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Mosaic had a major impact on my jazz education over the last 30 years.  My first box was the Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers set.  I remember when I placed the on-line order for my 100th set (this was sometime in the mid-2000s), I noted in the comment block that this was, indeed, my 100th set and thanked them for all the great work.  The next day when I got home there was a FedEx overnight envelope sitting on my doorstep.  Inside was a card from Michael thanking me for being such a loyal customer and including a $100 Mosaic gift card.  RIP Michael and thanks for the lifetime of great work.

What Felser Would Like - Not Me

Wow - three thoughtful, considered, incisive commentaries on the tracks; thanks for the effort y'all put in.  One of the mysteries of music, and BFTs really bring this out, is how different people can hear things so differently.  Indeed, I can hear the same track differently from one listen to the next.  There's probably an analogy to wine here, but wine never got to me the way music does.  I'm not saying I love all these tracks (especially not the more diffident ones), but I thought they'd be a good springboard for conversation.  And even those, I find repeated listening bears fruit.  And, to be clear, I'm not a fan of the lengths of some of these tracks.  I could try editing them down, but would probably mangle them in an unpleasant way, so here they stand. As for IDs thus far, felser nailed #14 (talk about editing: I wish I could have edited out the shout-out to Jamaaladeen Tacuma before his solo!).  Jim was the first to ID Fathead (#9), and Dan found the album source.  Compositions Goldfinger, Wichita Lineman, Happy Birthday, and As Time Goes By were identified (I'd be worried if they weren't).  Thom noticed the presence of "our host" on #12 (but he's not on #13).  And Jim made an interesting John Patton reference to #13, because this artist worked with Patton. Carry on!

I like the albums by Ahmed Abdul-Malik. Also, Al McKibbon, particularly the CD Black Lotus. I think they are both fairly obscure.

I don't know how long the sale will last (perhaps only through this evening), but at the moment, the Greenleaf Music subscription deal on Bandcamp has dropped to $60/year and you get something like 103 back catalogue releases.  Crazy!  https://glmstore.bandcamp.com/subscription