jazzbo

The Savoy-Denon cd reissue has the Hal Overton Trio.

Thanks for the heads up. CDU has a nice pre-order price.

My two Epiphones are the most neglected of my guitars, the Hummingbird and the Jack Casidy. On top of that I've taken up and concentrated on drumming again and the situation is going to worsen. But. . . you know. . .there are worse problems to have.

I have this on cd from MCA Japan. I like it a lot. I need to dig it out soon and give it another spin. I don't doubt that eventually we'll see it released in the US. It's Coltrane. They'll sell copies.

I love my fretless bass; it's a Wishbass made by Steve Wishnevsky and it's so expressive. . . just one pickup (an EMG jazz) and a volume control on it and it sounds so "woody." I like it so much that I thought about fretless guitars. Though I have too many guitars already. So thanks for the input!

I hear ya! Thanks!

Oh, just whether you like playing it. I find I like playing my fretless bass much more than my fretted one. OF course chords. . .that's different.

Anyone have any experience with fretless guitars?

I found the Kind of Blue book Kind of Boring. I liked this book about ALS more. . . I knew less about the album and its circumstances I guess. Made it more interesting. There is something about Kahn's writing that doesn't draw me in as well. . . a fawning perhaps, not sure how to describe it. Still, lots of nice information to absorb. I have the "House that Trane Built" but haven't yet read it. Too many books in between! It's available at www.daedalusbooks.com if anyone is interested in a reasonably priced copy.

Many many happy returns!

Vic, Tillykke med Fødselsdagen! Many many happy returns!

I'm not claiming any virtue, I'm no angel on these things. These seem to be new remasterings for JSP by Ted Kendall from 78s etc. from collectors. It doesn't seem to be a rip from someone else's remasterings. They're presented chronologically and I think they sound better than the King Jazz and the RCAs I've heard. So. . . I don't think they stole these, I think these are their productions, and yes I wanted to have a comprehensive Waller cd collection, didn't have all the RCAs, and I went for it. If I felt these were just remakes of the RCA boxes, I'd look for those. . .

No, I haven't bought any of the "stolen sets" I've listed or others. But I have bought the Fats Waller sets. Had much of this on the King Jazz cds, fourteen of them, but passed those on to my father, a great big Fats Waller fan.

Uh yeah. But I don't have to be enthusiastic about any of them.

There's a new edition from Jazz Track. . .

There's a new edition from Jazz Beat. . .

I'm not a fan of their ripping off others' sets as they've (many of us "suspect") done with Charley Patton, Louis Jordan, Bunny Berigan. . . .

So sorry to read this. It's wonderful that you both got to share this friendship.

JSP has just released their sixth volume of the Fats Waller commercial recordings. Worlds Records just added it to their site (www.worldsrecords.com). Wow. This was a really done project by a label I'm not always that enthusiastic about.

That sure is great music; I have all the Savoy cds.

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Sure, that makes sense. I'm surprised one of the vinylhounds hasn't chimed in with an answer for him!

I wonder how many times I've read that! At least five times. A novel that is in my psyche somewhere by now.

I agree! A fantastic film (shown a few other places as well). Hope it gets release.