jazzbo

Ah, yes they were Serengeti Minstrel, and Infinity Is.

Somewhere in my room I think I have TWO Atlantics, one has Serengeti Plains in the title. . . .

These are very nice; you have a real talent for these! Thanks for sharing!

The Tribute to Stan apparently (if I remember the notes properly) is the only surviving track of a "lost session" that is not properly documented. A nice track indeed. . . wish there were more! I think the sound is fine on the box set. A bit darker, thicker than the Verve Master Edition copies when I've done a comparison to the two that I have. But in some systems that is in fact a PLUS.

All Music lists the personnel and seems to jibe with what I remember listed in the box set: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A7m8n1va8zzma Also, I think the Getz/Gilberto #2 may contain Gilberto tunes that do not include Getz. . . and would not be in the box set.

Also I think Getz A Go Go had a nonbossa side, which is not included in the box.

I haven't compared the single releases to the box, there may be a few omissions, or rather a few discovered after the box was released, possibly. I am quite far from my collection at the moment and unable to look into the personnel listeing but I believe the piano was by Steve Kuhn. . . .

For this country Martin Luther King was perhaps the most important man of the century for the benefit of the country. What many hoped to accomplish, he was a part of the accomplishment. His work (and not his alone but he was a catalyst, a heartbeat, a backbone) has transformed the culture for so many. His work and his words actually have made this country move closer to the kind of country we and our fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers and great-great-great-grea-great grandfathers/mothers have wanted it to be. What a lot of politicians talk, he walked. I'm honoring him today by thinking of his legacy, thinking of the improvements I have seen in my life that he was a part of, and by daydreaming of my own hopes.

"You've Got a Date With the Blues" is not contained within the box set; it was a Verve not an Emarcy or Mercury date. I'm quite happy that I was able to find the Japanese cd!

Yes, I'm familiar with the book as far as size etc. I have fun reading Melville though, but then I'm different. . . .

Whew! I better never pick it up then! I'm rereading Moby Dick.

I've bought some Siemens vacuum tubes pretty darned cheap with little bidding competition off ebay, probably because Siemens was not spelled correctly . . . got them for about a third of the normal "reasonable" price, and five of them at that. So that was a nice steal!

I've bought about three McPhees, and enjoy them. . . but I haven't been driven to get more. They seem to be enough for me!

My worst accident was in a snowstorm before dawn in January 1980 driving to work . . . shortly after I rounded a curve my headlights hit a trash truck in the lane ahead of me, no lights on. I swerved into the other lane, where my headlights hit a man standing in the lane looking at me with two trash cans in his arms. I swerved back into the original lane and did my best to slow down but collided with the truck pretty hard. Luckily I have alway been fond of old cars; I was driving a 1964 Doge 440 four door, the engine was pushed partway into the driver's compartment, the roof of the car came down to meet the dash. Nothing caught fire. I kicked my way out of the car and was alright---well, I had seventy stitches on my forehead and a few down by the side of one eye. . . but I was fine. I was kept in the hospital for two nights before the doctor finally decided I wasn't going to collapse in a coma, and told me I had a hard head. I had a vivid red scar down the center of my forhead for some time. . . I felt it was sort of a "Scarlet A" of some sort but I guess it wasn't as attention-grabbing as self-concious lil me thought. It faded away with time; it's there but hardly visible. I am sure the operator of the truck was glad I didn't just run him over; I've never been in contact with him. I had to appear in court and I was fined three dollars for hitting the truck from behind. The trash company was fined four thousand dollars for operating without the required lights. This really made me reassess my life in small town Ohio, and when the company I had worked for for six years closed its doors in the Reaganomic recession six months later, I started looking at other places to be, visited some University of Chicago friends living in Austin, and moved here that fall, scarred forehead and all. My whole forehead was soon sunburned red!

I'm sorry I guess I wasn't clear: the four cd collection of all the Bossa Nova sessions that Getz led or co-led. "The Bossa Nova Years."

This thread made me pull out the Bossa Nova box set again. . . I really enjoyed the material with Almeida and the live and "faked live" dates!

She appears on this Bethlehem as well I guess.

She did at least an Audio Fidelity and a VGM album as well. . . but I know little else. Maybe she married well? She looked as if she could!

I've discovered yet another eery similarity between Peter Johnson and I---I would have written the post he wrote for this topic!

On this page Parker page I found this: "Charlie Parker : The Great Sessions 1947/1948" (Jazz Anthology, France) Last Band for Bonds & '49 Carnegie Hall Concert.

You're going to run into different opinions depending on how one feels about RVGs, McMaster remasterings, etc. I have a lot of the RVGs and JRVGs from the albums in the Gordon box set and I, that is I myself, prefer their sound to the box set, but I wouldn't call the improvement staggering; the box set has pretty decent sound for a McMaster effort to my ears.

Good ONE!

I'm happy to see the Shepp, that's a cool one! Odd, two Shepps in less than a year's time!

Hell, just stick Cornell Dupree and Fathead Newman on the record! That'll flip some Noraheads!

Man, Kirby's group was always topnotch (IF a little monotonous in that there was very little variety to the instrumentation and format of the music). I've bought all the Classics and about half the material that is available on Circle Records (transcriptions in glorious sound). I can recommend also their work with vocalists Maxine Sullivan and Una Mae Carlisle. Kirby did many dates as a sideman bassist as well, and his presence means a great swinging time!