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It's so saddening. Understandable from a business standpoint in this "cruel world". . . but saddening. We need to keep supporting Mosaic! If they can make good with these items, then maybe the majors will see a way.

I have all three. I enjoy all three. Each of these guitarists are different. Johnny Smith has such a beautiful sound and his work is very swinging and polished. Joe Pass and Tal Farlow to me incorporate slightly more progressive jazz elements in these recordings, and each sport individual guitar sounds ("edgier" than Smith's to my ears). Perhaps, knowing what little that I know of your musical leanings, the Farlow is the place to start.

I agree with Laton about the Big Band, and I also enjoy the Sextet release. I would also recommend Chet Baker and Crew, and Picture of Heath.

That's an interesting one to pick up. . . probably won't be in print too much longer. I like those Osby's too. Going to have to dig out "Symbols and Light" and spin it soon, my favorite.

Lon, you have to rent/buy/find the documentary The Brute and The Beautiful! In it, Webster's cousin discusses how Lee and Lester Young — back in 1929 — took Webster under their collective wing for a while. Webster himself, in fact, credits his first saxophone "lessons" to Pres! (Long before he was dubbed Pres, of course.) Ah, I have seen that one, years ago. And I've read about the Brute's musical upbringing in the most recent Pres biography (which I really like, though others don't seem to). . . . I just never really hear a lot of Pres in Webster BUT in these live big band Ellington appearances I start to hear some little Presian magic, reminds me in places of Pres in front of the tail end of the Old Testament Basie. . . .

I have been enjoying some fine Webster going through the new box from Storyville, "The Duke Box." This morning, listening over coffee, I was thinking there is a little taste here of what Pres would have been like in that forties Ellington band. I heard a little bit of aspects of Pres in some of the Webster there. Or I might just not have been awake enough!

Here's something you can share with them: Many of us wish they'd quit with the compilations we're not going to buy and continue reissuing complete and/or expanded reissues of great albums on labels such as Argo, Limelight, Norgan, Clef. . .et al.

I have to agree with you Larry on the two of these I know well; I've never heard the Peterson. Great stuff, that Rosnes and MBB!

Well, the Wellstood will hit your account with less impact. The Vol. 12 is outstanding!

I missed this cd co-led by Butterfield on the Jazzology label (don't have it myself) Billy Butterfield With Dick Wellstood Jazzology Records [JCD-174] Recording Artists: Billy Butterfield, Trumpet & Fluegelhorn Dick Wellstood, Piano. Songs: Willow Weep For Me Ain't Misbehavin' Summertime You Can Depend On Me I've Got The World On A String Sunny Side Of The Street Dear Old Southland It's A Wonderful World I've Got It Bad Rainy Day Keeping Out Of Mischief Now.

Yes: from: www.jazzology.com Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume One [JCD-1001/1002 (D)] Recording Artists: : Billy Butterfield, Ernie Caceres, Bob Casey, Edd... Songs: Sweet Georgia Brown; Peg O' My Heart; Carolina Sho... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Two [JCD-1003/1004 (D)] Recording Artists: : Billy Butterfield, Ernie Caceres, Eddie Condon, ... Songs: The Joint Is Jumpin'; Squeeze Me; Willow Tree; Can... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Four [JCD-1007/1008 (D)] Recording Artists: : Billy Butterfield, Ernie Caceres, Bob Casey, Edd... Songs: Everybody Loves My Baby; You're Lucky To Me; Limeh... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Five [JCD-1009/1010 (D)] Recording Artists: Billy Butterfield, Ernie Caceres, Cozy Cole, Eddie... Songs: Love Nest; Big Noise From Winnetka; Big Butter And... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Seven [JCD-1013/1014 (D)] Recording Artists: : Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Billy Butterfield,... Songs: My Blue Heaven; Through A Veil Of Indifference; Af... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Eight [JCD-1015/1016 (D)] Recording Artists: : Bobby Hackett, Dick Cary, Max Kaminsky, Wingy Ma... Songs: Ballin' The Jack; The Sheik Of Araby; China Boy; T... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Nine [JCD-1017/1018 (D)] Recording Artists: : Sidney Bechet, Billy Butterfield, Ernie Caceres,... Songs: September In The Rain; Body And Soul; Rose Room; M... Eddie Condon The Town Hall Concerts Volume Ten [JCD-1019/1020 (D)] Recording Artists: : Sidney Bechet, Johnny Blowers, Billy Butterfield... Songs: Should I?; I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Ka... The Eddie Condon -the Town Hall Concerts, Volume Eleven (3 Cd Set) [JCD-1021/1022/1023 (] Recording Artists: Danny Alvin, Johnny Blowers, Dave Bowman, Vernon B... Songs: Sweet Georgia Brown, Serenade In Thirds, Sugar, Ch... Eddie Condon At Town Hall Volume 12, March 11,1944. [JCD-1024] Recording Artists: Bobby Hackett, Cnt; Billy Butterfield, Tpt; Max Ka... Songs: Strutters Ball; Old Southland; Ja-da; Muskrat Ramb...

VERY GLAD you decided to get that and did. Well, there's the two cd OKEH recordings from Columbia, a good way to get a large chunk of essential sides. . . . Too bad that the Masters of Jazz series has become defunct and so hard to find. . . that's an avenue I wish I could go . . . and I'd recommend if they were in print.

Gosh, well not knowing your personal favorites, I'd say that my favorites are the Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts, the Art Hodes releases and the This is Jazz releases. I don't think there are any with Butterfield as a leader on that label. . . . .

Alexander will soon give us a report. Not the most flattering cover. They should have used one of the bikini shots from her vacation in the Bahamas!

I like the George H. Buck labels in general, and admire what he's done to keep the jazz legacy in print and alive. On Jazzology I have mainly historic releases (by which I guess I mean sessions recorded before the seventies) and really enjoy them almost to a "man." Sound reissues of lps, usually with additional material, and with great sound.

Well, I'm glad I didn't buy this, I received it as a gift today. Pretty cool in my opinion! Nice sound.

Skip it.

I really like "Stand."

I've spun all the discs. . . some more than once. . . but can't say yet that I really "know" the sets. . . . But I do know that this was one helluva labor of love and devotion. As I said elsewhere, these should be "Grammy'd"! I haven't read enough of the booklets. . . need to make that a priority.

I liked it. . . .It's pure fantasy. Gets hardly nothing right historically, and I always laugh when Sparta is touted as "holding up freedom" (wonder how all those oppressed helots felt). But who cares, it's a guy flick. I think they captured the Frank Miller graphic novel world well and made a good movie of it. (I haven't read this graphic novel, but I sure "felt" Frank Miller all over this).

I think so . . . I think I used to have that and some other Columbia vinyls that had these tunes; I sold them when I bought five French CBS cds that covered 1947 to 1951.

Lots of RCA possibilities for Mosaic as well. I'd be happy to see some big band boxes such as Barnet, Berigan, Shaw. . . .

No, something's up with my laptop. I'll check them out at work.

I know, so you've said. Still sad. In that case, one of their last projects, the Fats Waller box, was so damned good it's criminal there's not more.

Doesn't play for me here on my laptop. . . but thanks!