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goin' home baby ... r.i.p. Ben Tucker I've loved this tune almost the day I discovered jazz ... my dad has a few Herbie Mann LPs, and I got this one as one of my first twent or so jazz discs and still enjoy it every once in a while -- though I did never really follow on Mann that much ... but I was always delighted to see Ben Tucker in the credits on the rare occasions he turns up.

never - not sure if I'm missing something, but I can't be bothered to find out

Not missed here - lenghty obits in the major dailys. Don't know any of his music yet though.

head and barisax, but well ...

Yep ... the two from Prestige (or whatever it was, remember I'm of the OJCCD generation) are both substantially better.

Just read the long Jesse Friedman piece from the Village Voice ... and now this - damn.

Great! Hope you all will have a great time recording. Looking forward an awful lot!

Crossing my fingers! Contributing more than I ever did on any such project ... hope it'll get there in time!

Huh? Someone gone unhinged?

Damn! Very sad.

Janet Baker - The Great EMI Recordings (20CD) €47.99 here: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00BWE3HGM/ (Release date is given as May 31, the other european sites give June 3, amazon.com has June 18) Yowzah! Some info here: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=975172 Edit: full tracklist here: http://www.emiclassics.com/release/3255805,5099990377129/dame-janet-baker-janet-baker--the-great-emi-recordings

I have them all. seems most of us do, so need to look

And I'm flabbergasted about what I get to read about the Porter songbook here ... I mean, Ella is as good as it gets and the songs are superior to most any of the ones on the other songbook (Gershwin exempted). Sure, the arrangements could be better, but I would never want to be without it!

Modern? Amongst others and in no particular order: Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, John Dos Passos, Sidney Bechet, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, André Breton, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, Karl Kraus, Lyonel Feiningen, Johannes Itten, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Szondi, Brassaï, Robert Walser, Joseph Roth, Alfred Döblin. Not many women in this list, I'm afraid ... there must be some that deserve inclusion though, I'm sure. First to come to mind are Anna Achmatova, Rose Ausländer and Lou Andreas-Salomé

Yep, greatest Mosaic (or Revenant or whathavyou) box never to happen.

more things in heads (including heads in heads):

Things (uhm) in heads:

This must have been here for sure, but the thread is way too large to check:

Thought we had one like this already, but I can't find it in the list - delete/merge if I'm mistaken!

Same folks I believe. Well, I don't know ... but I know I'd love to have a shop offering ten percent of the legit stuff they're selling in my town! All the bigger ones closed down by now, the one remaining has a crappy offer (i.e. fifteen Nina Simone discs, but not a single one of her classic albums ... not a single actual album at all, I think, just all kinds of silly compilations) and the usual crazy prices.

what do you mean by "dubious stuff" ? Well, all the Euro PD crap. It's perfectly legal and all, but ...

I'm really having a hard time agreeing here ... sure, the arrangements could have been better, but nevertheless, in my book, the entire album is truly great!

Seriously, TTK? I think the Porter is the best, next to the Gershwin. Irving Berlin may be my least favourite, but the Mercer and Kerns aren't that familiar yet.