Mine was the Larry Young set
I had recently bought a big box of jazz lps (pre ebay) and some of them were Blue Notes - originals too
My local jazz record shop in Manchester UK (Decoy Records) had a look and out from under the counter popped a Larry Young Mosaic set - AND a box of the Other Side of the 1500 Series (Japanese LPs)
I went home happier than I had ever felt trading records. Larry Young I had only heard I think 3 tracks of and there was all his stuff and his sides with Grant Green ....and then that Japanese Blue Note set.
Still have the Larry Young set - my favourite still.
Bought all the Blue Note boxes and loved ringing up from the UK (as fast as I could as it cost a fortune) to place an order for the next one or ones I had missed.
All these years later I still miss BJP and cherish the odd evening to myself to immerse into the world of Big John Patton
Tonight Dec 8th December it is the Minor Swing release
Imagine the squeals if they surprised us and turnout a nice odds and sods set ( a little like some of the older Japanese rarities)
I know there is not a great deal
and the prospect might not be real
but I would still squeal!
In all seriousness the prospect of another nicely compiled box of new bits and pieces along the lines of a Lost Grooves plan would just be enough
Same here - nowadays all these Mosaics have the same material I have where as previously they had absolute hidden treasures like the Larry Young or Hank Mobley or Lee Morgan sets that back then were really impossible to find on CD
However that said - these are lovely sets to see - especially the Joe Henderson and Sonny Clark -
I would love to have seen one that tied up a few artists like Baby Face Willette/Freddie Roach - or as others have said - long since unseen one LP wonders.
Nowadays I still enjoy the ones I bought - last one was the JJ Johnson and the two Vee Jays with Lee Morgan Wayne Shorter and Paul Chambers and Wynton Kelly =they were nice sets
That is true - I have a fair few that were also radio broadcasts and would love to see more issued - as they did with the Half Note sessions
I just gave the Blue Lament another play and in particular Mason Dixon Line - I still like it
Wow - this I missed - now watched
What a lovely lovely treat I never ever thought I would see.
and then to learn about Tina Brooks as well - luck is in the room
Well
I have a fair bit of Kenny Dorham
This is not his best but nor is it his worst.
If you can snaffle a copy as this may not get released officially (but you never know) then do
It is better than 60% of what I have heard of Kenny Dorham
in my sonically challenged world
Used many paper based discographies
They take enormous effort
I could pick faults but they have been in my opinion excellent.
To monetise online ..maybe the best offer is a trial membership access...so many logins for a fee
There used to be an army of regulars that used to go to the Manchester Jazz Society - to listen to jazz records who waxed lyrical about seeing many of these Manchester gigs - not sure how many more of them are still with us
Time gone by I used to turn up with my latest Mosaic Box set or new Blue Note CD and try to get them into the "new stuff" from the 50's and 60's - they used to call me the Blue Note Kid
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