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I re-bought the old CD just to have those edits as well ... but the unedited version has grown to be much more familiar over the years.

final instalment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mhLQipXIEI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlIhCRQA3Zg Sunday Walk Dig o Dag (1979, Flavio & Franco w/Gruntz, Guy Pedersen & Humair)

Intriguing discussion about Weather Report and Zawinul above! Follow-up question to Jim: can you please specify which Zawinul Syndicate set you meant? The only one I've got so far is this one:

more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifYRDVoaJcE Skylark (1979, Flavio & Franco, large orchestra, polished by Sebesky) Franco Cerri - Flavio's Blues / Just One of Those Things (from "Franco Cerri and His European All Stars", w/Flavio, Lars Gullin, Gruntz & Pierre Favre, Cerri's on bass here)

Very sad news, read it in the daily paper this morning. Had a track of his on my first BFT, years ago ... enjoyed what little I've heard! Some tracks from youtube: Kenny Clarke - No Details (ca. 60s, w/Franco, Gruntz, Isla Eckinger) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91BqIWVcgI Strike Up the Band (1955 w/Franco Cerri, Siro Bianchi, Rodolfo Bonetto)

Are you sure about the mini LP packing of the single discs? I've only got one of these (the Rollins Prestige) and is has the discs (eight of them, the albums - the box is not identical in content to the earlier complete 7CD set, missing several sideman sessions/albums) in two jumbo jewel cases, each holding four discs. The others I've seen in stores (Ellington Carnegie, Chet Baker Riverside, Coltrane Prestige) looked the same to me.

It took me two hours to get that one darn Getz chorus written down (from the CD, so no slowing down). That part where he goes way up, hitting about the hightest notes possible on the tenor, and some some quick flurry of notes, I never got that down ... but even for a lacking amateur like me, it was a good exercice!

As I am a huge supporter of Mosaic, I was NOT holding it against them. I've had this discussion many times with Scott. The legal difficulties involved in a such a scenario make doing this almost impossible, especially in this day and age. This could change (or become even more difficult) if UMG (owner of Decca) becomes the owner of EMI (owner of Blue Note, which as I understand it, is part owner of Mosaic itself). It's a shame really that Mosaic does not have at its disposal the legal team necessary to resolve such issues for the good of the music. But then again, it's rarely about the music with large record companies these days. Okay, we're on the same page then ... as for UMG swallowing EMI (which, as far as I know, owns 50% of Mosaic), that might be the very end, as UMG has it's own boutique outlet with Hip-O-Select. If their jazz arm would be merged with Mosaic, that might indeed turn out fine. I assume Hip-O getting more active in jazz was the reason why Mosaic couldn't/wouldn't do any more Universal/Verve boxes (remember that the Granz Jam Sessions set was once planned to be a Mosaic?). Anyway, rather than buying Mosaic, UMG should bring out a fifties JATP box set!

Great photos! I guess me, I've long been inhabited by the jazz devil - but no one will ever mistake me for a German submarine officer, I'm quite sure

Well, we really needn't go into detail, but sometimes it was very hard back then to draw a line between extreme conservatism and nazism, wasn't it? But I was just being somewhat pushy As my Swedish is inexistant, I don't seem to find anything useful about that book right now. But back on topic: why not try and get in touch with those folks and ask them, and if needed, provide some material on the Swedish leg of the tour?

Well, you insinuated that Mosaic intentionally don't mix recordings from more than one major label, as if it was their choice. I guess there's plenty of difficulties in there and I know others have complained here about the fact that most of the time it seems to be impossible to gather recordings from more than one major under one roof - but I really wouldn't want to hold that against Mosaic (which again, is how I understood your post).

Okay, I guess I'll remain grounded, then (I did learn some Cannonball solos once though ... but not from my transcriptions though I do have all the recordings in question ... and, and once I did transcribe a Getz solo, but a short and sweet one, "Insensatez" from "Jazz Bossa Encore", still my favorite of the Getz bossa albums).

I looked this up too. He also recorded 6 tracks for Decca in 1935 if i'm not mistaken. Does Mosaic ever do combined Universal(Decca) and Sony/BMG sets? They try not to. Gee, grow up!

I know, I know - I enjoy me quite some Phil Woods, was just joking! But I do love that story, I've read it before!

For Hartmann ... not Metzmacher then. How about the Wergo set: http://www.wergo.de/shop/de_DE/3/show,93484.html

And speaking of Nazis, the newspaper clippings are absolutely intriguing ... the mix of naïvete and plain racism, of helplessness and malignity, is quite something!

Intriguing! (But why would there be a restaurant Munich in Copenhagen in 1946 and why would this place - a place that, sorry, sounds lots like nazi in 1946 - have negros playing jazz? Rather weird ... anyone knows the story of that restaurant?)

Yeah, with respect to spelling, the Limelight is best. My first CD used that cover, later on I got the VME with the original Mercury cover.

That sounds quite amazing, Chuck! Wish I had such memories!

obit: http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20120825_Byard_Lancaster__70__famed_Phila__jazz_musician.html

Isn't "I was young and stupid" the opening line of the lyric on "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love." No, wait, it's "I was young and carefree."

No, he's cleaned up. So who did the sanitized version? Phil "cap'n" Woods?

Many thanks for that history lessen Mike - most interesting!

Yeah, I've heard that before (got Gould's last six - very good ... they'd be on a hammerklavier if performed by HIP-sters, I assume?). Will have to give this some thought, but I'll get her well-tempered cembalo, I think. (can a cembalo actually be well-tempered?)