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Definitely, the music grew from partyin', the music was serious, as serious as your life partyin' music. . . . Congrats on the show! Must be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of that early jazz as well. It's uplifting and more and more I need the uplift!

Alright! I'm sure you're going to enjoy it! Nice collection of stuff rarely seen outside that collection and it's a good summertime record!

Always love this photo!

Personally, if you think Basie "moved on" then I'd say Benny did too, at least as "far." I like a lot of Benny's fifties and sixties smaller group work (more than orchestra) with great players such as Zoot Sims, Red Norvo et al. The Yale box sets are quite good listening, and there are others (mainy of which aren't on cd).

Ambassador Satch, yes. . . . I've had an lp, the most recent cd, and I recently found a cheap copy of the SACD of this and really enjoy listening to it. This is one of the seminal records that helped make my friend Dave a jazz fanatic and trumpet player when he encountered it in the early seventies (about the same time a copy of Plays W. C. Handy was making me a Pops fan a few hundred miles away!) Today I'm going to play parts of the Columbia "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" box set. This is a great collection (especially the booklet) and though most of it is now available in better sound, still sounds good and flows really well (great for iPod/i-deck listening)!

Good news! Thanks for sharing.

It may say something about Texas. . . or just Austin. . .but I have heard these comments here too. And the damning part of THAT is. . . I don't get out that often at all, but I've heard them. . . .

Not me Mike. BUT. . . I do know exactly what you mean and can echo your observation about the last five to ten years.

The Parlan set is a must have in my opinion. I find it incredible that none of his albums has been RVGed! IN AMERICA. . .

Way to go! This week I'm alternating the Rich and the Roach Mosaic sets. Which is. . . a trippy thing to do!

Not me. My palms aren't even hairy.

Flurin, thanks for the email announcing the launch; best of luck in this endeavor (and others!)

Don't pass this one by if you're a Pops fan. . . awesome!

Lon: Just listened a CD with a selection of Scott Joplin's rags performed by Richard Zimmermann on Legacy International. Haven't read those Amazon reviews, but I really prefer very much David Thomas Roberts' versions for Solo Art. Oh, and I still have to get Guido Nielsen's in his Joplin integral for Basta Records. Well, thanks for the comparison, I may try the Roberts' version some time.

I'm not sure we have a thread dedicated solely to the UrFather, the Man, Louis Armstrong. Summer is coming on. . . and summer is always a time that I pull out Armstrong and play. I pulled out the Autobiography sessions yesterday and was just totally overwhelmed once more with the expressive power, the sly and clever self-editing, the personality that resonates from this music. There simply is no other musician who quite communicates to me with such a strong and clear link. The beautiful full and rich sound of the horn. The swing that any three notes represent in a way so few others ever could. The texture in the voice. The choice, oh the uncanny choice of note and shade and placement. Put on some Pops today and be elevated!

Many Happy Returns! And THANKS!

I'll save myself a lot of money I don't have then and leave the can closed. Thanks amigo.

With you on all of this (as you know).

I'm in total agreement with you. Sound is fabulous on this and the Wes (so far the only two in the series I own).

I've toyed with the idea of buying the first four or five King Crimson lps in the newest cd editions for some time. . . . But I've resisted. Don't want to start collecting KC past that. . .and fear I may be opening a can of worms!

Shades of Spiderman 3~!

I confess, I listened to only half the song. . . . It was "okay" but just that, for me.

She's smart. She's keeping her day job!

I'm less thrilled by the Dizzy set than you are, but I bet Bixieland will dig the Duke set a lot.