[Don Byas Mosaic set available for pre-order]

Agh, I was about to order it, but the USD AUD exchange rate is killing me. Not sure I can justify $329 Australian.

[Women and Mosaic Records]

I would buy a Mary Lou Williams set in a heartbeat.

[Mosaic JATP 1950s Box]

1 hour ago, Edward said:

Perhaps you nabbed the last set of the first pressing!  I attempted to order the set at the pre-order price this evening after I returned home from work, but I was unable to do so because it was identified as "Out of Stock". 

I'd suggest that it may just be Mosiac's way of stopping the pre-orders before starting the regular price,

[Mosaic JATP 1950s Box]

I'm tempted by this set, but the exchange rate is making it hard to justify right now.

[Mosaic's Black and White label box set]

17 hours ago, romualdo said:

same here

my Asendia is saying Australia (Sydney) for Aug 18 while the DAI has it in the states for 17/8 - how can that be - Concorde postal service!!

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I know people in Sydney have got theirs so hopefully ours are still in transit in Australia. Somewhere. 

[Mosaic's Black and White label box set]

Ugh, this shipping is wild. Tracking tells me my set has been from Secaucus USA to Sydney Australia and now back to Secaucus. I’m in Melbourne. I don’t know what to expect anymore. 

[Mosaic's Black and White label box set]

I just got a shipping notice. I’m in Australia. Hopefully it will be here within a few months 

[Anyone Else Follow Formula 1 Racing?]

Jazz music and Formula 1 racing. Clearly I’ve found my people. If anyone here is also a graphic designer we might have be become best friends.

[Mosaic's Black and White label box set]

On 06/06/2022 at 8:50 AM, J.A.W. said:

 

Same here, let them have the money straight away. In my case that also means no hassle with exchange rate fluctuations.

Wait, so if you use PayPal it deducts it straight away? I didn’t realise that. Will do that next time.

[Mosaic's Black and White label box set]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:This doesn't seem normal, does it? What's the purpose of preordering at the earliest-ish opportunity, with a card on file, and then have to re-place the order because you pre-ordered too soon?

I’ve said this before, but I’d really really really prefer they just take my money when I order it. Then I have control over when they take money out of my account, and what the exchange rate is, AND they get the bonus of having the money up front to keep things moving. 

[Imaginary Mosaics]

22 minutes ago, Hardbopjazz said:

The Complete Rod Stewart sings the American songbook. 

[Another Mosaic Armstrong to come out this August.]

FYI If anyone else has pre-ordered but heard nothing from Mosaic, check you spam folder for an email from Scott about issues with payment. That was the cause of my radio silence.

[Johnny Hodges Mosaics]

I have those Avid releases but I’ve never been particularly satisfied with the sound. Can anyone recommend an alternative that’s not the Mosaic LP?

[Album covers with people jumpin']

This one I designed:

[Mosaic Wish List]

On 03/10/2020 at 11:56 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

! have spoken to Scott about this in the past and he said it was on their radar.

Sony also controls the Victor masters and that would bump it to 8 CDs excluding the Universal stuff.

 

Count me in for that!

[RIP Helen Reddy.]

17 minutes ago, sgcim said:

Any song that started off with "I am woman, hear me roar" (we used to replace hear me roar with eat me r-w) is dead before it even began...

You've perfectly captured why that song was necessary in the first place.

[Digitally restoring 78 records?]

On 24/07/2020 at 11:11 PM, AllenLowe said:

I always declick and decrackle first; and I do all de-noising by hand, meaning that one should NEVER use the program the way the program advises you to use it, by having it create a noise print in which it "learns" the noise and then eliminates it. This is always grossly destructive, and is why you hear these youtube guys who offer tunes in which they have created that horrible gurgling effect. De-noise can and should always be done manually, like a filter in which different frequency bands are individually de-noised. But then ALSO remember that you can never eliminate all noise without harming the sound, so you almost always have to leave some.

Thank you. This has been my experience but I needed a sanity check.

I’ve had some success with the “centre channel extractor” feature, which analyses the L and R channel of a stereo digitisation of a mono recording and allows you to keep only the parts that are common to both. It doesn’t fix everything, but has helped.

I wonder if someone has made a feature like that that can analyse and combine digitisations of different 78s for the same purpose.

I just wish I could drop the overall noise levels without destroying the music, the way the pros seem to do, but i suspect that has more to do with access to clean original sources and metal masters and that sort of thing.

[Digitally restoring 78 records?]

2 hours ago, AllenLowe said:

lotsa programs around, best I've used (and I used it on all 800 tunes I just restored for the new project) is de-click, denoise, etc from Acon digital.

In terms of workflow, do you de-click first, and then denoise? Do you denoise more for certain frequencies?

[Digitally restoring 78 records?]

I’ve been spending some time playing around with restoring some of the recordings over at the Internet Archive and I'm looking for some resources and/or advice.

I’m using Adobe Audition (it’s what I have access to) and would appreciate some thoughts on approach for dealing with these sort of recordings:

I’m mostly interested in Swing Era recordings that I currently only have in poor quality. The 78 transfers are noticeably better despite the heavy noise. Earl Hines example: https://archive.org/details/78_julia_earl-hines-and-his-orchestra-walter-fuller-george-dixon_gbia0062881a

Resources I have found so far are either too simple (run a heavy noise filter over everything), or too complex. I guess I’m looking for something in between suitable for an enthusiast but not an audio engineer.

Help appreciated!

[Two Cheap HRS Mosaics on eBay]

On 1/9/2020 at 7:16 AM, Rooster_Ties said:

't see it happening at all, but given the number of "discs only" and "booklet only" sales on eBay, it seems to be incredibly common, and bafflingly so.

This confuses me too. Are there owners that throw the boxes away when they buy them? Or separate everything out for storage and then lose parts? I don't get it.

[New Woody Herman Mosaic]

Ah cool, I've been charged too. Thanks for chasing it up.

[New Woody Herman Mosaic]

On 11/16/2019 at 1:24 AM, jazzbo said:

Excited to hear this set. I discovered I did pre-order this via PayPal when Mosaic was gauging interest in this set last year. So far no shipping notice etc. I emailed Mosaic and have not heard back. Sigh. May have to call next week.  . . .

I also pre-ordered and haven't heard anything. Are these being shipped out at a staggered, slower-than-usual pace?

[Mosaic on Spotify]

Wow, quite a lot there. I'll report back in 277hrs 

[Chu Berry Mosaic Has Entered the Building]

I think the Mildred Bailey set might be available too. I'd love to see a few more OOP Mosaics that I missed become available, even if it's not quite the same as having a nice box set.

[Chu Berry Mosaic Has Entered the Building]

It looks like this set has been rebranded and added to digital services (Apple Music, Spoify etc) by Sony as "Chu Berry: The Columbia and Victor Sessions". I haven't checked but it looks the same as the Mosaic. So if you missed out (on what is my favourite Mosaic release), now's your 2nd chance!