Well, I for one am not interested in paying Amazon, iTunes or anyone else for
that matter $0.99 each for their lousy, lossey, thin sounding, and otherwise
crappy downloads of these great rare 'live' recordings via their system. One
could play the waiting game and find the stuff in a Lossless form at one of many
torrent download sites eventually. Given the option of actually owning the discs
I always reach for my wallet, but in the meantime I am not opposed to snagging a
freebie download here and there. I'm just not going to pay a buck a tune to some
company like Amazon or iTunes, both of whom could actually provide a decent rip
of the music in FLAC audio files that sound good enough to keep, so to speak.
But I digress...

I went out shopping online at a music distribution center and bought the double
CD set new for $25 smackeroos plus the usual dollar three-eighty-five for
shipping and handling to my door. I was about to spring for the Complete 12 Vol
set of the Goodman Yale Archives material consisting of 13 discs total for a
whopping C-note and a half plus S&H but I can scour around the web and elsewhere
and find the other discs in the set for little more than I fronted for Vol 11 &
12. I like Goodman, especially with Charlie Christian, but Benny also had other
great guitarists who I enjoy, so I plan to accumulate the entire set.

Buddy

--- In CharlieChristian@yahoogroups.com, "jazzsteric" <jazzsteric@...> wrote:
>
> FYI: I noticed that MusicMasters has released Volumes 11 and 12 of the Benny
Goodman Archive. Volume 11 contains three recordings never before released of
the Sextet featuring Charlie, Flying Home and Stardust from Jan 15, 1940 (The
Scandinavia Broadcasts) and Gone With What Draft from February 24, 1941. There
are also full orchestra releases that Charlie may be on as well. While I wasn't
able to buy the CD, I was able to download it from Amazon.com. It does not
appear to be available on iTunes yet.
>