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All the recordings in question are from July 15. 1939. I've had all the recordings on this set before this set, but man they sound EXCELLENT here.

www.decware.com has some kits now, and more on the horizon, and these are EXCELLENT products.

Dmitry, I think you'll love all the domestic Vanguard Jazz Showcase cds; the sound and the music are excellent on these. The whole series is great, the only downside being the way they have been slicing and dicing and placing the various lps on the cds.

It runs about 27 minutes or so, three long numbers.

Ubu Rex: you must correct the sad state of your Teagarden holdings. At the very least get the other Verve recording on cd, "Mis'ry and the Blues", just released a few weeks ago. It's a great companion to the Elite, similar in nature (and two more Willard compositions). And if you like that one, keep on exploring. He's one of my favorite artists.

Bertrand, I don't know what is up with the Sin-Drome Records thing, it says it on amazon too, but on the package it is Thelonious Records and Hyena Records. No reason to let this bother you one bit.

I really enjoy this set. The sound is very very good, better than any other release of the mateiral I have heard. The only possible downside to the sound is that it is remixed ---very effectively, making the sound very modern sounding---from the original three track masters, and if you are very used to the lp sound as far as separation of channels etc. it's odd to hear this newly set up, but it doesn't appear that you are, so . . . . I think you would enjoy it. The Chambers material I really like, and the Kelly material is great. . . lots of alternates but that may or may not bother you. . . .

Unless I'm mistaken, Kersey was not on the Holiday sides for Commodore, that was Eddie Heywood or Sonny White. He did appear on JATP sides with her. . . .

Seriously, I think he's working for Hallmark (and Lil Debbie)

Yes, this has been out on Musidisk I believe in France before. Excellent stuff.

I have both the Harry Reser cds on The Old Masters label. I thought everyone did!

It's quite an interesting read. Not the definitive book about this band (or "any of these bands" really) but you're going to get a lot of pleasure out of it.

Hey, I'm married, I scored myself with real honesty, and I don't look like a slob. I don't primp and pluck and shave other than my face though, and I put some spray on my hair to keep it in place because it is rebellious and rude at heart. I've always been a polite and empathetic person and have many women friends and the best mate possible for me. I present a good appearance, but reading Krishnamurti about a decade ago made me realize that worrying about one's appearance with real weight simply contributes to your living to others' expectations, which I wanted to free myself from. I check myself in the morning and when washing my hands in the restroom at work may look again and that does it for me.

Well there's hardly a Ellington-Strayhorn-ian I don't dig very much. . . I think that is the safest thing for me to say. Juan was special with that unique sound and that elegant conception. I truly dig his recording with the Nat Cole Trio (plus). Classic stuff that shows of his special sound and style.

Here, I think he's already on the job under a nom-de-plume. . . .

Hey, I'm not really a Reid Miles nut, but I bet he could make a good cover with this shot of this Grandassa model. . . maybe for Terrence's "Bounce"?

So far I've gathered up the Bud and the Jackie, and I'm very fond of the sound of both. Nice to have all the box set Buds in remastered sound now! (I have all the RVGs, and a TOCJ Superbit remastering of the Roost material.)

Yeah, no webcam, and Marjorie has since become a very shy old lady, hiding from anything pointed at her. . . . !

Yes, I do believe that Monk stopped by the recordings session: here's what I found as personnel: 323m-1-18 Helen Merrill - Teddy Wilson / Helen Sings, Teddy Swings (Victor SMJX-10111)* Larry Ridley, Lenny MacBrown Looks like a real WINNER!

Here's the cover, this and the Monk photo are both from 1970 in Tokyo, the Monk photo mentions "from a recording session". . . . I think they're connected.

No, my cat has already been named, for thirteen years, Marjorie Bouvier Haggerty-Armstrong, because when we took her home from the pound, literally a little handful of tortoiseshell fur, she used to sit on the window sill and growl like Marge Simpson at people or animals or the occasional car drifting by. . . .

Hey I named my wife Helen! No wait a minute, that was her name when I met her. . . pure coincidence, probably. . . .

There's an album with Teddy that was a Japan only release, recorded I believe when Teddy was touring Japan, and Helen was living there. I think the picture with Monk may be from that same period, Monk may well have been in Japan then as well, but I don't know for sure.

One day I want to have her recording with Teddy Wilson. . . .