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More important Catesta whats your keyboard count? Beer and keyboards both seem to have a short lifespan around these parts.

This is not the policy anymore. Mike made a mistake and he corrected it. He has no problem allowing me to post about Organissimo's downtime and has repeatedly invited me to do so. We all make mistakes. I didn't mean to cast any negative ideas about either board. Sorry if you took it that way Jim. Standing in the shower I thought about the post and actually it seems to me that only on ORG member really is aggresively against AAJ and it is not the general attitude of the community as a whole. No need to discuss this further. HOWEVER I did mean EVERYTHING I said about Catesta's beer habits.. which I will talk about at great length where and whenever the need arises.

I don't see why there should be such animosity between the two sites.. although I doubt that it is between the principals. It seems to be a board member thing.. except it appears to be uni directional. Seems you've forgotten how AAJ became the main refugee when the BNBB went down. It's true that we were recieved with some negative reaction, but you seem to have forgotten how Mike went out of his way to make the board fit the image " demanded" by the ex BNBBers. I can accept that he did it because he didn't want to lose all the new business he had suddenly inherited I think it was somewhat rude of those who then "deserted" his board when Jim established this one, but Jim had every right to start a board too. I have no idea why Dan is so against AAJ.. I have seen his posts there which often were little more than trying to entice people to leave that board for this one. They seemed to contain liberal doses of Dan's venom. Perhaps Mike or someone deleted those posts. I doubt that posts referring to activities at Org. would recieve the same treatment, I use both boards, they are the best two that exist, and can see no reason why they can't both be a valuable resource to those who wander around the Jazz internet. They both have there own characteristics. I have said before that I think this one has a greater range of interesting topics, but it does have a bit of a clique-ish ' In Crowd" feel which I think might be something of a deterent to newcomers. As for the other thread... I prefer Jazzmatazz as a source for new info. I also like beer almost as much as Catesta ( if that is possible) BUT I drink more than one brand.

Big question,which I think we've dealt with before Is there any extra Keystone material ??? more than the three CDs

Once again...no comment Dan _________ Be courteous, kind and forgiving Be gentle and peaceful each day Be warm and human and grateful And have a good thing to say Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike Be witty and happy and wise Be honest and love all your neighbors Be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant

I don't think Farlow was much into Monk tunes. Even his later recordings seem to lean heavily on the " classic" standards from the Great American Songbook He did record Straight No Chaser on the Return of Tal Farlow 1969 A Prestige OJC now. Pianist John Scully tries to do a bit of the Eddie Costa " routine" on this one. I have quite an extensive Farlow collection and this seems to be the only Monk tune in it.

Fiddlesticks was on a " Conifer" CD..whatever company that was. I guess its OOP now The tracks are spread out from 1931 to 39 Classics I believe are only up to 33 so you'll have to wait But we'll do your shopping for you Pretty Trix is at CD Universe for $16.02 or if you belong to IAJRC you can get it for $12.00 and look here You'll have to scroll down the page yourself though. Fiddlesticks

There are not many record dates with Costa as a leader.. They'd make a good select though. The date with Farmer and Woods is probably the easiest to find. The Dot album House of Blue Lights seems to get the most accolades. I believe it was recently put out on CD in Japan

No squeal on the CDs ..Phontastic or the Sony ( I only have the Miles / Coltrane box) as Lon states, the Sony has better sound, but I wouldn't say by miles. Both have 7 tracks if you include Willis Conover's introduction and the Closing Theme as separate tracks, so I assume it's the whole concert set.

A point of interest.. Maybe A lot of the music from this Newport Festival can be found on 4 cds from Phontastic ( sold separately) MOSTLY MILES Has the Miles set plus 2 tracks from Lee Konitz and one by Horace Silver ( Louis Smith and Juniour Cook if that question wasn't resolved) MULLIGAN IN THE MAIN Mulligan's Quartet set plus two tracks with Gerry and the Marion McPartland trio. Two tracks from Chico Hamilton. The Sal Salvador / Stitt version of Cherokee and two tracks from Urbie Green ? Don Elliott wirh Dinah Washington BLUES IN THE NIGHT VOL 1 has the Chuck Berry set with the Blues Band, which is in total as much a disaster as the bits in the movie. This is followed by Big Maybelle with the same band.. a bit more succesful than Chuck. Joe Turner and Pete Johnson with the Blues Band. And then 4 tracks from Jack Teagarden, with Hackett. BLUES IN THE NIGHT VOL 2 gives us the Dinah Washington appearance plus that from the Ray Charles Sextet. The complete appearance of Anita O'Day can be found on a CD from Moon called Anita O'Day Tea For Two I'm sure there must be other bootlegs out there that have more music. I have a Don Elliot LP that gives up a little more of the Elliott / Gibbs / Green sets.

As Eddie Condon used to say ( as a compliment).. It Doesn't bother me. Nothing to worry about.. just don't expect a lot of interplay by T and Mulligan. Actually the Pee Wee / Mulligan duet is more fascinating.

Serious question for the guitarists In the cover photo is that a solid guitar he's playing? Didn't think he ever did And the guitar strap is classic.

Damn I'm really f**Ked up .. I"m going to serverely chastise Mosaic about this one.

Very true, and when people pass it seems their legend grows.. but I do like the " Live at the Maisonette " Album. With Anne Marie.. The opening track My Shining Hour was planted in my mind by Daddy O Dailyee playing it constantlee.

Mulligan, it seems,was totally into sittin in with anyone. The discographies list 4 seessions where he "sat in" with Teagarden. Most at concert venues. The easiest to find is Monterey 1963 Its been issued a couple of times, the most complete being A Hundred Years From Today.. Jack Teagarden.. Family & Friends at Monterey 1963 Memphis Archives CD MA 7010 It seems it was some tribute to Teagarden event. You get both the afternoon and evening sets, plus the " pleasure" of Jack and his Family.. Charlie, Norma, and Mom Helen. Pee Wee is also there. There are some fun introductions by T especially his tale of asking a " famous" Frankie Trumbauer to join his teenage band for $50.00 Mulligan had been there with his own group, and according to the brief notes " wasn't about to pass up an oppertunity to appear with the masters of an earlier era." Mulligan only plays on the evening set.. 8 tracks were recorded.. Gerry is not heard on all of them. There's a nice combo of Gerry and Pee Wee playing a blues. The others meetings, are A Newport All Star Band and a couple or so Timex TV show jazz tracks PS Lighting struck just as I was posting..... I was going to look for an image.. but there it was...

Jim.. Some of these sides have made it to CD in Japan ( as usual) but I found some of them on one of those Giants of Jazz ( Italian) CDs simply called Don Ellis CD53262 The CD is mainly the Candid album " Out of Nowhere " A Bley / Swallow trio, all the master takes 5 with the trio, 1 each duet with Swallow and Bley separately and a solo effort by Ellis alone According to the discographies , two alternate takes exist. The rest of the CD has half of the Pacific Jazz date " Essence" .. 4 tracks plus 3 of the 5 tracks that make up the Candid set, " How Time Passes" with Jaki Byard on piano. The whole Byard Candid set was recently available as Don Ellis .. A Simplex One on the cheap Past Perfect label.. which I also have. An "early" pre big band Ellis would be welcome though.

For those interested in such things.. Just picked up the Farlow at my PO box EEgad!!!!!!!!!! The book is not numbered. I have a blank Can I assign any number I wish? Should I designate it #1 Are Mosaic passing off a promo copy? Does this error greatly enhance the value of my set? Should I worry or just enjoy the music?

Interesting observation [The Phantom Mosaic Was the Herman scheduled before the Farlow.. then held back? I'm sure someone will email Mosaic and demand an answer

No more than " The complete Paul Desmond Storyville Sessions" He also lead the Oberlin and Pacific College sets.

French Riviera and New Wave are actually the same session(s) from May 62.. the recordings were spread over two albums.. unfortunately a couple of tracks too many to make one nice CD. A comprehensive reissue is overdue. There were some other issues by this group, playing this material.. e.g. the Monterey Jazz Festival 1961.. issued as A Musical Safari.. that when added makes a nice 2CD set.

Just in case anyone is interested this CD came out last year

The Blakey and Moody's are on Past Perfect. I think Disconforme have early Lou Donaldsons on one of their labels.

No, they were 12" LPs, however as I mentioned above, Stompin, on the USA issue was split over two sides of an LP. The British version, or reissue of it, fit it , unedited, onto one side of an album.. I would have to time it to be sure, but it lasts less than 30 mins. And as another example.. Jam Session #5 was a 12' with one track per side Jammin for Clef Rose Room These are on the new Ocium issue and both time out at just a little over 13 mins. The Basie sets.. #3 & #4 was 2 12" LPs, one track per side Apple Jam just shy of 12 mins Lady Be Good about 8 mins Blues for Count.. About 15 mins Ballad Medeley about 13 mins So you can see, that the whole set should just about fit on 3 CDs Back then, there seemed to be no problem about putting out short playing time LPs. To be fair, the early LPs did not support the close to 28 mins that came later.. But .. well verve is verve......

Where do they say their versions of these discs originated?

Unless there is extra material.. which might be doubtful, these sound like " Let's go in the studio and blow" sessions .. although I was surprised by the extras that Mosaic found for the Claytons. This being verve.. even if there is it may fall by the wayside ( like Willow Weep for Me on the Sweets and Buddy album) There were 9 LPs, I think that it should all just about fit onto 3 CD's There was one tune, Stompin' at the Savoy that was split onto both sides of the LP.. though the later British reissue restitched it together and put it all on one side..though the splice can be heard. verve should have the orginal tapes and be able to avoid this.