah Scheider?

Randy Weston, Karsh Kale and Pete Cosey.

Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus and Helen Merrill.

Hey, didn't Prime Time do an update of the Coleman material, called "Booty Call"?

Sound quality is very good on that Soundies disc of Ducal transcriptions. I'm willing to bet that it will show up again on cd before too long. All but one or two of these used to be on a Jass or another of the Stash labels cd before this release, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see it show up on Storyville or Circle after this release is gone. . . Blanton-Webster band stuff will surface!

Yeah, it's whack stuff. .. I guess that's why I like it. Something new to marvel at on each listen!

I really like Bill Mathieo's arranging and the performances on Standards in Silhouette. Easy Go (1950-1952) is also a good cd, with some swinging stuff on it and atypically loose. I like West Side Story too. . . and City of Glass. Not sure I can single out why I like either, just do!

This seller may have a "Zero" rating but that's not representative;the seller/contact is Shawn, and he's been on the net on boards for years, and is a primo first rate top notch seller/buyer (among other things). The "seller" is a record shop he is now assisting with internet sales. A reputable place as well.

Actually, I'm waiting for the version of the complete box set that has been remastered run through a Silvertone amp that has NOT had the capacitors replaced, and with contact paper covers! The Prestige box set acutally sounds okay; like the Riverside Monk set it errs by being a little thick and dark sounding rather than being thin and harsh sounding! The remastering holds up pretty well, and it's nice to have the sessions chronologically presented. BUT I have bought either XRCD or K2 or DigitalK2 remasters of all but two for three of the original lps in the set . . . . I find I like the individual discs of the sessions because I grew up thinking of many of them this way, and I like the remastered sound.

I wouldn't mind being there with a dozen bags of sandwhiches and three cases of beer!

[email=http://www.ayler.supanet.com/assets/images/Jazznu2.jpg]http://www.ayler.supanet.com/assets/images/Jazznu2.jpg Albert Ayler, Don Ayler, Richard Davis The funeral of John Coltrane at St Paul’s Lutheran Church, New York, July 21st, 1967 © Raymond Ross

I didn't think so. It's those Phish fans you ought to be concentrating on! B)

Hey, this was done somewhere else or on this board earlier, but what the heck.' Saw this today: