Jim Duckworth

The Capitol Sessions is essential! Those single label collections tend to pay a healthy dividend over time. I started out digging the Ellington-related, Bobby Hackett, Mel Powell, Jess Stacy, and Joe Sullivan sessions, but over time really appreciated Eddie Miller and the rest of the Wingy Manone-Bob Crosby related entries.

When I first got this set, I was pretty pleased to get some Joe Marsala and Barney Bigard sessions with the great St. Louis trumpet guy Joe Thomas in vastly improved sound. Having dug the Cliff Jackson elements, now I'm very interested in the Rod Cless session(s) and a vocal session that features Aaron Sachs. A label retrospective like this is my favorite type of Mosaic box set other than the amazing Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, or Lester Young retrospectives. As a matter of fact it was the HRS set that really introduced me to Joe Thomas.

I listened to this one quite a bit when it came out and need to get it out again.

Thank you for sharing this-I was thinking that I could get remastered Okeh Ellington tracks via Ellington In Order but now have a better understanding of the licensing.

Thank you for posting this-it is right on time.

Some years back this one worked for me: price was outstanding and some selections filled gaps for me.

I too found the Cliff Jackson elements to be pretty great, sending me on a search for Cliff Jackson's Krazy Kids records from 1930.

Enjoying the Cliff Jackson elements of this set.

This one takes the same approach to an earlier era.

It is readily, easily, and freely available on Archive.org-otherwise I would have had to make an archeological expedition of my own.

I am really hoping that I will like Three Or Four Shade of Blue better now (as part of this box set) than I did when it came out...

The Kansas City Five selections without Lester Young are appended to the end of this release and may well be some of my favorite Buck Clayton.

The Django is by a local artist who has work of this same nature in some surprisingly important collections. Since I am also local, I don't get it.

I find Tijuana Moods essential as well.

Excellent! Thanks for posting this.

Hey there. I'm 66 and had to endure the word "Munchies" as a teenager-please tell me it's not coming back.

Moves was my second Mingus record (Carnegie Hall was the first).

I've been catching up on older recordings including a couple I downloaded from Archive.org.

Little Richard's work in the 1960's is so underrated.