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I don't know. . . those I am referring to are mostly in their fifties and sixties. . . and have a few decades possibly left in their collecting. Jazz has for over fifty years been a niche audience. . . and Mosaic is firmly in the niche. I think they can continue to be among the only ones truly conscientiously mining and refining the earlier decades of jazz for some time to come. . . at least as long as the producers wish to.

And interestingly these same persons are not that interested in the Sanders set.

Monday Michiru “Recollections” Polydor cd Haven’t spun this one in a while, a compilation gathering some tracks that were released on compilation albums and a few unreleased remixes.

I think there is a pretty significant market still for pre-1950 music; most jazz fans in my real life and in my penpal life are interested still in this music. That's just my personal assessment but it's a real tangible one.

Grant Green “Goin’ West” Blue Note Japan 24 bit by RVG lp facsimile cd

A cool morning, and going to be a cooler day than yesterday. Looking forward to that. Pulled a random disc off the shelves from my row of Blue Note 85th Anniversary discs from Universal Japan, and pulled out this one: the Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil” SHM-SACD 500×500 48.1 KB

I don't look at many places, this set has been discussed in the Hoffman forums, and has about the same audience as far as age and very similar comments there.

My favorite cycle.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk “The Case of the Three Sided Dream in Audio Color” Atlantic cd. This man. . . he was the epitome of “something else.”

His 4A and 4B recordings on IPO Records recorded 2008 are very strong, this should be great.

Thank goodness it got cool enough to just run a fan to pull air out last night. . . about 60 degrees when I awoke this morning. Ah! Another disc from the Grateful Dead “Enjoying the Ride” box set. . . now Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/25/71) disc 2 320×219 15.5 KB Some good Pigpen in this set, and Jerry is riding along a carpet of great drumming.

OK. I don't think I'll find that to be honest. I sat through the whole thing waiting, looking for that, to no good effect.

Johnny Windhurst! Right now After enjoying the Blu-Spec CD2 of this release a few times recently I realized this was one of the few Miles releases i didn’t have in the LP facsimile versions that Sony put out so I ordered, and received, this SBM version, Sony SRCS 9323~4. I like the sound of this series of discs, and in listening they bring me a warm nostalgic feeling of when I was first really into collecting Japanese releases.

It just seems like "heart beat tempo" noodling that went on when I was in bands goofing around in practices in my then garage apartment in the 'eighties. . . holds little interest for me. Now Jefferson Airplane “After Bathing at Baxter’s” Culture Family cd 300×300 10.8 KB

“Jazz Conversations: The Other Side of Monday Michiru” Toshiko Akiyoshi with her daughter Monday Michiru. An excellent album spoiled a bit by the “loudness/compression” mastering.

My wife decided to be up early and listen with me on this somewhat stuff morning. Started off with Eliane Elias “Time and Again” on Candid cd . . . the new “innovation” here is many more mult-tracked Elias voices to form a chorus . . . interesting. . .she’s done this before but more prevalent here. Also, all tunes are originals by Elias and her husband Marc Johnson. And then on to Ruby Braff “For the Last Time” Arbors Jazz 2 cd, disc 2. Sad to know this was his last recorded performance, but it’s a good one–Scott Hamilton was a great front line partner for him, and John Bunch is a fine pianist.

Picked this up as it got praise on another board. Ummm. . . kindof boring. Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet “The Way out of Easy” cd

Tim Warfield Sextet “Jazz Is” Criss Cross cd Great band! Bass – Tarus Mateen Drums – Clarence Penn Piano – Cyrus Chestnut Tenor Saxophone – Tim Warfield Trumpet – Nicholas Payton Vibraphone – Stefon Harris Recorded January 21, 2001 at Systems Two Recording Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y.

“Ruby Braff and his New England Songbirds Volume 2,” Arbors Jazz cd

I listened to the albums with George for years before I moved on to the Quintet with Wayne. I love those albums. . . I always will.

Freddie Hubbard “First Light” CTI Supreme Blu-Spec cd

Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw “Jazz Patterns” Everest/Real Gone Music LP

Tim Warfield “A Cool Blue” Criss Cross cd This is a great quintet, and the arrangement here of “Summertime” is like none I’ve heard before–I really like it.

I have really nice sounding LP Facsimile cds of the five Rendell/Carr releases from Japan released at the same time as the LP box.