Johnny Smith box set on Mosaic (links)
reg schwager
Hillery
Greg clayton
wait
seriously it will be great to hear those sides in
clear sound
gc
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> I GOT MINE!!!!
thuss
---------------------Thanks for the tip!!! I don't know how many
years I've been wanting to find something like this. I decided to
jump right in and order this set. I'll be on pins and needles till it
arrives.
thuss
Mitch Seidman
And I got mine!!! That unmistakable sound!...Those voicings!....I have
all those LPs, but this is a box I just couldn't pass up! Plus "The
Man With the Blue Guitar" is one of my all-time favorites.
Mitch Seidman
PS-Now if Mosaic would just put out a Tal Farlow on Verve and a Jimmy
Raney on ABC box set.
John Galich
the box set either even though I have all of the LPs. What is cool is that
they were able to unearth a long lost early version (c. 1951/52) of "My One
& Only Love", and a few unissued tracks...check out the second, trio version
of "Vilia" on one of the later disks--blew me away! Then there's the laid
back "Song for Jimmy Atkins". Great stuff, all around.
A while back, I recommended to Mosaic that they issue a Tal Farlow Verve
set. They replied that Verve said "no" to licensing the Farlow material for
some unidentified reason.
The Raney ABC-Paramount sides would be great, too.
John Galich
Tony Beltran
They even included his solo stuff from "Man with the
Blue Guitar"!!!!!!! This truly is a gold mine for
those of us who enjoy Johnny Smith's music. I thought
I had most of Johnny Smith's stuff on vinyl until I
got the Mosaic set. Get this set...
Tony B
Mitch Seidman
John,
I've also recommended the Farlow "Verve"box(along with the Raney on
"ABC Paramount") to Mosaic nore than once. OK, fellow jazz
guitarists...Let's work on this!
Mitch
pmfan57
me. I ordered my Johnny Smith set on Friday. I should get by Tuesday.
Man with the blue Guitar in clear sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! finally
after listening to my scratchy used lp copy.
Is Flower Drum Song on there?
sgcim
I take it there are no alternate versions of tunes from his already
released LPs?
This would be interesting because some people have conjectured that
his single-line stuff sounds so perfect because he worked out his
stuff beforehand.
I even heard from an ex-teacher of mine that someone did a radio
concert with him and he brought a written out solo for some tune he
had a solo on.
Only George Roumanis and Bob Pancoast know for sure!
Nick Falcon
included on the set also there is a record that roost put out of
Johnny Smith radio broadcasts that I seen on ebay, curious if any of
that is included as well as the Annotations of the Muses record (which
is probably not on the box set as it's not on Roost). Hey when you
guys get your orders in, post on here what you think of the box set.
I really want to get one but my funding is in the shallow end of the
pool right now.
Nick F.
John Galich
Flower Drum Song is included with the set. The vocal sides (w/Ruth Price,
Beverly Kenney and Jeri Southern); Annotations of the Muses; and the two
w/strings (My Dear Little Sweetheart and Guitars and Strings) are not.
Steve, the only alternate version is that of Jaguar which features Zoot Sims
instead of Stan Getz (on the one originally issued). Smith doesn't seem as
engaged on this version and his solo is different.
It wouldn't surprise me if he did have some stuff written out. Yet, I
remember asking Hank Jones about this a number of years ago and he said no.
John Galich
Tony Beltran
There are no vocals included with the Mosaic set.
As for Johnny Smith writing out stuff ahead of time,
I know he did that at least some of the time. A guy
I once knew who played on occasion with Johnny Smith
had an arrangement of Black Is the Color" handwritten
out by Johnny Smith which included solos and all.
Tony B
thuss
--------------------------- Got mine today. Ears are still ringing,
but decided not to try to listen to all of the music tonight.
After shelling out a hunnert n' thirty nine bucks for this,
I'm gonna be real pissed if some schmuck uploads the whole thing to an
mp3 group.
thuss.
Gerry Scott-Moore
<thus...@hotSPAMmail.com> wrote:
> After shelling out a hunnert n' thirty nine bucks for this, I'm gonna
> be real pissed if some schmuck uploads the whole thing to an mp3
> group.
Oh, it will happen. Count on it. But it won't be as good as what you
have the object and notes and all in hand. What others do shouldn't
effect your pleasure or satisfaction anyway.
I download stuff, particularly oop sides from the mp3 groups. They
just lead me to buying more and more and more, though. I got the new
Charlie Christian box set and the two 5-cd histories of Big Band as a
result of leads garnered hereabouts.
Additionally I think there's something about buying the object itself
that makes you listen harder, longer and more focused. You're trying
to get your money's worth. You're trying to get the maximum
aesthetic/intellectual payback for your investment. And you do.
Downloading 8 gig of mp3's just makes you buy a cd-burner and open up
more shelves in your closet.
It's the difference between seeing Jim Hall live and listening versus
seeing Jim Hall live with a date with whom you have dinner and talk
with all night long. Actually that happened to me once at a joint in
Dallas. Jim Hall is 10 feet from me and the couple at the next table
are doing some pre-conjugal ritual that involves endess self-absorbed
blabber.
And so forth.
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///--- Nazodesu no more.
thuss
<222...@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote:
>In article <Sjlv9.18647$fa.4...@twister.tampabay.rr.com>, thuss
><thus...@hotSPAMmail.com> wrote:
>
>(snippad)
>It's the difference between seeing Jim Hall live and listening versus
>seeing Jim Hall live with a date with whom you have dinner and talk
>with all night long. Actually that happened to me once at a joint in
>Dallas. Jim Hall is 10 feet from me and the couple at the next table
>are doing some pre-conjugal ritual that involves endess self-absorbed
>blabber.
>
>And so forth.
-----------------------------Hmm. The only thing I think that would
be better than sitting 10 feet from Jim Hall and cuddling up with
pre-conjugal whisperings with a lady would be sitting 10 feet from
Johnny Smith and cuddling up with pre-conugal whisperings with a nice
lady.
thuss
Gerry Scott-Moore
<thus...@hotSPAMmail.com> wrote:
> The only thing I think that would be better than sitting 10 feet from
> Jim Hall and cuddling up with pre-conjugal whisperings with a lady
> would be sitting 10 feet from Johnny Smith and cuddling up with
> pre-conugal whisperings with a nice lady.
Well don't think I get all anxiety-ridden if my mashed potatos touch my
peas, but I prefer watching world-class players at one point, and
pre-conjugal blabber at another. I like to focus.
pmfan57
I got mine today. Unlike the Joe Pass set, it seems like almost
everthing was included, even "flower drum song", which I listen to in
my car all the time from the tape of my scratchy LP. (don't get me
wrong, the Joe Pass set was incredible too). Sometimes you just gotta
shell out the dough, and I just had to for Johnny Smith. I have most
of these LP's, but at least half are pretty crackly sounding. I can't
wait to hear "man with the blue guitar" without crackles.
Next, the complete Tal Farlow on Verve. The complete Billy Bean/John
Pisano sessions (probably too few tracks for Mosaic). The complete
Tommy Bolin Zephyr sessions (just kidding--anybody remember Zephyr?);
the complete April Lawton on Atlantic; the complete Big Jim Sullivan
Tom Jones' Show solo spotlights; the complete......
Scot Gormley
it, so far. I've been searching for the original records for years, and
I'm overjoyed to have this great collection of CDs.
Gerry Scott-Moore
<jwra...@aol.com> wrote:
> Next, the complete Tal Farlow on Verve.
Does this exist outside your fantasies?
thuss
wrote:
>My Johnny Smith boxed set arrived two days ago, and I've really enjoyed
>it, so far. I've been searching for the original records for years, and
>I'm overjoyed to have this great collection of CDs.
--------------Back when I first got turned on to Johnny, in about
1956, a pro, whose opionon I was always seeking, told me that his
objection to Johnny was that he used that "unorthodox tuning-low E to
D", and that he sounded "mechanical". The same one who commented
about the unorthodox tuning always raved about Tal Farlow-yet Tal
trimmed two or three inches off his fretboard so he would have a very
loose action. "Isn't this unorthodox?", I would ask. No response.
"And everything I hear him play is full of buzzings from the
strings...." again, no response. Professional jealousy?
thuss