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Agreed: James Baldwin's work should be read and savored.

I'll bet that was indeed a great concert! I love Hermeto's music. . . . His writing for big bands is really wonderful, as witness one of his very first recordings outside Brazil, the Cobblestone/Muse huge band recording. . . . I've never seen him perform, but that joy of playing (and that exploratory drive and real mastery of so many many instruments) comes through in his recorded performances, indeed.

The sound quality is quite comparable in all ways to the Bix/Tram/Tea set. The material is varied. . . I personally don't feel that this is very similar to Django's music, it's different, and there are duets between Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang and other combinations that make this different than the Django sides as well. In a lot of ways the material is more comparable to the Bix/Tram/Tea set, when Lang and Venuti are in jazz groups. I really like this stuff. I had most of the material on other sources, and still preordered the Mosaic because I am very excited at the direction that these represent, and happy with all those released.

Looks as if these can still be purchased through the amazon.fr site, they still show a good number of these as "available in one or two days". . . . I must admit that I have had success ordering a Charlie Christian Master of Jazz from them after the label went out of business. Try doing a search for "Masters of Jazz Sidney Bechet" . . . .

I hope it was a great show. I ended up being unable to attend!

Hmmmm. . . just thought it looked a bit lilke Humair to me but I haven't seen many photos. I have both Combelle Chronogical Classics and really enjoy them.

I've been listening to the early Liszt transcriptions for piano of some Beethoven symphonies lately. . . . Wonderful stuff!

Ah, Cordwainer Smith! Yes, an excellent writer. . . !

Naomi Mitchison "The Corn King and the Spring Queen" . . . a novel of ancient Scythia, Sparta and Egypt published in 1932. Sort of fantasy, nicely written. I'm digging it!

The two Paul Jeffries I have on Mainstream are FANTASTIC!

I think that is likely Daniel Humair on drums in that photo. . . . What's the educated guess on the bassist? Michelot? Rovere?

A wonderful player! I have to get more of his work! Brownie, nice to hear he was a nice person. That would have been my guess!

Mosaic truly did the jazz world a great favor when they produced these sets. It's unlikely we'll ever see Universal do the material justice in reissues. And it's amazing material! Much of the material has made it's way into the digital world via Classics and Neatworks; probably if they keep cranking those out and get to artists like Mel Powell etc. . . .

yes, it really isn't! in fact . . . it's good!

Some Mainstreams HAVE appeared on cd on Columbia and possibly also on Japanese reissues. . . .

Agreed one hundred percent. Doesn't stop me from wishing that Mosaic would do a Complete Black and White box a la Commodore . . . !

Hey, I'm not going to get deep into the arguments either side of the pirating labels! I agree, both that McVea is a KILLER player (love him on the T-Bone sides et al and all the way into his fantastic arranging and production work for B. B. King et al) and that there is not likely to be any company that would put the stuff out. Mosaic, maybe. . . . in ten or fifteen years. The Grimes material. . . I don't have that series, but I do have the three Gotham Grimes that were put out by Collectibles Records, the stuff with Bird, etc. which is the bulk of the Blue Moons. . . . Great stuff, you'd likely dig a lot of it. Golson and other jazzers appear. . . .

Yeah, I know. . . it's all PIRATE STUFF! Here we go again. . . . As I said, a lot of it has been out, but not officially and not comprehensively.

Yes Chuck, I have an aversion to anthologies too. . . though in this case the Pickwick way made sense as they lumped together a lot of clarinetists for instance that didn't make enough 78s for a disc of their own. . . . I mentioned the Pickwick releases in passing at the top of my message.

How about: Broadway Intermission? Choise? Fat Cat? Dream Street? Horizon? Improvising Artists? Incus? Inner City? Merry Makers? Metronome? PM? Palo Alto? Pumpkin? Some of these may have had a few cd releases. . . but. . . .

Stef, Some of these below have been reissued in bits and pieces on Classics, and Pickwick and other cds. . . .I'd like to see more of these though! 2A Art's Boogie ( Art Hodes ) Art Hodes (Matrix 2A) 2B St. Louis Blues Art Hodes 3 Quiet Please Cliff Jackson Qt (Matrix HS1206) 3 Squeeze Me Cliff Jackson Qt (Matrix HS1207) 4 If I Could Be With You Cliff Jackson B/W Stompers 4 Weary Blues Cliff Jackson B/W Stompers 5 Tea For Two George Wettling Jazz Trio Recorded (1945) 5 Sweet Georgia Brown Gene Schroeder Recorded (1945) 6 How Could You Put Me Down Lion & His Cubs 6 Let's Mop It Lion & His Cubs 7 Some Of These Days ( Shelton Brooks ) George Wettling Jazz Trio (Matrix BW17) Recorded July 1, 1944 7 Everybody Loves My Baby ( Williams-Palmer ) George Wettling Jazz Trio (Matrix BW18) Recorded July 1, 1944 9 Blow Top Blues Etta Jones w. Barney Bigard (Matrix BW53) Recorded December 29, 1944 9 Salty Papa Blues Etta Jones w. Barney Bigard (Matrix BW51) Recorded December 29, 1944 10 Evil Gal Blues Etta Jones w. Barney Bigard (Matrix BW52) Recorded December 29, 1944 10 Long Long Journey Etta Jones w. Barney Bigard (Matrix BW54) Recorded December 29, 1944 12A Little Goose ( Feagle-Hillard ) Ray Stokes Trio (Matrix BW62) Recorded January 3, 1945 12B Blues For Clarence Profit ( Ramon Stokes ) Ray Stokes Trio (Matrix BW60) Recorded January 3, 1945 13 Sweet Marijuana Brown Barney Bigard Sextet (Matrix BW65) Recorded January 5, 1945 13 Blues For Art's Sake Barney Bigard Sextet (Matrix BW66) Recorded January 5, 1945 14 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Barney Bigard Sextet (Matrix BW63) Recorded January 5, 1945 14 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Barney Bigard Sextet (Matrix BW64) Recorded January 5, 1945 15 Night And Day Erroll Garner Trio Recorded (1945) 15 White Rose Bounce Erroll Garner Trio Recorded (1945) 16 Movin' Around Erroll Garner Trio 18 Cherokee Joe Marsala Septet 18 My Melancholy Baby Joe Marsala Septet 21 Suspicious Blues Spirits Of Rhythm 21 Coquette Spirits Of Rhythm 22A Honeysuckle Rose ( Razaf-Waller ) Spirits Of Rhythm (Matrix BW75) Recorded January 24, 1945 22B Last Call Blues ( Leonard Feather ) Spirits Of Rhythm (Matrix BW79) Recorded January 24, 1945 23 She Ain't No Saint ( Leonard Feather ) Spirits Of Rhythm (Matrix BW78) Recorded January 24, 1945 23 Scattin' The Blues Spirits Of Rhythm (Matrix BW76) Recorded January 24, 1945 24 Muskrat Ramble Lion's Jazz Band 24 Bugle Call Rag Willie Smith's Jazz Band 25 Who Cliff Jackson 25 It Had To Be You Cliff Jackson 26 Royal Garden Blues Cliff Jackson 26 Limehouse Blues Cliff Jackson 27 That's A Plenty George Wettling Jazz Trio (Matrix BW20) Recorded July 1, 1944 27 China Boy George Wettling Jazz Trio (Matrix BW19) Recorded July 1, 1944 28 You Took Advantage Of Me Dick Cary (Matrix BW12) 28 Thought About You Dick Cary (Matrix BW10) 29 Have You Ever Felt That Way Rod Cless Qt 29 Froggy Moore Rod Cless Qt 30 I Know That You Know Rod Cless Qt 30 Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Rod Cless Qt (Matrix QC2564) 31 Maple Leaf Rag Hank Duncan Trio (Matrix BW13) 31 I Gave You My Word Hank Duncan Trio (Matrix BW16) 32 Changes Always In My Mind Hank Duncan Trio (Matrix BW15) 32 Upbeat Hank Duncan Trio (Matrix BW14) 33 I Ain't Got Nobody Gene Schroeder 33 Liza Gene Schroeder 34 Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Black And White Quartet 37 C.V. Jam Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix T-13) Recorded August 17, 1945 37 Out You Go Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix T-12) Recorded August 17, 1945 38 Let's Jump For Rita Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix T-15) Recorded August 17, 1945 38 Tammy's Dream Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix T-14) Recorded August 17, 1945 42 Every Time I Think Of You Wilbert Baranco Bombadiers 42 Baranco Boogie Baranco's Rhythm Bombadiers 43 Walkin' And Talkin' To Myself Cliff Jackson Village Cats 43 Quiet Please Cliff Jackson Village Cats 101 Honeydripper Sammy Franklin & His Atomics 102 Lonesome Boy Blue Sammy Franklin & His Atomics 103 You're A No Good Alton Redd 104 Let's Get Some Mushmouth Robinson Recorded January 9, 1945 104 I Got The Blues Mushmouth Robinson Recorded January 9, 1945 105 I'm Hip To These Women Mushmouth Robinson Recorded January 9, 1945 105 Boogie Boo Blues Mushmouth Robinson Recorded January 9, 1945 110 I'm Gonna Find My Baby T-Bone Walker 110 Bobby Sox Blues T-Bone Walker 112 One Hour Helen Humes with Buck Clayton & his Allstars (Matrix: BW414-5) Recorded c. May 1946 112 Drive Me Daddy Helen Humes with Buck Clayton & his Allstars (Matrix: BW416-2) Recorded c. May 1946 114 I Don't Know His Name Helen Humes with Buck Clayton & his Allstars (Matrix: BW415) Recorded c. May 1946 119 Blues With A Feeling Rabon Tarrant w. Jack McVea 119 Slowly Goin' Crazy Rabon Tarrant w. Jack McVea 126 I'm Waiting For Your Call T-Bone Walker 126 That's Better T-Bone Walker 150 Oodle Coo Bop Howard McGhee & his Orchestra 150 Oodle Coo Bop Pt.2 Howard McGhee & his Orchestra 204 I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good Ivie Anderson & Her Allstars 204 On The Sunny Side Of The Street Ivie Anderson & Her Allstars 242 Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?) ( W.Engvick - G.Auric ) Mary Ann Morgan w. Vic Corwin & his Orchestra (Matrix BR242=B) 242 April In Portugal ( Kennedy - Feprao ) Vic Corwin & His Orch (Matrix BR242=A) 411 No Worry Blues Jack McVea & T Bone Walker 411 Don't Leave Me Baby Jack McVea & T Bone Walker 500 Frankie And Johnny Lena Horne 759 Out Of This World Cee Pee Johnson 759 My Little Girl Cee Pee Johnson 761 I Changed The Lock On The Door Estelle Edson w/Oscar Pettiford's All Stars 761 Don't Drive This Jive Away Estelle Edson w/Oscar Pettiford's All Stars 765 I Do.... Buzz Adlam & His Orch 765 Dig You Later Buzz Adlam & His Orch 767 F Minor Boogie ( Jack McVea ) Jack McVea Allstars (Matrix BW196) 767 Jack's Boogie ( Jack McVea ) Jack McVea Allstars (Matrix BW195) 770 In The Moon Mist ( Lawrence ) Eileen Wilson w. Will Osborne Orchestra 770 Something Old,Something New ( Idress-Tibbles ) Eileen Wilson w. Will Osborne Orchestra 771 I Got It Bad Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW203) Recorded January 1946 771 Sunny Side Of The Street Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW204) Recorded January 1946 772 You Ought To Know Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW205) Recorded January 1946 772 Voot Is Here To Stay Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW206) Recorded January 1946 778 One O'clock Jump Gerald Wilson 778 Warm Mood Gerald Wilson 781 Be Happy, Pappy Red Callender Trio (Matrix BW267) Recorded (1946) 781 Red Light Red Callender Trio (Matrix BW265) Recorded (1946) 782 By The River Saint Marie Red Callender Trio (Matrix BW266) Recorded (1946) 782 Red Boogie Red Callender Trio (Matrix BW268) Recorded (1946) 785 Goody Goody Baby Jo Evans (Matrix BW-295-2) 785 Root Of All My Evil Jo Evans (Matrix BW-298) 790 You Keep On Coming Back Like A Song ( Berlin ) Jeannie McKeon w. Al Sack & his Orchestra 790 I May Be Wrong ( Ager-Yellen-Ruskin-Sullivan ) Jeannie McKeon w. Al Sack & his Orchestra 792 Lonesome Blues Jack McVea & his All Stars 792 Open The Door Richard Jack McVea & his All Stars 815 Whispering Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 815 Little Girl Blue Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 816 I Don't Want To Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 816 Old Fashioned Love Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 817 Glad To Be Unhappy Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 817 At Long Last Love Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 818 Blue Prelude Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 818 More Than You Know Lena Horne w. Phil Moore Orchestra 819 You Go To My Head Lena Horne Recorded (1946) 819 Just Squeeze Me Lena Horne Recorded (1946) 823 Big Butter And Egg Man Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW484) Recorded October 1946 823 Twice Too Many Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW483) Recorded October 1946 824 Tall, Dark And Handsome Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW481) Recorded October 1946 824 Empty Bed Blues Ivie Anderson (Matrix BW482) Recorded October 1946 828 Key's In The Mailbox Jack McVea Allstars 828 Richard Gets Home Jack McVea Allstars 835 Crow's Being Evicted Jack McVea & his Door Openers (Matrix BW 597) 835 What's Happening Jack McVea & his Door Openers 853 I Want Somebody ( Cryor-M.Davis ) Jo Evans w. Maxwell Davis Orchestra (Matrix BW359) 853 Drummer Man Blues ( Jo Evans-Maxwell Davis ) Jo Evans w. Maxwell Davis Orchestra (Matrix BW360=1) 863 Good Lovin' Man Ernestine Allen (Matrix BW690) Recorded (1947) 863 K.C Lover Ernestine Allen (Matrix BW687) Recorded (1947) 875 Box Lunch Earle Spencer 875 Sunday Afternoon Earle Spencer 1000 I'll Forget If You'll.... Arthur Smith Dixie Liners Recorded (1946) 1000 Follow Through Arthur Smith Dixie Liners Recorded (1946) 1201 Romance Joe Marsala & His Orchestra Recorded (1945) 1201 Zero Hour Joe Marsala & His Orchestra Recorded (1945) 1202 Don't Let It End Joe Marsala & His Orchestra Recorded (1945) 1202 Joe Joe Jump Joe Marsala & His Orchestra Recorded (1945) 1203 Unlucky Woman Linda Keene w. Joe Marsala Orchestra 1203 Blues In The Storm Linda Keene w. Joe Marsala Orchestra 1204 You've Got Me Walkin' And Talkin' To Myself Cliff Jackson Village Cats 1204 Quiet Please Cliff Jackson Village Cats 1205 Jeepers Creepers Cliff Jackson Village Cats 1205 Cliff's Boogie Blues Cliff Jackson Village Cats 1206 Blues Before Dawn Barney Bigard & His Orchestra (Matrix BW55) Recorded December 29, 1944 1206 Poon Tang Barney Bigard-Georgie Auld (Matrix BW56) Recorded December 29, 1944 1207 How Long Blues Barney Bigard & His Orchestra (Matrix BW58) Recorded December 29, 1944 1207 Nine O'clock Beer Barney Bigard & His Orchestra (Matrix BW57) Recorded December 29, 1944 1208 Blues In Nat's Flat Nat Jazze Trio Recorded (1945) 1208 These Foolish Things Nat Jazze Trio Recorded (1945) 1209 Hundred Years From Today Nat Jaffe Trio Recorded (1945) 1209 If I Had You Nat Jazze Trio Recorded (1945) 1210 East Town Boogie Lil Armstrong Allstar Band (Matrix 85) Recorded January 9, 1945 1210 Confessin' Lil Armstrong & Her Band (Matrix 81) Recorded January 9, 1945 1211 Lady Be Good Lil Armstrong Allstar Band (Matrix 83) Recorded January 9, 1945 1211 Little Daddy Blues Lil Armstrong Allstar Band (Matrix 82) Recorded January 9, 1945 1212 Muskrat Ramble Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded February 8, 1945 1212 Tin Roof Blues Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded February 8, 1945 1213 Sister Kate Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded (1945) 1213 Indiana Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded (1945) 1214 Royal Garden Blues Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded (1945) 1214 Jazz Band Ball Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded (1945) 1215 That's A Plenty ( Lew Pollack ) Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded February 8, 1945 1215 Some Day Sweetheart ( Spikes-Spikes ) Mike Loscalzo Dixie Woodsheds Recorded February 8, 1945 1219 Who's Sorry Now Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW207) 1219 Man I Love Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW209) 1220 S' Wonderful Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW210) 1220 Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW208) 1221 Chopin's Minute Waltz Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW241) 1221 Slow Joe Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW242) 1222 What Is This Thing Called Love Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW243) 1222 I'm In The Mood For Love Charlie Ventura Sextet (Matrix BW244) 2002 Pent Al Sack & his Orchestra 2002 Easy To Love Al Sack & his Orchestra 3010 Holiday For Strings Gaylord Carter 3015 Toy Trumpet Gaylord Carter 3015 Twilight In Turkey Gaylord Carter 3016 Meadowland Gaylord Carter 3016 Song Of The Vulgar Boatmen Gaylord Carter 4008 Somebody Is Knocking St Paul Choir Of Chicago 4008 Amen St Paul Choir Of Chicago 10011 I Cry Alone Rudy Cooter Californians Recorded (1946) 10011 Who Dug This Hole I'm In Rudy Cooter Californians Recorded (1946)

Plenty of material on labels that haven't been reissued as Stefan notes (I'd love to see Warner Bros. fifties and sixties material, and Black and White sessions, among others) and there are a lot of small labels that have not been reissued at all or hardly at all. . . .

Many many more happy ones!

Well, there was a domestic lp! Or two or three, actually!

Richard Zimmerman is the pianist on my set, details are here: http://www.rag-time.com/arc/works.htm His work has gotten some rotten customer comments on Amazon but I don't feel that I agree with them. This is a good series of cds if you ask me, and not expensive. . . . I bought a set for my father as well, and he really enjoys the set, listens to it more often than I do.