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The LP had close to 30 minutes a side, so the CD has a chance of sounding better. If they used the LP masters, it'll probably sound the same.

Doesn't seem to me like a shakedown; it does seem a logical way to gauge whether the set will sell. Contrast this to what the Grateful Dead do: They announce a box set six months in advance, take orders and immediately charge the card. In effect, the advance orders pay the costs of producing the set. I wouldn't blame Mosaic for taking that approach, because it would be less money out of pocket for them.

Yes, the track I have is "Lazy Bird" from "Thundering Herd." It was on a Fantasy OJC sampler (part of a great series, btw): But I don't want to derail the thread. On Fantasy, looks like there were also King Cobra, Feelin' So Blue, Herd at Montreux, and Children of Lima. And has anyone mentioned Concord?

Don't know much about it, but there's also this:

Happy birthday!

Birks Works (without any apostrophe) makes sense. It's similar to saying "John Works," "Sam Plays," "Leroy Walks," "Leroy Walks Again!!" etc. I imagine Dave Usher saying "Work it on out, Birks!"

The format. It follows Myers's formula to the letter: talk to people involved with the song (could be writers, performers, producers, engineers, arrangers, cover artists); print their words verbatim but cleaned up as regards grammar, full sentences, and the like; placing those words in historical context (what was happening at the time); and discussing the effect the song had on history (personal history, pop history, etc.). Let's use one example: Myers's chapter on The Young Rascals' "Groovin'." It begins with Felix Cavaliere talking about his first serious girlfriend. Since, like most musicians, he worked Friday and Saturday nights, they only had Sundays together, and Groovin' was about their Sunday afternoons. He wrote the lyrics with Eddie Brigati. Cavaliere decided to use a baion rhythm, to give the song a Latin groove; he was exposed to Latin music when he led the house band at the Raleigh Hotel in the Catskills while he was a teen. They decided to leave out the drums; Dino Danelli played the conga with a stick under his arm, and at the bridge, he used the stick to strike a wood block, creating a ticking beat. Arif Mardin orchestrated a "Carmen Caballero-Style lounge-piano solo" for Cavaliere. They then wanted a Latin bass line overdubbed. Gene Cornish couldn't quite get it, so they called Chuck Rainey. By the time they got to the studio the next day, Rainey had already nailed it. Cavaliere added the sound of birds, inspired by the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine." Mardin suggested adding a harmonica. No one in the band played one, so the guy who swept the floors in the studio, Michael Weinstein, played it. Finally, Jerry Wexler hated the latin rhythm and wanted to add a drummer. Murray the K persuaded Wexler it was going to be a hit as is! As indeed it was. The book is full of little tidbits like that. Did you know David Fathead Newman and Clark Terry played on the Lovin' Spoonful's "Darling Be Home Soon"? The Four Tops' "Reach Out I'll Be There" was influenced by Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone"? The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" was 3:45 in length, and Phil Spector knew that was too long for AM radio, so he simply changed the time on the label to 3:05? Great, great book.

Aren't these covered on the two recent Ellington boxes from Sony Legacy?

I placed an order for the new box. Haven’t heard much Herman, but I heard a piece on a Fantasy sampler that I liked. And with a run of only 2,000, this may go quickly - seems tailor-made for EBay resellers.

Thanks for posting; great read. The format of the piece seems a blatant ripoff of Marc Myers’s “Anatomy Of A Song” articles (a book I just finished reading).

Interestingly, this is on another pretty inexpensive box: I have the late quartets on a Deutsche LP box by the Amadeus Quartett, but find those performances to be clinical and not very involving. Sound quality is early digital.

All the graphics I posted were from Amazon, so check there (as well as at other record sellers, if there are any others by this point). Before buying, double-check importcds.com, as they frequently have much better prices.

So the first year, I found that if I waited long enough, prices came down ridiculously low. The second year, I found that if I waited, the prices never came down; instead, they sold out and commanded ridiculous prices on the secondary market. So this year, I want to grab the good ones at reasonable prices. What do the classical aficionados think about the following currently or soon to be available releases? Leonard Rose - The Complete Concerto and Sonata Recordings Julliard String Quartet- The Complete Epic Recordings 1956-66 George Szell - The Complete Columbia Album Collection Budapest String Quartet - The Complete Beethoven Quartets Alexander Brailowsky plays Chopin John Browning - The Complete RCA Album Collection

Not sure if this is off-topic, but I’ve often thought that “the industry” should give listeners like us, who buy so much more than the typical music consumer, a bulk discount. CDs should cost us no more than $5 a disc. We’d more than make up for the differential in quantity.

The link to the tracklist no longer works. Can anyone pls supply it?

I wonder whether there was an error in calling it Volume 1. I recently found a used copy of Jukebox Ella. Per the booklet, it contains singles recorded between 1956 and 1967. It seems unlikely there were singles recorded after 1967, because her first release for Capitol was in 1967. Unless someone here knows otherwise, this is probably simply "The Complete Singles."

Could it be Rose’s daughter who is putting these discs on eBay? Maybe she’s given up on selling the entire collection to one buyer.

I recently started reading The JC Reference, and learned Coltrane and Garland were playing together as early as 1948 (in Cleanhead Vinson’s band).

Yeah...hard for me to see how I'm the "customer" if I'm not paying them anything. Then again, I don't intend to. Must be more of that Internet logic.

Huh. Sometime in the last year, Photobucket told me they would no longer allow linking to third-party sites, and indeed, when I then checked this board, everything I had linked from there could no longer be viewed. Guess they've since changed their policy (again), because I just now linked a photo from there in the usual way. Thanks for the tip.

Met these guys once at a Roscoe Mitchell concert: Also had the pleasure of meeting kh1958 once.

I first heard Stanko on a Leo album "Almost Green." His compositions had an interesting sense of time, almost boozy. Also reminded me of Mingus's bands. RIP.

I used to use Photobucket, but they no longer allow links to third-party sites such as Organissimo. I know the O board software used to allow uploads of small picture sizes, but I couldn't see an option to do that now. So what's the best current way?

Dave Brubeck: http://www.davebrubeckjazz.com/Recordings Grant Green: http://audiscography.web.fc2.com/gg.htm Moondog: http://www.moondogscorner.de/frame.html Charles Mingus: http://mingus.onttonen.info Paul Whiteman: http://www.redhotjazz.com/pwo.html ECM Records: https://ecmreviews.com/artists/ Mosaic Records: http://web.archive.org/web/20060805160412/mosaicrecords.com/departments.asp?dept=5 Billie Holiday: http://www.billieholidaysongs.com

Albert Ayler: http://ayler.co.uk/html/discography.html Many and various (click the Artists tab): https://attictoys.com/jazz-in-rochester-ny-1955-1961/ CTI Records: http://www.dougpayne.com/cti.htm Another Ellington: http://www.ellingtonia.com/discography/1924-1930.html http://www.billieholiday.be Thelonious Monk: http://www.monkbook.com/sessionography/ Sun Ra: http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/ Another Sun Ra: http://web.archive.org/web/20101018023634/http:/homepage.uab.edu/moudry/discintr.htm Many and various: http://www.jazzarcheology.com VSOP Records: http://www.magnebit.com/vsoprecords/index.htm Miles Davis: http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx Charlie Parker: http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/BirdSessions.aspx