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I'm not sure this is within the scope of the original poster's plan, but the one reissue I'd really love to see is the two cd version of "A Drum is a Woman" that we came close to getting from Columbia/Sony some years back.

Updated March 26.

XYZ Edition of "Concert for the Comet Kohoutek", 7 dollars including postage to a US address. ESP Disk Edition of "Nothing Is. . . ", 8 dollars including postage to a US address.

The following Aretha Franklin cd is available. All are in excellent condition. 6 dollars including postage to a US address. I will ship elsewhere for additional postal charge. If interested, please EMAIL lonjazz@yahoo.com

Interested in Chuck Berry am.

As mentioned above, not only was she a great beauty, but she was a great actress. I never felt she was right for Cleopatra, and even as a kid I knew that "Cleopatra" was not "the way it was" and such a non-Greek Cleopatra as portrayed by ET was not quite right, but I always wished she were in every 'fifties and 'sixties "Biblical Epics" I've ever seen.

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The box set was on sale today only for 80 bucks at www.popmarket.com I snagged a copy right before they "sold out". . . and then canceled my amazon order.

I personally think the discs are better housed in this set than in the East of the Sun set. They're housed the same as the Nat, Ella and OP sets.

Garard was/(is?) a British company. They were imported to America fifites through seventies I believe and I've seen a lot of them over the years. The first turntable I ever bought myself was a Garard. I'm pretty sure Pilot was an American manufacturer but I'm not certain. I've seen a few components over the years but never have been able to hear them. I did a Google image search for "Pilot Stereo Console" and this picture came up. I don't think it's a Pilot stereo console, but who cares? http://homepage.mac.com/johnhuber/AK/Girl_Console_Radio.jpg

Well, I was wrong, the latest Concord version reissuing the Prestige "Collectors Items" does have all four selections, though one track is missing on the cd from the original two lp set ("My Old Flame," which is not from this collection.) Going to pull it out and listen to the Blue Moods material.

No problem amigo. Not many people seem to know those A. A. Fair novels, but I think they're great. Funny, and clever.

I recommended A. A. Fair above, which is my favorite Earle Stanley Gardner.

Many many more happy happy returns!

Generally power tubes go faster than any other tube type by far. The general signs I know of them being beyond their use are they start to sound soft and/or bass-shy. Rectifier tubes generally just stop working. Input and driver tubes generally have loooong lives, sometimes over a decade of constant use. They'll also sound soft and sometimes fuzzy in a distorted way when they are near the end.

Me too. I'd buy a fancy gold disc of this session. To me the something special is the Woodman and Mingus appearances and contributions. This session gets no respect. It was included in a recent 24 bit reissue from Concord, but they dropped one tune to get it to fit on one disc. ARGH!

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I know what you mean. It's depressing. But it's suposed to be.

Email from Mosaic: Upcoming Releases Limited Edition Box Set The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (7 CDs) (Release Date: May/June 2011) Mosaic is pleased to announce a long awaited project that has been on the wish list of many of our customers: The Decca recordings of the Jimmie Lunceford band. Blessed with superb soloists and demandingly advanced arrangements, the Harlem Express, as they were billed at times, became a favorite among swing fans and the record buying public in general. Amongst the classic Decca sides represented here were hits like "My Blue Heaven", "Margie" (the Trummy Young trombone and vocal feature which became his trademark), "Rhythm Is Our Business", "Sleepy Time Gal" (with its remarkable reed passage), "Swanee River" (the Sy Oliver chart which later was recycled to become one of Tommy Dorsey's greatest successes), "Organ Grinder's Swing", "Blues In The Night", "The Honeydripper" and the smash hit of "For Dancer's Only". The band had a unique one-on-one relationship with the public since they rarely played in one venue for long stretches of time. Their frequent one-nighters made them one of the most traveled bands of the era in theaters, nightclubs and ballrooms country-wide and the first jazz group to tour Sweden in 1937. The Lunceford roster stuck with Jimmie for much of the band's life history and included the booting tenor of Joe Thomas, the fluid alto of Willie Smith (among the big four along with Carter, Hodges and Parker), Paul Webster's stratospheric trumpet, the brilliant trombone work (and vocals) by Trummy Young and one of the greatest of all jazz drummers - Jimmy Crawford. But what set apart this band from many of the others were the futuristic yet swinging arrangements by Sy Oliver, Eddie Wilcox, Willie Smith, Eddie Durham, Gerald Wilson and Tadd Dameron. This will be the first time all of these Decca sessions are to be gathered together for the first time. We were fortunate to have not only metal parts available from the Universal Music vaults, but also mint condition test pressings from the collection of the masterful sound engineer, the late John R.T. Davies and mint 78s from collector (and Mosaic customer extraordinaire) Leon Dierckx. The text for our booklet comes from researcher and author of the Lunceford biography Rhythm Is Our Business , Eddy Determeyer. Photographs for the booklet include many never seen before images from the Joe Thomas archives held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. "At the time I joined Jimmie Luceford's band, they could outdraw any band in the country. Benny Goodman? We were more popular than Benny Goodman! We were the first black band the played the Paramount Theatre. Not Duke Ellington, not Count Basie. Six weeks in a row and it was packed every day, people lining up around the corner, constantly! We could outdraw any band in the country. They were the forerunners, between swing and bebop. They were right there. And their records prove this. One of the greatest bands of all time." - Gerald Wilson New Mosaic Select Releases Upcoming Releases Mosaic Selects The Charles Tolliver Big Band (3 CDs) (Release Date: June 2011) "Rarely if ever has a big band exhibited so much freedom or finesse, while at the same time never overwhelming the virtuoso soloists on whom the performances pivot." - Jason Ankemy, Allmusic.com The Charles Tolliver Big Band has come to be known for its intricate, layered writing, charging rhythms and exciting soloists. The band's roots trace back to 1970 when Tolliver recorded "Music Inc. & Big Band" for his Strata-East label. He and Stanley Cowell were the composers and principal soloists for this ground-breaking album, which represented the new approach to big band writing since the emergence of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra five years earlier. It was more likely finances rather than ambition that put five years between that album and its successor "Impact." This time the expanded big band included eight strings and James Spaulding, Charles McPherson and George Coleman are among its soloists. From these, it was thought that the trail ran cold for this band until the mid 2000s. But in preparation for this reissue, Charles ran across a tape of a big band workshop/broadcast that he did in 1979 with NDR Big Band in Hamburg, Germany. He secured the rights and the master tape and that music is released for the first time in this set. Soloists include Tolliver, fellow trumpeter Benny Bailey, alto saxophonist Her Geller, pianist Wolfgang Dauner and drummer Alvin Queen. In recent years, the band has reformed and returned with a vengeance, touring and recording for Blue Note (2007) and Half Note (2009). Its legacy begins with this Mosaic Select. Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (3 CDs) (Release Date: June 2011) By the time Sam Rivers was able to document his orchestral writing in 1974 (on the Impulse album "Crystals") at the tender age of 51, he was best known for leading a magnificent, purely improvised trio devoid of all written music. But composition was (and is) as much a part of his incessantly fertile mind as improvisation. His densely-layered and beautifully voiced multi-sectional orchestra pieces burn with an intensity that never forsakes the music's beauty. Rivers seamlessly integrates improvisation into the written score. Solos are distributed democratically as effective, concise statements. In 1992, Rivers moved to Orlando, Florida where he quickly formed another powerful improvising trio and set about seeking personnel to form an orchestra for the music that he was constantly writing. After two all-star albums for RCA Records in 1998 ("Inspiration" and "Culmination"), recorded in New York, an Orlando edition of the Rivbea Orchestra started to emerge in the early 2000s. Drawn from teachers and students at surrounding colleges, frustrated members of various Walt Disney World aggregations and retired veterans of orchestras like Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman, Sam Rivers crafted a first-class orchestra to realize his music. In 2007, he issued the new Rivbea Orchestra's first recording "Airora" on his own Rivbea label. When we heard the album, we called Sam to offer our jaw-dropping praise, he told us essentially there is plenty more where that came from and set about sifting through hours of studio and live recordings to cull the three CDs of previously unreleased material contained in this set. The results are forward-thinking and electrifying. View All Mosaic Upcoming Releases New Mosaic Select Releases Jazz Video Cafe New Additions Sidney Bechet A rare opportunity to view Sidney Bechet stretching out on the St. Louis Blues alongside Claude Luter's band. Filmed in a concert setting while Bechet was a resident of Paris. Lester Young & More - Jammin The Blues Filmed in 1944, this Warner Brothers short feature is considered one of the finest examples of jazz on film. "Jammin' The Blues" brings together Lester Young, Harry Edison, Illinois Jacquet, Red Callendar, Marlowe Morris, Barney Kessel, Sid Catlett, Jo Jones and vocalist Marie Bryant. Dave Brubeck - Take Five By this 1961 episode of Jazz Casual, Desmond had become extremely comfortable with his creation and turns in a beautiful fluid solo, while Brubeck, Gene Wright and Joe Morello lock into the 3 beat-2 beat pattern that forms the basis for the composition. Charles Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat A 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival performance of Charles Mingus's famous ode to Lester Young "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" by his band with Jack Walrath, George Adams, Don Pullen and Dennie Richmond. Gerry Muilligan and Benny Bailey sit in as guest artists. Andrew Hill - Solo Andrew was an extraordinary pianist, composer, thinker and person. His work has been well represented on Blue Note and Mosaic. This is a beautiful solo performance from Canada of "Malachi". footer Thank you for your support. Sincerely, All of us at www.mosaicrecords.com www.truebluemusic.com Email: info@mosaicrecords.com 203-327-7111

The mind reels trying to absorb information about this from afar. My thoughts and prayers go out to all.

Many happy happy returns!

Many many happy returns!

That's five solid albums!

No, not to my knowledge, though it's really just a matter of time. That said, I think all the material is on cd and doesn't sound bad. My desert island Aretha disc is "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You."

The Lazar lp was released on cd in Japan.