J.A.W.

I am under the impression that to do so would require a Ouija board. (in other words, he's dead.) He was born in 1929, but when did he die?

Not quite true - sessions F, G, H and I appeared on the 1993 CD Tricotism, Impulse! GRD-135. F, G and H are on CD here: And so is session I.

Or, if you really didn't want to be offensive, you could simply say the obvious, that they are different players with different conceptions. Stating that Gene Harris "could only dream" of playing like Jamal implies that he wanted to or tried to and failed at it. I could just as easily say that Jamal could only dream of playing like Gene Harris or driving an audience into a frenzy like Gene did. Uh, no. Crosby and Fournier were something special, and so were Bill and Andy. Different doesn't in anyway mean better. I think you've listened to one too many Eric Alexander Venus lp's. Excellent non sequitur. Thanks for playing. Dumb ass. Insulting other members who don't agree with you doesn't make your arguments stronger, on the contrary.

Why don't you ask Mosaic about the underlying concept of their Selects in general and this one in particular? I'm sure Scott Wenzel will be happy to answer your questions.

I'm still hoping for a Milt Jackson/Lucky Thompson Savoy set.

Back in 2008 Scott Wenzel told me these albums would be included: Argo LP-610 - Count 'Em 88 Argo LP-628 - But Not for Me Argo LP-636 - Ahmad Jamal Trio – Volume IV Argo LP-2638 - Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal Argo LP-646 - Jamal at the Penthouse Argo LP-662 - Happy Moods Argo LP-667 - At the Pershing Argo LP-673 - Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet Argo LP-685 - Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra Argo LP-691 - All of You Argo LP-703 - Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk Chess 2ACMJ-407 - Sunset See also this thread.

Mosaic's Scott Wenzel just mailed me the tracklisting of the upcoming Lucky Thompson Select - I copied the info from the e-mail and didn't edit it: (A) CLARK TERRY SEPTET: Supervised by Leonard Feather NYC, June 2, 1954 54-S-248 Cat Meets Chick MGM E255 54-S-250 The Man I Love - ________________________________________________________________________ (B) DIZZY GILLESPIE: Supervised by Norman Granz NYC, September 15, 1954 1980-3 Cool Eyes Norgran MGN 1023 1982-2 Pile Driver - ________________________________________________________________________ © MODERN JAZZ SOCIETY: Gunther Schuller (frh, arr), J.J. Johnson (tb), Jim Politis (fl), Aaron Sachs (cl), Lucky Thompson (ts), Manny Ziegler (bassoon), Janet Putnam (harp), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (A), John Lewis (arr). Supervised by Norman Granz NYC, March 14, 1955 5002 Sun Dance (JL-arr) Norgran MGN 1040 5003 Django (GS-arr) - 5004 Little David’s Fugue (JL-arr) - ________________________________________________________________________ (D) JIMMY CLEVELAND AND HIS ALL STARS: Supervised by Bob Shad NYC, August 12, 1955 11997-10 Hear Ye ! Hear Ye ! EmArcy MG 36066 11998-8 You Don’t Know What Love Is - 11999-9 Little Beaver - ________________________________________________________________________ (E) JIMMY CLEVELAND AND HIS ALL STARS: Supervised by Bob Shad NYC, November 19, 1955 12313-2 Count ‘Em EmArcy MG 36066 12314-5 Bone Brother - ________________________________________________________________________ (F) LUCKY THOMPSON: Lucky Thompson (ts), Skeeter Best (D), Oscar Pettiford (b). Supervised by Creed Taylor NYC, January 24, 1956 5070 Bo-Bi, My Boy ABC Paramount 111 5071 OP Meets LT - 5072 Tricotism - 5089 Body and Soul - ________________________________________________________________________ (G) LUCKY THOMPSON: Supervised by Creed Taylor NYC, January 30, 1956 5086 Old Reliable ABC Paramount 111 5087 Translation - 5088 Tom-Kattin’ - 5073 Deep Passion -1 - -1 omit Cleveland. ________________________________________________________________________ (H) LUCKY THOMPSON: Supervised by Creed Taylor NYC, December 11, 1956 5380 Dancing Sunbeam ABC Paramount 171 5381 Mister Man - 5382 The Plain But Simple Truth - 5388 Little Tenderfoot - ________________________________________________________________________ (I) LUCKY THOMPSON: Supervised by Creed Taylor NYC, December 12, 1956 5383A Once There Was ABC Paramount 171 5389 N.R (#1) -1 - 5390 N.R. (#2) -1 - 5391 Good Luck -1 - -1 Add Jimmy Cleveland (tb) and Osie Johnson (A). (J) LUCKY THOMPSON / SAMMY PRICE QUINTET: Supervised by Paul Durand Pigalle Theatre, Paris, July 6, 1957 I Want A Little Girl (SP-vcl) Polydor 46 103 Paris Blues - Up Above My Head (SP-vcl) - Minor Blues - Sweet Georgia Brown - How Long Blues (SP-vcl) - Lucky T - Embassy Boogie (SP-vcl) - ________________________________________________________________________

Om was included in the collection The Major Works of John Coltrane, but apart from that set it was only issued on single CDs on the Impulse! label.

I guess I don't have your sense of humour - which isn't necessarily a bad thing Or giving out info before deals are concluded might lead to negative reactions from the owners of the rights. I understand that it has happened before.

As I posted elsewhere on the board several more Mosaic sets are planned, including an LP-set. I can't name any artists at this stage because they don't have any clearance yet from the owners of the rights. The Ahmad Jamal set is scheduled for release in July 2010.

Thanks, Kevin. Errr... I'm not Kevin Scott mentioned quite a few names to me, but not Lucky Thompson (unfortunately).

Many more sets are planned including an LP-set, but, since they don't have clearance yet from the owners of the rights, I can't post anything about them at this stage.

Mosaic's Scott Wenzel told me today that the Ahmad Jamal set is scheduled for release in July 2010. Apparently the missing tapes have been located - though Scott didn't say anything about that.

No need to shout. What about your money order? They've not gone under, so you've not lost the money. What are you so worked up about? Again, no need to shout. Warn you about what? That Mosaic is having a difficult time? Almost everyone here knows that, and there's no need for them to tell you. You're acting as if they've gone out of business, which isn't the case.

The Curtis Amy Select is now the only one left in the "Last Chance" category. As was mentioned elsewhere on this board, the excellent Beiderbecke/Trumbauer/Teagarden set is "Running Low".

??? Any number of threads on this forum (and elsewhere) seem to indicate quite the contrary. At least to me. They're not spending enough money

Don't count on it. As was repeatedly posted on this board, some of the tapes are missing.

I have ordered CDs that were listed on Ray Mizutani/Mundo's site several times, but seven times out of ten he was not able to supply them. The CD stocklists of many artists on his site haven't been updated in ages.

Visions HAS been a TOCJ cd before. . . . Oh - I never noticed that, and it's an album I'd have snapped up in a trice. When did it come out? MG 1993

When I change my password on one Amazon account, it is automatically changed on my other Amazon accounts as well, with the exception of my Amazon Japan account; I have to change that one separately.

Thanks! Which one cost the most? Volume 5? I got my set in that price range as well, but #5 I had to really dish out for (as new). Considering that a very nice person gave me Volume 6 for free, I still - in total - stayed in the price range of these eBay items. *relief* You can't access the page I linked to in my post #23 either? Thought you were an eBay member. Here are the results - contrary to what I posted earlier the highest bid was $57: Vol.1 - $31.00 Vol.2 - $22.50 Vol.3 - $57.00 Vol.4 - $56.55 Vol.5 - $56.55 Vol.6 - $38.99 Vol.7 - $36.51

They've been working on more sets than those two; let's hope they'll be able to get them past the planning stages.

They'll be even more costly when eBay is the only place to get them...

Cutting loose the Phil Schaap stuff isn't a very big loss in my view

I think you and I were posting at the same time--it just took me a few minutes to get the formatting correct in my quotation box. Maybe the two threads can be merged. I PMed the moderators about it. By the way, Hans--you forgot to mention the news about the Bix/Trumbauer/Teagarden set. That wasn't the topic of my thread