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Actually I think it would be important to include the 40s Decca sessions. There are several tracks from those years that remain unissued, and a Mosaic set might be the only way to ever get them out. For example, Lunceford only cut two sessions in 1945 for Decca, four tunes on each session, and still only two from each were ever issued. Clearly Decca had lost interest in Lunceford by that time, so no wonder that Lunceford switched label affiliation after that year. If Lord is correct, there were also sessions in the mid-40s for World Transcriptions, from which some tracks were issued on Decca and others not. Classics only included those that were on Decca. It would be nice to have them all. By the way, although it hasn’t anything to do with Decca, there are plenty of live sessions from the mid-40s, which featured many tunes they didn’t record commercially, and I think very little of it has come out on CD. Someone should do them. Lunceford is getting neglected these days. Sounds reasonable. I'm the lucky owner of the Colubmia 4LP set (found it used, it's in ok shape, but far from perfect). Collecting as much as could be done would be the best - Decca, Columbia, Decca again... and and accompanying Select with airchecks...

Not that I laugh at that. No! I know this does happen from time to time. ubu

There is nothing worse than an overdrawn king. For the record, I think this was a great idea. It's fast, easy, and for a good cause! At least, Mr. Catesta, the king has the bogaloo sisters, and he likes'em a lot! ubu B)

The tempo for me is already too fast as it is now! I hardly listened to the RDK test and had EKE's coming in already. Still not been able to listen to that one... And I'm afraid I have again to be moved up a few places... I'm working on mine since about #7 or #8, but I'm no way near having transferred everything. This requires another note: my BFT will include lots of music that is not available. Rare stuff, swiss stuff, broadcast stuff - I will just spread some goodies, and some personal (and sentimental) favourites. If someone absolutely feels a need for getting something, they will know who has it, right? And asking is free, or course ubu

indeed... if only I hadn't overdrawn my credit card by ordering the VeeJay boxes... ubu

Nothing against Hill, Osby, Moran - all musicians I love, and I do consider innovative, but Cecil is a giant. Stressing "is", as he really still is. Get the disc he made with the Instabile guys, get the Willisau concert. Genius at work. In my opinion, he's just beyond where Hill, Osby or Moran have gone so far. And this is not to put Hill down, not at all! ubu (edited for spelling)

As I'm already at it: No one mentioned this so far: ubu

More on the Americans Swinging in Paris releases here. I don't own any so far, but I've had an earful of the Hampton at a store once, and I did like what I heard! Slide Hampton - tb Joachim Kühn - p Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - b Philly Joe Jones - d Can't link directly to the album, as it's one of those stupid flash sites. Here's the Exodus cover: ubu

sounds like something I should hunt down! Love Lateef! ubu

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a true word!

Oh yes, there is love for it! That band just plain rocked! Someone else from the same era that is taken for granted IMO is Benny Carter! How about a set of his late 20's thru Europe in the 30's??? Lets face it a fair number here don't dig into the early days of jazz, unless it is a mosaic.... The lamented Masters of Jazz label from France had both Benny Carter and Jimmie Lunceford series in their releases. The Lunceford series went to volume 7 at least and reached the year 1940 to include all the pre-1940 Decca sides. The Carters series reached vol. 9 up to 1939. And their CDs were complete and pretty well remastered. If only I had known them back when they were available... Though, on second thought: so glad I didn't know them, I couldn't have afforded all the discs, anyway... ubu

You might be able to find a cheap copy of "Exodus", an album that was part of the recent Jazz in Paris series. Great sidemen, there, too, such as couw's favourite trumpet player Richard Williams, Sangrey's favourite tenor man George Coleman (you know, that's that Alexander-clone guy... ) A fun disc, for sure! ubu

"Portrait of Sheila" is one of my favorite vocal jazz albums EVER! And don´t you dare criticize Sheila! I don't, but it seems some think her intonation sucks. NOT ME THOUGH! Don't you mistake me for "some"! Or you will be immediately de-capitated by my royal troops! ubu

I have "Flexible flyer". A very good disc, for sure! With the added value of Sheila Jordan´s vocals!!! Some will disagree with the term "value" in connection with Sheila, but I like her (I only have her BN album, though, but rank that among my favourite vocal albums). ubu

No problem! Expose it to the people! And give us your impressions!

No Rudd is enough Russ! Grab any you can find (Flexible Flyer on Black Lion with highest priority!). A good one. The three Taylor tracks originally appeared as half of the Gil Evans album "Into the Hot". They're very good! The first appearance of Lyons with Taylor, and Shepp and Curson there, too. It's also the first date with Sunny Murray (not many to follow), and Murray was the first drummer that really clicked with Taylor (only Andrew Cyrille would fit that well or even better, later). ubu

Agustin, I just wrote some crappy review of the Taylor/Redman/Jones. The Jones and Taylor solos are GREAT, their duo is almost great, the trios and the duo of Redman/Jones are good. All in all a pleasant disc, and a rather positive surprise for me! Go one or two pages up and you'll find some discussion. The Ornette BNs are both in ma shelf, but haven't been listened to as often as they deserve. There's some nice quote by Dewey, by the way, in the "Momentum Space" liners, about him being on those BN sessions with the saint Coltrane's rhythm men... ubu

No love here for a Jimmy Lunceford set? ubu

David, I don't know in what form and with how good sound these albums will be reissued, but you should absolutely have the first two, I mean, "This Is Our Music" is good, but the first two albums are FRIGGIN' GREAT! Really! "Ornette on Tenor" is rather cool, too, and then you need the two compilation albums, as well. I had "Free Jazz" on an old Atlantic CD before I got the box (same with the first two quartet albums), but then I have never had audophile ears... ubu

And how about reissuing the rest of the Kenton Presents dates? The Salvador, the Claude Williamson - are there more? Best would be to have a complete Kenton Presents Select, that would inlcude parts of the existing KP set, as well as the Chaloff, as well as the two I mentioned, as well as others, if there are. They will never do this, I'm afraid, as too much has been part of any of their boxes already. Wonder why they wouldn't make the Kenton Presents set a bit bigger and include the rest, too... ubu

HELLYEAH! That would be sort of a dream come true, I guess... Then, the Farlow has lots of Costa included, too, which is not a bad thing. ubu

Hey but take it easy! This BFT thing is getting a bit too fast for me at the moment! (PM will be sent, btw!) ubu

Then we might add the question what film we would want to be screened, of course without tone, as our listening pleasure - our very last one - might be spoiled otherwise... I guess I would have the ball-scene of "Il Gattopardo", or the night-after of "L'avventura", or maybe the ending of "8 1/2", or a loop mixing all of these..., together with the game Mastroianni plays on that chess-floor in "La notte", and the "Have you ever been stung by a dead bee" think from "To Have And Have Not", as well as Lauren (with sound, this time), singin that corny old song in the casino in "The Big Sleep"... (that song's on the Kenton Forties Mosaic, by the way...) ubu