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Free admission this Saturday! NYC mayor kicks off Black History Month at Armstrong house and museum

+ 1 - and remembering 'soulpope' ...

The horses!!!

I was lucky to get the Warner Brothers box with the deluxe LP sleeves. That was when they were planning on doing a biopic with Richard Prior as ird.

The 86 CD box set would exceed the 83 CD (bootleg) collection of the Beatles Complete Get Back Sessions.

Charlie Parker on Dial were 6 single LP's on Spotlight for me still have those as well.

Right on! 9 of 13 tracks IDed 1, 6, 12 and 13 remain a mystery.

Listen here. The (so far) 4 volumes of Studio Rivbea sessions put out by NoBusiness have been really good. (Note: I don't have Volume 1. Need to correct that.)

FYI -- For Mosaic fans who prefer vinyl: https://www.discogs.com/seller/philadelphiamusic/profile?sort=listed%2Cdesc&limit=250&genre=Jazz&q=Mosaic These sets are all part of the big "Pittsburgh George" collection that philadelphiamusic is selling off. BTW: I have no commercial connection to this reseller. However, I've placed many orders with them over the years and never had any problems.

86 cds sound like a decent box set to me. 172 LP version for me than. With 100 versions of Giant Steps? 😅

Whoa. I've been (very much) out of the loop as far as the Tiberi tapes. 86 CDs?!? Holy moly. Perhaps Verve/Impulse has culled the best-sounding of the tapes into a logical package? Fun to speculate at least.

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ha! Good warm up technique.

Listened to disc 1 of this great set (I’m eager for the big one coming Friday) Yes “Tales from Topographic Oceans” Steven Wilson remixed box set 250×250 22.4 KB followed by SFJazz Collective “Works of Horace Silver Plus New Compositions” 3 disc set, disc 3

This album makes me think of @soulpope. He loved it. I do too.

I think my first box set was either Passions of a Man or the Atlantic Coltrane. First Mosaic was Sam Rivers.

I saw Louis Sclavis in a duo with Henri Texier (b) in Göttingen on November 7, 1998. Before going on stage, he did push-ups in the dressing room hallway...

10. Unexpected find. "Kool", Mary Lou Williams. w/ Kenny Dorham, Johnny Smith and Gracham Moncur. The women leaders work.

From Ben Ratliff's Coltrane: the Story of a Sound. Many of the recordings were made at Philadelphia's Showboat in the early 1960s. It's all live performances of the classic quartet, although I think some have Roy Haynes on drums instead of Elvin (presumably from the stretch of 1963 when Elvin was out of commission). I have a couple of CD-Rs that someone sent me many years ago that includes Coltrane playing "After The Rain" on piano iirc. Guessing that audio technology 25 years on is more capable of improving the sound quality than it was when digital transfers were made in 2000. Tiberi noticed a big difference in Coltrane in 1960… Not wanting to let this pass undocumented, Tiberi started bringing a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder into clubs to tape Coltrane’s sets… His tapes are important evidence of what Coltrane was up to at the beginning of his bandleading… When Verve records made a digital transfer of Tiberi’s tapes, in 2000, they amounted to eighty-six CDs. The sound quality, however, was deemed (by Tiberi as well as Verve) not to be good enough for release. And so an important part of Coltrane’s story remains locked up, for now. - Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: the Story of a Sound

Three selected concertos from this excellent box set:

My first box set was the Benny Goodman "The Golden Age of Swing' RCA LPT-6703 in 1956. Long gone after I made CDrs from the 5 LPs. My first Mosaic was their second release "The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings of the Original Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentette with Chet Baker" on CD number 102.

nice! Saw him a couple of times in New York. (Sclavis, that is... weirdly never saw Ulmer)

A photo from the event. Chris Cacavas (Green on Red original member) on the keyboards.

I believe my first Mosaic box was the Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis box. Happy music! That was a long time ago. A very long time ago.