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I don't have a lot of Django, but I do have the 5-CD set on JSP and the first Jazz On Vogue box. None of this is duplicated on those.

Close to a box set... Meat Light, $8.71 + shipping from an Amazon reseller:

Just coincidentally, I recently relistened to a CD that a board friend (anyone remember PD?) made for me many years ago, of Roy Williams and Five A Slide. Nothing earth-shattering, but very well played and enjoyable - also interesting to hear a band with 5 trombones! I think the music was in this style, which makes me want to hear more. Of course, I remember seeing those Acker Bilk albums on the inner sleeves of Atlantic albums. They all looked kind of corny, and I never knew anyone who played them, but I was much younger then.

Just noticed this box set, and was curious if anyone has an opinion, not just about the particular selections in this set but about the genre itself. I suppose it could veer into corn, but perhaps a lot of it is good, vibrant stuff? And, of course, at a great price. Thoughts? See: https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Dixieland-Golden-European-Traditional/dp/B004VRO7DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1492558912&sr=1-1&keywords=welcome+to+dixieland

Jim, thanks for the recommendation. Just listened to it, and it smokes!

Interesting article on Porter from Marc Myers's JazzWax website (via the Mosaic Gazette), in which he asked Porter to talk about his five favorite albums: http://www.jazzwax.com/2016/12/bob-porter-on-soul-jazz.html

The World's Oldest Person keeps dying!

Folk music legend Bruce Langhorne has passed away, according to acolyte Dylan Golden Aycock. Langhorne was a session guitarist and percussionist and a friend to Bob Dylan. He inspired the song ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, contributed the spidering guitar solo on ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ and played on Dylan’s tracks ‘Maggie’s Farm’, ‘Love Minus Zero/No Limit,’ and ‘She Belongs To Me’ and on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. See: http://www.factmag.com/2017/04/14/bruce-langhorne-mr-tambourine-man-died/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook_share_button&utm_campaign=share_buttons&utm_content=384059

Just announced: Dave's Picks Volume 22 - Felt Forum, NYC 12/7/71 (with some of 12/6/71).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html

Still listening through the 1966 box. In Edinburgh, he sounds like a man possessed. As for The Band, listening to each concert (with the same set list), you notice that they improvise like a jazz combo. Same arrangements, yes, that get to the same places, but within each song, they play what they feel at the time. It's conversational, like a New Orleans band, but all focused on the singer. Garth Hudson is the standout (his responses to what Dylan is singing are exceptional), but they all do it - listen to Robbie Robertson play differently at each concert. No two solos are the same. It's really thrilling.

Yeah. Unfortunately, this thread has now conflated two different topics. There's the April Fools joke you noticed, and then there's the legit reissue of Sgt. Pepper with the additional studio material. Fortunately, Paul is still dead.

I'm thinking the price will drop before the release date. The Dylan 1966 tour box started at $149, but was around $117 at the release date.

Pepper is one of my least-favorite Beatles albums. Bought it when it came out, and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. Some good songs, but never really heard the connective thread that everyone raved about. Sure, there were no gaps between the songs, but Zappa, on Absolutely Free, did that much better. Pepper, to my mind, was more about a break with their past - they no longer wanted to be considered a rock and roll band. Which was a shame, because as a rock and roll band, they brought together an entire generation. I remember talking with an African-American cashier; she said she loved the Beatles until Pepper, at which point she lost interest - she just "didn't get it." This opinion has stayed with me throughout the last 40 years. I much prefer Magical Mystery Tour for its quirkiness, and The Beatles Again/Hey Jude for its poppiness. Abbey Road's another one I can take or leave. To tell you the truth, I really would have loved to hear "Liverpool Stories." It sounds like it would've been everything Pepper isn't. Too bad it's fictional. YMMV, of course.

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According to the NYT article referenced in the Wikipedia entry, just Basie and Stuff Smith: The collection has already shed new light on what is considered the first outdoor jazz festival, the 1938 Carnival of Swing on Randalls Island. More than 20 groups played at the event, including the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, and though newsreel footage exists, no audio of the festival was believed to have survived — until part of performances by Count Basie and Stuff Smith turned up on Mr. Savory’s discs.

Found this in the Stuff Smith entry in Wikipedia: Part of Smith's performance at what is considered the first outdoor jazz festival, the 1938 Carnival of Swing on Randall's Island, turned up unexpectedly on audio engineer William Savory's discs, which were self-recorded off the radio at the time, then long-sequestered. Some newsreel footage survived but no audio of the festival was thought to have survived until the discs were acquired in 2012 by Loren Schoenberg, executive director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.[1]

It's no longer listed under "Last Chance" or in the boxed set listing. So I guess now it's gone. (Unless they find some more copies.)

It looks like the Lunceford is still available; probably was just a bad link.

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More details have emerged about Apple’s 50th anniversary release of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. As expected, the album will come in several formats, including a deluxe box set with a new 5.1 mix of the album by producer Giles Martin, the son of the album’s original producer George Martin, as well as an unreleased early version of the album entitled Liverpool Stories. Liverpool Stories contains early versions of songs that would end up on Pepper, as well as several songs that have never before been released in any format. In fact, the existence of these tracks had escaped the notice of even the most ardent Beatles bootleggers. More here: http://www.culturesonar.com/beatles-liverpool-stories-album/

I think my next two sets will be the Chick Webb and the new Lester.