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up for the weekend crowd!

Nah, Rolf ain't "nouvelle vague", he's old school!

GA's on my mind... but still I forgot to send best wishes in time Belated congratulations! :party:

I ordered the Amos Milburn from somewhere else today (a regular mailing I get from a small Swiss vendor) - no idea if it really comes through, probably just a single box, but I ordered as soon as I got the mail, so I do hope I was the fastest! Would be oh so great!

Puff Daddy Ma Rainey KC & The Sunshine Band

Great, thanks a lot! I remember reading your post last year and was dying to hear some of the music!

Happy Birthday, Rolf! :party:

Looking for the line-up of this gig... Smith is accompanied by an electric guitarist and a percussionist, both so far unidentified. One possible hint might be this Boston Globe article about a show in Boston inDecember 1990: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/b..&By=&Title=&restrict=articles Should be free to obtain this for subscribers... if you can help, drop me a PM please! Any hints welcome! Thanks!

IMDB says Hoagy's is Nov. 22nd. Love Hoagy! But he didn't quite sing "GA's on My Mind"... Love Mose, too - happy birthday!

Josh White Sonny Red Grant Green

The Eagles The Birds The Nutty Squirrels

Sorry for being late... Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday, Paul! :party:

Sorry for being late... Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Belated best wishes! :party:

Saw Rhoda live last night - at a semi-private concert in St. Moritz (almost 7 hours train to and fro, and a night at the hotel... but then I was gladly invited for dinner and drinks after that...) Wow! Holy shit! Nothing beats the physical impact of a hammond organ - well, a full big band might do so, but I've not yet experienced a fully blasting big band... anyway, Rhoda full blast, with two Leslies in a pretty small venue, in front of an audience probably not as jazz experienced as the ones she usually caters to... she added some "hits" to the setlist, such as "New York, New York" (but my fears of it ending up corny were blasted away within a couple of choruses!) and "In the Mood", but she also had some staples in there, like "Summertime", "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "Walkin'". Great, GREAT concert, one set of I guess somewhat more than an hour. It really did shake me to the bones! And by the end she had me screaming after each tune (that rarely happens...) She was accompanied by a 25 year old french drummer by name of Thomas Derouineau - he did some nice tricks with time now and then and played some fine solos, too. After the concert I went to chat with her, tell her how much it meant to me to see her live - she's a darn legend and besides Dr. Lonnie Smith I had no chance to ever capture any of the real hammond greats and alas, there aren't many left. She was most charming... put on a dedication onto the booklet of a CD of hers that I especially brought with me... and sent her lovely daughter (traveling with her as her manager) up to the hotel room to give me the recent Lady Quartet CD as a gift (I've just played it now - very nice!). Funny enough, yesterday an hour before I had to leave and catch my train, the latest of her CDs just arrived, "Beyond the Sea". Playing that one right now - mighty good stuff, too! Anyway, so we kept chatting, she obviously enjoyed meeting a fan there (first question was: "do you play the organ?"... and ten minutes later when her daughter joined us, she also asked first thing: "do you play the organ?" Hell no, but I love it!) Anyway, turned out they were also going for dinner at the next place, so we went over there together I spent the next three hours in conversation with Rhoda Scott, drummer Thomas Derouineau and Rhoda's daughter. Truly an unforgettable night! She had some stories about her playing with just about anyone I could think of and asked her about, be it French musicians or Americans... told me Joe Thomas, her sax player in the early 60s, mostly stopped playing after she'd gone to France (but in 1971 of course, she brought him over for the great "Live at the Olympia" album, now part of the Jazz in Paris series). She also mentioned Gene Ludwig, how he was the only white guy to whose gigs ALL the other organ players went... and then she told the most touching story about Johnny Griffin, with whom she must have played many, many times in France and elsewhere. The final gig of his, they had a second sax player there, and usually Griffin would just play some tunes, then sit down and relax and then return again - but that night, he just kept playing and playing, on all the tunes. As if he felt it would be the last time... hearing this almost made me cry and does so while I'm typing it again - Griff truly has a special place in my heart. And Rhoda Scott has, as well! Rhoda rules! Sorry for the crappy quality... I don't have none of these fancy smartphones!

It is indeed great ! The innards of my box were damaged on one corner though (box fine) so a replacement is on its way. And as you say, those CDs are an absolute pain to replace in their 'slots'. Glad I'm not alone there... mine arrived in fine condition, luckily. The box was flimsy and huge (almost as our beloved boxes from zweitausendeins back in the day when they had these amazing ZYX/Fantasy offers) but inside, everything was ok. I don't often complain about silly packaging, I can handle most of it (ok, my fingers get rusty from the Bill Evans Verve box, too - but I like the idea of the rusty box a lot) but this here is just silly! If it's a bit of a drag to get discs out and back in with some boxed sets, that's one thing, but if you're afraid of breaking a disc just to get it out, that's more than annoying!

Wasn't the first time this happened. The cute part is how the Swiss post office wraps damaged packages into plastic bags (sealed with so much sticky tape, only scissors will allow you to get rid of it) and attached a sticker apologizing for their colleagues...

Got the Miles Bitches Brew Anniversary set today (from amazon) - looks GREAT! Only thing that's a drag: you almost have to damage the foldout (vinyl size) that holds the CDs on one side. I got them all out without doing too much damage, but won't got back in there!

Package already arrived! Superfast! A moment of shock, as it was wrapped in a plastic bag and had a note of apology from the Swiss post stating it came to them in this condition... underneath, the bubble-bag was dirty and looked as it might have gotten wet... but everything was in there in perfect shape! Good packing and ultra-fast shipping! Thanks a lot!

Sorry, I might be slow in understanding, but I still don't see why you're asking this... is there any evidence anywhere suggesting Coltrane is NOT on this tape anywhere?

Mike, you'll enjoy it! The booklet is indeed wonderful, as I've mentioned here before (I think I was amongst those who gave brownie a push...) - amazing set!

Thanks! That's very good to have this overview here! (I was mistakenly looking for another 47 OKeh sides...)

medjuck, I'm not deeply enough into Ellingtonia... - the 40CD set has only master takes - there's an OKeh session not on the 2CD set, originally released on Victor/RCA (1930-11-21) Not sure what else all these OKeh titles not in the 2CD set would actually be... the 1930-11-21 date is on the RCA box. Would the missing OKeh titles be alternates? Or not listed on the DEPanorama site? Sorry, but obviously I can't help...