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I just picked this up...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004YYW8

It's made up symphonic orchestral recordings only and one of the reasons I purchased it was for "When Day is Done" which includes the verse which inspired Django Reinhardt to record his own version in '37...

"what you wrote is: "since A, therefore B" but the B does not follow from the A. it's like saying: "since my car is red, i really like jazz". the second does not follow from the first. the guy doing the remastering doesn't do the docs. there may be a correlation, but it's ha...

yes, they're expensive. that said: [...] since John did and Ted does remastering for all types of European labels you often get just as much documentation as on a Mosaic set your conclusion does not follow from your premise. What don't you understand about what I said? ...plus almost everything Mos...

It is expensive to produce quality remasters from the original masters that sit in the big companies' vaults. It is cheap to copy other labels' remasters. This is very true. However, JSP also do their own remasterings. They used to have John R T Davies remastering for them; the Django set is done b...

Not a problem, now there are TWO Paul Whiteman CD's to talk about!

the django i'm not too excited about, because jsp has put out a very good django series with excellent sound. the only reason to get the mosaic is the booklet. i keep meaning to have a listen to it at my local library, but i can't imagine it sounding better than john r.t. davies's jsp restorations....

This one has more tracks, better restoration and actually has some Jazz numbers on it...

http://www.amazon.com/King-Jazz-1920-19 ... 974&sr=1-1

What's the best Ellington biography around? (I've read Music Is My Mistress and Stanley Dance's The World of Duke Ellington , none of which is exctly a biography.) I really enjoyed "Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington" by John Edward Hasse however my favorite is "D...

Do you own it? Unfortunately I can't hear the vocals when I preview the track on Allmusic...

Sounds like more vocal group versions which I'm not as interested in...

I did find a Josephine Baker version but it's definitely "eh"...

I have "Apollo Jump" on two different CD's and one's 150, the other is 151, so I guess I'm meeting in the middle between both of you...

All I have is an Alphonso Trent and a Bunny Berigan version and the Berigan version more of a vocal group version, not quite what I'm looking for...anyone have any good vocal versions of this song?

Great song...

It's unfortunate the DJ won't tell you details of the song he/she played. What's up with that?

BTW I can't find that Svend Asmussen Cd anywhere on the web, where did you purchase it?

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AlekseyKosygin wrote:
http://www.njn.net/artsculture/williethelion/

There sample video on that site? Ummm..where? Thx!

Not via that link...I would just order the DVD...

I agree it's all good but I was just saying that I'd rather hear him in his prime is all and that CD I provided a link for has been Davied up...BTW if you want to read about his life there is a great autobiography of his like called MUSIC ON MY MIND, one of the best books on Jazz I've ever read...