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I'm tired of the industry whining about the fans ripping them off. I hope the industry implodes--it would markedly raise the cultural IQ in this country from the article: "By marketing superficial, disposable pop stars, labels persuade fans to treat music as superficial and disposable. By placing so much emphasis on hit singles that fit into the radio formats, the record industry has created a fan who has no interest in albums. And the values of the people who share music illegally over P2P networks are, after all, rock-and-roll values: freedom, lack of respect for authority, and a desire for instant gratification--the same values that made so many people in the record business so rich". I can't find a link to the article. Actually, the new yorker web site is pretty much worthless. like the popular music industry. BTW, the "industry" is the big conglomerates. I have a lot of respect for the independents who are fighting the good fight (like Criss Cross and Palmetto to name just two)

Certainly a bounty of riches when it comes to Hodges and Webster. For me: Hodges-Day Dream or Blood Count (both are on the Strayhorn tribute album) Webster--Time after Time (from Webster and Associates) I don't have the Webster/Tatum, album...big hole in my collection.

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Thanks for the info. I'm glad the JOnes-Smith material is included ..I've been hoping Sony would get to that. I'm surprised there's pnly 38 cuts of the orchestra

Horrible news. I was just listening to his Verve sessions with OP a couple of nights ago and marveling at their pure beauty. Not unexpected, I suppose, but hard to believe he's gone.

Picked this up based on the recommendations on this board...everybody's right! This is a tremendous session, one I would have totally overlooked. It's a shame Billy Mitchell wasn't recorded more as a leader.

I think this sounds like a great idea. The Eddie Condon Mosaic sets are among my favorites. Dick Cathcart, who is on some of the Matlock recordings on the Condon Mob set, has some albums from the late 50s on Warners. Cathcart, Dick Pete Kelly Lets His Hair Down Warner Bros. (USA) WS-1217 Cathcart, Dick BIX MCMLIX Warner Bros. (USA) WS-1275 Cathcart, Dick Pete Kelly's Blues Warner Bros. (USA) WS-1303 As far as I know, these don't overlap with the Matlock albums mentioned earlier, but I'm not sure. I'd also be interested to know what else is on the label from this period.

I have a CD that I really like, "Big T Jump", that covers transcriptions made between 1944-45 by the big band. The label is Jass. Excellent remastering from Jack Towers.

Thank you for the suggestions. Rooster, I'm in central Illinois which is about as stateside as you can get. How representative are the three samples on the Mosaic website? I think I might start with Elvin!. The lineup looks really good.

I'll certainly second this. Precision, swing, and blues blasting out of the speakers.

The Real Mccoy is one of my favorite albums, due in no small part to Elvin Jones. He energizes other favorite sessions as well--Unity, ALS, Thad Jones (Mosaic)... ANd yet, I don't have anything by Elvin as a leader. Any suggestions for good places to start?

Interesting. I guess it's for real. I wonder if Mosaic's trying to clear out some shelf space--a lot of good releases are coming up. In some ways, perhaps, the deepdiscount sale takes the place of the 10% off sale Mosaic ran last year.

This is what I meant to say (you said it better) when I said there was a wide stereo spread. It sounds horrible to me...you've basically got the rhythm section crammed into one speaker and the soloist popping out of the other, with nothing in between. It's bizarre.

Some other jazz greats from NW Ohio--Joe Henderson's from Lima OH and WIld Bil Davison's from Defiance. I wonder if they have plaques. I pased through Defiance last summer and asked the register girl at the local Wendy's if there was any commemoration of Wild Bill in town. SHe looked at me like I was nuts. "WHo's that?"

I was referring to the new hybrid remastered by steve hoffman. Picked it up at redtrumpet a couple of weeks ago. I don't have the old one to compare it to. By "dry" I mean lifeless (if that clarifies anything). There just isn't much presence. I have a comfortable volume on my system and I don't deviate much from it--for this hybrid I have to turn up the volume much higher than I normally do to reach that comfort level..to get some presence.

I've only heard this on a CD player since I don't have an SACD player. To be honest, it sounds bad to me--extreme stereo separation and really dry. OF course, it may sound much better on SACD

This is generally true, but last year I came across an out of print Ellington Capitol Mosaic at salemusic.com. It was discounted from the original price, to make the deal even less believable. I took a chance anyway and about a week later it arrived on my porch. Maybe clandy44 will luck out--it'll be interesting to see.

I noticed that deepdiscountcd.com has Mosaics for sale at a pretty good price. Has anybody purchased these--are they new, with the booklet, box etc?deepdiscountcd do an advanced search and put Mosaic as the label you're searching for to get the full list.

I've got this too and the fidelity of the recordings is very good. A swingin' time in Hot Horn Hall!

redtrumpet.com and dustygroove.com are two good places to purchase imports.

In addition to everything else that's been mentioned, I really like his playing as a sideman on Blue Mitchell's Blue SOul. I'm listening to it right now--reminds me I better snap up Blue's Mosaic before too long. It should be nearing Running Low status fairly soon I would guess.

It's possible Definitive lifted the GRP transfers, so there may be no difference at all. It's unlikely Definitve went out and found all original 78s, cleaned them and transferred them. They likely lifted them from somewhere. I like the transfers done by Dave Bennett for a small UK label called Avid.

Gave this one a spin today. First impressions: 2 thumbs up. Payton sounds inspired, great arrangements. The two Ellington tunes stand out the most to me--man, people will be finding new things to say with Ellington's music 500 years from now. SIngle Petal was beautiful.

I'd like to see some stab at the Buck Clayton jam sessions. We aren't likely to see them in complete form again, but a 2 CD set would be nice. With Basie's centennial coming up, it'd be nice to see a Basie box along the lines of the Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Christian boxes. How's that for starters?

Thanks Gary, er, I mean "Bruce".