Ron S

I've only had a chance to listen to it once, so far, but I'd highly recommend it. And if you're already an Elmo Hope fan and it's now available for $5.99 with free shipping, what the heck are you waiting for??? That's all I needed to hear, Ron. Both items have now been placed in my cart. Man, I love this place. And just in case you start getting Buyer's Remorse over your $5.99 investment, take a look at the All Music Guide review here. They give it their absolutely highest rating of 5 stars with an "Album Pick" check mark.

I've only had a chance to listen to it once, so far, but I'd highly recommend it. And if you're already an Elmo Hope fan and it's now available for $5.99 with free shipping, what the heck are you waiting for???

Dude, we're workin' on OCTOBER here.

New today are the October '05 Conns (except for Don Cherry ): Booker Ervin, "Tex Book Tenor" Andrew Hill, "Andrew!" Elmo Hope, "Trio and Quintet" (paid almost twice as much for this 2 weeks ago ) Jackie McLean, "Consequence" Ike Quebec, "The Complete 45 Sessions" (Yeah, Baby! Glad I waited on this one.) Also new today are some titles from Blue Note's "The Artitst Selects" series: Lou Donaldson Freddie Hubbard Gerald Wilson And there's some other new stuff that didn't interest me. (Gotta leave something for Erik to post. )

Hmm... I'm not sure I understand the comment... Does it have something to do with the LP ("Swing Guitars") that I'm using for an avatar? Those were of course three different sessions (the Farlow tracks are also on the original Norgran, "The Tal Farlow Album"). He's referring to the quoted description of the set in this post.

And into the queue it goes. Thanks, guys!

I was going to post it, but by the time I had finished typing the post, "just then" had moved ahead to a different point in time.

It still seems to me that the Universal-distributed Farlow Moasic is unique among these sets in its widespread availablity in the US through large, "legitimate" retailers at a low price over a long period of time. I've suspected for a while that there's a story behind that, but so far haven't seen it.

No, Chris. DAVID HASSELHOFF is the David Hasselhoff of Belgium.

I received my sets today, two days after ordering them...damn, that's fast. One concern I have is that several of the discs have a couple of tiny blacks spots on them (lable side)...not sure if it's ink or what but I can't rub them off.....any thoughts???? Also, my Pacific Jazz Piano Trio is set #4449 (of 5000), could it really be this close to being gone??? The Brookmeyer is #3836 and the Tolliver is #482. m~ Unlike the big boxes, the Selects are not sold in sequential order, so the number of a particular set sold does not indicate anything about prior sales. Regarding the black spots, if they don't affect play, they probably occurred during label printing and aren't anything to worry about. However, if they bother you, just send an email to Cindy at Mosaic (csr@mosaicrecords.com) and explain the situation, and she'll have replacement discs sent to you "no-questions-asked" (and without your having to return the affected discs).

Of COURSE not! I'd NEVER place all the risk with just one carrier! I actually have them insured with Traveler's, The Hartford, State Farm, and 17 other insurance companies.

It's threads like this that really screw up my CD budget. Now I've put the 2 Yoshi's discs in my ever-expanding cart at AllDirect.com.

Nope. I'm on a restricted Mosaic (and other CD) diet right now--only running-lows, and Selects 1-20 I want and don't yet have before the 7/1/06 price increase.

I have all mine insured by Lloyd's of London--it's cheaper, and less time-consuming.

Justin, relax! We all respect and appreciate the industriousness and initiative you display in promoting your own CD.

As have Joe Tarantino and Phil De Lancie (and perhaps others I'm forgetting). By the way, Joe Tarantino is credited with the remastering, albeit 20-bit K2, on the new Bill Evans Complete Village Vanguard box. I'm listening to it right now and, although I haven't done an A-B comparison to the earlier 20-bit K2's of "Sunday" and "Waltz" by the JVC folks, the new box set sounds better to me than how I remember the earlier 20-bit K2's sounding the last time I listened to them--more presence and detail, and less tape hiss. I read somewhere that this set--and presumably its earlier Japanese and European releases--was mastered from the original session tapes, and that the previous K2s were mastered from the master tapes prepared for the original albums. I've spoken to Tarantino a few times in the past, and I think I'll try to find out from him what the real story is here.

To my ears, some of the late-'80's/early-90's OJC/Contemporary CD's have some of the best sound I've ever heard, e.g., the Shelly Manne Black Hawk discs. And apparently the folks at Fantasy would agree, since many of these have never received the K2 treatment (at least for US distribution).

GREAT ones to be eyeing (even better to be buying).

You mean, of course, the original early digital recording, and not merely some transfer from analog.

That's the one. Sorry, Brad--next time I'll pay attention better. -_-

The Coltrane/Monk finally showed up???? CRAP!! I just got this yesterday for Christmas. Oh well... I know--I got tired of waiting for this to show up and ordered it somewhere else a month or so ago--for more than twice as much.

Also showing up today: Bill Charlap & Sandy Stewart, "Love Is Here To Stay"

Isn't that because you preordered the entire run of both sets?

Wow, who knew??? Let's just be sure not to leave Allen Lowe and Suzy Creamcheese/Johnny E alone together in there.

Don't blame me--I'm just the messenger. I'm not blaming you at all, I was referring to the Mosaic page. I knew you weren't blaming me Hans--at least not for THAT! Just kidding around.