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It's definitely smaller. I can see it in what's being offered for sale, locally and online. And in my world where it is arts oriented, the focus is clearly on other things, and its AI and tech oriented. My few connections left in the resale world have noticed this as well. Certain analogue items will have some value simply because a generation has not grown up with it, and have an interest, but there are a heap of cultural things that are being left alone, perhaps in part because it belongs to a time and culture that is no longer identifiable.

Kip Hanrahan, Crescent Moon Waning

Carl Perkins with Leroy Vinnegar on #6?

Immanuel Wilkins “The 7th Hand” Blue Note cd I love this cd.

It doesn't have to be either/or for me either. I've pre-ordered every Mosaic set for a long time.

It doesn't need to be either/or but seems like it has been. Both would suit me just fine

I don't know. . . those I am referring to are mostly in their fifties and sixties. . . and have a few decades possibly left in their collecting. Jazz has for over fifty years been a niche audience. . . and Mosaic is firmly in the niche. I think they can continue to be among the only ones truly conscientiously mining and refining the earlier decades of jazz for some time to come. . . at least as long as the producers wish to.

Sounds like Charles Davis on 11.

I agree with you to an extent, but its a rapidly dying generation. The interests of one group is not being passed down or shared to the next in the same way that, lets say, classic rock had been (and classic rock is pretty freaking ancient at this point). We have a younger generation that is keenly interested in doing their own thing in ways that contradict how we consume things, mostly for better, in some ways worse.

And interestingly these same persons are not that interested in the Sanders set.

I completely agree with you about Instagram. My 20-year-old daughter is constantly on it and buys stuff from it occasionally. I followed one guy (can't remember his name) who is a huge vinyl person, and he constantly shows and plays Mosaic sets. He is one of the only people I see regularly mentioning Mosaic. If they had a presence on it, especially with regular posts, I think it would be successful.

I would mostly agree with him about this, but also nominate the ProjeKcts-2000 edition of Crimson. Different kind of music, but the improvisation was as good as anything I ever heard by any other edition of King Crimson.

Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra - Music from the Danish Jungle (Dacapo DK, 1996)

Monday Michiru “Recollections” Polydor cd Haven’t spun this one in a while, a compilation gathering some tracks that were released on compilation albums and a few unreleased remixes.

I think there is a pretty significant market still for pre-1950 music; most jazz fans in my real life and in my penpal life are interested still in this music. That's just my personal assessment but it's a real tangible one.

No idea but hopefully these Sanders and the other BN sets help sales enough to keep sets like those coming.

Or perhaps Sam had the energy but the wrong chemistry?

Seriously, how significant a market is there for pre 1950 music to warrant the Mosaic treatment in 2025? As well as post 1960 "modern" or "new thin" or avant music? New thing