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still at home, leaving monday night - no time yet to answer all the mails, sorry!

I just found the single disc reissues of "The Band" and "Cahoots" and played both... continuing to be very, very excited! Also picked up some Joni Mitchell and Ry Cooder. I've heard "Mingus" and some 90s stuff by Cooder (mostly the cuban albums, including the fun one with Manuel Galban). These will have to wait for my return from vacation in about two weeks, but I'm looking forward!

Well, to quote myself from about 10 days ago, "...these are very pleasant recordings, done for easy listening rather than stretching boundaries. I like 'em.." I don't think they ever were intended or destined to be classics. Their individual releases were spaced out, remember, and they were listened to 20 minutes at a time, stacked on the old Collaro Continental changer with the Shearing and the Getz and maybe the Garner... Listen to them that way again, or just have them playing while cooking dinner. They're fine. You guys may have a point. I've been listening to the Avid set on Spotify and it could be all I need. The Avid set is 10CDs and also contains JATP material, and sessions with Billie Holiday, and horns - some you're more likely to have elsewhere (Young, Webster) and the odd rarity (Flip Phillips). I do think these Songbooks sessions have an interest though even if they may have been thrown off rather quickly. There's another bootleg box that fills the gap between the Mosaic and the Brown/Thigpen set but duplicates quite some of the Mosaic, as well as the recent Verve Original of Basie material (with Buddy Rich added to the Ellis/Brown trio). It contains 6 CDs and was released on the United Archives label. Amazon.de still lists it, but I got it considerably cheaper: http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Songbooks-Os...4945&sr=1-1 It's nice to have, as some of the Songbooks with Kessel were filled up by tracks with Ellis and I guess it's rather unlikely that we get another Oscar Peterson Mosaic (I wrote them about it, nothing planned as of now, and I guess the existence of these various boot sets diminishes the chances...)

Yes, this has been the case with several boxes, sometimes for many months (the Crusaders comes to mind). The Weston is a terrific set! The Carmell Jones is fine, too, of course, but if I had to pick just one of these, the Weston would definitely be my choice... great playing by Johnny Griffin, Kenny Dorham, Coleman Hawkins, Cecil Payne, Roy Haynes and others, and on disc 3 you get two of the most fascinating big band projects/albums of that era, "African Highlife" and "Uhuru Africa", both full of great playing by a bunch of soloists, including Budd Johnson, Ray Copeland, Julius Watkins, Booker Ervin, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, and many others.

sorry, my bad - read too fast I always thought there was a reason that his site(s) disappeared, but I never knew that reason...

I think it was on his page, yes - when did he die? I think he sent me an email a while back...

The Band! Got this great box set with the finder's fee (I found a purse with more than 1000 CHF in it... got 10% for bringing it to the next police station a couple of weeks ago... went home and ordered this one...) More info here: http://theband.hiof.no/albums/a_musical_history.html Definitely one of the most amazing groups I've ever heard. Endlessly nuanced, highly musical, terrific songs, great singing (quite a variety, with Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel taking turns) - and Garth Hudson, too!

I guess someone could still find the NDR disco with help of the wayback machine... I'm not good at that. It indeed is a fact that plenty of them were done not in Hannover or Hamburg. They usually were quite a bit longer than what an LP could hold, and of many, i think only a title or two have been officially released, if anything at all.

darn y'all - this thread made me look at the Liona Boyd website - jeeeeesus!

Capitol Partners? As in:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party: Hope you enjoyed that Luis Russell set!

Yeah, I highly doubt that a small niche company like Mosaic has any influence on what Sony/BMG keeps in print and what not... I guess it's rather the influence of Org that has brought too many lurkers to snatch up the remaining Ellington sets around and now we missed it (me, too, but since the Mosaic is now definitely announced, I don't mind much).

Got my set already! Wow, that was fast - even more astonishing as the cheapest overseas shipping option (20 CAN$) indeed said something like 2-4 months delivery time... I'm a happy camper, yessir I am!

Yeah, and while Chuck's comment about re-assessing what you do and why and why you don't do something different... while that comment may seem hard to those actually without employment, it made me think. I've been expecting to be fired quite definitely for several months (I got a bad "rating" for last year - change of bosses, me being a smartass and often cynical commenter... and more tough shit going on there before etc etc), and Chuck's comment definitely made me think quite a bit!

paps, that Luis Russell is terrific! *** today at the used store: Ry Cooder - Jazz Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

Just posting here to bow before Ms Pepper - I love Art Pepper's music very, very much!

as for Larry's off-topic remark - go here to get a touch: Diaspora of Rembetiko (Neatwork, 2CD)

I don't have much so far, but I'm intrigued... this one I read a rave about it, and I think it's quite fine: Astor Piazzolla - Muerte del Angel (Milan) Be aware though that it's a single disc and that the amazon.com prize of 30$ is pure fantasy... I first got in touch with Piazzolla's music via Gidon Kremer's two albums, the first of which I still enjoy: El Tango Homage a Piazzolla They came out on Nonesuch in the late 90s.

I don't know, but I found one of the Chronicles in a local EMI/Blue Note sale... haven't played it yet though. Blythe and Wallace, that sounds intriguing! "Your Mind Is On Vacation" has some nice Al Cohn!

The material from the OKeh 2CD set are owned by Sony. The material from the "Early Ellington" GRP 3CD set are owned by Universal, hence not likely to be included. The question is if the set will reach back right to the earliest Ellington ARC/Columbia sessions?

Probably 10 according to Mosaic. A massive load of great Ellington this will be! Paired with the Small Group set, it shall be a great complement to the RCA Centennial box!

And just to add this: I have been following this depressing thread now and then and with the situation I've been in, those concerned have my full sympathy!

Wow. Talk about cruel. Yeah, must have been the longest 1.5 hours in my life so far. The thing is, there were a few among us who wouldn't have cared to be laid off, but even those sat there paralyzed, just because that situation was so impossible to take... On the other hand, they let us wait for about five months now, while for about three months it was perfectly clear that lay-offs would eventually follow.