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Thanks - forgot to look there... DUH!

"Hot Buttered Noodling"? That goes straight to the favorite album titles list, along with "Never Pat a Burning Dog" (as if we didn't know THAT!)

Got the Stuff Smith (glorious!) in time... also the two wonderful VeeJays!

I'd rather see the Basie Roulette Studio or the Commodores make such a zombie reappearance Fabulous set, of course, the Bix/Tram/Tea - carpe diem!

The weird Select? It's a nice gesture and I might buy it in the end, but it's really not necessary... there'd have been better groups of work in Lucky's discography to present in a Mosaic box! The news on the Hawkins is great, of course! The more I hear and read about it, the more I want it! Wasn't entirely sure in the beginning, but the more additional tracks they find, the more exciting it gets!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Got mine yesterday and just did a quick comparison of the tracks in question - all seems okay now!

Anyone has a rough guess about the date of the three tracks?

That sounds very cool, Allen! Still got to catch up with your last one, though

indeed , my LP edition sounds better slowed down to about 30 rpm, I find it hard to tell when I've adjusted the speed to the correct point !!! I think it's somewhere about a semitone sharp, but I'm not sure, would have to check... couldn't tell you in RPMs, but maybe could find out how to fix WAV files correctly if I can locate my files...

The Amsterdam set is out on Lonehill - but as all commercially available versions, it runs at wrong speed (considerably fast) and that ruins it quite a bit (Klook sounds horrible mostly!)

Oh, yes, that Farmer's a beaut! There's also this one with Dizzy the sole soloist (you reminded me of it, Michael, since both came out on CD in the "Verve Elite Edition"):

Happy Birthday, Clifford! :party:

Half of what's been mentioned is more like "mid-size group with soloist(s)", isn't it? Here's one more:

There are several other omissions, and some silly duplicates of officially released material (the Paris 1949, the Lighthouse set, the set with Jimmy Forrest) that come rather uncalled for... but hey, you get a large chunk on factory pressed CDs, and the price is right (I got mine from amazon.fr for just under 30€ and free shipping).

I've written an article on Cole Porter and Ella Fitzgerald... and it would be cool to be able/allowed to quote from Fred Lounsberry's wonderfully lucid analysis that formed part of the liner notes of "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book" (Verve MG V-4001-2). Anyone knows anything about Mr. Lounsberry?

Then Florida state must be dumb...

http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/tony_fruscella.pdf Can't find anything on any Sam Heltzer, but maybe that's a trace?

Guess there'd be some examples on the lovely "Zep Tepi" disc, too? Saw the trio live a couple of years ago and it was magnificient. Blake was especially wonderful, very joyous and playful... he played seated on a barstool and the bass looked like a little cello in his hands...

Lava lamps or Benny Lava videos on youtube? I'd rather get the next batch of Black Saint/Soul Note boxes instead!

Went on to disc 6 of the Sassy set yesterday and gave "Sings Soulfully" several more listens - wonderful! Now discs 7 and 8.

Mine are on the way, according to Francois L. Les miens aussi

Really? Why so? Because much of it is important and some of you guys are old enough to have been around when it came out first, I guess?

Happy Birthday, Nate!

I'd have bought way more, had they seen wider distribution (or been available at all)... but as others say, not all of us go as far back In my younger days, I was busy collecting Coltrane, Miles, OJCCDs, Mosaics... and you know, these Black Saints - when they did show up behind the mountains here, they would cost at least 30 or even 35 dollars, so go figure... Anyway, I'm definitely a fan of these new boxes, got them all, yet I still have to absorb some of the music...