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These are the Tiny Grimes sessions on the Storyville box: Art Tatum Trio D Art Tatum (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Slam Stewart (b), Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman (announcer) Los Angeles, California, March 22, 1943 1270 9 Melody In F (Anton Rubinstein) D 5:41 1271 10 Let Me Off Uptown* (Earl Bostic-R. Evans) D 3:47 1280 11 Tiny’s Exercise (Tiny Grimes) D 5:18 1300 12 Exactly Like You* (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields) D 3:58 1310 13 Sweet Lorraine (Cliff Burwell-Mitchell Parish) D 3:56 Art Tatum Trio G Art Tatum (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Slam Stewart (b) Private recording from Frenchie’s Pink Pig by Michael J.Cudahy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1944 1815 21 Exactly Like You (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields) G 5:13 1816 1 Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler) A 4:55 1817 2 Sweet Lorraine (Cliff Burwell-Mitchell Parish) A 4:22 Art Tatum Trio B Art Tatum (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Slam Stewart (b) Radio broadcast, “Philco Hall of Fame” on NBC radio, New York, May 21, 1944 1880 3 Humoresque* (Antonin Dvorak) B 2:39 1890 4 I Know That You Know (Vincent Youmans-Anne Caldwell) B 3:41

Some of the Basies are too (w/Sarah Vaughan, w/Joe Williams). Interestingly, others (Chairman of the Board, Breakfast Dance and Barbecue) now say they're from Parlophone UK.

I don't know; I just took a quick look at Amazon, and the Armstrong/Ellington titles are still available.

I wonder when all the Roulette titles released by Blue Note will be cut out, since Universal lost the rights to them. Let's keep our eyes open.

I have the 4-CD Storyville set "Louis Armstrong in Scandinavia." How does the music in the Mosaic box compare?

I think this is mandatory viewing:

Curious about this. Any thoughts? Release date is next week:

Release date is tomorrow: For ECM releases, we should start playing "guess the font."

Wow, we've been talking about this for so long, hard to believe it's coming out tomorrow! Just preordered it.

LOL!!!

Are there any Impulse Coltranes currently available in mono?

JLH, honestly, it depends on how much money you have to risk. Just to give you one person's perspective: I've listened to jazz since the '70's, and had never heard of Joe Daley. I just looked at Wikipedia: no listing for him. Just looked at allmusic.com: barely a mention, nothing descriptive; for "biography," this is what it says in its entirety: "A tenor saxophonist and bandleader, Joe Daley recorded for RCA at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival with bassist Russell Thorne and drummer Hal Russell." OK, now I know he played tenor. But in what style music did he play: free, "structured free" (you seem to like to release that sort of music), something other? More to the point, for the potential buyer, how would they know? Are there song samples anywhere? So you may get huzzahs and kudos in the press. But as for sales, by now you can probably tell in your gut what the answer is. It could be that just putting it out would be its own reward for you. If I were you (and I'm not), perhaps a better solution would be to put out the original disc, and include a download code where the buyer could download the additional material. Again, just one man's opinion. Good luck with whatever you decide.

Just got Thelma. The bonus disc is Thelma from the day before (12/11/69).

Junie C. Cobb - Chicago: The Living Legends - $5.99 Albert Wynn - Chicago: The Living Legends - $5.99 Little Brother Montgomery - Chicago: The Living Legends - $5.99 Mama Yancey & Little Brother Montgomery - South Side Blues - $5.99 Jim Robinson - New Orleans: The Living Legends - $6.99 Earl Hines - A Monday Date - $5.99 JATP - London 1969 - $5.75 JATP - Frankfurt 1952 - $4.31

Puts the award to Terry Teachout in context, doesn't it?

I just looked at the Mosaic website, and didn't see any other Roulette material.

I don't think I've heard of the movies on discs 9 - 18. Are they any good?

To answer my own question, I found the session that produced Hum-Bug and Southern Exposure. I don't recognize the album, though: Eddie Bert (trombone) Sahib Shihab (baritone saxophone) Tommy Flanagan (piano) Kenny Burrell (guitar) Carl Pruitt (bass) Elvin Jones (drums) NYC, May 17, 1956 CO55945 Hum-Bug Epic LN 3339 CO55946 Southern Exposure - * Epic LN 3339; Fontana (E) TFL 5008 Hank Jones/Conte Candoli/Milt Hinton/Sahib Shihab/Ronnie Bright/Barry Galbraith/Jimmy Cleveland/Gene Quill/Ray Bryant/Osie Johnson - After Hours Jazz

Release date June 17:

Are there any other Mosaic Roulettes? Might pay to buy them now, before the email comes.

So, at heart, this is a political discussion, no?

That confirms what I suspected: that the Roulette/Roost labels were part of the Parlophone deal that went to Warner when EMI was broken up (they also got Chrysalis and Virgin). I imagine that since Warner also got EMI Classics the deal included all the UK-based labels (although Roulette/Roost were US Mosaic eventually found the masters in London) with the US-based material going to UMG. Now will Warner reissue their Roulette Mosaics as they did the Reprise Ellington? Probably not. Do you mean on CD? Let's hope. (There is the Dinah Mosaic now on mp3.) One of the things I find interesting is the speed with which Universal has restarted the Blue Note reissue program (CDs in Japan, LPs in America). I think BN was very high on Universal's wish list. In terms of box sets, I hope Universal can release some cross Prestige/BN projects on particular artists. Let's see how fast Warner releases the Roulette titles; it's very possible that the eMusic listings show Parlophone as a revived imprint of Warner, much like Decca has been used by Universal.

He evidently has a new album out:

Why is it so bad for the right to be giving out awards? The left would probably not give him an award for the same reason. And the left has far more power in the arts than the right. Good for him.

So does this mean Warner Bros. now owns Roulette and EMI France masters? So what popped up today on eMusic? 4 Roulette titles, for which eMusic lists as the label Parlophone UK. Curiouser and curiouser. The titles: Count Basie - Chairman of the Board The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington (I guess this is the Mosaic) Dinah Washington - Dinah '62 Johnny Smith - Walk Don't Run