jazzbo

I agree Evan, this is a smokin' cd!

Mulligan

No I don't know. . . but it's a preorder and I don't think your card will be charged until the shipping date. . . .

Sound is very good on the A. K. Salim which includes the "Stablemates" side of Salim's and the track from "Swing not Spring"

6.99 at J&R

I haven't listened further than the second disc in this one; I've had less time than usual to listen due to work issues and I've leaned heavily into "comfort food" listening lately, which has meant this time a heavy diet of Elllington, Armstrong and Monk. I'd be surprised if they weren't ALL one track cdrs, not indexed at all. And I think there will be not that much "repitition" of exact set lists. It might be several weeks before I have a definitive answer for you.

There's an All About Jazz interview piece with Sue Mingus that is quite interesting: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/review_print.php?id=27120 I found this passage revealing, hadn't realized she'd changed her mind so completely: She has also changed her opinion on the bootlegging of music. For years, Sue Mingus was known for her stance against pirating music, adamant that musicians need to get their royalties. She was known to go into record stores in the city and grab Mingus albums she knew were unauthorized and walk out. But she’s done a 180-degree turn. The reason: technological advances that make it impossible to monitor. “You can’t fight Sidney Hall, as Charles used to say,” says Mingus. “You can’t fight something that’s a fact of life. Everybody can copy. There are musicians who’ve told me they haven’t bought a CD in eight years. Everybody burns copies for one another. If that possibility is there, you have to embrace it. The government is going to have to find a way to subsidize artists. Artists have to have some way of making money. If they’re not going to be able to make money selling their music when everybody can copy it, I don’t know. You have to have rewards for creativity. If the minute you create something it’s absorbed by everyone else and it no longer is yours and you can’t make money off it and pay the rent, then what’s going to happen to out creative imaginations? Who knows? I’m sure we’ll work our way through, but I have no idea how we’re going to do that.” “If you’re able to copy everything, you won’t go back. So the first question is: What kind of copyright protection can anybody have when everything belongs to everybody? There’s another wonderful (DVD) compilation that Jazz Icons is releasing which includes some Mingus concerts--one in a television studio in Belgium and two live concerts, one in Sweden and one in Oslo. A lot of this material has already appeared on YouTube. My attorney called me up and said--as did Jazz Icons--did they want me to force them to take it off. I said absolutely not. It’s wonderful publicity. It’s reaching people who otherwise wouldn’t hear Mingus music, probably. I don’t see it at all as competitive to their release. Their release is not muddy and unclear. These [on YouTube] aren’t great renditions of the music, nor are they visual masterpieces. But it’s information. I think it’s wonderful. “I’ve come full circle. I had a record company called Revenge Records and I went after pirates. I used to walk into music stores and just take all the pirated material that I saw of Mingus. People come to the club. We used to ask them not to film, not to take photographs. But now I say: be my guest. Everybody on the face of the earth can take pictures or record.”

CD Universe would be the route I'd take. (Search under label "Origin Jazz.")

Mosaic is likely to be able to provide you with a good educated "guess". . . . In this case I think you'd be safe, that would be MY guess, but it's not as informed as one Mosaic would provide.

(Help the economy--pull out the ol' credit card. ) Egads! In my opinion the Hoges set is worth two Nelsons!

I found the quote about Pee Wee, told by Prima to Arnold Shaw: “He had the most fabulous musical mind I have known. He never looked at a note. But the second time I played a lick, he’d play along with me in harmony. The guy seemed to read my mind. I never ran into anyone that had that much talent.”

I really like it. But then I'm a fan of early jazz and of the New Orleans style of the twenties and thirties and I would! Sound is very good. Nice booklet too. Prima has said something like "Pee Wee Russell was the most fascinating musical mind I knew." There's good Pee Wee here.

Glad you're here!

I've go Blue Lou on lp and REALLY like it. It's better than that review would lead you to believe! Haven't heard the lead lp here, but I will. . . .

So now that you're finished (or almost) what do you think? Recommend it? Yes, with a qualification. It's a nobrainer of interest to anyone who has done a fair amount of study of seminal Christianity and Egyptology and the mystery religions, etc. Will be quite interesting to that person. I'm finding it hard to evaluate the overall thesis and explication. I'm familiar witih about 60 percent of the Egyptian background material presented, maybe more but it's not that fully and clearly delineated. It has made me interested in learning more about the scholars that inspired the book, especially Kuhn and Massey, and I'll probably try to find some representative works of theirs. Perhaps some of my misgivings about the presentation of material will be mollified when I wade through the notes. I'd say this Mark, I think if you were initially drawn to the book you'll enjoy a read of it.

As far as I know the "Plus" is so far only available on EMI product.

I ordered one too.

K, Check this out, a new Fresh Sound: http://www.worldsrecords.com/cgi-bin/store...d=02-11-08.5870

Just finished listening to disc 1. Sound is excellent! I really really wish they were doing complete shows instead of these comps.

Welcome! Interesting about the sheet music. My father has collected a lot of sheet music, mainly based around the turn of the last century and in to the WWI period. I haven't heard him talk of pricing in years, I'm not sure he's bought much.

Almost finished with this one. After this I may read "No Country for Old Men" by McCarthy.

88 more well-tuned happy ones Michael!

So why do I like Jimmy better?

Shorty is also prominently featured on this two cd set from Fresh Sounds. Includes the two Blue Note "Best from the West" volumes in excellent sound. From Da Bastids site: A treasure trove of west coast jazz work from the mid 50s -- one that features a number of unusual sessions! First off, the set includes 4 tracks that were initially recorded under the leadership of Shorty Rogers, most likely for RCA -- and featuring players that include Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Jimmy Giuffre, and Pete Jolly -- on titles that include the Giuffre originals "Safari", "Ballade", and "Scarf Dance". Next up are 15 tracks from the rare Best From The West 10" jazz LPs for Blue Note -- originally billed as a "blindfold test" under the supervision of Leonard Feather, and some of the label's only west coast jazz sessions of the 50s! The musicians on the original record were not named -- probably because of contractual reasons -- but artists include Conte Candoli, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Mariano, Howard Roberts, Marty Paich, and others -- all coming together with a fresh, clean sound that's very much in the spirit of some of the best west coast work for labels like Pacific Jazz or Capitol at the time! This CD reissue includes both of the original 10" albums on one set -- along with much-needed notes on the players. Titles include "Santa Anita", "Culver City", "Burbank Bounce", "Arcadia", "Here's Pete", "Santa Monica", and "Blindfold Test No 1". The set then features 9 more tracks from sine 1957 sessions produced by Howard Lucraft, also done as a study in West Coast jazz -- featuring compositions by Lucraft that include "Smog A La Mode", "Jazz For Gene", "Larrisa", and "California Zephyr -- played by 3 different groups of players that include Bud Shank, Conte Candoli, Stu Williamson, Frank Rosolino, Charlie Mariano, and Buddy Collette. Last up are 4 more tunes from a 1955 session that features Stu Williamson, Herb Geller, Jack Montrose, and Bob Gordon -- on tracks that include "Id", "I'm Forever Counting Geigers", and "Skip To Me Loot". 38 tracks in all -- with full notes on the sessions and players!