Adam

I picked up the LPs of Waldron/Lacy, Lateef, and Adderley Poppin' in Paris. That's what i could afford currently. I was standing next to someone at the store (Canterbury Records in Pasadena) who picked up a copy of the Nat King Cole, and another person standing there said "I worked on that; thank you for picking it up." I didn't ask more questions, but there it is. I'll get others on CD someday if I get them. Tried to play Lateef and my turntable wouldn't work, so more to deal with...

All the Elemental Releases are coming on CD with a street date of April 26. https://www.elemental-music.com/71-deluxe-cds-april-26th

Blue Note just tweeted the news. Such a vitally important person to the music.

And Ruth has been the director of the Jazz BAkery in Los Angeles for many a year.

Here's full info on their site, and the 3 CD set is only $30 from Resonance directly. https://resonancerecords.org/product/les-mccann-never-a-dull-momentcd/ Also note that the early Nat King Cole box is only $30 for 7 CDs, and $60 for 10 LPs https://resonancerecords.org/product/hcd-2042-nat-king-cole-hittin-the-ramp-the-early-years-1936-1943/ https://resonancerecords.org/product/nat-king-cole-hittin-the-ramp-the-early-years-1936-1943/

A bit interested in breaking this down. Asch should be under Smithsonian Folkways - that shouldn't have been hard to license. Commodore, Keynote, Signature - I thought these are all Universal Music Group now, as are Blue Note & Verve, whom Mosaic obviously works with regularly. RCA Victor should be Sony/BMG I don't know who controls Musicraft, Swing, and Apollo these days, although most fo the time, the answer seems to be Universal Music Group. 🙂 In other words, I would have thought that they could have included some of those sessions as they are under parent labels with whom they have worked before. Maybe there are other issues, like some labels not wanting to be in a set with other particular labels, or a concern regarding the total number of discs and the cost. All speculation.

Generalizations can be accurate with individual cases being exceptions. So the presumption doesn't fail based on your one case, same as my individual case (also not being more well-to-do) doesn't disprove the accuracy of the generalization. And I think it is safe to say that most jazz vinyl collectors skew older and more well-to-do. I would hope that that isn't always the case. I think your second point has an embedded really important point. Younger, not-wealthy buyers need to see some less expensive releases in order to buy the vinyl, so that there will be a future for jazz. Here in Los Angeles (big city), there are solid crowds for experimental and improvised music (and very small audiences as well), but I don't know if many of those people are looking at buying jazz from the 1940s-80s, and at $30 or $40 a record, they aren't likely to pick any up on a lark. Limited edition high-cost box sets from New Land (last year's Dorothy Ashby, and now this) aren't really going to be the primary practice of the industry; these are exceptions, and may or may not find enough buyers at that price point. It costs a lot to do all the work for a nice box set - restoration, paying for essays, licensing images & music, pressing records, storage, paying personnel to administer, assembly, shipping etc for a product that will never have mass sales. And their break-even point needs to be somewhere below selling all 1000 copies. I mean, I won't buy it, and they probably won't sell all 1000. Would they sell them all if they priced it at $100? $75? That doesn't seem likely either. Might as well price it high, so they can break even after selling X number (200? 300?)

Third Man Records brought it out as a Verve By Request, for $40 https://thirdmanrecords.com/collections/all-music/products/the-peace-maker-limited-edition-yellow-vinyl

More Big Jay McNeeley. His original hit: And Joe Houston - All Night Long

me three. no new ones on their site yet. ad one of these two was not sold out as of yesterday

For a documentary I'm working on, I'm trying to locate copies of two 45s from J-V-B Records in Detroit in the 1950s, in the hopes of getting high resolution scans of their labels. They are Aretha Franklin "Never Grow Old" https://www.discogs.com/master/361484-Aretha-Franklin-Never-Grow-Old-You-Grow-Closer Kenny Burrell "Kenny's Sound" https://www.discogs.com/release/14030770-Kenny-Burrell-Four-Sharps-Kennys-Sound-Funny-Valentine If you have one, please write PM me. Thank you!

There also were two additional ones available now on their site, plus an offer to subscribe to all the rest. Eleven items total.

I didn't see anyone knocking old white men, just stating that they are the primary makers & buyers of Mosaic sets. Then, they tend to die off. And young people, without kids but with disposable cash, tend to be the biggest buyers. And vinyl has passed CDs in sales in the US now. Honestly, a Shirley Scott set of jazz & funky material on vinyl, pitched to DJs and younger folks, would probably sell just fine.

That came out 11 years ago? Damn

Still working with Resonance. He lists various things coming up in the next year on various labels in this article in Variety this week: https://variety.com/2022/music/news/record-store-day-jazz-detective-zev-feldman-ahmad-jamal-vinyl-exclusive-rsd-1235441748/