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For better or worse I think that influence is dependant on venue: whoever is writing for the NY Times is influential.

I've got all of them throurh Vol 10 and was very happy with them until Vol 10. The sound on it is horribly compressed. Also the notes identify the last song on cd one as A Train when in fact it's Things Ain't What they Used to Be. Maybe the death of the founder has led to shoddy work on the part of Storyville.

Man, I'd sure like to have an improved and augmented version of the cd. One of my favorites. BTW I think I read somewhere that it's not a different take of Autumn Leaves, but rather that different verses of teh same take were used on the cd.

Probably read about Mosaic sets in Coda. First purchase was Mingus Candid. I bought it from Mosaic but I think my second was the Cecil Taylor/Buell Niedlinger (sp?) which I bought from Buell! (Yes I had him sign it.)

My only complaint about this set is that the liner notes denigrate about half the tracks. Makes you feel foolish for liking them. Even if you agree with the notes writer that Prez is often not up to par, the other musicians on nearly every track are in great form. As I remember it, especially Sweets Edison.

She lives here in Santa Barbara and my wife is a friend (or at least an acquaintance). I'll for- ward the reqwuest to my wife and see if Karla has an extra copy.

I resisted it for a few weeks because I thought I already had too many of the cuts on it. Then I read about the booklet and decided I had to have it. The booklet is great and it turns out I didn't have as much of the music as I thought and some of the best is by people I'd never even heard of before.

I think I read that the master tapes are in terrible shape. Too bad. These are two of my favorite records.

My cable system (Cox) offered a DVR cable box for $9 more a month. If you go HD the DVR is included. I expec that this is the wave of the future and will allow yo to avoid one set top box.

I interviewed Zappa re: 10,000 Motels once for a film magazine. He was backstage at a rock club in Toronto with his whole band and Blood, Sweat & Tears. They had all just heard of CTA (Later called Chicago) and were joking that if they could all play together they'd have a bigger band than Stan Kenton. Zappa was nice enough but I was shocked by how misoginistic he was. Kept talking about "strapping on"women. Good thing my feminist girl friend wasn't with me. I once interviewd Robert Mitchum who made a pass at her and she almost took his head off. Ironically by the end of his life his wife seemed to be entirely in control. Zappa also talked about getting letters from kids saying they were the only freaks in their town and his music kept them alive.

Which Manny Albam Sessions? West Side Story by any chance?

So they easily could have included the Dial sides. (Instead of the duplicates from the Bird set-- they do include the sides with Bird don't they?)

The RCA and the Savoy CDs togther are missing a few sessions by Diz under his name from the 1940s: The session where he recorded the first version of "Salt Peanuts", plus "Good Bait", "I Can't Get Started", and "Bebop"; the session with the first version of "Groovin' High" (the same session where he recorded "Blues 'n' Boogie"--but Keepnews kept "Groovin' High" off the Savoy disc because it was "sonically inferior"; a sesson from LA where he and Bags et al did "Dynamo", "Diggin' for Diz", "Round Midnight", "When I Get to Old to Dream", and "Confirmation" (a great session, but Bags sounds like he's playing milk bottles); and a four tune session with strings. This is from memory, so I am sure I screwed something up somewhere. Now, wasn't that easy? The first 4 sides you mention were cut for Manor before the Guild sides, and along with the first version of Groovin High are available on a great Naxos cd called Dizzy Gillespie: Classic Recordings 1942-1949. But I got that when I was in Canada and it may not be available in the States. The Diz with Bags sides were made for Dial so you'd think Savoy could have gotten hold of them like they did with the Bird Dials. BTW Who owns the rights to the Dial material nowadays?

Leonard and his ersatz blues lyrics--very annoying. But not as annoying as his piano playing--how many sessions Leonard organized did he ruin with his clunky, inert approach to the keyboard? I dunno: I've always liked the 2 Ellington versions of Mighty Like the Blues. (Did Feather produce either of those sessions?)

In the US weren't the early Beatles records in stereo with the instruments on one track and the vocals on the other? I think that's how they were in Canada. Iim not sure becasue I was listening to Miles at the time and thought I was too cool for the Beatles. But I used to hear them at parties. I think the first Beatles record I bought was Rubber Soul. And I think they released completely different Lps in Canada: ie neither the British or the US.

I didn't know about the Avid release. Maybe that's what Definitive ripped-off. Anybody compare the 2 of them?

Yes. Except for some audience and set-up noises-- to which I think Schaap assigned tracks (I'm not sure because I'm not at home where the cds are).

I saw Pullen a couple of times with Mingus and was very impressed. I was also present for his solo recording on Sackville. Though you can't tell, John Norris and Bil Smith often had a paid audience when they did the recordings to help defray the costs. But what I really like is Ode To Life: his tribute to George Adams on Blue Note. It's one of his "African _Brazilian Connection" cds which may not be to everone's taste. Sadly, as I remember it he died not too long after Adams.

I'm just looking at my cd collection and it's amazing how few of them were recorded in the 70's-- and of those that were, few are acoustic and most are on Sackville.

I have both and I much prefer the Definitive. However that may be a matter of taste and my hearings shot from old age and too many rock and roll concerts.

I didn't know there were sextet sides from Pacific Jazz. Could someone post a discography of them too. It would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to see a box of all the Mercury stuff-- not just the Sextet. There's a lot of it on one of those Jazz 'Round Midnight complilations that I really like. At least I think most of it was originally on Mercury: It's copyright Polygram nowadays. Actually it would probably be copyright Universal Music nowadays but the compilations are from the early 90's.

What records have Pops & Pee Wee on them? (I'm presuming there are some.) I just got the new Mosaic catalogue and it was the montion of the Ruby Braff with Pee Wee sides that made me decide to get the Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions.

But that one's hard to beat.

I find the same with films: The Golden Age is whenever you were 17.

Have you heard the Definitive release? This is *said* to be the best version of the Carnegie Hall concert. Less noisier than the Schaap (extreme in this regard, even my 80 year old neighbour complained about the scratching sounds ) and much clearer than the noisereduced earlier CBS CD reissue. I agree about the Definitive disc. There's some controversy as to whether they had a different source or just doctored the Schaap cd. Whatever: the result is great. All you miss is some between numbers audience shuffling. (The same is true of their Charlie Christian live box.) I know they're dastardly pirates, but they seem to have good engineers. BTW Since I brought it up: if you want a cd version of the correct take of Up & Down on which Clark Terry does his "Oh what fools these mortals be", it's on a cd devoted to Ralph Ellison. (I forget the title right now.)